North Carolina Newspapers

| t^mjTo^btteT j ^f^y y y^ V. P. MAI SHALL, Bdltvr u4 Pr»»rittor. DEVOTED TO THE PROTECTION VQL. XXIV. . .. GASTONIA, N. C.. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13. 1003. HRS. JULIA COURTS HOLLAND. Nidi^l her at the Stale Pair Sadi eat a ta an Old Friend Many Afraaable Remlol* aceacee al the Yonnder Day*. C. B. Wootra. la Chailottt OkHfvn, Ho nabu #ih. 1 attended the last State fair and 1 had a pleasant and happy surprise. I met a lady, Mrs. Julia Holland, of Dallas, Gaston county, whom I bad not seen in 40 years. Her maiden name was Jnlia Courts. Her father was Daniel W. Courta, of Rocking ham county, who was treasurer of the State for several years be fore the war. She and her younger sister. Klixa, and Misa Rachel Jones and her father spent the Christmas holidays of 1881 at my fatbet’s house. She was then young, iust budding into lovely womanhood, with rare charms of personal beauty, with attractive manners, well educated, graceful and stately in her bearing, cultured and re fined, possessing every accom plishment and that superb and voluptuous loveliness that dis tinguished the Southern ladies of gentle breeding daring the halcyon days before the war. It waa a mere accident that 1 learned ahe was in Raleigh and as soon as 1 heard it I went to see her. Aa we talked of the old times a flood of precious memories rushed through my mind. They carried me back to the time I had jnst turned my 21st year, the yOling manhood— the-very bey-day of life, when hot young blood coursed through my veins, and I was a love-tick swain. I can see it as plain as U the scene were now before me. My father and Mr. Courts sitting near the big fire place with a roaring fire, talking about the war, and the young people sitting on the other side of the parlor. Alter a while Miss Julia Courts, who is an ac complished musician, has a silvery melodious voice and is a sweet singer, goes to the piano and sings a song. I remember two songs she sang. One was Byron’s Ode to Tom Moore: *'Mv boat ia on the abort. Ana my bark ia on the aea But before 1 go, Tom Moore. Herc'a a double heailb to thea." The other was Moore's ode to a young lady; “With all my sout then let us part, Since both arc anxious to be free, And I will send you home your heart If you will send back mine to me.” Imagine, kind reader, the thrilling effect of these words when accompanied by a vreman’s sweet voice, upon the soul of a young man. I thought of the words of Southey: "Her deep and thrilling tong Seemed with its piercing melody to reach The soul. and in mysterious unison Blend with all thoughts oi gentle ness and lore.” Or as PeTcival expresses; "Voices of melting tenderness, that bland With pure and gentle musings, till the soul Commingling with the melody, is borne Rapt and dissolved in eratacy to heaven." Watson says: "Orpheus himself might hang his Upon the willow after this. Nor henceforth impiously aspire To Up the senses all in bliss. For he who heard that thrilling strain Would find all other music vain." Time, remorseless time, has delt kindly with Mrs. Holland: "Decayo’a effacing finger" has not robbed her of her early beauty, for the only change is, as General Toombs said of bis wife in her latter day, the "superior loveliness of the full blown over the budding rose.” D. W. Courts graduated- at the University in 1823 in the same class with the great Chief Justice Pearson. I knew him when I was a young man, and he was a man of sterling worth, of iu eorruptible integrity, of inflexi ble virtue and the strictest honesty. 1 noticed in Wheeler’* history that he was born in Culpepper county, Virginia. In 1831-32-33. he waa a member of the Legislature from Surry county. I notice that my father waa a member from Lenoir at “SP* j.im* I" 1838 and 1838 Mr. Court* waa elected Treasurer of the State by a legislature differing la politics. In 1&J9-he was appointed consul of the United States at Mstanza*. In 1846 he removed to Rocking ham county, and was elected to the House of Commons in 1848 and in 1850 he eras elected Sen ator without opposition. At the aeaeioa of the Legislature of 1830-51 he waa elected Treasurer, which position he heM till 1882. The! wsa a worthy record, of which hit posterity may