POINTS AND PARAGRAPHS
_ON TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
Under tbla boat will hr O'mted from time to Kmc noteworthy utterance*
m theme* ol current inlrrrot They will be talma from public adilrem**.
book., mae-tnor*. »r».|.j^rn, In (net wherever we may and them. Sow
tlmaa tbeac mkcUoa. will accord with oar view* and the view* at our read
ora aoeietlmo the aypmitt will b> tie*. Bnt by roaeon ot the aoblert emUrr, ,
the style, the naUtonhlp, ar the view* rxjrreaaad. tack will haee aa element I
of timely internet to make It a connprenun* utterance.
The Poor are Sick ui Bag far Braid.
Lenoir Nfwi.
Thy physicians tell ns that a number of sick persons in ami
near Lenoir are in need ol the absolute necessaries of life and sre
appealing to the public for aid.
What (he Complaint is Ahast.
Duibsa Utrahl.
All people know that the r.urUt give the criminal every chance
that is due him and for this reason some people think that when'
one haa finally been landed in the penitentiary the Governor should
let him stay there.
An Opportunity That Mecklenburg Didn't Saiia.
Cbutetc News. 10th.
Gaston has just declined to vote a bond Issue for good roads.
Gaston’s failure is Mecklenburg's opportunity. * * * * By
getting the trade tnrncd this way now before these adjoining coun
ties wake up to the importance of good roads we may be able to
keep that trade for years to come. To every one that hath shall
be given.
The Csaaarvatira Man Considers Bath Sidaa.
Richmond Nrr^UatWf
The puipoae of this government is to see that no class in any
community is unduly favored nr allowed to tyrannise over any
other claas. The cool-headed and conservative citiien of every
class refuses to be n fanatic and traiua himself to consider both
sides of every proposition. His duty is to see that this balance as
among the classes, parties and factions is maintained.
Tha South Has Same Horrar Spats.
Richmond News Ictdtr
When we of the South go forth to brag aud vaunt ournclve* it
is well for ns to recollect that wc have some horror spots and that
it does not become us to be too complacent in our self-satisfaction
and self-glorification. The convict lease system of Georgia and
Sonth Carolina, and probably of some other Southern States has
been simply a long series of frightful outrages and horrors. One
railroad in South Carolina ruus to-day, it is hardly an exaggeration
to say, through a hundred miles of graveyard, where the convicts
who built it were packed away underground like so many dogs, as
they succumbed to fearful and relentless driving, cruelty, starva
tion and deprivation in January snow and the scorching heat of
August.
Retribution.
Richmond NcVi Uuln. IStb.
Thirty years ago to-morrow two men were walking side by
side on the ramparts of Portress Monroe. One of them was Jeffer
son Davis, 57 years old, the defeated, crushed and captive leader
of a government overthrown, a country desolate and beaten, the
representative of a people's bright dreams vauished and hopes
blotted out in their best blood. He was feeble, wasted, stooping
and helpless, barely able to walk, compelled to pause npw and
then for rest, gasping at the free air which he was permitted to
breathe as a special favor and after long denial. The other of the
two men was Nelson Appleton Miles, stalwart and sturdy, 29 years
old, in the very flush and prime of vigorous young manhood, hav
ing risen from the ranks to brevet major-general, commander of an
army corps, one of the favorite heroes of a triumphant country and
a conquering army.
At the order of General Miles, about three months before, on
May 23, 1865, Mr. Davis had been shackled. The former presi
dent of the Confederate States of America was physically a weak,
worn and sick man. He was confined in a fort with great thick
nesses of stone wall, with many locked iron dodrs, trebled lines of
armed sentinels and a deep moat with high walls between him and
the possibilities of escape or rescue. Yet he was thrown to the
stone floor of his cell by font strong young soldiers, while guards,
stood by with cocked and loaded muskets, and shackles were
fastened on his emaciated ankles. Thus degraded and tortured,
he was kept day after day in a hot, slimy and fetid cell, denied a
moment of solitude or peace, with a light blazing in his eyes all
night and an armed soldier standing guard over him every moment
of every hour. He was denied the commonest comforts and ne
cessities allowed to the vilest convicts in our penitentiary. Private
soldiers were given the right to insult him and it was part of their
duty to offend his natural human instincts and tastes in small and
large details of life. All this was done by the order of General
Nelson A. Miles.
