HI] THE GASTONIA
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W. F. MAI SHALL. Miter —4 Pr—H«»r._DEVOTEE TO THE PROTECTION OF HONE AND THE
__QA8TQNIA, N. C.. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9. 1008.
POINTS AND PARAGRAPHS
ON TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
Uster tUb liras will bt Misted iron ttab M tins —tewwtby sttersacs*
ra tew b( carnal isteisst. Ttey will bs tehaa (raw rabllc xkbtwn.
•rate, naeaataaa. Bcw«na»*n. In fiat wkrm wa war ted tbsta. law
tlw Ibasc M test loss will aeoocd with our risaa bad tte risws W our rood.
>*t Sr moan o< tbs Mbh« natter.
■tte WyW. tte bWterahtp. or tbs rhsi siprsssrd. sorb will tea* ba slswsat
of tlnolr Imtcmt to alia h a coaratesoaa attcrraos.
Liquor Is a Dlsargaaisar.
Oairbsaa ThrUt.
A city afflicted with saloons is not the best field for launching
great enterprises of any kind, because the unrestricted sale of li
quor is the worst disorganiser of labor.
Puniskmani far the Betrayer ol Warns*.
Statesrills T nail nark.
It is a dangerous thing to advise people to take tbe law into,
their own hands—even when the law fails—but we say, and we say
it fully conscious of its serious import—that the betrayer of an in
nocent woman—mark tbe word innocent—should be shot down
like a dog wherever be is'found and tbe man who punishes him
should go scot free.
Humiliating as it is to say it, it is nevertheless true that often
in such cases the womau is not always guiltless. When this is so
the extreme remedy mentioned is not justified. It is justified when
innocent virtue is belraycl; and in any cate of this kind the law
should be made so severe that tbe wretch who betrays women
wonld pause before be would take tbe risk.
L«t*t Bars aa Emi •( this Negro Business.
Mttntllh Lulaaik.
It has been charged at a number of places where anti-prohi
bition registrars are in charge, that negroes who have no sort of
qualifications for voting under the amendment have beam registered
for the express purpose of being voted against prohibition; and on
the other hand, in at least one instance, where prohibitionists
controlled the election machinery, it is charged that negroes who
were in every way qualified to vote under the amended constitu
tion were flatly refused registration simply and solely because it
was expected they would vote against prohibition. It requires hot
little reflection to see the danger of such a situation aod the
trouble that will certainly result if the colored huso is still to be
used as a tool and voted or not voted as those in charge of the
election machinery may find they can or cannot use him.
Bvery colored man qualified to vote should be allowed to vote,
regardless of who or what he vote* for; but public opinion should
take note of and severely condemn any attempt to cater to the
negro vote or to encourage the negro to exercise the right 6f suf
frage. Let ns forever have aa end of this negro business in
politics; let white men settle their differences at the polls as best
they can, certain that whichever side wins will be a victory of
white people. But whoever encourages the negro to exercise the
right of suffrage and makes an effort to cultivate that vote, let him
be marked. _
* A* ■•action Pavurahls to Country Lila.
Charity ul ChlUram.
It has given alarm to those who have studied the situation to
see the steady stream of good people leaving their homes to settle
in railroad towns. There are several reasons for this. One of
them was, and is, that the educational advantages of the towns
are so far superior to those of ordinary country neighborhoods that
parents were drives to town by sheer necessity. Aiuyber induce
ment has been the protection the town affords and the constant
dangers to which the family was exposed in the country especial
ly in the absence of the male members; and mill another reason is
found in the restlessness of our people mod the desire to get to the
centres. The yonng men leave and the others after awhile follow,
and the old home is inhabited by tenants and the old farm gradu
ally goes down. We hope there will be a reaction along this line.
We fancy there are signs of it already. Not long since it was our
pleasure to visit a fine old country community. Heretofore there
was a disposition on the part of the young men to get awey, and
they did leave until only a few remained. Farming was at a low
ebb. Prices were way down and it was all a farmer conld do to eke
out a living. Now everything is looking np. Yonng men in that
neighborhood are making big money. They are bringing their
farms up to a fine state of cultivation, and they take pride in their
business. The schools are better than formerly aod the neighbors
live so near each other ample procection is alorded. We rejoice
to see this better state of things and we trust it may extend all
over the State. _ _ _
Tha Car fa •( Tha Kilpatrick.
l»SI«s«SHU ImUmI.
