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PAGE TWO. THE GASTONIA GAZETTE. GASTONIA IS A BUST TOWN. TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1913, The Gastonia Gazette. TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1913. ROAD HOLDING. The building of roads throughout the State has reached a crisis. The day of the macadam is at and end. The sand-clay road is Cie road or the future. The Gazette has proph esied this time and again. The up keep of the macadam alter it is built is too expensive for the time it lasts. The sand-day road improves with working and attention. In view of these facts we are giving be low an editorial from The Charlotte Observer on "The Up Keep or Roads." followed by a strong com ment from The Statesville LandniarR along the same line. They are well worth the reading by those interest ed in the building of roads in Gas ton county. The landman says This from The Charlotte Observe-. : It appears from an editorial in the Savannah" News that a number of counties in Georgia are wastlus money by reason of failure to keep the macadam roads in repair. Tho experience of these Georgia counties Is that of Mecklenburg over aga;a. This paper has often in th? past em phasized the importance ot repairing the macadam roads, but the county seemed too intent on making a record In mileage of new roads built. The consequence is being faced today in miles of roads so badly out of rr pair that the reshaping of thein al most amounts to rebuiid'n.;. The News quotes one of .he papers in foutb. Georgia as saying "ilerrien county Is spending $I.,iM0 t. ?2o. 000 a year on her public roads. That Is all right, but we oueht to spend 53,000 to $3,000 a year on the up keep of those same roads. Berrien is making a big mistake in spending so much for road building and then allowing the roads to go to ruin. They should be taken care of after they are built." Moralizing, Tne News says it is expensive to allow roads to get out of repair. "By comparison it is exceedingly Inex pensive to keep them up to the prop er standard. To spend thousands ot dollars to build a few miles of roaii and then to pay no further attention to it, permitting It to be cut by traf fic and to be badly washed by the rains without making any effort to repair the damage is almost oiuiva lent to throwing: the money into the ocean. South Georgia has many hundred thousand dollars "sunk" tn new roads and cannot afford to !o3 all that money simply through the failure of county authorities to pre vent the new roads from going to ruin." This is not printed as a matter or information, for all intelligent od- aervers know the facts already. But it is printed here to emphasize gain the fact that Iredell county to day faces by far the most important problem In connection with its road work, and that is the upkeep of the roads it is building. In the near ru ture the county will have expended the $400,000 of road money. Un less the roads built are kept in re pair our boasted good roads will te but a name a few years hence ana tne greater part or the money we hare expended will be wasted. If the roads are allowed to wear out before repairs are begun, the cost of repair will be almost equal to re building. If a systematic and eco nomical system of upkeep is devised the roads can be kept in repair at small cost: but the most important natter is eternal vigilance. If close attention is given and repairs made promptly, the roads will never get bad and the upkeep will be a simple matter. Iredell people should keep this matter to the front at all times If it is allowed to lag we will in a few years be like Mecklenbure. unce exploited as the goo 1 roaas county of the State, Mecklenburg now has many miles of worn-out roads simply because they were not kept In repair. The Iredell commis sioners should see to It that enougr money is provided to keep our roaas in good repair, even if we have to 6top building new roads. BOY CIGARETTE SMOKERS Says The Charlotte Observer of recent date: "It is against the law In North Carolina for any boy under 1" years of age to smoke cigarettes. Know that? So, and what is more, any person who gives the boy a cigarette, or cigarette tobacco, as well as any one who Bells the same to a boy, can be fined for the offense. Still rur ther, the law requires the officers of the law 'every police officer in the State of North Carolina.' it