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V. F. MARSHALL, Uilir and Prnrlitor. DEVOTED TO THE PROTECTION OF HONE AND THE
VOL. XXIV. QA9TONIA, N, C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18,
POINTS AND PARAGRAPHS !
ON TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
Vnirr tkli head will b* oilrrtad Ireut time la tlaaa a ota worthy uturutw
«• Utetwaa ol etnut inuraat. Tbay will be takw Iran public addreaaca
bowk*, waapailnaa. aawayapara. I* Uei wHarewar w« may »*d chaw. Sotar
Utaaa tha*a aalactioaa will accord with oar vlewa a ad lira yiewa o( oar read
tn. aowttlmaa th* oppoalta will ba Imr. nut by rcaaom ol Ik* aabfoct maltar
I ha atyla, the aatbarabip. or the Ttawa capreaaad aacti will haa* an alaatcnt
ed timely iaUrcat to make it a roaapicwaaa allcraare
The Mm Ii ba Fes rad.
CktrldOi New*.
The man who has nothing to lone, who is absolutely unselfish
in his advocacy of a cause and who believes in the ultimate
triumph of right is the man to be feared.
Class Government Wracks Republics
Prcaidant Kooarrclt. ia Labor Addreaa al Srracaac.
In the history of niankiud many republics have risen, have
flourished for a less or greater time, And then have fallen because
their citisens lost the power of goveruing themselves and thereby
of governing their State; mid in no way has this power been so
often and so clearly shown ad in the tendency to turn the (Govern
ment into ■ government primarily for the benefit of one class in
stead of a government for the benefit of the people as a whole.
iMdnsiasti lar Prasarratlaa al Sail Oavsramant.
Preaidmt laeaawaU. ia Labor Addreaa at Syraeaaa.
Many qualities are needed by a people which would preserve
the power of self-government in fact as well os in name. Among
these qualities are forethought, shrewdness, self-restraint, the
courage which refuses to abimdon one's own rights, and the dis
interested and kindly good sense which enables one to do justice
to the rights of others. Lack of strength and lack of courage unfit
men for self-government on the one band; and on the other, brntal
arrogance, envy, in short, an> manifestation of the spirit of selfish
disregard, whether ol ouc's own duties or of the rights of others,
are equally fatal.
Na Boom far ldlara.
Prnldcnt RoownU. ia Labor AOdrtaa at Smoua.
There i* no room in oar healthy American life for the mere
idler, for the man or the woman whose object it ia throughout life
to shirk duties which life ought to bring. Life cau meau nothing
worth meaning unless its prime aim is the doing of duty, the
achievement of results worth achieving. A recent writer has
finely said: "After all, the saddest thing that can happen to a
man la to carry no hardens. To be bent under too great a load is
bad; to be crushed by it is lamentable; but even in that thdre are
possibilities that are glorious. But to carry no load at all—there
is nothing in that. No one seems to arrive at any goal really
worth reaching in this world who does not come to it heavy
laden.”
IllUsrate by Prafsroaca.
Cbsclt?. and Cfclldm.
The news item going the rounds of the press that there are ten
thousand white boys in North Carolina between 12 and 21 years of
age, who can neither read nor write ia a distressing statement. It
mast be borne in mind, also, that it is not the fault of the State
that these young men are so illiterate. They have the chance to
learn if they want to learn; but this is the matter of deepest regret.
They simply prefer to be in the dark. The loss of this suffrage is
no great matter, for a boy who has the opportunity to learn to read
and refuses to do so is not worthy of the suffrage, but the thought
of this helpless element cast upon the State in the years to cOme
without one gleam of aspiration ia enough to make us tremble.
Whoever, by word or deed, can stir the ambition in a sluggish and
stupid mind like this, has wrought a great work in behalf of the
State and the race.
An Affliction Nora Appalling Than lulk
I. A. A**ry hi Charlotte Obaarrtr.
"Iam going down to the hospital to tell a young man that he
will never see again,” said an eye specialist a few days ago. He
will never read again; never again see appreciatively the beauties
of the universe. The incident will be marked as ordinary, though
sad, and yet it is a tragedy worse than death. Death is kinder
than a living hurt that does not die; and blindness ia a part of the
loss-wail, which cries the grief universal. Blindness as a physical
evil, weakness to replace strength, or the ion of character, or the
end of love—these sum up bitterer distress than grief before a bier.
