DIED OF HYDEOPilOBlA.
Prominent ¥ms| Nan al Berk*
lk< Victim—Paataur Treat*
mant iMffoctual.
Chaikata Observer.
Morganton, Dec. 17.—Horace
Hoffman. a young man 22 years
of age, died at the borne of his
father, Juliua H. HoBman, five
miles north of Morganton. this
morning of hydrophobia. Young
Hoffman and his brother, Oliver
L. Hoffman, a civil engineer in
the employ of the Canlina and
Northwestern Railroad, were
bitten on election day by a rabid
dog, a red setter with which
they had Just , been quail hunt
ing, and which up to that time
had shown no aigns of disease.
Horace had his cheek fearfully
lacerated by the fangs of the
dog, while his brother escaped
with a slight scratch on one of
his fingers.
Althongh the dog was very
vicious, and immediately disap
peared after biting tbc brothers,
it was nearly three weeks later
that it was definitely known that
the dog was mad. The young
men then went immediately to
the Pasteur Institute in Balti
more, where they remained three
weeks, and no unfavorable symp
toms developing, they were dis
charged last Monday. Before
leaving Baltimore Horace began
to suffer with aente pains in the
head, accompanied by high
lever. This was attiibnted to
cold, and the brothers came
home ou Thursday. Yesterday
Dm. Laxton and Moran, ot Mor
ganton, were ajromoned to at
tend Horace, but nothing could
be done to arrest the progress of
the disease, and death came tbia
morning. The physicians pro
nounced it an unmistakable case
of hydrophobia.
No unfavorable symptoms have
developed as to Mr Oliver Hoff
uian, and, as his wound was very
slight, there is every reason to
hope that the treatment at Balti
more was successful in his case.
Mr. J. H. Hoffman, father of
the young men, is one o( Burke's
prominent citizens, who has on
several occasions represented the
eonuty in the Legislature.
hbrtiwl Alter Taking.
Cbulrtlc OUom.
Mr. P. Torrence, of Gastonia,
was speculating upon the advan
tagei and disadvantages of the
marriage state. "It is easy to
see." he said, "how quickly the
world loses interest in a man
when he gets married. So
long as be is single he is like the
hero in a novel, surrounded by
all sorts of uncertainties; but let
him get married and the story is
closed. His pace is fixed. Every*
body knows where his home is.
There cannot arise any sensa
tion from him. And perhaps it
is partly because he loses inter
est in *hc world. He realises
that be ia a ship at perpetual gn
chor and he quits his dreaming
and goes after the facts.
The Gastonia Gazette —
twice a week, $1.50 a year.
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HEALTH
is the
Most
Important
The manufacturer* of Royal
Baking Powder have had 40
years of scientific experience.
Every method of bread-and
cake raising has been exhaus
tively studied in this country snd
abroad.
The result is a perfect prod
uct in Royal Biking Powder.
There is no substitute for it.
The purity and efficiency of
Royal Baking Powder nave
been commended by the highest
authorities of the world.
These facts mean two impor
tant things to all house keeper*:
nrtltlfcat Ssral Bsktae
sooSif it iuumu
ROYAL SdwSS
ABSOLUTELY
PURE
CHRISTMAS OR A MAW OP Wit.
Bow Uada SMt'i Jackias Ks*p
Iks Partly* 11*1 May-t*liii*u
SanrlcM m B**ri—Opanlat
*1 Packages Pram Imm ao
laiaraatiaf Foalur* *f th* Day.
■^»lhl«iuy rtf tfW* 1 llWIfli
Tbc average layman going
aboard one of the vessels of the
United States Navy on Christ in as
morning, even though he be
somewhat conversant with navy
customs, would be likely to mis
take the occasion for Sunday
morning. Indeed, the obser
vance of the joyona holiday on
the great vessels flving the Stars
and Stripes is identical with that
of Sunday not only in the atmos
phere of peace and quiet which
prevaila. bat also in tbc program
which is followed by both of
ficers and tnen. Christmas, like
Sunday, is primarily a day of
rest in these interesting floating
communities and it is welcome
for, purely from the standpoint
of physical endurance, there are
few enough such respites in the
tense existence of the men whoac
duty it is to protect American
citirens in all parts of the world.
