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W. F. MARSHALL. EdJtar and Frorlator. DEVOTED TO THE PIOTECTION OF
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VOL. XXVI, , GASTONIA, N. CM TUESDAY,
THE
Citizens National Bank
OF GASTONIA
Capital.$30*000.00
OFFICERS: DIRECTORS:
R. P. RANKIN. “ »• P- RanliHi.
Prulltirt. C. N. Eva**.
C. N. EVAN*. e4*mrA
Vte. FraaMaat. r>r! jjTsiaaa.
A. «. MVTR.V I R. R. Hayar*.
fa*Mfr. j Robert A. I gyr.
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It Is the purpose of this bank to open for
business on the first business day of the New
Year, and It respectfully solicits a share of
the banking of the community, as well as of
the country at large.
It will be the policy of this Institution to
afford equal accommodations extended In Na* '
tlonal Institutions of the larger cities. The
legal rate of Interest, 6 per cent, will be the
rate of discount extended to customers car*
rylng balances with the bank, and 4 per cent
Interest will be paid on certificates of deposit
running ninety days or longer.
We extend a cordial Invitation to the pub*
lie to visit ua at the banking rooaia formerly
occupied by the Gaatoala Banking Company.
assuring you that we will be pleased to aee
you, whether It Is your purpose to deal with
us or not.
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A. G. MYERS, Cashier
SUPPLANTING THE NEGKO.
New lalflf Superseded in Domes*
tic Service by While*—'Tbe
Chari* ol Instability.
MetttpM* ScimltAr.
The introduction.of the white
domestic in tbe service oi one of
tbe prominent hotels of Memphis
is auotber straw in the wind
pointing to the banishment of
the negro from tbe cities of the
South.
Southern steamboat men com
menced this battle of color in tbe
South when they attempted to
substitute the white rouster for
the negro. That they have thus
far failed is only au incident.
The attempt is a significant fea
ture.
Following this first skirmish
between the races came tbe
formation of the Housekeepers’
Club, for the express purpose of
bringing the battle into the
homes of tbe Southern people.
Now tbe line of war is extended
to tbe places of public entertain
rnant
That the white domestics are
being cheerfully, nay, enthusias
tically, welcomed is shown iu a
certain rivalry between two ho
tel! in this vicinity as to which
was first to discard the negro and
bring on the white girl. .
A hotel of West Point, Miss.,
telegraphs: "The guests were
agreeably surprised by the ap
pearance of a full corps of Ger
man dining room girls, who ar
rived here twelve hours in ad
vance of the change made by the
Memphis hotel. West Point con
gratulates Memphis on being a
close second in this movement.”
It is understood tbst the
Housekeepers' Club ia endeavor
ing to make arrangements with
tbe Memphis hotel manager to
establish a bureau of immigra
tion so equipped that H can pro
vide a white person to take tbe
place of every negro domestic in
the city. It is declared that this
bureau meets witb tbe eager ap
proval of housekeeper*, who have
been end are now kept in mental
anxiety and physical distress be
cause of the incapacity aud in
stability of tbe negro domestic.
Not satisfied with the formid
able attack upon the industrial
and domestic entrenchment of
tbe negro, the white races have,
liks Hannibal, carried the war to
Rome. They hava thrown sharp
shooters into thsplantations and
are thus disputing the negro's
usefulness in those strongholds
heretofore deemed impregnable
t*\ white attack.
Thus, all along the line the
battle it on. The negro must
now fight for his very existence.
Thoselmperfections which open
ed the way tor the white invasion
will doubtless cause him soon to
nee the cities for the plantations,
where bis virtues arc stronger
and his failings of less personal
inconvenience.
Incapacity, irresponsibility, in
stability—and the chiefest of
these is instability—are the im
perfections that have precipitated
the fight. Looking upon the ne
gro as of greatly Inferior race,
the Southern whites are inclined
to excuse incapacity in him. A
mistaken spirit of generosity en
courages irresponsibility, but the
instability pinches the employer
both in pocket and in personal
comfort. It also strikes a blow
at bis pride and tears off a pin
nacle in the temple of happiness
devoted to hia women. He can
not forgive this characteristic in
the negro, and it will prove the
negro’s downfall.
i ne ooutb chided the negro
over duties half-performed; it
has shown a disposition to langb
ingiy toss a dollar to the lazy
and the trifling; but whenever
it faces the instability of the
race, it grows serious. There is
no disposition among them to
win a permanency iu say occupa
tion, no ambition to settle them
selves finally amid their surround
ing*. No personal comforts can
win them; no personal kindness
retain them. On the contrary,
they look upon consideration as
a weakness, and instead of re
turning gratitude for favors, Ire
more than apt to meet them with
injure.