read? to ask the boy caught smoking tr tell where he got the cigarette, and on being told, to forthwith issue a warrant for the arrest of the parry so offending. If the boy refuses to tell, he shall be hauled up before a magistrate, mayor or recorder, as the case may be, and tried for a misdemeanor. The old cigarette law was amended in this stringent manner. Of course no attention Is going to be paid to it. The streets of Charlotte are filled with urchins smoking cigarettes every day and the enforcement of this law would paralyze the delivery service of the whole town, and might even break up some of the Sunday schools. But all the same, the parent who Is worried by his boy smoking ciga rettes has it in his power to give painful trouble to both the boy and the one who gives him or sells him cigarettes." Wo believe that Gastonia and sur rounding towns in this county hare more to complain of from the boy cigarette smokers than any other section In North Carolina. With 67 cotton mllrs in the county and wltn the variety of conditions and envir onment that always attend cotton mills, there are numbers and num bers of small boys from seven ana eight years up who are habituat smokers. They are a familiar sight around every cotton mill village. U is to be hoped that the parents who are worried about their boys will give trouble to those guilty of sell ing the cigarettes. THK OFFICE SKF.KF.lt. The Greensboro Record of recent date says: "Doesn't it make you tired to read in some papers that the Hon. and So had 'this honor thrust upon him,' when as a matter of fact the man has been legging and working for the job for months? Even Mr Wilson worked for the presidential nomination: then he worked to t)e elected. A candidate for townshrp constable docs the same thing, an.i it is right and proper, yet the home naners nerhans others speak or Mr. Jones or Mr. Brown having 'this honor thrust upon him,' just ns if he did not want it: as if he was in fai t undecided whether he would take it or leave it for some of the smaller frv to take. The truth is we would like to take a look at a man who has had an office thrust upon him. He would be a drawlr.? card in a dime museum." And the way these prospective or flee holders seek newspaper notorie- tv is a caution. Ycu can see them on the streets most any old time They get mighty friendly with tn-- reporters and editors along about nomination time and are always giv ing the. newspapers a little sonic thing to "till up space," as they sa. They do not know probably that newspaper space is valuable ann that newspapers are not often hard put to it to fill up the space. They like to be pestered by reporters ni the way that James Marsh Blythe's serial story, "The Price of Place," running in The Saturday Ev ening Post, spoke of. It's all right to feign indifference, but inwardly they are anxious to see their names in print. WANT COLUMNS. Says The Yorkville Enquirer: "A development th"t The Enqui er has watched with pleasure anei satisfaction is the increasing num ber of farmers who from time to time make use of the want columns of the paier to make known their desires as to buying, selling, etc. Most farmers who have tried this method have found that there Is no better way of disposing of a horse, mule, cow or other personalty, and many use the same means in con nection with the buying, selling anil renting of land. Ten years bacre such advertisements by farmers were rare. Now they are quite commo-i and constatnly growing more popu lar." The Gazette could cite incident ar ter incident of result happening in this paper where the farmers have sold horses, cows and the like through the columns of this paper. A glance at its penny ads in any Is sue will be sufficient to reveal the fact that farmers make a liberal use of this kind of advertising. Ther are others who should become bet ter acquainted with it. Chester County's First Rale. The Lantern, 20th. To Mr. .1. G. L. White goes the honor of bringing to the city the first bale of 1913 cotton. He had it brought to Chester this morning and it was bought by the S. M. Jones Co. for 12 cents a pound. It weighed 474 pounds and graded as strict middling. It brought $56.88. The Leopard's Spots By THOMAS DIXON Copyright. 