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iggpuj the Gastonia Published Twice a Week-Tueaday* and Friday*. y. r. MAisftALL, eat>r -d fgwwi , devoted to the piotectioit of home awd the iirrmsrs or tm cocicty VQI^ XXV. ^ ^ ^ _QA9TONIA. N- C^JFRIPAY.^1ARCH 4.1004. ANTI-JUG LAW C0VEB3 THE STATE. H«U by Sonne Cecil to b« ■ Blaakat Nusor*-Lawar Cecil la Kmned in |ki PtHiriH Caae (ran Darfanm. Ralciab Coi. Charlotte Observer. Raleigh, March 1.—The Su preme Court thi« evening decid ed the moat important caae known as the "anti-jug" law caae, that of Patterson, from Durham, in which Patterson, of Roxboro, was indicted for sending whiskey to one Gness at Dnrhoui. T^e point was, whether this was a Mlc at Roxboro or Durham. The court below decided in Patter-1 sou’s favor. The Supreme Court, Chief Justice Clark delivering the opinion and Justice Donglas dissenting, reverses this opinion and decides that the place of de livery is the place ot sale tinder section 2, chapter 349, acts of 1903, which explicitly says that the place of actual delivery to the buyer or to which liquor shall be shipped for delivery to him, "shall he construed to bo the place of sale.” it was contended that this pro vision was not effective because this section is iu the statue en titled "an act to prohibit the manufacture, aale and importa tion of liqnors in Cleveland, Ca bamis, Mitchell and Gaston counties.” The Supreme Court says that formerly the caption of an act was not at all considered to any extent whatever in con stnicting it, but the modern doc trine is that when the language of a statue ia ambiguous the courts can resort to the title as aid in giving such act its true meaning, but this cannot be done where the language used is clear and unambiguoos. This provision is positive in its char acter and its operation cannot be restrained by any reference to the title. In the sections of this chapter other than 1 and 2 there is no reference to the place in which the act is to be operative and hence by reference to the title they are to be applied only to the four counties thereiu named. Section 2 is specifically made operative in the counties therein named and is to take ef fect at a different date and sec tion 2 is made operative as to the tale of any spirituous or in toxicating liqnors anywhere in the State and as to them the title cannot be used to restrict or ex tend the meaning of the explicit, clear and unambiguous language used. it is runner oojectea that if tbe statute bss this meaning it is unconstitutional, but no sec*, tion is printed which forbids the' law-making power to designate tbe place of sale when goods are shipped by vender or by com mon carrier. The conrts have held that the place of -sale is where goods are delivered to tbe earner, the Utter being the agent of the vendor, but this rule is comparatively modern, is not uniformly held, and ia subject to many exceptions. It is merely a rule of judicial construction, made in the ahaenceof legislation and ia not protected by any con stitutional form of legislative power to change it. Especially can the Legislature change such rule in the exercise of its police power over the sale of intoxica ting liquors, when, as here it can be readily teen that with the moltiplicatiou of common car rier! and the speed and ease with which intoxicating liquors can be shipped, it would be a vain' thing to prohibit the sale of Hqttor ia auy designated territory if vendors a short distance off, caa at will, fill orders coming from within the prohibited ter ritory. Upon the special ver dict Defendant Patterson is ad judged guilty. Newten Nm Ndu. N«wtoa IteWrpHM. A farmer tbe Other day tu predicting five cent cotton thia tall, when a mill man offered to eater into a contract to take hia crop at ten centa. The fanner backed. If tbe farmers bad wheat to •efl now they wonld be at much in tbe swim aa if they bad cotton. It now coats JI.30 a bushel to pot down Western wheat in Newton. Tbe mail clerks on thia divis ion of tbe Southern need a shak ing np. Almost half the time tbe daily papers, both morning and evening, are carried pant Newtoo and are sometimes a daw or two in getting back. Mr. Rlksneb Moose, tbe sweat potato expert of Caldwell township, was here Monday. Ha says tbe potatoes of this county have "rue out” aad don't Kdtsce as much aa they should. is going to order his potatoes for bedding this year from Han over county, Virginia. CATT. BASON A VICTIM. Bn StartlM HU Irltadi kj HU NpwFpbSIpS Walk, and Shows ■p Jai<p lord pp a Jokar. Charlotte Obtervar. 