| up i The Gastonia _ Published Twice a Wcck~Tue*day» and W. r. MAISHAU. e«t»r mi Prt prittor. DEVOTED TO THE P1QTECTI0N OF HONE AMD THE IHTEHESTS OF THE COUNTY. VOI^CXV^ _ GASTONIA, N. C.. FRIDAY, DKCEMBBR g. lf»Q4 The Substitute IRb will n. harben, AaMwr H "Akaai DnM." Tb» UM o* || Ilia Clwaclaa !>»*." Tha Moil* Va'.k MuUhu.- Etr. Ovut tbht. iMi, bu liutvu ,t ffauhn* I] Synopsis op prk viola chaptkxs , CBARTttR* I. II.and III—(Verge Ruck' lf» U live protect cl . * Mlilyei. a run t*torcia acarehaat. Hla lather la neat Tn pHflaa for theft. Oaorgr 17 attentive to ffi.d«rtSk^rnri.o{;j,i;^ac,^. make* him dcaperat* Iv-HjUjrer coo le—eo.to.beofwethe murder of aftlauil thirty year, before the al^ry apron. 'fu atone fan (be d«n he look l^urn out of hi* dcttBd* 4 lwt»e to make a aeefxi tS« «T\.K « jh •tituUr to eooirty tor hfa dead I fiend. V— Ifnnka. a not# broker, and K»ua:r a cotton barer, hove (leak* in Htlliwr a aarehouw Uaaeoat PrttiU. a Coaled* tat, ratrraii (Ta champion of Oavrac. IfQlyer lav*at* liruv lly In wheat cm thp advice cl licorice VI - Mr* Hiilrar Praia** Arnrs*'* noble char rrWi4^ old'erp iWffiSftdlf . la Mtttlni hit attention* u pun bar approval ol her family. IX ami chamalaua ihr tnoac nr lpirn* . who la ambfiloaa tn rbw. Hlfl. ie any capital la Mart In buaiavaa CHAl'XEU XI. AJOfl CRANSTON llrml In an I [Y| I old fashioned, roomy bouse at II tbe end of tbe widest and long *1 ear street Dsi-tey sltVmtn). Tito exterior of the betts* «u uot very at tractive. though K stood on s spacious, well kept lawn, but It was equipped t Unto ghost with flu* old furniture Uie CnmUHw hod brought from Virginia. There were rare piece* of sabd ma hogany lu the big parlor, a piano wblch iris ■ relic of tbe days of Washington, and sofas pm) chairs qette ~M ancient In appearance. On tbe white plastered walla hang family portraits tn massive gUt frames. It was one Rendsy nlglit about the middle of V or ember. Lydia hid retired to tier room and tbe major was rending a newspeyer In tbe lamplight before u cheerful dre Id tbe olttlng room whoa Mrs. Cranston come In from tbe parlor. “Well, you may be satisfied. Major Cranston." site said, “but I'm not." “Ob. yon are not! What's wrong nowr* He put his paper down and looked up at lew Inquiringly. “Weil. I don't like tli* way Lydia Is doing at all/' replied tlio lady. “Wait's she don* now 7” The major spoke with Just a little Irritation, tor be was Interested In tbo political news be bad been reading. “Stic hasn’t done nnythlug- that's tbe rouble,” anaw-ornl lira. Crons too. "If She only would do and be llko she was In niehmond I wouldn't care, bnt (din's aa different n« can be." "Why, I'm aura ftie child rccin* well enough to me," grumbled the major. “Well enough? She'* the picture of bocltb. Hal are you blind? Can't you mu an Inch before yoor noso? Don't you remember how abe cried wlieo we moved away from Rich mood, and all the visits all* promised Kitty Cosby and thu other girls back there? Thcu you remember how she moped about the first month down hero, and the fan abe mode of this place sod (ho people. But dow look at her. Bbos tickled to death over everything here. Wli.-t do yon ttlnk It dbbdi, ilrT" “Oh, she was sick sod tired of that silly aortal set up there,'' said the ma jor, "and this alicpla, beahhy life hero In tho saountolas agrees with her, ns It has with sm and yon. ■ never know What s good appetite or n pleasant night's sleep was till I'*— “Oh. do dry npT’ Hit Cranston ant down by him. “Von arc ns bllud an a vor c(MIH." tat. Don tyatiww i.j4miCT«*a ttat **» Ml Ooorjro Backtry #ot to oomla* tar* t»1 brlnglac har book* add P«P*r» and gotnff eat with bar." "Bt#t>r Cma«ton'» brow w»» Ttr IU o**t. "Won’t lawn