Newspapers / Gastonia Daily Gazette (Gastonia, … / Feb. 9, 1906, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of Gastonia Daily Gazette (Gastonia, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
^Ste '——ate I. r. Rtakla, ftm C.R. E*uu.V-Pnt. A.O.Ny*n.CuU>r Citizens National Bank Offers to its patrons every courtesy and accommodation con* sistent with sound banking. $ $ $ Your business is] solicited X++++++++++++++++++++++++X I F A R M E R S| I TAKE NOTICE t ± ====■ ■■■■" ■ * i ♦ | The Loray Mills has set aside a Ware* *•* *f» house for your use free of charge and will % * carry free Insurance for you. Your cotton + 4 will he tagged and undisturbed until you | J sell or call for same. They will Issue you + + ■ Negotiable Receipt. All they ask Is that 4 J you haul your cotton to the Warehouse. + 4* where It will be weighed free of charge, it * + X++++++++++++++++++++++++* | [| Is Only Ik* Pint Cut. Bp Bdfar L Vi scent. It is only the first coat. There will be another one, and it will not make so very much differ ence if this one ia not quite as well done as if it were the last. This is the way a certain young painter spoke when bis partner, also a young mao, called his attention to certain places on the side of the build ing where the work bad not be«. n very well done. "Bnt that isn’t just the way to look at it, Ben,” the partner in sisted, gently. "I very ranch doubt whether either of us could put on the last coat well enough to hide theirapeilections in the first. They will show through. There will be spots where the thick blotches we are leaving now will appear through the last coat. J^et’s do this coat just as if it were the last, n1H fMlrsw ** It was very kindly spoken, aud it does not seem as if any reasonably minded young man should have taken offense at the words so well meant. But Ben did not feel quite right that his work should be criticized in that way, and for an hour he went on painting in aiknce; but he did not take aoy more pains with his work than he did be fore. The first coat, wherever be touched bis brush, showed many and many a daub; and his friend was right; those blotches never could he quite wiped out, no matter how carefully the last coat might be put ou. You would not expect those two young men to remain long in company with each other. One wanted to do everything right; the other was satisfied to slight some of bis work. If it was to be covered up somehow, it did not seem to him that it was important to do the first part as well as if it was the last. So they drifted apart. You know which of those young men succeeded best ia life. Men want their work done right. They pay their money trssly, and they have a right to expect foil value re ceived. Why not? And they kaow that no painter’s brush pan cover knotty boards which are to be txposcd to the weather so well that by and by tho rain will not wash them off and show where the siding was "■camped." They know; too, that a good job of paintlog, or anything else, must be good ell the way through. A marbta worker ones stood before a beautiful piece of granite. With mallet and chisel, be marked out with bit eye the form of the statoo as It was to ba wbea his work was "»ts meat be a lot of work « . done before 1 come to the real statue," he said to himself. “It will not matter how hard I strike for a time. The outside must come off. auyway. The more quickly I can do it, the sooner will my task be done.” With heavy, carelcas blows he chipped tbe granite awav. Sud denly his chisel turned a trifle more deeply than he inteued it ■honld, and he loosened a great piece of tbe stone. If that frag ment should all come off at once, it would spoil the beauty and symmetry of the statue. Care fully now he cut away the piece; but do the best he could, a deep crevice ran far into tbe granite. He spent far more time in trying to bide that mark than it wonld have cost to do the work right in the hrst place; and he suc ceeded in coveting the line so well that the statac was ap proved and set no. Soon a few drops of water found their way down into that tiny flaw in the stone. The frost followed the drop, no larger than a tear, and tugged and pulled at it until at last the great lump that had been loosened by the sculptor went tumbling to tbe earth. The beauty of the statue was ruined forever. There it stood through the long years, a silent witness against tbe man who thought be might alight bla work in the beginning end hide the neglect There it no spot nor place where it is safe to slight one's one's work. I know of a teacher who has been trying for years to pass a certain examination. Year after year she has gone be fore the State authorities, and year after year she has failed. Why? Because when she be gan work, in one slsgls study she did not do thorough work. Think of all it has cost her to undo that mistake I It is difficult to undo the error of early training. I have in mind an operator on the typewriter, who got into the habit of striking one wrong key when br was learning to write. Instead of stopping to correct the error, he went on re peating the fault, nntil when the lima came that be began to be troubled about it and wished be might undo the mistake, he found it almost impossible to do so. Involuntarily hie finger would strike the wrong key. It took months of patient, per sistent work to correct the mis chief of s few boon. There it only one way to do