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THE GASTONIA Published Twice a W. f. MARSHALL, Editor iad Proprietor. DEVOTED TO THE PROTECTION OP HOME AND THE VOL XXIV. GASTONIA, N. C., TUESDAY. JUNE IQ. 1003 POINTS AND PARAGRAPHS ON TOPICS OF THE TIMES. leader tbl* bud will he priiird fro a tin** to llmr notewurtbr ■(Urine** o*> th*u» »»l carrrnt latoml. Tkry will b* lalno ftoua public iIIicpk*, hooka. nipiiM. iicwipapcr*. in fact wherever we mar Sail tbeoi. Soph limes thane Mlcetieaa will accord with oar views and lb* view* of our read. era. aomctlaaep the opposite will b« true. Sal by rantoo of the aublect maUrr. the atyle. the aatborablp. or Ibe view* npreaaed. each will have an element of timely lament to make it a ccnapiconua utterance Varying Way* of SoltHng. Philadelphia ftccord. Some fellows marry poor girls to settle dowu and others marry rich ones to settle up. The Han Who Dots Things Poorly. Walter H. Fane, el A. Ik M. Collryt. A man who makes a bad buggy or who builds a poor house, scratches a poor farm, or does anything badly—lie makes ns all poorer. He pulls down the level of our life. The only substance that moot men have is their labor. It is the most precious sub sttanco that anybody can have—the best gift of God. The man who wastes his labor throws his owu life away, and he wastes the rime and degrades the standard of all other men who have to do with him. Every inefficient man is a burden on the state. Tbs LIU tbftl Lias Oalalde of tb« Dust a mi Din. Thomo Ncl»on Pnsc. in ('.onion Koitli. When the temptation grew too overpowering ho left lit* office and went down iuto the country. It always did him good to go there. To be there was like a plunge in a cool, limpid pool. He hod been so long in the turmoil aud strife of the struggle for (success— for wealth; had been so wholly surrounded by those who strove as he strove, tearing and trampling and rending those who were in their way, that he had almost lost sight of the life that lay outside of the dust and din of that arena. He had almost forgotten that life held other rewards than riches. He htd forgotten the calm and tranquil region that stretched beyoud the moil and anguish of the strife for gain. The Sooth Impsrrisaa lo Foolishness. Ricfcsoad Km lndir. Northern States may elect negro governors, congressmen and senators aud Northern cities may equip themselves with negro mayors and police forces. In these thirty-eight years none of them have done to and no Northern constituency has given the negro any thing better than a seat in a legislature here and there, but they may chauge their aystcin if they like. They may take a negro element into the smart sets aud the four hundreds. Repre sentatives of old knickerbockers or Hack Bay or Philadelphia aristocracyjor of the new rich high Hfe may lead or be led to the altars of fashionable churches with any hue of skin preferred, from jet black to the most delicate new saddle color. During all this the New York Post and the Hillis and Brooklyn and Boston elements may continue to whdek away at us and our position and to nag us as diligently aa they please. They may be assn red that the nagging and criticism will be returned with abundant inter est, but the Sooth has learned to be impervious to foolishness. She will not lose her temper and will not be driven to disre gard wisdom, even when it comes from her enemies, nor to be un fairly suspicious or to reject the advances of sincere friendship. She will bold to her standards and continue to be rnled, occupied and managed by a race of pure white people. The nagging will not ahake her nor swerve her from her purposes. An Exhortation to iho Yoolh ol tho Sooth. nichard H. Kdmood., tt Mml-lpta A. * II. C«lta«*. I have urged udon you material things as the foundation for all advancement, I have bid you work for material prosperity, for the upbuilding of the factories and the fame of the South. I have sought to impress upon you the unlimited opportunities which the potentialities of this section offer you, and I trust that in these material affairs you may display such ability and energy as to give to this section the foremost position iu industry and wealth. Bnt think not that material upbuilding must be the sum of yonr activities; think not that success in life is to be measured only by yonr bank account. Never let it be said that in the struggle for industrial advancement the South has lost anght of the virtues, domestic and public, aught of the manliness and self-reliance! anght of the charms of her women and the honor of her men which hallow the memory of the Old South. Build your factories open your mines, let the hum of contented indnstry be heard throughout this land, but while building your country, bnild yonr character. Bnild it for time and for eternity. Hold virtue and honor above all price. With the poet say onto your soul: "Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul! As the swift seasons roll I Leave thy low-vaulted past, Let each new temple nobler than the last Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea.’’ North Corollas Is Bar People. CHeiloU* Mm. We should like to take tone with Mr. Page. North Carolina it a people, with their roots in a sturdy and aslf reliant ancestry, an ancestry a little isolated, perhaps, from the life of the world] bat Isolated from the vkes which have sapped the strength of race* and of nations ere this; a people that have ever placed the moral above the intellectual and the spiritual above the material which is the point that renders them unintelligible to Mr. Page] who has declared that the Saxon raca of the South are "a hundred year* behind their brethren in every part of the world, in England in Australia and la tha Northern and Western States;” a people who practice the simple and homely virtues of honesty and frugal ity and temperance; who love tbefr own homes and firesides; who wUl fiffht to tha last gasp for their liberties; who despise the brsg gtrt aid the toady as much as they do a traitor to one’s own; a people that suffered sorely |„ „ quarrel not of maktnir be cause ooce enluted they gay, their all, but who have risen from tha dost of defeat and the grime of poverty until they are foremost ia tbs new life of the New South; a people whom adversity conld not tame and whom prosperity cannot corrupt; a people who fear Ood and keep His commandments—this is North Carolina. It is not fifty-two thousand square miles of moontains and plains and sand-hills and marshes that make North Carolina. Hsr people love the soil of the Old North State. Bat the people themselves •re North Carolina. THE EOOED NAN WINS. The Lower Coert Affirmed la Allowing Him S4.SN Damages lor Beta# Egged at the Depot al Shot by During the 19M Campaign. Ral*i(k Pott The North Carolina supreme court in au opinion written by Chief Justice Walter Clark affirms the lower court in the noted case of H. F. Seawell vs. the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company. This is tlie case iu which Seawell obtained in the Moore county superior court a verdict for $4,500 damages for being egged in the S. A. L. station at Shelby in 1900 while lie was on a campaign trip as Republican nominee for lieuteu ant governor. The suit was for $10,000. The contention by the plaintiff was that he was in the station with a mileage book awaiting the train to Hamlet and a crowd catne in, began abusing him, and then threw eggs and that one em ployee ol the railroad named Carroll took part in the egging and Depot Agent Ramseur did nothing to prevent it, but really aided and abetted Sea well’s assailants, that the con ductor was also nearby and did nothing to protect the plaintiff. ine principal exception, the court slates, was the refusal of the trial judge to nonsuit the filaintiff. In the coarse of a engthy review of the case and statement of law the court in the opinion says that when a person comes upon the premises of a railroad company at the station with a ticket or (or the purpose of purchasing one he be comes a passenger and the right of care and protection be gins. It is the dnty of the carrier to protect its passengers from injury, insult, violence and intimidation from its servants, other passengers or third per sons. The answer by the rail road company admits that Rani seur was its employee but alleges that Carroll was n servant tem porarily employed by Ramseur. There was evidence that Ram seur, the station agent, knew the plaintiff, saw him ten min utes before the train was due aad saw him when the egging began. That he was laughing because the eggs were thrown and soon after the first shower of eggs were thrown Ramseur said "Yon did not egg him enough." As to Carroll the opinion states that there was evidence that he was there to do anything Ram senr ordered and especially to load and unload baggage, that be came out of Ramsenra office and threw an egg at the plaintiff, and that this was one of the first eggs thrown at him; that Carroll also threw the last egg at him. mere was also evidence that the crowd was egging aud jeer* iug at him aud pelting him with eggs in the plain view of Ram* •ear and that be neither did nor said anything to prevent it, but simply laughed, indeed, says the court, Ramseur admitted in his testimony thst be offered no resistance to the crowd aqd that he waved his bauds at the plaintiff aud laughed as the train moved off. Also that