A law days s^o a ship from the far East steamed into New
York harbor, She was a wcarv-lookiag vessel, was the United
States transport Kilpatrick, for she waa seventy-two days out of
Manila, and had coma half way round the world by way of the
Sues canal. And at her missentop arts' the national ensign at
half-mast.
For she was freighted with our principal imports from our
island posaasmons. In her bold were 302 long, heavy boxes. In
e“h tbe? bo”f th« «*•«* body Of an American boy.
Jnst pitiful, useless corpses, that’s all.- Once upon a time they
were people like we are, with muscles and brains and hearts and
spirits. Bat we have so many like that; we didn’t need them at
,bourn. We sent them abroad for purposes of benevolent assimila
tion.
■ And they did their duty, these live American boys. ‘They as
similated all they could—fever, cholera, ptagae, Manser ballets,
famine and disease, lint of coarse they Wouldn’t keep right on
assimilating—even a strong American boy’s system has its limit
of saturation. So whan their work waa done, they were put In
those long, heavy boxes and started book to America again.
_"• wtre benevolent enough to bring them back home. They
were entitled to a round trip, and they got it. As the Kilpatrick
■teamed into New York harbor, the docks were crowded with
friends to welcome them home. Their fathers and mothers and
* , •oaswaetbearta were oot in full farce, for it was a big home
coming— 302 were arriving all together. '
And perhepe nswof those who watched the unloading of the
Imv. heavy boxes were unpatriotic enough to wonder If the whole
Philippine archipelago wees worth the price that shipload represent
Not U it were worth the money sad the time amt the struggle
•ad fight end-murder and heart break of the last lv#
poor fools, they, questioned if it warn worth even this cargo'-the
bxrfieaof tha United States transport Kilpatrick-309 dead Ameri
can boys. i
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KEAFINO THE 1EHEFITS.
California Pratt Parma Sapylyfai
Eiflwf and tha CaatlaaaL
Loodon DinpMck
America ia now reaping a great
benefit from the storm* which
made the summer one of the
wont on record in Great Britain
and the continent. Thanks to
the ruined crop, California fruit
is being imported hi larger quan
tities than ever before. The sale
in London las week marked a
record with 27,000 boxes of
American fruit representing
about 675,000 pounds weight.
The fruit was sold at a two
days’ auction in Convent Cardefa
market, the prices averaging 30
per cent above what has hereto
fore been obtained here. The
sales were chiefly of California
pean and plums with a fair con
signment of New York State
Bartlett pears. There is practi
cally no English fruit obtainable
while Prance which usually ex
ports large quantities of pears is
sending none.
The American section of Con
vent Garden market is now al
most the sole source of supply,
and there are no signs of the de
creasing. American apples,
which hitherto could not be pro
fitably shipped hither till later In
the year, now haves brisk trade.
Porty-two thousand barrels of
Canadian apples are expected ia
London at the end of this week, j
and record prices are assured.
A member of the moat promi
nent English firm dealing in
foreign fruit said:
"There has never been any
thing like it. Enropc’s ill wind
has certainly brought good to
America. We are spending five
and six hours a day in the auc
tion box disposing of double as
taach California fruit as we ever
did before at prices ranging from
25 to 30 per cent, higher. We
have no difficulty in securing all
we want from Atrierica. but we
can scarcely order qnickly
enough.
"Heretofore California fruit
has been -more an adjunct to
England’s supply than a serious
factor in the market. Now, ow
ing to the failure of French fruit
and tne complete loss of the
home crop, the American branch
of the market ia watched more
eagerly than any other.”
How disastrous the present
season has been to English grow
ers may be judged from a letter
in which a fruit farmer in one of
the beat counties of England
says that on eleven acres, all de
voted to green gages, the fruit
on only .three ripened. There
is no wonder that shipments of
American fruit-are well received.
What May Be Expected.
Komm Kwrelirr.