well be proud. I have beard my father •peek of him often In the high est praise, for he was very fond a* I . of him. When at ray father’*, I beard Mr. Coarts speak of s visit Governor Wise, of Virginia, made to Governor Bragg, at Raleigh. Wise had suggested a meeting of Southern Governors to consult about the condition of the country, and see what course shonld be pursued if Fremont was elected in 1856. None of the Governors met ex cept Governor Adams, of Sonth Carolina. Mr. Courts said Gov ernor Wise was a great conver sationalist, did all the talking and it seemed like an imperti nent interruption for anybody to say a word 1 thonght I had a good memory,but Mrs. Holland haa a marvelous memory for she remembered things that I bad for gotten. She said that all took Cbristmasdinncr at uiy oldeat sister's, Mrs. Joy ner.lt it a.won der I forgot this, for I recollect most everything thst happened, but she is entitled to go up heed. Her oldest sister, now past 70, lives at Carey, N. C., and is the widow of Wesly Jones, who was United States marshal before the war, and Confederate marshal during the war. She and my oldeat sister were at school to gether at Salem. i am writing mtsueiore oreaic fast, so as to get it ready (or tbe mail to-day, and I wish I could turn back the hands on the dial plate of lime and go over those good old times. I wish I could sit down to such a sumptuous fast as my mother bad then, consisting of sausage, spare ribs, hog feet, big hominy and crackling bread. Tbe Four Hundred of this country, the aristocracy of England, never bad sneb a rich, whoiesotue diet. Alas I alas! alas! those good old days are pone, and it makes die sad to think about them. "Oh!*' «rbat a world o< beauty fades away With the winged hours of Yooth." A Goad Ward foe the Newspapers ciiarlty aad Children. The plain and strenuous way in which our North Carolina newspapers have rebuked the recent outrages apainst the law in this State ana South Caro lina by tbe courts of justice (?) gives good hope for the futnre. A few papers were either silent or attempted to straddle the. fence, but tbe great inaiority of them we saw called things by their right names and entered their indignant protest against the big burlesque. North Caro lina journalists may not ail be able, but the majority of them are brave and true. They love the good name of North Caro lina and they are set for the de fense of tbe state against her foes within or without her bor ders. The people's liberties are not iu danger ao long as the press is alive and awake to its duty. It ia very refreshing to see tbe pa pers shake the nonsense out of a fraud and probe liypocricy to its depths. To be sure, now and then a toady or a coward may be found who waits to get orders, but where there is one like,this there are ten who own their souls am) who send their arrows to the mark. We have the highest respect for the oepspaper men of North Caro lina, as a whole, and recent events have justified our good opinion. The Gambling Basinsaa lbs Natl Popular Part of tha Pair. Id*» Cmm, la Chariot I* Otmmr. Draw what conclusions yon will, argue, moralise and preach and yet you must admit that the gambling machines were the most popular part of the fair. The races were good, the free attractions were above par, the bull and the pumpkin were there in all their glory, the Per-* ris wheel circled round and round, the prise pig disported himself,4he wild woman chortled . “Hr bnt wilJ men turned gladly away and lost money at games in which they didn’t stand one chance In 23 to come out winners. The free enlight ened population went up against skin games, the most notorio&s devices of the fakir, tribe, and smilingly and happily spent hun dreds upon hundreds of dollars. Any poker gsme Would have b:en fairer and more honest, and everybody knew this to be true; yet society, which holds op its hands in horror over a 25c limit saven-np or set-back, hovered, eagerly close, to the fakirs and smiled benignly while money went to thieves and admitted _ ' is . . ass .a • __l _ t THE OIEAT WHISKEY STATE. Seutfa Carolina's Unenviable Re (§nt(j a Lucca* Admit**? The whiskey business would have been practically dead in Sooth Carolina by this time had not the dispensary law been