White domestics may import
failings that the Southern house
keeper now experiences to a
minimum degree, such sa a cer
tain "uppishnets" and possible
impertinence: hat the white race
»a amenable to kindness aud con
sideration, and the white race
baa wall-defined ambitions which
aeiye as so many anchors upon
which reliance may be placed.
They will win aa easy victory
In the Southern home, for there
the negro has been weighed In
the scales of patience and is
found wanting.
Tux OArrow ra Gazkttx—
twice n week, $1.50 » year.
AUTO HOB) II NO AT MIDNIGHT.
l**»l Antolsta, ■ Physician, as4
a Reporter Make a Swill laa
in a BU While Touring Car ta
Pineville-Impreesione by (be
Way.
Charlotte niMarvar. t>*c. ao.ipot.
Night before last, just before
the pole hour of twelve. Mr. Os
moud Barringer came into the
Observer city office and invited
one of the force to share an up
to-date automobile ride in hi*
new Wbite Car. There was no
time to bait and hesitate. A re
porter accepted the muffler
thrown at him and followed oat
to the machine. There sat Dr.
C. G. McManawav, wrapped up
in a bear skin ana other things,
by whose side the reporter
crawled in. Mr. Barringer and
Mr. Cntlln occupied (lie front
sent. I
At fifteen minutes to twelve
the machine started. The tc-rmi
utta adqtiem was l’ineville, ele
ven miles sway, where lay a aide
woman awaiting the doctor. The
moon had not risen. The nipfct
was black as ink. At a middling
good gait the vehicle sped down
North Tryon, past the Spot
Cash Store, and swung her nose
out into the open country The
kerosene lamps did not dissipate
the gloom entirely uoi far ahead,
but kept a thousand shadow*
dancing for every throb of the
engine. The two drivers, hud
dled in their leathern clothe*
and caps, goggled and gloved,
looked, iu the uncertain light
like pictures of pearl divers.
The macadam road sloped off
in gentle curves, and the man at
the wheel opened the throttle
and let Iter rip. Furriog and
pantinjr like a huge animal aud
quivering under the bead of
steam, sbe flew through the
darkness, and her occupants sat
there fascinated, straining their
eyes forward to the limits of the
light where all sorts of horrors
seemed impending.
"It's a good thing wc started
so late," said the doctor. "The
toads are clear now.”
At that very moment there rose
in the foreground an apporitidu
which proved to be a white inule
on bis bind leg*. The lumps
discovered - him hitched to a
boggy and headed toward Char
lotte. The baggy contained a
man and hi* sweetheart. She
snatched off tile fascinator as if
to get the benefit of her ears as
well as her eyes, and by that
time the automobile had passed
and left the white umle still with
his forelegs held out in hcttedic
tiou. Four other buggies were
a little beyond thia, all headed
toward Pineville aftd «11 drawn
by males. These animals, being
stolen np on from behind, did
not have time to get badly fright
ened. bnt one of the ladies did.
Sbe leapt from the hnggy.
cleared tne little ditch by the
roadside, and started across the
fallow field like a March hare.
Her lover doubtless enjoyed set
tling her nerves when he got her
back.
”l«ook at the fire,” said Mr.
Barringer.
"Tbe moon,” corrected Mr.
Catlin.
The top half of her ent smooth
off, the big red moon looked
among the tree tops very much
like a forest fire. She looked
wintry enough and raw and red
like a wind beaten face.
Over the railroad is a bridge
in the shape of four pan nets of a
fence, not quite so much twisted
aa an S. Jerked this way and
that, but tearing forward the
while,, tbe tenderfoots lost their
sense of direction and thought
the thing had left the ground;
but in a second or so she had
straightened out again on a leyel
stretch of macadam from which
she climbed a slope, jolted her
self across a piece of muddy ruts,
turned a sharp angle, audpauted
down tbe atreet of Pineville. It
was 12:08, twenty-three minutes
from Charlotte.
▼roue iuc aocior was tn me
sickroom and the others were by
the company fire, the reporter
asked one of the maidens present
If she knew George Mqrke.
Geotgje^waa b°rn" at
"I know the gentleman,” she
replied, "bat not to sty that I
keep company with him, and
not to say that be ain't a nice
gentleman."
