[^=1 THE GASTONIA
_— .— _Published Twice a Week—Tuesday* and Frida
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* VQ17 XXIV:h I,, | GASTONIA, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER it, 1903.
STORE
GOOTNESS
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 |ust have to
pack together some truths that you will
find |ust so—|ust as we tell them to you.
Our two great stores are overflowing with
flood things for sustaining life and cloth*
ng the body. if if if if if
More people are learning of this store's
goodness every day. We not only adver
tise* advertise a great deal* but we are
accomplishing a tremendous amount of
good store-keeping along with It. if if
In every line stocks are standard* styles
carefully chosen* oar claims and promises
lived up to. It Is money In your pocket to
learn the full measure of this store's ex
cellence. if if if it w ir
We couldn’t say these things If we were
not absolutely sure of our ground. But
come and see and learn. if if if
Thomson Co.
The People’s Store
POINTS AND PARAGRAPHS
ON TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
Under thle bead arlll be Ddneed hen time to tee eetevettbr etteraaeea
OB theme, oi current latareaL Thar arlll be tabea Mai public addfiema.
book., mapeataca. aewapepera In fact where ear we map bad tbam. Bonc
teae tbaee aelactinoa will acenrd with our etewa aod tbe etewa at oar teed
ere. aomatimee lb. eppoeite will be true. Bat br raaeeaof tbe eabfevt mate.
tbe e*rte. tbe authorship. or tbe etewa rap rooted, each wOl been aa element
of timely tateeant la mabe It a couepteaoua ntteruace.
No fitly Ltka Salt-Help.
BaMch Timm.
The orphanage church at Thomasville contributed three times
as mneb to the orphanage on Thanksgiving day as any otbeT
church in the State. People who try to help themselves will never
fail to get all the help outside they may need. *
Dow Many Toll Tbamoelvoa (be Troth?
Richmond Ntwt-Lmdm.
Exactly why Ananias and his wife were punished for lying is a
mystery to many good and reverent people, who do not question
the justice of the sentence, but are forced to believe that there was
some unexplained exceptional reason for the exception made
against this unhappy pair. If all of ns who are gnilty as they were
should suffer their fate the race would be so nearly extinct that
hardly enough would be left for teed.
Ananias was slain because he lied to Ibe Spirit of the Almighty.
The vast majority of ns not only try to lie to God. but succeed
brilliantly in lying to ourselves every day in the year. How many
of ns honestly tall ourselves the truth tud look st ourselves with
eyes of honest scrutiny and jnat inquiry?
Baahliag ia garth Carolina.
Biblical iMwOcr.
The Cbsrlottp Observer reports a large section of the men of
that city and some of the women and children—wildly specula
ting In cotton futures. Verily they shall have their reward—pov
erty in this world and perdition in that which is to come.
And here ia Bill Fife, having won to himself friends in the
name of Jesus of Nasareth, advertising speculative mining stocks,
and pleading—actually pleading—with his friends to sink their
money In bis gambling schemes. As an evangelist there were
some that regarded him as a reproach to the Gospelt as a pro
moter o4 stock gambling In the name of his former pretentions ha
is a stench in the nostrils of decent men. We warn the Christian
people of North Carolina against bis schemes.
Ckfcaea Irik*. ******** ********
Grumbling is the child of greed.
Sla b never healed by humoring it.
Faith b the greatest force in the world.
You cannot feed the soul on froten truths.
Style buo substitute for sterling strength.
Character may be sold, but it cannot he bought.
The hope ol thb world it in the hard things we have to do.
As eooa ea a man h good eaongh he b no longer any good.
Character b whet we are when we haven't time to calculate.
No nu moves thb world until he b profoundly moved him*
sell.
It takes more than a bellows in the pulpit to start a ire In the
cbarch.
BANS BLOWN TO PIECES.
Himbhtt Whiskey Otto Sana
Travelers bits Trouble—TW
Tong Man Waa a "Bafflea."
VortTlUt iMilnt. 4 th
A mother and sister, seated
with a wounded husband and
father, in a ramshackle dilapida
ted looking coveted wagon, shiv
ering with cold apprehension
and dread, while surgeons were
amputating the right hand of son
and brother, was the pitiable
spectacle that waa presented be
fore the office of Dr. Miles Walk
er daring more than an hour last
Wednesday morning.
A gun bursting accident waa
the impression that the woman
nave inquirers; but it was evi
dent that she was not disposed
to throw mnch light on the mat
ter, and there seemed to be bet
ter reason for accepting the story
of the little girl. Her version of
the situation, which was recited
reluctantly, but nevertheless
with evident frankness, attribu
ted the troubles of the family to
whiskey.
It was not a very familiar look
ing sight that the outfit present
ed when it drove up to the office
of Dr. Walker. The personnel
consisted of four people—a poor
ly dressed, hard-faced man of
about fifty, and a woman who
teemed to be pretty nearly the
tame age. There was a little
girl ol twelve end e boy who
teemed about twenty. The boy
attracted the moat immediate at
tention for the reaaon that bit
clothes were covered with blood,
and gory airings of akin hanging
from the thumb and little finger
were all that be had to show lor
aright band. The father sat in
the wagon holding a wounded
head in bis hand, and the wo
man and child sat beside him
apparently trying to afford him
such comfort sod consolation as
they could. The young man
was helped oat into the office of
Dr. Walker, and that was about
the shape in which the reporter
found the situation when he ar
rived.
