Igll] THE GASTONIA
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VOL. XXV. _ QASTONIA. N^C^JFRIDAY. JANUARY |g.
BIS WONDERFUL RIFLE.
Trad*4 U 00 Bkmii It
' Strained Ifsall.
Wrwklr.
"TIi»t’« a good team you’ve
got there Si," the store clerk
ventured.
“Well, rather," Silas looked
with fond admiration at the pair
of old pelters he was driving.
“Buy ’em or swap for 'em?"
the calico measurer i non i red.
“Traded fer um—traded a gun
fer um ”
“A gun? Must have been
pretty good gun to bring in a
team like that. Si."
“Was it a good gun? Well
rather." Silas assented. “It was
a good gun when I first pot it,
but got strained in shootiir once
and I bed to get rid of it. It
was tbe prettiest silver-mounted
gold-lined ‘Old Kentuck' you
ever saw. Regular intellectural
gun; cud shoot anything with it.
Jest tell it what you wanted to
hit, p’int it up and blase away,
and dowu ud come your game.
Used to shoot wild cats and cata
mounts in the dark with it. My
old woman cud shoot it as good
as any one. Whenever she
wanted ter kill a chicken for
Sunday dinner she’d p’int out
tbe one she wanted, lay the gun
on th’ door step, and then drive
the chickens aronud that side of
the house, and the old gun ud
pick him up every time."
"Bat I should think you could
have made more money by keep
ing such a gnn instead of trading
it off for horses, Si?" the clerk
»U*|CC
"That’s jest the p’int thet I’m
a-comin’ to; it wara't such a
uoofl gun when I made th* trade.
It was like this: I'd been out
haulin’ some wood one day. and
when I drove np to the bouse
'long toward suudowu my old
woman come a-runnin' out to
the wagon aud says:
*■ 'Si, there was a drove of
deer went by here half an hour
ago, and they ain't more’n three
miles away now.’
"1 got off the load of wood aud
wentier the rifle. I put in a
three mile charge of powder,
and then I stood in the noorway
and looked, an’ ahur’nnf there
was five deer jest comin to the
top of a knoll about three miles
away. I jest spoke a con pie of
words to the old guu, and then I
rested her against the door jam,
and I sayi to my old woman:
"you watch, while I shoot.’
"The ini nit I pulled the trig
ged the old woman singa out:
"you’ve got him all right, Si,
and sbut’nul there was the big
gest fattest buck ia the lot rollin'
over on His side stone dead. But
it spi’led the gun—strained it
self, so that it couldn’t ever
ghoqt again. “You cud pnt in
its big 4 charge of powder as yer
wanted tq but it could throw a
bullet across th1 road. It was
Strained and Spi’led. So I traded
jt off far this team—and got a
crood thing, too.’
1 It * a good-lookin' team all
tight, Si, but oan they pull?—
thet’a the real question," some
one suggested.
Silas spat contemptuously on
the wagon wheel
•‘fcin they pnll? ’‘Well rath
er! Why, last week 1 was down
to Cetfo Gordy county haulin'
sand, and in one of the coal
nines down there they had an
elevator atuck in th'shaft. The
boas miner offered to bet me $10
tbet my team couldn't pnll it up.
I took him. I jest bitched th’
rope on behind the nags, and
took up the lines and spoke ter
then*, mrt before they’d pulled
fer three minits tbe mine boss
offered me a twenty dollar bill if
I’d atop nm. Yea, s^r, they was
simply rainin’ tbet shaft. You
see, th’ infernal elevator was ev
ertaatln’ly wedged, and when
the old bosses found that they
couldn’t budge it by itself, they
ieit began haulin’ np the abaft
right out of th’ ground. Before
I could gat tim stopped they bad
shortened that abaft 23 feet by
. actual meaner'. Tbe fellers
workin' in the fur ends was
pulled np toward tbe top a cou
ple of rods or sp." And Silas
again expectorated upon tbe
wagon wneei.