yoar «rtm cUM." Ha atwod OB- bit abort l#c* qnlvrrlnt with dxrllataaw. "Do ]jm think I'd lad ttat «• «»«• tai*-ta. a aoa at a aobrietal tMaf-4f I draamad-wlv. Pi ataat tho «T <* hl" l*tad off K U* darad our “Ttar* la no da* waktaa a* tta aatr. onaMtatto yard," Mr*. Cmo atalai tat atadotawd ta ttat ata to MO -TT* daaTt warn l what *r* tmot I* «• ’ I da* t Ibtak ttat* ta mwh ftp. atria trM oftaa allow itiinailrar ta ata*r tta adtataUa* M am (Mff MM *a« draaat ad atarry rt5£t to think of otmuragiBc htro to any serious. extent. Pul It t* wall to Into tliflo hy the forelock. I was ugulnat letting Ittm m« hero at oil, yon know, but yon mM tt would shook tha religion* folks In Hie jihic* for ns to try to establish ev-ial line* when be stood no wort, and"— "I'll send Uor off tomorrow!'' cried the major, still excited, lit* voice rising high and emeklnjr. "If©, you won't unless you really want to drive tier the wrong wuy." said Mrs. Crunston. “I've Seen many nnlsappy. intsumtml Biarriiigra mode through that stupid course, and I'va always told I'd uc-t dj Horen! ly If It esnm to me Lydia would get ns head strong ns n hall tf wo showed her that wo wrro trying to drive her. and »i>po SlUoa Dniurslty makes a girl tldak more of a utnn who U unfortunate. Xa, wo toast simply go ou ns If w# never Ituntinsd sl.c o.n 1.1 Petnean ns by marrying a innu of Ihut Islnd. She's not a fool; slie mny admire Georg* Buckley and be sorry for lilui In bl* tronhls, bnt site'll think acvvral times before site marries him It we simply go on an If we nro trusting lmr to pro tect our family name." The tuator sat down. “| guess yon arc right.” he an Id more calmly, “and rtn not really slrnld when 1 think about her pride and nil hUc has la per favor. Why. six- eonkl take her pick of tbc whole eounttr. Governor Tel fore Is simply ciniQ- about her an’ hat plenty of money. l)n yon suppose tydln-or nay girt. n« for tliat-eonM resist (Is- temptation 1o he the mistress of tl« executive mansion ou lVticlitxno Street tend lead tlic society of Atlanta to marry a |»midleu.i bookkeeper la • grain warehouse lad lb# aon uf — Shucks, tf abn hod tt tn her. I’d disown berr wi an iigui, «oii« sire. Cranston. n« If bo UnJ fotvrd tit* ab ■tmliiv of her fears down npon her by Id* warm words, "but wo matt bandit' Uor most airvfnlJy. I’ve tried msklug fnn of her • country beau.’ at I always call him to brr. l>ut I’ve never boon able lo uukc ant how ibc took it. She'd die bcftftv she'd let anybody know how site felt nlioat a matter of that hiuiX. I'll tell you wliat I'm going to do. Kbo baa Invited Kitty cosliy to pay her n visit, and wlien Kitty comes I'm going to get her to Iwlp me. Blw's always bad great influence over Lydia, an' Kitty It bine blooded to tbe boar. I’ll coach her boar to act. aaJ •be will I'uld I-Tdin In chock an’ keep ms posted.” Tl«c major took up bJs paper. "I rather admire the frtlovVs way,” be said frankly “I’m sort lie do.-wn’t yrerstop himself; Uc kaan't^Jwdu her* »o often since bln TKJtCJS\ and tbr.t took* Ilka lie lisd some bleu of flat Mental fitness of tiling*.’’ "No. that's true.” Admitted Mrs. Cnuirion, --anil, really. I'm unite sore lliero lias tiorer been nn iutlmato un derstanding between litem, and if wo piny mn- cants right lliero won't be.” I lls major tvanmed l.ls nvsdlng. and Mr*. Cranston went up tbn smooth, winding stairs to bee daughter's room. Lydia was seated before Uw lire, her beautiful aiul tbundsnt hair Imaging loose oyer bar slmpsly Mmaldcra. "I thought I'll see if Tom l»d made you a good tire, dsor,” Mrs. Cranston •aid gently. “Oh, yes; It's all rtatht. mamun, thank you." Lydln returned. with u •mile. Mrs. Cranston bmlttiicd. ’ Whan do yon took roe Kitty to coma?” ibo