Members of the crowd that
quickly gathered about the doc
tor’s office questioned the wo
man as to the trouble. She
showed the shattered stock of a
cheap gun, and from what she
said the crowd understood that
when the boy had undertaken to
fire the overloaded piece it had
burst tearing hit hand to pieces
and wounding the old man in
the head. The gun had been
loaded almost to the mnuk, it
was said, aod the wadding over
the shot eonld be seen from look
ing into the barrel. The story
of the woman made it appear
that the boy was drunk, ana that
he bad discharged the gun in
spite of the entreaties of the
borne lnna-hearted gentlemen
took the little girl into the York
Drug store, where she could get
the benefit of the warm fire, and
in answer to questions she said,
that the family had passed
through Yorkville the day before
and her father and brother had
each bought a ” jimmyjohn of
whiaky at the 'apenaarr.' Her
father bad poured her brother’s
whiskey out, and when her broth
er learned of it he broke the jug
containing the whiskey of her
father. Her father was very an
gry at this and seised the gun
with a threat to shoot her broth
er. Her brother seised the gun
also and in the struggle that fol
lowed the gun waa discharged,
with the result described. The
girl's story waa not exactly clear
but this was the substance of it.
Assisted by Dim. White and
McDowell, Dr. Walker worked
on the injured man's hand for
nearly an hoar. After the doc
tors had pat the poor wretch un
der the influence of chloroform
and ether, they at first thought
to save as much of the hand as
possible; bat they found that the
bones were too badly splintered
and they cnt the hand off at the
wrist, taking care to leave
enough skin to flap over the
■tamp. They made a good Job
of the operatiop, aoddreeeed the
wound with the utmost cere.
Volunteers twitted the doc
tors in holding the young mth
during tbs operation. It was
deemed beat not to let him up lor
a law minutes after ha bad come
from under the influence of the
chloroform nod ether. He grew
Impatient, and In his struggle,
severely bit ooe of the gentle
men who was holding him.
"Why man," remarked Di\ Welk
er, "yon are not going to treat
people who are trying to be kind
to you that way are yon i that is
rough." "I’m a ruffian, 1 am,"
mid the fellow, and Dr. Walker
agreed that ha told the troth.
After the operation was over
the young man was pvt back In
to the wagon, which avMoatly
contained all the material elects
of the family—ragged bed cloth
ing, an old tent, Rome simple
cooking nteoRile etc.—and re
futing to go to the county home
where Dr. Walker bad arranged
for their comfort, they drove out
of town. They encamped on
the Howell Perry road about a
mile and a half from the court
h ou ee.
The outfit bad no money what
ever, and in addition to work
that Dr.. Walker. White and
McDowell did for theyoongtnan
there waa a bill of several dollar,
to be paid at tha drag .tore for
tupplfe., and for which the doc
tor. will no donbt have to stand.
It i. understood that the name
of the family <• Turner. They
claim to be from Union. S. C.,
but have been in Charlotte for
some time, and were beating
their way through the country,
the men picking ap a few dollar,
by the way cleaning and painting
furniture.
SOMEWIAT HACTIlfO WOMAN.
Sha Waa Postmistress las Texas
T«wa aai OM Net Sait the la
Cbicaaa Tribaa*. Nor. JO.
Washington, D. C.—Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General
Bristow received information to
day from the jbetifl of a little
town in Texas which caused
him immediately to order a post
office inspector to visit the
piece and investigate conditions
in the postoffice there. Mr. Bris
tow isn’t exactly sure whether
he is going to hear from the in
spector or retd an accoont in
some newspaper of his funeral
obsequies. He is hoping for the
best, however.
According to the sheriff’s let
ter the cidscns of the little town
would like to have the postmis
tress "toned down." He ex
plains that the presiding genius
of the office has undertaken to
improve the manners of the resi
dents of the town, which be ad
mits art ragged from disuse.
But the means adopted to attain
this praiseworthy end are con
sidered harsh.
The postmistress will not per
mit say citizen of the town to
enter the office witlj his bat on
and when the mayor or the sher
iff or some more humble resident
is a trifle forgetful and strolls up
to the counter with his head cov
ered the postmistress enforces
her desire with s brace of Colt’s
45s.
"We don’t *et up any claim
that our manners afe all they
should be," says the sheriff, but
we’d like to be reasoned with
and helped along. The post
mistress here Is a worthy woman
all right, and there ain’t a thing
against her character, bnt she
Is certainly rude and hasty.
"Thera’s another thing we
don’t think is fair. The post
mistress won't let niggers and
greasers come in the office un
der any consideration. We
ain't overfond of niggers and
greasers ourselves, bnt it is sure
discommoding for the leading
citizens to have to go to the post
office personally to get the mail
{nat because this lady don’t like
to aee anything but a gentle
man."
