-■ ■■ ■ - The Substitute »n WILT. N. HAHBEN, AtHw X IXM." 'The land X (»■ C UinXau Su.” ‘ Tba Worth Watt Mwltttl.'' fh • |W ipA'. la* Wrier* A tfmlnn SYNOPSIS OP PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. • CHAPTERS I, II, and III—tlaone Hack* |fP K,'w iwtrtcae n) Mr. Hillyrr. ■ tfrk **U >»tS«r la e«nt to MSSSfeS I oacaJPOeotpetlit murdered aliitXlkirtr ivora Hefoer ole xorjr open*. Ta a 11 m f lot UWMuatytfciedKSiadSI ifob noaW..^ss,si?sa«£rfo-rt2i. ’h’.tp r*°v v,*•*''“«‘»i«' *i»« • «lanabler eborild l*apeet herlaaiily pride v-aen ehooma, A buabaad. XH-UiTlyer rolla hi a wheat at a areal proHt and * ivea it ^Hl-tVe «feet nor vtaiu tba IraflXooe. tryirga leei.tn power!nl rival. I.r . THINK I bo I-orU bail « hand I In irnuln' me next dour to I Mr*. Dugan,” said Mr* Hill * * ycr to Hiwp1 tluil menlng of I- >• Mtni-or. "U'lmi my apertu »iuk yvay down to tiro I go out In tk< yard nn' tItn \*c a (banco to i-omo over ou’ tnlk. No; I uover go overtime. All 1 got to do I* to lrt ’or *ce me, an' atie's ou m* like a duck on u Jono bog. fdio'll bilk jure head off. bnt she'll help yon out of a tight whenever you give ’or tho wink. Me nil' her together worked Horu-nso as fine a* split silk t’other day. Ton know, Jlra Kenuor'a Jeat nbout oraay to pwy hla nttentbuia, uo* »he bolds off an' won't let 'Ire act la. I made up my mind tlx months ago that I'd make a match out o’ that ran terlsl, but beyond glttio’ Jim to toiler me nit orer creation on’ her to fairly lap up nil I IimJ to any about *lm that was as nigh a* 1 ronie to doin' hnal rums. It pnaxhxl tu* right sharp, fee I Loovred tho gal had marry on her mind. nn‘ 1 knowed Jim Kenner was jest the thing for '«•. rinaljy I draptiod ou to tho dlOlculty. Tou know, n steady gul like Ilortonwv ttnowdsn sometimes baa n regular horror of a goody goody ful ler, nu* 1 need sbo thought he'd Jest es caped bein' a preacher by n hair’* breadlb an' was not go In' with gala be cause he was of ward of 'sat. I let lira. Dugan In oa my racket, an’ t 'lowed she'd bare 9 flt, »ho era* so tickled. She got her sewin' an* romp over, ah’ wo tuck chain nigh Ilorlensr, an* Mrs. Dagan begun. Tou'd 's’ Ihougkt ah* was oa tli* court boose at* ml aweartn* In a murder case, oh* was no err ton*. She led- np to It as gradual oa a man dritln* n school o' Dab uperream Into a ad t think ah* give ever'body lo Durley n atap or a dah In pastin'. FI ually ah* said It was lb* men that laid low an* that eviTbody thought was to steady that wn* ilie regular devils on tho sly. ‘Now, Ihsr's that long, slim shanked Kenner.’ sold ah*, floppln' out the sheet sbo waa hem min'. ‘Folk* think* he** so Innocent, but. lo me, he's tho terrtldrot But la ecven state*. no buy* cotton all over the country nn* has a gal in every town be hit*.' •• *Tiwi OKI aJF thorn 1 it.Li * *■ li 11 m better'll that, He’s «nr roan that don't rare for women.' ” T«'tl that to lha maroons,’ lira. Da gau sneered. Than aba reeled off a tala aba saM Dob ttaakar wife told '«r about a bet Jim Kroner an* n whole pa salt o' fallero bad nude, that thay waa cats' ta him a certain gal whether av a*. Rbe said tbe gal was Under aaft, nay way, an* they all gat a whack at bar. hot that when Jha Konaer gat threagb with ’er aha had tha backache am' aald ha waa tbe wait aba’ll aver seed. I was a-worehia* nartcoaa on t a* tha ear ner o' my eye. ft ha got fort white erf then red, Irat aha kept ’or ears open. I don’t know all Mrs. Dugan didn't ■•y. bat Urn boat thing waa whan aba aoM no ordinary woman ceeld make any Impression on a man o' that damp, t seed Hart caa* sorter Mm 'ar Op arf atratghlan up mra aba waa mailin’ a resolution. And after Mm. Degaii bad you* home she art around lihe ah* was •U af flat all at ouee. You know a woman will kinder con at on a nan’s regard, an* frail on It arf lent drift without lookin’ ahead. EC the'* sheet •f hla adaitmtlnM she'd a hoop tbte world, au* why Mould married IVo be an abceptbmt Arf than Hertmao totes to to called a aid maM. Well, ta rut my tala off, gn(—a Jaat