Obsdiah Snttwrf. seated on an ,
eaqpty salt bsrrell, had been an;
atteofive listener, ''j don’t call
tW «nr proof of real pnllin abil
♦ ity, be said. I’ve got a team
that cm really pnll. I had urn
in tb« stun* quarry haulin’ stun’
two weeks ago. and some of the
onarry band* fixed a Mg stun'
so that nothin' could move it, so
I hitched a chain onto it and jest
teebed Iba bora** ap a Hltlt and
started to pall. I waa watchin’
the rock that urooldn’t badge,
and did not notice nntil tba team
had pulled fer a couple of miaita
bat when 1 looked round there
they waa pnllin’ steady aa-clock
work, anak ap to tbtfr ankles in
solid stun’, and stakin' deeper
and deeper every rninit. Thel
was real pullin.’’
Silas picked up the lines and
slapped the horses on tbe back.
“I think it's time fer me to be
movin.” he said, glaring at Oba
diah. "Wheo it comes ter a pssi
where lies is bein' told I don't
care to remain. Git ap.u
And Don’t Yan Drop Us.
XnorcuvilW BatrrpHtc,
In revising his mailing list we
sincerely trnst that Editor Mar
shall, of Tub Gastonia Ga
ZXTTE. will not drop us out from
the list. The Gazettb is one
of our most valued exchanges,
and it is read by both sides of
tbe house.
Same el Ike Cirim Bills lair*
faced io CoafrtN.
W»»hiu»-tua DUpatch.
Some of the Senator* have
thia week made what may be
termed a departure from the
beateu path* of legislation in
the introduction uf bill*. For in
stance, Mr. Clark, of Wyoming,
has introduced a bill which con
templates the establishment of a
laboratory for the study of crimi
nal, pauper and defective class
es The bill provides that there
shall be established in the De
partment of Justice a laboratory
lor the study of the abnormal
cUsses, the work not only to in
clude laboratory investigations,
but also the collection of socio
logical and pathological data, es
pecially snch as may be found
in the inatitutions for the crimi
nal, panper nud defective class
es, and geuerally in the hospi
tals and schools.
Mr. Penrose, of Pennsylvania,
introduced a bill to provide lor
the improvement in breeding of
horses for general uses, and to
enable the United States to pio
cure better remounts for the
cavalry and artillery service.
The bill directs the Secretary ol
War to designate three officers
of the regular army, and the
Secretary of Agriculture to de
signate 12 practical horse breed
ers, who shall compose a com
mission to inspect snch stallion*
and mares as shall be submitted
by their owners for inspection
to the commission for the pur
pose contemplated in the act,
so as to deteriniue whether such
animals be of proper types, and
likely to produce horses of suit
able kinds.
The Wily Bed Men.
new York Tinea.
Numerous instances of the red
man’s quickness of wit ere re
lated by those who have bad
dealings with "him. A Cana
dian chief was looking idly on
while some Englishmen were
hard at work improving proper
ty newly acquired from the dusky
tribe.
"Why don’t you work?” asked
the supervisor of the chief.
"Why yon no work yourself?”
was the rejoinder.
"I work headwork,” replied
the white man, touching his fore
head. "But come here and kill
this calf for me and I’ll give yon
a quarter.”
The ludian stood still for a
moment apparently deep in
tbonght, and then he went ofi to
kill the calf.
"Why don't yon-finish yonr
job?" presently asked the super
visor, seeing the man stand with
folded arms over the unskinned,
undressed carcass.
"You say von give me quarter
to kill calf,” was the reply.
"Calf dead. Me waut onarter.”
• The white man smiled and
handed the Indian an extra coin
to go on with the work.
"How is it,” asked the Eng
lishman one d»y nfter a aeries of
such one sided dealings, "that
yon so often get the better of
me?”
i wore neadwork, solemnly
leplled the'man of the woods.
A white trader once succeeded
in selling a large quantity of
gunpowder to one of this tribe
on the assurance that it waa a
new kind that the whits man
used for seed and If sown in es
pecially prepared loam would
yield an sousing crop. Away
went the Indian to sow hia pow
der and in his hope of tnaitiqg
money from hia fellowa be wae
careful not to mention hia enter
prise. When at last, however, ha
realised bow he haa been duped
be held bis tongue for a year or
more qntil the trickster bad
completely fotgotteu the occur*
rsnce. Then He went to bit
hoaxer's store and bought goods
on credit amounting to a little
mors than tba pries of the plant*
ed gunpowder. He had the tep
ntatioa of a good payer, and hia
scheme worked easily. When
dov tame, the creditor
called promptly.
