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I to Ik vtkrrflbii racial which j-M at _ hat the apeoo iWchhu* ;• the Charlotte the foi st the same time a •fcrcwdbtd lor tha Caocremmaa’s fatora favor: The Chronicle gnSscsssi gr5g£*Esr*,j2: •»-topo»« tao .. hi.. C. gr I&jSSn!" *c^*" Tom Gaaarra » obliged to Mthk H baa a slight ad van £K3Sj ^ twrfaai from him 1 iJ.Hw al tho \ *••■•4 Charlotte exchanges ; haaoght to aiod oar rcarfeaoaaa *' w t'/ ..v - aaan^^^MM. . recently a.ftsar'sSAfflK pmndeg far at kaat a fan. mWM term of each school. TW following observation* by Superintendent P. P Hall rela the plan* and pprpoma •O'!*** were given with tfa UMe of apportionments which fallom Jboth of which are laid At tba regular meeting last ^sag^iS-rss:: bar of the board of education to aoeceedMr. R. X. Davenport. District number 16 in Gasto «ria township, was upon a peti ^°5 ®f *he residents, divided up imd incorporated into the con turnons districts. -ESSrarSK'S.“.^2 of four months provided tbc toaebar m not paid a greater salary than $28.00 par month, the avenge aalnry paid white teacher* m tbc State. A term of fanr month* is also promised lbe colored schools on tbc con dition that their teachers are not paid a greater salary than $22.50 per month, the avenge salary paid colored teachers la the Slate. in mafaojr the apportionment* the Board of Rdncstion has en deavoced to carry out to the letter the State's promise for evenr school in the county. The weaker schools have been thynlonr times $28.00 for salary and $5.00 lor fneL When the ceasna, the attendance, or the character of the work to be done justifies it, larger amounts have been apportioned. For Mam it has been tbe PoHcy of the Board to build np ** each township one or mote strong central schools, that aapahM advantages may be jdaerf m reach of all. This fund. . Proper cnconragemeot baa been given, too, to local i«». The apportionments for tbe ■chool year beginning Jnly 1, WB, rad ending July 1. 1904. •re as Mlowi by township* : ^ tafe f Bvl k flb CI • v 1 $» *2&*S $126 $390 $S70 $150 I ii? HZ «» 1W. 117 ju } U7 US U7 us 440 670 j i IS 3 ** IS j 8? 18 « !g jg s s - s a •» » “HZ 137 as HZ i» u7 m g m ig M7 us us y s s us m » 1» »7 . „„ COUJR8D. i $ bss us sas sss : “ us as 117 as f st as os iu 5 * as as as as 65 BS 95 U f 15 B5 as l as as as • __ ss <a» IS4M »mb« gw mm tris TtottgaatfcfUl tWaitry. inn Musi. The pfll makiog industry is lieecrfbed at length, with special reference to the Detroit factories, the output of which is 4.000,. 000,000 pills a year, or OOper cent. of the entire American product. If the anneal pill harvest o! Detroit was strong on threads ■» popccro the rope of pills wonld ieach twice arowad the aorth. If this string of pOlswera anttakogths. each of the 98.• 000.000 women sod girls of America conld have, a necklaca Sriaday. As a latter of- tact forty pet capita a year. NUtlT TV#BOWES VEUS. TbaMatb. Kecerd Mads ky Mr. Vl I.VrifU la 12 Yaara—Oaa Wall wan Saak aad Walled la M lean. II tbc title of "Champion Well Digger of Gaston County" doea aoTbeloeg to Mr. Will Wright, ol Bafaaoat, tha man to whom it does belong baa to show a mighty long string of wells. In twelve roars Mr. Wright has Pjw^d 176 walla to lus credit. to Gastonia Monday to visit hia brother Bob at the Lo rmr and when ha dropped in at ™ Gamtt* office to renew hia subscription, we began to ask Mr. Wright about hia buai •em. Yea, be baa dug 176 wells in the past twelve years. And there were some other in teresting (acts which we learned. At Tnckaseege he began a well on Monday oefore Christmas. He pat in 24 hours ol time on the job and completed it—"went down and came out," as the say ing is. In other words in the 24 hours be dug aad completely walled with rock a well 31 jf feet deep. .. "Only once. Tbe hands at tbe windlass carelessly let tbe bucket nil on me once. It cat my head open here. I was on tbe will 12 feet from tbe top and 57 from the bottom of the well •od there was 15 feet of water in it. They called to me as the bnckel was about to start. Z straightened up just in time for tbe sharp hoop ou tbe bottom to catch me here just above the forehead. It was a sharp cat and tbe blood came a-s puling. I staggered to tbe other side to keep from falling down the funnel, bat didn’t become un conscious. Wbat saved my life was, for one thing, tbe men’s calling to me. and for another, tbe fact that I was wearing an old broad-brimmed hat that day. When they called me I was bending over my work. If I hadn’t straightened op tbe 75 pound bucket would have prob ably broken my neck or knocked me down into tbe funnel where I should have been drowned. Bat even after I straightened up, 1 might have been killed ex cept for tbe old hat. It had got wat and was flapping in my face. I bad turned tbe brim tinder two ways, and hooked tbe bat on my *>end, so that the spot tbe bucket picked out to clip me on was protected by four folds of tbe bat brim. As it was, tbe hoop cut four boles in my old bat, cut tbe scalp, cracked the outer bone, and jarred the other pretty sharply. But Doctor Davis sewed it op and hardly a scar