- QA8TONIA, N. c.. TUEUPAY, DECEMBER »7. 1BO-*. ! T”'
T. W. LAWSON BE SCI [BED.
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Ciraar.
VurkTillc Kaanlrtr.
Thomas W. Lawson was bom
in Itbc city of Charlestown 45
years ago, being the son of a
carpenter from Nova Scotia.
He ran away from school at
the age of 12 yean to get a job
on State street, and got it.
Made a small fortune when 16
in a "pool" with other State
street office boys. Loot it all
after in a squeeze in stocks.
Married at 21, and has had a
delightful home life. Is the
father of six children.
Made his debut in State street
about 17 years ago in a fight
against a store-service company,
be being interested in a rival
patent. Won the fight and
engineered a "reorganization,"
with himself on the miide.
About this time was also man
ager of a large railroad supply
printing house in Boston.
In 1883 engineered a stock
campaign for the Westinghoose
Electric company against the
General Electric company.
Cleaned up *2,634,000 in 58
days for himself and his back
#ri.
Plungled in sugar stock and
"dropped his pile."
Promoted a "boom” town in
Kentocky and lost.
Became interested ib the
Butte and Boston Copper Min
ing company’s atock, which he
bought at from 75 cents to $2 a
share and bulled to $75 or better.
Accumulated stock of the Bos
ton and Montana company in
the same way and did the same
thing with it.
Interested Henry H. Rogers
and other Standard Oil men in
copper, and in the organisation
of the Amalgamated company
cleaned up millions.
Took an active part in gas
affairs in Boston.
Fell out with the Standard Oil
in 1901 and lost about $10,000,
000 in a few days in a sensa
tional drop in Amalgamated
stock. Vpwed vengeance, and
lay low.
Began a campaign of publici
ty looking to a rehabilitation of
hit fortunes and to "getting
square" with Standard Oil.
Acquired a copper mine of bis
own in California. Began pro
moting a combination of Lake
Superior mines as rivals to the
Am alga mated.
In 1901 he bnilt a racing
yacht, at a cost of $250,000 and
offered her as a defender of the
America'* Cud, but without be
ing admitted to the trial races.
Broke the vessel np at the end
of three months, and at a coat
of $40,000 published a book tell
ing all about it, the entire
edition of which he gave away.
Acqnited fame as buyer of a
pink for $30,000 and naming it
Built a stock farm among the
recks of Scituste, st s cost of
$2,000,000, because bis wife
liked the site.
H«s accumulated the finest
kennel of bulldogs in the coun
try.
Bought ■ triangle of land in
the Back Ray for nearly $300,060,
and made it into a park for the
benefit of hit neighbors, most of
whom do not like him.
Is conducting bis present
campaign against tne stock
market from a room in a down
town hotel, assisted only by a
stenographer. Is not accessible
even to intimates.
Is the most complex character
before the public to-day.
Does not belong to any city
club.
enings at
Dispenses large tarns in
charity.
Is superstitions._
rinttiitiktrmt.
Chariott« New*. lit*.
Our lively neighbor, Oeatouie,
la forging to the front. In ed
dition to her cotton milla nod
banks, end other enterprises, she
has just organised a building
and loan association, and her
people will go to building and
owning tbdr own hornet. A
town can do nothing more help
ful in tbia Hat than to sustain
one or more well maoegwd build
ing and loan associations. And
if any of them want any lessons
as to how these institutions
should be managed, are refer
- them to any of the three associa
tions here._
The Raleigh correspondent of
the Charlotte Observer gives
the following telephone figures:
There ere in this State 83 tele
phone system, with 15,033 sub
scriber*, and 24.880 miles of
wires- There were 38,000,000
talks during the year. The reve
«*« aad tbee*
p cases $391,118.
PISQAI PEWCHfllOS.
Tk« Vain *1 Para Lands la
OMtan—Tka Haw* Irani Pladak
—Isdacs (ks Cation Acreage.
