THE GASTONIA
____Published Twice a Week—Tuesdays and Fridays.
W. F. HAISHAU. Mlhr mmd fmitotor. DEVOTED TO THE PK0TECT10II Of HOME AMP THE IlfTKKESTS OF m. rMOTT,
VOL. XXIV. - - --* =““
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POINTS AND PARAGRAPHS
ON TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
Uodor thii bead will b« printed Iraw time to time ootnrwtkj NUrfutow
on theme* 6i current lilrmt. They will bo lahtu from public i4<hcflMf.
in fact wborrar wo may tod thorn. Some
tiopoo «oy wlctilont will accord with onr riewa MM the view* of our rood'
m, aom* ouftthaoMMNrtt* win he trot. But by voaaoooCUo eobieet matter.
55*ȣLi- ^ ftttibyMttp. or the view* expressed. ooch will bare uu eleiuent
^ to to root to make it a compieuotM utterance.
The Coarts tad Mnrdsrsrs.
Chtel Janice Walt,, Clark, dlmatiaa .» ibc CoU cm.
Enough has been done for those who'murder. It in time the
courts were doing something for those who do not wish to be mur
dered.
Extortion by Trusts l» Its Own Kemedy.
Hew York Tlntr.
Combinations of great capital arc to succeed, if nt alt, not by
raising but by reducing the cost and prices of whatever they aim
to control. The real risk in attempted extortionate monopoly ia
not to the public, but to those who make the attempt aud to those
who may be deluded in bettiug on their success.
Han Do (fat Fair tha Law Enanfb.
CWtf Janie* Walt** Clark, diaoruttas la Ik* Cel* cue
The fact of prompt and certain punishment can deter from
crime and reduce the frightful and growing nnniber of homicides,
else why have a costly administration of justice at all. It is cer
tain that under our present procedure in capital cases and the
construction placed by the courts on the act dividing murder into
taro degrees punishment is very far from certain. Men do not
fear the law enough to refrain from gratifying their evil passions.
This should be plainly said ami if the only relief is iu legislation,
law-abiding citizens should know it that s sound public opiuion
mnv apply the remedy.
Bat Shurna Didn't Da TblaJ* THat Way.
On. loka B. Gordon, in July Srribsrr't
As I have intimated, the orders from General Lee (or the pro
tection of private property and persons were of the most stringent
character. Guided by these instructions and by my own impulses,
I resolved to leave no ruins along the line of my march through
Pennsylvania; no marks of a more enduring character than the
tracks of my soldiers along its snperb pikes. I cannot be mistaken
in the opinion that the citisens who then lived and still live on
these highways will bear me out in the assertion that we inarched
into that delightful region and then marched out of it, without
leaving any scars to mar its beauty or lessen its value.
6«a. Jaa. B. Cardan an tha Battle al Cetiysbnrg.
K. Y. T1m« SarudAT tain.
We are bound to say from 41 hasty reading of some of the ad
vance sheets of Gen. Gordon’s article [in the July Scriomr’s] that
it embodies a stirring and exceptionally interesting narrative. His
account of a cavalry charge in ttfel height of the conflict is full oi
vigor, is perfectly coherent and commend ably moderate in ver
biage. His anecdote of the plan of the position of the Union
forces, which was concealed in a bouquet handed to him by a child,
is a striking and not unimportant contribution to the hitherto un
recorded history of the war. The plan was correct and measur
ably helped Gen. Gordon in his own movements on the first day.
Who his informant was he has never known. He thinks it was a
woman "whose evident genius for war, had'occasion offered,
might have made her a Captain equal to Catherine.”
Colossi Bsasayslt’a Social Status.
BickasoaA M*w»Lt*cWr.
We speak deliberately when we say that so long ss Mr. Roose
velt elects to associate on terms oi social equality with colored
people, the representative white people oi the South will not and
should not accept him as a aocial equal, associate and companion.
