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I_w ofjr«eng tadtoa of ^
that he weald lad • barroom at
the northwest corner on the
lower loot, aad when he went
there the first time (or a drink
thay aright give him the cold
shoulder, bat not to taiod that
hoi aah again and say be sraa a
member, became the State pro
vided the ml. The green
bom said be expected to call
pretty early at the bar, as the
weather here waa colder then
be was mad to. aad he felt the
need of a nip.
Senator Matt Vbitaker Ransom.
■On the 9th day of October,
1904, this great man "fell on
sleep.* He was a soldier,
scholar, orator aod statesman
who gave mwch to the state and
•erred North Carolina with coo*
apiceoas ability la arany differ
eat positions. He never made
a speech that fBd not uplift the
people aad make them long af
ter better things. He always
atosd for highest ideals and Us
Pleas for peace and banaony be
tween the various Actions of the
otowtry did nrech to bring
abnst a better condition in tho
•atlaa The state owes a last
tog debt of graUtnde to hip and
I rwoppend to yoor b.norable
body provision far the erection
of a pooniraul at the north en
trance of the capital aqnnre to
coppemorato hja services and
hi* vhrtnes. The names of
Vance and Rsnsonf will Kvc
far aver to North Carolina his
tory. We hove already erected
a moonsseat to oor great war
governor. We shoo Id at once
erect a monassent to oor great
peace senator.
Mn. Cummings was busy at
her desk when Ned, an "old*
time” darky who bad been a
servant in bar family since "be*
lor de wab* days, approached
her, and with many apologies
for the interrupt™ asked: "Miss
Sally, can I gk off two weeks
from to-day? I baa to go to
town. ma’am.T
"Tam weeks from to-day.
Why, I think so, Ned. What
are yon going to do in town?"
inquired Mia. C„ kindly.
"1 wants to go to a faa'al,
Mian Sally, a men’ of mine’s
Ned" *° buried den,” said
. "Yon do ant mean two weeks,
the*. Med," returned Mrs. C.
"rose, Miss Sally, it's
two weeks from to day, baia’t
dot da twenty-fast?"
"Yes, two weeks from to-day
will be At twenty-Irst, hat yon
must be mistaken; they could
net keep the body so long ex
cept in a vault *
Mrs. C. sms now thoroughly
the old darky’s re
wondered what It
oTMcd’.’SS could affofd°to
wh*t vault, and bow could
^ey be making anaagamaats
for a faneral two weeks hence,
w&h the still
bar
mt*I* ^ ** ded*y’’
BMgBggBg'Pi■■■■ 11 XI Hi
r—TIM will tolM to to
grnpriaie $1MM tor Shanl
• v
•sfejcrsjii
man who whila defending tbe
po* o*ee at Emma, if. C.,
from attack mi tlu part el fear
burgiais, sod who drove them
•way. wnously injuring two ot
Jpoty. to In very delicate
health. An affect w£Q be made
***** to him
a eiit of $10,000 aa a reward for
the covingsand bravery be ex
hibitsd ox tint occasion. Ur.
Alexander's heroic defease of
goverawswt property woe for
Mm tbe thanks, of the rover a
pUantary letter written%y°ihe
pnatssawir general. end snb
eeqaently be was given aa ap
pointment in the poet office de
pendent in recognition of bis
taJkmt action. The wounds
which he received while et bis
post of doty and engaged to the
dcfeaaa of the Emma post office,
have seriously impaired his
health. A bill will be introduced
to Congress In slew days ant bor
tnng the appropriation o $10,000
worn fever It is said there ia
precedent for sneb action by
Congress The friends of the
yooeg maa hope to ace sacb
recognition given Ms courage
ous deed when in tbe midst of
night he successfully coped with
tbe four burglars and woold-be
murderer i who invaded tbe
Buncombe post office.
Mr. Alexander is barely able
to discharge tbe duties of bis
present position, which pays $75
.a month. Bis illness Incident
to •<«•<*■ he received cost
Mm $1,500 and he has been pot
to much expense to various
other ways since.
TOM AXB TtllVILU.
What** Mafi Aataf Mr RtUh
Mr. William M. Allison died
•* hit home in Yorkvillc last
Wednesday morning at about 8
o’clock, alter a long and dis
tmeiog illness with a disorder
of the twain. Mr. Allison was
Ik* rfdest sou of Dr. sod Mrs. J.
S* AD*** **• boni in
Yorlnrille oa November 24.1861.
and has lived beta the greater
portfaa of Us Ufa practically all
of which, after fats early school
days, was devoted to active
bnaioesa.. He conducted a drug
business lor Us father for some
yean. Then be entered the em
ploy of Mr. T. M. Dobson as a
salesman. Later be went into
Uisiiwss for himself with Dr. A.