coma out Sat that avastrf arf aald. *Whaa saassw SEVERAL SUICIDES, Serna Reflect lee* Abent the Mas who Killed Hiaeell Beceme he w» Oat el Verk ud Ms* cooreged, ud the Mlllleoelre whe Hanged HlaaeU Became he wm D lea main led and Bered with Life. KlchmunU Nnm-I^Mkr. Taking over a New York newspaper the other day, we were interested in the daily ghastly parade of suicides be cause it presented one or two unusually vivid contrasts. There was the customary array of men who killed themselves because they were out of work and disconraged. Then came the case of a retired business man, a millionaire, nearly 50 years old, who went into a barn and hanged himself because he was tired of living, disappointed and disgusted and without an abject. tmppose the millionaire had interested himself in giving mine hope and comfort to some »f the workmen who killed themselves because they could not find employment or the means of earning their livings? Suppose he had undertaken leriottsly the work of doing lomelhing f o r somebody? He would have found his life all too short, even if it had stretched to a century, and his days :rowncd, busy and happy. It is hard to say whether the man who has the tncaus of ratifying every physical and transient need and has nothing in that way to desire or the man _ who hss nothing but privations in his life is the more miserable. About all money pan buy after all, ia food, driuk, lodging and clothes. The only t_a_ « ilkU HHU boor it in the qualities of these. Even when men move ou to the higher things snd devote them reives to intcllcctnsl and artistic pursuits, satiety and stateness come after a while. Most of Ltiose of ns who arc rich go ou like spoiled children in a nursery playing and experimenting with me toy after another. Some tneti collect pictures, others books, others again, stamps or vases of hoot-straps. The news papers told us yesterday of an btaglishman who had speut hun dreds of thousands of dollars collecting fleas. He fitted out a ship aud sent it to the Arctic to reenre specimens of those insects from bears, foxes, dogs md deer. _ What a shameful waste that is in view of the hnu d reds of able-bodied men wilh families to support, in all parts pf the world to whom a few scores of dollars would mean happiness aud comfort and peace replacing gnawing misery 1 Not only is it true that the noblest study of mankind is man, but the one sure path to heart-filling pleasure on<[ com fort in life is tu honest effort to ptomotc the welfrre of man kind. If the millionaires and retired business men would devote their lives to helping iu the thousands of ways they esu help tnen, women and children who need aid of one kind or mother, they would not be hanging themselves iu barns, drinking thetnaelvcs to death or exploring the world, tired and disgusted, seeking amusement. Nothing in human experience a wotse than a quest for the op portunity to earn a living with «>me helpless people depending i»« the results for their neces sities and comforts. It stings a ___ ___fl_ »»• _« %»%* t wuvie. ism iMivniai .•Sections arc sources of agony to him, bis oalural and proper pride and manhood are hart and he is tempted to desperation and despair. Yet, even in those circumstances there ia comfort •or the man who knows that he has done his best for his fellows snd comrades and who can con tinue to spare some thought at least and some words of coro •ort and sympathy from his own troubles to those whose condi tion is even worse. With the field so wide and no near, with human misery and wretchedness and need so constant and urgent and ever present. it is hard to understand bow or why any man shonld have the time to be bored or tired end weary of life or desti tute of occupation for his hands, his thought, bis heart or his money. There is so mneb to be done, so little time to do it In. The First National Busiueas Show, the only exhibition of the kind ever held In the United States, began in Madison Square garden. New York, Monday. Office goods and ail time end