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THE GASTONIA W. t. MARSHALL, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXIV. | M|||| | GA8TONLA, N. C„ TUESDAY. JULY 7, 1903, POINTS AND PARAGRAPHS ON TOPICS OF THE TIMES. C»(tf this fcfml will Im ptluttd Iron Hum la tla»« oottworthy auertacca aa tteaw* ol carrot iaurotf. Thyy will b* Uku (rum pabltr iblram, baoka. mcniwt. urwapapen. in (Ml vkinmr n may Sad (tea. Soiw liar* (bate ukcllmi will accord with oar rkwa aad the claw* o( oar read era, iwmiawUn Ofpodu will ha traa. Bad by rtaaoa o( tb» •object raattrr. Ite mjte. tbr aathonOilp, or tba view* npfoiocd. each will btc* aa 11010001 « tuooly ioterrm to nuke ii a Nwricmi attoromoo. A Balt Hllllaa Divsrees In Twanly Ytara. Cbriallan Obaervor. A recent estimate is to the effect that during the last twenty yeara more than half a million divorces have been granted within the United States. Half n million homes destroyed! Five hun dred thousand guiltless women or men rendered miserable by the unfaithfulness of a consort t Perhaps a million children degraded by the marring of their homes! And those who have keen un faithful, and have done the wrong, have been limply bet free to repeat tbe wrong on some one else. Is this right? (forth Carolina's Part to Plckatt'a Chari* at Oeltyskarj. Prod. H. H- Sbrpbcrd at UaUyabara. July 3rd. "Fifteen North Carolina regiments took part in the mconl pirable assault of July 3rd, which has passed into history as Pickett’s charge. The North Carolina troops advanced further in to the works of the enemy than those of any other State, and were the last to retire from tbe field they had crowned with their valor. Every hillside, bam or bamblc retreat was marked by the presence of our wonnded or dying. Our wounded lay in improvised* hospi tals; our dead rested in bumble undesignated graves and blended with the indiscriminate dust. Never in all the annals of all the ages had fidelity to a cause, devotion to an imperishable con viction, so signalised achievement—deeds compared with which Waterloo, Wagram and Balaklava, idealized and glorified by poetic grace and romantic halo, hide their diminished heads. * Patty Years After the Battle af Gettysburg. Col. Jobm a. Uat at Cottyabara. July 3rd Then, my comrades, connt it not idle that your remains lie on foreign soil. It is foreign soil no more. We loot our cause, but we have won back onr place in the American Union. Pennsylvania and North Carolina are sisters now, and like a sister, Pennsylvania is caring for you. Her noblest sons and daughters are pleading for a statute of Lee to overlook the scenes which last you saw and are coming to regard you as brothers. They address your old colonel as "comrade.” Year by year tbe relentless temper of war is giving way to tbe gentle tones of brotherhood and peace. Your valor is coming to be regarded as the common heritage of the Am erican nation; it no longer belongs to the South; it is the high water mark of what Americans have done and can do. The day ia soon coming and is already here, when yoar heroism will be as mnch admired in Maine aa in Texas; in California as in Carolina. Yonr deeds challenge the wonder of mankind. You £ave brought everlasting renown on your native State and the dear old Twenty sixth North Carolina, I gave you the highest tribute—a comrade’s tears._ The Five Great Evil* »l Society. CardiMl Oibboom. All young men of today who are anxious to win success and anxious to fnlfil their full duties as citizens should realize that society of today is confronted by five great—five very great—evils: Divorce, which strikes at the root of the family and society; an imperfect and vicious system of education, which undermines the religion of out youth; the desecration of the Christian Sabbath, whicd tends to obliterate in our adult population the salutary fear of God and the homage that we owe him; the gross sad sys tematic election frauds, and, lastly, the unreasonable delay in car rying into effect the sentences of oar criminal courts and the nu merous subterfuges by which criminals evade the execution of the law. Uur insatiable greed for gain, the coexistence of colossal wealth with abject poverty, the extravagance of the rich, the dis content of the poor, our eageT and impetuous rushing through life, and every other moral and social delinquency uiay be traced to one of the five radical vices enumerated above. Wsndarful taspravamsat la Itarth Carolina. Seotlud Meek CommoawmKk. One who observes closely cannot fail to be impressed