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The Gastonia W. r. MA13HA1X. UUmr nd frprfaUf. PEVUTEP TO THE PiOTECTlOH Of HOME AND THI VOL. XXTV. GASTONIA. POINTS;AND PARAGRAPHS ON TOPICS OF THE TIMES. Under this head will ha Minted from lime to lima noteworthy attrraucoa oo theme, ut correal lelenet they will bo taken I root peblic eddrtaere. books taacasioee. newspapers, la fact wbererer wa may tad theta, bat times thane •election, will aewnrd with our views sad the views of our read er*. sometimes the opposite will be true, hot by reason at the aubject suitor, the «yh, the salbor.b.p or tlte view* eeprenaad. each will have an element at Hateir tateeeat to make It a coaaplrooaa aUtrauce. Thi Tkru Dtrliltu if (formal Raman Lila. Kick mood New*. Leader. The normal human lile may be divided broadly into three period*—preparation, achievement, and separation—getting ready to do thing*, trying to do them, and getting ready to leave them. Patriotism vs. Bribery. McClort’i IfmiiM fur )nl;. A briber is a traitor. He may be a captain of industry, be may be a United States Senator, he may be a philanthropist. If be has won his fortune by bribery, the cost of his success is the under mining of the institutions of his country. He is not an "example to youth;” he is a corrupter of yonth, s corrupter ot everything he touches aud everybody lie inspires. He is an enemy of the Republic. The only force that can stop him is patriotism. Blank and Baseless. Richmond New*-Leader. It is hard to imagine anything more pitiful than a blank and hopeless human life, golug to its eud, with nothing permanent written upon it, dependant absolutely on the temporary things, on the comforts of the day and the emotioua of the moment, lookiug back on nothing but desolation and disappointment,and forward to nothing but extinction. What it there in such and for what have they lived? Certainly all people of that kind may agree that life is not worth the trouble of the living of it. Thu laeqaality Mere the Lew. Col. PoirbroUMf-a Hnrrthlnc. It ia proverbially true that the mao who atcala a loaf of bread to sustain life or who purloins a bucket of coal to warm the shivering marrow in his bones is branded a felon and the world cries "Crucify him”—while the genteel and plausible robber whose loot is a million escapes with but what is slight punishment com pared to the severity visited upon the petty thief. These glaring inconsistencies which disturb Society are everlastingly aud eternally wrong. If the nigger is uot morally the equal of the white man then his punishment should be less instead of greater than the man who knows the game and with brains and ability to rob and betray. Thu Requisite* •! Fruitful and Buy Life. Mkbuad Kcvi-Utdtf. To be doing something, thinking something, taking a live, earnest interest in vital things, to love and to serve faithfully, to serve where we love—these ere the luxuries of life and make it fruitful and busy. They provide for us constantly new, fresh in terest and hopes against the time coming in all lives when old hopes depart baffled or have been fulfilled and found unsatisfying, when one by one loves, aflections.friendsbips and associations sink in the sweeping current of the years. It ia at that time of waiting and parting that the life nninocribed with permanent interests, living thoughts, dear and sweet memories and abiding purposes and hopes becomes miserably dejected aud’desolate.after a middle life empty, unfruitful, meaning nothing. Catena tha Law. Knox rill* Journal ud Tribuu*. The only safety to a State or a community lies in a just and fearless enforcement of law. Give criminals an inch and they will take a foot. Permit a minor law to be violated and it will lead to tha violation of greater one*. Wink at the law against gambling, and it will encourage the crimiually disposed to do something worse; close the eyes to the illicit Sunday saloon and those who may meditate larceny may conclude that the officials are in different generally. Steal an election and men conclude that they may steal other things, without committing a greater crime. Stick to the law. Bnforce it and punish offenders without regard to their wealth or social position. Render law-breaking unpopular and lawbreakers of every sort infamous. When this is done, there will be no such demonstrations as we have witnessed in Breathitt county, and no more violations that bring terror to communities and disgrace to States and cities. The Bit resale* BeU el a Little War. WorU’l Wart tea July. So long ago aa the first of May nearly 80,000 claims for pen •ion* had been filed lor injuries caused inonr little war with Spain. At the rate [they have been coming there will be hall as many claim* on file by the end of the year m there were mea in the war, moat of whom did not go outside of the United States. About 20,000 soldiers in all went to Cnba, and a few went to Porto Rico for n very brief time. Disease played havoc in a good many camp# but only n law hundred were wounded iu war. A total of M3 were killed In Cnba, including those who died from wounds. Yet 12,000 claims for pensions have already beau allowed j and although more than 18,000 bare been rejected, many of the re mainder will have to be put on the list. It is already plain that the claim agent is likely to cost us more than the war cost, for kis work will go os year after year, year after year. The peuiionert on ac count of the Civil War ate now almost as numerous as they ever wert; and we may expect forty years hence the application of de pendent widow# of veterans of the little war with Spain—from wo men who are oot yet bora. Already many a man who. when the war ended, had ao idea of applyin/fof a petuion h« discovered how easy it *■ ■*h ***°* •°** Pbyrical ailment to "exposure” sad to get puM 411 “ tor H. The scandal of it reveals a piti ful weakness of human nature sad . pitiful weakness alsoof repre sentative government. It is bed enongb to pay millions and mil lions of do Oars wrongly oat of the treatnry, but it it worse to know that ao many men who responded to a patriotic impulse and would have bean brave la battle, lie and sneak. If there were any hon orable way to abolish the whole pension bureau it would be a great gain for American character. •BEACH OF PBONISE WAS HEB "BUSINESS.” Attractive Schaol Teacher Ac* «vtrM Capital hy Salta Against Aged Admirers. Uchud .VmLndn. Chicago, June 25.