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B _Published Twice a Week-Tuesday* and W. f. MAI SHALL, Editor md Ewprifr. DEV0TE1 TO THE PlOTECTIOlf Of HOWE AW V°I*» :XJCV- GASTONIA, N. C.t TUESDAY, JANUARY 86. IQ04. NORTH AND SOUTH TREND Of COMMERCE. Mr. iaiaay Sara tbe Railroad Bvtldmf Pariad la Abmrt ta Ead and the Water CaotrolllaR Pariad la -at Baad—Eaat aad Weel Mere meet ef Coraaeerce taBa Fallowed by the Nerth aad Saatb Movement Ailwvm« Uuettt-Nrwi, Altogether one of the inoet interesting speeches we have read In i long time is that of Representative Kainev, of Illi nois, delivered in the House yes terday on the canal question. It is packed with new ideas like sardines in a box. Mr. Rainey was discussing tbe Panama canal and its relation to a deep water way from tbe Great Lakes to the Gulf. This is an era of canal building, insisted tbe speaker. He pointed to the Sues and Bal tic ship canals. Greece has just completed • canal across her is thmus which Alexander the Great planned 2,400 years ago and from which the first earth was spaded in the time of Nero. Mr. Rainey, continuing, made this striking statement and ex panded it: "The era of railroad building is about to come to an end, and the water controlling period of tbe world is upon ns. The greatest dam ever construct ed by man baa jnat been com pleted across tbe Upper Nile in Egypt, and the flow of that an cient river through its fertile valley is now absolutely con trolled. The citv of Chicago has started to build a road to the sea for its own shipping and tor the shipping of the Great Lakes, and without aid or assistance of tbe State government or the national government baa already expended^ for that purpose $35, 000,000. and has already con structed a great canal, through which almost any vessel that is able to go through the Sues canal can pass. Already tbe city of Chicago has restored tbe Great Lakes their ancient out let, and the bine waters of these inland seat are now again flow ing through the Illinois and Muwiaaippi rivers to the Mexi can gulf- The State of New York has iuat determined to ex pend millions af dollars in en larging tbe Brie Canal. The citizens of Philadelphia are clamoring for a 35-foot channel to the sea." Mr. Rainey did not of conrae attempt a thorough resume of canal enterprises; he would have doubtless referred to the pro posed Florida ship canal and the great inland waterway from Norfolk, Va_, to Wilmington, N. C-, in which Re present stive. Small, of North Carolina, it greatly interested. But in addi tion to bia point that waterway development is succeeding and superceding that of railroads, he made another exceedingly in teresting generalization from his studies of the expansion of com merce. We quote him in foil : "The time baa arrived in the history of the western world when the east and west move ment of commerce is. in a meas ure, about to end, and when the north and sonth movement of commerce is abont to commence. The building of the canal it a moat important step in this di rection, and its immediate con struction becomes a matter of vast importance to every man, woman and child living in that part of our country which lies between our great mountain ranges. "During the past century and a quarter of our national exis tence commerce has moved along asst and west lines. Our devel opment baa been from the east toward the west. Raw tnaWial baa been brought from tbffreat to the eastern states. The manu factured product baa been ship ped back from the east to the "A* a reault of tneae conai tlooa great transcontinental rail way* have been constructed. The Idea heretofore baa prevail ed that there is some normal law which compel* tbe move ment of commerce across meri dian* of hnfkada. As a matter of fact, the natural direction for commerce to move on this con tinent end 1m tbe world (a across parallels of latitude. Tbe north and south movement la about to commence. "Our country la now practi cally folly occupied. There is no longer any considerable west ward movement lor our popula tion, On tbe contrary, Immi gration on tbia continent haa been reflected, end an army of ferment are crseeing our north ern bound ry gad occupying the wheat lands of Canada. Already and with la the leet twelve months, 100,000 mea have left tbia country and cro—ad into Canada. The peaceful conquest of that country baa commenced. "Our manufacturing establish ments are seeking a location near the fuel they burn and the raw material they consume. Within the last five years fires have been started in thousands of factories throughout the Southland. "We are beginning to realize that the Omnipotent God has provided the gTeat central por tion of our continent with the grandest system of natural wa terways in all the world, intend