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PAGE TWO THE ASHEVILLE GAZETTE-NEWS Thursday, January 1, 1914 ";h:begiists S SATURDAY JAN. 3rd :AND CONTINUES DAILY UNTIL JANUARY 31st ALL GOODS, SHOW GASES ; - . FIXTURES MUST BE SOLD .DAI LY 10 TO 12 A. M. 3 TO 5 P. M. 7:30 TO 9:30 P. M. We are going out of business and have secured an extension of our lease until January 31st, to enable us to dispose of the remainder of our stock of goods. Everything must be sold at once regardless of cost NO FAIR OFFER WILL BE REFUSED. COME AND GET YOUR SHARE OF THE BARGAINS in Men's Suits, Overcoats, Pants, Raincoats, Hats, Caps, Shirts, Underwear, Neckwear, Socks and Furnishings of All Kinds. " i 1 Goods at Sacrifice Prices at Private Sale when Auction is Not Going On. o 18 PATTON AVENUE FOE SALE Safe, store, desk, looking" glass, shelves, show cases and all fixtures. 1 This is an Excellent Opportunity for Merchants to Buy Seasonable Merchandise at Less Than Market Prices. ; i , J mum "LITTLE V BETTERJHAN SLAVES" Dr. Manly Declares They Are Worn Out by 12 Hours Labor a Day. nor MQNA USA Picture is Carefully Guarded From Florence to Paris To Be Exhibited. CHICAGO LIVE STOCK IMJOOJOO Receipts for 1913 Exceed all Records 237,730 Sheep In One Week. U. S. INTERVENTION at mm ASKED Washington, January 1. Laborers compelled to work 12 hours a day ' ire "worn out more rapidly than were :he slava on the southern plantations nd are more effectually debarred rronv the common pleasures of life than many of the prisoners In our ponal Institutions," declared Dr. Basil IS. Manley, - before the American Association for Labor Legislation In Joint session here with the American Political Science association. Dr. Manly, who recently investigat ed for the teden! bureau of labor, conditions of employment In the iron and steel Industry, asserted that the number of 12-hour men was enormous in the manufacture of iron and steel, gas, cement, paper and pulp, coke, starch, beet sugar, glass bottles, In many branches of the chemical in dustries and in bakeries, and he added that they form the labor force also In a long Hat of minor industries. "These men," he said, "are little better than slaves to the machines they operate. The 12-hour worker has no time for recreation, no time for friends, no time for hi wife and no time for his children." S. Thurston Ballard of Louisville, Ky., a member of the Federal Indus trial Relations commission, who has an sight-hour shift In operation In his Hour mill, contended that "a an do ing active or laborious work can do a much In eight hour as he can In 12. Austin B. Garretaon, president of the Order of Railway Conductors, con demned long hours In railroading. Columbia, . C., Dee. 11. The Amer ican Historical association and the Mississippi Valley HuWorical associa tion met here In Jont session today. The American association delegates ram here after adjournment yester day of their twenty-ninth annual meeting In Charleston. Paris, Jan. 1. The return of Da Vici'a "Mopa Lisa" to Paris after an absence of two years and four months was made into a ceremonious occasion by the French government. The pic ture after traveling from Florence to Rome and thence to Milan under care ful Italian guardianship was com mitted to the care of the representa tive of the French government, M. Marcel, conservator of the French National Museums, who arrived here with a staff of assistants in a private compartment of the express train from Italy. "ona Lisa" had been kept under close watch by M. Marcel all the way from Milan to Paris. The picture was enclosed In a thin oaken ease bound with straps and with a light handle. When the train drew into the sta tion, Eugene Pujalet director of the French National Museums, took the box containing the painting from the hands of M. Marcel and carried it to a waiting automobile. The portrait was then taken to the National 8chdol of Fin Arts where Leon Bonnat, the head of the school of officially certified its genuineness. After It was carried to the hall of honor of the school, the walls of which bad been hung with priceless Gobelin tapestries belonging to the government, newspapermen and high officials were then permitted to obtain a private view of the picture which I to be placed on publio view for several day. An admission fee I to be charged, and the money thus obtained is to be distributed among the Italian poor of Paris n recognition of Italy's part In the recovery of the master piece. The South Carolina penitentiary has been observing a sane Christmas for some time. It hasn't been, full for years. Charlotte