labor saving devices are ahown by the mannlactnreTS. Tint Gastonia Oaxkttk— twice a week, $1 JO a year. TOO MANY_ WIVES. Thar Cam* ta CaortFbuUa* lha Card* Stacked Agalaet Ria, Lawyer Threw (If lha Shu*. Vofkvlllr Kmnircr Kib ■r,J'i a young North Caioltuiuii who was airested at Blacksburg lost week on the charge of bigamy, was oo Wed nesday cumrnittcd for trial at the next term of the court of general sessions. . Teeter had asked for a pre liminary examination and the flame was to have been held on Wednesday, but be changed his inind about tbe matter. This was because of developments which seemed to make tbe pre limiuary examination entirely unnecessary. At the appointed hour Con sla'de Peters went to the tail after the prisoner. Teeter began to sssurc the constable of Ilia Innocence, saying that he had lived with soother woman in North Carolina; but that she was not hi* wife, there had never been any marriage ceremony. "Ob, well, that's all right,• replied tbe constable, "she’s here to see you." "She'* here, you say?" " Yes, she's here and her father is here with her." "Well, say,” returned the pris oner in great agitation, "jnat let me stay here in the jail won't you. I don't want to go up there." " liut they sent me after you," explained Constable Peters, "and I pncM you'll have to go atoug with roe." Dejectedly the priaoner accom panied the constable to tbe office of Magistrate Comer, and on be ing placed on a bench opposite wives Xos. 1 and 2. lie declined to raise bis head to look into tbe faces of the two wronged women. wc waive onr riffDl 10 a prr liminary,” announced K. fiarle Thoinwcll, who appeared for the defendant, and that was about 1 all there was of it. Magistrate Comer recommitted the prisoner in default of a bond for $550. The defendant bad evidently intended to make a fight, and bad retained Mr. V. I*. McCain for liis defense. Mr. McCain haviug been suddenly called away got Mr. Tbornwell to take charge of the case, and as soon as the cards had been stacked on the other side, Mr. Thornwell threw up the sponge. Marion H. Jennings represent ed the prosecution, and was well prepared to make out a prims facie case by proving both mar riages. Tu the case of wife No. 1, he bad the marriage license and two witnesses to the cere mony and in the cose of wife No. £, the magiatratc who per formed the ceremony was on hand in person. Stay-at Homo Missouri an a. Vew Voile Ruii. Missouri is one of the largest States in the country and the most populous of the States beyond the Mississippi. Into it have gone by tbonsands each year immigrants from other States, but from it few emigrants go, and a "man from Missouri” is, therefore, a rarity in most parts of the country, particular ly in the Eaat and along the Atlantic seaboard. There are only 3,300 natives of Missouri in the State of New York, a smaller number than there are natives of either Georgia, Michigau, California, Illinois or the lnstrict of Colum bia. oiuall as is the Missouri colony in New York, it is larger than in the Missouri colony in any other city of the country, with the single exception of Quincv, 111., which is near enough to the Missouri boundry line to get frequent accessions from that State. Missouri peo ple do not come Bast, except for brief visits, and lew go to the Northwest, though that is largely mode up of newcomers, not ouly from Kuropean conn tries, but from other American States. Moreover, by the last census there were only 400 natives of Missouri in Calvestcn sod only 1,200 in New Orleans. Id the latter city there were 2,000 natives of Virginia. The people of Missouri have not much of the migratory dis position which characterises the natives of most other States. They are satisfied to stay at Itome or to move from one part of Missouri to another. The Missouri Society in Xew Yoik has in recent years been re cruited by many men dis tinguished hi professional or literary life, yet, while the colony baa become important, its membership continues small er than is the case from