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This Space Frost Torrence & Co. Druggists Pone No. 16 The Gastonia Gazette. Issued every Tuesday and Friday y The Gasette Publishing Company. K. D. ATKINS, Bditor. j. W. ATKINS, Business Manager. No. 230 Main Avenue. PHONE NO. 50. GASTONIA Gouty Beat of Gaston County Af ter Jasmary 1, 1911. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One year Hx months '5 roar months 68 One month TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1910. We pass the following from the pen of Editor DeCamp, of The Gaff ney Ledger, on to our readers for their consideration: "There are events occurring in every communi ty -which, If reported in a local pa per, would create a commotion little dreamed of. What to report and what not to report often perplexes the editor. He is often unjustly ac cused of cowardice and favoritism, when all the time he Is looking to ward the good reputation of the town where his lot is cast. The lo cal editor from necessity almost con stantly finds himself between two fires, and whichever way he turns he is sure to be unjustly treated.- This Lb one of the pleasures of the news paper business." On Friday of this week the im mense army of census enumerators will begin the arduous task of taking the Thirteenth Census of the United States. In cities the work of the enumerators is required to be done In two weeks. In the rural districts, however, and towns whose popula tion in 1900 was less than 5,000, thirty days is allowed. It is well that we should remember when the census man comes around with his formidable list of questions, that the taking of the census Is provided tor In the Constitution of the national government for the especial purpose of determining every ten years the exact population of the several States and of the various counties In each State as a basis for giving each State proper representation in the The Citizens National Bank Gastonia, N. C The bank that is not so large or old as to be forgetful of its customers' wants and needs, and is as strong as any of them. Is the designated depository of the great state of North Carolina. . It makes loans at the legal rate of interest when satisfactory balances, are maintained, and every accommodation and courtesy ex tended customers in keeping with sound banking. We invite you to open an account . ' ' . . ' " ' ' '-,.! : ,-;,- '.!''- ' XL P. Rankin, Pres. A. G. Myers, Cashier. Capital and Surplus, $75,000 '' Belongs to and No. 5 L. D. House of Representatives of the Na tional Congress. Every citizen should take pleasure in giving prompt and correct replies to the questions and in aiding the census employees in every way in obtaining the desired information. We notice that the sheriff of Ca barrus county has levied upon and is advertising a large list of real estate for sale for failure to pay taxes. This is according to law, and if the practice were followed as it should be by every sheriff in the State, there would be fewer delinquents and less loss to the State and county in unpaid taxes. We are expecting ev ery day to see the Bheriff of Gaston make use of the same means to bring his delinquents to time. On April 30th at the old home stead of Daniel Boone, about twelve miles from Lexington, in Davidson county, there will be held a celebra tion of the 160th anniversary of the leaving of the Boone family from Pennsylvania for the banks of the Tadkln. The Boone cabin will be dedicated. Judge Jeter C. Pritch ard, of Asheville, Congressman R. N. Page and others, probably including Governor Kitchin, will deliver ad dresses. IMPORTANT NOTICE. The publishers desire to call to the attention of all Gazette subscribers the fact that the paper is now op erated strictly on a cash-in-advance basis as far as subscriptions are con cerned. Every paper is promptly discontinued the day the subscrip tion expires, this rule being applied with Impartiality. A postal card no tice is sent every subscriber at least a week before his time expires in or der that none may fall to have knowledge of the exact date of ex piration. If you do not want the paper discontinued please see that your remittance for renewal is in our hands not later than the date of ex piration of your subscription. Re mittance should be made by postof flce money order, express money or der or check. It is unsafe to send money through the mails and the subscriber takes the risk when send ing it. Any failure on the part of subscribers to receive the paper promptly should be reported at this office and the matter will be thor oughly investigated. , I riuMAWES may ist. i ,,4v ,., ,.,,,,. ,, , , ........ ,, . SMASHED BY THE SEA The Story of a Shipwreck In the English Channel. FIERCE FURY OF THE STORM. Wind and Wave Battered the Ship - Till Only s Shattered Hulk Re main- Battle Against the Cle menu That Ended In Defeat. We bad weathered the western Is lands and entered latitudes where the prudent mariner .; shortens sail and -keens a wary eye on the barometer. lor the seafarer may talk lightly of mountainous seas off the Horn, but not of a winter gale lu the mouth of the English channel when the coast Is strewn with wreckage from the Lizard to Beachy and his Imagination, accus tomed to vast expanses of lonely sea. pictures all sorts of craft jostling one Another in dangerous proximity. A favoring gale from the northwest. not more vicious than the ordinary north Atlantic gale, had kept the ship lively all day and set all hands figur ing on pay day. It was not until the afternoon watch that the weather out look became really threatening. Moun tainous walls of green water swung out of the darkness and buffeted her aside as they passed. Fierce squalls smote her in rapid succession, envelop ing her In a smother of spray, heeling her until the yardarms dipped in the crests of the waves. At eight bells the wind lulled and hauled a point to the westward, then hurled itself against the ship with ac cumulated fury. There was a sudden confusion of flying cordage, over whelming seas hammering upon the decks and the cannonade of canvas stripped from the spars and blown like thistledown to leeward. Believed of her top hamper, she stag gered erect, dripping like a half tide rock and shaken with the shock of the seas pounding her sides. Halfway on the upward oscillation she poised, checked by the renewed onslaught of the gale as if by the impact of a mate rial obstacle. Rags of canvas stream ed from her empty yards. Every wire of her rigging twanged and stretched under the strain. The deck round the mainmast heav ed and was starred with white fissures running along its well oiled planks. The heavy steel spar dimpled on one side, then buckled and crashed over board in a tangle of wreckage. The ends of severed wire whipped the air. and twisted shrouds sawed to and fro along the ruined bulwarks and struck showers of sparks from the tor tured iron work. The hatch covers were stripped from their coverings, boats smashed to firewood and all the intricate superstructure of the vessel swept and broken. Shouted orders were blown back, inaudible to the men cowering under the break of the poop, and useless if audible. What seamanship could contrive was done. Men worked for their lives, find ing a foothold on the sea swept deck, hacking the jagged ends of iron wire. But the day of cutting wreckage adrift is gone with wooden spars and hemp en cordage. Although the plates gaped and rivets started, the heavy spar held fast alongside, pounding against the iron hull as she rolled In that trough of the sea. A couple of spare spars were lashed together and launched with infinite danger through the gap in the broken bulwarks. But no improvised sea an chor could hold her to windward amid the tumult of such a sea. She was no longer a ship, but a ruined fabric, crushed and sagging to leeward under the weight of the elements. Morning brought an abatement of the fury of the gale. Standing on the poop, surveying her shattered hnlk, her skipper turned quletlv to bis mate and asked. "Is the port lifeboat sea worthy 7" "Carpenter reports that it is, sir," re plied his subordinate. i The skipper stood for awhile In si lence, noting the sluggish life of the deck under his feet "Suppose we've got to leave her," he said. "What d'ye think r It is the sole occasion where the mas ter mariner will deign to consult and be advised by his inferior officer. "She can't float much longer, sir," replied the other sympathetically. It might be that in his time he, too, would require to seek similar advice. "Ah," said the skipper heavily, "and I saw her launched." He crossed over to the teak flfe rail and laid his hand on it, fondling it affectionately. "All right, mister," be said at last "We're right in the track of shipping. Pass the word along to put a bag of biscuit aboard and fill the breakers with waters-Pall MaU Gasette. 8hert and to the Point One of the shortest speeches record ed in forensic annals is that of Taun ton, afterward a judge.' Charles Phil ips, an Irish orator, had made a flow ery speech in an assault case.