Thomas, the conductor, was near by ana offered no protection. Also that Ramseur and Carroll were iu the crowd on the platform when come in the crowd said. Leave here, you Populist dog; you suck eggs; I see them on you." Some one called out, " Put that suck-egg dog off at Buffalo and let him wash himself." Another significant feature of the evidence was that the egg ing crowd went into Ramseur's office several times before the beginning of the naaanlt aud came out with Ramseur im mediately before the assault. There was, the coart says, evidence contradictory to some part of this evidence, but on motion to nonsuit only the evidence favorable to the plaintiff can be considered. The evidence was, the court says, properly admitted to the jury to determine the trath of the controverted matters in of fact. ’ Clmar Up. N*» Yurt Kmlafla!, "tehniXicr-*,ta - ’Sr.te’fcTSP June is here An Kator*i nigh, Hear her song A-ringin' high. Ufa's in open tanaic book. Jota the routing song. Hit the high note* truly, Aonad the low ones strong. June is Hera An' Netnr'i aigb. Hear bet long A-riagta' high. \ Stirring New* From Strrrit. McUmmuI KtmUtdtr. A fine, warm, bloody and frothy flavor of the French rev olution comes with the news from Strvia, printed to-day. It is one of the moat amazing trig eele* in all history. Truly we people who live now see things not dreamed of by our forefath ers. The Serviau rulers invited their fate. The kingdom is a wretched little affair'at best, and of late years it has been a scan dal to all Europe because of the opeu, gross, flagrant immorality and indecency of its cpnrt and the mass of bidden corruption festering beneath it, kept out of the newspapers, but known to the world. By a sudden process of lynch law, the king and queen have been killed, along with moat of their cabinet, and the army bos proclaimed a new sov ereign. It is impossible for as to know the rights and wrongs and the underlying motives con trolling this action, but the indi cations are that it is the sudden strong uprising of a people against artificial conditions, which had become intolerable and against which the public in stincts of purity and honesty re volted. Revolution is dangerous and destructive and lynch law is to be reprehended always, bat in this esse the world may look on and sec the renovation and re demption of a country through blood and by the slaying of false and corrupt rulers. It is easy to imagine that every crowned crook in the world, male or fe male, will be perturbed by this startling development, thisassaa ination, magnificent in ita com pleteness and ita challenge to the universe. It is impossible yet to predict what the attitude of the kings and emperor* will be toward tma people who have slain their her editary rulers and set np a new king (or themselves with the strong and bloody baud. 1 he probabilities are mat toe sit nation will be accepted, that the revolutionary government will be recognized, and that the experiment of self-rule in a smalt European country will be taken as a fact and studied with ab sorbed interest. And after all, the Servian po sition essentially is not diflerent from that taken by the people of this country in 1778. We did not assassinate King George. We were not close enough to him, and probably in any case we would have been conteut to hold him prisoner if we could have reached him, sparing his life. But we did stnke at his soldiers and his representatives and shot them down by hundreds and thousands, as we could without the mockery of civil proceedings with which the French people re galed themselves before they ent off the head of their king. All along lu the world’shistoty kings and queens have been asaaaaina ted occasionally by sudden un authorised armies, or by farce of formal proceedings. This is the first case we know of in which a king and queen aud cabinet have died together by the act of their own servants to make room for a new and clean rulersliip. Opportunity lor Invootore. HoOiMivlUt HaaOvT A bright inventor haa now given ue the wireless telephone. When an inventor comes along with the snoreleas sleep and the biteless mosquito we will believe the milleniom baa arrived. ! A Tendency Thai VmImm Slowly. I Xnr York Tiau*. Oi tbc cotton mills at Pecolct, S. C.. just destroyed, with greet lose o! life end property, by a cloudburst, it is stated that they "stood aloug the banks of the stream iu a deep valley, with high hills on either side, and they caught the full force of tbc flood." It is also stated that "mill men conversant with tbc situation say that the destroyed properties will be rebuilt on the previous sites.” If this is true, there seems to be considerable reason for hoping that wisdom