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_ GASTONIA, N. C.t TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30,
A WEEK OF
SP CIALS!
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At the Big Store, Thomson Co.
This week we ppt on some unmatchable
bargains. We hive scooped In some good
things and oar easterners get the. benefit.
5000 yards Avon Bleach
ing. We closed a lot
of Sheeting from the
Avon Mill and had it
bleached. The cotint
is 96 by 100. Equals
Lonsdale Cambric.
There are two lots, it
E£kfo‘''d8cS 10c
Never again will we be
able to ofler such bar
gains. _
5000 yd*. *hort length*
heavy Shirtings. IX .
to 3 yd. pieces at oi ’
yard —-djC
5000 yd a. Rescue Sheet
ing, Loray Mill Sheet
ing go this week fi
at, yd-DC
And to make this week Interesting we have
In every department, put oat some spe
cials. A A A A A A A
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Never before In the? history of this busi
ness have we had such easy sailing. Our
business has grown every day since we
started over two years ago. Low prices,
energy, truth, and capacity are the princi
ples which have brought this store to Its
f>resent magnitude, and will promote Its
uture growth. A A A A A
Thomson Co.
The People’s Store:::: Phone 46
THE PASSING OF THE “JAY."
A nether CtareiUMd Fiction
Oat ie as Extinct ae the Dede.
CXk«n» CkxoetcU.
.One by one the old convention-'
el fictions are being demolished
end among the last to go is that
of the rural visitor who always
cornea to grief when he visits the
city.
The woes of this traditional
individual have long furnished
material for the comic illustra
tors and the humorous para
graph ers. His purchases of gold
bricks, his investments in green
goods, his excursions to the
lake front or to the tunnels to
view disasters in those localities
have excited the risibilities of
the urban resident for a long
timd.
Like the stage Irishman and
his colleague, the "Dntchman”
of the drama, boweuem it is now
sprite clear that the,, "hayseed"
of the funny papers Is a creature
of the imagination rather than an
< actual type. He may have been
more or less verdant and unso
phisticated once, but he is no
longer. The rural resident of
the Middle West, at auy rpte, la
at no disadvantage whatever as
compared with the dweller In the
city. If the "Jay" of tradition
ever had an existence he has
vanished from the vicinity.
This baa been quite evident
daring the centennial celebra
tion. Many thousandsof people
from out of town have visited
the city, and it has been no easy
matter for Chicagoans to dis'
tinguish them from the regular
remdmrta of the city. They
dress ae well and they conduct
themselves pa well. They do not
stand ip the middle of the street
gasing up at the high buildings.
They do not carry shiny carpet
socks, »or do they Interlard their
disc ours* with " B'go.h I-and "by
hen I* as the comic papers assert.
They are, in short, intelligent,
well-mannered Americans who
have nothing to fear by com
parison with their city cousins
in the matter of intelligence,
and who have distinctly the
better of it is manners and
It b possible that lo remote
and thinly settled districts of the
West there may still exist peo
ple who Justify the cooceits of
the eomic artists, hut there are
no each people in the territory
circumjacent to Chicago. There
it no reason wby there-should
be.
The rural resident of to-day
has a telephone and rural mail
delivery; he takes a daily news
paper—perhaps more than one1—
and half a dozen magazioes. He'
is probably better informed on
current topics than is the average
city dweller because be has.
moth time to devote to acquiring
information. At any rate, be is
nobodv's fool, and the man who
picks bim up with such an ides
is going:.to find his mistake very
quickly. ,
The "easy mark” from the
country baa gone forever, if, in
deed, he existed at all. The
confidence man of to-day seeks
bis victims not in the rural
districts, but aftong the tenants
of sky-scrapers who have a fancy
for Consolidated Lake Superior
and similar investments.
' The "jay" like the dodo, is
extinct.^_i
A Oiaat Pram Madlaos Canty.
fssssnlgiwi,
Mr. Thomas Prisbee, a mer
chant of Joe, Madison county wss
in town yesterday. Mr. Frisbee
has for several years been a cus
tomer of the Wallace Bros. Com-'
pony, but yesterdiy was his first
visit to Statesville.
Mr. Frisbee is ouly 30 years old
bnt is a veritable giant. He is 6
feet S inches in bright and weighs
at the present time 318 pounds.
But there is little snrplna flesh
on his body. It is nearly all
mascle. Some years ago Mr.
Prisbee trained for an athlete and
later was trained by Mnldoon, a
famous trainer at White plains,
N. Y.. for a wrestling match
with Ishmael Yonaeph, the " Ter
ribleTnrk," who was s famous
wrestler. -C Bnt the Tork wss
drowned before the match took
place and Mr. Prisbee abandoaed
the idea of s career ia tbs ring.
