THE0A2&TTE. A Itobi C*mtr ■ tm aaaOLSssSJLSst!^ W. t. MAlSlAii, Mllor ud fr-rUtor._DEVOTED TO THE PBOTECTIOH OF HONE AHD THE (HTEIES1 VOL. XXIV. GASTONIA, N. C.( FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 90, THOMSON SHOES Listen good peo ple. Our Shoe department Is one we are proud of. We have giv en this depart ment special at tention. It Is second to none In this section. We sell shoes of solid leather and correct I ■nape. Men, women,and child* dren'a. Our prlc* c» will be so low that It will be cruelty to your feet not to buy them. HATS AND CAPS First floor. Men and boys, you all need new fall bead* wear and that being the came, you had bet* ter see about getting a new one right away, our stock Is made of the newest and nobbiest shapes for all. Right this way for a new Hat. BIG FALL OPENING! Oct. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. THE NEW HATS FOR AU TUMN WEAR The advance styles are here and ready for your viewing. They are stylish, nobby, swell. The very cheapest number is good style, and onr prices will be s Mg saving to you. DRESS GOODS AND TRIM MINGS All tl|e new Dress Goods and Trimmings are here. We have searched the Northern i markets. * We have bought something of ! what we considered best. You will find ! old friends, some new weaves, and here ' and there new finish. Come and see, feel, •• and Judge for yourself. THE VOICE of Ihe PEOPLE It has spoken, and la unmistakable tones, that Thomson Company Is preeminently the people's great shopping center. The style pendulum of this Mg store keeps correct fashion time all the year round, regulated by the whims of dame Fashion and the change of seasons. OUR GOODS are away up in quality, away down in price. This is why this store does the largest business of its kind in the vicinity. Come and se us; we'll gladly show you through. CLOTHING DEPARTMENT On second floor* Every suit a fashion plate, and we have them In any style yes Nke— and remember our clothes ere poctlrulsi •ode clothes—ae slop work—they are correct la cot end petterai they fit* and ear prices are a source of tSoslatfsa to all. When can we expect you? $ & s £ ’;.rf s & THOMSON Phone 4© A A A A POINTS AND PARAGRAPHS ON TOPICS OF THE TIMES. trader thle head will be ertMed Ina the* to time ala worthy wtteraaete aa the ran at camat latarert. Thar wtU be tahan Ina aabltc ailitriaata hooka, auaeriacs, aawaaapaia. ia fact wbcrrrrr wa mar bad (beau ft—m that* theta aalattiaaa will accord with oar vlewa aad tha riaart of oar read eta. aometimae the oppuatU will be tree. Bat hr taaaaa of the aablact Butter, thattyte. tha aatbonhio. artha rlawt eearceaaii. rack will tin aa tlianul of tlwtlr laonaat ta make it a coavpiemoea attaranca. Whsrain tha Ni|nu Oat Jostle* sad Ik* Whit* People It Nat. Ciocevtna SaStctor. Some people are urging that negroes do not get justice in our courts. The which is all wrong. It is the negroes chiefly who do get Justice, for they arc 'often convicted and sometimes hung. The whites are the ones who do not get justice, they are often turned loose and seldom hung. No CNvnaiM With Paklic PI radars rt. Jug* W. Folk. There can be no compromise with public plunderers. U nre lenting exposure and pan i ah merit is tbe only honorable course. Public corruption cannot be stamped out by gentle methods. It most be hit hard whenever and wherever it shows itself. Any pandering to boodle influence must be discountenanced i.y an honest dtisenship. The Weaaa fkt vu High mi Mighty «! Bene. I. B. Awry. i« Cbertoa* Okwrar. tut Then *u a women at one of the local hotels who used to sit np and tell how high aad mighty she was when she was at home. That is a bad sign. Two things every men should do. He should travel so far from home that there will be ao chance for anyone to hear of his people and he (should keep his mouth shot about his folks. Then he will see himself trimmed to Ms level, whatever that may be. But the woman—she just talked and talked, end, as a sign of pundit caste she left oot the t in often as carefully as one would say prunes and prisms. 