1904. by Doubleday. Pag 4 Co. CHAPTER VIII. I T was a vain hope that relief could come from any quarter. The red flag of the sheriff fluttered from 2,320 doors iu the county. This was more than two-thirds of the total. Those who had saved Just escaped by the 6kin of their teeth. They sold old Jewelry or plate that had been hidden in the war, or they sold their corn and provisions, trusting to their abil ity to live on dried fruit, berries, wal nuts, h'ekory mits, and such winter vegetables as they could raise in their gardens. The preacher secured for Tom a tumbledown log cabin on the outskirts of town, with a half acre of poor red mil land around it. which his wife at once transformed into a garden. She took up the bulbs and flowers that she bad tended so lovingly about the door of their old home and planted them with tears around this desolate cabin. Now aud then she would look down at the work and cry. Then she would go bravely back to it As nobody occupied her old borne, she went back and forth until she moved all the Jon quils and sweet pinks from the bor ders of the garden walk aud reset them lu the new garden. She then moved her stra wherries, nud raspber ries, and gooselterries, nnd net her fall cabbage plants. In three weeks she had transformed u desolate red clay lot into a smiling gardeu. She had watered every plant daily, and Tom hud watched her with growing won der nnd love. "Ole vumun! you're an angel:" he cried. "If God had sent one clown from the skies she couldn't have done any more." The problem which pressed heaviest of all on the preacher's heart in this crisis was how to save Mrs. Gaston's home. "If that place is sold next week, my dear." he said to his wife, "she will never survive." "I know it. She is sinking every day. It breaks my heart to look at her." "What can we do?" "I'm sure I can't tell. We've given everything we have on earth except the clothes on our buck. I haven't .mother piece of Jewelry, or even nn old dress." ".The tax and the cost may amount to $175. There Isn't n man in this county who has that much niiiey, or I'd borrow it if I had to mortgage my iKxly and soul to do it." "I'll tell you wlmt you might do," his wife suddenly exclaimed. Telegraph your old college mate in Boston that you will accept his invitation to supply his pulpit those lust two Sundays in August. Tstey will pay you hand somely." "It may be possible, but where nm I to get tlie money for ii telegram and a ticket?" "Surely you can borrow somewhere?" "I don't know a man in the county who has it." "Then go to the young commandant of the post here. Tell him the facts. Tell him that a widow of n brave Confederate soldier is about to be turned out of her home because she can't pay the taxes levied by this in famous negro government. Ask him t loan j ou the money for the tele gram nnd the ticket." The preacher seized his hnt and made his way as fast as possible to the camp. The young captain beard bis story with grave courtesy. "Certainly, doctor." lie said; "I'll loan you the 40 with pleasure. i wish I could do more to relieve the distress of the Mople. Relieve me. sir. the people' of the north do not dream of the awful conditions of the south. They are being fooled by the politicians. I'll thank God when I am relieved of this job and get home. What has amazed me is that you hot headed southern people have stood it thus far. I doj't know a northern community that would liave endured it." 'Ah. captain, the people are heart sick of bloodshed. Thev surrendered In gocxl faith. They couldn't foresee this. If they had" The preacher paused, his eyes grew misty with tears, and he looked thoughtfully out on the blue mountain leaks Hint loomed range after range in the distance until the last bald tops were lost In the clouds. If General lee had dreamed of such an Infamy being forced on the south two 'years after his surrender ns this attempt to make the old slaves the rulers of their masters, and to destroy the Anglo-Saxon civilization of the Houth, he would have withdrawn his armies Into that Appalachian moun tain wild and fought till every white man In the south was exterminated. The Confederacy went to pieces in a day. not because the south could no longer right, but because they were fighting the flag of their fathers, and they were tired of It. They went back to the old (lag. Ther expected to lose their slaves and repudiate the dogma of secession forever. But they never dreamed of negro dominion, or negro deification, of negro equality and amalgamation, now being rammed down their throats