ed for the purpose of conveying to the sea the products of the Mississippi valley." BOYS Ilf CONPCBEKATC ARMY. Vary Many ai tha Saldlara Wars Only Slxtsaa Ytara Old or Um. Ntw Orltua Tlm»*-Drm«cT«t Quite a large number of those who battled for the Loot Cause enlisted at the age of sixteen, or under and many of these yet sur vive in the gTay-baired men of to-day who gather at the annual reunions of the veterans. Al most any old Confederate soldier who will let bis mind revert to the personnel of his own imme diate command will readily recall many—very many — warriors whose cheeks were yet as smooth as a maiden’s when the Conquered Banner was furled in final defeat, but who bad borne with knightly valor the part of heroes in a score of fiercely con tested battles and skirmishes. They will recall, too. the delicate features of many a bright eyed lad who sank to final slumber on the embattled field, while others yielded up their yonng lives iu the tents hospitals, or the pri vate homes of patriotic and sym pathetic people, victims of the slow and insidious attacks of disease due to military exposure. From the Potomac to the Kio Grande — from the Ohio to the Golf of Mexico — the hills, the valleys, and the plains are dotted with the grass-grown mo onds of the confederates whose death in their early teens bnt too truly illustrated the brevity of the step which separates the cradle from the grave. But many of them yet survive, sod some have attained promi nence. We call to miod several who came from within the radius of a few miles in Mississippi. Capt. James Dinkins of New Or leans, whose literary contribu tion* to the history of that strug gl“ attracted wide and deserved ly. favorable notice, wore tbe gray at the age of sixteen, as did also W. H. Howcott, a weilthy and highly respectable business man of this city. Congressman Scott Felds of Texas and Judge Laud of tbe Supreme Court of Louisiana were likewise in mar tial harness at that early age. as were also Judge Robert Powell of Mississippi, and (If we err not) tbe immortal "Private John Allen" of Mississippi. Tbe Hon. John Rogers, Judge of the Fed eral Court for the Western* Dis trict of Aksnsss, who delivered the magnificent address at the Confederate reunion in this city last spriog, and Federal Judge William Fitzgerald of New Mex ico, entered the Confederate army at fifteen years of age. All these, with tbe exeption of ex-Congressman Allen came from a radios of but a few square miles, and they constitu ted nut a small percentage of the boys of sixteen or under who en listed from that same territory. We take it that there waa no greater ardor and patriotiam evinced there then existed else where in the Southern States, and instancing this little sec tion of Miaaiaalppi we suppose we are (airly illustrating the apir it and conditions that prevailed all through the Confederacy. Thoee who clearly remember thoae thrilling times will surely uot have forgotten with what vigilance the Teds of from twelve to aixteenoyeara old had to be watched to prevent them from running away from their homes and going to the front. The present minority- leader of the house, the Hon. John Sharp Williams, might a tale nafold concerning hia experience were he disposed to talk. He started for the army before be had en tered hia teens, and bit guardian (hia father had fallen at the bat tle of Shiloh) bed to send after end bring him beck by main force, Give the Confederate boys the eredh that ia due them. They cooat tinted no leea than 15 per •••*-the Bring line, and they did their duty with • Armneaa nnd valor th «t would have refec ted credit apo* the rim and beiUe-scamd veterans of the Old Guard. UNCLE SAN’S OWN BOYS. Ytvaivtor* Who Sonro lA Varioos CioocWm are Numbered hr Thttiisiodi. ^vM^Bacb*. la Ckarlaatta Newt a»4 Uncle Sots is s great employer of boys. There are nearly 10,000 youngiters in his service, earn ing aliving in various capacities, aud they find him on tbe whole a satisfactory taskmaster. He nays good wages and the work be requires Is not very hard. Forty-five boys are employed by tbe treasury in the bureau of engraving at Washington. They enter as "apprentice*" at $1 a day, and in the course of an edu cational term of four years' dura tion they paaa through all tbe departments of tbeestablishment For a while they serve in the room where tbe inks are mixed, learning how to grind and pre pare them; then they are trans ferred to the division where tbe oils requisite for inks of various colors are made ready; and finally they go to the pressroom, where they help tbe pressmen to handle tbe white sheets of fibre Dsper on which notes and certificates are printed, and in other ways assist in the busioess of turning out the crisp new bills with green and