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Plasoh, R. P. D. No. 1, Dec.
22.—The Cfaristuus spirit I Hov
wonderful the Joy it brings! Let
us go about doing good like Hint
whose birth we celebrate. What
better gift to God and man thnn
to love one another? ’Tis more
blessed to give than to receive.
Let us forgive and forget tbs old
Sudgct and wrongs and start
e New Year right.
The decline in cotton tins
caught the people here with a
considerable lot ou band. They
arc trusting that there is some
mistake in the Government's
cotton report, and that when
discovered, cotton will react and
*® »P as last as it went down.
Yonr correspondent has re
cently interviewed a number of
prominent farmers and land own
ers in regard to the value of
farm lands in Gaston. Within
the past five years it is safe to
estimate that farm lands have
about doubled in value. The in
crease over fast year was (ram
13 to 20 per cent. Rents are
higher for farm lands and better
buildings have been constructed
for tenants. Hctter methods of
farming ate being introduced,
lands are being gradually im
proved and ns they reach a
higher state of cultivation the
valne consequently increases.
Continuous rain and snow fall
lately encourages the hope that
the supply of water, which has
almost entirely failed in many
wells, my be replenished.
The county of Gaston has a
community known by the Bibli
cal name of "Pisgah,* it also
contains Pisgah A. R. P. Church,
and also some cplendid people.
The former as a place named
’’Pisgah" deserves to be spread
far and wide. This community
contains Jones Seminary, a fam
ous "Seat of Knowledge." The
community of Pisgah is bounded
on the north by the Southern
Railway; on the south by the
Carolina & Nortbwestsrn Rail
way ; on the east by Lincoln and
Yorkville road and on the west by
Crowder's Moontsin and Philips
burg.
We are informed that the name
of the new cotton mill to be built
in the near future between Loray
and Arlington will be "The Gray
Mill." The capital stock is $150,
000. The plant will be ran by
steam. There will be 10.000
spindles and 350 looms.
On the last Saturday in this
month end the last day of 1904
we will change to Pisgah Para
graphs.
ed lor Gaston county people, sod
wants Gaston county news. Be
iaJ •« the writer is the only
privileged person in the county
outside of Mt. Holly to take the
official readings of the Catawba
river gauges, he will from time
to time, submit it to Tire Gas
tonia Gazette.
We urge all of our Gaston
county farmers who can to meet
in the conn house in the town of
Dallas, January 7th, to consider
'the cotton situation.” We urge
all farmers in Gaston to bold for
10 cents per pound, and to re
duce the acreage oue-fourth.
Reduction in acreage is the only
hope in sight._
Tbe minister — My dear
madam, let this thought console
you for your husband’s death.
Remember that other and better
men than be have gone the same
way.
Bereaved widow—They
haven’t all gone, have they?
•Mt in— Omittad.
C*Sa«r •-*n•■
The Gastonia Gazette, one
of the beat semi-weekly news
papers in North Carotins, has
increased its price from $1.00 to
$1.50 a year, la making tha an
nouncement The Gazette giyes
four excellent reasons for in
ctaaslng its subscription price,
but leaves ofi tbe best one—and
that Is, that the paper it worth
tbe money._
Km Uneartala Qaaatlty.
m-nii iiHfcurt.
la a certain part of Statesville
oa a certain day sot Ions siaca
a certain yonnr lady married a
certain yonnr man. And now a
certain other yonnr man in a
««taln other town in this State
thinks that certain yonnr lady
“Oa* extremely uncertain, be
caaae, look eon, bo war prepar
la* to coma bare and aurry that
•ame certain uncertain yonnr
lady himaeM tkc next day-in
fcct, they had to bead hitTSTby
wire. Which waa bard linae, or
food or bad bne thinking miVn
ft ao."
YOU AN» YOIKYILLC.
Mag Among oar JMgh<
bM« Jmmt Acre to tb< Lias.
