North Carolina Newspapers

THE GASTONU County P—l«. _ i_Published Twice a Weck-Tuesdayi V. r. MA1SHALL. Uifr u4 Pro»rl«t»r. DEVOTED TO THE WOTECTIOH OF HONE 1HD 1 -»pg=cs *»«■ I ' I.aats3 .«-m ..—1Tmrg-■Pk-mmjmLU—— VOL. JOCIV.__ _GASTONIA, N.«C„ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 37. 1003. ~ i ii — ■ i STORE GOO INESS So busy are we to-day sending out goods to eager customers that we haven't time to write an elaborate advertisement of our great store's contents. We Just have to pack together some truths that you will find |ust so—Just as we tell them to you. Our two great stores are overflowing with good things for sustaining life and cloth* Ing the body. if if if if if More people krrc learning of this store's goodness every day. We not only adver* tlse, advertise a great deal, but we are accomplishing a tremendous amount of good store*keeplng along with It if if • 0 Ih every line stocks are standard, styles carefully chosen, our claims and promises lived up to. It Is money In your pocketrto learn the full measure of this store's ex* cellence. if if if if ST nT We couldn't say these things If we were not'absolutely sure of our ground. But come and see and learn. nr ST ST Thomson Co. The People’s Store POINTS AND PARAGRAPHS ON TOPICS OP THE TIMES. Uadci this bead arlU be Dilated from tiave to time noteworthy stir ranees on tbeaeas of current Intefeat. They will be takes from peblic addresses, books, macenaco. newspapers. la (act wkmnr we may tad them. Some times these selections will accord with oar slews and tha views of oar read, era. aaoseKmsa tbs opposite will be tree. Bat by reason of tbs saMect matter, tbs atria, the anthorshtp, or (be slews ay pressed, each will teas aa airmen! of timely Interest to makt If s caojplewooa utterance. On# of Ormr Cleveland's Ltnraa. Ckkaae CbnmJcla. ( Why do mobs respect the mail cars and the men in the service of the United States? Becanse they know they cannot molest United States property or assail men in the service of the United States with impunity. They know that something will certainly happen to them and that no flimsy excuses will avail if they at tempt to aet up their law of the mob against the law.of tlje nation. Who tanght the Chicago mobs this lesson ? Grover Cleveland—a President who knew his duty, who never sought a pretext for fail ing to discharge it, and who simply discharged it promptly and un swervingly, utterly regardless of all specious pleas, all opprobrious epithets and all threats of political destruction, Decking Sleol SbsaU be leviasd tar Scdbfel-mangers. WilmUuoo Xrannr. There is no greater enemy to society than the scandal monger .—the person who delights in ferreting onl all sensational reports and repenting them with sdditiona told as tacts which are merely surmises of hit fertile brain. The ducking stool for the common sqold should be revived for the goesip monger. In fact, there are occasions when there could be revival, with great benefit to the -community, of the stake am. the faggot which New Englanders used te-bring into requisition for witches. The Massachusetts witch** 1® their palmiest days did not injure society half as mnch by their supposed conjuring and witchcraft as do these vile gossip mongen of the present time. When a. man or woman meets you and start* out by saying: "Ifave you heard the awful scandal about so and so” put bim or her down as an enemy to society and shun that person aa you would a leper. Such persona are more dangerous to the well-being of a community than the latter. 1 DfMensUo a Hark at CMiinKiw, • Tbli dissension in all advanced movement* U part of the pro umad philosophy, the automatic operation of hnman nature. It is a conservative influence, stronger than any possible opposition or repression, end its purpose and effect are to restrain and delay progress so that it kaepa pace with the ability of the people to ac« eept and adept themselves to It. In present conditions of bnraan nature, with the existing standards, method* of thought end pur poses, any general attempt to pjt the doctrines of the Socialists into operstlon would result in hideous discord, anarchy and ruin. On the other hand, when labor organisation is nnobstrncted end unopposed end goes smoothly and swiftly on ita way, it defeaU