To have a thing and lose it. Here is the large spring of tears—here
mankind’s kinship in feebleness. Lost! 'Tistbe most direful
word in the language. It ia God's term to describe a condition
that we know not of and It is given to man to wear it as a badge
of worst mourning. The telling of all sorrow that one knows
could begin with that one work. To liye after remembering hap
piness that is dead; to breathe and be mocked by the ghost of
sweetness; to loss beyond recall—so comes the tragedy and the
pathos. Lost! Blind! There are so much of both. Loss this
side the gtarie is the worst after all; sod the most grewsome
death’s head ia on real flesh and blood.
Onr Bracking In.
tktwad Nm-UlSn.
Onr liyea are strange)? like and unlike those of the beasts we
break in for out service. We know that like ns they begin with n
stock of Inborn traits and tendencies inherited from somebody,
sometimes from immediate progenitor, sometimes brought by the
mysterious and processes of nature from some ancestry dead and
forgotten generations ago. As with them, so with us, the time of
breaking in is the most critical of all. Every horseman knows
thst there is an art in it which no books, instruction nor axamplc
cso teach. 8ome assn never can tnm out.a colt with good temper,
■“■“U ,od *Bd other men rarely fail to do it. We as chfld
ren begin oar breaking in and our work time as soon as we begin
to be conscious. From the very Mart o4 knowing anything wg
Jegrn that our desires must be thwarted, onr wills oontroQed, our
MU ** to ha taught that
M»a tlcaaon until and we forget everything.
Onr pontehnsenu and admonhkm*. the tpur and rain and whip and
Wt, do not end with onr childhood. 1. fact, when we hays missed
«ham atAat time and com# to manhood or womanhood unbroken
ZjflSggLSf -««<*'■ u» »i>i>.
menx asoas Heavily. Nature is master of ns and we cannot cacao*
snd moraiky also is a master and trainer wboee reqnhemenu w*
post obey on penalty of swift and heavy panlahment.
WATCH THE BIG STORES
THOMSON CO.
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Moat of our fall goods are now open for Inspection and oar sales are
growing every day. Everybody la this "Section and surrounding coun
try knows we are headquarters. We keep every department at its
best the season through. We are always on the alert for bargains
and with experienced buyers always on the lookout. 4>
WITH THE COLD CASH
they are landing big bargains nearly every day. Our shoe depart
ment Is at the top notch. You never get a stale or out-of-date shoe
at this store. We clean up In earnest each season and start with
new fresh goods with the next. d> 4 4 4 4 4 4.
In no other quarter of the store Is there any greater activity than
among the milliners. Returning buyers have brought Inspiration In
the shape of smart street hats for early fall wear showing the new
fashions that are going to be worn through September and October.
Chic and smart Ideas In all the up-to-date styles. Stop at your
leisure and see them. + 4444444
THOMSON
:: :: The People’s Store, jj ::
APPALACHIAN
FOREST RESERVE.
Outlook FmnUi Ur Succm la
CiUnM-i Project Which
Weeld Benefit the.Ceentry el
Large.
KnoattU* !8*«tJnel.
An important meeting hu
been in session at Asheville,
N. C., this week the result of
which may be manifest in the
balls of Congress daring the
coming winter. The advocates
of a Federal forestry reservation
in the South met in convention
for the purpose of reviewing the
progress that has been made in
tbe past year by tbe Appalachian
Park Association, in its effort to
mold s strong congressional as
well as s general public senti
ment in favor of tbe Appalach
ian Park. Tbe outlook is favor
able for sncceea to a neater or
less degree. One of the actions
of tbe convention was to change
the name to tbe Appalachian
Forest Reserve Association, tbe
reason for this being that it was
feared the original name wonld
be misleading to some members
ui vunpoi woo are opposed to
the establishment of "parks" st
the expence of the government.
The Appalachian Forest Reserve
is sometbiag more than a jfrrk
scheme. It has a higher motive
than that of providing an oasis
in the busy industrial, agri
cultural and commercial world,
to be visited by those in quest
of the beautiful and of pieaanra.
It propones that the government
shall appropriate millions of dol
lars with which to procure mil
lions of acres of timber lands in
the Appalachian mountain
region in east Tennessee, west
ern North Carolina, a corner of
South Carolina, a part of north
Georgia and a strip in south
western Virginia. That timber
I* becoming a scarcity in both
the North and the South is a
fact that cannot be denied. Un
less some heroie effort, .re
Sade to preserve timber lands,
e country will within a few
years be without a supply suffi
cient to meet ordinary demands.
The lumber famine has been
visited upon European countries
and they am importing Amer
ican lumber,ia vast qnantities.