He has bid rainy wrestling
matches in private bat never
gave n public exhibition.
Notwithstanding his greet
weight Mr. Frisbee is very ac
tive. He is ■ champion runner
and in • walking match would
sully wear oat an ordinary mm.
His strttigth.too.Is ia proportion
to bis elite. When bnt IS years
ri ft* he coaid pick up a bar ©I
railroad iron and handle it with
•*•*1 *ad he says he can lift
^ro™ ***• bneea to
, Mf.foiiabee ia a native of Mad
*»ow county»
TUNES. MORAL AND IMMORAL.
Rumm Proltssor’s Nrataal
Afalaat Raffias Malady ia
Hyaaa.
Kmr York lbll ood Eztuooo.
Prof. Penny, a teacher of mn
aic in Washburn College, a con
gregational institution at Tope
ka, Kan., is making a crusade
against immoral music in the
churches. He takes no stock in
the good old principle that the
pleasant tones bau better be de
voted to the Lord’s service than
to the devil's. He is perfectly
willing that the devil should have
them. Prof. Penny finds in the
list of tunes used in the cbnrches
and Sunday-schools six waltzes,
two two-steps, and seventeen
polkas. All these, he is very
surr, are immoral.
Presumably it is a question of
time with him. If a rune can be
waltzed to, it iz immoral; for in
musical themes there is scarcely
possible a strict division along
the lines of morality. The clas
sification would banish all hymns
and sacred songs in tbrec-qnar
ter time. "Come, Ye Discon
solate." would go promptly, for
it makes an excellent waltz tnne.
So does the once popular and
always beautiful song," My God,
How Endless Is Thy Love."
Prof. Penny himself puts down
as distinctly immoral the music
of "Shall we Gather at the Riv
er.” Doubtless, though not for
its terpsichorean measure, he
would condemn "There iaa Hap
py Land,” the melody of which
was once a Hindu love song and
which is still thoroughly Orien
tal in its musical sentiment.
Yet all these songs are .good,
and all will be piously remem
bered by many people who will
marvel at the motion that there
ia anythjog wrong about them.
Ia it not possible that Prof. Pen
ny,having as a musician carried
the cultivation of his musical
consciousness far beyond the
point where the ordinary wor
shipper is capable of following
him, scents a moral danger
where none exists? And, after
all, it he able to separate the
uses of soy tune, whether em
ployed in church or out of it
from the consideration of mere
sense? The purpose of musical
Setting of sacred words is to as
sociate a form of tense emotion
with them. Whether the theme
is Gregorian chant or one of the
sacred two-steps which hrof.
•Penny condemns, its function is
to heighten the effect of holy
words by a pleasing collection’
of sounds.
Wisdom lies in the middle
course. Tunes so recently secu
lar that their secular associations
are remembered by the hearer
are doubtless undesirable for sa
cred uses. But those whose pro
fane, career has been quite for
gotten and %hich have been
thoroughly converted to a piona
function had better ’lie allowed
to retain it.
Daad Convict Pardon ad.
stwlbr Our.
Lost week Governor Avcock
granted a pardon to John John
son, colored, who was convicted
of larceny in this conoty two
years ago and sentenced to tbe'<
penitentiary for five years. When
the pardon was'sent to the super
intendent of the penitentiary it
was found that Johnson had died
on May ZZod as the result of an
accident, as alleged by the pen
itentiary authorities. It does
seem that when a convict dies
his people or the officers in the
county from which he was sent
would be notified, so the news
could be published in the local
papers to the end that parties in
terested would be adviaed of the
death.
Catawba Farmers Cot laws
Wheat Crop. -
Nrwtm liWnriH. . •
We have interviewed a large
number of fanners this wfcek
about wheat sowing, and every
one says there will be the small
est crop planted in Catawba this
year that, there has been for
many years. A few farmers will
not reduce their crop mote than
a fourth to a half, bot there are
some who will not sow more than
a tenth as much as last year and
some will not allow a grain to
be planted on their lands.
The reason for this is that for
three years the fly has been so
destructive that the farmers have
lost s great deal of money on
tbelr wheat crops and they are
not willing to riak another one.
Wheat is a very expensive crop.
Prepering the land is expensive;
tbe seed wheat and the fertiliser
are expensive and the drilling is
expensive. Oa an average tbe
wheat crop la Catawba has cost
tbe farmer $S an acres by the
time it le put la tke ground. A
failure as complete as last year’s
la very costly.
ML BOCKETELUrS MONET.
la Thera Dufir That Ha Will
Oat All tha Mossy Thara la?
fUratf* Wwklf.