YorfcvtIU XasUnt.
The Victor Oil Mill company
he* ginned two thousand bnln
of cotton this season.
Some forty or more jugs were
transferred from the Southern
*® C. & N.-W. yesterday for
the UttCT md,
Yorkville is getting about her
nsnai liquor supply.
noth of the banka and most of
the lending business houses will
be clewed on next Monday, on
acconnt of the Cbriatmas holi
day. The understanding is that
Monday will be observed as a
holiday anite generally. The
banka will also tie closed on
January 2, on acconnt of the
New Year holiday.
The people of Yorkville and
vicinity have been very much
gratified to learn of the return
of Rev. Dr. J. L. Stokes to this
charge next year. Dr. Stokes
is an able man and a good pas
tor, and everybody in tue town
and vicinity, regardless of de
nomination tbinka well of him.
The pleasure of his return is
still fnrtbcr heightened from the
fact that it keeps his excellent
family in Yorkville for at least
another year.
Ur. W. J. Anderson who has
been living on the Mason old
place, sear Wright's ferry, for
*rout thirty years past, has pur
chwed a farm near Indian Trail,
Uaion county. N. C., and will
move to it within about a week
or ten days. Mr. Anderson’s
removal ia occasioned by the
sale of his land to the Catawba
Power company. He is a good
• Bn landmark of the
Wright’s ferry neighborhood,
and an aU round gentleman. His
many friends in York county
regret that be has decided to go
away so far.
Rev. Dr. W. G. Neville and
family expect to move to Clin
ton during the first week in
January If the weather permits.
This as the Enquirer sees it,
and there are hundreds of York
vine people who fully concur,
“ Y,e...ino,t »«1oms loss that
Yorkville has in immediate view.
,0“e residence in
Yorkvillle. Dr. Neville bas
measured up to the highest re
quirements not only as a preach
er and pastor; hot of a most
valued citizen, and hit family is
one of the very best in the
entire community. These ex
cellent people can ill be spared.
They will take with them to
their new home, however, the
best wishes of everybody.
A Greet Administration.
ChmritT and Chlldmt.
Gov. Chaa. B. Ayeock has
given North Carolina fonr years
of aa fine service as any chief
executive who ever honored that
high office. Passing by the
prosperity that otir people are
enjoying in the constantly en
larging volume of business in
•very line, the moral influence
of the present administration
baa been moat remarkable.
The long stridea forward that
have been made by tbe temper
ance movement most be gratify
ing to every lover of his kind.
And North Carolina baa seen a
new vision of universal educa
tion. Much of this wider out
look ia due to the personal work
of tbe Governor who has been a
flaming evangel, pleading with
lofty and thrilling eloquence for
a chance for the poor boy.
North Carolina, of all the states,
needed the mighty campaign of
lour years, for of all the states
she was perhaps moat strongly
chained to the past by reason of
the false doctrine promulgated
by her leaders that education
was never intended for the com
mon people. Tbe opinions of
these leaders has not changed,
but our noble Governor exposed
tbe fallacy of their reasoning and
kindled in the breest of the
poor boy a hone he never
cherts be a before. For this
courageous coarse be ha* been
called a fanatic, an educational
crank, and other things, but he
has not deviated from tbe line of
duty by a hair’s breadth. He is
a man of the highest courses
•*J® wouM fees • frowning world
without flinching If dnty dc>
mended ft. We grieve to see
him step down and out of e
pocition in which Is has been
•o eminently useful. He eerrlee
with him into private life not
only the admiration but the
affection of the peopk of North
Caroline. H« is not only the
brainiest, but one of the truest
and best of the sous of the ok)
Stale.
High Point is to erect a $20,
000 Y. II. c. A. building.
It'a $1.50 a year sow.
A DCLUOCtrBLOOD.
Smm Almwatatf Statistics Isis
viS £ * CrtaM.
