W. f. HAISQALL, EEitir and Pnptlilir. VOL. XXVI._ .—--* j THE J j Citizens National P:nk j S OF GASTONIA t I - | I Capital . . . . , $50,000.00 \ I_ I j OFFICERS: | R. P. RANKIN. President. | C. N. EVANS, f Vic* President. A. O. MYRRS. I Cashier. DIRECTORS: ( R- P. Raskin, ' \ C. N. Evaaa. | Mt« Ltvc, | J- A. OUm, Or.J.M.R»n, I R* Hay ana. Rabart A. Lara. J 1 j } ACCOUNTS . j | SOLICITED ! No account too large J for our facilities and I I none too small for onr | ( courteous attention ( | and appreciation. We { J have no “special custo- * • . mere”.; All are accord- I I ed the same treatment. \ ( HThe legal rate of In- f j terest Is charged at all J times. Interest paid I I on time deposits. A A \ S j ! w ! =_=__! I ——-- ) } A. G. MYERS, Cashier I i_ ( A CAROLINA HEROINE. Uttl* Girl Want ta School la (ho hr and Worked'in Cation Mill at Flight—Earned Expan se* of EdncPtlon and Row has Good Position. CfctrlMtaB NcvfrCotritr Lancaster, March ll.--MisB Blanche Causar, a bright Lan caster girl, has recently accept ed the position of stenographer and typewriter lor D. W. Adler man & Son's Company, of Al coln, S. C. Her history is an exemplification of what even a girl may accomplish when im bued with the determination to be the architect of her own fortune. As a child Miss Causar was ambitious to acquire an educa tion, bnt, being without meant and having to work for a living, her prospects were anything hat encouraging. She soon found a way, however, to over come all difficulties. Her plan waa to attend the Lancaster graded school during the day and to work at night in the cotton mills. She bad to walk a mile to the school and a mile from her home to the mills. That wsii hard, very bard task for a child, studying all day and working nights; bnt for one with little Blanche Cougar's courage and resolution it meant success. Notwithstanding the fact that tftP Karl Kill Itllia limn am —_ pare lor her recitations, she was one of the graded school’s honor graduates a year or so ago. After finishing school she de voted bar entire time to mill work in order to make enough money to enable bar to go oft and take bnsinees coarse, which she did last fall, going to the Welsh Neck High School of Hartsville. She recently con cluded her studies there and ia now filling thn responsible posi tion referred to at Alcoln. For one of her tender age and limited experience, Mias Cousar write* remarkably well, her vocabulary and descriptive powers being really wonderful, I positions were of tmeh derided merit that more than on* was published In tbe -local PoPfrt at (he request of tbe superintendent. Mr. L. T. Baker, now at the hand of tbe Meant Zion Institute, Winms boro. % OtEAT EHTE1PIISE OH FQOtT II Is Staled la Yerkyiile That M«0M Herse-Powar la la be Devalued ea Catawba tlvtr. M2rViH5 i5k&i.8#ecl‘' *° Your correspondent Is reliably informed that parties interested in the Catawba Power Company “*Y5 recently acquired a con trolling interest in what ia known ** Mountain Island shoal loca ted on Catawba river, in Gaston county, North Carolina, twenty ave or thirty miles above the *>te of their predent plant in York county, and that a similar plant will be erected there as m practicable and that a third plant ia to lie erected with ?T>t delay by another company ■u Which the Dukes of the Amer ican Tobacco Company are in terested on the same stream at Catawba Palls, which ia said to be She most magnificent water power in th • Sooth and one of lit America, something like fiO.OOu horse-power being the amount believed to be avail able, and then the combined P°wcr ®l the three plants is to be available over a circuit of w 1 r e a taking in Lancaster. Wmnsboro, Chester, Yotkville, Clover Gastonia, Dallas, Char loUe, Port Mill, Rock Hill, and b»ck to Lancaster. . -The combined power of the «tally developed, the neighborhood of SO.OOO hone-power end will be sufficient to operate about three U“*VM »nch machinery os is now In operation in all the towns mentioned. The gentleman from whom yoor correspondent got thianformaticn oaid that be got 8.ASS, f“>® Dr- WrHa, and ‘hst that gentleman did aot so mach as intimate that than was soy doubt as to the ultimate sac S**?”11 *•"*»* out of the plan outlined. The