with bayonets. They never dreamed of the confisca tion of the desolate homes of the poor and the weak nnd the broken hearted. More than 2"0.fl0 southern men fought In the I'nion army in answer to Lin coln's call even against their own flesh and blood. Hut If this program had been announced, every one of the LtiO.OOO southern soldiers who wore the blue would have rallied around the firesides of the south. This Infamy was something undreamed save in the souls of a few desperate schemers at Washington, who waited their oppor tunity 'anl found It in the nation's blind agony over the death of a mar tyred leader." The preacher pressed the captain's hand and hastened to tell Mrs. Gaston of his plans. He found her seated, pale and wistful, at her window look ing out on the lawn, now lieing parched and ruined since Nelse was disabled and could no longer tend R. Charlie was trying to kiss the tears away from her eyes. "Slamma. dear, you mustn't cry any more!" "I can't help It. darling." "They can't take our home away from us. I tore down the sign they nailed on the door, and Dick burned it np." "But they will do'lt. Charlie. The sheriff will sell it at auction next week, and we will never have a home of our own again." Charlie quickly bounded to the door and showed the preacher in. "I have good news for you. Mrs. Gaston. I start to Roston tonight to preach two Sundays. I am going to try to borrow the money there to save your home. We will not be too sore till it's doue, but you must cheer up." "Oh, doctor, you're glring me a new lease on life!" she cried, looking up at him through tears of grutitude. That night the preacher hurried on his way to Boston. The days dragged slowly one after another, and still no word came to the anxious, waiting woman. The scoundrelly postmaster bad recognized the letter in Dr. Durham's handwriting and bad hidden it, sus pecting its contents. When the day came for the sale Mrs. Gaston tried to face the trial bravely But it Was too much for her. When she saw a great nerd or negroes trampling down her flowers, laughing. 'You'll fight this battle out." cracking vulgar jokes, ami swarming over the porches, she sank feebly into her chair, buried lu-r face in her hands and gave way to a pnslniate flood of tears. She was roused lv the thump ing of heavy feet In the hall and the unmistakable odor of perspiring ne groes. They had begun to ransack the house on tours of inspection. The poor woman's bead dropped and she fell to the floor In a dead swoon. There was a sudden charge as of nn armed host. Hie sound of Mows, a wild .scramble, and the bouse was cleared. Aunt Eve with a tire shovel. Charlie with a broken hoe handle and Iick with a big biacksnake whip had clear ed the air. Aunt Eve stood on the front door step shaking the shovel nt the crowd. "Ies put yo' big tint hoofs In dis house ergin! I'll split yo' heads wide open! Yo' black cattle!" "Iat we will:" railed Iick, ns he cracked the whip at a little negro passing. Charlie ran into bis mother's room and found her lying across the floor ou her face. "Aunt Eve, come quick, mamma's dying!" he shouted. They lifted her to the bed. and Dick ran for the doctor. Dr. Graham looked very trrave when he had completed his examination. "Come here, my boy; I must tell you some sad news." Charlie's big brown eyes glanced up with u startled look Into the doctor s face. "Don't tell me she's dying, doctor. I can't stand it." The doctor took bis hand. "You're getting to be a man now. my son: you will soon lie thirteen. You nowf te hrave. jour mother wn not inc througli the night." The oy sank on his knees beside the still white figure, tenderly clasped her thin hand in his, and ltegan to kiss it slowly. He would kiss it, lay his wet cheek against it, and try to warm It with his hot. young blood. It was about 9 o'clock when she opened her eyes with a smile and looked Into his face. "My sweet !oy," she whispered. , "Oh, mamma, do try to live! Don't leave me," he soblx'd tn quivering tones as he leaned over and kissed her lips. She smiled faintly again. "Yes, I must go, dear. I am tired. Vour papa Is waiting for me. I see him smiling and beckoning to me now. I must go." A sob shook the loy with an agony no words could frame. "There, there, dear, don't," she soothingly said. "You will grow to lie a brave, strong man. You will fight this battle out, and win back our home and bring