9he didn’t like anything down here at all. Somehow the wasn't popular. People met her, hut didn’t ask her to come to pink teas or euchre patties. There was nothing pam ticulariy wrong with her. She iust didn’t take. She had lota of fine dresses, but she never got e chance, at cloee quarters, of mak ing Other women's clothes look cheap. So she berated Charlotte in high scorn. And, again, the town wasn’t hurt: but they found out after awbUwtbat the lady really learned to sneer at home. She was just clinging to the outer fringe of society— a malcontent who must jibe sod be marked—and yet Jibe again. There la a little point in the story. But you enn’t fool anybody even if you do prate about your bigness at home. The lord aad inheritance place a brand on people, end there can be but one classification for say nun or any womaa. Own Lariwtr is Frsei i IMMalUita. Never do I see ope of these fellows swelling around with their petty leroeny pride that I don’t think of a little experience of mix* 1 TT * ***- AboW tenow e,Tl*ht »• “Wng a watermelon ip his patch ana afternoon, and Instead of coftag me end letting e * - '-A- • - me go, «s I had expected if I got caught, he led me home by the ear to my ma, and told her what I had been opto. Your grandma bad been raised on the old-fashioned plau, and she had never heard of these new-fangled theories of reasoning gently with a child till its under lip begins to stick oat and its eyes to fill with tears as it sees the error of its ways. She fetched the tears all right, but she did it with a trunk strap or* slipper. And your grandma was a pretty substantial woman. Nothing of the tootaey-wootsey about her foot, and nothing of the airy-fairy trifle about her slipper. When she was through I knew that I’d beeu licked polished right off to a point—and then she sent me to my room and toTd me not to poke my nose out of it till I could recite the Ten Commandments and the Sunday-school lesson by heart. There was a whole chapter of it, and au old Testament chap ter at that, but I laid right into it because I knew ma, and sapper was only two bouTf off. ' I can repeat that chapter still, forward and backward, without missing a word or stopping to catch my breath. rtvery now son then old Hoc Hoover osea 10 come into the Sunday School room and scare the scholars into fits by going around to each class sod asking questions. That next Sunday, for the first rime, I was glad to see him happen in, and I didn't try to escape attention when he worked around to oar class. For tea minutes I'd been busting lor him to ask me to recite a verse of the lesson, and-when he did, I simply cut loose and recited the whole chapter and threw in the Ten Commandments for good measure. It sort of dazed the Doc. because be had come to me for informa tion about the Old Testament before and we'd never got much be yond "And Ahab begat Jabab,” or words to that efleet. Bat when he got over the shock he made me stand right np before the whole school and do it again. He patted me on the head and said 1 was nan honor to my parents and an example to my playmates.” I had been looking down all the time, feeling mighty proud and scared, hat at that I couldn't help glancing np to sec the other boys‘admire me. But the first person my eye lit on was your grandma, standing in the back of the room, where she had stopped for a moment on her way np to church, and glaring at me in n mighty unpleasant way. "Tell 'em John,” she said, right out load before everybody. There was no way to ran, for the elder had bold of my band, and there was no place to hide, though, 1 reckon I coaid have crawled into a rat-hole. So to gain time, I blurted out: "TeH ’em what, mam?" "TeH ’em how you come to have your lesson so nice.* I learned to hate notoriety right then and there, but I knew there was no switching her off onto the weather When she wanted to talk religion. So I abut ssy eyes and let It come, though it caught on my palate once or twice on the way out. "Hooked a watermelon, mem.” There wasn't any need for further particulars with that crowd sad they simply bowled, lla Isd me np to our pew, allowing that she’d tend to me Monday for disgracing her in public that way— and she did. That was a twelve-grain done, without any sugar coat, bat It sweat mors cant and false pride out of my system than I could get back into it for the next twenty yearn. I learned right there how to be humble, which is a heap wore important than knowing how to be proud. There am mighty few men that need any lessons in that. TROUBLE OVER BOOS. A Paper That la Bttkmt Onr ft» Mascots—A Bag as a Traveler. Cksrloat Obwrver. ICth The Observer has no end of bother with its dogs. Trouble began a few years ago when s greyhound that was owned Joint ly by Mr. Walter Breia and the paper, was killed by a street car. Since then every pup that has made its home in this establish ment 'will insist npon betog stolen or having exciting ad ventures. The Great Dane that carried its 100 pounds around the shop got into n habit of sud denly rising with n typewriter table on his back for the purpose of devouring folks, a id was finally presuited to the Phila delphia baseball team. A feist with a pedigree which was pre sented by General 3m>«n S. Cur, of Durham, died Un^eri tg ly of nervous dyspepsia, end the dog now owned by the O. ...tver —Trouble is his name, and he is a fnx terrier—has a us*, ion for traveling on the train. He belonged to Dr. R. C. Bunting, of Gett