37ih. Dr. J. F. Robertson, Major O. M. Sadier and R. J. Brevard, who stood in Jordan’s drag store yesterday and looked ont yawn ingly upon a monotonous day, were suddenly relieved to see the visage of a friend looming up. It was that of Capt. George F. Bason, who has recently be come a resident of Gastonia. But as Capt. Bason came near er his friends were struck by his unusual style of walk. His body was bent forward at an angle of forty.fivc degrees, just as if he wished to affect the fashionable kangaroo walk. Moreover, there was a pained, if deter mined, expression on his face. Capt. Bason entered the drug, store and sat down, making a clattering noise as he rested his feet ou the floor. In answer to questions that were flung at him. he lifted up one of his feet and showed that on the bottom of his shoe were iron and steel me chanisms that had increased his suture by abont two inches. After exerting himself until he was in imminent danger of ex piring in an attack of heat ap popiexy, Capt. Bsson unfastened hia trappings, which reminded one of mediaeval spars, and con sented to explain. Judge Jim Boyd gave me these in Greensboro.” said he. “It was snowing and sleeting over there and I was a-slippiug around, when Judge Boyd saia he didn’t propose to be responsi ble for my death; so he took me over to a atore and bought me these and fastened them on my feet. They keep me from fall ing, you see—give me a good foot-hold, ” “What the—I mean what are they?” said M*iorSadlcr. with a gasp. “The very newest thing out,” said Capt. Bason. “Charlotte ia behind the time*. Judge Boyd told me everybody who was up to-date was wearing the clamps. You are just envious; that’s all’s the matter with you.” Then somebody went off with a roar. A closer investigation was made, and it was found that Judge Boyd bad fastened to the heels of his friend, Capt. George P. Bason, a pair of patent Irish potato peelers. Aa Early Breakfast. 1.0.1 mU. Hn.kL Alter a strenuous journey through Hart County, during which he rode many miles in a baggy, Special Pension Ex aminer E. S. McIntyre has re turned with a story illustrating the courtesy ol Kentucky farm ers. . . After dark one night Col. Mc Intyre drove up to a farm bouse, and pounding on the door with bis buggy whip, finally aroused the farmer, who had been sleep lor "Can I get a bed and an early breaklsstf" he said. "Yes, we can give yon a bed and I reckon an early breakfast,, too." All bands went to sleep but Col. McIntyre. He had some papers to look over, and at midnight turned in. In what seemed to him ten min utes Ister after he had gone to sleep be wa* awakened by knocking on the door. He reached for his trusty weapon, at the same time wondering what burgtara were doing abroad among the farms of Hart Coun ty. "Get up in there!" a voice shouted. "It’s giftin’ up time. Your breakfast is ready." Col. McIntyre arose in the dark, slowly dressed, and came into the breakfast room. "What time is itl" be asked. "It’s about 2 o’clock, I reck on." "Well, wbat the thunder do y®« by waking me at 2 o’clock?" "Didn’t you say yon wanted an early breakfast?" said the farmer, with deep concern. Col. McIntyre ate hla break fast in alienee. The Negro u ■ Heaevmeher. »■«»■ BW» The negro in the South ia coming to the froot aa a money, maker. If the cotton crop yields S8SO.OOO.OOObe will get *00,000, °nt of H. He ia better off than **** bef°re. Bnt this proeperity “ ***** made him nneasy *08 migratory. Still very few of the greet mass of negro workers ?*'r*t* U> the North. The that the South ia growing r«P$T. TV WJI,U Population of Mississippi, the banner negro State, ia growing faatar than the black. BOOTH TAtKlNOTON. Sketch ol the Brilliant Anther el “The Geotlsman treat Indi ana. Mr. Tarldngton was bom thir ty-two years ago in Indianapolis, the city which be still*calls home. He is a descendant of the Rev. Thomas Hooker a uoted scholar and orator of Rev olutionary fame. Hia great grandmother was the beautiful Msry Newtcn, who figures in the “Annals of Old Salem." Mary Newton married Walter Booth, and from these were de scended the Booths who were the pride and glory of the stage thirty years ago. Mr. Tarking ton was named Newton Booth, after an ancle of that name, a senator and governor of Califor nia, who was a prominent orator during nia public career. The boyhood of Mr. Tarking lon was spent in ludianapoliis in much the same manner as that of other boys of his time. At f'hillips Exeter academy, where he prepared for college, he began to display remarkable talent as an orator and writer, besides attracting some atten tion as an illustrator of the class year book. ur nil career at Princeton much has already been written. There he was among the moat popular men of his time. To hear Booth Tarkington sing a »ong or tell % story was worth while. He wrote bis first serious story for the Nassau Lit. It won the price, and he was short ly afterward elected editor of the magazine. He revived the Tiger, the college weekly, edi ted and illustrated for a long period, gave it an important place in college literature. To gether with Mr. ). Wheeler he wrote an opera, which be staged and directed, taking at the same time an important part in the in the cast. The play proved so popular that it was given for three successive years. He was a member of the Ivy club, wrote the prize class song for commencement and