Florid* T(mtA-U*k>ta.
The record shows that *ei «
homicides were committed ><
the States of the Uoion dnriai
the four yean jnst paatl Tht
figures apeak for themselves, sac
words cannot make them mo it
eloaucut. Id peace nod order,
our losses by violence wen great
er than those of the British
armies during the Boer war. It
four years of "profound peaci
and general prosperity," we low
the lives that might win a pitch
ed battle on some hard contested
field of national warfare. While
demanding that war shall cease,
we endnre the losses of war al
borne.
This country now sbeds more
blood than any other land on the
map. The exact statistics are
too painful to contemplate,
though they an now easily ac
cfmihle, and can be studied by
ml who have a deeper interest in
them than the sensation of a mo
Nor can we aay that such ten
dencies ate due with os to the
ignorance or guilt of immigrants,
aioce the tnnrder record is lower
in the countries from which they
come, while, with us. it is high
est in the States which receive
the smallest accession from this
source. It hats been found by
scientists that a gaa can be man
ufactured which can a
murderer of the quietest citizen
who baa inhaled it; has nature
sent sneb a curse from her lab
oratory to afiict os?
Once there was a savage foe
encircling ns like a line of flame.
Bnt that foe has disappeared for*
ever, and it mnst be that it left
its curse behind, for the wear
pons, once aimed at the Indians,
we now tom. with deadlier effect,
upon ourselves, and the murders
go on by night and dsy, sparing
the mother as little as her babe
tutd taking the grandfather with
the strong man down to the
grave.
la the submerged fraction we
have done so much tobnry strik
ing upward from hi grave? Has
the struggle for the dollai torn
truth and compunction from out
hearts? Or do we cease to love
each other when we cast off
respect for the law?
ttOBlMTlOH COUNTY.
Saliettar Clarkaaa Talks af
Wandertnl Dmlmal in
Chartattc N«w«. list.
Solicitor Heriot Clarkson, wbo
baa made a close stady of con
ditions in Gaston county, says
after deliberation that "pro
hibition prohibits" and that in
his opinion the growth of the
connty of Gastou daring t be past
fifteen or twenty years, has
been a most remarkable object
lesson in this line.
In an Interview with a News
representative to-day Mr. Clark
son said that twenty yearn ago
there were 45 distilleries in Gas
ton county, and today there are
none, not a single saloon or dis
tillery.
"Twenty years ago there were
not over 4 cotton mills" coo
tinned Mr. Clarkson "while to
day there are at least 36 flourish
ing mills in the connty. which
lays claim to the distinction ot
having more mills than any
county in the South and more
spindles and looms than any
connty of the state."
"I have also been struck with
the general tone of prosperity
which is to be found through
the county,” said Mr. Clark,
son. "The county’s indebted
ness does not exceed $30,000
and on an sides are evidences
that the county and the people
are enjoying life end making
Gaston connty hi* recently
built a handsome connty bone
at a coat‘of over $8,000 and also
other public buildings of the
beat type.
At the last term of court which
Solicitor Clarkson attended in
GMtoo. he states that the
criminal docket was completed
in one and a half days and than
were no caaes of a serious nature
ou the docket.
Mr. B. L. Duke, son of Mr.
Washington Duke of Durham,
and prominently connected with
the American Tobacco Compa
ny, wb worried in New York
iMt Tuesday, his bride being
Mieu Alice wehb, of Chicago.
This fa bis third marriage. Ou
March W, 1904. be waaJuvorced
from bis second wilt who now
rmldes, with her only ehild.
Woodward, at Pasadena, Cel.
Hector McMillan, a 9-yaar-old
accidently shot and hilled
himself at Fayetteville Friday.