"Ridbt," said the Indian slow
ly. "ritflit,” but my powder haa
■ot yet sprouted. Me pay you
when me rasp him."
nOOHSfllKEBS IK COKVEKT1M
Fact Dlaclosad by • Shooting li
Which Two Mm War* Killed.
Charted* Chmlch
Whitesburg, K.y., Jan. 12—
That the moonshiners of thh
region bold conventions and
have an understanding regard
ing their attitnde toward United
States revenue officers and re
garding the prices asked for the
product from their traffic wai
discovered yesterday by the re
port of a fight whieb occurred
on Bald Knob, iu the Cumber
land Mountains. Henry Van
over and James Howell, leaden
of faction* of moonshiner feud
ists, were killed and John Van
over, Jr., wounded.
The fight occurred at a meet
ing of aomc fifty moonshiners,
at which speeches were being
made and moonshine whiskev
served free of charge. Howell
and Vanover each nad a large
following and some fifteen men
were engaged in the shooting,
but they were hidden behind
fences and trees, and only three
men were hit.
Officers went from here to ar
rest the participants but have
not returned. The country is
filled with desperate characters,
and if there are no tidings to-day
from the party, Sheriff Webb
will go with a strong posse, in
cluding John W. Wright, tbe
famous mountain detective and
fighter.
The Damage Sella of Catered
Cltiseas el Vlrglmla.
Klcfamon'l. V«, OlrpMch
Judge Richmond Waddill, of
the United States Circuit Court,
has transferred to this city from
Notfolk three suits st common
law, entered by colored residents
of this State, #bo ask damages
of $5,000 each from the Govern
or. members of ibe recent con
stitutional convention and elec
tion officers, for the alleged de
privation of rights under toe new
constitution. The case will be
argued in the Circuit Court here
as to the question of law involv
ed.
In case the decision of these
questions shall be against the
State, the cases will be tried on
their merits and questions of
fact raised in the declarations
will be c6naidered.
John S. Wise, of New York,
formerly of Virginia, and John
G. Carlisle, former Secretary of
the Treasury, will appear as
counsel for the plaintiffs in the
bearing._*
Why Lovers SkenM Maks Up.
Hw Toefc Arnica*.
Usually it is not a matter of a
month or even a year, the har
monizing of the personalities of
even the best mqted couples.
Before be and she learn readily
to make those little concessions
whiob keep two natures in har
mony there is always more or
less twanging of false chords,
and if these false notes can be
estimated before marriage so
moch the better. Besides, it is
more difficult to sink one’s pride
before marriage than after, and
the object lesson is accordingly
the more valuable.
Quarrels, it should be remem
bered, are ills which fall. to the
lot of most of ns. Tbev should
be treated carefully ana quickly,
as one treats a cut finger. Neg
lected, a cut Anger may lead to
serious complications, endanger
ing one’s life: in the same way,
Ijttle quarrels may endanger
one's life-happiness
All lovers quarrel, but some
■sake the foolish mis.ike of
parting at once without allowing
time for reflection. If two peo
ple become separated, and can
still think with aflection of each
other after two or three years’
absence, they are fitted to mar
ry. It U foolish and absurd to
allow pride to stand in the way.
Mary receives a sudden shock
by setting eyes upon Jonu, trom
whom she had parted three years
ago. John looks at her and she
at John, bat they pass each oth
er in a shamefaced manner.
Mur quickly finds out that John
it still disengaged and has qeeq
since they parted. Then she ia
feverish to know if she ought to
recognise him in the street.
"Ought to," mind you. She
<*[.esn't say she wants to, sl
though she does want to very
badly. She is anxious, she
would have you know, to do
wbat is right and polite, while
all the time she is anxious to
find out if Joho has been miser
able without her.
It happens often that pride
prevents Mary from making the
least advance toward Joho. She
loves him. will never really love
anybody else, but he must come
to her.
Love renewed is better than
first love, more sincere. It la
love that is refined by years of
refection, and is the golden out
put of a puis affection.
SOUTHERN TERMINAL.
Rom rad That it Will ki Nmt
Pram Orssnvills (• Sparta*
hut
Cfculatu Chronicle.