nuw ubk lumy-ngm years, Mr. uavia sleeps peaceful
ly In Hollywood, with the rushing waters of the James river sing
ing endless requiem near by, with the love and reverence of hia
own people for his memory expressed daily in a thousand ways,
with the growing respect of the world for his chatacter and princi
ples demonstrated daily. General Miles, after a career of ap
parently brilliant success, after years in which, to do him right,
be did good and valiant service for hit country, is dismissed from
the command of the army of the Union, with scilbt conrteay, with
curt words from hia commanding office, which innat sting and
rankle in hia soul and which will aland to belittle hit record all
through history. He is wounded deeply in hia vaplty, a sensitive
part for every man, bat lu him abnormally developed and peculiar
ly sensitive. There is for the moment some outburst of sympathy
for him or rather of simulated sympathy from those anxious to
find Cittt* iot qnarrtl with the president. But he it doomed to
obscurity, to mortification, u> humiliation. We wonder if the
memory of those days at Portress Monroe comes to him in these
times of his own disaster and suffering in bis old age, and if he
thinks now and then that perhaps it may be retribution.’ B. it re
membered, ns he know* wsll, that the torture of the prisoner waa
Milas’ own net and will. He aod hia friends attempted lo throw
the shame on the secretary of war, but the document* stand to
show that the ommander at Portress Monroe was left free to
follow hia own Judgment and feeliog in the treatment of hia
prisoner.
LEAVES HUSBAND
AND CH1L9BEN.
Hr*. Curia Workman Bus* Away
With a Printer by tha Mama ol
PraB Barnes—Womaa Deserts
Her Pear Lillis Children.
CluMli Nan. 14U)
Mr. J. C. Workman, a carpen
ter who resides at No. 104 East
Thirteenth street, reported to
Cbief'Irwin this morning that
his wife, Carrie Workman, had
left her home and had deserted
him and her four children.
According to the story as told
by Mr. Workman, his wife left
Charlotte in cotnpnuy with Prcd
Barnes and n woman named
Nannie Cato.
For some time past Mr. Work
mau states that be his seen the
Cato woman and Barnes about
his home. At first he did not
think anything was wrong. Last
Monday arteruooa he returned
from his work at the Highland
Park Company’s new mill earlier
than usual and found Barnes and
the woman Cato at his house.
His suspicians were aroused and
he informed his wife that neither
Barucs uor the woraau were fit
associates for her.
aars. wortcmau resented tills
statement and iuformed her has
baud that either in ber estima
tion, were aa good aa tie was.
Tbis so incensed Mr. Workman
that be told hia write that unlesa
Barnes and the woman kept
away from bis house, some one
would be hurt. Mr*. Workman
replied that if Barnes was re
fused admission to her house,
she, too, would go.
This statement, Mr. Workman
says, made cold chills come all
over him. He theu realised that
Barnes and bis wife were too
friendly, and, for the safety of
his children and himself, he felt
that something should be done.
Tuesday afternoon when he
returned from work Barnes was
again at hia house. Mr. Work
man never said anything to him
but called his wife in the bed
room and told her very plainly
that her relations with Barnes
had to ceaae or ahe had to get out
of his home. Shortly thereafter
Mrs. Workman went up town
presumably to do some trading.
This is the last Mr. Workman
has ever seen of her.
Feeling the embarrassing posi
tion that she had placed him
aud the children in, he left
Wednesday night for Rock Hill
to report the matter to hia wife's
father. Mr. J. F. Isom. He was
told by his father-in-law to keep
cool and not do auything rash
and he (Mr. Isom) would strive
to right matters. Mr. Work
man returned home Wednesday
night and waited all of yesterday
and last night for some tidings
from hia wife. This morning,
he learned that she was seen
yesterday evening at the home
of a disreputable woman in this
city. The news came as a
severe shock to the husband
who had hoped that out of re
gard for their four little ones,
the mother would refrain from
crime. But the report of her
being seen at the home of a
woman of bad repute came in
such a way that he was forced
to believe that she bad forgotten
him and their children.
In view of what had transpired,
Mr. Workman came to Chief
Irwin this morning and un
burdened himself to the officer
He brought along with him a
picture of bis truant wife, the
man he suspected of causing all
the trouble and some letters hia
wife had written to Barnes while
he was living in Gastonia. He
placed all of these in the hands
of the police and asked to be in
formed as to the best course to
pursue. He says be does not
want the blood of any man on
bfa hands but that Barnes had
better make himself scarce
aronnd Charlotte.
Fred Barnes is a printer by
trade and came to Charlotte
from Gastonia. For the past
few daya be has been assisting
Mr. Fayssonx in his hypnotic
performances at the Park Andi
torium.
V#_ Pug g_a_ t a •• •
—viKumu a iuui Luuuicii
JJt 2. 8, 9, and 11 yean old.
Tb« three youngest are boy» and
theoldeat .a a girl.
The Dollce have the rat# jn
» locate
Barnet.