with the throb of industry and quickened energies throughout the country. "North Carolina shows more signs of life and industry to-day than any time in ita history,” remarked a gentleman bf considerable observation some days ago. And it is even so. Wherever you may turn you may see signs of marked improvement. In some places It is the rapid growth of towns; in others ft is Improvement in agricultural pursuits; and then it is quickening of educational interests. If it {* not one thing It is another. The State is a busier place than It has ever been before; and we are Just begin •*** what is real industry. In the no distant future North Carolina will be able to sank up htgh in many things which heretofore our people have been alow to learn. In nothing has the State made more rapid strides daring the past few years than in education. Onr school* are growing in efficiency, teachers are commanding better salaries, sod all thing, point to even better things In all these different lines of endeavor. ColIa|a Students Wanted la Wheat rielda. Char torn Ofeaairrr, 5tk. In an effort to relieve the situation on the Western farm* where labor is so scarce that many thousands of dollar* worth of gnim la aaM to be going* to waste became there an no hands to harvest ft, the Nebraska State labor bureau has bit upon a plan to put college students in the fields. The bureau is sending out cir culars calling the attention of students throughout the country to T* ?h*y rmUro«l »*«• to the West and to the wages paid to farm "y~~frOV? ^ to $3 a day and all expenses—ind hopes to secure hundreds of young min In this way. The nature of the response so fsr ma « is not known, bnt it cen be surmised. The New York Coramerc al has about the correct idea of the situation when it says. In explanation of the abnormal conditions oow prevailing, that a grow ng aversion to fsrm work is the cause. Thousands sud thousands o m.upref., "scrub" woe* <n cities and towns the year around St $1 or $3 a day to *3 a day and "found" during three mouths of [the year oa farms. "Unquestionably," says The Com merdal. "there are many of this class who couldn't be tempted awmr from New York to the West by the higher wsge*, eva" if »Wr railroad fares both ways wart to be paid them la addition To them a crust in New York is better than a feast on a Western farm." Of a good many others it might be said that loafing in town on nothing a day is preferable to honest toll on the fsrm or DAVY CROCKET AND E. A. POE. Old Tina's Rmllictiinj if No* tikli kal Widely Biffireai Nia. St. LeaU Olobe-Dnaocrat. "It is not often that you strike men who can tell from memory reminiscences of more than three-quarters of a century ago. ia it?” The question was directed by Col. "Pick” Jones, of Scguln, Texas, when asked for a story of his boyhood associations with David Crocket and Edgar Allen Poe, with both of whom he was intimately associated when a boy. Though now in his nine tieth year, Colonel Jones walks with the alacrity and energy from his home to town of one many yean bis innior. His ■uad is clear and active, and his memory remarkably accurate. "My father and Crocket were great friends, even before I cdu recall having seen him,” said Colonel Jones. "The first time I remember of baying met him was at my father's bouse. Crock ett was then canvassing in the interest of his campaign, ac cording to my recollection, for the Legislature, and I was a boy about 12 yean of age. After that I saw him,bunted with him, and visited bis home, and he our home frequently. Whenever be came anywhere In the vicinity of Madison county be made my father’s home hisstopping place. 1 once spent a week with him in his home in Obion county, Tennessee, and we went on sev eral hnnts together. He and I made arrangements to come to Texas together in the spring of 1636, bnt due to the fact that be could not get bis arrangements iubijc id urac, nc aia nor start, 1 think until some time'in the (all. I started in the spring, and be was to meet me later on, bat on account of the mail service and no facilities for communicating with one another, we never met after we parted in Tenneaaee. "And you want to know some thing about Edgar Poe, do you?" "Well Poe was as fine a fellow personally os ever lived on earth. It was 73 years ago that be and I entered West Point together, I then a boy of liH years and he UDward of 20. Poe and I were class (nates, roommates and tent mates. Prom the first time we met he took a fancy to me, and due to his older years and extra ordinary literary