asked. "Next week, toward the end, 1 think, mamma. Hhe wanted to ntny over tor tbe gourde’ ball. Then she’ll bs ready tar a rest hero.” v*»uo»w«» y IWV 41»-v* I4JVIM g UIW reddened eheok csrr'wlngly. “Don't you ml** all lltooe tiling*, deoreotf “Kot one hit, mamma.” Lydia gave her mother lit* eye* trmUiiRly. “In feet, —metUm-a I'm Jnat a (ltt|o aaham ed of all 1 wcat throng* since I realbw tbo beauty of Utls full, vigorous life htr* In tbo UMHiiituiu*. Mother, l can hare a lurttrr time on rrlnco. roU©p tag belter skelter orer these roods and fields, llutn I orer had vying with oth er girl* for the roost tlanct* nnd fa vors la tbe germaa with a lot of boys Ob, mamma." Lydia lsngbed, "some* time* I'm awfully ashamed of luring done all that when—when"— "When what, darting V Mrs Cran ■tan*a Up* were campr—nod. her eye* Iml half fearfully on tlto speaking countenance. "■w iwto tit ■* uu/ n umi wwaw hare la their afeelto of porar ty and mtacry trying to rlae. trying to grow ant Into the aaaahlne of Ufa I think I* naalil be perfectly happy If I mqM only I‘rip thoae people In eoue way. 1 wont le teach them, to encour age than, net to betlerc la tbelr degra dation. Mamma, Juet the othar day I aaw aa old woman Mil leg egga from a wanna «t the gate, aad In the wagon woe her (laughirr, poorly dreaeod. bat her feature* wrra One)/ drawn, and whan I • topped le mmnk ta theui the girl leaked at me aa if i ware a prln «* Oh,-me nun*, that aort at tbtng cute am. I IoyooM done anything ta doner Aj that, nnd, poor thing, whet hat Aa in atom for her? Mottling bat to fall lot# the aort of Ufa bar lootbur to loading.'' "That'a all true/* agreed Urn. Oran ■law. *1hiI Iheie are different grade* of aoetoty, and we cant alter the con dition .*■ Tlwn the apex her‘a face be came more right lirr tone tenae aad tawtatlre. “.tml (be mixing of tho elaaaiata, ray dear,' aho put lu guard ediy. ”MMira, < prodnem and ooao pUmtkma. Von rcnwiutor hew liattto ptraweedy Mtarrled beneath law ta Lextoiton aad that it artaaSy kOtod !**> ***Vr "*d brake up a happy wttMr -iwt waa awful, a imply awfair rt nefted Lydto. -Vow kmg 1 aaw her tarn tooarba afterward, and the anor thing tiled le Imp me frma rrnae atolag her. Mhe (aid me aha waa try ing ta adapt kerne if u> the way* of “^ssiu,»;X,r.r OEJI. lOOTS’S RECRUITS. All Sarta of Mm Who Join Ihi Solvation Army. Loudon TNpvr**. "Billy*' Mcl^cod. once cham pion light-weight of Eugland. hero of half a hundred fights for £20 to £50 a side, who conduc ted the services at the Salvation Army Temple, Ulackfriora road Sunday, is one of the many pic turesque characters in the "ar j my." There it surely no other preaching organization with such a variety of men and wo men in the ranks. Gen. Booth has spread hit net wide and caught fish of many kinds. One of the colonels at headquarters is a refined uud aristocratic la dy, near relative of the only dnlje who married an Knglish princes*. Some years ago, l'rehendary Wcbb-Peploe had a promising young curate named Oliphant. Over in Gerinauy you will find him now. wresting the scarlet cop of h Salvation Army com missioner. /\ _ t. . I J! m . # . t V» MIC VIIIVIIWIS Ui IIK old Hast India company ha* a grandson, Fritz de Latoni Tucker, who after being educat ed ut Cheltenham college, went out to the East, and ultimately became a judge in the Indian ctvil service. He resigned bit judgeship to become a Salvation Army officer. Having "gradu ated” in Whitechapel, he took the flag to India, married a daughter of the general and is now Commander Booth-Tucker, chief of the Salvation Army in the United States. It is prob able that be will soon be ap pointed to an important post in the army in England, for he it out of the ablest