All work has ceased at noon
on the day before Christmas,
only the cooks who are intrusted
with the preparation of the
Christmas dinner continuing
their activity and, indeed, these
knights of the "galley” as the
kitchen is called on shipboard,
not infrequently work from dusk
until dawn baking the cakes and
pies which are to constitute im
portant features of the blue
jackets' Christmas treat.
'/n viinnmu morning me
regular routine is almost dis
pensed with and religions ser
vices are held if there be a chap
lain on board or any minister
can be secured to officiate for the
occasion. It should be explain
ed that, although in some of the
navies of the world there is a
chaplain for almost every ship,
ibe greatest of republics is not
»o fortunate. We have only
about thirty chaplains in our
navy, and inasmuch as Uncle
Sira owns more than 250 naval
vessels of one or another kiod, it
will readily be seen that there
are not nearly enough to go
aronud. However, if a naval
vessel is overtaken by Christmas
in any American or European
port there is in almost every in
stance some American or Eng
lisb-born clergyman who is only
too glad to come aboard and con
duct the services which
have. "Peace on earth, good
will to men,” for their text. Even
when the ynle-tide season finds
one of our vessels in some out
of-the-way comer of the globe
the religious services need not
as a rale be dispensed with, for
in most instances there may be
found an American missionary
who is more than willing to
officiate. It is one of the chief
duties of the United States navy
in the seml-civiHied portions of
the world to protect and rescue,
when necessary, American uiis
sionaries whose liras or property
are endangered in any uprising
and the missionaries are strongly
disposed to welcome the oppor
tunity which tile Christina* re.
Hgiona services give to attest
their gratitude and appreciation,
and to strengthen the bond o(
sympathy which baa grown up
between our navy officers and
the pioneers who are preaching
the gospel in lands of darkness.
If the .weather permits, the
Christmas religious service is
often held on deck and no matter
how limited the opportunities
the "Jackies" will have provided
n Christmas decoration of some
sort. If the ship is in northern
waters where piae is procurable,
the regulation Christmas greens
are used, but if the vessel is in
the tropics the sailors will con
tent themselves with branches of
bamboo or banana, and there
have even been occasions when
the cactus was pressed into ser
vice, it being the only thing
available. At these religious
services the bluejackets Join in
tinging the byu»n* and on the
larger vessels carrying over five
hundred men, the great assem
blage of aeamen form a full
chorus which is moot inspiring.
Very frequently there arc
ladies present at the Christmas
service on shipboard. The regu
lations of the United States Navy
do not permit even the officers
of highest rank to be accompa
nied by their wives. Hut al
though a navy wife may not
travel nor lodge on one of Mian
Colombia's rfostiug fortresses,
•be my vitit her bosbend’a ahip
a frequently a* she may choose.
And i/mty of these fair exiles
can Journey to the port where
the ship is whkb she fa inter
ested is to spend Christmas, she
l» enthusiastically wel
comed .hoard not only by her
ba*b.pf b*t by every nun in
the ship's company, tor the
nerry holiday without the sound
ox a woman's voice or of chil
dren'* laughter is likely to be a
•*> pretence. The feminine
guests, if tha ship is to fortunate
a* to have any. come aboard in
♦line for the religious services in
the morning and remain through
out the day, finally presiding at
the officer's Christina* dinner in
the evening. The sailor lads, it
fipls'ned. have a rous
ing Christina* feast at noon. Al
though the commanding officer
m present on this occasion and
tastes of the goodies which the
men have provided, he and the
members of his staff do not have
their own Christinas dinner anti)
evening. Twice daring this
evening meal the officer* rise to
their feet, once in recognition of
the invariable Cnristmas remem
brance. "The loved ones at
home," aud again in response
t|' that pretty navy sentiment.
Our sweethearts and wives—
may the former he the latter and
the latter be the former.”
Christmas afternoon is given
over to the enlisted men of the
navy for enjoyment in their own
way. The vast majority of the
crew may be expected to go
ashore to attend a Christmas en
tertainment provided by some
sailors’ mission or by a naval
branch of the Y. M. C. A . if the
vessel u at a port where there Is
one of these institutions. Other
wise the blue-jackets will, In all
likelihood, remain aboard ship
and devote their time to a carni
val of healthful nthclrtic sport
inch as a boat race, contest n
climbing the rigging, wrestling,
boxing matches, etc., in all of
which there is keen competition
despite the fact that the prises
tre such modest offerings as an
ipple, orange, pic, or an onion.