en acted. That was perhaps the single expedient by which the life of the bnsineas could have been perpetuated in this State. The history of neighboring Southern States for the last ten yean proves it. texas and Mississippi are practically prohibition States. Only in a lew counties is the whiskey trade permitted. The same it true of Tennessee. Fifty counties are "dry" in Alabama. Thirty of the forty connties in Florida prohibit the aale of in toxicants. Fifty Arkansas connties are "dry." Of 137 connties in Georgia probably not more than ten or a dozen have bar rooms. More than a hundred have absolute prohibition. In North Carolina sixty of the nine* ty-seven counties have prohibi tion. In both North Carolina and Georgia some connties have local dispensaries similar to oars except that each is an indepen dent county concern aud there are no State dispensaries simiiiar to ours, except that each is an independent county concern and there are no State dispensaries. In these States the people vote *s between dispensaries, bar rooms and prohibition. The Utter prevails in nearly all the conuties. In other words, it is the sim ple fact that within the last ten or fifteen years almost the whole South has voted itself "dry." In the larger towns and cities, like Augusta, Atlanta, Birmingham, Savannah and Jacksonville, the bar rooms are retained bat whis key has been driven almost en tirely from the smaller towns and the rural districts. The prohibi tion sentiment has grown rapid ly aod what is more to the point the laws are enforced. One may go to "dry" towns of North Car olina for example, as we did this summer and never ot hear a "blind tiger." The New York Suu points out that in the South following the elimination of the negro vote by suffrage qualifica tions, prohibition has been gen erally adopted as the law. In Suuth Carolina the dispen saty was accepted by the Prohi bitionists in the Legislature of 1882 as a compromise measure— as a "step toward prohibition." After the people bad voted for prohibition their repreaentatives gave them a State whiskey sell lag system of saloons. What are the results? In the first place, we have le galised sale of whiskey more generally established iri South Carolina than in any other South ern State. North Carolina has thirty seven whiskey selling counties (many of these having local dispensaries) out of ninety seven counties. South Carolina has about thirty-nine whiskey selling counties oht of forty-one. South Carolina bas about two dry counties. Georgia has over one hundred. now is inn ior a step toward prohibition?’' The City of Charleston has about fifteen legal places for the sale of whiskey ana beer and tbe illegal placet number in the ban died*. Is Augusta, Os., or At lanta, Qa., in any worse condi tion^ with open bar rooms? In the city of Columbia there are five or six more legal beer and whiskey placet and “tigers" are Ktlfnl. In short there has no improvement in South Carolina In tbe la g* towns at compared with the .urge towns of other Southern States. Noth ing has. been gained for tern per ahee by tbe dispensary system in them. In the small towns in South Carolina we have the dis pensary, as against prohibition throughout the South. The dispensary has probably made South Carolina the leader of Southern States in the con sumption of whiskey. That is the distinction that our State has won and is maintaining. In tha second place, the dis pensary I is s firmly engrafted tbe whiskey business on the State. It has seared and blunted and canterised the sentiment for prohibition. It would bk al most impossible for South Caro lina to adopt probtdoo now. by countiee or A a whole. Tbe dispensary it paying. It is pay ing Laurens, county and town, about >12,000 or wore e«fh year. Ten years ago Lturerfs town was unanimous against tbe dis pensary. It was necessary to create negro land owners by gift in order to vote • dispensary on the town. Now, however, it is probable that the people would vote far tbe dispensery rathei -| than prohibition. The dis pensary pays. The people who drink dispenaary whiskey are paying our taxes. The pccket nerve has been touched, not only in Laurens, but throughout the State. The outlook is that South Carolina will hold her place as