Mr. Bristow thought the case
deserved consideration and dis
patched an inspector to the
scene.
He South’s Froth by the A4
▼Mce ia Cotton.
Itltlwn la.
The planters of the South,
owing to the sustained price of
cotton and the new bull move
vemeut, ere expected to get
$200,000,000 more for their crop
this year tham last year. Specu
lators, it is believed, will this
time not get the whole advance,
bnt the millions will be more
widely distributed. Since other
products are ample in volume
and bring good prices, the pros
perity of the South for some
time to come seems assured.
The DUelty aad NhUmh c(
Leber Sbeeld be Imyraessd ee
Iheteeaf.
Mont IMw.
"The me who ia ashamed to
do booest work/1 setd Rev. Dr.
J. C. Rows, "hu something
wrong with bis head. He needs
to be taken all down and put to
gether again. No one needs to
be ashamed of having to walk be
tween the plow bandies. If
there la any one occupation ol
roan tnat God directly Instituted,
U la that of farming.*
Now that la what the pobHc
school* oaeht to teach the chil
dren—the dignity end manliness
of honest, intelligent work, bow
eve* hard, however hnmble.
Teach them that education la
for tha purpose of tpaklog ns
better and more capable workers
not to help na escape work.
COST W PARANA CANAL.
T* Complete U VU1 Taka Nearly
IWa Hundred NIUlaa Ballart
Mara.
YorkvtU* Xaaatrtr.
It is estimated that it will coat
the United States $184,233,358
to acquire and complete the Pa
nama canal, besides the amount
to ba paid to the government ia
control of the isthmus for con
cessions. says the New York
Tnbonc.
Already there has been aa
immense amoant of money
energy expended on the canal
It U safe to say that a sam more
than sufficient to dip a water
way from ocean to ocean at aaa
level baa been collected from
Icyestors st different times in its
history.
wneo De Lesseps organized
the first company in 1880 (or the
construction of (the canal, it
■taitad work with a paid-up
capital of 980,000,000. For sight
ysan the company toiled, em
ploying at times as many aa
fifteen thousand men. Then
came a necessity for changing
the plans and the company
failed, after having collected in
round figures from the sale of
“d bood" $280,000,000.
Of this it was shown that the
expenditures actually on
the isthmus amounted to $158.
400,000. and that the cost of ex
eavation and embankment diod
er was $96,000,000. The
$174,600,000. For several years
an effort was made to capitalize
• new company to complete the
work, ami at lam, in UN, the
peasant Panama Canal company
was organised with a paid-up
the rate of about 1.000,000 cubic
yards of excavation each year.
The total amount of excava
tion up to the present time baa
been about 81.000.000 cubic
yards. Unfortunately, only
•bout 40,000,000 cubic yards of
this is svsilabls for the water
way proposed in 16991900 by
the canal commission, of
which Rear Admiral Walker
was president. The Walk**
commissions recommendation
included this available excava
tion in the $40,000,000 to be
paid the canal company ior lu
work, maps, records, drawing*
and the property of the Panama
Railroad company. The com
mission estimated that the total
amount of excavation which
would be required for the
to be built from its plana, ex
clusive of that for the Bohio
The work remaining to be done,
therefore, represents the differ
ence between the amount of
available excavation which it
will acquire by purchase from
the Panama Canal company,
or nearly three-fifths of the
entire work. . It is estimated
that the coat of this work will
be $144,233,358, in addition to
the ram to be paid to the present
owner of the property. By the
time it fa completed more n»y
$450,000,000 will have been ob
tained in one way or another for
aae in budding the cent), while
nearly £12,000,000, will have
actually been spent in construc
tion and administration.
It was the intention of the
Panama Canal company to make
the canal 2&5 fast deep. The
increased dimensions of steamers
now being built baa made it
accessary to plan for a much
deeper canal, and the Walker
commission's pinna are for a
waterway 38 fact daap.
The Way s< it.
Saltatory to.
The man who makes $88,000
on gambling la called a financier.
Tbe negro who plays seven ap
for 5 cents n game goes to the
chain gang.
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Novelty Handkerchiefs.
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Neck Ties.
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tyte, novelty-apply aaytM, aadtbeac Min?
variety of latest deafen* la that lovely aovStefat
Big ran still on In children's coats. $1.29 nod *1.76.
Millinery.
oMfhet. One dollar? Yea, only mm 4oE.
JAMES F. YEAGER,
WELL BALANCED.
«i«» —Wi—tat*—
We w»*te—fait
0K business to help ym ruck
this state of afiuti. Only $1.00
Altsr it is stated it weeks for
tai on Budeys, Hsjjdsrs.
!££d. “* *“““
GASTONIA SAVINGS BANK.
L. L. JENKINS, Aw, _L. L. HAMDUt. '^Vw
CAPITAL'AND SURPLUS, ITI.IIIJI
Stetc Baalt Incorporated May 19, 1999
STATE AND COUNTY DBPOSlTOttV
R.C.«LL«VB.VlMlto. I
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DIRECTOR*
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