* * * He had Booker Washington to dinner, ha has rather boasted
that his child sat next to a colored ohild in a public school at Oys
ter Bay, and has lost no opportunity to declare frankly Us accept
ance of the negro as his social equal, has refused to recognize t
man’s race, blood or color as a bar against bis equality. There is
no need for us to anger ourselves or gnash our teeth over the mat
ter. All that is necessary for us to do is to go quietly on our way
with the feeling that President Roosevelt, the Rev. Dr. HilHs, and
the rest of these citizens at the North who accept social equality
ore not proper social companions for ns or our families. We may
leave them to eeek their own assocletions according to their own
preference while we do likewise, ignoring them most politely
and good-humoredly except for necessary official and business
purposes.
0M«ral Bertaa'a PM|« te (ha C(tisane el Yetft, Pi. In UU.
Ota. Jma. B. OottJob. la J»li SetIWi.
The appearance of these church-going men, women, end cbil
dren, in their Sunday attire, strangely contrasted with that of my
marching soldiers. Begrimed as we were from bead to foot with the
impalpable gray powder which rose in dense columns from the ma
cadamised pikes and settled in sheets on men, horses, and wagons,
it is no wonder that many of York’s inhabitants were terrorstrick
cn as they looked upon us. * * * Halting ou the main street, where
the sidewalks were densely packed, I rode a few rods lu advance
of my troops, in order to speak to the people from my hone. As
I checked him end turned my tall doit-begrimed face upon s bevy
of young ladies very near me, a cry of alarm came from their
midst; but after a few words of assurance from me,
quiet and apparent confidence was restored. With my
first sentence 1 assured these ladies that the troops be
hind me though id-clad and travel-stained, were good men and
brave; that beneath their rough exteriors were hearts as loyal to
women as ever beat in the breasts of honors^# men; that their
■own experience and the axperience of their mothers, wives, and
sisters at home bad taught them bow pain fa 1 was the sight of a
hostile army in their town; that under the orders of the Confeder
ate commander-in-chief, both private property and non-combatants
wees safe i that the spirit of vengeance and of rapine had no place
in the bosoms of these dust-covered but knightly meat and I
closed by pledging to York the head of any soldier under my com
mand who destroy ad private property, disturbed the repose of e
single home or insulted a woman.
THE GAZETTE'S
NEW MAILER.
AN UP-TO-DATE DEVICE FOR
ADDRESSING NAIL MATTER.
A Weaderfal Liter Saving Me.
chine—Orest Advance Over
The Anttgaalad Paata and
Label Schema—A Description
Of tha Madam Machine and its
Method af Operation.
Our readers have perhaps no
ticed that for the past few weeks
their names are no longer
written but printed upon their
papers. This work is not done
on a typewriter, as its neat
appearance might suggest, but
with rubber stamp* manipulated
by a "rapid fire” machine built
for the purpose. We should be
5lad to have onr subscribers
rop in and aee the wonderful
little machine at work. It is in
teresting to see it.
As hinted a few days ago we
will give a description of this
modern up-to-date device for ad
dressing all kinds of mail matter
with great speed.
The machine is called the "Ad
• - - ——1 I P| ■ —!
machine is required for each
kind. Thu Gazkttk uses cbe
two-line.
3. Having set the names aud
linked them together in bells or
chains, yon tilt the table and
slip the chain on the sprocketed
cylinder made to receive it, snap
the table down, and you are
K'orly for work. The cut printed
herewith is a good picture of the
machine in operation. Peed the
papers in above the table, press
the treadle back with the foot,
aud the first name is printed on
the under side of the paper.
Uc peat the operation and the
names come into position and
are printed one after the other
antil the entire chain is com
pleted.
The last name should be set
in s bell ringer to give the alarm
or you ore likely to print the
list over sipun. By the aid of
the bell ringer you ore also
warned that you have completed
the list at a certain post-office;
you next feed in a wrapper and
the uame of the poat-office is
printed on it; thus yon have the
bundle and the wrapper for that
office ready for rolling np. And
so on to the end. When one
chain is completed, it is removed
and another put on in a moment.
