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VOL. XXIV. _QASTQNIA, n. C., TIJ8EDAV. SEPTEMBER IS. 1003. _ ,
POINTS AND PARAGRAPHS
ON TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
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A Truth uf i Lit.
JOha Trotwood Moor*, la A 9gaimer Hrmtutl.
A truth fits every other truth in the world, but a lie fit* nothing
but some othd. lie made especially for it.
0rarer Dttn'l Spar* The Bod.
Waablnstoa Pu*i.
Grover Cleveland has gone fishing again. He does not propose
to spare the rod whether the child is spoiled or not.
Oa Doing Osod Without Deliberation.
Haary Satan Marrlmon, la Tla Sower*.
He bad corns to bis friends' assistance on the spur of the
moment. He was destined, as some men are, to plunge about the
world seeking to do good. And it has been decreed that good
must be done by stealth aud after deliberation only. He who does
good on the spar of the moment usually sows a seed of dissension
in the trench of time. C - j
The Friend Different Front all Others.
H*ary Bteoa Mrrrlown |* Tbc Sower*
The two men stood looking at each other for a moment. They
had passed through much together—danger, excitement, and now
they are dabbling in sorrow. It wonld appear that this same
sorrow runs like a river across the road of our life. Some of us
find the ford sud plash through the shallows—shallow ourselves—
while others flonnder in deep water. These are they who look
right on to the greater events, aud fail to note the trivial details of
each little step. Paul was wsding through the deep water, and
this good friend of his was not inclined to stand upon the bank.
It is while passing through this river that Fortune sends some of
us a friend, who is ever afterward different from all others,
Brim's Plot ore Not Tret.
Klckxrd M. Kdnoad*. la Maaafactartrs' K««fd.
In the light of inch figures, which are open to the world, how
utterly absurd seem the statements made by Mr. Graves. The
fact is, starting with his false premises ou the industrial line, he
has largely overdrawn the conditions. He has painted a picture
of the South which is not true, but it is a picture which will be
distributed by. Northern and Western railroads seeking to keep im
migration from the South by Ibc hundreds of thousands of copies,
if uot by millions. Europe, the North and the West,will be Good
ed with it to prove that white men must not go South. His speech
will counteract the good work of a hundred railroad immigration
agents, for false though it be, it will be distributed os the views of
a Southern man. From beginning to end Mr. Graves’ new things
are not trae things and his true things are not new things. •
The Unpaced laces af Ufa.
Johs Trot wood Moore, la A Sumer Hrtaul
I had yet to learn that the unpaced races were the real races
of our lives. And yet, how often we spend life training for the
great race of the future—which never comes off—straggling, hard
ening, exerting, denying ourselves for battles we are never to
know, for victories we are never to win. Planning for the time
when our colors shall show first at the front and the plsudiU of
the world be ours. Struggling, training on. And after the years
have passed, after the day when the great battle and great victory
was to have been, then it is that we look back in wonder at the
real races of our lives—the unpaced races we have won. And we
wonder the more when we see that we have won them in onr teem
ing nnpreparednesa—pitched headlong into the unexpected fray
of the present we have found the fsith and strength of the day
equal to the need of it, and so, looking ever to the great battle of
the future, One has lead us, for the fsith and earnestness that
was in os, to win the real victories of the past.
Peopla Whe Marry Shan Id Export to Pay Ike Price.
SichmooJ KcwrLtedvr.
Often the training demands patience, work, long effort; and it
is the hardest kind of work because disappointments and conten
tion and the labor of driving, persuading, urging, sometimes pun
ishing, an unwilling or stubborn child in as trying on the nerves as
anything we know of. Bat people who marry and have ahildren
must expect to pay the price. A woman has no right to expect to
be wife and mother and enjoy the freedom from cafe, work, and
reaponsibiity of a maiden. A man has no right to try to enjoy the
privileges, blessings and comforts of family Hfe while evading its
natural penalties and requirements. We can’t eat onr cake and
have it, too. The married woman—no matter how bad a mess her
marriage may be always looks with a little acorn on her
mature unmarried sister, and the woman with children, how
ever they may fret her, secretly giyea herself some airs over the
childless wife. Marriage and children mean splendid opportuni
ties, heavy responsibilities, serious dangers, and we cannot take
one without the other_ «■
tor*ale Should Co-eparsle with the Schools.