is left. I lost oclv four or five days. Over at tbe stockade at Belmont, tbe windlass bands dropped a bucket on us when there were two of us in tbe well, bat It didn’t hit either one of us." _DALLAS DOTS. Jsn. 0th—Miss Annie Bit tioger of Riverside, Cal., U vlsh «»«Pb*w, Prof. S. A. Miss Pnyne Du mss, who bss been visum* Miss .Carrie Paett for several weeks, left on Mon day for her home in Norwood. ,_**• L. M. Hoffman, JrM left Tneadsy mornln* to resume his studies at the A. & M. College. Mr. Loy Cornwell has re turned to Rutherford College. Miss Pearl RsdisUl sad Mr. Howard Thompson were the thesis of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Cornwell last week. Rev. and Mrs. W. A. Deaton entertained some of their Mends 5 P“«y 00 Ac 29th nit. Their meats were Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Jenkins, Mr. ■**d Mis. Eugene Summey and Misses Nellie Cline sod Mabel Bui winkle. The following unique invita tions. in the shape of a goose, went received by the members of the D. 8. Club loot week. "There will be s gathering of geese at the borne of Mr. and Mrs. Orrtader. Wednesday even fog at 7:30 o’clock. Hope yon can witness the docking in." from the time the gooee girl, Miss Cecfauie Pnett, wended her way through the drawing-rooms semiring handfuls of com for the gwaa” to gather Until the boor of midnight arrived, the hoetesees. Misers Carrie sad Beaeie Pustt ami Miss Addle vmWQfi pfOTMMfl A BOH (A* JsrsMe sad thoroughly origin*! entertainment. Dr. ST A. WUklns was ike winner of the peine for catting oat (he best -foil. hdi — Eto Wilson^befog^be 'winner was served at n oontost was held. rtrmmHfl totie cemktei y TM Immt Wlahsa to Hare AQ Mm M With White Car. Mttou — Have Than Fan Hama FUtkeShsuld ha Ohraa for DUtinj Orates. nt was at Rock HiU tbc other day" aaid Mr. J. T. Wylie, the cemetery keeper, aa he sat down comfortably before Tux Oa arm’s lire, "and. I went opt to their cemetery, down there. Mao, yon just oaght to— "Hot, Mr. Wylie, what’s the matter with yoor foot ?" "Rheumatism, my Christmas present. Been laid np ever since the day before Christmas. It’s right in the ball of my foot there. Capt. Holland declares it's gont. It swelled np-" "Reckon you caught it from Blake Boyd ?" "Wouldn’t be surprised—been using his crutches, yon know. To-day is the first time I’re been out except on crutches, and I have to carry this sttck.t "Yea,l was down at Rock Hill. Couldn’t get aronnd much but I went ont to see the ceme tery those people have down there- Just beautiful 1 And there are two points I picked np there which I would be so gisd to sec adopted here. i ne iota ana wains were Bor dered with white carnations— it’a a kind of white pink and baa a tender fragrance. It Is good uli want to set onr cemetery borders with it, bnt I haven't the means. The keeper at Rock Hill is go ing to tnm his borders soon and throw away whole stacks of surplus plants. If the people here would just fix the. way, I could take a wagon and go down there and bring back a whole wagon load—wouldn't cost a thing except to go after them and get them. "Another thing. I feel bad when the funeral procession comes aad the grave is not ready. A man can't dig a grave in lesa then four hours. I don't have notice' enough. Now, in Ruck Hill, when there's a death, some person interested goes to the keeper and says "When can yon have the grave ready ?" The keeper tells him. The funeral arrangements ate', mede accord ingly and there's never any de lay at the ckmetcry: The keep er onght to' have ample notice. "I wish ye could get both ot these things adopted here." A Qreal Soldier. Ca.rllKM Not, Ja». Loogatrcet, a lieutenant General of the Confederate State* died at Gaia*vilie, Georgia, on Saturday. % wu a native of South Caroline,: a graduate of the United $taf£t Military Ac* demy at Wept Point, a soldier in tbe War w(fb Mexico, and one of the hardest fighters on the right aide in the War for South ern Independence. He was a greet soldier and covered him self with glory on many hard fought fields. But for his fail ure at Gettysburg what has been called "the high tide” of the struggle between the Soath and North would have turned doubt less to our advantage. There has been much' controversy upon tbe point ag toi whether or not Lougstreetgave General Lee the expected support in this battle end the weight of evidence is clearly against Longstreet; but no one has ever questioned bis loyalty to the canae for which be fongbt. His tardiness on that fateful day, however, ^detracted from hi* cftherwi*e hrlmant mili tary career; but be will ever be entitled to rank among the brav ek of the brave. After the war, when tbe South eras ia the very depth a of pover ty and distress,. General Long street took a coarse which placed him in antagonism to his own people sad section, and embit tered bis whole life- Whatever the seat!meats impelling bias to take part ia the Reconstruction of the . 