In tbe wreck at Mixton Thura
day mght of tbe excursion train
from Rutherford ton to Wllmiae.
ton; Tom Gardener, colored’'of
Stanley, Will Friday, colored-of
Dallas. Injured: Henry Priday.
colored, of Iron Station and
Newman Probat, of Catawba.
Subscribe for Th* Gastonia
Oas rrr*.
BATTLESHIP ST»UCI BOCK.
Maaoackoaalte Poached a Sill la
Har Side ai Etf Kack-Oaa
Hoodrad aad Parly Taos a!
Water Rooked Thraagh Hale.
New tuitTlan.
liarHarber, Me., Aug. 12.
1 be firal clans battleship Massa
chusetts, which has beeu parti
cipating in the naval search
problem as one of the ships of
the "eoeniy." met with an me
cident three miles southeast of
here at 12:28 this afternoon iu a
dense fog. The ship was tile
most easterly iu the formation of
the North Atlantic fleet as it wu
leaving Bar Harbor for Ovalcr
Bay, where the fleet will lie re
viewed on Monday by President
Roosevelt.
. 1*> passing Egg Rock, which
is one of to: many dangerous
places along the Maine Coast,
the battleship struck a pinnacle
projecting from a dry ledge, the
most sonth-westerly point of
the rock. The collision put a
■lit in the side of the vessel big
enough to push a band through,
twenty-four feet below the water
line of the boat, on the port side
of the bow. The ship draws
twenty-six feet of water, and
just before the accideut her
sounding showed 16 fathoms,
while just after they showed 10
fathoms. The water rushed
through the bole ioto two of the
compartments of the hull of the
■hip. The amount of water
which entered the ship was
estimated at 140 tons.
When the collision was felt an
ifficer was sent below, and on
liis report the danger signal was
it once sounded. Every man
in the ship jumped to his place,
but there was no signs of undue
excitement. The Indiana, a
sister ship to the Massachusetts;
ihe Scorpion, and three destroy
ers came alongside to aid the
ship if she was m danger.
Admiral Barker detailed these
ships to accompany the injured
vessel back to the harbor. The
destroyers were at once sent to
rejoin the fleet, but the two
larger ships remained in (lie
harbor all night.
Capt. Baton of the Massachu
setts to-night said that his ship
was not in the slightest danger,
and that he was ready to sail as
soon as he received orders from
the Navy Department.
"If the accident had happened
out at sea," he said "we should
never have stopped, but since
we. were so close in it was
thought advisable to anchor
and have the divers make a
thorough examination. The
only thing see have to do now ia
to balance the 140 tons of water
which we have taken into the
forward two compartmeuta, and
to do this we are transferring
the ammunition aft. With the
boat on an even keel we will be
all right for sea. except that we
will have that extra weight to
carry. The fog was so thick
that we conld not see half a
ship's length ahead of na. We
took extra precautions, but none
of the five officers we had on
watch was able to see anythiog."
The fog was so thick here that
many were surprised that Ad
miral Barker put out in it. If
be had postponed his departure
several hours the accident would
not have happened, aa the fog
lifted several hours after he
■teamed out.
A number of ships have nra
against the ledge which injured
the Massachusetts, and several
attempts have been made to get
a buoy put near it, but uothing
baa ever been done.
A Tribute ta lad Headed Polk*.
CharloMi Otanw.
"1*1 tell yoo one thing you
□ever saw,” said the observant
resident. "You never saw a red
headed begger and nobody else
ever saw one. In all my life I
never saw a thriftless red headed
man or woman,and all redheaded
people are the soul of energy
and all of ’em have nerves. And
temper! Say, a fully inhabited
hornets' nest hasn’t a kneener
sense of resentment than a red
headed temperament. And yon
never saw a red beaded woman
with a lasy husband, or a red
headed man with a lasy wife.
No, sir; red heads surcharge all
the aorronnding atmosphere with
activity. I have the greatest re
spect and admiration for red
headed people, and the only
reason I never tried to marry a
red beaded woman is that I don't
like husbands who are afraid of
their wives."_
Oovantor Aycock baa offered
$200 reward for tbs capture of
Will Harris the Mecklenburg
deeprnulo, who escaped from the
penitentiary last wesk. Tba
proclamation of outlawry allows
tha criminal to b« taken "dead
THE WHIM or THE WOftlD.
Great Britain mmi her Depend—
elaa Bara tbs KM Impart—I
Part si It.
KnfVort Fmi
Soma carious (acts regarding
the shipping of the world are
presented by the figures in
Lloyd's Register for the current
year. The merchant marine ia
something concerning which
theories are many aad theorists
multitudinous. But Lloyds deal
only in figures. Many Americana
have come to bclicTe that we
bavfc no mercantile marine worth
speaking about, whereat the
Register allows that we rank
second among the nations of the
world in that respect, being ex
ceeded only by Great Britain
and her dependencies.