Sometimes there are pnrscs of
Sve or ten dollars.
sometimes (luring tbe day
there ii a distribution ol Christ
mas presents, or other boxes.
While there is little exchange
»f gifts bet wren the men on a
naval vessel, it is unnsnal in
feed. for the Christmas mail not
to bring at least one parcel for
the defenders of the Stars aud
Stripes. The officers too display
■II tbe enthusiasm of small hoys
in examining the contents of the
Christmas boxes, each daintlv
tied with ribbon which gives
jvidence of some loving wife or
iweetheart’s hands. It frequent
ly happens that a vessel in re
mote foreign waters receives the
home mail only at infrequent in
tervals and under such circum
stances, the Christ mas gifts in
tended for the men on board
mnst be mailed weeks in advance
»nd mayhap they may reach
their destination some days be
fore Christmas. Bat inasmuch
is each box bears the inscrip
tion “not to be opened until
Christmas day.” there is no
sacrifice of tbe timeliness of
Christmas joys.
C. E. Hau.mak.
Just Oat of Them.
VTuhlogtoa rod.
It woo that same lawyer who
siutost shattered the icy com
posure of a head waiter here in
town once upon a time. He
went to supper after the theatre
with • party of friends and he
ordered coffee.
"Please bring it in a cnp with
the handle on the left aiae," be
said confidentially to the waiter.
"I’m left handed sad 1 can't use
any other kind of a cap.”
"Yea, sir,” stammered the
waiter. "I will air?"
He was seen to hasten away
and confer with the bead waiter.
The bead waiter bore down on
that party.
"What sort of a cup was that
you wasted, air?" he aaked.
"Cup with the handle on the
left side. I’m left handed,”
said the lawyer.
The bead waiter disappeared,
to return a little later obviously
perturbed.
"The cnp you"—he began.
"What.” said the lawyer. "Do
yon mean to tell me that In a
first-class cafe yon haven't such
a thing a* a cup with the handle
on the left side? Absurd I
Why, I couldn’t possible use
any other kind. You must
have plenty of them.”
"Well," said the heed waiter,
"we usually has but 1 regrets to
say. sir. tbnt the last we had
was broken tbia morning."
LMUNiriu veteran i
Members of William Gamble
Catnp of United Confederate
Veterans who have not paid
their anneal dues will please re
spond at once by paying the
same to the undersigned,
dues meat reach New Orleans
by January 1, 1905, or onr Camp
win fail to be recognised.
W. I. Utowk, SeoV.
Tn* Gastonia OAfXTTN—
twice s week, $1.50 a year.
XtCSIVftMir MMOLVXB.
laS Ta
i la
r. I. A.
Lava la CaaMar Way aal la*
. At Sbelby Tuesday. Judge J.
L. Webb beard tbe recciverakip
In tbe caae of tbe Gaa
{?"{• Banking Company. Judge
Webb signed a decree, by con
sent. ordering tbe temporary re
ceiver, Mr. John F. keeper, to
tarn over to tbe officers of the
closed bank tbe assets (■ bis
bands. Mr. Love and bis asso
ciates had placed tbe affairs in
such an excellent shape that
tbene was no necessity for tbe
appointment of a permanent re
ceiver. Mr. keeper turned over
to Mr. Love Wednesday tbe as
sets of the bank which he had
in hand.
Mr. Robert A. Love of
Lincpliiton has been elected
cashier of tbe bank to succeed
Mr. James A. Page, who has
accepted a position with the
First National Bank.
All claims against the bank
have been satisfied and its
liabilities are now less than
$1,500. The promptness with
which Mr. Love and his associ
ates settled the affair* of the
bank to tbe entire satisfaction
of all creditors merits commen
dation and ha* been the subject
of favorable comment in busi
ness circles.
Inasmuch os three of the
stockholders of tbe Gastooia
Banking Company have become
stockholders in the newly organ
ised Citizens National Bank
and two of tbe director* are
members of the board of direc
tors of the new bank, it is un
derstood that tbe Gastooia
Banking Company will probably
not resume business operations.
LOflO CREEK ITEMS.
Buaway Boy Carnet Kaast-Ap
MWidilal Huriiia al Kiu'i
MoaaUln.