moat other large Statea. It’s 11.50 a yenr now. YORK AND YORKVILir. WkH'i Dalai Aaiaag aur Neigh bor* Jaat Acraaa tfc# Llaa. OltaMd Iron The Enqulrar. HHK Mr. James W. Snider, the dis penser, died Ian Wednesday morning, and the dispoisary u closed until his successui can be chosen. Under the law. ZU days notice nmstbe given. The board * c?R*ctt^ t0 Meet January 13th U> fill the vacancy. Dr, J. H Ssye has resigued hi* commis sion as a member of the dispen sary board becanxe of his elec tkiu to the general assembly and Mr. James K. Barns of R. F. D. Xo. 1 Yorkville, will probably be appointed as his successor. "I wish it was forever instead of until January 13." said Dr. J. H. Ssye. chairman of the county board of control, when be learn ed that the dispensary will have to lie closed until a new dispenser can be elected. And the doctor said it with an emphasis that left no doubt of his sincerity. The C. & X. W. is Uic first railroad company to pay ita taxes , to Treasurer Neely this year, i Agent Bray on Wednesday turn ed over a check for $1,600 20. There seems to be absolutely ■ nothing in the way of rapid and i mbstantial growth for the town i >f Yorkville. General conditions ; have not been so good in fifty ! rears and the prospects are sfl l that could be desired. Tue dissolution of the pnxtorsl ’ relations between Rev. Dr. W. 1». Neville and the Presbyterian 1 Church of Yorkville, takes effect 1 mi January 1, 1905 The large hog belonging to , Andy HaU was killed Tuesday. ! It weighed 695 pound* gross. A inmber of hogs have been killed ' n this section which netted over MX) pounds. Mr. Alunxo kom wants to put , id a handsome brie* building on , ;he Kuykendal lot recently pur* . chased by him. He has made au . ifler for tbe lot fronting on Hast Liberty street and purchased , we time back for municipal purposes. It is his purpose, if ( ae enn get this lot to use it as a near entrance to his Main street ( ot. Should he be able to carry >ut his idea, the reanlt will Ik a . most desirable improvement. Capt. W. B. Moore worked for months to secure the cstab isliment of h knitting mill in : Yorkville. and had the capital all ant raiaed when he learned that bit brother, Mr. T. P. Moore, was running around the country with a wad of $35,000 looking For a place to bnild a spinning mill. Captain Moore talked the matter over with a number oi his 1 knitting mill snbacribera, and most of them agreed to divert their subscription to tbe proposed ' •pinning mill. Other people of lered substantial aid ana the raising of tbe necessary capital proved to be a comparatively easy undertaking. Of conne, the people of Yorkville are de lerying of commendation for their prompt appreciation of atich an Advantageous opportunity: hut to Captain Moore, more than to any other one man, belongs the credit of having secured this enterprise for the town. At Washington Monday the committee on privileges and elections of the United States Senate, took up the case of Senator Keed Smoot of Utah. Twenty witnesses are summoned to testify in tbe case, some oi them ex-Mormons. Thk Gastonia Gaxetth— twice a week, $1.50 a year. ■B-g-1 1-SM. 1 ■ -mi I I .1 TIN Ht IN SOUTH CAROLINA, Ooveramtnf Bolletln lliyi Where ll ia Ft and. Vvrtrrtlc Kaaaim. lQlfc, The deposits of tin ore ia South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia are discussed in a bulletin on the tin industry of the country just issued by the ecological survey. This bulk tin aasra that 43 per cent, of the world a production of tin ia consumed in this country, but that none of the metal is pm duccd in the United States. Tin baa been discovered hi various states bat no attempts have been made to place the industry on a prod active footing. Tbc most notable deposits are in South Dakota, South Caro lina, North Carolina, Virginia and Alaska. What may be called tbc Caro lina tin belt extends from Gaffney, Cherokee county. South Carolina, in a general northeasterly direction across this county, across the south eastern comer of Cleveland