It self because It develops tyrraay end oppression in political. com mercial and social life. It encounters and is cleansed and strengthened by difficulties, opposition, failures, defeats and It* o*n error*. ‘In society as in nature, sudden sod violent changes «een destruction, while permanent and creative work is dons slowly and by degree*. Human weakness, Impatience and-wrath •is the seareea Of human strength aod the sure foundations for he man elevation. / AUTOBIOOKAPflCIS Of C0H61ES&. Sow •! the Qatar Tfclaja lha Stataamen suy Abaci Than* aahraa. New York KvwnUc tat. One of tbe shortest biogrs Ehiei in tbe new Congressional ►i rectory is that of Senator Barton, of Kansas, who says of himself: "Joseph Ralph Barton, Republican of Abilene was elected to the United Ststes Senate to succeed Lucieu Baker, Kepablican, and took his seat March 4, 1901. His term of service Will expire March 3, 1907.” It is true that Mr. Bur ton, while active in politics, bad no roster of offices to insert, but repression could hardly g o further. It is a model sketch, indicating that Senator Rurtor wastes no time on non-essentials and does not care about fame for fame’s sake. How different the self-introduction of Batou Jackson Bowers, of Mississippi, who is serving bis first term in the Hottse of Representatives. No incident in bis career escapes bis pen, and he is solicitous that those who are closely related to him shall share his glory. He tells bis colleagues and his countrymen that he is ”th: sou of E. J. Bowers and Saliie L. Bowers, (born Dinkins)” The various step* of bis rise to poli tical importance are acrupnlona )y given and tbe details of his business occupation set forth seriatim. His status as a citizen soldier is not forgotten; be " was from 1888 to 1896 prom inently identified with the Mis sissippi National Guard, as sisted in its re-organization and was s mayor iu the 1st artillery battalion in this state.” And finally, on September 3, 1888, be was married to Miss Tallulah Gaines Posey, who is still living. Tbe Mississippi generals are voluble about their careers. Bsekial Samuel Candler, Jr., of tbe 1st district, avails himself of tbe opportunity to disseminate tbe fact that he is a descendant of William Candler, who was a colonel in tbe army of the Am erican Revolution and the an cestor of the Candler family of Geargia, who have been promi nently identified with tbe history of the State from the days of tbe Revolution up to and including the present day; and he wants it generaDy known that since 1895 he has been "tbe moderator of the Tishomingo Baptist As sociation.” Boboue finds these confidences scattered all through the Congressional Directory. George Prank^n Huff, of Penn sylvania, gets tn an "ad” for his business as follows: "Mr. Hnf is president of the Keystone LOU at (joke Company, one of largest producers of ni and steam coal in the United States." Senator Lodge, of Massachu setts. incorporates a full Hat of bis literary works. Bntler Ames, of the same State, describes his services in the Spanish war with great particularity. Our own novice, Robert Baker, takes np more space than Senator Depew, who ia a political veteran. Federico Degetau, "resident commissioner from Porto Rico," catches the Infection and tell* bis new countryman that the Academy of Anthropologies! Sciences of Madrid elected him president of the section of moral and political sciences," and that he is "one of the founders of the Societe Francaise pour I’Arbi traoe ^ntre Nations" and "hon orary members of the Colegio de Professor* de Catalans”—details which must appear irrelevant to some of the homespun Con gressmen from the main United States. Bat not n few Senators ana Representatives are almost as reticent about themselves as Senator Barton. Representative John A. Kelihef, of Boston, serving bis 6rst term, gives tbe vote In bis district sad no tnote. His fellow members will have U> buttonhole Mr. Keliher to learn bis antecedents, bis business sod his family relations. Jimes Mc Andrew*. of 50th Illinois district states his place of birth and tbe date, end adds that be wo elected to two Congresses, Mr. William Lorimer, of Chicago, local born as be is. Is equally un commuaicative. In the eniae ctoa of biographers are Repre sentatives Edward I*. Hamilton, of Michigan; Adam Byrd, of Miiatssipcrt, whose sketch jnst L’frPa • "°*l p* K>nhaid, of Nebraska, (who will not reveal his baptismal names;) Timothy D. Sullivan, of Hein York, and Edward William Pou, of North Carolina. Tbs biographies are spread over 134 pages, of tbs directory, if they were all as brief as Adam , Byrd's thirteen pages would hold them. How msch the editor cuts them down we have no -- — --— 'S3."