Y. Cartwright, ander the firm
name of AiUaoa Ik Cartwright,
and afterwards clerked for the
Ganeoo Dry Goods company for
■everal yean. Mr. Allison
leaves a widow, the eldest daugh
ter* the Jate R. H. Glenn, and
three children, two sons and
ome daughter, Robert Glenn.
William Meek and Susan Meek
Alliaos.
Mf. Napoleon A Sitaril e
well known cltisen of York town
■Up, dropped dead of heart
dmeaae oat his premises two
nUea east of Yorkville. last
Tneeday afternoon. Shortly
after fata return from a trip to
town, Mr bimrO learned that
the boy whose duty it was to
dnve up the cowi was away,
and after telling his wife that he
would attend to the matter him
•eif rode to the pasture for the
porpose After he had been
absent ten or fifteen minutes.
Mrs. Simril became slanged and
west to ace whet the trouble
wes. Before she bad proceeded
• great distance she sew the
male walking about with its
bridle dragging and a abort
distance farther, her worst lean
were realised when she foend
the body of her husband lying
on the ground, cold ia death.
ABOUT NEtVOUS WOMEN.
They May Feed Their Stsrvad
•jMjJW ft? Besting and
When women patients come to
WC with incipient nervous trou
bles evidenced by their eymjv
toms, I always prescribe a change
in their habits, remarked a phy
sician. If they are of the busy,
bustling sort in society, or in
other domestic affairs, I prescribe
the rest cure. One rule which
always seems to the nervous wo
man a dreadful waste of time is
to spend one day every two or
three weeks in bed. This is a
mild form oi sleep care. A pa
tient whose nerves ore tired may
keep op the endless rontine of
worry, depressing thought and
looking forward to ills that may
never occur, in her waking mo
ments, but in a darkened room
with sounds and visitors and let
ters aud newspapers barred, she
will drop asleep and will be
araased, and perhaps shocked,
to find tbst it is quite possible
for her to sleep for forty-eight
boors—with occasional wakings
for a cup of milk or bouillon.
Tbc various remedies tbat
prove efficacious in so many in
stances do so not so much on ac
count of their inherent virtues
as from the fact that they remove
the menial strain. The sleep
cure leaves the brain uncon
scious for aucb a long period
that it bas time to rest and he
refreshed. In tbc same way an
ocean voyage often proves a
sedative. A day or two out from
laud, and the complete difference
in scene and surroundings, takes
the sick mind from Us own ail
ment. It is the same principle
that drives away tbc toothache
at the dentist's door. Routine
is the evil that nourishes sud en
conragesnerve troubles. Women
are specially susceptible to the
habit of living in an accnstoraed
rut—every day of tbc year the
same. A great many women,
too. seem to mistake hysterical
nervousness for vivacity. It bas
become the fashion to be ex
tremely "lively" and the nerves
suffer accordingly. The "change"
cure calls a - bait to all this, and
gives a chance to start somewhat
afresh._
NEW. KINDS OF COTTON.
Australia Baa Dnvelaped Two
Pvomiaiag Varieties.
Miamln. .
Washington. Dec. 25—The
department of commerce and
labor has just received a special
report from Australia regarding
two new varieties of cotton of
exceptional quality, grown by
Dr. Thotnatis, at Cairns, in
aueensland, sod exhibited at
ib recent show of the Royal
Agricultural Society of Victoria,
at Melbourne, Australia.
Dr. Thomastis stated that one
variety, "Caravonica I," gave the
large yield of 1,200 pounds of
ginned cotton an acre and that
it has been pronounced by Amer
ican, English and Continental
experts to be worth 20 cents a
pound and should be classed as
a wool cotton. The other varie
ty, "Caravonica 11,” the yield of
which U not reported, is a silky
cotton valued at 24 cents a pound.
"Caravonica 1" ia stated to be
in yield and value far in advance
of all other cottons, and applica
tions for seed are being received
from many countries It is a
tree cotton and ia cultivated like
an orchard tree. Trees are plant
ed seven feet apart, and when
six months old attain a height of
seven feet and bear a small crop
the first season. Slight pruning
is accessary each year to keep
the tree robust and of a conven
ient sise for working. Prom 900
to 500 bolls are said to be yield
ed by a single tree in a season,
aad it ia claiaKd that 70 of these
bolls will make from 1H to 2 X
pounds of clean Unt
TMNB WA1 AVtlTEl.
SUPtEHR QUALITY or BEPOSE.
Wwni Prat tat Worry Csatlnu*
•Uy, Whilg th* Mm Haven't
Time.
