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***** m GASTONIA PUBLISHED TWICE A WEEK—TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. Devoted to the Protection of Home and the Interest· off the County. tfSEEE W. P. MARSHALL, Bdltor sad Proprietor. >>»*>* ItllMIIMi Mi»f * KEEP YOUR EYE ON IT | Î llin<it»i> y—H Σ * II >kw· fN (law am4 pitta J Τ Tha 4*r ην tta« ι· «t mmé whum Τ ▲ K'aUnUM"Mti< illtUdllllllMMIIIHUT VOL. XXVII. λ Τ. Rah m*. PrttUt»!. C. H. K»A*A VUt-frtt. A. O. Ml*·*. Ctikt.r CAPITAL «SO.OOO THE CITIZENS NATIONAL BANKJ OASTONIA, N. C. Accounts of Merchants, Manufacturers, and Farmers Invited. Liberal Dealing along Conservative Unes. SAVINGS We have added a Savings Department, in which we pay 4 Per cent., compounded every three months. If you have not already opened an account in this department we invite you to do so. OLD SILAS WALL. TUB NEOBO CHAtB-MAEEB. Si I· tk· Bails «lag a ai Eod al • Native Spook Story. J. C. X. in Charlotte Otowrm. Old Silas Wall bottoms chairs at night and does odd jobs by day. He bottoms them with the riving! of white oak, which he soaks in troughs and tabs antil they become as limber as leather. Bat Silas is raally the eod aad not the beginning cf the story. The story started when old Dir. Higbtower first came to the neighborhood with bis wife, a steam engine and sundry other properties. He bad been a po liceman in New York city; he was an osteopath, a mesmerist, a machinist, and, above all. a spiritoalist. When he died the chief legacy be left his wife was a firm belief in spiritualism. Long before she went insane, however, there was a certain rab bit that took np under her crib. He staved there so long unmo lested that he grew very tame, and when the good old lady went out to scatter dough to her chickens, that rabbit would iust as soon as not come over the yard and mingle and mix with them, and be dearly loved to bask in the open.· He grew so bold that be attracted the atten tion of the negroes. The more they observed him the more they believed that he was the old doctor. He had a sort of look of proprietorship to him, aud tbeu all kinds of superstitions clustered about the place. Jim Johnson, the best marks· min for miles around, took a shot at that rabbit one day, at a distance and while the rabbit was running, and missed him. Bot Près Wheeler, a one-eyed negzo boy, saw the ahot and the miss, and ha went on up to Spring Branch church, where the Angus' meetin' w a a in progress, and told the people that Jim Johnson bad snot at the Old Doctor and missed him. It was not long before the story went that Jim had stood within ten steps of the rabbit, where be sat basking and wobbling bis nose, and had shot his whole supply of cartridges at bim; that there were no aigu» of linllet marks on the ground, and that the rabbit never budged. There was, therefore, no longer any doubt that that hare was the Old Doctor. When Mrs. Hierhtower went inaane, the pat on tbe white eat in dress she had been married is end sat in her parlor, entertain ing tbe frienda of her youth. That night abe thought beraelf doe at a ball in tbe city. She set ont, escorted by g h oats, to meet tbe enrage ment, and waded all night long through boga and pond», and waa bittes by thoua and· of mosquitoes, which the declared the next day were aa big as bluebirds. Indeed, they were all g«llinippera; the or dinary mosquito aid not obtain that Angnst. They were so fierce—hold year breath, bat it's true!—that they wotild bite yoo through tbe eye-boles of yoar abota. Of courae tbe neighboihood could not risk any more night wandering by the good old lady and foar of u· boys volantaered to keep watch over tbe premises tbe following eight and praveat bar second escape. A long juniper telephone pole bad been dropped by a wagoner in front of tba bon··, on the opposite dde of tbe road and parallel with It. On that pole we eat. Tbe noon waa fair and the odors Of tba at m mer night aweet, bat the mos<inUoee ware intolerable. We went down to tbe cotton abed of tba η * arest dweller and stole a gnat many η a washed guano tack· and a cotton-sheet apiece, and brought tbem back to the log, wrapped ourselves in ibc iheeta, put the guano tacks on fire, and tat in tbe smoke It vu the mott horrible ttncll that ever aroae, but it prevented the mosquitoes. The trouble was that we soon burut all tbe sacks and bad to rely entirely προ a the sheets. Perhaps those mosqui toes were providential, for we might aothave been able to bear tbe nervous tension without their sensual diversion. To tee a white, ghost-like figure move abont the front room, penetrated as it was by moonlight, sileot, and to know that there was a crazy woman, with that in ber eyes which no man coold trans late, produced a feeling foreign to ordinary cowardice. Some of nt would not have run from Sul livan were scared. We went periodically to her bedroom