your own bride here In the far away days of sunshine and success I see for you. She will love you, and the flowers will blossom on the lawn again. Rut I am tired. Kiss me I must go." Her heart fluttered on for awhile, but she uever spoke again. At 10 o'clock Mrs. Durham ten derly lifted the boy from the bedside, kissed him. and said as she led him to his room: "She's done with suffering, Charlie. You are going to live with me now, and let me love you and be your mother." The preacher had made a profound impression on his Boston congregation. They were charmed by his simple, direct appeal to the heart. His fiery emphasis. Impassioned dogmatic faith, his tenderness and the strange pathos of his voice swept them off their feet. At night the big church was crowded to the doors, and throngs were strug gling in vain to gain admittance. At the close of the services he was over whelmed with the expressions' of grati tude aud heartfelt sympathy with which they thauked him for his mes sages. lie was feastes and dined and taken out iuto the (Mirks behind spanking teams, uutil his hvad was dizzy with the unaccustomed whirl. The preacher went through it all with a heavy heart Those beautiful homes, with theJr rich carpets and handsome furniture, and those long lines of beautiful carriages in the parks, made a contrast with the agony of universal ruru which he left at home that crushed his soul. He hastened to tell the story of Mrs. Gaston to a genial old merchant who had takeu a great fancy to him. A tear glistened in the old man's eye as he quickly rose. "Come right down to my store. I'll get you the money before the postoffice closes. I've got tickets for you to go to the Colosseum with me tonight and ,hear the music the great Peace Jubi lee. We are ciJebratlng the return of peace aiul prosperity and the preser vation of the I'nion. It's the greatest musical festival the world ever saw." The preacher was dazed with the sense of the sublimity and the pathetic tragedy of the south that lay back of its joy. The great Colosseum, constructed for the purpose, seated more than 40, Ooo people. Such a crowd he had never seen gathered together within one building. The soul of the orator hi him leaped with power as he glanced over the swaying ocean of human faces. There were 12.XM trained voices in the clmrus. lie had dreamed of such music Ui heaven when countless hosts of angels should gather around God's throne. He had never expected to hear it ou earth. He was transported with n rapture that thrilled aiul lifted him nbove the consciousness of thse aiul sense. They rendered the masterpieces of the ages. The music continued hour after hour, day after day. and night after night. The grand chorus within the Colos seum was accompanied by the ringing of bells in the city and the firing of cannon on the Common, discharged iu perfect time with the melody that rolled upward from those 12.MHI voices and broke against the gates of heaven. When every voice was iu full cry. and every Instrument of music that nmu had ce"f "devised throbbed iu harmony, and a hundred anvils were ringing a chorus of steed In perfect time, Parepa Rosa stepped forward on the great stage, nnd lu a voice that raised its splendid note of triumph over till like the trumpet of the arch angel, sang "The Star Spangled Hau lier." Men and women fainted, and one woman died, unable to endure the strain. The preacher turned his head awav and looked out of the window. soft wind was blowing from the south. On Its wings were borne to liis heart the cry of the widow and or phan, the hungry and the dying, still being trampled to death by n war more terrible than the first, because it was waged against the unarmed, women and children, the wounded, the starving and the defenseless. He tried In vain to keep back the tears. Rend, lug low, he put his face lu his hands aud cried like a child. 