yellow backs. The boys are usually about sixteen years of age when they enter. In the fourth year of tneir ap prenticeship they are allowed to take charge of all presses—all of the money printed by the treas ury is turned out from hand pres ses, each of which is operated by one man—and to stamp tbe steel plate designs for themselves up on the sheets of paper. After a twelvemonth spent at this work they become full fledged "jour neymen." and receive so much per 1,000 printed sheets, tbe pay they get amounting to $5 a day. The U. S- Weather Bureau has in its employ about 100 boys, one or two being attached to each of its stations, which of course, are scattered all over the country. It is the business of these young sters, chosen for their intelli gence and activity, to deliver forecast cards and fresh weather maps, which are required to sup ply the local demand. Most of the forecast cards are sent ont through the mails, but many people, particularly commission firms, which are obliged to look out for weather changes, with a view to tbe shipment of perish able products,—are anxious to obtain the warnings more quick ly. After awhile, when they have learned how to read them they demand tbe maps in prefer ence to the cards, preferring to examine for themselves the weather conditions on which the forecasta are based. In either case the official bicycle messen ger is the agent of distribution. One of the principal ways in whicb-the Government finds em ployment for boys is for service ss "special delivery" messengers in the postoffice department Thdte are now in the regular pos tal organisation in this country no fewer than 2,917 youths, most of them 14 or 15 years of age who are attached to the staffs of the post offices in various cities. Boston, for example, has 100 such boys for the focal delivery of "urgent" letters and parcels: New York (Manhattan Island alone) baa 380; Chicago baa 117; St. Louis 52, Detroit 20, Cincin nati 35, and Hanford 10. The importance of this work in connection with the mails, all of it performed by boys, may be judged from the tact that these youngsters during the last fiscal year delivered 10.000,000 letters and packages. To such an ex tent ta the popularity of the ser vice growing that during the above mentioned twelvemonth about 1,000,000 more pieces of mail were handled by special delivery than in the beat previous year. In each post once the boys take regular taros In making deliveries, each one as heretarnsfrom an errand find ing himself last in order among the boys who are waiting for let* tern to carry. The pay is 8 cents a letter and does not amoont to more tha- $3 or so weekly, bnt them is always a waiting list of candidates for vacancies. In the patent office at Wash ington are employed a number of boys, whose business it is to perform various minor duties, but chiefly the "polling" of pat ents. People are constantly com ing or sending for copies of pat ents, and, inasmuch as there are nearly three-quarters of a million of them, to Ind them and pluck them from the pigeon holes in which they ere stored ia no small task. The youngsters In ques tion, howeyer, if they have the right sort of stofl in them, can learn much that ia useful. Some ot them have risen to be examin er*, and other* have found their way eventually into the lucrative practice oi patent law. At the marine barracks in Washington are always twenty five boys, who are learning to be drummers and buglers on board of war veaaela. They are en listed between tbe eges of 14 and 16. and are assigned to dnty with tbe famous Marine Band. They serve with the band until they reach the age of 21, when they are transferred to ships of the uavy. As fast as sneb transfers are made fresh recruits take the places of those graduated. The work of these marine "appren tices." as they are called, con sists, on shipboard, in sounding calls to quarters in the morning and giving, with drum and trumpet, signas for hoisting and palling down the flag. etc. Fifty-two hundred boys are always under tbe training for service in the United States navy as teamen, petty officers, and warrant officers. They enlist at the age of 16 to U, and are instructed for six months at tbs naval stations at Newport and San Francisco. They are called at this stage, "third-class appretices,” and re ceive $B a month. Six months more they spend on cruising training ships, after which they are transferred to war vessel!, being rated as "second-class apprentices," at $15 a month. At tbe end of another year they become "first-classapprentices.” at $21 a mouth. Liberal rations are furnished by tbe Govern ment. These naval apprenticeships oiler a promising career to boys of the right sort, who, by show ing themselves capable, may rite to be petty