the great whiskey State of the South, because she is making money out of the busi ness. Twenty years ago prohibition was not practicable in this town. Conditions were not settled. Law and order had not assumed their sway and the de moralization following tl»e war and reconstruction still lingered. All that has chauged. prohi bition would be practicable here no*; just as it is in hundreds of towns from North Carolina to California. I en years ago the prohibition wave began to sweep over the South. Prohibition captured the South. It was cheeked in South Csrolins-rcbecked, by a "compromise." Its own friends sad champions were deceived by politician*, who offered them the dispensary. To-day the dis pensary, the legalised male of whiskey, is more strongly forti fied hear in South Carolina than anywhere else on the American Continent. The volume of the Mlea, moreover, is increasing sll the time. South Carolina, in recent years, has done more for the prosperity of American dis tilleries and brewers than any other Southern State. Demand fer Wamaa In U»a Waal. Wtrtlnttw raw. The newspapers of the Bast have been disposed to treat as a joke the anouuacementa that have recently been published to the effect that there ia a crying demand for women in tome of the Western States. Some editor* have pone so far as to publish warning* to their woman readers, insistiug th it the an nouncements were not based on facts, and that danger of starva tion and worse horrors probably awaited women who might be misled into answering these de mands. There is no ioke about the matter at til. The Kansas State free employment bureau is authority for the announcement that Kvctil thousands of honest, capable girl»7who are willing to work, may fud profitable era ployment and cam tort able homes in the .Sunflower State. They are wanted on the farms, in the dairies, in the stores of the villages, in the offices of the professional men, and ia every capacity in which women may work and earn a living. The secret of all this is that the Kansas people are prosperous. The Kansas girls have done their share Of hard work on the farms and st the homes, and are now attending schools or col leges in the Bast, or living in comparative luxury at their homes. Women are also in de mand in Washington and Ore gon, and prosperous young men of those States have frankly ad mitted their desire to secure wives from the East, the local supply being inadequate to the demands. From farther Weat, or ia it Bast, there comes a de mand for stenographers, secre taries, bookeeeners, and private tutors in Manila, at salaries ranging from $20 to $35 a week, aud women arc wanted by the hundreds to fill these positions. However much the newspaper editors of the Bast may joke about the proposition, it is a very serious and earnest matter in the Weat. wun so many women wear ing theraaelvet oot In tbe sweat shop* of tbe Eastern cities, eking out an existence fu the congested districts, and canting barely enongh to sustain life, it is remarkable that the appeals from tbe West do not pieet with a more generous response, as we believe they would if con dition* were better understood. It should be remembered that there is little show of clans dis tinction in the West. The woman wba is employed as a domestic on the farm or in the smaller towns, if she be other wise worthy, is as cheerfully accorded aocial recognition and social and educational advant ***■•* tb*, daughters of tbe wealthiest citisens of the sec tion. It it the character that counts, rather than the purse in tbe West. Tbe employment, in •ny Ho*, •• no more exacting than similar work in the large cities, tbe expenses are infinite ly less, the wholesome, free atinospheri of the general life more attractive and satisfying. Although, it would seem that a genefona attack of the Western fever would be a good thing (or several million women, aa that in about the sisc of the surplus male population of tbe country that la calling lor female help. DUn’t Vast the Maggy Wasted OoUtboro MmSUSM. " A gentleman ia thia city Iasi week added the following words aa a codicil to hi* will: "I here by request my wile ia ease any man shoots and kills me to spend not a cent of toy estate to prosecnle him,bnt save it for