Chronicle. fl ""Jr.". r"! immi! L':?i Ci IVcrM Cvg 9 Cur m CzM In Can Bay -" JLIw?y rtmerqbcr tho lull same. Look I r i'..9 "joi'urf on fry bo. J9c Chicago, Jan. 1. Live stock, the value of which was estimated at 1565,000.000 was received at the Chi cago stock yards during 1B11, accord ing to figures Just compiled. This ex ceeds the records of all previous years. Sheep receipt of 237,730 head in one week was another new record estab lished during the year. Because of a shortage calve reach ed the price of 12,50 per hundred weight. This was the highest price paid for calve on the Chicago market in year. Heavy cattle did not sell as well as In 1912 because of a liberal marketing. Sheep receipts for the year also foil behind those of the pre vious year. The hog receipts alone showed an Increase over 1912. This was caused by an epidemic of cholera In Iowa and southern Illinois, which forced farm ers to market. Despite the limited market, remand was large and prices secured were higher than in 1913. Al though they sold at approximately SS a head higher than previously, horse receipts showed a slleht falling off. . A comparison of mil receipts with those In 1912 shows: 1918 cattle 2, 081,660; calves 364,861; hogs 7,631.- 776; 1812 catU. 2.652.342: calves calves 605.401 hog 7,180,967 4 1913 sheep 6,899,734; horses 90,17a; cars 267,264; 1912 sheep 6,055,640; horses 92,977; cars 255,088. MAXIMS SENT FORTH TO AID SUFFRAGISTS Counsel of Federation Suggests Action Be Taken Under Erdman Law. WINGATE PRISON CASE TO BE INVESTIGATED Heroic Treatment Given Effort to Save Life of Society Woman, in Chicago. Jan. 1. Designed to help Illinois suffragist in their work of the coming new year these maxims were sent forth by Mrs, Grace Wil bur Trout president of the Illinois Equal guffarg association: "Let all women vote, even If they vote wrong." , "Do not condemn even foolish activity; anything Is preferable to in sane apathy," "It 1 mors cheerful to be voter than inera woman." "Don't grumbl over corrupt poli tics; Just vote." "Don't .worry because the coiistitu 'nnu'iny of the Illinois suffrage law ha been attacked. Hav faith In the Buprem court. 'tBqual suffrage will not shake the foundation of Illinois politic, not Im mediately." "Women r near relative of men." It tost lea to say, "No, 1 thank you," than "Oood morning, Judge," Jacksonville News. s Caulmet. Mich, Jan. 1. Federal Intervention under the amended Erd man aot has been suggested as a means of settling the copped miners' strrue by the Western Federation of Miners. :' A telegram calling Attention to the possibility of such actiun wes sent to day to President. Wilson by O. N. Hil ton, chief counsel for thf Western Federation of Miners,! as a sequel to a talk late Tuesday between him and John B. Densmore, solicitor of the department of labor, who is here to find means of settling the contro versy. I The telegram follows: - "Under the recent act of congress creating a labor commissioner, au thority' undoubtedly is ample under the general welfare clause of the con stitution to warrant governmental In terference In settling the strike, "tl Involves a federal question. Con ditions here In the district forcing the strike are appalling. One miner for 26 days hard labor received one dollar and seventy-five cents. Another less than thirty dollars a month for five successive months.. "Any assistance you can render in settling the strike would mean a hap- ply ne wyear, indeed, to these humble and very deserving people. Will you kindly confer with Labor Commis sioner Wilson and the attorney gen eral. ' A representative of the former is here." The union's secretary said that he was convinced as a lawyer that the position he had taken was sound. Convinced that testimony available as to the Identity of the man who started the Christmas eve panic," call ing "fire" In a crowded hall, Is Insuf- llclent, local representatives of the Western Federation of Miners decid ed not to produce witnesses for that purpose before the coroner's Inquest today. , !. A a result only odds and end of testimony were heard and It was ex pected that the jury would begin Its deliberation late today. Half a dozen persons appeared at the hearing. Kane of the witnesses who were In a poiltlon to see the doorway noticed the entrance of any man wearing a button of the Citizen' alliance,, and several did not even hear the first alarm. f Inquiry VIII Be Proposed. Washington, Deo. It Congressional Investigation of the Calumet copper strike troubles will be proposed when oongres reconvenes, by Senator As- hurst of Arizona, Amityvlllo, L, I., Jan. 