officers, at $30 to $70 a month, or warrant offi cers (chief boatswain and chief gunner) at $1,300 to $1,800 per annum. A warrant officer re tires at 63 years of age, with three-ousrterspay fur life. But beyond this there is the possi bility of s commission, to wbicb tbc warrant officer may aspire after six years of service in that grade. The best paid boys in the Government service are the pages of Congress, of whom there are sixteen in the Senate and forty-three in the Honae. They get $3.50 a day, including Sundays and holidays, with an extra month’s wages each ses sion as a gift. A Senate page serves four years, eight mem ben of the staff being replaced every two yean. They wear knickerbockers and are very gentlemanly little fellows, most of them being orphans with widowed mothers to support. When the Senate is in session they sit on the steps below tbe desk of tbe presiding officer and respond to a band-clap from any grave and reverend Senator who may have an errand to be done. It ia a part of their business to see that all of the desks are clean, that the ink wells are fall, and that the Senators' pens are new. The Senate pages share the aristocratic ideas and traditions of the dignified body which they serve, sod, as a rule, they do not associate with the pages of the House. Of the latter twenty four serve on the floor, respond ing to calls by members, which are conveyed by electricity; the others stand st the doors and receive visitors' cards. They do not hesitate to accept tips, which the pages of the Senate regard as infra dig. Bnt all things are relative in this world, and even the Senate pages are looked down upon by the three highly exclusive pages of the United States Supreme -Court who draw $90 a month, and re flect In tUeir bearing the austere demeanor of the Justices. To tell the truth, it would be very hard for Uncle Sam to get along without the boys. They are useful to him in muny ca pacities and if they declined to serve it is dlfllcult to see how be would manage to transact the public business, either in war or in peace. The Wit el the VirM. Daitoua Ian. Thi« it a topey turvy world. One man ia struggling for jnstke and'another la fleeing from it. One man ia aaving to build a bonne and another la trying to aell bia for leaa than it coat. One man la spending all the money he can make in taking a girl to an entertain men t and tending her flowers in hopes, eventually to make her hit wife, while Mil neighbor ia apendingtbe gold he baa to get a divorce. One man escapes all tha diseases man la heir to and gets killed ou the railroed. Another goes without getting hart and dies with tha whooping cough. Such it life. This Farmer Beadl Spat ffflfg v*U*m Balsa far 14 Caata, taaHateg ff. ChsrtUW Otana. Mm. Mr. J. I. Orr, farmer sod email merchant, of Indian Trail, Union county, walked out of tbs office of Heath Bros. with a check foe $17,244.60 in hie hands, and he never panted until he had dropped the money in the Char lotte National Bank. Then he breathed a sigh of gladness and relief. The earn represents the sale of 268 bales of cotton at 14 cents. All the cotton belonged to Mr. Orr. He lives in a small place, and there baa never been a superfluity of wealth about, bat since he was a boy, and a very poor boy. be has made the most of his opportunities. As a farm er he u a bard worker; as a merchant be is a hard worker. Last year be planted cotton as thick as was lawful on all his land. He bought cottoa— skimped and saved and kept on buying cotton. He boaght it outright. Every cent be nude sn bis store ana nil the money be could make by outside trad ing, he naed to bay cotton. He didn’t keep np with what the big spec a la tors were doing. When cotton jumped to 9 cents and beyond, be didn’t get palpi tation of the heart like the big mill men. He merely sola goods for cotton, and stored every bale that he got* in the Merchants Manufacturers’ and Farmers’ Warehouse in this city. When cottoa was at a little over 12 cents be offered to aell at 13 cents, and could find no pur chaser, but when cotton went to 13 cents be shook his bead when the market price was tendered him. Satnrday Heath Brothers of this city offered Mr. Orr 14 cents for all his cotton, and be at once closed with the offer and was given bis check. Mr. Orr ii the most refreshing figure that has been seen on the local cot ton platform in a twelve month or more. His cotton and its price represent industry and sagacity, and he will be general ly congratulated over his suc cess. THAT CPU SATURDAY. Nr. Rotas Patterson Mistakes Ahent Iks Bats—A Baikal Naa Says it was Pek fi, 183k. Tarkvilla Baqutnr. Is the last issue of the En qnirer wss reproduced from the Gastonia Gazette u paragraph ia which it was stated that llr. Ruins Patterson of