THE ASIIKVILLE CHIZEN, SATURDAY, DKCKMBEK 27, 1931).
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MULE HOLDS HIS OWN
IN BUNCOMBE COUNTY
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rtcfuscH To Be Replaced by Motor
: Atccittion Now Turned to Rals
Inn Purebred IJvcstorL.
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SJ The automobile, truck and tractor
has not! replaced tho horse and re
H' liable old mule in Buncombe county.
$ accordinc to facta and figures as
V,'t shown by the tax books, for there
K- mi . i. 1 1 ... 3 t 1 ft 1 a
wrfl mure iiuraea iiit-u. m A?ir
than were given In for 1918. The In
creased value of horso fleBh In Bun
combo during the year was $8,673.
In 1818 there were 3,858 horses In
tho county, estimated to be worth
J298.221. and In 1919 there were 3.-
9S2 listed for taxes with a value of
$306,894.
The sturdy old mule has also held
4 wore 2,546 mules In the county said
to be worth S206.517, and tne tax re
i imrf tnr l in 9 shows that this num
ber had increased to 2,610 in 1919
with a value of J2H.S13.
One reason for the increased value
f the livo stock in this county Is said
to be that tho lieoplc arc disposing of
their grade stock and raising more
pure bred stock. This Is understood
to apply to cattle, sheep, hogs, poul
try as well as to horses and mules.
Is especially truo that the farmers
turning their attention to the
ilsing of pure bred cattle, as on a
great number of farms the traveler
can now see herds of fine Holstein,
Hereford and Jersey cows, where once
be only saw a poor collection of grade
cattle.
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W, L, BUTTS HURT IN
COLLISION LAST NIGHT
THURSTON B. PRICE
SPEAKS HERE SUNDAY
Noted LHangcllat and I lecturer to Ah
pear at Sunday Afternoon Mcn'
Meeting at Y. M. C. A.
Thurston R. Vrice, evHimelist, lec
turer and editor of the Ame.-ican
Kvangellst, who has held evangelistic
meetings in all the larger cities of the
country and who Is one of :he best
known evangelists in tho country,
will speak at the y. M. C. -V, Sunday
afternoon at. four o'clock, at Iho reg
ular Sunday afternoon men's meet
ing. Mr. Trice first studied to uecom a
lawyer but about the time he was
ready to stand the examination for
admission to the bar he decided to en
ter the ministry, and then begun tho
study preparatory to becoming pastor
and evangelist.
Mnr the past two years lie has been
engaged exclusively in evangelistic
Work and has conducted some of the
most successful meeting ever held in
such cities as St'. Lou!-, Sail Lake
and Memphis.
It is certain that a large number of
people will attend the V. M. I'. A.
Sunday afternoon in orrt.-r 'o hear
to hear Evangelist Price.
To abort a cold
and prevent com
plications, take
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WINIFRED BLACK about A Great Swindler
Ceprrtfht, kr NwMPr rtur Strvla la.
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rE'S gone to the poorhouso, the rrt swindler.
Went there the other day, anJ aked very
humbly to be admitted.
Twenty years ago he was known to every chief
f police in this and every other country well-regu-uited
enough to have a police system at all.
He was what is known aa a "confidence man."
He sold stock in mines gold mines, and silver
mines, and copper "nines, and diamond mines mines
in Brazil and mines in California and mines in Af
rica. He didn't care where thev were or whether
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1,500 STEEL MEN TO
CONTINUE STRIKE
Reach Decision After Hearing
Iort on Foster Conference.
Re-
Arrested After Accident, Charged
With Driving Auto in Intoxicated
Condition In Hospital.
V. 1.. Butts was hurt last evening
about eight o'clock in an auto and
street car accident at the intersection
of Biltmore avenue and the Kenil-
t worth road.
b Butts was coming toward Pack
uare and collided with the street
r which was near the intersection
or the two streets, the police state.
Butts sustained bruises about his
' face and one arm and was takfn to
the Merfether hospital for treatment.
Considerable damage was done to
the automobile which ho was driving
and .it is understood that the street i
car was taken to the shop for repairs.
Butts was arrested, charged with
i driving an automobile in a dangerous
and reckless manner ana also cnargeii
with driving an automobile while in
toxlcated.
CLEVELAND, Dec. 26. Fifteen
hundred steel men voted unanimously
tonight to continue on strike and to
remain away from their former em
ployment until the strike Is won or of
ficially declared off by the national of
ficers. The decisions to remain idle
was reached after they had heard the
report of two of their number who had
been sent to Pittsburgh to confer with
W. Z. Foster, national secretary of the
steel -strikers. Mr. Foster said that
it was his opinion that the men were
making a winning fight and that the
complaint of shortage of steel was evi
dence of it.