merits, I thought he was the greatest fel low on earth. Prom much that he told me of bis previous, life, he was dissipated before he ever entered for the West Point ca detship. He was certainly given to extreme dissipation within a very short time after be entered school. At first he studied hard, and his ambition seemed to be to lead tbf class in all stndies. He was an extraordinary scholar in all branches except mathematics for which be seemed to have an aversion. In that branch he fell short, aud that seemed to have a tendency to discourage him, and it was only a few weeks after the beginning of hia career at West Point that he seemed to lose In terest in his studies and seemed to , be disheartened and discouraged. I think when be discovered that be could not lead his classes that it had a ten dency to dampen hia ordinarily genial disposition. He would at times become a victim of the blues, and for many days be would hardly apeak to any one, and his disposition seemed sud denly to be changed from life, energy, congeniality and pleas ure to abruptness, revenge, spite* ralncss and even vicioasnems. rte waa mvanabiy pleasant to me when ia these despondent moods, and would generally get me to go with him down to ‘Old Benny’*’ place some distance from the buildings, tbat the gov ernment bas since purcbaaedsnd made it part of the reserve, which et that time was a rendez vous for the boys when they could escape the guards. 'Old Benny’ (I forget bis other name) had intoxicants, and Poe would ruk any chances in evading the officers when in one oi his moods to go down, and he would invari ably drink until ha became rav ing drunk. It waa not more than four weeks after we entered Weet Point in Jnne, 1823, that accompanied by me, msde ft, fiT* "-"to” to this Vint.’ Thia waa the first time I had ev *! iT* W" !/Tlrr the todnence of Hqam, and he was soon more hke a demon than a man. He waa fearless at all times, and when under the influence of liqaor was desperate and the boys at Watt Point had a high regard for him both through a respect for his extraordinary tal ents and through fear. “Poe wooM form a dislike to a mao, and hia hatred waa dee* sad nareconcilable. There warn O®* of the teachers there, Pro feasor Locke, who bated P«»c and the spirit of unccngcniality was matual. It was Locke whom Poe on une occasion wanted to throw down a 80-foot embankment in the dead bonra of the night iuto the Hudson river. This was when be was returning from Old Denny's late one night thorough ly intoxicated sad imbued with tbe idea that* Locke bad dooe him some injustice. It was one of the most trying efforts of my life to prevent Poe from doing this terrible deed. Poe would drink to a most thorough state of intoxication every time he could get where therr was any thing to drink. "It was quite frequent that long after taps were sounded at night Poe wonld awaken me and ask me to go down to ‘Old Ben ny*' with him. Doe to my younger yean and the influence of an older bead, 1 would inva riably accompany him. Manay havt ‘eeo Poe 1“ tbe guardhouse as a raving maniac from the result of drink after these escapades. He, when un der tbe Influence of drink, knew no such thing as obedience to hit superiors and could only be bandied by force, bnt I have never seen him subdued until af ter the effects of drink had worn off. He finally became so intol erant from his excessive drink thM he was dismissed for diso bedience to his superiors. I left West Point shortly after hia dis miasal, but never from that time saw him. I believe that I am the only living West Point asso ciate of Poe,and wonld like very much to know if there are oth ers.” Tfca Pramlaaat Maa's Kid. Col. FuAnxtoi gvtmkias. If a prominent man happen* to be the father of a precocious kid the best thing he can «do is to teach him humility and grace tud rub sbe saliant points into the bosom of his pantaloons with t stave rather more frequently than otherwise. This would take from him the spirit of bra vado which seems to rule many of the children of the rich aud mighty. In other words, let it be understood that Little Tommy Tinker’s dog cuts no more ice than the ornery canioe of the lorriest negro in town when it comes to bulldozing or intimi dation. There is a moral here. If it be not understood, write for fur ther particulars. Too Mack MandHa Sentiment. »t*t*l»ill« Landmark. The Durham Herald obaervea that it "has about reached the point in this state where a man who believes that murderers mould be hanged it not consid ered competent to