1. Iferoic treatment was being administered yesterday to Mrs. Charles Wingate, daughter-ln-luw of General George Wingate, chief counsel for the Long Island railroad, in an effort to save her life from the effect of a slow poi son which she took Tuesday night. . I General Wingate said he was sure the poison had been taken by mistake, but the case was nevertheless referred to the district attorney's office tor In vestigation. The family physician re fused to go into the details other than to say that Mr. Wingate had told him she had taken the drug because she was despondent. She dictated a let ter to her father-in-law, according to the physician, and this together with the statement she made was turned over to the district attorney. The Wingatea are socially promi nent hers and have two daughters. One of them, Grace, ran out and sum moned a physician when sin heard her mother had taken poison, and be cause remedies were applied prompt ly, hope was expressed this afternoon for her recovery. ferentiala above the rates to the bas ing points should be reasonable in re lation Involved.' - ' "While "carriers " may 4 properly meet water competition the main tenance of a lower rate to one point than to other points which are In termediate cannot be Justified on the ground that It is necessary to sup press water competition." '-. Tho commwutnn decided that class rates from St. Louis, Kansas City, Memphis and certain defined terri tories to Texarksna should not ex ceed those from the same points to Sherevport, La., and that the Texar kana rates must' be the maximum to all Intermediate points. HOBBS IS ACQUITTED OF soMcrnjiG of bribes Vlcksburg, Miss,, Dec, 31. G. A. GOLF BALL PRICES WILL BE REDUCED New York, Jan. 1. The long threatened cut In the price of golf balls has become a reality on this side of the Atlantic. On the other side the rut came earlier and balls at one shill ing (25 cents) and upward are pro fusely advertised In the golfing Jour nals. ( . The happy New Year announcement to American golfers Is contained in a statement issued by Robert C. Wat son, president of the United States Golf association, following a confer ence with a leading manufacturer. He says the retail price will be re duced from 19 to 17,50 a doien. Hnlisb, a state senator, who wn churued with receiving and soliciting a brlbs, was acquitted today by a Jury before which lie had been on trial feu several weeks. :' $250.70 CONTRIBUTED ? AT CHRISTMAS TREE The total amount collected by th? ushers and members' of the Christ mas' tree committees, . including tha contributions : that were made tq Mayor HanUtn and 353.53 collected on Pack square last night b the ushers, was $256.78. This Is consid ered a very excellent showing by the committees In charge of the munici pal tree, and together with the large amount of clothing of all kinds, food, and provisions collected, will go a long way towards relieving the poor of the city during the winter months ssssEnoawssaarfwaanE-ssBEnsasBSBscnBi.-' Chlldron Cry for Flotcher'o r KM IMPORTANT RULINGS BY COMMERCE COMMISSION Washington, Jan. 1. Two Import ant principles wer laid down by the Interstate commerce commission In the decision of a rase begun by the Texarkana freight bureau against several southwestern railroads Involv ing rates to and from lower Mississip pi river crossings. The commission held that: "In the malting of Joint through rates On long distance traffic to local or non-competltlv points, the dlf- Tha Kind Ton !! Always Boojlit, and which hag been ' ' in use for over 80 years, has borne the tig-nature of ff and has been niodo under hls-pcr ; ) sjUJtf-jl onal supervision sinelts inftfbey. jUC44i Allow no one to deceive yon in this. V All Counterfeits, Imitations and Jngt-as'g-ood" are buV . Bxerlnient8 that triflo with and endanger the health of ' ; IxUnuts ooa CliUdxcn Experience agolmt SxpeiinienU . What fo CASTORIA Castoria Is a harmless snbtltnte for Castor OD, Par gorlo, Irops and Soothing Syrups. It l pleasant. It ; contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Kurcotlo substance, Its Bffe is its guarantee. It destroys Worms . and allays Feverishness. For mora than thirty years it , has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, : Flatulency, AVind Colic, U- Teething Troubles and . . Dlarrhrwa. - It resrnlates the Stomach and Bowels. assimilates the Food, glvlnfr healthy and natural Sleep. , Tho Children's Panacea Xho Mother's Friend. csnuins CASTORIA always Bean the Signature of JO Tlie Kind Yea Dave Always Dc::$t In Usa Fcr Over 30 Years
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