- Taunton, who was for the defend snt said In reply, "My friend's elo quent complaint amounts, is plain English, to thls-that his client has re ceived s good, sound horsewhipping and my defense Is as short-that he richly deserved It" Tho Boy and the Boar. "Have yon ever heard the story of Algy and the bear?" asked a boy of his father. "It's very short. Algy met a bear; the bear was bulgy; the bulge waa Algy." London News. I do not know of any way so sure of making others happy as being so one self. Sir Arthur Helps. v - (Continued from page 1.) rvimmiitM shall have the right to make any rules with regard to hold lng primary elections which It may deem proper, not inconsistent with the rules prescribed In thla plan. shall he the duty of the Executive Committee to prepare and furnish ell blanks and. forms needed in making the return from said primary elec tlons, and any reported challenges and steals therefrom. It shall have power to provide for raising the funds necessary to pay the ex penses thereof. It was decided that. In the case of any set of candidates for a county office, where.no one received a ma jority of the votes cast in. the pri mary for that office, the two candl dates receiving the highest vote shall be required to run the second time In a second primary to be held on the 25th. day of June, the date for holding the primaries for nominal lng State officers. July 2nd la the date for the county convention for nominating State officers. The following named Democrats were chosen as poll-holders for the orimaries of May 21st and June 25 South Point: -Arthur Suggs, John D. McLean, W. A. Jackson. Dallas: J. L Clemmer, Grant Pa- sour. P. O. Davis. Stanley: C. F. Smith, R. L. Mc- Lurd. J. E. Clonlnger. Glenn's: E. H. Adams, Leslie Crawford, R. C. Robinson. Belmont: J. B. Hall, J. M. Sloan, W. A. Leeper. Carpenter's: W. B. Carpenter, Sylvanus Carpenter, Henry Riser. Lowell: M. L. Stroup, Tom Ran kin, S. J. Gaston. Mt. Holly: W. B. Rutledge, P. E. Lentz, John Patterson. Gastonia No. 1: W. T. Rankin, M. H. Shuford, B. T. Morris. Gastonia No. 2: W. G. Rhyne, W. T. Story, Lamar Pegram. Cherry vllle: D. P. McLurd, A. H. Huss. D. A. Rudlsill. Baker's: S. T. Whitesides, J. R. Carson, Joe Pearson. Union: Charles Huffstetler, W. W. Wilson, W. C. Wilson. Dilling: Joe Payne, J. L. Mau- ney, J. M. Helton. Mtn. Island: Spratt Cobb, A. M. Henderson, Robert Underwood. Lucia: Tom Connell, J. M. .Mcin tosh, John Beatty. Bessemer City: C. A. Riser, W. L. Ormand, J. T. R. Dameron. McAdenville: R. R. Ray, George Wright, Melnon Creekmore. Robinson's: R. Q. Howe, J. C. Robinson, W. W. Faires. Riser's: R. R. Mauney, T. M. Ho- vls, H. S. Sellers. METEOR DROPS NEAR GAFFNEY. Series of Blinding Flashes Precedes Crash and Deafening Explosion Which Shakes Houses for a Dis tance of Two Miles Citizens Will Probe Yawning Cavity in Search of the Meteor. Charlotte Observer. Gaffney, 8. C, April 7. The peo ple of the Aratt section, which is lo cated about ten miles from this city, were greatly terrified last Friday night about 8 o'clock when a series of blinding flashes were seen in the sky, followed by a great crash and an awful report. The houses for a distance of two miles around were shaken and the glasses in the win dow became loosened by the report. The whole neighborhood was arous ed, but all were too frightened to Investigate the matter that night. The following morning a squad was formed and several people went to the place from which the report came and a yawning hole was found, about fifteen feet by twenty feet and a little over six feet deep. Nothing else was found. It Is generally believed by the people of the Aratt section that It waa a meteor fell, causing the blind ing flashes and the great noise. They are all firmly convinced that It could have been nothing else, and the fact that Halley's comet has now become visible In Gaffney lends color to the opinion, they believing that this may have in some way been responsible for the occurrence. No other theory than that it was a meteor has been advanced, as it is the only possible thing that would have come through the air and caused such a disturb ance. . No effort has been made to see whether or not It was burled in the bole and the speculations as to whether or not It was really a me teor are rife in Gaffney and the above-named community.. Doubt less an effort will be made at once to dig into the hole and If possible to locate the object and doubtless tome' interesting developments will then ar'se. If It be a meteor and is anywhere near as large as the hole that, was made, it must indeed be wonderful.' 