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_ 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
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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.
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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, <nd to be in (nil
working order by 1905.
when the JspaaeM army will
have a peace strength of 150,000
men and 50,000 horses, capable
of expansion bv trained men to
an army of 500,(100 men with 100,
000 horses, for war, with a super
numerary reserve of about anotb
er .500,001 men.”
The Mikado, aa head of tbe
Empire, is assisted by an advi
sory board of general* and admi
ral*.
Th# cavalry are armed **ith
sword sad carbine, tbOM of the
Imperial Ouard alone carrying a
lance for escort duties. The
cavalry ia tbe weakest portion of
their army, the JspaaeM being
indifferent riders. The artillery
and engineers are well organised
and equipped. Their medical
arrangements are excellent, and
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a foreign surgeon wrote in 1900:
“ It was the general impression
among medical men with the ex
pedition that the Japanese med
ical service was most efficient
and complete, removing their
wounded promptly to the base.
This was not dne to superiority
of equipment, bat to a better or
gan! ration of personnel for field
service, and to the numbers they
have st their disposal.”
“SANDWICH" MEM IK TIE LINE
Walking Advertisements Attend
Prasidasfs Bsceptfea at Whits
Xr» York Time*.
Washington, Jan. 1—Some
thing happened at the White
House reception to-day that was
never allowed to happen before.
Two "sandwich” men. who for
several days have been walking
tbe streets dressed in bright tea,
with tbe advertisement of tbe
brand of goods they represent
printed on them, presented
themselves with the crowd of
citterns in tbe reception room,
end, notwithstanding everybody
expected to see them turned ont
by the gnsrds, they were per
mitted to enter. The guards
laughed and kept still.
Col. Symona, in hit instruct
ions about tbe citizens’ part of
tbe receptioa, had said that ev
ery oae who came was to be al
lowed to see tbe Chief Magis
trate of the land at this one
great inaction of tbe year, and
so in went the "aandwick* men.
When they appeared beiore
the President it gave him a sur
prise, bat ha caught his breath
and with the same smile that he
had worn for all who had pre
sented themselves he shook
hands with the men in red and
they strolled out.
Tbe Shamrock Hoisery Milk
Company of Winaton was incor
porated at Raleigh Monday with
an authorised capital stock of
$100,000.
Two hangings are slated to
taka place la the State on Feb
ruary itSth. Jahel Reegster,white,
will be hanged at WMtevilie.
Coiambus county, and Will Bog
gaa will be hanged, at Wades
boro. The crime in both cases
was aardcr.
SOME GOOD THINGS
AT HALF PRICE
If>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
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JAMES F. YEAGER,
Take Tour Savings to the Bank
GASTONIA SAVINGS BANK,
L. C. JKNKtNS Aw. A L CmktfT.
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