Hickory Democrat owned & “uTv^JK C- Dowd W. Si LHoIll2#k bap bought the Hlckonr Prsaa from Mr. J. O. Poy. Tha two papert will be consolidated. The Democrat which absorb, the Pres. printed partly la Charlotte and partly on the Presa outfit la Hickory, Tbi* will give the Democrat the advantage of hav ing a later, more accurate, sad more satisfactory local service ***»■ Dcriwiafe, *» , •* f m, ij. - a# j i‘ r an 1 enanmnn BOW PEACE IS MABE. An Indaaalty Utanlfy Demanded by ffat Vidor. I.oEdon Daily Hltri. When nations have had tbeii fill ol fighting and one of them at leait haa come to the con clusion that peace is worth hav ing at any price, the first thing is usually to arrange an armis tice and then preliminary terms of peace are discussed. Pew people have any idea of the number of points about which a settlement mutt be conic to, at the end of a war. In 1814, when Napoleon had been checked and made pris oner, and the King of Great Britain and hit European allies bad placed the legitimate Preach monarch on His throne, the first treaty of Paris was made. It began, like moat such agreements between Christian uations, "In the name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity," and went on to de clare that their Majesties were animated by "so equat desire to terminate the long agitations of Kitrope and the sufferings of maukind by a permanent peace." The articles of the treaty provided for the restoration of the old boundaries of Prance as in imc, wttu some increase of territory on the side of Belgium and Germany. The communi cations with Geneva, the navi gation of the Rhine and other riven, the sovereignty of Malta, Holland and certain Italian States, the Federation of Ger many and the independence of Switserland had to be dealt with, and the nations taking part agreed to hand over to the King of Prance the colonics and territory lost bv the ill fated Republic, which bad been in possession for twenty years. Great Britain handed over many colonies, fisheries, etc, but received as her own parts of the French West Indies, whiles Sweden restored Guada lonpe to France and Portugal returned French Gniana. The division of warships and arsenals found in the territories changing hands had to be provided for, and also the posi tion of public servants, pnblic pensioners and fund holders pnblic and private debts, and the property in land purchased from the State. The "high contracting parties," desirous "to bury in entire oblivion the dissensions which have agitated Europe," arranged that no citisen in the restored countries should be prosecuted, disturbed or molested in person or prop erty for his politicial opinions or his attachment to any Government, even one that bad ce to exist. following year Napoleon escaped and there was great consternation. The Powers made another treaty with the King of France, whom they were delighted to have preserved "from the con vulsions with which France and Europe were menaced by' the late enterprise of Napoleon Bon aparte and by the revolutionary system.” France agreed to pay to the allied Powera an in demnity of 700,000,000 franca, Of /2ft OOn (Wl Ktif n twsnltAH aI this was to be spent by the allies in maintaining forces on the French frontier to preserve the country intact "without prejudice to the sovereignity of his moat Christian klaiesty " An indemnity was also paid by the King of Sardinia to Austria-in 1849, when he bad helped Lombardy, and Venice in their revolt and Austria had crushed the rebellion. The treaty began by declaring: "Thera shall be from hence forth and forever peace, friend ship and good understanding be tween their Majesties, their heirs and saccsssors and their respective States and subjects.” After'our war with China in 1842 there was an indemnity payable to na of $21,000,01X1. or about £4.000,000. The Km peror did not sign a treaty, be merely published an adfci in which he agreed to the terms. "The barbarians are allowed to carry on tbeir dealings in discriminately with whomso ever cf our merchants they please, ‘ ha wrote. Aa to tbt Indemnity, the edict weal on: “It ia a vast amount, and where ia inch a sum to coom from? Let Ke Yiog be held respontihle. for the mat ter." Next came the Crimean war, and Peace of Paris in 1856. By this treaty Turkey took her olace among the Powers, sad aa the Sultan was Mohammedan, the Trinity could no lea invoked. “In the same damnify was provided for by Ibis treaty. ft warn after the Franco-Ger man war that the indemnity came to be so big a factor in terms of peace. The amount fixed at Versailles in February, 1871, was five milliards of francs, or Z200.000.000. an amount which people ttumght must crush and enslave the f^nch people for a generation. To the surprise of Europe the last instalment of this gigantic tribute was paid on September 5. 