.. . .h lit* (laaftto
Long Creek, Dec. 19.—There
•rill be a Christ mar tree at Pat
terson Grove. The sum of $25
bas been made up for it.
Miss Thomson Uniting along
fine with the Long Creek school.
While she was tick one week,
Miss Lizzie Or in and took her
place and carried on the school
nicely.
Mr. George Boom bas made a
granary of tha Boom school
house. He moved it with two
wagons and nine moles.
Mr. Howard McGill, a 16 year
old bov, who ran array last
March, baa come home. He got
word that his father had got his
leg hart and he started home the
next day. Mr. McGill was rid
ing on the Tunning gear of the
wagon, when bia leg caught on
a stnmp and was nearly broken.
He U getting better cow.
Miss Elisabeth Jackaon and
Mr. Robert Thorn are to be mar
ried on the evening of Wednes
day, the 28th, at the first Metho
dist Church in King's Monatain.
Mr. Thorn la the freight and
passenger agent of the Northern
Pacific Railway at Oakes, North
Dakota.
fISGAH pencilinos.
nf tb* ntmu.
llsN om from Iwt Imm,
Piaguli. Dec. 19-Mr. E. W.
Morrow ii steadily Improving
alter a long siege with uraemia
and catarrh of the stomach.
The physician atys be ia doing
all right and will be up in a few
weeks if nothing else doesn't
set in.
Mr. John H. Taylor baa re
moved from Mr. A. Jackson
Gamble’s to Loray. Mr. Taylor
will proably manage a beef
market ia that mill village.
Mr. A. B. P. Branch has re
moved to I«oray from Mr. A. J.
Gamble’s.
We ara Informed that Mr. J.
W. Blackwood will not occupy
his residence before New Years
as was intended as the bouse is
not celled and some of the rooms
are not ready hr occupancy.
The house could have been
ready in October but labor was
scarce and carpenter work coats
in this day and time.
Mr. James P. Morrow, of
Chattanooga, Teon., informs ns
that on account of pressure of
business it will be Impossible
fur him to spend Christmas in
Plagnh.
Mias Aunie Marie Weir, of
Pisgali has accepted a position
at the Lotay min in the cloth
finishing department.
Oon of the frame buildings of
the Wiiitaett Institute at Whit
satt was destroyed by fire Sun
dayeatailing • lota of $3,000,
partially covered by insurance.
TOftX ani^youville,
whaft hiiiiiuH MT MaUh*
VortrrOto Dnilw
Uol«« there Is i material ad*
▼■ace In the price of cotton with*
in the next lew months, the
•ermwe will reduce itself.
The bona fide paid circulation
of The York villa Enquirer is
now bet ■ few short of nineteen
hundred copies per iasee.
Rev. and Mrs. Lacv L. Little
expect to set out on their return
to China on December 29. Their
address after reaching their des*
tination will be ICiang Yin, via
Shanghai.
Captain \V. B. Moore ia bav>
iug a glass front put in the store
room between the stores of W.
S’ *S5nHledy ■■*• J«*»» M. Starr.
>T. W. Speck is to more in
with hir jewelry store soon after
lb* first of Janaary.
The Clover Cotton M«««t**.
taring company has received one
hundred bams for presentation
to heads of families In its cm*
ploy this week. The manage*
ment of the Clover Mane fact ur
ing company remembers Its em
ploye! all tbe year round and cs*
ttfrtflllv at rttriafmnn
The subject of cement side
walk is being discussed. The
proposition is that the town pay
half the expanse aad the proper
ty owners can osy the other half.
Property owners cannot be forced
to pay; hot where they an ua
willing to pay, the town can
leave the si tie walks as they are.
Cement sidewalks would kelp
Main street wonderfully.
Mr. Win. C. Whittier of River
view farm, Rock Hill, is sending
out a circular letter to the news
papers in which be is urging the
farmers to get together on a
proposition to burn part of the
cotton holdings in order to put
up the price of the balance. He
argues that unless some such
heroic measure is resorted to the
price of the next crop will be pot
down to 6 cents.
A jng of whiskey fell of the
express cart this morning while
it was being transferred from the
Southern depot to the C. & N.
W depot. A number of a e
groes standing a round immedi
ately proceeded to save all that
could be saved. Some of the
negroes got down on their bel
lies and lapped the spilled liquor
from the frozen ground.