There are occasional signs of
anxiety (or fear that John O.
Rockefeller will get all the money
there is. Mr. Rockefeller has
qs>t lately aeen fit to publish bis
estimate of the vmlne of his po>
sessions, bnt sanguine guessers
rate him nowadays as pretty near
a billionaire, ana the most con
servative computers believe he
has more than half a billion. It
would be impossible to say what
is the total wealth ofthe Uoited
States, but the assessed valuation
of the several states for 1902
amounted to about thirty-five
billions. Even if Mr. Rockefel
ler has a whole billion, there is
something left for the rest of os.
But his fortune, they tell ns, is
probably increasing as much as
fifty millions a year, and it is not
unlikely to double within tea
years. Already his financial
Power is enormous, so that be
could influence stock values very
materially if he chose, and, at
times, make or unmake ordinary
millionaires by mere whispers at
the telephones.
Malevolence is oot attributed
to him, nor is be felt to be i
mischief maker, but the feeling
is that bis business abilities are
so surprising and his business
judgment so unapproachably
sound that be can’t help seeing
and improving chances to maka
millions more. To discuss' him
is ss little of an impertinence as
to disenss the comet. He is a
force, sixty-four years old, mov
ing through the earth's*, atmos
phere, sod believed to be rapidly
increasing in weight and veloci
ty. Persons who fear they are
in his orbit and may hi pinched
may find some relief ia consid
ering that even though his for
tune increases very rapidly its
growth may long be fed by the
increase of wealth in the coun
try.
Bid forth Carolina Tree.
Hmtrt Waaklr.
When Columbus discovered
America there stood id's remote
mountain gorge in sCbcrokee
county, N. C., a tulip poplar
tree that was then 400 years old.
For fqur more centuries it grew
and flourished and was recently
telled for exhibition st the St.
Louis World’s Pair. The tree
was 13 feet in. diameter at the
base when it was cot. The
gorge in wbicb it grew was so
inaccessible, being forty miles
from a railroad, that it was inn
practicable to obtain a section
near the base. Forty feet op,
where tbe tree was a little more
than aix feet in diameter, a disk
was cut. This baa been polished
and will occupy a place in front
of the hunter's lodge. On the
polished disk have been en
graved the important historical
events of tbe Old North State
from tbe time that Sir Walter
Raleiah took possession of tbe
land in his sovereign's name cn
July 4th, 1584, Ibrodgb the
colonial days, during the Revo
lution and up to the present tine.
Another section of tbe tree will
stspd like s monument in the
forestry exhibition. It is ten
feet high. A portion has been
dressed, polished and varnished,
while the lower portion is
covered with tbe bark.
Smm Other Old Thing*.
ClcrtUkS War. lMk.
Iu a recent issue we mentioned
s very old wash pot and cap*
board in possession of Prof. Joe
G. Hoyle, of Caaar, and a few
days ago we received this inter
esting note from our old friend,
Capt. W. I. Stowe, of Gaatonia:
"1 think your Prof. Joe’G.
Hoyle, of Caaar High School, is
as much an antiquarian as 1
sta. I guess he, as 1. inherits it
from the Hoyle side. While he
tells you of bis ancient waah
uot, that fana been in use since
1775, will be pleaae allow me to
go him one better in my
camphor bottle, which baa been
iu the family as handed down
from one to another, more than
two hundred years. It is a
peculiar shaped glass bottle.
Again, I have in my house and
in use whenever one of my little
grand childran comes in, a
cradle in which my great-grand
mother, m y grand-mother,
my mother, myself, my
children, and sow my grand
children are rocked in—thus you
see making six generations who
have been rocked la tha same
cradle. True it baa bad aevarn)
seta of rockers, but sides, eods.
etc., art the original. So Pro#,
will excuse me this time on tbe
ancients, and will say that I too
have much Hoyle blood running
through my veins,'as my mother
wss a daughter of the late
Andrew Hoyle,of Gaston county.
PRAIRIE 0006 HI* HELPER*.
SHtfMka row •• mi Ua to>
■1x3*4 t* IU4 —I ■ i *< Mia —I rhwow
Tjw U greet axel tersest awl tadlg
•ntloe os tba bas4 water* ad too Mlo
ooc-jduxe creek. ta Cbttey county, Mab.
•rar the action of dossier Brava ad
tbla district Is
a trill by tba
to rxtonntoate one ad tba_
nor-Jnrcat Nebraska. aays tba
Ba*.