NUofci OrcclrRatlfc la tta Nn YurkWerU.
Much baa been aaid and writ
ten in praise of wbat ia at once
the rarest and roost desirable
characteristic ol woiuau-kind—
the supreme quality of repose.
There are two varieties of re
pose—one the simple inertia
which remits from stupidity; the
other the product of perfect bal
aoce, the equilibrium that results
from self perfectly controlled.
They are often impossible to
distinguish one from the other,
and, because of this difficulty, a
man who admires the serene
type often finds himself married
to a woman whom he thought
personified it, only to discover
that she has the stupid immo
bility that results from a mind
too small for an Idea to torn
around in.
But even this ia probably to be
preferred in a life association to
he unbalanced nerves that ao
often mark the more Intellectual
woman. For she is apt to make
a very small extra allowance of
gray matter the apology for every
shortcoming under the sun and
to feel that a smattering of Greek
or Latin atones for the inability
to make a bed or cook a beef
steak.
We are all more or less born
to repoae. There is nothing
more placid nnder the sun than
a perfectly healthy, contented
baby. Bnt few of us are in later
life able to retain even a trace of
that serenity, deep and nnmoved
as the surface of a woodland pool
on a mid-Jane afternoon.
* iicrc me surac siuivi wnu
lieve that it is the part of the hero
to meet misfortnne with a smile.
But this savon more or less of
the theatrical, and seems rather
to be overdoing it. To greet it
calmly with the poise of a well
balanced character that surveys
at once the extent of the disaster
and the possibilities of remedy,
seems the better part. And tbia
only the quality, of tepose will
enable us to do.
Men have more repose than
women. Perhaps the superior
endowmuut ia not a natural in-.
heritance, but the result of bust
new training, and the systematic
forethought of good and evil for
tune that it entails.
Women fret and worry con
tinually wheie men haven’t tiuie
to. And worry ia the death knell
of repose.
To the beauty cnlturist pining
for adipose it should be men
tioned that in the repose Ilea the
supreme fresh food, and that she
who has taught herself immunity
from trifling cares may become
a veritable Hebe witbqnt the aid
of gymnastics or special diet.
It may be that to be just nat
urally stupid is half the battle.
Brit stupidity is often the better
part of feminine valor, anyhow,
and it yet remains to be demon
strated that it is not as well her
choiceit inheritance.
MlAOt S1LVEB COINS.
Treasury Baa Silver Kaeifh la
Supply All Prakkla Demaads
Boston Hamid.
The statement that the bul
lion la the Treasury tor the
coinage of subsidiary silver has
been exhausted should not con
fuse the reader into thinking
that Uncle Sam* docs not hold
in bis vaults a vfcry large a
mount of the white metal. As
a matter of fact, he has, literal
ly, tons of it. According to
Secretary Shaw’s testimony,
there is enough silver in the
Treasury to represent nearly 500
carloads, allowing thirty tons
per car, and to merely count
this silver would require an ex
penditure of something like
$100,000. With all that stock of
the white metal on band there
surely should be enough to mint
the coins that are needed for
the subsidiary coinage without
fnitber purchases from the sil
ver mins owners. It arms sug
gested recently that light
weight silver dollars be rennut
ed into subsidiary coins. There
1 is on provision at tba present
time for the recoinage of light
weight silver dollars, there be
ing no appropriation to cover
this expense. As the subsidi
ary coins contain lass silver in
proportion than do the standard
silver dollars, the light-weight
dollars could be used without
Ions in striking the minor coins
In this way there would be no
curtailment of the general stock
of money la the country, and,
on the whole, the currency
would be bettered by the change,
full legal tender dollars being
replaced by the United tender
minor coles.
Permission to do such a thing
as this should be readily grant
ed by C no grass, unless the
question Is eompHcntad by the
introcaetiou of a Maker of
other features. Too often, how
ever, that la Utt cnee with finan
cial legislation, sad so much is
attempted that aotbing at all ie
astamplhfcad. Prom the com
mon sense point of view, the
country aoads mors email
illMIQM 11 nosmimUa in gn^m
eofas that do not circulate madU
’ ‘is * \ • * ' *
EYE TROUBLES!
if persistent should never be neg
lected. Yon may need glasses or
you may not; In any event a talk
with Torrence-Morris Co., the Op
ticians, will put yuu right, and ti
glasses are necessary they will see
that you are properly fitted.
Torrence-Morris Co.
JEWELERS AND OPTICIANS.