1873, ana the last German troops crossed tbc frontier on the l(th of the same month. While the soldiers remained France bad to keep them! After the Rusto-Turkish war Russia sought to follow the example of the Germans by de manding a huge and crushing war indemnity. The treaty of San Stefano, in Pebrnary7l878. compelled Turkey to agree to the independence of Montene gro. Servia, Roumania and the autonomy of Bulgaria and Crete, and to promise to pay the following bill of Russia's coats: Total____ i imjnoii nan Or nearly Z150.000.000. At the Conference of Berlin, how ever. we protested against this amount as preposterous and quite beyond Turkey’s power to pay. Russia agreed to reduce the aunt, and at the treaty of Con stantinople. January 27, 1879, she agreed to deduct from the indemnity the value of the terri tory banded over by Turkey— Adjara, Kola, etc. Tljla brought tbe indemnity down to 802.500, 000 franca or Z33JOOO.OOO. to which waa to be added the dam age suffered by Russian subjects in lunccy. Even the reduced indemnity proved too much for Turkey's powers of payment, and Russia has allowed it to fall into arrears and used it from time to time as s means of sqneezing her un fortunate neighlmr. After the China-Japan war of 1894 China paid an indemnity of 230.000,000 taeU. or *34.500.000. and was compelled to borrow the money, as well as nearly as much more for her own ex penses. in the European market. The United States set a mod erate and humane example in the matter of indemnities after the war with Spain. At the pecce of 1896 she took the Philip pines and other islands, and made Spain grant the independ ence of Cuba, and also take over the debt of Cuba and the Philip pines, amounting to j£l0,000.000. But America did not demand a war indemnity as well as the islands; on the contrary, abe handed over jC4,000,000 as part compensation to Spain for their loss. In the present case Japan is not likely to demand a crushing indemnity of the Franco-German type. She it not in a position to strike at her enemy as Ger many struck at Prance, and np lo date has probably not spent ranch more then jC50.000.000 ovct the war. If she gets Port Arthur l.lars«a«sM __ ■nla, Japan will probably be glad to accept peace with a quite mod erate cash payment. Governor James B. Frazier of Tennessee was on Wednes day nominated by the Demo cratic caucus of the 9tate Legis lature for United States Scoa tor to sneered the late Senator V' ^1* formal elec tion will take place on March John I. Cox, present speaker of the State. Senate will •occeed to the gubernatorial chair. Gov. Frazier ia 49 yean old. . ROYAL Baking Powder Saves Health The use of Royal Baking Powder it enential to the healthfuben of the family food. VwlfmMtifgaiL Ak« UMn| powden m» Royal Baking Powder taves health. < » ivuo* ;-s—s—s-h toe mnw hthhte AtaataM Elaauaii ia ——'*■ Carolina Palltien. UMUMWaNMOr. distilleries am per milted by law to operate in North Carolina!* only twenty coun l«-loolcl.g forward, of coarse, ““hoar when the recently enacted Ward Act (ball go into elect. Dispensaries exist ia a a oxen others. Moreover, saloons and distil* ltriea may exist only in towns oi more than 1,000 inhabitants; as* *°°D? }* f®*" that inainuia a municipal govern meat with two poljcetnati. This condition ia neither radi* cal nor exceptional. There are only 35 llccuae counties in Ala* » »b Arkansas. 13 ia Florida, 33o«t of 137 ia Georgia, 35 with one license each ia Kan* end *9 with two license each. 9 ia Maryland. 