— TT-:-— meins of knowing: but there are signs of his bine pencil bere and there. No donbt some members could say much more about themselves if they were not checked. But, depend upon it, the human natnne in these personal sketches is not lost oa the politician* of Congress, and t!ie»e are proud fellow towns* men who think! that the longest biography might have been spaa out and yet that jasdcc would not be done to the subject of it. Tkt Grafted Ear. XickateaS News Laadu. Speaking of grafts, tbe moat complete grafter of all la the man who haa sold his ear to be grafted on the bead of a million aire from the West, receiving $5,000 for the transfer. And it would be interesting to know bow far the grafting business will go. Friends, Romans, country nun, lend me your ears, may acquire a new significance. Sell us yoor ears. Yon who have ears to shed prepare to shed them now. For if a millionaire can buy a poor man’s ear and hitch it to bis own kdad in lien of an ear mUsing, why can be not buy any pair of cars to which he may take a fancy and require them to form an attachment to him—getting stuck on some other person's ears, have them stack on him? Tbe millionaire sometimes is afflicted with tbe earn of an sss along with other characteristics of that maligned animal. Suppose ha has the whim to improve himself by having (he members lopped off and by baying and annexing the symmetrical ears of some man or woman made by poverty will ing to sell, ready to accept ex terior disfigurement for interior furnishing? What is to prevent the exchange if this new experi ment succeeds? - Shall onr cars become assets? Shall we be able to give chattel mortgages and raise money on them and have them taxed sep arately and apart from onr poll taxaa, covering the rest of oar beads? The subject and the transac tion open wide fields of carious inquiry. If ears can be trans ferred and grafted, why not nos ea? And it noses, why not fing ers. toes, hands, legs and arms, anything bat the head, which is held beyond change or dispoesl by the spinal cord and the jngn lar vein? If this system of ex change and transfer axd graft i n g should become universal would not strange misfits and exchanges result. In thU very esse, tbe rich man's new ear is said to be that of a restaurant keeper. Will he not find him self listening for stock quotations and commercial news with one ear and with orders for corned beef, bash, eggs fried and a cap of coffee with the other? Sup pose a finely attuned musician's ear fitted to the head of a lead ing citizen of the Middle West talking villainously through his nose and loving to hear himself talk, as leading citissas do? Would not the result be war be tween the members, tbe ears twitching and wiggling protests while tbe voice was in operation, the voice dwelling and beating within because it is restrained? Tbe speculation conld be con tinued indefinitely. We might meditate on tbe results should the leg of a courageous citizen be attached to the stamp of a timorous on* and on the possible confusion with the fighting leg endeavoring to advance on dan ger and ton other desperately laboring to gat away from it. Would the misfitted possessor of the two find himself going aboat in a helpless circle, enable to retreat or go forward? Bat these possibilities are for consideration io the future. For the preseat we think the attention of Coloasf William Jennings Bryan, Mr. William Randolph Hearat and tha other friends of tbe common people should be attracted by this transaction. Many of as have occasionally sold oar voices, as expressed In onr sacred suf frages, bnt shall we be allowed to aeH onr ears? Should wa he permitted to part with oar auric ular appendages, how would wa hear the oratorical outbursts of Colonel Bryan sod Mr. Hearst; and without these would Ufa be worth living? Pntbermore, if the sera of us common people are to be made the subjects of traffic by haughty millionaires, plutocrats and magnates, where will be oar safety? Shall we not presently find ran and beautiful specimens of ears on the heaia of the common people held at high prices, sad even ear trusts formed and bends, common, pre ferred sad treasury stock issued on them? Are we to keep noth ing for ouraelves, to be denied tbe privilege of knowing that oar ears am oar own? • —I— ■ .