Expart Watch Repair lag. ArtlaMe Bngravteg. *
ily among our people for the
minting of other coin* that are
actually needed. Strange aa
it may seem, recommendations
to permit that common-sente
change have so far fallen only
on deaf ears in Cougress. Thin
would be the reasonable way to
provide for the new subsidiary
coinage, but if it is to stir up
the old silver question in Con
gress, it would be better to al
low the Secretary to make far
ther purchases of silver bullion
for the striking of minor coins
rather than to have an insuffi
cient supply for the needs of the
country. It should require no
general debate on currency is
sues to provide for more small
change and a larger number of
bills of small denominations,
which, according to the best
testimony, are demanded by the
legitmatc needs of business.
rAMILY REUNION.
Nr. L. H. Lang EaOrlilia HI a
CMMraa Naw Years Day.
Kins’* Kh>. n.t.w
The children of L. H. Long,
of King’s Mountain, held a fam
ily reunion at their father's
home at King’s Mountain on
last Sanday. The children are
A. J. Long, of Lincolnton, N.
R. Long, of Knoxville; Mrs. A.
W. Falla, of King's Mountain;
F, P. Long, of Lingolnton; Mrs.
A^ R. Rudiaill, ol King’s Moun
tain: L. H. Long, Jr., Gastonia;
Mrs. I. N. Price, of Gastonia;
V. E Long, of Gastonia; R. E.
Long, of Lincoluton. A good
dinner was served and it was
a moat pleasant time for those
present. The old Lawson Long
place is now the J. K. Jones
place and is located 3 miles
from Bessemer on Cberryville
road. Here is where the family
waa raised till abont the begin
ning of civil war when they
moved on adjoining farm. The
mother of the family died years
ago and the present Mrs. tong
is their step mother. Mr. Long
has many reasons to be proud
°<W» family. There are 9
children and as a family they
have done well in life and are
held in confidence and esteem.
This , was Mr. N. R. Long’s
first visit home in 10 years and
certainly seems to enjoy being
here on this occasion.
There were several others
present among whom were Mr*.
Lizzie Falls and Mr. Zeb Long,
granddaughter and grandson,
respectively, and Rev. M. H.
Vestal, pastor of the Methodist
church of this place.
Mr. Long Is 73 years of age
and here's wishing the old gen
tleman will live to see many
other days.
Palais an Table Manners,
Cor. Knra Ltadn. Dec. 2S. 1904
Lately I have noticed that ao
lew young people, especially
young men from 16 to 18 Oust
the age they give ao much at
tention to their manners), neg
lect their table manners, when
these really make one appear
more to a disadvantage than
moat anything else:
Don't sit with your chair so
far from the table that you will
have to lean over.
Don’t pnt yonr knife in yonr
month.
Don’t pnt large monthfola in
yonr mouth.
Don’t chew loud.
Don’t make a fuss when
you drink.
Don't drink with yonr spoon
in yonr glass or cvp.
Don’t pick yonr teeth at
table.
Don’t talk of teeth at table.
Don’t refuse • dish at table
with the remark it does not
agne with you. Jnst say, "No,
I tbanlc von."
Don’t apeak nf sickness nor
nay nnpleasant thing at table.
D**’',**!* »p ha bapp, and
thankful at meats,
Magra Thrash ad by Ordar of
Court.
IIOai.lKcwUrtn.
Lynchburg Va.. Jan.4 —This
rsftcs&
muJ'iM. •rriiSE
— boy who was lookiaw
Hi at a broken windoe^lK
O.TOT.'.h. orfJSTVi
gg^aagte«i"
J?‘%rs%xsn'
tuckaseege ferry.
u4 MntiUut M«t« It
Cbarl»tt«.
•«*> test <0 ucnU. m cilbet
*«l Iran
CiirloUf, come ihU way.
°*74-p w. T. SraiNCft.
SALE OF STOCK
AND
FARM IMPLEMENTS.
On Wednesday, Jan. Uth,
1905, at my residence 2# miles
Mat of Dallas, I will offer for
sale quantity of valuable person*
•1 property, consisting of horses,
mules, cattle, bogs, wagons,
buggies, farming implements
of all descriptions; reaper and
binder, mower, rake, drills and
such other implements as am
used on an np-to-date sann.
Terms of sale made known on
day of sale.
L. L. Srr.Qs.
This Dec. 19, 1904 — J10c7e
THE
NEW YORK WORLD
Three Times « Week.
One DoHer a Year.
Sabacflpttoos taken
The Gazette Office
And Forwarded Promptly.
Professional Carta,
A. L. BULWINKLE.
Attorney-at-Law.
PALLAS. N. C.
dr. d. e. McConnell.
PBNTIST.
Office first floor Y. M. C. A. Bid’*
GASTONIA. N. C.
Phone m
Me. C. ANDERS, M. D.
GASTONIA. N. C.
Special attention to diseases of
Children.
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