'God forgive them! They know not what they do!", he moaned. The kindly old man by his side said nothing, supposing he was overcome by the grandeur of the music. (TO RE CONTINUED.) Maury I. pings, former State ar chitect of California, was Werines- i..... , o:j .1 ..i ".. l rderal t'u..i : at San Francisco on four counts for violations of the "white slave" laws. Each count carries a maximum pen alty of five years and a minimum of one year. Sentence will be pronounc ed on him September 2nd. Mean while his bond is fixed at $5,000 tn each count or $20,000 in all. The trial of this case has been in prog ress for several weeks and has at tracted nation-wide attention. Major J. C. French, aged 72, ap pointed postmaster at Memphis, Tenn., about two months ago after a hard fight, dropped dead ai h:s breakfast table Friday morning fol lowing a stroke of apoplexy. AGE NO BAR. Everybody in Gastonia is Eligible. Old people stooped with suffering, Middle age. courageously fighting, Youth protesting Impatiently; Children, unable to explain; All in misery from their kidneys. Perhaps a little backache first. Crinary disorders," dropsy may quickly follow. Doan's Kidney Pills are for sick kidneys. Are endorsed by thousands. Here's Gastonia testimony. Mrs. C. Gardner, 117 Loray St., Gastonia. N. C, says: "We have used Doan's Kidney Pills in our fam ily and they have done such great good that I am just as willing to praise them now as ever. One of our children suffered from weak kid neys. There were pains in the bacK and the action of the kidneys was irregular. Doan's Kidney Pills were finally used, being procured at The Torrence Drug Company's drug store, nd thev made a complete cure. There has been no sign of the trou ble since." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 rents. Foster-Mil Diirn i o iiuuaio, New York, sole agents for the i nited States. - !. Remember the n.nme lioan s PROFESSIONAL CARDS W. B. MORRIS REGISTERED OPTOMETRIST lye examined and glasses properlf fitted at Terrence-Morrls Co'a. i. R. H. PARKER Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist Office at Adams drug store GASTONIA. N. C J Joseph W. Timberlake Attorney-at-Law First floor, iteaitjr Building GASTONIA, N. O. Mrs. Mattie Anderson PUBLIO STENOGRAPHER Second Floor. Realty Building. GASTONIA, N. C. Prompt and careful attention to all work entrusted to her Geo. W. Wilson 'lawyer 213 Realty Building. General Civil Practice. Piano and Voice Fall Term in Gastonia Opens Satur day, September 13th. Address W. H. Overcarsh 05 So. Tryon St., CHARLOTTE, N. C. Davenport College. LENOIR, N. C. Offers to Young Women Who Want Good School Advantages the Lowest Possible Rates Fall Term Opens September 10th. Send For Catalogue. JAMES BRAXTON CRAVEN, Pres. PIEDMONT & NORTHERN LINES. SPECIAL THEATRICAL RATES Beginning September 6th, and continuing through the Charlotte Theatrical Season, the Piedmont & Northern Lines will have on sale re duced round-trip tickets Gastonia to Charlotte and return. When neces sary, last train leaving Charlotte will be held untli after performances in order that passengers may re turn to their homes same night, thereby affording an excellent op portunity for Gastonia theatre-goers to witness e'l the high-class shows at Charlotte during the coming sea son. For Turther information inquire or ticket agents, or write. C. V. PALMER, G. P. A.. Charlotte, N. C. PIEDMONT TRACTION COMPANY Between Gastonia and Charlotta, N. O. Effective Sunday, June 1, 191, Station 204 wt Main avenue. Leave Leave Arrive Charlotte. Mt. Holly. Gastonia No. No. No. No. No. . 7:00a . 8:15a . 9:15a . 10:50a . 11:45a . 12:55p . l:55p 3:30p . 4:35 . 6:00p . 7:00p . 8:00p . 9:30p . 10:55p Leave 7:27 8:45 9:42 11:20 12:12 1:23 2:21 4:00 5:02 6:30 7:30 8:30 10:00 11:25 Leave 7:55 9:15 10:15 ll:5 12:45 1:55 2:55 4:30 5:35 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:30 11:55 No. 11. No. 15. No. 17. So. 19. No. 21. No. 23. So. 25. So. 27. So. 29. Arrive Gastonia. Mt. Holly. Charlotte No. 2 7:00a 7:27 7:55 No. 4 8:15a 8:45 9:15 No. 6 9:30a 9:55 10:25 No. 8 10:20a 10:48 11:20 No. 10.... 11:55 12:27 12:65 No. 12.... 12:50p 1:23 1:60 No. 16 2:00p 2:30 3:09 No. 18. .. . 3:00p 3:27 4:00 No. 20.... 5:00p 6:26 6:00- No. 22 6:00p 6:30 7:00 No. 24 7:00p 7:30 8:00 No. 26 8:00p 8:30 9:00 No. 28 9:30p 10:00 10:30 No. 30 10:55p 11:25 11:65 Connection made at Mount Holly, N. O, with Seaboard Air Lin to the East and West, at Gastonia, N. C with Southern Railway and Carolina and North-Western Railway. The above schedule ngarea ant connections published only as Infor mation and are not guaranteed. E. THOMASON, General Manager. C. V. PALMER, Gen. Pass. Agent Legal blanks of all kinds, mass script covers, typewriter papers, car. boa sheets, receipt books, note books, cratch pads, etc., can be had at Ibe Gaxette office at all times. ft - - V -A- 5
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