was so loist in the Princeton Glee club, in which last connection be wrote most of the songs used by the club. Poe's “Raven’' is one of the pieces that he set to music. As ail amateur actor Mr. Tarkington was very popu lar both while in college and la ter in connection with the Dra matic club of Indianapolis. i nat mere is a dramatic qual ity in all that Mr. Tarkington write* is not surprising when his inheritance is taken into consid eration. The fact that there is a * Booth" in his name gives the clew._ PISGAfl PENCILIN8S. (Crowded o«t at low taaoe.1 Mrs. C. W. Boyd has about re covered from her recent severe illness. Mr. John W. Hawkins, Jr., is no better of his malady; along in tbe fall he suffered from appen dicitis, and later he took bron chial tronblc, which developed into consumption. Mr. W. I. Sofly of Rural Route No. 6, Charlotte, paid us a short call last week. We are always glad to greet our old school mates. He informed us of tbe marriage of Capt. Neisler td Mrs. Harriet Mania Kerr. Capt. Neisler is well known here, was engineer on the "Piedmont Air Line" in the 80’t, now the Char lotte Division of tbe Southern, and was the master mechanic of that division in 1903. Mr. John W. Blackwood has been ill with heart trouble and other complications for some time aod is now much better. As was noted hi this paper, Mr. A. J. Gamble ia suffering from cataracts; he had one re moved from his left eye and now one is forming on his right eye. Mr. W. D. Anthony has about recovered trom his attack of tonsilitia. Piagan Sabbath school la on its feet, and still alive; and con tinues to grow under the 8nper intendency of Mr. W. <M. Craw ford. Nothing short of Providence can prawnt the farmers from in creating the cotton acreage (hit year. The baby of Mr. C. R. Carton of Lorayville hat been very tick all week with cholera infantum. The write*baa been added to the staff of The Rural World, of St. Louis, Mo., as this coun ty’s correspondent. Rural World is edited by N. I. Colmau, for merly Secretary of Agriculture in 1885;. and formerly Governor of Missouri._ Dr. Charles L. Alexander of Charlotte was Pridty elected President of the Southern branch of the National Dents! Associa tion at its annna) meeting ia Washington. CAPTAIN BASON ON ASSUMACY CharlMto'i Smart Sat Powerful* ly Afflicted With it—Sana Caustic Comment aa Paola wha Think Stem Bools are Fetal o Peelers. That goes to show, said Capt. Basoa when asked about nis potato-peelers, that you never know the fall significance of a word until you have a practical illustration. Now you know 1 thought, when I first beard a distinguished lawyer say to the jury that bis pllcnt bad been deprived of the "mournful pleasure" of attending his kins man's fnneral by the negligence of the telegraph company in failing to deliver a telegram that there waa 4 contradiction in terms in that expression. I could not conceive of anything mournful being pleasant. Bat I afterwards had the opportunity of observing some people who really seemed to enjoy things that to the ordinary man would be mournful and then I under stood what the lawyer was talk ioe about. So it is abont our Gaston county word "aaaumacy.” To understand tbc length and breadth and depth of the mean ing of that won) you want to go to Charlotte and talk awhile with its smart men. They've got it and got it bad—so much of ft that they believe that what they don’t know about don’t exist. Yon see, they get the disease from the brag habit. They meet together and discuss Char lotte and brag about it nntil they actually believe that the ■un rises over about the water works and sets ont in the neigh borhood of the big oil mill. They know things. They are the whole show. They sit down and brag about tbc greatness of Charlotte and pat themselves on the back because they enjoy the Urge privilege of living in it. They brag and pat and pat and brag nntil a stranger comes around—one of these fellows that come from away np in Maine and prononnees Salisbury, "Salsbry” and Concord "Konkerd” and Charlotte "Shallotte.” Then they set to work to initut him with the idea that he is now at the hub of the nnivene; and to impress it upon him they Lake him over to the club and do things to him and be good to him nntil his faculties arc sufficiently molli fied, and then they pull ont a cat and dried affidavit—they have regain printed blank forma —and make nitn sign it. After he has gotten away for a week, they publish a letterf?) from him glorifying Charlotte. itut everybody knows it is the same old affidavit they made him sign while they had him fixed. . The trouble about Charlotte, or rather the smart set of the town, is tbst they brag too much and don’t do things. They sit ■till, absolutely content with themselves, while Greensboro and Concord and Gastonia are walking all around them in the way of "getting there.” Yon can go into any little old shoe store in Gastonia and get a pair of storm when the ground is covered with