win dow to listen and determine if she wst asleep, and when it came Calk's time to go first, right st her window, witbin a foot of ber head, he burst into the wildest peal of cTazy laugh ter. It was just a little too much for bis nerves. You are amused at Calk, but we swore, at him, aod were almost as much afraid of him as of the widow herself. Anyhow, we got back* on tbe telephone pole, wrapped our sheets well about ns, and watched. I don't know what we sbould bave done it Mrs. High tower bad sallied from the bouse; I'm afraid we ahould have rim like turkeya. But ahe slept weil and we sat silent un til abont two o'clock, when we heard a footfall on tbe path up •head and a certain cough, H A U U I» "That's old Silas Wall," Mid everybody. "Wrap your sheet· close." Mid s watcher, "and don't move and don't uy anything. Let's nee what Silas will do." The four of ns deployed our ■elves at equal distances along the log. looked straight to the front and waited. Old Silas came bumping along, covered with a brush neap of chairs, on bis way home down to Mah's Jeddy's place. It will always be a mystery how he managed to attach so many of them. He waa not looking toward the log, bat toward the' boas·. Nobody knew better than he that the widow was in sane and that the Old Doctor wm camping tinder the crib. He softened ■ his footfalls the nearer he came, aatil it got to be a regular creep, stealthy and nervous and alert. Not before he got opposite the log did he look round. He halted, cut hi· eye from end to end, and bowed. Not g word; not a motion; four shrouded figures in the haunted moonlight. That, you know, was the rendezvous of «périt·. "Wufll" said Silas. The way be shook those ch'drm off him was explosive. He let them fall where they wotld. He was old and stiff In shame. He took it on. He struck only once · bridge about ten feet wide, "Whrntipl*» two kuadreS yards dowa the roed. If the Old Doctor, that rab bit. had got la the road ahead of Mm, be would have given a loco I color to the old yam by kirtrier the rabbit out of the way and exclaimed, "If you can't ran no faster, git out cr de way en let * man run wat kin run!" That is how it happened that, wkea the widow was Ukea ————ι •way to the asylnm and tb< house tad its furniture were lefi «lone, there needed no lock· aac key· sod no other guard thai that rabbit. He may now Ix dead or alive; I know not; bu bis ill repute is active, and wil be so for many a year. It ii because of faim that graaa auc weed* crow in the οία pathway and the windfall of hickoriei and persimmon· is Jhe yard lit ungathered. He U a· terrible ai an army with banner·. J. C. M SEVERE WINTER, SAT VEATBCKW1SE Thick r«ll«i·, Cera Beak· ani Plenlllul Crap tf flat·. Berriei ami Acoras. »!«*—d Krin ΙαλΛλι. Peraona who are wise in theii knowledge of the weather thai is to come predict that the com iug winter will be a severe one They are of the wishbone schoo of weather prophet·, but it ii possible that they may be right tor they baae their prediction on signs which they s«y have nevei failed them in the past. Then there are many signi that next winter, unlike last winter, will be unusually severe In the first place, there are th< thick-leaved bushes in all the parks and in the surrounding country. This is said to be na ture's way of providing food foi birds, and a big crop of holl) berries means a long and seven wiuter. This prediction is sup ported by the statement from th< West that the corubuaks ar< much thicker this year thanthej UaiM i*s.m « U—- si — news comet from the moiintaic lection that tbeie will be an en ormoni yield of icorni. beech' nuts, cbetttnuU mad other fruiti of the forest upon which birdi ■nd beasts depend for food dur ing the winter months. Still another sien of a long and cruel winter it found in th« activity of the barn mice. The»» animait have already begun the work of building their neatt and obtervert agree that they ar< making them this year unnsnall) cozy and warm. Last year the) teemed to give little attention t< the building of their wintci homes, but thit year they are not only begiuniug to baild tbcm au atnally early, but are κϊνϊηι remarkable attention and care tc their construction. Allofwhicl tignt points to a tevere winter and there are many people -whe place at much confidence it these homely predictions as the) do in the reports of the wcathci bureau. The State Text Book Com minion will meet November 12 in the office of Governor Gleet for the purpose of adopting ι North Carolina bittory, a boot of civict and on pedagogy to b< naed in the public tcboolt o: the State. Tbese adoption! ' were postponed from the meet ing a month ago when tbe othei book ι of the courte of stndiei prescribed for the pnblic school! were adopted YOU AND YOUmLE. What'· Doing Α·ν| Mr fUtffc Wri JMt Acraas tki Um. > Ywkvill· iMilm John Do gen. the negro wbc ; tried the sx-ilave pensioc swindle on two old negroes ol ; York ville last it) miner, foe· le the Federal penitentiary is Atlanta for three years. Mr. William J. Poeg died al his borne near Rock Hill las) Wednesday night. The funeral services were lield at the resi dence by Rev. W. L. Lingle, ol the Presbyterian church. Tbt interment was in Laurel wood 1 cemetery Thursday afternoon. 