" 1 calculate that tbc merchants
of Yorkvilk will get from $3,000
to $5,000 during the next thirty
days that they would not have
gotten except for the closing of
the dispensary,*' said Mr. With
ers Adickes to the reporter on
Saturday. "Of coarse there Is
going to be some tiger whiskey
on the market,” be frankly ad
mitted, "but it will be nothing
like in amount what the dispen
sary would have handled. Yea
the closing of the dispensary is
certainly a good thing for busi
ness.”
Monro* Muul.
Ko doubt yM'w hon'd many
a fellow My, 'Gee, Monroe is
the highest taxed town fa the
State now l* The State tax com
missioner* pat down the highest
taxed towns os Asheville, Char
lotte, Concord, Wilmington,
Dntbatn, Gastonia. Greensboro,
Raleigh, Winston. Sat of those
only Asheville, Wilmington sad
Gastonia have a higher rate than
Monroe.
Yale Doha m the Hajra.
tindcxMM OaU Lee*. 18th.
The race question has been
brought forward ia a new and
unexpected Quarter. A Boston
dispatch savaYale College threat
ens to break off athletic relations
with Harvard on accoaat of the
negro. Harvard has been play
ing a negro ow its football team.
Notice was served that this
would not be permitted in the
recent contest between Yak and
Harvard. Bat the coach per
sisted la playing the negro and
there was a great kick from Yale
—and tke negro got the wont of
the kicking. The dispatch says
Matthews, the nctrTO, was finally
taken from the field alter be had
been kicked and hammered near
ly into insensibility by the indig
nant Yale players.
ii puuru iu«i rrinccion Iiai
alio tnkcn a hand in the matter
and told Harvard plainly that
football relations would never be
resumed until Harvard agtsod
net to play negroes. Princeton
nearly killed n Dartmouth negro
in a game last fall sad will not
even tolerate black men in col
lege.
As white men’s colleges.
Princeton and Yak. It is said,
have read the riot act to Harvard
and delivered ultimatums that It
must paaa up the uejpoe*.
And these ate not Southern col
leges. either._
It’s 11.50 a year bow.
S Create, white* and black.
V Dainty cfiects, prices 75c
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jSasa
9 "fe&a&gsjB
a Speci<tl oggf0< these gtoef
r
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I keep it hitched nptcadyaB the time. It is ready at
your call for any little trip. If you vast to risit yonr neigh
bor or go a-sbopping my nice aurxey ia wailing to take yon.
Carry you anywhere in town for 25 cenU; short distances
for leaa; reason able rates outside of town.
Calls left at Phone 101 wffll have prompt and proper at*
teation. Try It. Somy will also meet all trains day and ^
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>V* F. ELMO R E
Al ralffcvoUn’* twOlM.
"Oh, John, 1 joined a new
club to-day.”
"Great Snakes 1—How away
more clubs will they organ be.
This mak-a about forty you
have joined What's tbe object
of it—what do they call It?"
"Thb b tbe jpfckte club.
Bach member takes a jar of
pickles and tbe ooe who can cat
the most pickles white the presi
dent counts one hundred back
w**ds, rets a three-color
chromo of Dr. Mary Jane Walk
er in pants. Ob. Joba. it b
perfectly lovely.''
•Did you win tbe prim—let
me see ft?"
.INo* ***£• **?• 01 **
older member* have been prac
ridnr. 1 only at# two bra of
pickles white Mrs. DeClnbsy
got away wkb over three jars.”
Tbe Feraaeee Bore e PraMeas b
^ lelve.
High price for cotton weans
®ot ogjjr prosperity for the farm
er. hut for everybody throughout
the South. Sometimes you hear
aaeera from rattle-pated follows
who am ia other lines of busi
ness when the farmers organise
for the accomplishment of any
object, but now not a disparag
ing remark do yon bear as the
farmers make an honest effort to
work out their own salvation.
Low prices for cotton teach the
great lesson that every man, no
matter what may be Us business,
la dependent upon the toil, a
lesson a fool ought to know with
out bring taught. Just at tbfo
time the farmer has many ad
viam, as he always has. hut ad
vice to the fanner from the source
*«m whence It usually cornea is
o©tworth the paper on which it
Is written, for it is given by those
^rfi%nsts
book. 7T1sw*S
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