12 in Ten nc~** ovtai*S, and 49 is Texas. .We have had a great (urore in North Carolina as il her policy were extraordinary. The fora* going information indicates she is only keeping pace with her sister State* in the Sooth. TJ»« troth Is the saloon mast go. The people of this country have come to the point where they most decide whether to accept n policy that will increase the Rvil or set op a policy that will ameliorate it; and quite naturally they are choosing the latter. In other words they save come to a time when they most choose between surrendering to the saloon or requiring the an* loon to surrender to them; and quite naturally they have chosen /“ bu *P««:h before the Com* mittee ^of the North Carolina House Mr. Pow—one of the most scute men in the State—re marked that the saloon power is rotten—like a rotten post, he said, that cannot stand a square ohtw. « is precisely true. Wherever the people turn upon »t. >t crumbles before them. The saloon and the distillery ceased on February 28th to be politically pewerful in North Carolina. Their appeal to the Democrats failed. The State Committee declined to serve them, and only fifteen Demo crats were found in the House— wbere there are 99—who would rote against the Ward bill. On the other hand, the Republicans to the Senate and House west on record ss favoring, a State election on the question of li cense or prohibition. It is true that the action of the Republi cans mav be charged to the sc cmint of party tactics; hat.be this ss it may, we do know that most of the Republicans in the General Assembly were elected as temperance men, and the party leaders cannot forget this. It is obvious, therefore, that the liquor interests cannot ho e to appeal to either pasty. Two years from now the Dem ocrats will stand on their admir able record of constructive meas ures in the interest of temper ance; and we expect the Repub licans to stand on their record for State Prohibition. Snch a situation will present a critical dwportaaity. It may be used brilliantly to make for teat par ent*- It may be used as well to make for confusion- and rtda. For division would finally in jure onr cause. U becomes tbe temperance forces to have a case just now. Oar present point is, however, that the liquor interests ere aban doned elements in North Caro Bat let ns understand plainly «re have not solved the problem of tbe Drink Bril. W« •rt only la the beginning of the eolation of the most perplexing of the social pmlilsms This g|p?i£sr&&s: sessniffiSS ture of CxpcffaMStSe ^We take this position. whkh £rt^r£afe»tof& k«S os: The saloon is no solution at aB; jt makes the Bell worse. It iW5SE?£J£?Is:?S3£ comeT^k'1 n0tl tee nrorae. We are going to work at tbia Drink Evil until we arrive at the best plan ol curing h* That there is poarible sack * *•£* ?? ®nn;ot. doubt, nor caa we doubt that with patience we may work it oat: In no State in the world .ate conditions ao favor able for this high Juwub North Cmroliu. AN INSULT TO V0MANBQ08. laaoleaea af a --f-frTliim JUJJWkW by a fUfalarj A* taat a waaHhy American who had contracted to ban ter her own sweet aeU and her money for a dwap little coronet h“ mp«***d in rime, and. to make her reionnatiaci complete, she wee wedded to mhoaMt young American attorney an the very day her erstwhile fiance ar rived horn Europe with his tar nished tiUej bored exgreimUm, girl who tbn»° exhibited each S5*ssr?aJ a^SL,riuu25SIFu?Cinkl? Spronll, who had loved bar ever since their mod-pie. days. That she eboee wisely may ha inferred from a glance at the pony scion of decayed Roman nobility who for a time bad infatuated her. . Count Charges de Ciai, who had condescended to honor America by exchanging Us Breen trading stamp for one of oor ffireat flows, is a nephew of the lamented Pop* Leo XIII. 1 That aatma bit only direct-claim J to resnectabitttv. and mrili am ' pbasises the fact that Pope Leo XIII., like many another *sd man, conk) not cbooaa bia kin. folks. However, tba less said abont the exalted pontiff ia this connection, tbe batter. Count da Ciai, after haviny canvassed the International matrimonial market, made advances to Miu BvsFBStffct MJSM* «!• p***j (SSSSSt vW Italian made a proposi tion to Us weaHky fUaceTuy. nSE h« .»»•* haaa *50,000 caah jin hand, ska moat pay aU ofki. k ■ i'VJ i '■ m ■ • ' WJ /7>'«*%' *j3*fl*tj* V*J rt^SL’^s^aij gt^W^Wi%bw»M slttM*r^iXU3,£