The doctor came in after a
a while, saylogthat he was ready
to go. The folks came into the
yard to tee the machine start
away. She snorted and bragged
to herself till she felt brave;
then she picked her way cau
tiously from the back yard to
the street and cautiously along
the raggad street lo the retches
of macadam once more. The
moon now stood well ".ver the
horison. The road wound white
oi toward the city. The driver
gave the machine head and she
bounded away for hotne. There
was uo teams on the highway
now. In the frosty moonlight
the world lay asleep. Dark
houses and hedges mid hay
stacks and woods flew by. The
breeze was too fierce for conver
sation. There was or<l> the im
pacieut sound of the engine.
Over the crazy bridge she zig
zagged. swung herseli around
curves, climbed slope*, aud went
for all she was worth down
grades, until, when Uiv had left
behind her some six aud a half
or seven miles and when she
was making a long hill, she be
gan to gasp ana slacken her
speed- and stopped.
The doctor said it reminded
him of a cartoon he had seen en
titled "The Passing of the
Horse," setting forth the same
moral as that of the story of the
tortoise nnd the hare.
Kut the drivers knew- a thing
oi two. The gasoline had given
out. They took out the lamps,
poured iu the kerosene from
them instead of gasoline, vapor
ized it, got up steam, aud away.
It was quite a thrilling exper
ience for a bitterly cold night,
and an exceptionally fine oppor
tunity for the automobile and
tire macadam road to show what
they can do.
"I could never have taken the
trip in time to have done any
good," said Dr. McManaway.
"if it had not been for the auto
mobile."
Which makes one relied that
even if there be cause for criti
c i s in of automobiles scaring
horses in the country, tbcrc may
be a blessing mixed with it.
JAPAN«FLOKBA OtANOES.
Aa Oraafa Traa That Will Thrive
ia CaMar Latitudes.
Wwhinjrtrti Oiaiafttih.
An orange tree that urill thrive
iu latitude* five hundred miles
north of Florida has just been
developed by the plant experts
of the department of agriculture.
It is the result of crossing the
Japanese tree with the beat of
tbe Florida varieties. Some time
ago the department experts con
ducted experiments with a view
of finding aa orange tree that
will survive the comparatively
hard winters of Florida in recent
years, or the climate of locali
ties north of that State. An
nouncement is now made that
they have been successful.
The new variety, it is claimed,
will live in a temperature of six
degrees below zero, although it
will not bear fruit. The planters
of Florida hnvc suffered great
loss at times ou account of tlic
frost, losing not oniy the year’s
crop on occasions, but the trees
as well. With the introductlan
of the Japanese-Florida variety
the trees may be saved now, even
when conditions are sneh aa to
prevent them from bearing.
Most of the thoroughbred cattle
in this country are the result of
a process of selection and cross
ing of breeds. The same process
has been adapted to the plant
wotIc) and the government ex
perts arc developing stronger
and better varieties of fruits,
tbeir most notable achievement
being a hardy orange tree.
Tbs Tree sad iki Niwimir.
Wnuilatttr Cuettc.
Everybody knows that trees
•re felled to make the wood
pulp out of whicn the paper
used in the printing-office is
manufactured. A German
paper manufacturer at Eaenthal
baa just made an experiment to
aee now rapidly it is poaaible to
transform a tree into a news
paper. Three trees in the
neighborhood of his factory
were cut down at 7:35 in the
morning. They were instantly
barked and pulped, and the first
roll of paper was ready at H:34.
It was lifted iuto tn automobile
that stood waiting, and con
veyed to the macliiue-room of
the nearest daily paper. The
paper being already set, the
printing began at once, and by
10 o'clock precisely the journal
was ou sale iu the streets. The
entire process of transformation
bad taken exactly two hours and
twenty-five minutes.
A Sparkling Fashion.
lAdr'i llrtwiftJ.
Fashion decrees that we shall
once naors bespangle ourselves,
fill oar hair, as it were, with fire
flies. wear trimmings and orna
ments and embroideries thst
shine, and carry little shimmer
ing bags and sparkling fans, and
set our feet in shoes that are In
crusted with goldau and mettllic
beads. It is a good sign that
social life, too, will have seine
sparkle and glitter, and that for
a season, at all events, we are
going to look on the brighter
side of everything,_
Thk Gastonia Oasntt*
twfee a week, $1.30 a year.
HOW TIC JAPSKEEP WAIN.
Uedar trend Karnes fa Maa
dwlt Hava Salved the Prsfc
1ml
ChL'aco BscorA-lUntd.