will die not with that particular group of manufacturers. Whatever may be tbc conven ience of the "previous sites,” it is hard to believe that their ad vantages over safer position# are ■o great that they should again ha occupitd after a warning so terrible. In these days power can be transferred cheaply and eaaily almost any distance, and certainly far enough to make it practicable to place the mills w!iere wkat has happened once will not liappeu again. One po sition la about like another, prol» ably, ao far as the direct action oi the cloudburst is concerned, but the Pacolet mills were not struck by the c load burst itself, bat by the collected water from it, sweeping through the narrow valley in a wave sixty feet high, and from disaster o/ that sort absolute safety can be secured by tlic discreet selection of a site. Along every river, however, there is th« same cartons dispo sition to build again and again in places where the possibility of destruction is ever present. The chances of great losses are cheer fully taken for the sake of sav ing immediate trouble and ex pense. Humanity is made that way, so there is little use in find ing fault with a tendency that weakens only with extreme slow ness. HKIntl Bank far Yirkfillt. VerkrlUc liaqalrer. IMi. The First Nations! Bank of Yorkville was organized yester day by the election o t directors «« follows: E. O. Wilkins, R. C. Allcin. A. N. Woods. F. G. Stacy. S. B. Tanner, J. M. Stroup, W. I. Witherspoon, W. R. Carroll, W. B. Moore. At a meeting of the directors held immediately after the adjourn ment of the meeting of the stockholders, Mr. B. O. Wilkins was elected president ,Mr. W. I. Witherspoon, vice president, and Mr. R. C. Allen cashier. Foot hundred and thirty-three shares were represented at the meeting —337 in person and 96 by proxy. The decadence of Puritanism is chiefly doe to various prepara tions of sawdust being eaten for breakfast throughout New Bag land, instead of the cold pm, which was formerly the piece de resistance of the matutinal meal there. Cold pie eaten for breakfast gets iu its work while yet the nervous force, recruited by sleep, is largely unspent. The result is the fierce, aggrc&iivi .11'efnl nest that is the very life u. .Strk tauism. lint cold pie for lunci. - r din ner merely brings on u glo ttny sad profitless apathy. .1 might as well never be eiten, fm..i tat religious point of view. It is worth any man's .vhi'j to eat cold pie for breakfast a tine or two, if .»uly in order to appreci ate tb; fine irony of Baxter’s Saints' K"*t. lira. Daap7| “•Force -- p ,.;v MID-SUMMER In full blast this week. W« ham CM lot of beautiful design* snd newest Myles la SWISS EMBROIDERIES INDIA UNBNS AND LAWNS. °*? •?£" «^nJ«orfeaUclo»e. Whole lot to VO in this Mia at, per yard, -HOa. Such value, have aever been ofiered before is the town of Gastonia, i : ; : t * Sale Commenced^Moaday Morning at StSO MILLINERY, an v, " 'i • •• •- J ': ^V; We are now designing a one dollar trimmed bat writable for summer wear the equal of which cannot be matched for the money. What more need be mid? CeUaadeee. J. F. YEAGER. Craig and Wilson -a- __I ▼ Come in, one and all. Onr doors ere always Open teonr cus tomers and friends. We uow have on hand several car-loads of nice new Vehicles fast oat of the factory. Wc have on oar floor several nice rubber-tire Moggfr* that we an going to aell. We have a lot of CHd Hickory Wagons on head yet, though we have sold a great many this —yyy The beat Cultivator oa the market to-day ia the Steel King. We have * few *•**' comc *niCl «*t one or two and save labor. Wa think it is one of the best labor saving farm implements that can be bad on the hno. Wc still have several Ape Hones on band. They are all nice drivers, quiet aad gentle, all well broke. Cell end ace them before yon bny from anyone tbr, _k_ Craig and Wilson STRONG AS A ROCK. 1 A land capital oi taiety.bat a ««y«i —■ 1 * ■■ ~.^XMr^lrT iBTtlHf without ■crntiny. Iu thla way the (adnata GASTONIA SAVINGS BANK. I L. L. JENKINS. Aw. £. L. HAKDtN. Cm*Utr. AN UNQUALIFIED GUARANTEE:::: BOM With everythin* that leave* oar Mac*. We eaa safety afford to dothi* for w« know you will not b* disappointed withtfc* mar ch an nine you ky her* !■ on# t* T#^ S<» «£3 7iL £<*Z£8r&>S,°£,’j5rZ'JZ i to realise that there ta an individuality about it that ia not to be found in any other maker'* dothia* ^ ** not to In another aaction we have a aplendid yarie iota fadtharoftha above Into am w i tendon to a Mae of IS and $8.50 value* era are aeltina at Onr Hat* and HabenUahety are a# to the beot“fn onalhr wf dyle hot oar price* wUI *ave yea money on eve J. Q, Holland
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