Kings Moan tain, N. C., bad fixed tba date ot the "Cold Saturday" as the 2d of February, 1835, Mr. J. F. Chamberao f the Bethel neighbor hood. challenges this statement, and says tbe date of the "Cold Saturday" was February 6,1836. "1 am quite certain of tbe mat ter," nays Mr. Chambers, "for 1 was born on tbe Cold Saturday." He treat on to say that be had since beard bis parents and other older people speak of that notable day. Among the incidents of which be has knowledge is the fact that several mea from his neighborhood attended the gen eral muster that was held in York villa, got drunk and load their ears from from bhe He also understands that many trees of the forest were hilled by the intense cold. Mr. Chambers ia evidently correct ia his date. Reference to the calendar s a _ __ king's Mountain is undoubtedly mistaken. A cyclone struck the town o< Monndsville, Ala., Friday morn ing. completely destroying the town, killing 38 people, end in juring 100 more. WgR—iasny—wptafn THE OLD RELIABLE i, I New Etomlne Collars. Crushed Leather Belts. Theta art two of the newest thins* out far ladfoa' wtar. Is the New Etomlne Collars and Cuffs w« have the atsaiped aatt ready for working, at wad aa the finished acts ready for wwiy. Be are ta aac them; they aid among the prettiest of all the new thing*. New Things In Belts* The crashed leather bdta are the sewest oat is tbfo flat ef goods. Joat arrived—is whit*, black, tas. red. aad grey. The very acwwst for shirt waist salts. Piques* Fancy weaves, yd., Ifle, 15c, Me, Me. *5c. Mercerised, inm, 15c, Me, Me, MHc, ssd 50c yd. Plain whites, 10c to 50c yard. Brown Linens. Blatant quality. 15c. 20c, and 25c yard. Uacn Skirting*. 25c yard. Plain Silks. We have ju*t raslaafakud ear stock and have a tall Use of SS^iSd^Sk1^0^!0 * ***** WU" to^toadij See oor 98 inch black oor leader at 95c sad com paxv It with others before placing your order. asdSteSTjSrf?" *mbrokkrl“ ^ laces at 5c. 10c, 15c. JAS. F. YEAGER. MONEYED MEN t be ( Tkc Gaataaia j| will atait an —with a do> poait of $1.00. TMagtaaoyona •art. and win eacoonc* yno to % I fi | GASTONIA SAVINGS BANK. L. L. JENKINS. Pm. L. £.. HAKDUN. OuAitr. The death of Gen. Longstreet. the last but ooc of the great Confederate generals during the "late unpleasantness," recalls the retsanmblt manner in which bis life was linked to that ot Gen. Grant—cousins by mar riage, friends by fellowship at West Point and service on battle fields and in camp together, yet enemies in the last great straggle. TheLongstreet-Gnst entente finds few parallels in history. One of the minor parallels is the association of Abraham Lincoln nod Jefferson Davis in the Black Hawk cam paign which so involved Iowa and Iowa’s interest. • Omat and Longatreet were to C«tber at Wert Point, -where each formed a Ugh opinion of the other. Longrtreet re porta that in the hitter Tionr of defeat and despair at Grant seat the clouJT’ecnddiag acmes tha borisna by Baking hi* arm with that of Longetreet end ■eying in the old tone of cam araderie: ‘Come on Pete, let's go back to the good old times and play .a game of ‘brags' as we need to.' That word •bragg" will bring beck memories tothe veteran* of ’61, for la those days bragg* meant all that poker, whist, cinch or euchre cm mens nowadays. It waa Long street who wakomed Grant at Jefferson bai racks, where ha had preceded Grant by a yarn* and who took him oat to visit Us nock, Frederick Great, where Ulysses met Jolla Deal, whom bo eobeeqooatly married, that ig Gnat aad “•i*&5rhe ti trues through w«, *« which bath aarved. aad la whkh both woo captaincies. Afterwards, however, tha man drifted apart t Grant to be the fteat hero of the north aad Loagsttcet to be "the grand old Qua of the Confederacy.” When the struggle was over aad Great became president he appointed Uongstrert surveyor of custom* at New Orleans. When Grant died there waa so more stricken heart than that of hia comrade aad frfeod, Longetreet. It waa GcnersTLongrttoet Who aeat the flower of the southern soldiery to death with a simple aod of hit bead. Pickett's gallant brigade sea* aeat tO it* seaiUlarion at Gettysburg by orders given through General Longstreet by Iat> L/>ngetreet knew it meant death When Pickett —had lor the word "Old Pete»jwdd*a:Jte could not swept into the a'wfnl charge ’isi'ffissssisr^' Aip of Grant and " was uiqM, d that tha civil_ romantic aa well. „ romantic history fend sibilities in it. Tha dayaja felly Lincoln Hawk with' Black Hwkb tmnchcrous captain at Bad Ann. Davis was in tha name campaign. It taDA who co.ve^f Black Hawk Iron Port Atkinson to St. SuSr£"dy& History is filled with snch carious And iibreiHiiB nhutif Snch history is mata; Valuable 3&E5SS6&B siJSga.asftjfc
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