W. r. HA18HALL. E4ifr wU H-rtfr._ PEVOTEP _ GASTONIA, N. C„ FRIDAY. JANUARY S. Sale Commences Jan. 12th We have just landed a big lot of white goods of every description. La all new styles in Waistings. This will be a regular trading feast for ____ ' • 5000 yards Embroideries In 4 to 6 yard lengths at one half their regular values. 2000 yards white Piques, regular price 20c, to go during this sale at 10c. Best values ever shown In this city. - 1 1 ■————5555aSSS55 5000 yards Bleaching. Equals Lonsdale 36 Inches wide, goes during this sale at 9c. We have been landing big bargains for the last six months for this January white goods sale. 3000 yard, short length heavy Sheeting., ioc and. 2Sc bundles. 4{ to 6 yards In bundle. Everything included in this 20 per cent cut; Clothing, Shoes, r THOMSON The Phone 46 KANSAS QUAIL TIAfPINO. AHwm Ussd Whoa This Man Heat ad. "I was at one of those queer little country stores in Southern Kansas,” said a New York man, "and a native came in with a wagon load of quail, a oue-horse wagon load, in which there meat have been 500 of the little game birds, says the New York Snn. Coming from the Bast, where a bag of a dozen quail would be considered by the sportsman a sufficient reward for a bard and searching day’s hunt, I was naturally surprised to see such a collection of the birds as that, and told the native so. "Yes?' said be. *Oh. them ain’t so many when you come to think that I had to take dem nigh a week in gettin’ ’em together. Quail is gettin’ powerful skeerce for souse reason or other. "They are so skeerce this fall. Captain,’ said be, tnrning to the storekeeper, ‘that I’ll have to tax yon SO cents a doseu for Alter some argument the bar gain was made and closed at SO cent* a desen for the lot—SO cents a doaen for tbe plumpest, choic est quail I evgr looked at. When the native got hb money and de parted I couldn’t help expressing more surprise; and I said to the storekeeper thst it didnt seem to me that qnail could be very scarce la a country where yon could go out and bring down in even a weak’s hunting, a bag of qnail like that QUAIL OMC* rLXMTTVUL. "Doesn't seem so, does it? re plied tbe storekeeper. "Quail ire •carte in this country, though, iust the same, as you would know If you had ever been through here when they were plentiful. "But tbie lot waen't got by even a week’s banting. They weren’t got by any banting at •II. There isn’t the tnsrk of a shot on one of tboee birds. "Tbst man who sold them to mlia solid and re potable dti sen. Ha says he can’t sec wbat la tbe world is tbe reason oust! are getting so scarce, end.he honestly believes whst be says. There are hundred* more iust like him. They lament tbe grow ing scarcity of quail la Southern Kauias and wonder what can be the reason. ■ "Five years ago a man like this one didn't think anything at all of going ont and getting 200 or 300 quail a day. He didn’t have anv of bis bird dogs in with him to-day, though he has some flee ones, bnt that bone he had to his wagon is perhaps the best quail stalking horse in Southern Kansas. He stalked the most of those seventy dozen quail I just bought of his owner, and I’ll bet on it. THK IlOKSR HKCPRD. "When he goes after quail he takes a net under bis arm, mounts his horse and accompanied by a couple of bird dogs trained for the work, rides to the prairie and slowly out upon it until the dogs have located a covey of qnail, which they do without ever flushing a bird. When they come to a stand the quail gatht en r easily calculates the spot where the quail are, and he dis nionnta and ties up faia dogs. "Selecting the most favorable around for his purpose, he seta hi* trap. This trap is a semi circular net from six to eight feet long, and it- is kept in its form by light wire arches placed at intervals along its length. "The flat side of the net is placed on the ground, the net being drawn straight to its full length. Then from each side of its wing U extended from the open, flaring out until the outer e.xtmP}ties ere four feet apart, th« wing nets being six feet long thus forming n three sided fa closers, with t wide opening narrowing down to the entrance to the trap. "When the trap is thus set the quail gatherer fixes deftly in tbs mein ntt about midway of Its length, s clomp of prairie bushes skillfully arranging about the month of the wing net, likewise a similar clnmp of foliage. The trapper then remounts his home which is trained to do the stalking of tbe qnail so that they will bo Kept moving on bot al ways In thd direction of tbe