Spartanburg. S. C., Jan. 12.—
There in a rumor that the ter
minal of the Southern, now lo
cated at Greenville, may be re
moved to Spartanburg Junction.
Tbe cause of tbe proposed re
moval is tbe fact that tbe runs
from Spencer, N. C. to Green
ville, S. C., and Greenville to
Atlanta, arc too long. The plan
is to remove tbe terminal here,
and establish another at Toccoa,
Ga., thus making three divisions
where there are now only taro.
MARIE CORELLI'S VICTORY.
Satisfied With Verdict lac Parth.
la< la her Sait to Libel.
I-w-4on Coe. New Voeli So a
Marie Corelli, the novelist, in
furiated by the articles in a
Stratford-on-Avon newspaper in
reference to her campaign
against the destruction of two
old cottages at Stratford to make
place tor a Carnegie library,
sued the editor for libel. The
jury awarded her a farthing dam
ages.
bum Loreiit nas now instruct
ed her solicitors to apply (or her
"mighty atom," with which she
declares she is amply satisfied,
even writing a letter of thaoks
to the jury for "a moral victory
instead of financial." She add*
that the farthing is historic and
emblematic of two things, first,
the value set on an honest fight
for the preservation of Sbakea
pearean- associations, and, sec
ond, the infinitesimal damage
that can be done to a reputation
by a mere bitting below the
belt. _
Whom Dorj CtoekoU Wot !■
Kalalfih.
Emerson Hack la Oatinc.
As an example of Crockett’s
early electioneering methods
one might mention his first can
vas* for the legislature. Re
garding this, be says. "I didn’t
know what the government was;
l didn't know but that General
Jackson was the government."
Meeting Colonel Polk, later to
be President Polk, the latter re
marked. "I think it poiaiblc we
may have some changes in the
judiciary." "Very likely," re
plied Davy, "very likely," sod
discreetly withdrew. "Well, he
comments, "if ever I knowed
what he meant by ‘judiciary* I
wish I may be shot. I never
heard there was such a thing in
all nature.”
Again, crockett. in wbat u
called hi* "autobiography,’* a
work which he*no doubt in Dart
dictated or at least authorized,
gives the following account of
one of his speeches to a stranger
at Raleigh, while Crockett was
«n route to Washington to take
his sest in Congress. "Said he.
Who are yon?* Said I, ‘I'm
that same Davy Crockett, fresh
from the backwoods, half man.
half alligator, a little touched
with snapping turtle, can wade
the Mississippi, leap the Ohio,
ride a streak of lightning, slide
down on a honey locust and not
get scratched. 1 can whip my
weight fn wildcats, hug a bear
too close for comfort and eat
any man opposed to Jackson I*
Added • Half-inch to his St star a.
Boat** H«nU.
A physician of experience in
examining candidates for civil
seryice places tells of one man
who came np year after year and
was always found one-half inch
below the required height. One
day the doctor, who had come
to know the fellow by sight,
found him measuring nprto the
full standard. Ha could hardly
believe his eyes.
"Don’t I know you?" he in
quired. "Have you not been here
repeatedly before ?
"Yea. air."
"And been rejected ?*
"Yea, air."
"Wbqt for |"
"Too abort, sit."
"*ven, now noes tt happen
that yon are Ull enough now ?*
Tba candidate with creditable
candor. explained that be had
learned that a man’* stature waa
Ion feat after be bad lain abed a
good while and got stretched
oat, as it were. So, when this
examination waa approaching,
be had gone to bed and stayed
there for four days in succession,
then risen and harried, in fif
teen minutes to the examination
room, where, by shrewd timing,
be got in ahead of a lot of other
caudidates, and was measured
before bis frame bad settled
down again of iu own weight.
Am restrictions are not made
for trifling fractions, and this
candidate had not only shown
resourceful ingenuity, but bad
told the Itrath about it, be waa
passed.
COLLECTS JOKES ON
MOTNEIS.IN.Uy.
Milwaukee Maa Baa 2JN Clip.
MiH C—antes lappa—4
Oboaxiaaa Islalivse.
Tbe New York Herald print*
tbe following from Milwaukee,
Wia:
It baa remained for Walter H.