When n man betrays innocent
womanhood and pnts her to'a
living shame and make* no ef
fort to make amends for it, a jury
is not going to be hard on tbe
protector of the woman who
shoots down tbe man who
censed her downfall. So long
as the man who blasts virtue,
rains homes and puts innocent
womanhood to shame is racog<
qixed in society, let off lightly in
courts and pasaes as a gentle
man,-so long will people secretly
if not openly applaud tbe man
who shoots down tbe despoiler of
virtue. ,
A Stmam South CareHaa
_ Sheriff.
Saluda’s sheriff is a atrenaoua
maa. He believes that any
white man has a right to kill a
negro without being called to
account. A few days ago be
concluded to. remove a negro
that was in the way. He had no
trouble In getting rid of him, bnt
be refused to goln his own Jail
or surrender the keys to tbe
coroner. The sheriff, of course,
was released on bond, but be
claims that the charge of murder
does not disqualify him for tbe
dntiea of the office. The coroner
has appealed 'to tin Governor
for adriee. Can a sheriff in
dicted for murder, although re
leased on bond, discharge tbe
dntiea of tbe oflke and act as
•bwff during bis own trial?
This la tbe question. w
Judging from the crowds leav
ing bare for tbe North on the
<***«« ateamers it would seem
thattbe colored population was
p-owiog smaller, but they can's
be missed until it la necessary
to try to hire one, then they be
come exceedingly scarce. Tbe
time is coming when the negro
as a servant or laborer is the
South will be a memory. Then
they will be crowded but by
hustling, enterprising immi
grants, and that will probably
solve the race question.—New
bem Journal.
I«rml School Librarian. -
OMNfilk Mmft:
There is do more important
question relating to education,
and, indeed, the future greatnesi
of the State, than that of rural
libraries. We who were "brought
up* in the country can appreci
ate tba joy of having all the
hooka one want* to read. long
years ago are used to walk miles
and miles to borrow a dilapi
dated "Robinson Crusoe' or
"Gulliver’s TV*vela,” and in oar
hearts there was ever some
regret that we could not <bave
the works our souls craved. We
lead a narrow life, we country
boys and girls. We dhn’t know
much about railroads and
theatres. We longed unceas
ingly for knowledge of the world
that lay beyond our father’s
farms. We dreamed of the day
when we would be twenty-one—
a man and tree—and bow we
should kiss the mother good-bye
and walk briskly down the lane,
out of the white road, past the
orchard and bay meadow—aad
on to the city. But it eaemed
like the age of a patriarch from
fifteen to twenty-one, and we
wanted to know then—we
wanted to know all about Wal
ter Scotland bis days of chivalry.
The few pages we had fonnd oi
Fenimore Cooper’s fired oar
heart and soul with desire to
know more about the world as it
bad been and as it is.
Well, some of os grow np and
“T fKf*^**!*? hmTed 10 “*•
and lived ia the joy of n dream
came true, but we oever forgot
the country boy and' the longing
of his heart.
These rural libraries will mean
pew and higher life in every
home into which their influence
enter*. They will broaden the
soul plunged too low by isola
tion and penary. They will
write their legend plain npon
the brows of those who seek
them. They will educate a boy
or girl’s heart as no school can
ever do.
For the honor and glory of the
State and the coming race, let
no one lift a hand to oppose
rural libraries.
Y#ffc Coanty Hum.
TorkrllU Mtlnr. MU
Mr. Lamar Pegram, of Gasto
nia, spent Sunday and Monday
in Yorkville, the guest of Mr. J.
B. Pegram.
The K. M. M. A. football
team ts practicing for the season
just commenced, and it at
Bresent under the instruction of
It- R. Latta Pariah a former
member of the South Carolina
college team. —
Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Padgett,
of McAdeoville. N. C., came
down to Yorkville last week on
a visit to their daughter, Mrs,
G. H. Sherer. Mr/Padgeti has
returned, but Mrs. Padgett will
remain some days longer.
„ The Pint National Bank of
Yorkville in now paying out
over its counters, brand new
money, just from the bureau of
engraving and printing. The
money came yesterday by ex
press printed on sheets, contain
ing four bills each—ooe twenty
ana three tens. After signing
up n lot of the1 bills. President
Wilkins brought them np to the
Enquirer office to be ent apart
on the big neper cotter in the
job room. He was quite carefnl
ta> aeC'that pone of them got
tingled up in the machinery;
but Mr. Allen is now giving
them away promiscuously for
cotton and other things.