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?| •. A special boa .. j
Farmers' & Merchath*^' Bank €
this city Orel one year age*. an
upon whose head Uw State hm
| ■ reward of $4,000, and whom
whereabouts have been nakoowi
save by a few intimate frtiwili
until a few weeks ago. arrive*
<o this city on the monslag trait
from Goldsboro, accompanied bj
Messrs. Prank Daniels, his at
toner, bis brothers. Claries ani
Dawsy. and tSe Messrs
Borden, of Goldsboro, andfanr
rendered to Sharif Biddle wb<
was at tbe depot, be £vio} bS
advised that Dewey was on tbs
train coming down to give Man
self up.
Judge Henry R. Bryan held a
bearing to decide upon the
amount of the bond, two indict*
ments under tbe statute haviaa
been found against Da way a
the May term oi tbe court. Tbe
th* ** $25,000 sol
>15.000. totalling $40,000. an
Dewey bad voluntarily given
himself no.
To bu fries da Dewey sUted
that he bad almost suffered death
in hia exile, as every time he
tamed erased he expected tabs
nabbed and that for the past
several weeks, be bad been with*
in tnoiiy distance of the da*
teed res who wet* after hi at. sad
that on Us way back to give
A Saari'Vaakly Kalaea Its fries.
Steal* ltasr—laa.
Thk Gastonia Gazette has
increased the price of its send*
weekly to $1.50 a year. The
former pnee was $1.00. Among
the reasons, the editor cites that
com of pradnetion baa increased,
» few years ago
where 52 copies of the weekly
Gazette bought a cord of
wood, it now takes 208. Editor
Marshall has always made Tn
Gazette a pretty clean, read
able paper, and, though too
ch«*P ,**. be baa never
slighted his work. The Ga
zette • * * * shoo Id lose ho
patronage by reason of the in
crease in price.
i ^ bay* thought of convert
ing the Stanly Enterprise into a
••“i'weekly, but cannot figure
out ■ living to ourself at the
low price ©F$1. When oar peo
P* £*1 «*»« «« willing to
pay $1.50 or $2.00 a year and
get two papers a week i«i*^
of one, we will doable oar lore*
fhem C*P*cit,r “d it to
. ^charter was rrsatad Friday
by the State to the Universal
Manufacturing Company of
i niton to make down from
feathers sad mean factors it
qnilts, pillows and robes. The
capital stock is $150,000. P. H.
Hanes and others stockholders.
Tn« Gastonia Gazstto—
twice s week. $1„W a year.
Good Health
to the
(Children
Children especially are fond of dainties,
and the housekeeper must look carefully
to their food.
As good cake can be made only with
good eggs, so also a cake that is health*
ful as well at dainty must be raised with
a pure and perfect baking powder.
Royal Raking Powder is mdupenaabl*
in the preparation of the highest qimlily’ .
of food. It imparts dial peculiar light
ness, sweetness and flavor noticed in the
finest cake, biscuit, doughnuts, crusts, etc*
and what is more important, renders the
food wholesome and agreeable to young
and old.
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I keep it hitched up ready all the time. It is ready at
your cal 1 foe any little trip. If yon west to visit your neigh
bor or go a*sbopptag my aka nancy is waiting to taka yon.
Cany you aaywbtia ia towa fat 8 casts, sheet distances
for Iras; reasonable rates outside of town.
Calls left at Pboae 101 wOl have praapt aad peeper at*
tendon. Try it. Surrey will also meet all traits day aid
night.
W. F. ELMO RE I ^
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The Raleigh
the Charlotte Chronicle, wihlnp
nader date of the 23rd inet.
aajm:
The LegiaUtore ia to appoint
a committee to ateet a am*
meat to math the spot at Ap
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pOuiKUOX. WuCrC iflc iAaw SUulCl
who happeorf"!©1*^***Nerth
Carolinians. The mono meat is
to be lew end aiaaaive and It la
intended to dedicate It on Son
day. April 9th, Pent, the an
niversary of the event which oc
curred on Sondny.
Professional Cards,
A. L. BUL WINKLE,
DALLAS. N. C.
DR. d. e. McConnell.
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