M—i NmLwln V
It would be well if ell the parent* of boy* end girl* attending
the public school*—end for that matter, private school* also—
would do some severe aad honest thinking and self-examination
sad analysis at the beginning of the coming school lm end
wonld nuke some very strong end definite resolutions nnd stick to
them. One vice of the public school system is tbs temptation it
offers parents to shirk their responsibility and to unload the whole
harden of management, training end Instruction of children on
the public school system and teacher*. The schools cannot be
made effective and cannot do the work they are intended to do
without the cordial cooperation and earnest help of the parents of
the popU*. Parents sbonld run their families on system end
daring ths school vulon should have a regular study boar, or
time, so much as mty be needed, aad should see that it is used
faithfully. A child can be trained to do certain things at Certain
times until it becomes a fixed habit and the natural thing to do.
It can bo taught to get oat its books and go to study as regnlarly
and naturally as H goes to meals or becomes sleepy at night. On
the other hand, neglect and carelessness or a little loosening of
watchfulness or discipline will allow a child to become ir
regular and ascertain even In eating and sleeping.
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Our buyers have fust returned from New
York, where they have made the greatest
selection in all departments, that has ever
been In our little city.
Everything Is on a move In our stores
opening up and arranging this big array of
goods. In a few days we will be In good
shape. Car loads of goods rolling In every
day, and there will be Interesting buying at
Thomson Co’s. We are making every effort
to make this the banner season in all the
history of this store and if goods and prices
will do It, we are sure of meeting our expec
tations. We have left no stone uhturned.
Our help Is the same we have had, so we are
well trained to wait on the public intelligently.
Come any time, we will welcome you. Al
ways glad to show you through this big store.
THOMSON CO.
:: :: The People's Store. :: ::
'•PARTICULARLY OBNOXIOUS."
Bara la a Thing That la "Prapoo
tarona. Ahomlaabla. Shams
fad."
New York Kvniif Bod.
Mbs Huldah Todd, a post
mistress at Greenwood, Del.,
has been removed because ac*
cording to tbe record, "she was
particularly and personally ob
noxious to Senator Alice," and
one Houseman, an Addicks
worker, has been appointed in
her stead. Naturally there is ex
citement and indignation
throughout the State,” lor, first
of all, tbe postmistress whose
head was cut off had diligently
abstained from meddling in pol
itics, and, then, It It patent that
any one filling a Federal office
in Delaware who is personally
obnoxious to one J. Edward Ad
dicks. a private citisen, must be
equally obnoxious to bis man
Friday, whom he made a United
States Senator. The charge of
being personally obnoxions la
one that could be made with fa
cimy against any postmaster in
Delaware. If It is sufficient to
warrant expulsion from the Fed
eral service, there seem* to be
no obstacle to a clean sweep of
all postmasters who do not wear
the Addiclts collar. A man is a
postmaster in Delaware to earn
his bread and butter. Let it
once go abroad that lie is per.
sonally obnoxious to Man Friday
and be (eels the pressure to sac
rifice bis principles, If he is a
regular Republican, and there
fore, opposed to Addkksiam.
Postmasters can be useful ia a
hundred ways to a political boea.
If the boas of the Union Repub
licans, whose purpose it is to
succeed Man Friday in the Sen
ate, could eject every man from
a post office who was not for
him. Miss Todd would have
Pkatr of company. How, U
may be asked, can they escape
him when a woman is removed
for being "particularly and per
sonally obnoxious to Chair
warmer Alice?
Now, If Mia» Todd were partk
ulsrly and personally obnoxious
to the community ofOreenwood,
that would be a different thing.
Then it would be dae to that
community, H it were n law
abiding and rational conunutrity,
to supply it with anew postmas
ter. Rut what right under high
heaven has any dtlsen—and a
United States Senator (a a dtlsen
after all—to make it a political
matter that be doesn't like a
postmaster, and why should the
slightest attention be paid to him
aversion U the postmaster is
earning his salary by faithful
service and suite the communi
ty? And when the postmaster
is a woman, the thing is prepos
terous, abominable, shameful. If
this outrage is allowed to become
a precedent, civil, yea, religious
liberty will become only a tradi
tion in Delaware.
TOM JOHNSON.
A Conservative Democratic View
•I the leasers tic CwMals
in Okie.
Dallas New*.