trap. The horse is guided to the spot where the quail, located by the lying In the rail grass. Tim knowing animal walks »lowhr, sod apparently without any aim, and cotales to tbe place whew the lUtle Boh Whites are. Tbe nnsMpecting bird, don't fear the home, but they dost want to be trampled upon to they ■carry ahead, the horse moping along behind them, as tba keep ing of them moving in the direc tion of the trap makes necessary. The horse presses them so close that they at last make a dive for what they suppose is a protecting clump of bushea near by— the convenient clnmp ar ranged at the entrance of the wing nets by the quail trapper The horse trails them to the bushes and the birds go further into them, and find tnemselvea in the inclosure, with another damp of bnshes just ahead of themv They crowd into the entrance of the bag net to get to tboad bushea. Then they are the trap per’s game. As ne dismounts and lurries to the net the quail, now alarmed, run on into the net and huddle there helpless—a whole- covey taken at a single netting. The quail are taken from the net alive, and when the birds were plentiful it was no nick at all for a trapper to gather 300 in a day. "Yes," said the storekeeper, with a sorrowful shake of the head, ‘quail are getting scarce, and no mistake, in Southern Kansas, and you can’t make the quail gatherers ace the reason for it. And the serious part of it it that it’s patting the price of ’em way up to 50 ceuta a dosen, when I used to get the pick of the prairie for 35 cents 1" TV* Are net Idlete. Loairrtttt C«*ftcr-J«vnu1. “We ere not idiots,” ssys Rep resentative Williams, the leader of the House Democrats. “When it comes to recognising a fact, a man ought to have sense enough to do that, whether ha likes the blessed act or apt no matter how it came aboet or how it was accomplished, how Vilely it was bom or how horribly it was brought forth.” That it the sit uation, forcibly stated. The president, by disobeying tbe mandate of Congress, has brought about a situation where, as ha admitted in his message, tbe questaoa now is not whether we shall take the Panama route, but whether w* shall have a canal at all. Wa era not going to deny ourselves the canal be cans* we disapprove tbe admin | Utretios’a method of getting it JAFAKS* BBTHIB FOICC. Half a Million Msa ud Oaa Hn in4 Thousand Imn the T.rwiiioa Mudtrd. In a paper in the Journal of the United Service of India on the growth of the military pow er of Japan, Capt. H. W. R. Senior traces the origin of the present Japanese army to the action of the Mikado, when a "commission was sent oat from Japan to all foreign countries' in 1869 to inanire into the beet sys tem of national defence, tbe best system of education and the best religion* On Its return tbe com mission reported the French mil itary system, the British naval system, and the American sys tem of education to be the best. They stated, however that they found no civilized religion to be worth- adopting." In 1887 the Mikado undertook tbe reorganisation of bis land forces on Prussian lines, with the assistance of a German mili tary mission. Tbe lsane was Men in the triumph ot Japan in tbe war with China in 1894, a brief account of which ia given by Capt. Senior. Tbe principal results were the complete unifi cation of tbe various clans into tbs Japanese nation with a strong national feeling, and the receipt of the indemnity o! £34,500,000. This sum was partly applied to tbe further reorganisation of the army, and reforms wart institu ted which were ”tobe completed In April. 1902, oo a good thing and pay fall value yon still hove e good thing end;; x to be congratulated. But when you-buy • thing at half price yon have the good thing and also luilf yoor money, which is the same as having two good things. That is just what we offer you. It takes hot a taw wow to tell the story. We axe closing oat our season's stock of . COATS ANO FURS AT HALF PRICE! Bnongh said for this. Again: we axe also —“«y a .. . . CLEAN SWEEP OF READY.TglMMED MATS AT HALF PRICE. STRAIGHT THROUGH^ Boyoow. It is the same as doubling yonr money : : ■_ NEW EMBROIDERIES ANPLACES. uox hsjEprio^ wSe. value—-for the price we charge. However come see for yourself. New Embroideries, clean sad ns a daalana. vaad a w> hJ is. Imitation Torek— laoss, yard. __I«— Me ,%iSaSfc5arr«ir^?,^!sr^’ ***»»•• JAMES F. YEAGER, Take Tour Savings to the Bank GASTONIA SAVINGS BANK, L. C. JKNKtNS Aw. A L CmktfT. ■ ■wwwwwMfwwwwwwwwat- i 'I W'WIIII m The GAZETTE PRINTING HOUSE For Neat Job Printing