It util ba rauuMlmul that
Brown oecnrrd tba rut an of as act
to exusnalnnte tba prairie deg to Ne
braska. Wbm ebay ware aat sxtar
nlantrri by tba owner of tba land co
'which they bad tbetr habitat, then It
waa ■ iade tba doty of the read erar
eacr ta deatcoy than aad. abatpe tba
axpaav of aarae against tba land.
Leals Oraamsattr, who rasatl
Iba-aarUaat aattlara aa tbs rtwsfl
da croak, near Georgia. Nab. baa tor a
Mlwr of yean baaa tratiring tba to
habltaaia of a aoad prairie dog taws
■»m bla fans. Aa la writ known. tba
dtoat prodtaMa crap that caa ba nows
to tbla ragtas H alfalfa. Per tba gnat
«*••«— I. grew tag altolto tin
ttoSd* an nare my. PM. that tba
toeta at the alfalfa plant (hall ba to
totted writ a certain ranges, aad, eaa
asd, that tba rpota abatt ba aMa to
flam the uril aad natch the water be
■nth. Mr. Ommaatlf made tba la
portaat discovery a tow yean age ttot
Ode fsngae fla propagated by the prai
rie dag aad corned by tt la digging Ms
bsrrawethtosgb the earth ngate pee
r
■•■so. __aa that Ma
dago aat esly tadtot the aaO erttb tom
gsa, but break tbraneb tba •r
•my mean ta (ha aUMto^Jta totbe
SO twportaot water basesth.
Os* of tba atoat titonttfal it. too sera
tomtVo town or praMa dn at awk
gmpartag a debl tor alia Me euttara.
Ubaa lost baaa nsda kaawa that
ttodar tba aUtnt* famed by tba laat
IsgWatarawr Nebraska tbeea baaaBfbl
•sd lodeetrios* rsdrrtoais of the region
•ta rend—aad to death. Mr. Oreatoea
Br la taking steps to teat tba law aad
toe that paipoar mu reasalt tba toast
atotnaat aoaoael la tba Mats.
AMBITIONS OF JAPANESE.
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J _J recently la Part.
With ai aaocmcd Japanno marqala la
wMA7 la ■•'•P* u belaf «kn
aad daalraa (hat baa yet beea audio!
y *ke >*«w Tort Com martial Adrer
ttaer. Ho aoM:
“We dcml^a to cater tato tba Orta with
Saarto becaooe that w««M aann oar
rnea A equality wttb r~~17111 am
ttoaa Whether you like U or aot yea
*? Mflaeeced by the racial type to
wMA wo bo loop aad by oar color. Taa
ooanet coontre the idea that we ore
will load aad aa r—t-qT aa jneiaaltn.
tbot w* arc year eqaala la the ocobmb*
1c. military aad aeclal rpbore. Whoa
the latereattoeal eipodltlaoa war* ma
•ulaed d aria* the late war la CMaa
tka commaod at tkr dMhrrnt colemaa
*■ loti tilled la tara to BesBA. Oor
man, Freeek .and Italian gaaonfc.
Naa* of yen would fear* boeo wtlbns
W place Tib up aa a troop, coder (fee or
dara «f a Tapaaya paamL
"Tat I aak yoo. why act? Are wo A
Ccrtor bretkrea tike Darwin*. parffiaa
or rlrlHead ana barlap the nma ckdn
to aortal rlphta «a yeetertml Well,
tbao. we dnbe tMa war tt.ealy to eoa
ao ** world. oToo tt tt
toso. If wo bowo M*nt»rirtWM*to
pntpoo. tbm merttabia roe flirt Ml
aa to beeoan formldebl* ThoThTcho
Mna why we wlA to debt at Mae."
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THEOLB KEMBIE
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Horses and Mules
The season has aow arrived far the 1
we are prepared to firaUi yoa wbsf yoa ta
Hava already tveakad oaa carload af,
end Moles and expect another car af Males
Amoor them will be some extra nice i §£
teas or team use. Call sad aee them.
WAGONS. -
We hare jest received a ear laad of .Old «^asy W«»f
They an too «dl ktowi to mm dciaiouf. wf CM |Wt FM
My die you Mod«
RAKES AND MOWERS.
We .till have some McCormick Mowers and Rakes to be sold
oa easy terms.
BUGGIES AND HARNESS.
We always bare a alee Mae of Banka. Sarmre, aad Hasaaae, -
tad have just received a nice Hoe of winter Xap Robes.
When in need of any thine «*or Uoe we will be glad to have
yon call and will take plsanrv fas showing yoa oar stock.
Craig and Wilson.
" Oartonla.N.C.-"' I
capital and surplus, »7*,*oo.«o
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SUte Bank Incorporated May 13, IMS
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