ice. All the little boys dod the women wear them. Bnt ***■ I ubowed e pair of them to oali a dozen of the very smartest men in Charlotte, among them the Comment man of the Obarr w, right straight they swore they were potato peelers 1 They had never seen storm-heels, bat they knew potato peelers; and because they never saw a storm heel before they knew such a thing did not exist. Just the same way they were about Bill Dilling. They never saw Bill, and therefore there was no Bill, never had been. If they will just come over to I Gastonia, we will show them Out the son shines a little bitoa Gaston cotinty, and we can show them some cotton mills the like of which they never dreamed of, cotton mills that pay too. We will show them some stores that are at least half as big as tbs smallest of theirs, and then we will take them into a bank fhat will make their heads aw ins. They are a wonderfully smart, bright set—those Charlotte fel lows bat there are others. We live in hope that wisdom will not die with them. lAVWtT COUJMCrrtHB pfb. 29 th.—We have had with as this week Rev. H. Tomer of Winston-Salem, who has been giving ns some very good and instructive sermons. He preached twice a day to the stadeuta each morning and at .night. The services began last Sunday night his first subject bring "Secret Prayer." Monday morning be preached from the first chapter of Psalms and gave us some wise and helpful sug gestions. Monday night ms subject was "The Importance of an Ideal in the Christian Life." Tuesday morning he took ea hit subject "Our Influence among our Associates." Tuesday night he spoke on "The Heroism of a Christian Life." Wednesday ; night his subject was "The Drama of Life." Thursday morn ing, "The- Originality of Sin," Thursday night be spoke of "Wie Importance of the birth of Christ." He preached his last sermon Friday morning and took for his sub ject, "The inner circle of Christ’s Friendship. Mr. Tomer being unable to preach Wednesday morning. Dr.' Weaver filled his place. 1 hese sermons were all very In structive and interesting and we hope will prove to be seed sown in good ground among the student body and will bring forth fruit in the years that are to come. The concert which the Henry Timrod Society gave last night wai quite a success considering the weather. All seemed to en joy the exercises very much. The most interesting feature of the programme was "The Sniggles Family. A pantomime —Nearer my God to Thee waa rendered by seven young ladies. The remunder of the pro* gramme consisted of recitations, songs and piano and violin music. Prof, and Mrs. H. B. Nolley are right sick at present but we hope their illness will not be seHona and that they will soon ne able to resume their work. Several oi the boarding stu dents have had an stuck of grippe but arc all well again and able to be in acbool. M. B. H. •--- - — ■— V • * V ' \.vy There it a quality cake and biscuit by the Royal Baking Powder which promotes digestion. This peculiarity of « Royal" has been noted by physicians, and they accord* ingly endorse and recommend it Royal Baking Powder is in baking by the best people everywhere. MW KMVOM OO. MW TOM, 5000 YARDS OF EMBROIDERIES! Some at 5c, some at Sic per yard. A let of 5,000 yards of Embroideries tad Inscrtlmu bos fast mrivad at Yeager’s. Tht Insertions wfll be sold for and S cents per paid. The Edgings will be sold for 3# aad 5 cents per yard. These are perfect goods, not aarnnda More tfcae that, tbey an all seat end pretty. Many of the Smtmmm trt aaritfealv hand, soon. For the very aaperior quality of tfaasc goods, the price of W to 5 cents per yard —t~rr rhyai «n unheard-of oAeting. Wa bought this line *-rraaai then Is a » for it—e do. msnd lor it in homes where there are many clrildren, whhniaay little dnaeea aad akirta to be trianaei. In home, like tMa. the mother waste a great qsaotfty of dainty inalllnaaa far e-* amount Of money. Tbeae gooda give that vary thing. They an Rolagfast at Jc vc A r*cntc • r. itAutKS Ladles* Furnishing Store. GASTONIA. N. C. We have moved Into our new office In the Davis Block'snd are In a better position than^ever to quote you the lowest possible prices on pianos and organs. An |A.Iro n AA . D. JONES & CO. Mo Bo BRISSlEq Manager. -- - _____ GROCERIES! = THE PEOPLE’S STORE yon will not only find everything that’s nice to wear hat also EVERYTHING THAT’S GOOD TO EAT. - Tcday, aa a reminder merely, we cad to the attention of the men folks the fact that #e carry* tremendous stock of Meat, Salt, Flour, Lard, Sugar, Coffee, Corn, Oats, and other Provisions. And to the good lin wife wo manias the fact that we carry a*» enormous lino of I ?.v' ;‘u' f Canned Goods, Cereals, Preserves, Syrups, Crackers, Cakes, Biscuits, Starches, and Candles. Fresh Line of Loaf Bread Always on Hud. We Buy and Sefl aD Kinds of Country Produce. * Thomson Co. Our Dry Goods Department la getting ready. Watch lP« aaaouacemeat.
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