—"Yon don't have to be a successful lawyer to make a good living out of the law,” said a lawyer who keeps tab on queer cases in connection with his profession. "If you're smart enough aud de void of scruoles you can be a professional litigant. "About nine years sgo I wou a breach of promise suit for s woman who had been a school teacher. The defendant was an elderly contractor, aud we got $5,000 out of him. He was a widower, and, like a good many lonesome old men. he bsd been pretty mellow in nis correspon dence with my client, which won out (or us. The woman wasn’t especially pretty, but she was winsome and attractive. 'Well, that woman has been a professional litigant in the breach-of-protnise line ever since, aud she has become com paratively wealthy out of it. She lias instituted more than a dozen breach-of-promise suits, always against wealthy and elderly men in large cities of the United States, and the has won the ma jority of her suits. I know these things, because, with a frank ness at naive as it was over whelming, sbe told them to me herself not very long ago. CALLS IT HE* "BUSINESS.'’ " She told me at the tame time that she had become so well to do through her breach-of-prom isc 'business'—she called it that —that she bad decided to give it np and settle down. She is still under forty and as winsome and attractive as she was when 1 put her first breach-of-protnise snit through for her. "I leave you to imagine my state of mingled feelings when, after telling me of the remark able success the had achieved as a professional breach-of Jiromise plaintiff all over the and, the thanked aud praised me as her 'benefactor,’ the man who had pointed out to her the road to fortnue; it assuredly made me feel, somehow, like an accessory both before and after the fact. Her game must have been un imaginably easy, from the way she described it. Her story cer tainly went far to convince me of the truth of the adage that *there’s no fool like an old fool.’ She made a specialty of trap ping elderly men of means, widowers in nil cases. She to contrived matters as to get her victims to write many promise filled and affection-reeking let ters to her—‘Snch ink almgera as the old parties are, to be sure ’ was tier artless way of patting it—and these bundles of documents were, of course, her potent weapons. BALKED AT MATRIMONY. "In seven] cases, she told me, her comfortably fixed elder ly victims were really willing, not to say anxious, to marry her, which was annoying, she said, because it spoiled everything. She wanted them to sidestep the marriage proposition and fight it ontin court, of eonrae. Those who were really willing to marry her she bad to run away from, be cause she wasn’t in the marry ing business. "Several experiences at the outset with eligible elderlies who were more than willing to bestow their names upon her taught her the wisdom of select ing as victims well-to-do widow era #ho had grown children. She fonnd that such men were nearly always liable to hesitate when it came to the actual point of marrying, on account of the expected opposition of the grown children, end et this stage of it she could always find means to pick a quarrel with them, thus ctearing the way lor the framing np of her bresch-of procnise salt against him. "Besides toe suits that she won in court she had forced quite a number of elderly parties to settle with her under bet threat that she would have re cjw** to the law, and the said that some of these settlements were more remunerative than moet of the cum that she bad iron ni court. °*tir ok* real love are air. "You may believe that I was in a state af stunned surprise, perhaps not unmixed with curi osity, as I listened to this wo man’s calm and connected nar ration of the superior form of blackmail in which she hsd been engaging. I was rslieved as to my own connection with her, when she told me that the case which I had won for bcT was a genuine alalr, and that •he had really been befooled by the Brooklyn contractor from whom I had obtained the $5.00) award for her. "It was only after winging that suit that she had deter mined to go into the bresell-of promiae game as a business, and to prepare heraelf for this sort of thing she had deliberately stud ied the law in all ita bearings upon breach-of-promise suits until she had become so expert that she was enabled to frame up a^case on a victim with such precision aud predication that she could generally tell to a ‘T’ just how good her case was go ing to be when it came to trial. " 'Don’t be shocked,’ she con cluded, smilingly, after she bad .unraveled her story to me; ‘I know lots of other women who are making good in the breach of-promise business all over the country, but just because I've made my pile aud am out of the business I'm not going to give them away—certainly not.’ "A pleasing tale that for a reputable lawyer and the father of a family to spend a morning listening to, wssn’t it? But it’s all in the day’s work, and I have a receptive mind for these new things.’’ BOY SLOWLY BLEEB5 TO DEATH ■•markable Cim at Micklutorg Family Peculiarity. CWlottc New,. 