The length of the chain is
THE ADDUBSSOGRAPH
RlfC«d with the thn«-ll»c addreaaca.
dressograph” and ia made by the |
Addressogreph Company, Chi
cago, Illinois. It has been on
the market about six years, and
thousands of them are in ate in
the mercantile and manufactur
ing esUbliihments of the great
cities where a vast amount of
mail matter is sent out repeated
ly to the same Hat of customers.
They are also used In many
newspaper offices of the country
though Th* Gazhttk is the first
Southern newspaper we kaow of
to adopt it.
Th« system consists of three
divisions: Tl) the type, (2) the
links or holders for the names,
sad (3) the mac bins itself,
i ia of rubber and
is about X of an inch high. It
U readily set or sUddea Into the
holders with tweeters, from a
case made for the purpose.
2. The holders art crimped
from metal, tod may be readily
linked together in chains soma
what like a cartridge belt. Tkey
are 2# inches long. A special
site ia amde half an inch longer.
There ere ewe Hat. two-line, and
three-line holders, but a different
limited by the distance from the
machine to the floor, in which
there Is am ally room for 90 to
120 names. The two-Hne ad
dresses run about 8 to every 5
inches. Instead of names set in
type, the addresses may be
stamped in metal at the factory,
but when, aa in newspaper
offices, frequent changes are
necesssry. the type is preferable.
The machine is handsomely
finished and makes an attrac
tive piece o/offic farnitore. It
is equipped with pads for inking
the type automatically, U t]*,
has a device, which may be ad
justed in a twinkling, by which
address may be printed
indeflnitely. In atwinklfog yon
I can change the adjustment with
one hand so that the machine
will print a name twice, change
to the next and print It twice,
and so on.
The coat oI tba complete Ad*
dr«*oirr«ph system it far lees
thaa that of the antiquated paste
and label method, and aa a labor
eavfaff device it is decidedly sa*
perior to it. Tbs two arc alike
only iu that the addresses are to
be set in type and corrected
from time to time. In the Ad
dressograpli aystcin there ta no
handling of galleys, an palling,
trimming, pasting and rolling of
proof*, no slicking and bungling
of label*, tx> whetting ofknivr*
no aailv p**tc-boxc» to cleao up
and oil. When the mailing's
done, yon are. And the post*
m’a a t e r gets oo packages
of papers stuck together
clear through by reason oflabels
pasted on both sides.
This, in our judgment, is
the foremost mailing system
of modern times for newspaper
offices. We bought the system
for the reason that investigation
led us to believe it the best, asd
our actual experience ia the use
of it has given so far no reason
to reverse the opinion then
formed.
Come in and see it work.
MOffinr THE FAIN.
Beautify the
— AtlracUva.
SMtWra CuKirUer.
If life is simply sad only a
matter of hoeing cotton, eating
fat meat and soggy bread, aud
of going to bed, then let’s
commit harikari at once and
end the matter. It were better.
The man who does not Hft bU
life above the clods and out of
Ibc furrows doe* not care how
lie lives. Hu home with envi
ronuiem* is the sorest index of
Ins Draughts and life. Men and
bouses are interchangeable
if,?**’ llle *** the other.
Where are ao large a proportion
of all enr farm boys going to?
Wby don’t they cooUooe on the
farm? Why is the farm unat
tractive?
If called upon for an answer, I
should say that one of the factors
m the case is that we do not
sufficiently dignify the farm.
We do not sufficiently respect
the farm; we do not give it the
“r *j£?osphere of respect
ability I The whole business
and outfit gives us the impress
ion of drudgery and humdrnm
neas.