act as a juror." This U true, and it is also a fact that a man who believes m hanging murderers or in pun ishing with any severity people who are guilty of other offenses, is accounted blood thirsty, cruel, and heartless. The sentimental people who don’t want anybody punished, but who gush and slop over with a lot of rot about mer cy and hie hearts, get the ap plause. If the murderers would confine themselves to this sort probably there would uot be so much complaint. Sheriff Austin of Scottsboro, Ala., was shot and severely in jured by s mob Monday- night. He was resisting the efforts of the mob to secure a negro rapist from the jell but bis resistance waa futile. MAIL DELIVERY IT ELECTRICITY. A Tmumm Mm’s Device te Sfwly MM to Rerei Cmms> Idee CWrlolu Obmw. r The rural free delivery ayatem ■U practically a new thing in the country, but it baa been toe sub ject of thought by inventors and a Tennessee man comes to tbc front with a device which be claims will revolutionise the bus iness. His plan is to distribute tbe moil by electricity sod it ap pears to be practicable. Tbe in ventor is a yonng man n«mvd W. N. Fiaher, wV>, in describ ion his electrical earner, says: H Under the present system the farmer puts his letter in the anil bon and waits for the carrier to act it sad carry it to the post office. Under tbe new system he drops bis letter in tbe box without even leaving Ms door step. then presses a button and the box goes bussing over the wires to tbe central office. Then, after the railroad Bails have come in, the operator in charge at the central office pots into each bos thus sent into him what mail he may have received from the trains addressed to the own er of tbe box. The current of electricity is then reversed, and tbe boxes are all carried bock into the country." To avoid confusion and the wrong delivery of mail, it is ex plained that on each box is a se lecting mechanism that enables it to travel back over exactly the same route it came on. Conse quently, there will be no confu sion, no box going to the wrong place, but every box will go right back to tbe man that sent it tu. lint tbe invention goes farther. In addition to carrying mujt and delivering merchandise ordered by telephone oat in tbe country, the inventor proposes to ase the same wires for lighting farm houses b> night, "thus keeping the equipment constantly in use twenty-four hoars each osy, and rendering it much more econom ical.” There is one class of people who will be particularly interested in the plans of the young Tennessee inventor—the torsi free delivery carriers.- If the electrical device is adopted tbe rural carrier will find him self out of a job, for electricity will do in a few seconds what it takes him all day to do. Ui|» Savins In Trinwr. Stl*l«hFoat. The fiscal year of the govern ment at Washington closed at midnight of Tuesday. Not withstanding the rakes-of in the post office department, the snr pins of revenue over expenses was over >52,000,000. Thu sim ply represents Hist amount of taxes collected from the people unnecessarily. It represents— this surplus does—more than 25 times as finch aa all the revenue collected by our State for its ex **?■*?• . including pensions, schools, old soldiers, interest on public debt, cost of maintaining all the charitable hospitals and institutions. The total receipts from all sources were >558.80^0, and expenses for all purposes inclu ding the coot of the trip of T. Thomas Fortune, the New York § agitator sent by Prescient van to the Philippines, 78j590, leaving the strains but the people ream willing, aa well as Stic to stand for it. Um4'» nnj. t MiM»» *•»’• ImIwi [ rnm MlpiUn . trrut wn. 1 Gloves and Mitts FOR SUMMER WEAR. Wf have a btiittfal aelectioa of these woods satiable tar the aeuoa. Silk lice Mitts, elbow length; silk Isee Mitts. — «»•* length, glaln Aik Otola. nut* •ad black; pUla lisle Gloves. These goods ase the latest d^oas and the comet styles. • ' HOSIERY. Lsce stripe aad ptaia la sasiawi weights. They an beaaties. S9SS5SSBS59HHHBBBSSS&SSS New Pearl Waist Sets at 25c. 35c. 40c, aad 50c per set. MILLINERY. We ase still Children for SOe, 75c, and$1 eacbtake'the imL JAS. F. YEAGER, _LAOIBS* furnishings a specialty. In the Good Old Summer-Time. •, •*; N - :► . ’ - ** *. ■- L .1 -*i •' tte Wm Torrence, the Jeweler. Watch repairing mad engraving a specialty. CRAIG 4 WILSON. THE GASTONIA GAZETTE One Dollar a Year «*rw t ctramn > mim t twnrittt raman* t toumto « un • naan
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