'Meanwhile the people of Aratt are much excited over the matter and are very anxious to learn the cause of the peace of the com munity being disturbed. I Better Your Financial Condition Don t arry money around wit!) you or hide it away Put it on deposit A bank account creates greater confidence, a better standing, and an increase ed prestige in the community for a depositor. The First; National Bank Gastonia, N. C. Gaston County's Oldest andLargest Bank, Our service is yours to command. L. L. JENKINS, Pres't Our Biggest ami 1EE J, pJp SHOWING OF SPRING AND SUMMER MILLINERY THAT'S THE COMMENT HEARD ON ALL SIDES FROM HUNDREDS OF PLEAS ED AND SATISFIED CUSTOMERS. OUR TRIMMERS ARE BUSY AS CAN BE BUT NEVER TOO BUSY TO SHOW YOU THE GOODS. IT WILL PAY EVERY LADY TO COME AND SEE THE HATS AT OUR STORE BEFORE BUYING. OUR SHOWING OF SPRING DRESS GOODS AND SILKS IS ALSO THE BEST IN THE HISTORY OF OUR STORE. ALL THE NEW FAB RICS AND COLORS. BIG ASSORTMENT TO SELECT FROM. Thomson MerCo Company Gastonia, INDEPENDENT WIVES. Quarrels Over Small Sums Are Mak ing Suffragettes Today. New York Evening Sun. Our grandmothers have been more or less silently smiling at the agitat ing enthusiasms of the younger gen erations. They have regarded votes. reformB and divorce as the nighty inaccuracies of youth to he regret ted, covered up, treated leniently; things that, after all, did not hap pen In their families, but were com fortably confined to people that one naturally did not meet. With the subject of economic independence for married women coming to the fore there has been a noticeable change in the quiet old ladles who have believed marriage greatly ma ligned. They ask: "A married wo man is to be regarded as a wage earning citizen? She is to have a legal right to a living proportion of her husband's Income? She will not have to ask him for every cent of money she needs?" And a visible flutter has been, discernible among the women who married half a cen tury ago, while their eyes have exchanged meaning messages. Any one could readily see that they were concealing something. There was a reason for their interest in this one cause of so widespread a dissatis faction. They were gently, press Ihgly questioned, and finally with many reservations on their part, came out that they were in sympathy with anything that would do away with the necessity of wives asking their husbands for money. . And then the dear ladies poured forth most harrowing tales. Each one had a store. Of men who al ways went shopping e with their wives and would before the sales people deplore the expenslveness of tall wife: of others who, on their wives refusing to ask them for mon ey, would leave enough for each meal on the mantelpiece as they left the house In the morning. It they forgot to leave any there was no dinner when they came home. Once man left 15 cents for the evening meal, a man who when he dined cel ebrities, would have elaborate din ners served by an expensive caterer, and when he aat down to the table that night there, In the bottom of the biggest soup tureen, filled with v:. OFFICERS i R. R. HAY, J. LEE ROfelNSON, Vkc-Pra'ts S. N. BOYCE, Cashier North Carolina. CUT DOWN the cost of your clothing, but im prove the quality and style. This la no paradox, and you can easily put it to the test by having your Spring suit made to measure by Padgett The vast scale upon wnicn n re produces New York's latest fashions for men places him in a position to offer you the best materials, designs nt wnrkmanshlD 'at Drlces that will astonish you, Just a third of the cost, but exact duplicates of exclusive Fifth Avenue styles. R. T. Padgett Phone 222 Gastonia, N. C hot water and a baylear or two, was the 15 cents. His wife aat silent, waiting to be served, and that man rose from tne tame, ie wm and to 10 minutes he came back, meekly suggesting they dine at a hotel. Our Honor Roll. Since our last report we have re ceived - payments on subscription from the following persons: ; J. E. Lindsay, W. B. Puett, L. A. States, Roe "MeLaughen, H. Schnelder.C. W. Rankin, Hugh A. Rankin, P. S. Jen kins. R. F. Cral. J. T. Welch, Misa Julia Galloway, C. E. Torrenee, J. W. Stowe, J. E. Ford. 8. P. Stowe. J. . ark v H. ' Hall. K o. smiin. i s. orowa, David Wright, J. K. Gaston, J. Ross Ratchford, J. H. Armstrong, W. A." Allen, A. F. Gaston, B. Frank Nor rls, A. J. Love. r Mr. D. W. Forbea returned yet- of his brother, Mr. Daniel J. Forbes, of Clover, 8. C ,
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