Wright, of 543 Murray avenue,
thia city, to compile a book of
clippings of niotbert-in-law.
Por thirty-one years, ever
since hia married life began,
Mr. Wright has kept a scrap
book, in which be haa placed all
tbe heartfelt and heartIcm,
thoughtfol and thoughtless, soul
fnt and aonlicaa newspaper jibe*
abont the touchy lubjcct. Hia
frienda and hia frienda' friends
have helped the work along,
until now lha clippings oamber
two thousand, for which Mr.
Wright aaya he would not take
its weight in gold, and yet be is
on the best of terms with hts
mother-in-law, who is reciprocal
ly proud of tbe perpetrator.
Perhaps the original mother
in-law joke is one of the beat to
be found in the collection. The
classics have it that young
Agoniates and hia spouse, walk*
inf on* evening nnaer U»e nine
sky of Athens, upon the bill of
the Acropolis, stumbled over s
small fragment of broken mar
ble from a fallen column. Pro
voked by the occurrence, be
picked it up and threw it at a
she wolf that was near at band,
bat missed bis object and hit his
mother-in-law, and immediately
exclaimed:—"Not so bad!"
Tbc brightest minds, the
greatest fun makers of the day,
aa well aa the keenest analysts
of men and motives, seem not to
have thought it beneath them to
try a joke on this matter.
Bob Burdette baa changed
the usual order of things in an
adroit fashion, in a poem cap
tioned "My Sop-in-Law," which
runs:
Who la it that woacs my daughter
long.
And break* my rest with midnight
song,
And aa the seasons slowly roll '
Rama yardsof guaad tonsof coalf
Mr son-in-law.
Mr. Burdette, not unmindful
that there is another side, in
another effusion, says:
" After a man has been married
about eight or ten years and baa
learned to send his wife and the
children to stay through the hot
months with her mother every
summer, be learns, among other
things that;
ane knoweth bow to dis
tinguish the reel spring chicken
of this age front the car spring
chicken manufactured by the
American Rubber Company.
' "She findeth the sand in the
sugar; yea, also, aheaayeth unto
the grocer that when she wants
chicory she knoweth what to ask
for.
"She looketn the milkman ia
the eye and telleth him that he
ought to run hia sprinkling cart
ana milk wagon on different
days.
"There never was bat one
home established without a
mother-in-law, and that seems
to have been a mistake."
Max O’Rell dared to wax
facetious in 1 squib on " How to
Deal with Your Motber-in-?«aw."
He suspcpted, too, that in Am
trica, as well as in Prance, men
ore in leading strings and the
women leaden. * Was it not ia
America," he asked, "that I
beard the story of a man who en
joyed the possession of u beauti
ful and loving young wife and a
very uncongenial mother-in-law?
The latter mil ill and her daugh
ter went to name her. One day
the husband received the follow
ing telegram:'
" ‘Mother dead. Shall we
have her embalmed, cremated or
buried?"
"The husband wired back:
" Do the three: take no
chances. *■
O’Kell quoted Sardbu, who
aaya in "Seraph in*:’ "If ever
yon have a chance to cbooae be
tween living with your mother
in-law or shooting yourself, do I
not heaitate e single moment—j
shoot her."
Marion Hartsnd find* a leseoo
to ba learned from Chian, "where
a woman doca not attain her
summit of influence till she
becomes a mother-in-law."
Bdgar Fawcett ia one of the
many who fly to the m. ther-ln
law's defence. "The amount of
abameleaa abuse heaped on tbeae
poor bcinga," he declare*,
" would ainaae an expert statisti
cian of social abuses. We story
writers, be it observed,"most
study H'e or perish. And the
more one studies the mother-in
law the more one flnda that she
has been bartleaaly traduced.
She it,* indeed, for the most
pert a victim of the aoa-iu-lew,
who himself k often an ia
supportable creature. Perpetu
aUy assailed by little caustic
jibea and sneers. pin resent
ment grows with her a second
nature. She it probably the
moat mercilessly aiasfied mem
ber of our complex sad so
called Christian society.”
Client (wbo had been indicted,
for murder)—How would the in-'
aamty defence go?