Hardly a day goes by but that
shipments are made from Knox
ville tp Liverpool and to other
Snropeaa ports. If the govern
ment will make the appropri
ation for which the Appalachian
Forest Reserve Association is
appealing, the timbered lands in
the Appalachian mountains will
be placed under government
control, and government agents
will see that they are properly
cared for, with a view to coo
serving the undergrowth and
the yonng timber until it may
be fnlly developed. Snch steps
are absolutely necessary to meet
the conditions that are certain
to be confronted. If the present
generation does not take some
action in this matter,' it may be
allowed to go unattended for
years, and until it is too late.
Then future generations will
place the blame where it proper
ly belongs, upon the shoulders
of the men of to-day. This
forest reserve is of more than a
local benefit. While the track
U located in this immediate
section, as stated above, the
ultimate benefits of the project
will be participated in by the
entire nation. It therefore fol
lows that every patriotic Ameri
can Congressman, who has at
heart the welfare of the country
•t Urge, cannot do otherwise
Park biiPP°rt *** AW^«**«*
Smator BmrMf* IndnatlNed
.>yM«P—on.
Hng experience hi a railroad re*,
taurant at Port Wayne while on
hia way to South Bend to ad
dress the Indiana Bankers’ As
sociation.
H* wore an old salt of clothes,
without a vest, andji slouc h bat.
When he had finished his lunch
!**. iTI?* 00 »°n«y. Ha
the waiter that he bad either
bten r°hb«d on the
train. The waiter placed him
self between his guest and the
door and add he bad beard tales
of that hind before. Ur. Bev
eridga was greatly ember rased
and Managm Hubbard was called
and demanded hia pay. ft was
only by producing hia railroad
P«»*» and a number of letters
that Senator Beveridge was final
ly allowed to depart._
A cyclone struck Atlantic City
Wednesday mom in* doing eon
slderable property damage and
cutting the city off from com
munication with the outside
world.
Train Wrncidng Onght la fea a
• Capital OSanaa
S»U*Tr hi.
Why nut make train wrecking
a capital offense? Burglary &
punishable by death, the law
presuming that a burglar is pre
pared to commit murder if nec
e««y in order to effect escape,
whether or not be actually takes
human life. In the case of the
tram wrecker scores of lives are
imperiled and many frequently
meet violent deaths at the hands
of persons seeking either booty
or vengeance- against some cor
poration. Everything is ia fa
vor of the burglar as against tbs
trsinwrecker.
Scandals In Hearty nil Oevera
CkukUtObMmr. N
Representative Wachter, Re
publican, of one olthe Baltim ire
aistricta, says the public service
is permeated with grafting ond
ft k»® session of Congress
bo will introduce a resolution
providing far an investigation of
every department of the govern*
inept. Thera is ground far sua
piclon that lfr. Wachter'acbarrt
Is well grounded. The Post*
oMes Department has been
shown to be reeking with cor
ruption and Indian land frauds
have been developed in the In*
ELVEWST' “
of Jnstiee. The . -j
Deportment is under the charge
that there is collusion between
the seed contractors and inspec
tors, and scandals involving the
Treasury. War, and Navy De
partments are of long standing,
indeed, the State Department is
the only one that (a not under a
cloud of greater or leaser stse.
There was never a time when
all the departments of the gov
erament stood in greater need of
a thorough overhauling, aad a
determined and capable commit
tee of Congress could no doubt
ascertain facts aad make dis
closures Which WOttW srtrmith
the country. Incidentally if may
he remarked that those who,
mom than a year in advance, are
confidently pronouncing t h •
case of the Democratic party
asktFsfbsh:
n«t election, or the sSect of
the disclosures upon the minds
of voter*,
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WAIST! NGS.
■■ Mttcm. «rty. *
yard len<tt». No two alike. boOUtlu^M.
tlest and newest things ♦■tfffintttttj Ym
with the price, *1.00 to $1.75 per patters,
22S2SS3SSSSBHIHHiHH| • ’ • *** ♦
MILLINERY. .
Ml** Paths has made the round of the Urg
eet millinery centers, and has selected the
very best and newest things In this line.
Her teste Is wdl known by ear Urge cMt
of customers, end her HrfTrtUa of street
and dress hats U Jest .whet they here been
dreaming of. We have carefully gleaned
the ml Binary fields, and ere ready to serve
ourtrade with the very choicest of theses*
son*a products. 44444444
JA8. F. YEAGER.
Ncvmt things la neckwear and belts Ja*t arrived.
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MAHA6EE——
KING’S MOUNTAIN MILITARY ACADEMY,
Yorkvllle, South Curolloa.
Member* of faculty ^cUh°^ tl^cadetsali
lire together tod lire reedrestht
cadets aTwell as*the'faculty ' daman?1 thalMtroaM ea
shall at all time* conduct himself as a gevUema?or?eave
A safe place for jronr bor. —
Col. W. 0. STBPHBNSON, Sapt.
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