officers. Alt are fish that come into the net of the old fisherman of Queen Victoria street. He culche* an Australian "lutikin" with a hundred police convic tions ' agaiust Ilia name, tnrns him inside out, puts a red jer sey on him and sends him into the "back blocks" to preach to I the sheep farmers and gold prospectors with all the zeal of a couvest. After twcniv years’ preaching all over Australasia, the ex-larrikin came over and " testified” at the Congresses in Strand. He was as clear-eyed and ardent nn Australian as vou would fiud between Svdney and Perth. A mathematician of Upsala University, in Sweden, is joint commander of the forces in Switserland; an Irishman from Ligoniel is manatring dtrector of the Army Assurance Society in the city: the daughter of a Chelsea solicitor is lientenant colonel of the Piiniuab, and the army in the West Indies is com manded by a Cape Dutchman. Next week a special mission will be undertaken in Ireland by a valiant little man who years ago "ran a boxing saloon at Rugby, in the intervals of carry ing on the trade of a chimney sweep. Now he is pne of the most respected of the old brig ade of Salvation officers, for Commissioner Ktijah Cadman dodged, sometimes unsuccess fully. a large share of the brick bats which twenty years ago used to be thrown at the heads f the Salvationists. Before he was six years of age Commissioner Cadman began earning his living in his native town of Coventry. He was a little boy, just of the size useful to a chimney-sweep in those days, and at 3 o’clock in the morning the barefooted six year-old urchin, clad only in calico shirt and trousers, used to trot around Coventry with his master, and climb up tbe inside of sooty chimneys with his brush. Once a week he was washed in sal? and water. At tie grew and became a ■weep on hit own account, he fonght and drank and waa a dare-devil fellow. lie weut«to Rugby and started hia boxing and gymnastic saloon, "sweep-; ing” by day and boxing by u'ght. Then one day he and liia "p»1a" made up a party for i he last public execuiion at Warwick, when two men were hanged. "That's what yon'll come to." his "pah" Jocularly told the little sweep. But the sight of the execution turned the sweep Into a preach er. He smashed np his tingle sticks. dismantled hit boxing saloon, and, nneducated aa he waa took to pteaobing in the streets. Being unable to read, he engaged s boy to read the New Testament to btm. and paid him a half-penny for every verae be learned by heart. In that way he learned the greater part of the New Testament. One day after be bad been " reading" the Gospel to a meet •ttg, an acquaintance told him tbit be had been holding tbe book upside down. He joined tbe Wesleyan church and wax told off to take a children’s claaa. On the first Sunday he learned the alphabet from bis pupils. It was not un til he was married that hit wife learned he could not write. She taught him. One dav, oeatl* forty years ago, lie was going through Whitechapel and heard the ’’Rev. William Iioctb,” of the Christian Mission, preach ing at a street coni.-r. He joined the mission and be came the first captain in the ar my. In the men’s social work Commissioner Cad man has played n great part. For nine am! a ball years he bad charge of it. including Hadley Farm colony, and one of his "cases’' was the present Adjt. McOreg ory, whose story was told a few day* ago in the Express. In the last few years tbe erc-while sweep has traveled all over the world on army mission*. In the early years of the early days of the army he wax nearly Mind ed with pepper in the streets, and more than once he was re ported killed. Tie ix said to have been knocked down and jumped npou oftener than any