her and the children to live on." A New Definition gf Character. WiJterto»* CVronlcIt. There’s a lot oi different aorta, sixes and shades of character ia the world, bnt the latest edition oi court bouse character was Sven in here last week. The wyer asked. "Well, what is the defendant’s character for truth and honesty?” The witness hesitated, but finally answered, "If your honor pleesc, he’s a horse trader." That’s a new one. Slayer -* --- — te Alfred Daniels, the negro charged with killing Senator Simmons father in Jones "nsfy a few weeks ago, was tried at Trenton last week, convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to be banged Decem ber 11th. An appeal was taken. Ex-Congressinau O’Hara, col ored, of New Berne, was Dsiniel'a counsel and while be offered no evidence he contended forsvtr did of manslaughter. O’Hara ionght the case persistently, con tending that the indictment was void because the negroes had been discriminated * in drawing the grand jury. Ha was overruled on all points. Hedging the SiImu. i.nihiKi In the town of Washington re cently prohibition was defeated bat the aldermen have adopted stringent regulations for tha management of saloons. The li cense is (500 'sod saloons moat close from 8to8p. m. No per son is allowed to drink ia a sa loon except at a counter, the counter must not be over 40 feet from s street and tbe windows ranit be clear so that every pass er by can see clearly inside. The saloons can have no back or rear doors, are not allowed to main tain billiard tables or other gam bling devices nor restaurants or lunch counters in connection therewith._ The Gubernatorial lace. n*Wlfc Cor. CkartoUs OSMn.T. There is more and more talk now about the race for the Dem ocratic nomination for Governor next year, which is certainly sure to be the liveliest this State hss ever seen. As yet only four gentlemen have announced their candidacy for the nomination, these being Lieutenant Gover nor Wilfred D. Turner of Iredell; Rob'/* B. Glenn, of Forsyth; Charles M.Stedman. of Guilford; and Theodore F. Davidson, of Buncombe. R. A. Dougbton, of Alleghany may later enter tbe race, and ex Judge A. W.” Gra ham, John S. Cunningham un) others will be sure to be in it be fare It ends. A gentleman of marked prominence, who profes ses to be a very good gnesaer to day expressed his belief that Turner would be the winner, bat Mid he regarded Glean as aland log sexton account of his great service to the party which gives him peculiar strength. He went on to say that Stedman was very strong just now, his war record being an element of much influ ence. Davidson be regarded as * ytTY ***** *B<* ***ell*at man, who has gotten out of touch with the masses of people, bat by no manner of means oat of sympa thy with them. He declared tbe candidates to be a very fine lot of men, and added that tbe State could not go wrong in nomina ting any one of them. HU views are, no doubt, of interent at thU time. THE OLD RELIABLE <Umlf»r Pwr« TManamsumnnt . . • MOLTONE NEWEST FABRIC FOR SUITS AND WAISTINGS. To oar_, bat bom added In . and wdstings- It ooaee_ doc, gram. light bine, and navy bine, with and deece. It k the very beat goods ever shown lor, j DRESS GOODS. New lot arrives to-day containing toot very interesting new designs. so-la. Repellents, yd_f#e Scotch Twtjd, yd-2flc It-In. all-wool Serge, yd-SOc 56-in. Carleton Cloth, yd.SLftO la the aboM# me have ;< this new shipment. . For Walking Jackets, Underwent_ . Ufa, the correct this* (a each ■takes these a specialty. i s5 . JAS. F. YEAGER, L40ICS* FURNISHINGS A SPECIALTY. _ _. ■’'2/?'-‘ ■?r^.y-‘/a f i _ ' CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $74,000.00 - State Beak Incorporated Hay ||, 100$ STATE AND county depository % _ • OFFICERS DIRECTORS " ♦♦♦ JHO. P. LOVE, Pn*Mt«l ■. e. O. LOU R.C.O.LOVB.Vle'fW «•. r. wj* ***■ *• pAOB’ C««xir M»T. *, tor« YOU RUN RISKS GASTONIA SAVINGS BANK, 4.C. HARDIN. ^-^r j V 1 n'. 11 The time l. here for ron to WwiilMoBM i V mo* op-to-da*e atyioo, ni right price* ore the dUtingoiofc. 1*0 faotoro* of o*r clothing. Don't toko onr word for fe-^ come end ooo for jroeroelf. $ * fnU ond complete Hoe otHata aad Oent’a Pnraithiag* tlao on hood. 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