When the strike was called 20,000
men quit work here. Many of these
have found employment in other call
ings and some are said to have re-'
turned to work in the steel mills.
In the idleness of some of the
plants, officials claim, is due more to a
shortage of coal than to a lack of
men. j
The purified and ref innd
calomel tablet that ae
nausealess, safe and sure.
Medicinal virtues retain
ed and improved. Sold
only in sealed package.
Price 3Sc.
Alone with his memories, what memories he has for compt.nyt
Do they haunt him, I wonder the faces of the poor school teachers
he robbed of their savings?
Does he ever remember the look in the eyes of the lone, eonsumytiYs
boy he rheatcd out of his last dollar with tales of wondrous wealtht
Does it ring In his ears, the voice of the struggling man who thought
he saw a way to get a little extra money to send his invalid child to a
sanatorium ?
Money, success, cleverness ,what a price to pay for theaa things
nyuqz&oAi Where are they all today, the women who laughed with him when
they were anywhere. He just got some engraved paper and a few new ',U'"1 cold, P' nm of tho glass?
adjectives, and a silk hat and a diamond stickpin, and went out and sold wh" did they do with the money he gave them? Where are the
ihe stock that's all. uiamo.ids and the emeralds he paid them for their kisses?
Sometimes he wore rough clothes like a miner, and pretended to be t. W.hcr" ro the boon companions, what's happened to his crowd of
down and out and ready to die-but hanging on to his minin? stock with nattering followers, how long did they atick to him when his money and
the courage of desperation, and then he'd get so near to death that hs nl8 Power nkiri it was gone?
would be persuaded to sell at a terrible sacrifice. When he had the money ,
in hia pocket he would rise, take up his bed and walk or more likely, OuUuU and Wolvas
call a taxi and ride for he was not really ill at all, but just "fishing for f
'UCkSm'j!i! ir8ll0dt J'" Vu , t. , t .iw.v. What m lot of folly we h'r "bout the h0"- ""long thieves, and th.
Sometimes lie sold rubber plantations or mahogany forests alwajs . ,, i. w u j ,. '
something very far away and very alluring. i h,ve known these boodI. bv the hdr.rf. .11 L'.,
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obtaining a contract from the Polish
minister of finance for an American
corporation to raise $250,000,000 for
use in Poland and that the company
was profiting unduly.
MRS. RUTH P. BROWN
HELD AS WITNESS
THREE MEN ENLISTED
IN ARMY YESTERDAY
Three men enlisted at the army re
cruiting station yesterday, two in the
cavalry and one in Coast Artillery
corns. Clyde V. Dillingham, of Dem
i oerat. enlisted for three years in 4he
Coast Artillery corps and will be sta
tioned at Ft. Caswell near liming
ton. I'lnkey W. Mitchell, of Waynes
ville, enlisted in the cavalry for one
year, and Kslph Cotter, of Pittsburg
Tenn., enlisted in the cavalry for three
years.
Cotter and Mitchell were sent to Ft,
Thomas. Ky., and will probably be
stationed for service on the Mexican
border.
Daniel Brlttner. private, Is in the
city on a furlough for the holidays
and during his furlough will have
headquarters at tho recruiting station
to enlist men for his detachment, the
quartermaster corps at Camp Lee, Va.
rCONVERSE TEACHER '
U HERE FOR HOLIDAYS
Dr. and Mrs. Martin Guests in City
for Few Days.
Dr. and Mrs. M. A. Martin are in
the city, as the guests of Mrs. W. A.
Scott, 268 Chestnut street, for the hol
idays. Dr. Martin is professor of psychol
ogy and education in Converse col
lege, and last summer was one of the
teachers in the Ashevllle summer
school, and taught educational phy
rhology and psychology of childhood.
Ho is an A. M. and Ph. D. of the Co
lumbia university.
John B. Catfee, president of the
Ashevllle summer school, has again
secured the services of Dr. Martin
for the teachers summer school.
AGED CONFEDERATE
DIED WEDNESDAY
Well Known Citizen of Reems Creek
HI Long Time.
Hugh Hamilton, aae 97. dirt We.
nesday night at the home of his
daughter, Miss May Hamilton, on
Reems creek. Ho had been m -rr..
several months.
The deceased -was a well-known
citizen of the Reems' creek district
and was one of the oldest citizens of
Buncombe county. He was a Confederate-soldier
and Is survived by two
daughters and one son. Mrs. Herron,
and Miss May Hamilton, of Reems'
creek, and John Hamilton, of Weaver
ville. Funeral services have not been
announced.