other Salvationist. Tot Amaricaa Ctreat. W. k. Andrews, of Grand < Rapids, Micli., at a recent toast, got off the following appeal to tbe Fillipinos: * "You Fillipinos don’t know what yon are missing by not wanting to become citizens of this grand country ot ours. There isn’t anything like it under the sun. You ought to •end a'delegatiou over to see us —the land of the free—land oi hue churches aud 40,000 licensed saloons; Bibles, fort* aud gnus, houses of prostitution ; million sires sod paupers; theologians and thieves; liberists and liars; politicians aud poverty; Chri*. tiaus aud chaiu gongs; schools and scalawags, trusts aud tramps; money and misery; homes and hunger; virtue and vice; a land where you can get a good Bible for fifteen cents and a bad drink ol whiskey for five cents; where wc have a man iu Congress with three wives and a lot in the pen itentiary for having two wives; where some incu make sausage out of their wives and some want to eat them raw; where we make nologna out of dogs, canned beef uni of horses aud »ick cows, aud corpse* out of the people who eat it; where we put a man I in jail for uot.baviog the means of sup|>ort and on tbe rock pile for asking for a job of work; where we liceuse bawdy booses and fine men for preaching Christ on the street corr.ers; where we have a congress of 400 men who make laws, and a su preme coart of nine men who aclH#' Mitiprsi r*r\.r\A whiskey makes bid men and bod men make good whiskey; where newspapers arc paid for surpass ing the troth and made rich for teaching a lie; where professors draw their convictions from the same place they do their salar ies; where preachers are paid $125,000 a year to dodge llic devil and tickle the ears of the weal thy; where business consists of getting hold of property in any way that won’t land yon in the penitentiary; where trust* " hold up" and poverty "holds down”; where men vote for wbat they do not waut by voting for it; where "niggers” can vote and women can't; where a girl who goes wrong is made an outcast and her male partner flourishes as a gentleman; where women wear false hair and men "dock” their horses' tails; where the political wirepuller baa displaced the patriotic statesman; where men vote for a thing one day and cum it 3(M days: where we baye prayers on the floor of our nat ional capitol and whiskey in the cellar; where we spend $500 to bury a statesman who is rich and $10 to bury a workman who is poor; where we ait oq the aaietyt valve of energy and pull wide open the throttle of. con science; where gold is substance -I Ism . 1.:_ <_L. a where we pay $15,000 for a dog and fifteen cenu a doten to a poor woman for making shirts; where we teach the "uatntored” Indian eternal life from the Bible and hill him of) with bad wills key; where we pul a man in jail for stealings loaf of bread and in congress for stealing a rail road; where the check book talks, rin broad daylight, justice ra asleep, crime runs amuck, corrnptioo permeate* our whole social and political fabric and tha devil laughs front every atrect corner. Come to os, Wf Hea. We've got the greatest kCteegationof good things and bsd things, hot things and eold *hl*fid.*n aim, varieties and col ors ever exhibited under one tent. r oAFFweri tw nine. It Is dM Largest Hist si Ifes Had is America awd the Or* Is Vary Uch-Mr. S. S. Bees Iks Owner, Is issslsg s Hsrrssl Prom HI* MsgsIBcssI PM. Ckarlolt* Moira Caflucy, S. C.< Xov. 23.