Criminal Lawyer (astonished)
“What! For killing a mother-in
Miw? Ncvtt*
Tba comic valentine artist baa
Urn. found opportuaityin |he
aunt prolific field. That there
U real ground, however, for
more or teas of railery at the ex*
PfWK ©f the mother-in-law is
plain from the number of in
stances from teal life gathered
from the newspapers chronic
ling domestic infelicities. Some
of them have interesting bead
This epe, for iasuacc:
. Wife and Hides
L" u: ’ *? D*«P«»tion
by His Mothcr-io-Law." Anoth
er u: "Married Us Motber-in
Law: Cincinnatian Wanted a
Good Stepmother for his Chil
dren.” And this: "Headed Off
bis Mother-ia-Law; Young
Englishman in Philadelphia Re
fuses to raimort the Obnoxious
Mother of Wa 'Wife and she is
not Allowed to Land from the
Steamer."
'll, tit* world, though.
Mr. Wnght would have you
kaow. baa set its iacc against
the mother-in-law. Tbere at*
touches of pathos which show
themother.ln.law ia the light of
a ministering angel, perhaps her
most characteristic function,
though, unhappily, little
touched oo by writers.
Iih to ha Bigger aa« Bettor
__ Min.
CneifflU Osils Brtectar.
Tire Gastokia Gaam is
twenty-four years old. It ia
«ood enough to be a hundred.
CsSkwr. a. C.. T.sSarr.
We want to give The Gazette
notice right now to the effect
that It had better not "prune"
us if it doesn't care to nave a
row.
• VUIbaS(tostTime.
Newton Kcwa. , .
The Gastokia Gazette ia a
quarter of a century old, having
passed its twenty-fifth mile post
last week. The Gazette ia in
dispensable at this office and ia
looked for eagerly on Tuesday
and Friday of each week. May
E£?*ZZa'“m ""™
— II I ' ~ M||| ■I.U
«tt« if WT OUI.
A« Odd Old Vmus *1 Catawba
CMatTfani UhhH talk*
gagfcrarflfc
■be arrfvad tbare, however. ska
2rs-*'iff-.stt."a£a|
ta> ing^sbe kid the calk. Ha |
up with lfr. John Sctscr aodp!i£‘:
d?ank »ome oHt iaMrfaaaf’sdn
feeling; no better, sbc cooU eat
eat when asked in to diaoer at
Hr. Watt’s but left ia the after- >
noon for home. She Mated
Marion Caldwell, who w«a plow
ing. aud told bias St was afraHR . ’
abe would aot be able to te*
borne. She was foaad soon after
jwwde by Hr. W. A. Lae. near
Calvin Drum's bouse iatbtfSfcB);
lie mad. An ‘niptn area keM
by Cooaty Coroner Gcsfiip^
Coulter and after the jury heard
the evidence of County Physi
cUo George H West and others.
*k*y ***e»otkn conclusion that
•be died of fe|«t3S|2g3Mi|t
which she suffered before, rm- ' r
Edwards was one of the quaint
S?k?js assess
her Uvuog_ by selling dried fnrit,
alweya able to look after her
■elf.
. When her clothing was exam
ined n good note for $100 and $12
la money was found. Her house
w*s plentifully supplied with
provisions and clothing. It was
thought she lived from hand to
mouth, but besides the money ?
and note she bad 30 acres of
good land. She tried to make
people think she was .a watch
•ad whan she was found dead
the forefoot of a rabbit was found
On ;her person. and her walls
were decorated with the pictures
of several different parties and
nail* driven into their hearts. -
The eastern end western dis
tricts of the Southern Railway
have been consolidated. C. 8.
McManus, the peasant general
superintendent of the western
district, with office at Binning
be in Greensboro, s. J. Collins.
k«M*al superintendent of the
eastern district, with oOc« at
Greensboro, retires.
RETROSPECT
and PROSPECT
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Z*2® SAVING HALF
of the family ii generally the
feminise members. Mother mad
the girls ran nasally pat hy a few
dollara oat of their allowance.
The moat aacwra and warn*
lent place for women’s accoaou
la the
tASTOWIA SATIIfS lAMf
It only requires one dollar to {
opoo the account. After that,
•ovip* la easy If you hot try.
GASTONIA SAVINGS BANK,
t. i. /Mtnmn. fm. /_ /_ haaiuh. mot.