FIRE YESTERDAY DID
DAMAGE OF $500
The fire department had two calls
yesterday, the first one was at 9:30
o'clock yesterday morning and the
second was In the evening at 6:45
o'clock.
The call yesterday morning was to
4 Oak street to the house owned
by Sam Kingmore, occupied by Mrs.
Smith, where tho root" had caught
fire. Damaged estimated to $600
was aone, part of it being due -to
water ana chemicals Used to extin
guish the fire.
The last call was made to Ball's
barbershop, on Southslde avenue
where the awning had caught. Slight
damage was done.
GAVE BOXES OF
CANDY TO CITIZEN
MT. CLEMENS. Mich., Dec. 26.
County authorities Investigating the
killing last Wednehday of J. Stanley
jurown, son of a millionaire Detroit
manufacturer, today detained as ma
terial witnesses Mrs. Ruth Provost
Brown, tho slain man's young widow,
and Lloyd Prevost, her cousin.
Decision to hold them as witnesses'
was reached after three hours inter
rogation of Prevost.
A safety deposit vault containing
Brown's papers, was opened this af
ternoon and found to contain secur
ities worth $16,000. This, according
to William T. Kelley as attorney
who acted as financial adviser for
Brown, is 112,000 short of the amount
oi securities nia client was understood
to have in his possession. While some
of the securities were known to have
been negotiable, no record of their
having been disposed of bv Brown
cquld be found today. Stories of an
enstrangement betwaen Brown and
his wife were denied by Mrs. Brown
who said he had given her S5 as a
Christmas gift Tuesday evening.
125 GALLONS 0F
LIQUOR SEIZED
AMERICUS, da., Dec. 26. In the
seizure here today of 125 gallons of
rye whiskey valued at "blind tiger"
rates at about 112 sno lnni T.
8aid they believed they had run into !
uu vmauaea irarnc in liquor between i
Georgia and Illinois cities.
Harris Jones, a Pullman porter, on I
the Seminole Limited, a Central of
Georgia train, who has been running
between Columbus, Ga., and Chicago '
for some 12 years, pleaded guilty to
possession of the liquor and was fined
$600. He promptly paid tho fine. Ac- '
cording to railroad detectives, the I
porter obtained the whiskey here,
drank some of it and then in the;
aarK joaaea it on the wrong train,
which caused him to be apprehended.
HARVARD FOOTBAIJj TEAM
ARRIVES AT LOS ANGELES
LOS ANGELES Dec. 26 The Har
vard football squad arrived here to
day from San Francisco, where the
players spent Christmas. Automlbiles
conveyed the playeds to a Pasadnena
hotel, where quarters have bee set
aside for them. i
Word was given out that all the'
players were well, had stood the
change of climate Incident to the trip
without hurt to their condition and
would commence training this after
noon. The practice would be open to
newspapermen and ' tournament of-,
ficlals, it was said.
MAJESTIC
TODAY
BOB SHAW'S
Musical Comedy
Co.
Featuring the
Blue Ridge
Lassies
in
"The Isle of
Love"
A Musical Farce Comedy
with
A Chorus of Pretty Girls,
Gorgeous Costumes,
Clever Comedians,
Singing and Dancing.
MATINEE 3:30
15 and 25c
NIGHT 7:30-9
30c To All
Sometimes he went to new communities and opened a bank, or started
a factory and let the citizens in on the ground floor and went out over
the roof himself.
He made a million dollars and he was always held up in the under
world to prove that honesty is not always the beat policy after all.
Every crook and thief, and gambler and confidence man in the coun
vry knew him and admired him and tried to imitate him.
AJon with Memory
over the wnrT.l tV
men and women who make their living out of the weakness ai.d foUy of
their fellow-human beings, and I never knew one of theni who had not
tne neart oi a won ana tne soul of a hyena
Outcasts, every one of them, wolves, hyenas, cruel, remorseless, selfish
egotists, with never a thought for another living creature but themselves.
"I never knew a thief who wouldn't betray his pal." said a chief of
police to me one time years ago.
I didn't believe him then. I believed the stories I had read and the
plays I bad seen. But now, after experience, I know that he nnl-.
thief, but he keeps out of jail, all truth.
Who says that a The same quirk In the brain which makes a man a thief, makes him
an ingrate and a traitor to his own.
Over the hills to the poorhouse. So that's where yon went after H
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"Here's a man," they said, "that's ;
right He has money to spend and he goes the pace.
uishonest man is always a failure, sooner or later?"
And now, hero he is. in the poorhouse after all.