A* I look back at tbc various
,th«t I have seen, the
English farm, I believe, has
most impressed me. As a boy,
and growing up on it, I believe
here it is that 1 would have been
most apt to remain as a man. I
have seen hundred of thousands
of farms elsewhere that I, as a
12 year-old lad, would have run
away from to escape such a life
and such a home. No man
could love, nor could he tolerate,
a thing be conld not reapect.
An outline of this English farm
may be helpful. In the first
place, every place ii an "'estate*
-Hbe place’s name is one of
dignity. The approach to it is
through a gate with dignified
and great pillar posts, no matter
bow rude and rustic. On the
gateway pasta is the estate’s
name. It may be or need' not
be fanciful and high sounding.
The name often u chosen to
designate some individuality of
the estate. The house always
has a setting—no matter how
humble the house. This setting
consists of u little path of walks
and grass, shrubbery and trees,
and not one of them, perhips,
from florist or nurserym an.
You respect the whole outfit
place and owner—the moment
you ace it. The boy grows up
the same feelings yon have
Every farm in North CaroH*
n* A*. , (dignity means
worthiness) of just each settings
aa above.
You may say that this ta not
practical and that it is only an
appeal to tiic imagination. But
the moment yon leave imagina
tion out of your life, I would
not give a farthing for your Hfc.
And if your boy is about to
leave the old farm and yon want
him to settle about yen and not
Ei away—tbcu a plan that keens
mend holds him—even though
it be Imagination becomes a
practical way.
We should not give up this
beautiful country to the negro
cropper. If the four or five
children of every man in the
country conld only be made by
tome means to settle ia the
country in the place of going to
town—then what a great future
the South would have I
Hm Newspaper Trust.
Kl ssiSw
The biggest trust on rmrth is
tbs newspaper trust. It trusts
everybody, gets cussed lor trust
ing, mistrusted for cussing, and
if k busts for trusting gets
cussed lot busting.
A movement is ou foot to es
tablish s large female college in
connection with Trlmlty College
at Durham.
AT CLEARANCE SALE PRICES.
Oar complete Um of Millinery to offered at
prices that will sieve the feeds at sees. AS sew
sod correct stylM sad latest designs. Nat only
our goods bat ear prices aa the goods will salt
Everybody.
Childrens sad Misooo* Hats, Stoop.
Ladles* otyMoh Trimmed Hats 7tc ap.
ONE DOLLAR LINE.
We lay special stress oa ear Use of superb bats
aisde ts sail at one dollar sack. They sell them
selves on sight. Have yoa ansa them yet? They
are pleasing others, they WILL PLEASE YOU.
EMBROIDERIES AND LAWNS.
Special Popular sale continues every gay.
_ * - ‘ v' ; •
JAS. F. YEAGER,
LADIES' FURNISHINGS A SPECIALTY.
-at—
MISSl
UP STAIRS OVER MORRIS BROTHERS
ALL MILLINERY
«•
Is soar cofaff at
HALF PRICE.
_ ENOUGH SAID
AN UNQUALIFIED
GUARANTEE::::
tbKt w •*<*»- w. i
to doi Aw for wo know yon will not he -Hsspnnfgft
cbsndise yon boy here. In onr clothing, it 1. «^ty _ ^
^ettoraatoTttot S^bStodSSdoS^*!^ ft SSfiJS
be found in ujr other maker's clothing.
. are upitiily invited to emninc on hWwttMit Seek
SSSiSS^ “a 4°~,dc ‘*bric*
~.£a..ecortin,,» tfa L* tol«£ ffg~i>‘SZjiifr
!SS^'2£t*S^3!Klnsa^3SS5Sa
The Suits in either of the show lot* are worth fro« J*to J3
more than our price* la Mtn ease. “?
Yon will find a splendid assortment of ether Soda* ftofts hi
, Oar Hits and HsberdoheryTrt^ toto^StitiiftrsB
style but oar prices win save yea money one very purchase**
J. Q. Holland & ,Co.
1CKAIG < WnSQll. I