8outh, jt will never be | forgetten that before tbe blood of the soldiers who followed him to their death bad dried oe the battlefields, he arcs enlisted as a leader ia another war against hi* own kind "sad ia hi* own lead. W* wish the last thirty five- yean of Me life could be Molted out. and that ho could only be thought of ea the greet commander of ea I a vine Ibis corps, bat "whatis writ, is writ,” m GREAT MEN’S FOIBLES. Aa English Writer Says Herbert Saeacer waa Irritable ui Fidgety—Lord Roberta Ssnsl tin. We have been reading a aheaf of paragrapbe about the foiblea of the late Mr. Herbert Spencer, saya the London Chronicle. Like all great men, he waa ex tremely fidgety and irritable, and when he liked could be exceed ingly unpleasant companion. He carried little plugs about with him, and when the conver sation bored him be wonld quict Jy take them out and stick them in his ears. If be played a game of billiards and was defeated by a young man he would launch a tirade about watting time in becoming a proficient at bil liards. I only met him once, and that was in the most unconventional way. I found myself at his elbow one evening in a long queue waiting to get into the pit of a London theatre to see ooe of the most frivolous of comic operas. Without show ing 1 knew who he was I casually opened a conversation. He talked anecdotally about theatre people, but when I tried to shift the talk iuto afscientific channels he wouldn’t have it. He simply took no notice except a half grant and went on talking abont light opera. Dnnng the evening aa we aat together I deliberately let him knpw I recognized him by re marking: “All this mnit seem very ailTy to yon, Mr. Spencer." Well, he wasn’t pleased at the recognition. He rather resented that I should know him. He developed a curious nervous ness. as though he were a little ashamed of bciog seen there. I could pet little more out of him that night except grunts. This nervousness on the part of distinguished men I have Noticed again and again. There is many a man who in the pop ular mind is regarded as being used to notoriety, of having not a shred of modesty, who are vigorous debaters, never so happy as when ia the centre of a fray, and yet who personally,' in their private capacity, are as shy as school girls. I remember once riding on the top of an omnibns in Vic toria street. When we halted opposite the army and navy stores a little elderly gentleman, carrying a tiny parcel^ mounted to the roof. I gave him a casual glance. He saw instantly I had recognised him. Upon my word, be was nervous. Color came into his cheeks and right up to Trafalgar square, where I dis mounted, he showed hdw un comfortable be was. Yet now strange this man should be fidgety on being recognised having a penny ’bus ride. He was Lord Roberts. Subscribe for Thi Gastohia Gaxxttk. • : SOMETHING NOVEL ' in the way of photographic work/ our button*, pins, brooches end other novel ties ore quite popular. We copy from any pic ture or yon can rit for the negative. Have yon peen specimens of our latest arork JOHM GREf! I Darla Stotk Win II* Gastonia Banking Co. -Gastonia, N. C. — CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $75,000.00 State Bank Incorporated May IS, I00S STATE AND COUNTY DEPOSITORY OFFICERS ♦ ♦♦ JNO. P. LOVB, Pr«>Mnt R. C.O. LOVE, Vice Praa. JAB. A. PAQE, CaaUar DIRECTORS ♦ ♦ ♦ *. c. a. lovb JNO. f. Love IftatR LOVB ROIT. A. LOVB Tennessee Mules. I have just returned from Tennessee where I bought a carload of fine mules. The car will arrive thia weelc and I will have the mules for sale at my farm near Bowling Green. They were bought by me personally and I do not hesitate to recommend them as being of the best quality. In the lot there are several splendid pairs and a large number of single mules; a specially fine pair of match mules weighing 1200 pounds. Also one pair of young b'prsqs. If you want good stock at . right price*, see me at once. JOHN FRANK JACKSON. Farm near Bowling Green, S. C. I2p2 IF YOUR WATCH GETS CRANKY and watches do get that way at times—bring it in and let ns regulate it; no charge. If repairs are necessary, we’ll tell you. Our prices are fair and we do the most expert work. Every watch repaired by us guaran teed for one year. Also do fine Jewelry repairing and artistic EngTaving. Our Engraving can’t be beat anywhere for artistic design and execution. Torrence, the Jeweler. JONN B. STETSON HATS are made of the beat material by workmen who are artists in hat malting. Made by hand. Each hat is inspected before it leaves the factory. Therefore yon are assured it is O. K. We carry the most complete line of genuine Stetson Hats to be found in the city, also a complete line of Chamois, (made by Stetaoo) Davisson, etc. Your particular hat is here, any size,any shape,either stiff or soft. ROBINSON BROTHERS, Haberdashers and FlmM SPECIAL 15 DAY CUT SALE! In order to have more « room foT fitting np our abop with all the lateat. and up-to-date pneumatic atone rut + i • ting toola, we ofter, to save moving,all fin iabed monnmenta at greatly reduced price* if sold at once. Don't ' let t h I a opportunity paaa by but a*e n* to day a* we want to save handling, j t Kespectfully, Torrence Brothers F. HAPPERFIELP, Mgr.
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