Tbt Southern railroad b now
harrying repair* on the Char
)«•'<» division of the Southern,
between Camden and Marion
with all possible dUpatck. All
of the trestles are receiving at
Wl” and thousands of new
ej*» being put down ad
along tbts^fce. The Catawba
river bridge Is being overhauled
to an extent that suggests
virtual renewal. The heavy
engine drawing tha westbound
freight train was not permitted
to ctoas last Saturday. Instead
a transfer was ordered, and the
balance of the ran wav muds
with a smaller engine.
Uf1 C* L. Robinson, died
at his home near bUIrsville lest
of typhoid
leveT, aged thirty-seven yean,
five months and two days. Tha
fsoeral took place at Bollock's
Crack church oa Sunday alter*
noon, the services being con
ducted by Rsv. J. B. Swann.
The interment arts by Yorkvitl*
camp of Woodman of tha World,
with tbs impressive ceremonies
psenlisr to that order. The .d*
censed leaves a widow and one
child. His reputation was that
?! *°®d citlaeo and ha was
McMr MtoHMi by all who
Subscribe for Tub Oabtonta
Oaxxttx.
woRKarw uru.
U Raw Amy Weapea—Cm
S«a* Ball at Thread* PHty.
Rva Mea.
n<« tarn n«fi—Seim.,
j A longpos
deat write* that work is pra
cresriag rapidly on tbe mass
lecture of the aew Springfield
magazine rifle is the United
State* armory in Springfield.
Maas., to ill the special order
tor a small number received
town the war department. A
great deal to claimed lor tbe aew
w**poo and It to believed that it
firsts
cavalry. Its 'moat
femora is ito rente, wbichris five
miles. It to a foregone cornels
alon that after a trial of the aew
•tm by the troopsjjrst equipped
a general order will bo received
to contuse the msanfsctnreand
•^“•P.ttoa whole army, as the
apwlal board appointed by the
ofdoMct dcportiwst bn smi i
favorable report on tbe weapon.
la recent tests the target aaad
consisted of about twenty sqaaras
o< wbiu pine, one inch thick
which was mounted vertically
one inch sport. Bullets shot
fro® the improved cartridges of
the new rifle at a distance of
fifty-three feet from the aemreat
aqnare showed a penetration of
SO of the boards, and at 1.500
yards tha penetration was <5.
According to a tew dadacad by
ordnaoce experts the fleshy put
of s man’s body, from front to
1 back, offers the —«vr resistance
to a bullet as does a plank of
white pine one lack thick. On
this theory it to claimed that tbe
new rifle wfll shoot a ballet
through the bodies of fifty-ftve
men formed in s straight coin mu,
all facing tbs muzzle, the acar
est man bring fifty-three feet
a way; at a distance of 500 yards
« will mow down twenty-three
®«a; at 1,000 yards thirteen
men, and at 1.500 yards aiz men.
oigenaen rifle now in
asa will mow down forty-six men,
as against tbe fifty-five of tbe
new arm.
Aitnougb the new rifle will
eirry five miles soldiers will not
attempt to ose it at that range,
2,000 yards being Cbnsidered the
ITMtest distance at which a
readier .with sharp eyes even,
when sided by a telescope, can
■ee a human target with suffi
cient accuracy to aim.
The new ballet will have 43.3
praina of powder, aa against 47-8
in the bullet now in use. The
amrele velocity of the weapon ia
f“*** ‘H"***^ velocity
of tha Krug. The ballet of the
new arm is equal to the old in
sa well aa in weight;'
bat its greater charge of powder
ia“*"< ibe weight of the entire
cartndge grains. Still, the total
wright of the new rifle, with
bayonet scabbard and 100 ear
tH<Jgea. u owe pound leas than
that of the old. This ia the re
nut of a clever arrangement of
the new arm. It ia At
shorter over all than the old.
With its new anbatitnte for a
bayonet and scabbard ft
9.47 pot . _ ^
pound* of
with the present j
scabbard.
We are giving away a beautiful pk>
terete every cash rnefnaer purchasing
one dollar’s worth aad upward, as long
aa they last
e— - * M m,
new displayed in our window. '
Williams CtamV.
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Rake* and mowers.
We rtil^hare «ome McCormick Mower, nnA Rakn to be wU
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