1 Mrs. Martha E. Moore, widow of tbe late Solomon K. Moore, died at the home ol hex aon, Mr. W. T. Moore, in Yorkvill* last Saturday, aged 77 years, S months and 10 dara. fhe re mains weie interred at New Bethel Baptist church, of which tbe deceased bsd long been a consistent member. Dr». J. B. Bo we α and D. L ShUller wl ο were bound over tc appear before Magistrate Comet last Saturday on η charge oi violating the dispensary law, waived preliminary examination and the undemanding is thai tbe caaea will come up for s bearing at tbe approaching term of the court of general session». Tboa. P. McDow, Esq., is rep resenting Dr. Boweu and J. S, Brice, Esq., is representing Dr. Sbielder. Mr. Greene S and tier died it i* t_ uni —λ — -»»-·» ···■· ·""ν vmtuiu·/ mm η* iug at «boot 5 o'clock. He had been ill ior several week· end tbe end came alter a gradual decline that covered a period of about thirty-fix boars. He leave* a widow and two children, and survived by bis mother and three brothera, John S., Frank and William Sandifer ot York· ville. Subscribe for the Gastokm Οαγ«τγκ Λ Raleigb dis patch of the 23rd says: The Grtt case called on lbs 9tb district calendar in th< Supreme Court to-day was Statt ' vs. J. B. Mattbews, from Greens* boro, under sentence for 2( years in the penitentiary lot poisoning his wife who was Miai > Zola Briggn, of Durham. The counsel Tor Dt. Matthews arc Guthrie and Gnthrie of Durham > and Stedmao and Cooke oi Greensboro. The principal ground for the appeal it thai ' there are no degrees of tnnrdei in poisoning in this State and that if Matthews is guilty th< ' court erred in not finding first degree murder and sentencing the prisoner to be hanged. Tb« ι defense set up a denial of the whole charge and claimed that if Dr. Matthews did commit the ; crime it was when he was undei the influence of dope and insatx from its effects. Since his con· viction and sentence be hai , been under a $5,000 bond and has spent practically all of bis 1 time in a sanitarium near Baltl more where he Is being treated for his dope habit. 4 IF YOU TOUCH your tongue to ALUM «*! look in the glus—you will see the effect— You can't help puckering—-it make» you pucker to think of tasting it By the nee oC to called cheap Baking Powder· you'take ttf&^mekeriitg, injurions Alum right into yoojr «yttem—fori Injure digestion, Md ruin your stomach. . AVOID AJLVM ι Scry plainly— MIS. HETTY ÊÊKKM Aaerlca'a Chief «MU· Ca*i tsiial M« M mut l— far A Vmu Vhi M«M1m WUà He. llH Jw M>J Hua fy A1 ^VHI l^^wH ·»Η· Ki*«wil 3U— Lmirt. Fifty years ago it meat turn been—anyway, it «u about the time when people £r»t be· ran to make fun of woraaa's rigbta in tbia country—Wendell Phillip* remarked that ' tba woman who could amas» a fortune of a million dollar» would do more to advance the cause of ber It* tbau ail tbe speecb naliaf of the i|ti could achieve. There ara in tbe United Statea to-day uumerous women who by their owe tinan· cial abHity have either accnme lated fortune· of a million dol lar· or have added many millions to fortunes inherited by them. Women eaoagb have proved themselves shrewd as tbe surewd eat financially, yet even now the feminine sex haa citisea's rights in only fovr statea οt tha Union. Woman's ability ha· manifested itself faster than it bas obtained recognition. The chief individual money lender ia the world waa Russell Sa ire. Since hie death tbe world's chief individuel money lender is a woman. Betty How· land Robinaon Green. Prom a father and an anat she in· a J '· UbllM.U MilfctlllV* ■■IUBBUHK together to $10,000,000. She hu been in buaine»· for bcrseH aow (orty-oae yean. Her present possessions are vari ously estimated at from $60,000,· 000 to $73,000,000. She took up the trade of mooeymtking when ■he was thirty years old. Ia November she will be aeventy one. Her health la excellent, and she take· the beat cmie of it, though she work» «ore hour· a day than aay clerk or stenographer in ber employ. Sbc increases her wealth, it ia said by persons who think they know, at the rate of $2,000,000 or $3,000,000 a year. KnsseU Ssge was within three weeks of ninety years old when he died. Mrs. Green's excellent health, alert intellect and powerful grasp on financial affaira bid fair to keep ber alive and engage in her chosen work of laying np wealth for twenty years to come. Should she be able to do this her fortune will by that time have passed the hnndred million mark. Hetty Green's fortune is not soJarge as that of several of thé (Teat oil, railroad aod