—It will doubtless prove of interest to tbe readers of the News to know that the largest tin pro ducing mine in America is located almost within tbe corporate limits of the thrilling 1’ttle city of Gaffney, Sonin Carolina. Just a few months ago this mine was discovered, yet in that time 77.000 ponnds of tin ore has been taken out and shipped. While there are several other tin mines in tbe United Stales, this la the richest so far dis covered. This valuable property is owned by Mr. S. S. Ross of Gaffney. Through bla kind ness tbe News mao was showed over tbe mine. At present new machinery is being installed and tbe oat put will be material ly increased as soon ns tbit is done. But even now the super intendent states that they pro duce from six to eight hundred pounds of ore per day. this ore is its high percentage of pure tin, running oter 72 per cent of pure metallic tin and of a possible 78 per cent. Tbe main shaft is at present 80 feet deep, tbe pre being brought up in buckets of dirt, then seoa rated b y washing. It is black and very much resembles magnetic iron, the most striking difference being that tbe tio u much heavier than iron. Ia si*e the or* varies from tiny particles no larger than grains of powder up to pieces weighing 10 and 12 pounds. The fine particles being secured by a process of shiftiug, somewhat resembling!be method employed iu getting gold. On the surface of the mine the tin is plainly visible, looking very much like tiny particles of iron. Heretofore in making out tbe reports on the minerals of tbe United States, the department of the Interior bas always left tiu ms a blank, as there was not enough produced to deserve aicution. This is no longer tbe case, ss the present mine bas passed the experimental stage and with flattering prospects lor future development. While tbe vein here seems to be richer than anywhere else, there are well defined tin out croppings near Kings lit. and Chenyville, N. C.. and one even as far as Liocolnton, N. C. Bnt it is unquestionably found in larger quantities here than anywhere else in America, and the development of the mine ia only just begun. At prevent tin is an ankle imported into the country from England and from tbe little island of Banca in the East Indies. HEALTH b the Most Important • . . • The manufacturers of Royal Baking Powder have had 40 year* of scientific experience. Every method of bread-a nd cake railing has been exhaus tively studied in this country and abroad. 1 be remit t* a perfect prod act la Royal Biking Powder. There la ao substitute far It The parity and efficiency of Royal Biking Powder nave been commended by the highest authorities of tha world. These frets mean two Impor tant things to all housekeepers) JMtM»l|MlMb| ROYAL ABSOLUTELY PURE l—. - J UNEN HANDKERCHIEFS AND J } UNEN LACES. I ^ JtEAL LINEN TORCHON—We have jut re- J 4 ceived two lots of mlUaeatoreboalscas to retail % * for Sc aad 10c per raid. They are degas* good* F 4 aad iaavatace-addan sanaa this market. K -* REAL UNEN HANDRERCHIPS—These 4 ml linen' ladies handkerchiefs will appeal to . every lady who like* to have dainty thtaga that ' 4 are else durable. Plata, 5c each, hitnilltnhiA % -f cdccs, 5c. 10c, 15c, ZSe. Mourning, JOcto 25c. ” I 4 These lacaa aad haahenhiefs an apadd aad VT { exclusive values. You will tad QQthiag else 4 when ta suit yea quite so well. They an ml %. linen, real specialties, aad tad vatase. We tad 4 sura that no buyer will regret lavestiug, however C -f largely, 1a thaw exquisite goods. }Ja*. F. Yeager. * * Ladles’ Furnishings. £ a-VS ist rJt-vt-vt-vt-vt-vt-vt-vs T* MBSttMNWMMMdWM— ■■■.. Big Stock Show at Craig 4 Wilson's Sale Stables. Oar Mr.jCnjg has baswlmlln Ibis stock for the past SW^KSittSjf 4TS.* to cfcreyoa any kind of a homer amla yen —f market and there where is a aorplas and wa an better male* and fresh, aeaod males that haw overworked or hart by asc. We invite yw Mable end see for yourself last what we Come whether yoa waat to hey ar not. We