-J BOMB rot m BUFFALO. Flea hr tk Vast it ia too late it would be well for the people of Okla homa to Interest themselves In tbe scheme to establish a big nme preserve ia the Wichita Mountains. There is a great forest reserve in tbe bills of southwestern Oklahoma set aside by Congress tnaay yuan ago. It contains 58,000 acres of land ex cellently adapted lor tbe big aad little game which formally was so plentiful in America. They are broad pastures in this reserve sod thickets of scrub oak, heavy timber, clear and ever-living streams of water and rocky fast nesses. Vegetation is abundant; the climate is salubrious. Ap parently nature has done its best to make these 58.000 acres a coo reals! haunt for game «■!—»« aad a grand, attractive park far sportsman and tha ass ken after rest and recreation. Many of tbe beasts aad birds which abonnded in plain and wood in thia country a abort time ago are doomed to aa early ex tinction unless tbe State aad Federal governments take the proper steps to assure protection. I Except for tbe few bead still re maining in public or private res ervatioBS, the buffalo baa been practically wiped out of exist ence. For some unaccountable rea son civilisation took a prejudice to this noble animal. Its value waa never given a fair test until within recent years. It baa now been found that tbe buffalo propagate quickly, grows rapid ly, is hardy and art* saatsialag upon tbe plains, its hide makes fine leather and its flesh is equal in flavor and strength giving qualities to that oi ordinary beat lu fact, the buffalo ia the nat ive cattle of this country, just as the Hereford*, tbe Galloway*; and the Holsterns are the native cattle of Europe. * The buffalo ia a docile crea ture, easily domesticated, and very probably hod we not bees so attached by custom to Euro pean things we should have de veloped it into tbe regular beef producer of this country. Wher ever it baa been interbred with domestic cattle, aa improved product baa resulted, more able to resist disease end withstand the inclemences of American weather. Tbe chief purpose of the men wh j are striving to have the Wi chita forest reserve turned into a game preserve ia to aecnre a place where tbe remnants of tbe buffalo herds can be collected and saved from extermination. It is to be hoped that they mill obtain favorable action from Congress in aid of this laudable u ndertskiog._ Benda Raid Valid. Asheville, N. C-, Nov. 23.— The Bnaeombe county bond case was decided in tbn United States circuit court to-day, tbc lory returning a verdict for tbc plaintiffs, the Western Savings Fund Society of Philadelphia, who were suing the county-com missioners for tbc interest coupons on $10,000 of bonds issued by tha county la aid of the building of tha Aaheyille and Spartanburg railroad. Up on Judge Boyd’s intimation tUs morning that the jury should re turn a verdict in favor od tha plaintiffs, attorneys i foe tha county declined to argue the case, and it went to the Jury without argument. The decision of the United States, court to-day reverses the deciaaion of the State Supreme Court which held that the bonds were invalid. Tha attorneys for ’h*,f*i*nd*nt county have not decided yet whether or not an appeal will betakeu. The court adjourned this afternoon. TNEOLDKBMBU I Purs $1.25 up. TUswilltotMyM: W. bm ■ big lo« of ton that wo wlU oStr at n<8 ootfc. to brows and block. Such nb Ml have scocr before bee. •een on this market. We have other style. and I ", Ladles* and Misses’ Coats. Uiifw' and children'a cott. • --— J« Fr Ul Oaatonlo, N. Ct^mJ _■— _ CAPITAL AND SURPLUS. RMNsl . _ __ State Bank ItCMyrnN May 1*. IMS ■ , -.. .■■■■ " ... ... ; ■ STATE AND COUNTY DEPOSITORY - . -- 1 "‘V ■ .——*» ■■■■■■ ■■■ _:____. _ ■ . , OFFICERS ♦ ♦♦ jwo. r. Kv»,Pw^m R.C.O. LOVE.Vtc* Vr««. 3*1. A. PAM. CuMir Ilf $ 3 IW ClotJEL