county, North Carolina, and across Gaston and Lincoln coun ties, North Carolina. The tin deposits found in Rockbridge couuty, Virginia, may ba a con tinuation of the Carolina tin belt across Catawba, Iredell, Yad kin and Surry counties. North Csrolioa. The principal locality iu Sonili Carolina where lie ore has been found is about one mile north of Gaffney, on land belonging to Capt. S. S. Rosa. Other deposits are known in the vicinity of tbe town of King's Mountain. North Carolina, on the southern end of Chestnut Ridge, about Hi miles north east of Kings Mountain; and on tbe John !?. Jones plantation. 7 miles northeast of Kings Moon lain Tbe Southern railway traverses a considerable portion of tbe tin belt, and any com mercial deposits that may be developed will have good rail road facilities. Tbc report coo tains many interesting details concerning the geology' of this district and the mincralogicml and chemical character of the ore. The le ward ef Cockrell** Career. Kuui.Cilr Mir. The tribute of rcsnccl and af fection which was paid to Sena tor Cockrell by his associates in the U si ted States Senate yester day was not limited by any party affiliations. Republican and Democratic members alike, from nearly every State in the Onion, crowded about tbc Missourian's desk and expressed their regret at kis retirement. Francis 11. Cockrell has some times been charged by the poli ticians with a lack of shrewd ness. But now it may dawn on such persons that it is pretty wise after all to so conduct one self in public life that every year adds to the measure of a man's estimation. The involuntary manifestation of confidence and esteem which greets the Missouri statesman in his last session of Congress is as fine an illustration of the profit of a worthy life as any incident that has been recorded. "Old Frank Cockrell” woo that ova tion by patient years of faitblnl service—by being too much of a patriot—and loo much of a gen tleman—to batray the people’s trust. Littleton Hosiery Mill*. Little ton, N. C., arc reported making arrangements to enlarge their present plant. Home Made •.• , Have your cake, muffins, and tea bis cuit Home-made. They will be fresher, cleaner, more tasty and wholesome. Royal Baking Powder helps the house wife to nreduce at home, quickly and eco nomically, fine and tasty cake, the tailed hot-biscuit, puddings, the frosted layer cake, crisp cookies, crullers, crusts and muffins, with which the ready-made food found at the bake-shop or grocery does not compare. Royal is the greatest of bake-day helps. 4. m««o wwm eo., nrw %«•». ( PECO PETTICOATS 9 F _■, ,Jt>tt urf55ivfd* to of otir celebrated :4 ruffle I’ero V §*km«, which we have been aellioe for fbenart 11 month* ft 1 lnct ZSffh’I.iS? **« price- they arc richly worth it ■ ua.iS? ^S?v«£“‘r "* ..« i MILLINERY. {• O gsts i Q M a»dfr. b°t i mair «hst y»n.r nUHcrr Suut 1 ) J a m e s F. Jlf eager); eeeeweee^eee^aea^g WHEN CHRISTMAS IS OVER ! YOU WILL NOT REGRET THE MONEY YOU SPENT } HERE. . j I l THE PHOTOGRAPHS We produce grow mote attractive every time yoa look at them. The likeness is no speaking, the pose so natural. Have a dozen taken, give eleven array and kctp out. Yon will find yonreclf admiring it more every day. Yottr or ders for framing shall have oar prompt attention. Ilaone 137 is Davis block. Phone 147 la Groves bailding. ■ . GREEN AND MULLEN, SooCMMrt ready at jour call for nay little trip. If yon want to vlrit von* neigh bor or go vyhoppinjf my nice Mirrev- i* uniting to take wi. l. arry you anywhere in town lt>, ‘jS cct»U; short rifetM*-** for less; rcaaouable rates, outside od town. Call* left at Phone 101 will have prompt and proper at* tention. Try H. Sorter will also meet all sight. Iw.if* TeIlIvi ■MmaumaauHMauMaauBMmuumMHaaa - - - -**LJ ——■■ii Profeaatonal Cards. A. L. BULWINKLE, Attorney-at-Law. Dallas, n. c. dr. d. b. McConnell, DENTIST. Office fin* floor Y. M. C. A. Bid's GASTONIA, N. C. Pkoae # Me. 0. ANDERS, M.l>. GASTONIA, X. C. Special attention to Hlneeaea of Cbildran. ^