With November the cold
weather begin* in Manchuria,
and U increasingly intense.
Around Mukden thr tbermome*
ter does not usually fall below
zero (Fahr.l until the middle of
December, when night after
night it may sink to S, 10, and
even 20 degrees below zero, and
during January to JO below.
In tbe frequent northeasterly
or northwesterly blizzards bo
bnman beings can live under
canvas. Some may be quar
tered in native bouses, bnt
where, even supposing that the
owners should be ruthlessly
turned ont, will accommodation
be found for 300,000 men''
Thr answer is simple: The
Japanese are already making
use of underground dwellings,
such as tbe natives sometimes
whicl» were used by
tbe Russians during the winter
after the Boxers had destroyed
their railway buildings.
The soil of Manchuria, ex
cepting in certain places, is dry
at this season, especially in the
districts between Mnkdes and
Liaoyang. where it is largely
loess and sand.
The Japanese, who bold tbe
low hills with gentle slopes,
are in the better position. Tbe
method is to dig a trench about
ten to twelve feet deep and vary
ing io width, bnt generally about
uine feet wide. A narrow stair
way it cut leading down to tbe
south end. At toe base it is
wideued aud a door frame set
op with a native door, turning
on wooden pivots.
j at upper oau oi toe door is
openwork, which, being covered
with the opaque native window
paper, admits light. The sun
shines at midday down the steps,
and when the door ia opened
freshens and warms the room.
Immediately within, on one
side, is a cooking stove, camp
oven, or boiler, in a simple aud
primitive style, to which both
Russians and Japanese ore ac
customed. Aloug the length of
the trench is a platform some
two and a half feet high and six
inches wide, made of hammered
earth aad rough, iinbnrned
bricks. Beneath this are several
simple flues, up and down which
the suioke and heat from the
cooking place finds its way, is*
suing at the end remote from
the entrance by a small chimney
cat in the solid ground.
Oo this platform, which re
sembles the old style of green
house fine and is called by the
Chinese a kong, many men can
sleep in warmth and comfort on
* rough.mat of dried grass. This
mode of heating is not only
economical, but the flues con
sume and carry off the earth
damp or carbonic acid gas which
always generates ia underground
dwellings.
Across the top of the trench
rough pieces of timber or poles
are laid, and on these kao-liang
stalk* or straw, upon which is
heaped the earth excavated from
the trench. Tnia covering keeps
ont the cold and is practically
shellproof. No rain falls, and
bat little snow, and the latter
can, if desired, be swept off the
roofs or mounds over the dwell
ings.
Tbe Japanese ha*, e access to a
large number of the native '’sur
face” coal mine*, where a coarse
dust coal is readily excavated,
and can be, when mixed with a
little wet loess earth, burned in
the rough cooking places referred
to, in which grass, rubbish and
almost anything can also be con
sumed oi fuel.
While the first twelve to twenty
feet of the plain tod low hills
now occupied l*y the armies arc
dry in winter, good water can be
found almost anywhere at twenty
five to thirty feet below the sur
face.
Traded Mortgaged Horses.
HUl*trr)lW Landmark.
Sometime ago the Henkel Live
Stock Co. sold two kornts to Mr.
W. L. Ratledge. of Davie county,
taking a mortgage on the horses
and other personal property for
$300 to secure payment. Recent
ly it was learned that Ratledge
bad traded the hones and Deputy
Sheriff Ward wm seat to Win
ston last week to investigate.
He fonod that Ratledge bad
traded the bones.to Mr* Robert
fran sou. of Pfafftown,. Forsyth
county, for a mnle and $150 in
money. It is reported that Rat
ledge has gone to Indiana. Tran
sou knew nothing of the mort
gage held by the Henkel Co.,
and he refnaoa to surrender. Un
less the mortgagees can make
their debt ont of the other prop
erty embraced in the mortgage
given by Ratledge they will
doubtless contest the matter with
Treason.
UMfc«
The per capita drink bill of
tb« United States is increasing,
Iwt, on the other hand, statistic*
show that mote people are join
ing the chp>ch sow than ever
before. The EpiscopM Chinch,
for instance, rained 3 per cent.
OB ita member*hip hut year, the
Presbyterian Church 2J* pat
cent, and the Methodist Church
also made au unprecedented
gain.
A HI after
of Health
»
There is a quality in Royal
Baking Powder which makes
. the food more digestible and
wholesome. This peculiarity
of Royal has been noted by
physicians, and they accord
ingly endorse and recom
mend it.
MfM MMM CO. VMM.
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