tb« work which is given to us. end that is to do it right; spa the right moans the first ooat as well as the last; the first blow no less than the last; the first rule in arithmetic, lust the same as the last. Bight is right, first and last. A VICTOtT FOB BOLTON. Presldtai ImiitiU Sands to Senate Nominations of floltaa Mr. Hillikaa a ad Mr. Dockary —PraaMaal Bad Promised Mr. 1. C. Wadoar Marshal Mitll« kan'i Ptoca. ChuMa Obamr. Washington. Feb. 5—Tboaa North Carolina Republicans who have been generally designated as the "outs” were to-day brought face to face with the realization that the worst hsd befallen them, when the President transmitted to the Senate the nominations of Dis trict Attorney Holton. Marshal Millikan aaa Clsnd Dockery, the last uatned to be marshal ol the eastern district. The blow, while not unexpected, fell very heavily on some of the sorrow ing faithful, who were confident that they would, at least save the marshalship out of the crash. A good many people who are not particularly interested in tbc factional differences between Chairman Rollins and Congress man Blackburn, sympathize with Mr. L,. Clint Wagoer, who, | the President said, should suc ceed Marshal Millikan. It was not a provisional promise that the President made Mr. Wagner. In the present of a score of Mr. Wagner's friends he said that the Statesville man should have the place, and removed all reser vations by declaring that the ap pointment should be made with in a reasonable length of time, without reference to the Creeat 4*>ro cases; this, after it had beeu suggested to him that the cases might not be disposed of for some time. Mr. Wagner has been here two or three nays, but has showo no disposition to discuss the subject, further than to say that be was Telying im plicitly upou the President's promise. MR. ROBB RESPONSIBLE. It was Assistant Attorney General Kobb who was instru mental in accomplishing the un doing of those who were clamor ing for a change, but that offi cial said some complimentary things to-day couccruing Mr. Wagner. He said that after a fulliavestlgation, he waa con vinced that all the things that bad been said of Ur. Wagner by his friends were true, hut he uevertbeleks felt it waa his duty, under the circumstances exist ing at Greensboro, to leave tbe present officers undisturbed. Hiuts have emanated from tbc Department of late of still other prosecutions, os soon as the casds pending shall have been disposed of. It is distinctly a Holton victory and he has pulled off tbe stunt single-handed and alone, in so far as the politici ans arc concerned. ANDERSON HAS OK WAR PAINT. H. S. Anderson is here and appears to have bis war paint on. He seems to be opposed to tbe “organisation” as much as ever, and the air is full of hints about prosecutive charges. Ruff Hen derson is also here from North -Wilkesboro. He is endeavoring to secure a commission for Mrs. Henderson as postmaster at North Wilkesboro. Far $1.35 We will send The Gaxhttu twice a week from now until 1907. NT. lours MEAT PATIENCE. Lnf Waiting Ur~tba Sttknrf ta Cams to Tawn to (few Akal to ki IiwuM-Smh Htottry apd taarfaacmcs. Chulatto Chronlcl*. Olh. We saw it stated a few days ago that the Seaboard Air Line company bad about made np its mind to move its depot from the Catawba river bridge to the town of Mt. Holly. We hope tbe news is not too good to be trne. About eighteen years ago tbs Seaboard Air I,inc company con ceived a land boom idea for Mt. Holly, and it waa one of tbe most vUionarv schemes that a corporation with any sense ever went into. Tbc town of Mount Holly is two miles west of the Seaboard's bridge over tbe Ca tawba, but the Seaborn d people popped up a depot joat west of tbe bridge, bath a hotel, laid off town lota and invited suckers to come in. A man who waa well fixed in Mount Pleasant, Cabar rus county, palled np suites and went to Mount Holly to Uke charge of tbe botel. Pinch even laid tbe foundation of a residence on a corner lot and they—tbc foundation and tbe lot —are there yet. Then they got np a fair tbe like of which waa never before known aod never will be known again. Another item in tbe iniquitous scheme was tbc building of a steamboat wharf at tbe bndge and the ea Ublishment of a steamer Hue to carry stuff to and from Rhyne's factory, a couple of miles down the hollow. We were about to forget tbe water Uuk. They bnilt a tank fronting on tbe bo tel lawn, to they did, aod that tank is the excuse, to this pres ent day for the trains stopping lh*r* Bat the people of Mount Hol ly would sot come to the Sea board. They put aj> with tbe ioconveuieuce of driving to the water tank, while the train speeded through their town ev ery day, and they hanled their freight over the two miles of road intervening between the tank and town. They stood pat, and tbe Seaboard’s scheme of a new town accumulated dry rot. This condition of affairs has existed for fifteen years or more. The Seaboard’s laud boom was a failure from the start. The company has continually lost money by its stubbornness. It has nothing bat a depot and a water tank and a property that baa grown np in weeds, while a little further oa, tbe town of Mt. Holly has grown and prospered. If shame coaid ever come to a railroad company.it sorely should come to tbe Seaboard Air Line in its treatment of the people of Mount Holly. It maat be a powerfully good-natured folk who inhabit that town, else