2VU. Master Sara Mulwee, the 15 year-old ton of Mr. John Mol wee of Lower Steel Creek, is at the point of death at the result of a alight cut on one of hia feet. Saturday young Mulwee was raising a window. The aash slipped from hia handa and fell, shattering several of the panes. A piece of broken glass struck the boy on one of bis feet in flicting a small cut. lmmedi ately thereafter, blood com menced to Bow copiously and despite the fact that everything has beeu done to stop the flow, the young man is slowly bleed ing to death. A telephone message to the News this afternoon states that the boy is in a precarious con dition and it is feared that death may follow at any moment. A strange coincident iu con nection with this family is that two have died as the result of what is considered small opera tions. A grown son, a strong healthful young man, had oc casion to have one of his teeth pulled. As soon as the tooth was extracted, the blood com menced to flow and all efforts to check it proved futile. This deadly peculiarity in this family was first noticed more than 75 years ago. when one of the children of Mr. Wyatt, the older branch of the family, bled to death. The young man was at school and had occasion to sharpen a pencil. The knife slipped and a small gash on the knee resulted. Before medical aid could reach him, the yonng man bled to death. In nnnialung the Wyatt and Mnlwee children, the parents were always afraid to nie a switch for fear that the skin mi t be broken. telephone message troin Steel Greek to the News this afternoon is to the effect that the young man is still !q a critical condition. The flow of mood baa not been stopped and the attending physician fears that owing to the condition of the boy there is little hope for his recovery. STtAJfg STMY. Remark this Casa at Loyal Friendship la the WarM of Crime. Io» AnartM Daily Tlwa A dramatic story of self-sacri 5” o*part of a crook baa dribbled out through the grim and nuromautic Criminal Courts. The young bunco mao, Bert Clayton, u said to have gone to prison to save bis feeble old psl. Thomas Snow. The circumstances were such that they could both have a slim ch»«t,o( going dear or one could of a certainty go free U the other would go to prison.Clayton insisted upon going to prison letting the old man out. The >wo of them conspired to rob old man Vcnablt in a "spike" v«1*^^<>>»eied^roEtbe^l& and both of the bunco man were Sur9&1- TfefcMlwas famdmt «,000 each. They couldn't raise It singly—either of them. Although Clayton told the Judge who sentenced IHn he had been only led into the dime in his desperation to get money, to send East to bis sick Wing wife and two little chil dren, it appears that he had the most money of the two. not quite $2,000 however. He scraped ap some and his young wife brought him more. Snow got together what money be could, and be tween them there was a pile amounting to $2,000. It was enough to let one of them give foil and skip ont. Here was a situation to test the character of a better and more generous man than a crook. Young Clayton, after talking it over with hi* young wife, told Snow that he w2ult* to go free. When the old man demurred to accept such a sacrifice. Clayton said to him: "1 am young yet and I can stand a few years in the still ' You would dkt before your sentence expired. So oltl Snow took the $2,000 they had all three raised and deposited it as bail. Then he promptly shook the dust of this city from bis feet and vanished. Clayton got three years in San Uuentfo. According to the etiquette of the underworld of Uie crooks it is now "np to" old Snow. He wiD be expected to set the -proper machinery in the proper devious ways to rnnniog to see that Clayton’s wife and children are well taken care of. Just how these things are done only a few of the outsiders are able to know. ScfeMl Oar* far Capita. C level rad Plata Dealer. Statistics show that the average amount of public school ing P«n-capiU. in this country is 998 days. That ia, there would be 998 days for each inhabitant if it were distributed around. Fifty year* ago the average waa 420 days, and at the beginning of the nineteenth century it waa but eighty-two days. The nation gives the sc bool-children of to ,fwelve timea at much schooling as the youngsters re ceived 100 years ago. The Supreme Court of Tonn eaeee holds that the Adams law, penned by the last legislature, ia constitutional. The measure waa a temper* nce'rr solution and provided for the abolition of saloons in towns having a p.ipu lation of 1,000 and under, noon the submission of the que .tlon to popular vote. w-r wear ■ a 1 1 July Clearance Sale of MILLINERY ?ur MMBacry la being offered at the July prices. As the season advaacos Prices of Millinery decline. Not only nor goods, bat ear prices no the goods will nail everybody. Oar Ones of children's, misses’ *** •MlbB trimmed Hats at Me, Tbc, and $1 rennet be tenebad ante onaBty and price. Before pbichaala* come end compere oar Hondo and be rinilamg WASH FABRICS. Lace Stripe Walstlags, colored Lawns sad Dimities all going at mdaced prices. * * * — Embroideries and WMts Lawn sandal sals continues until the lot is sold.* * * * * * JAS. F. YEAGER, _LADIES* FURNISHINGS A SPECIALTY. In the Good Old Summer-Time. Love making is made easy accompanied by the soft strain* of ooc of oar Guitars or Hand alias Wc also carry a complete line of VktbM. Banjoa. Antoharps, Accordcons, Preach Harps, ate.—anythin* yon need in the anudl antaieal Un*. Torrence, the Jeweler. Watefc repairing and engraving a specialty. -AT MISS RUDDOCK’S UP STAIRS OVER MORRIS BROTHERS ALL MILLINERY HALF PRICE. ENOUGH SAID c«i< « Who.-. r
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