• UC ICQ uag OI omtlil notes
over nearly one-half the mer
chant tonnage of the world, bat
w. come next, and after vu
Germany, Norway, France, and
Italy, in the ordeT named. That
Norway, with her small trade
and ooly about 2,000,000 of popu
lation. should surpass hi the
amount of her merchant ton
nage France, with Her great
trade and 40,000,000 of Inhabi
tants, or. even Italy. With her
aggregate of imports asd ex
ports vast as compared with tbe
Scandinavian country, and with
thirty-odd millions of inhabi
tants. is a truly remarkable fact,
and shows the influence of
heredity in this branch of the
hardy Norse race. Ole Olesoo
finds his borne as naturally to
day in the forecastle of the
peaceful Farm as his vikiug ,
ancestor, Olaf, of the Red Hand,
found bis beneath tbe rocking 1
bulwarks of Long Dragon a ,
thousand years ago. A com
parison of the shipping of Nor- i
way with that of France and of
Italy shows that after all it is
the maritime spirit of s nation
and not government subsidies
which most successfully creates
s great merchant marine.
Of our own tonnage, 3,611,530
tons, only 873,000 tons are
registered for foreign commerce.
But this will be remedied when
Americans return to the element
which they forsook for a time to
people a continent and build a
nation. How steam still goes on
crowding out sail as a motive
power is shown by tbe fact that
three-fifths of the vessels of the
world to-day are steamers and
while in the last year the total
to unage of the world increased
29*.368 tons, the sailing fleet de
creased by 118,000 tons, not
enough wind-blown ships being
built to compensate for the loss
by wreckage and decay. Tbe
figures also show that while
Great Britain and her dependen
cies have less than half the total
tonnage of the world, they fly
the red flag over 1,000,000 more
tons propelled by steam than
all the other nations of the world
put together.
A Trial Far Bwellia*—It Was a
Flat Fight.
In McDowell Superior Court at
Marion Monday an naaaual cate
waa heard before Judge Long.
A correspondent thus describes
it:
The moat interesting rate
which came up to-day was that
of Jamas Frits sad Brastas
Holderfidd, of Bock Creek, l»ath
of whom warn indicted lor dnd
H*W- This is the first case of
the kind ever tried in this c. ua
ty and one of tbe few in the
State. When tbe case was oiled
hat Holder
fi.d,d *® respond, it was
claimed by bis counsel that he
was dek, but at any rate tbe
the judge ordered a capias issued
for him. As the tridof Frits
progressed it developed that the
two men met by previoes agree
ment several months ago aad
engaged in a list and ahull fight.
Bad blood had existed between
them for some time and they
chose this honorable and effect
ad method of settling thdr diff
erences. Witnesses testified that
the combatauta were relieved of
all weapons and fought it oat in
true Coibett-Fitzsimmons style.
They were both badly pneished,
bat each of the two went away
satisfied. At tbe trial to-day
the defendant Frits admitted tbe
(sets as alleged, but a question
of law was raised as to wheth
er or not be was guilty of duel
ling as contemplated by the
statute.
Kentucky distiller* in waking
for tke exportation
of 20,000 barrel* of whiskey to
Hambort aud Bremen (or stor
age pnrpoaet. It la principally
of tke crop of 1903. This will
be .the first exportation in the
history of Kentucky of any treat
amount of youn* whiskey to be
matured ia B a rope.
SUMMER MILLINERY
bat* mast gn to make room for fall stock. Clean
aweap prices arc moving them oM. Prices, 50c,
79c. SLOO and up. U EMBROIDERIES—Swiss
Sets to match beauUfnl designs. 5 WHITE
GOODS—Regular 25c goods going at the re
markably low price of Uc. *1 COLLARS—
Ladies’ low coll art neweit oat «R RIBBONS
AND S1LES—Otu Hoc oi ribbon* end silks
yon bay. ;
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JAMES I
GASTONIA, N O R T H C A R O L !« A . (
KING’S MOUNTAIN MILITARY ACADEMY,
Yorfcrlfle, Scath CtroMaa.
K Wgh-grade actaool with a fiatdn patronage. Tetcbta and
»dcte Uw together at one family. A real home achool. Standj
’or tk* beat and nothing but th* boat. Faculty all active CMatfaa
neu, who live in clot eat contact with the
_C*L W. O. 8TBPHE1HOM, kpt.
GASTON LOAN A TRUST CO.
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SAVINGS.
P*r» interest at « per cent, per
•Miam, rniapmindad quarterly.
REAL ESTATE.
Sell* and rent* bonnet nod other
real estate on commission.
LOANS.
Negotiates loans on first ant
gates rani estate aecnrlty.
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