Mr. Thomas Johnson, mayor
of Cleveland,Ohio, bas been nom
inated by the Democrats as their
candidate for governor of thet
State. Perhaps the most reason
able accounting would be in the
statement that in Ohio, as In
other States, the Democratic
party is in confusion; that un
certainty exists as to what course
it should pursue, or to caver the
situation completely, the petty
is in e state of reorganisation. It
would be impossible to enumer
ate Mr. Johnson’s vagaries, and
endeavor to explain them. That
popularity which brought him
hi* honors may be accounted for
by some of his great wealth and
his generous use of it on such
occasions as this. It may be
accounted for by the unpopular
ity of other Democratic party el
ements in that State.
One cannot but be impressed
with the idea that lines are re
forming and new ideas of Dem
cracy are demanding attention
when a man with tbe views of
Mr. Johnson is nominated by any
8tate Democracy for governor.
True, none of tbe new ideas have
the faintest prospect of being put
into practice by the election of
Mr. Johnson. Pot to all ap
pearances that at present seems
impossible. But If his nomina
tion does not proceed from con
fusion and uncertainty as to tbe
course which the party should
pursue, then his nomination
would appear to be a boldness<•
that party’s annunciation that is
determined to cast its future life
on entirely new lines.
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HOW TO WET RICH.
A Uimi Brawn Pram tba Lila
•I an Cccantrk Moltl-Mlllsa.
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Nr» tart Km.
The recent appearance at his
boyhood home of Stephen B.
Roatb. an eccentric millionaire,
has drawn the eyes of the world
to the pretty town of Norwich,
Conn., just at the bead of navi
fiction on the Thanes River. To
the place where moat of hit rel
ative* atilt live, he suddenly re
turns, laden with wealth, which
he proceed* to share In lavish
•trie, with hi* poor, bat proud
and industrious kinsfolk.
What seems of particular inter
eat in the incident la not the fact
°fbis wealth or the manner in
which he naes it,but the mv hods
he bad adopted in acquiring so
vast a fortune, for be bad mil
lion* left despite his *en. ruaity.
Mr. Roath says that all that is
decenary lor any young man to
■ccnre a competency ia that be
abaJl work bard, spend Hide,
nye ranch and "invest hi some
thing folks will eat."
Tma splendid advice ia given
by a aecood David Hamm.
began. *! * grocer's clerk
at |0 a month, bot be saved half
»*• •WMf* ’"■cw. He went to
Chicago in 1853. when the town
waa getting ready to grow. Ha I
Spread his sails to the favoring
b.T? ••£»“»*»* coaaael and
aid of sack men aa Armour and
Ldter. and Nelson Morris, he
ha* reaped his reward.
But during all these yearn—he
is now 74—Roath baa never foe
gotten for a moment the impor
tance of being *
whatever he had_ .
the risk of beiag thought i_
and sdngy, in cider to save, hot
he did save. He worked aa hard
if not harder, when be bad half
a million doliara out at interest
as he did when ha was slaving aa
a clerk for 25 cents a day. Ia
tease earnestness and persistence
combined with opportunity snd
wise advice, have mad. of Ste
phen Roath .a mnhi-iaiiHonaire.
The same traits and amthods
will win for most young men at
least a competence.
. The corse of America to-day
is spendthrift living, Sava the
pennies; save the dollars; save
time, the moat precious of ah,
Mat to beehb. The day will
come whea yon will thank Urn
man who pt you oa this right
road to iadapeadauM and eaae.
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very best aad newest thlogs la tdta Itae*
Her t«*te 1* well knew* by ear longs duel#
off cestearers, aad Mr select!** off street
sod dress Mts Is |ast wMt tMy Mrs Msa
dreaming si. We Mve catefally glassed
the millinery fields, aad are ready to serve
ear trade wttfc tto very etolceoteftMse*
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KING’S MOUNTAIN MILITARY ACADEMY,
Yorfcvflte. South Carolina.
Cadets form a part of cal
Members ot faculty Vith their
lire tocetber and be «dL feiv-r,
closest personal attention and
cadets aa well as the lacnlly
shall at all times conduct *'
A sab place far your her.
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Col. nr. G. STEPHENSON, SupC.
WE SOW THE SEED,* A
YOU REAP the HARVEST.
The fall Kne of the famous Station 8hoe la hma
rcsdy for too. A smi cos oclcct from oomMf otto
&s^l»*K3sal ■
habit of having the newest. ••••••
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ROBINSON BROTHERS,