em balmed beef magnates, but Hetty Green never looted a bank, never bribed a legislature, never drove to bankruptcy and suicide a weaker rival or ru down by methods that should have pat heT in the peniten tiary the stock of properties of which the wished to obtain con trol, as certain ahiningly pious American millionaires have done. Therefore she is not so rich as they. However, the famous woman financier who looks mack younger than her asavnanaBBSBiM· ι·'ϊ r _ _ 'Royal it made from para, refined Grape Créant Alom bot you.haVi the profit of quality, the οff Tartar—Cott* mora profit offood health. COATS: COATS* COATS: ty yeas, certainly il not more than forty is the visor and keenness of the wonderful miod ; that has devoted itself solely to uumcyaikiac. ft msy be that1 by entirely honest, eves though avaricioua sod skimping, taesss •be will yet pile up wealth m high u soy of the aot " financiers. I tuedto hear Russell abased sad soecred at so jut because ha «how to live simple life and lay op money that X at length came to bare a sort of sympsthy with him. I ome to have the η have come1 __ Η kind of feeliar toward Mis. Green. We naturally want to take the side of one whom few bave a good word for, sometimes apparently just because he or she is rich. Besides—pat h fair and square to voataelf—is ft a ay of voor business or another's what a person doea with hit own mooey that he haa got honestly, even though stingily, so long ss that peteon doea not interfere with other people's right·? Ia it a crime against the community, pray, for a woman to mind her own basin cas and devote herself to lsying np money? True, she might be in noble? employas at. but is Cve· that anybody's bnsi nesa bet her own? Never in all the years of her life haa than been recorded a word of scandal or gossip from Mrs. Green's Una. She bas never oace meddled with another person*· β Hairs. Many a deed of kind ne·· haa «be done quietly and privately. Sbe Is one woman who knowa enough to keep her month «hut abso lutely. Can any higher praise thsn that be bestowed on s mem ber of the talking, spot taring se*? One of Mrs. Ore en'· ©ft quoted wise ttrisn U, "If there were let· talk in tbe world there would be fewer fool·.* As was the case with Russell Sac*. Mr*. Green'» tutu ara ex tremely simple, ud her plain, quiet life fivu her. remsrkably rood health. She lus said more than once that Russell Sage wtl the only sensible man Hviaf. t* it a ennse to five plaioly and «imply, even thoaffb ooe la a millionaire? Obco mere—pot It to yonrseH fair and aqnara—if. a rich ; wiahu to êat simple food Γ eo to bed early, dress comlortably and keep mwsy from the fan aad feathers of fashionable file, why should oot be or she be permit tod to do so? Is not this world lane esoorh for even a rich per son to five his or her own life? Hetty Howland Robinson was bore in Now Bedford, llaas., Nov. II.IIU. She is of Qaabar ancestry and laaraod from bee father to take care of mener when she WM a little |f*L She waa · handsome and cotlld have society'· moat b but she tu ted ha < a face at tbea, t on them all aad delights of money getting. Aod now Betty Greea coeM aodoubt fdly at say moment make a loan ia ready eub of $30,000,000 to anybody who MM gilt edg«d security and s et If iat*Mat. Yot, OB the other hsod, when the city Of New Tiork baa bead la ««geat need of fnnda end Wall street laaiJua «,μμαα Β m* ojtMAOae lb irnaeT* prcpom w nnptM u merciJesaly, MattyJ Oresn bu mora (baa once ooaae to the reecae wkh a loaa of asttltoBs at • tower rate Am the broker· demanded and thai dî <co<nfited and routed the *«9)Κ "^PS^ Mrs. Green owm bank*, bond», | railroads and real estate. Bee - baainc·· office {a ia one of the leading bank» of WwY^ city, g carries with it the ImpreMioaoi solidity and safety. Hetty Cteaa owns that baak aod is its chief manager Κ -director. She::>-f: dresses moiitTJflainly aod toex*M. pensively the· any stenographers' ta her eaitoh yet icéHfm -{g may be permitted—whose bust· ■eaeisit? Probably she bey*a;v<i new coat ο» (town when she , 5 needs oae aod just wears it it is won oat, fashion or no fashion. What a lot of heart· ache and bother would be saved if more women did tutf The fp lady who owes aad manage* banks and railroads has more»'?; important business on her mind than bftping up with the fash toe .In woman's dress. Green would not be the second richest woman ia the world if she spent her time keeping np ■/£ with the fashion. Yet fat costly aad fashionable attire she wonw;; V be notked for a striking]ν fiait looking woman.. She is tall and jgW Spare, with white hair, a kindly, y et itoen bine eye. a musical votoeaodareiule. cnarte^t SS^Tare^trymg to get the best'' "SZÏ SS,^·..^ woman financier bard names prove themselves as able as she has been to fear their children crime I would denalo aqndfJ
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