they would long since have Invit ed the Slate Corporation Com mission to visit the mand take a look around. Ara His Wlatfa Suraa Uag? AutesvJUc Hikm. A gentleman of the county who has been disabled for some time has been exempted from poll tax. Recently he recovered sufficiently to do around souse and asked the commissioners to put his name back on the tax list, as he felt he should pay tax if he was able. Quite out of tbe ordinary, we think. The Painless traitor. rtiifarotbeCi X«wrtUa«. A few Issues ago we noHoted the ad veutnros of one Burton who was giving s cheap enter taiuuicnt in Richmond and wbo bad a couple of pretty giris!eell* ing tickets to the entertainment. The idea was that the "show" was backed by a churcb and a preacher had endorsed it, and tba pretty girls and Mrs. Bnrton would canvass the town, go from business man to businesa sun and pnt np a beautiful hot air atoiy of cbnrcb work and so forth and so on, and the tali pes* men. ever eager to be bled in the name of charity, coughed bia dough and finally the preach er felt that be was not getting enough of the take*off, so he squealed. Then Burton trim arrested. He was seat on and the rirl* and Mrs. Barton escaped. Bat the end was not in sight. Time were other similar charges egainst Burton aad the Mayor of Richmoad proposed to make it warm for him. And so the other day in another trial a mysterious witness was introduced aad It proved to be another Mrs. Bar ton, the real Mrs. Barton, aad the first Mrs. Barton. so-cslWd was so imposter—a mistress go ing around with Bnrton doing the people. Barton bad kept np a splendid front during sU of bis troubles. He of course had been soothed sod sustained by the charming Mrs. Burton, nit! and that bad helped him. Bnt the reporters in the papers said that when the real Mrs. Burton walked into die court room; just from Philadel phia. with a look of defiance In her eye aad a smile o{ victory on her care-worn face, that old m««i Barton assumed as many colors as the sain-bow and was a com* olete sack of niul And of course this means Bar ton's finish. And the moral is that when a rasa has s wife and deserts her and goes off with so other woman he naturally gets meaner and meaner and some how, it ia moat always a true bill he is detected, punished— snd the game was not near worth the candle. Then it follows that all men shonld be good men, etc.,—bnt that Is not the moral we would present in oar preach ment. Of course that first prop osition is implied and under stood. Bnt the moral is that business men. men who would walk the length of their counter three times in weighing ont ten pounds of sugar to get the exact weight and throw back a quarter of ao ounce of sugar if it weigh ed that over, will listen to some strange man or woman give them a hot air spell; talk about a church of charity or something or other and reach down in their tronscrlootu or over to the cash drawer and cough one. two, three or five dollars—no man ever gave four dollars to charity —ana think nothing of it. Yet tn earn that amount they would think a long time; labor, aweal and worry. It is up to that much skinned and often‘hum bugged, General Public, to sit down and alt down hard no these pretenders. Whenever yon see able bodied men and women, professionals, those who make their living that way, stxaogan to yon ana the community, ont with soma sacred scroll ia the name of charity or chnrch put it down that it is an easy wav they have found to make a living without work and so worry. And if that general public which, after it has been fleeced sod the wool marketed, makes a kick, would figure on its sched ule in advance, it wouldn’t so often get left—H would sot have ar*"*-*WeH**lb We are glad Old Man Barton bit tbe ceiling. We are glad that Old Lady Burton bad oppor tunity to co«ne back and grin at her husband through the bar*, we ere glad tbe people who coughed without investigation were squeeaed and ia fact wt fee) pretty good over the entire Rkbmoud proceeding*. And about tbe little preacher who waa to be a beneficiary. Wall, when an eatabBaned church propose* to allow a band of strolling player* and afogm to coma into a city and sack the town for tbe benefit of that clinrch we take it that the min ister is misinformed entirely, aa toll* way* of the Lord. We know that tbe Ravene once fed a patriarch who waa favored of i. ood we know that Vanderbilt coughed quietly on Colonel Menu of Town Topic*— .but we leer e church discredit* itself when it is too eager to grasp for dollars propoaed In the way tbe Buttons proposed them. ‘ \Bobecribe for tho Oaotoxia Oasstts, v. Baking Powder Absolutely Pare DISTINCTIVELY A ORBAM OR TARTAR BAKING POWDER . ,'.4 . , if , 4'. • ■ ’J It does not contain an atom of phot, phadc acid (which it the product of bonct digested in sulphuric add) or of alum (which it one-third sulphuric add) sub stances adopted for other baking powders 1 because of their cheapness* % 4 -v The Love Trust Co.«' i, . 1 - :==r m_. . - _, msanace ia rtaodud coapcnic*. k#*i mmtmlm Mi rnwlmin■ MiMMiWI VB Will Coltotthotthtndi^1^ ^iUdBjuriBfair imT -' . J With tbe welfare of our town sod county ever is mind, we strive to saecocd aod help others to soeeeas. Yoor business solicited. The Love Trust Co. ■ ■' ■ ...
Gastonia Daily Gazette (Gastonia, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Feb. 9, 1906, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75