Old and spent, and broken and friendless what does he think about sou poor, twisted soul.
all day long when he sits out in tho sun on the poorhouse porch, and sees I'd rather have been the poorest laborer, digging in a ditch for my
winter coming on, without a friend to help him bear the solitude of age? daily bread, than to have been you.
WHAT? WHO? WHERE? WHEN?
THE WESTERNERS' ROY STEWART P A IT fl W TODAY
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It I Home Sweet Home LARRY SEMON VlHii & I
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5.000 BARRELS OP LIQVOR !
LOADED AT PITTSBURGH
PITTSBURGH, Dec 26 Five thou
sand barrels of whiskey were being
loaded here tonight in the hope that
it might reach the seaboard in time
to be shipped abroad before national
prohibition becomes an accomplished
fact January 1,6.
Distillers said It was the first of a
large amount of liquor held in this
district which bad been sold in Europe
but they had little hope of getting
more than one-tenth out of the
country. Moe than ten million gal
lons. It was said, were still in ware
houses in this vicinity.
BAXDHOLTZ'S WITHDRAWAL
AROUSES PRESS COMMEWT
JACK PICK
SURGUUI BY rWOOTY
A good program for the United States this winter: Export import-deport Seattle Times.
Who's Who In the
Presidential Race
So many good Americans have never before aspired to the Presidency at this early
stage of the campaign, we are assured by competent authorities on things political. As
the Baltimore Sun (Ind.) remarks: "Democrats and Republicans have been popping
up all over the country, stretching themselves to their greatest height and craning their
necks with the hope that the Presidential lightning may hit them." The newspapers,
generally cautious about committing themselves in favor of any candidate while poli
tics is in such an uncertain stage, are, however, commenting more freely and dispas
sionately upon the various Presidential aspirants than they are likely to do'later, when
the lines are drawn more tightly.
This very fact enables THE LITERARY DIGEST to present to its readers, in this
week's number, and well in advance of the primaries, the chief merits and demerits
of the principal contestants for the Presidential nominations as seen by the men them
selves, by their friends, or by the newspapers most familiar with their records.
Other news-articles in this number of the "Digest" of wide and current interest are
JACK PICKFORD
IN
"Burglar by Proxy"
Dan Cupid slipped one over
on the prohibition party.
When he couldn't drive Jack
Robin to drink he drove that
young man to burglary, in
Jack Pkkford's most amus
ing comedy.. "Burglar by
Proxy."
Also
PATHE NEWS
and-
Para. Magazine
What Labor Wants
Causes of America's "Crime Wave"
The Wets Find the War is Still On
Europe Calls for American Aid
Another Warning to the Legion
Britain Abandons Russia
German Plots in Alsace-Lorraine
Japan Planning a Bigger Navy
Effect of Prohibition on the Hospitals
Sending Wireless by Machine
Many Fine Illustrations Including the Best of the Cartoons in the World's Press
Effect of Temperature on Business
Gravitation of Light
Our Windy Sky-scrapers
States of Mind Over Kreisler '
Our Literary Manners and Mr. Wells'
American vs. Continental Sundays
Warnings Against Spiritualism
Best of the Current Poetry
Indians in the United States
A Brief History
Personal Glimpses of Men and Events
The editorial rooms, business office
and mechanical departments of The
Citizen were treated yesterday to
large boxes of Whitman's Sampler;
the gift of J. A. Goode. of Goode's
Drug store. Inc. Many presents come
to The Citizen workers at Christmas
times but these presents were among
the nicest enjoyed during the days.
BUDAPEST. Thursday. Dee. 25.
The withdrawal of Brigadier-General
Harry H. Bandhoits aa American rep
resentative on the inter-allied militarv
commission to Budapest has provoked
principal note of the writers Is that
the withdrawal was net proof of the'
dissolution of the agreement between I
the allied and associated government.
All the newspapers praise General
Bandhoits for this courageous attitude
during the occupation of Budapest by
the Roumanians and express the hope
of strengthening the friendly attitude
of the United ( States toward Hungary.
HEAD OP POLISH WOMAX'S
BODY STARTS TWO SOTS
CHICAGO, Deo. it. Miss Emily
Napieralski, president of the Polish
woman's- alliance, today started two
suits for 1600.000 each, alleging tibeJ
against the Polish National Publishing
company aad the Polish National Al
Ilatice and officials of the organisa
tions. It was alleged that aa article
in the publications named Miss
Napieralski as being Instrumental in
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. TODAY
WmTsTHART
IN
"KNIGHT OF
THE TRAIL"
"Fatal Fortune"
Episode 6.
1 Comedy
"OH, SUSIE
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