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FIIIO.fr, JANUARY 14, 1010. PAGE EIGHT 96 Opportoiily ur While we are giving exceptionally good values just now throughout our establishment. We haye decided to go a bowshot beyond anything, so far as we know, ever projected in s the way of bargain-giving in the town of Gatonia. ' . THE GASTOMA GAZETTE. Keoc oil We have decided to throw on a bargain table on first floor a large lot of LADIES, MISSES and CHILDREN'S SHORT JACKETS to close out at a price that will certainly move them before our spring purchases begin to arrive. It isn't necessary to argue to you the convenience and comfort one derives by having one of these positive utility garments at hand. The colors are brown, tan, mode and black. if if if Monti The Gastonia Gazette. FIUDAV, JAM Ai:V II. 1!!0. Couldn't Signal It! During some ta-tr :n nHrrion one of the ships nf l lie mi!rnii had made some b:id blunders, .iml at length the ad mini I completely liis tcuier. He Stormed :ilnt hN m"-'1 rterdeck and In formed his hearers nf his tipiuii'ti .f the officer in com ma ml of Hie erring ship. When he paused for want of breath he turned to the signaler and said to him. Aiid you can tell him tbat. sir!" 'J'he man scratched hi head medi tatively. "I beg pardon, sir. lie ven tured, "hut I di n't Hunk we have ouite enough flags for yur message. "-Loudon Answers. Cannibalism. Anions regular i-.ini)it:iU the most Varied motives have liecn found. There are Indians who are said to eat their enemies by way of insult and Austra lians who consume ! Iieir deceased par ents as a mark nf affection. Some trilies devour the dead enemy to a!xl Isb kirn utterly, others to assimilate his virtues. Africa has revealed canni balism of every sort, from I lit most solemn religious ri'e to the most pro saic gratification of appetite and taste. Traced a Long Way. She flow far can your ucestry he traced? He Well, when m. grand father resigned his position as cashier of a country bank 'li-y traced him as far as China, hut he sot away. Lon don Tit -Bits. The Remedy. "What do you think of a man with a rip in his coat and only three buttons on his vest ?" "He should either tret married or di vorced." Boston Transcript. How to Carry Books. The Philadelphia free library per mits patrons to taiie out six hooks at a time during certain months. ,"If you are not gning to wrap those books up let me show you how to carry them." said one of the assistants at the library recently. Then the young woman slipped a cover of one book Inside of a cover of one she placed on the top of it. build ing up a pile of six books in this fashion, and the man addressed, who was carrying the volumes home to please his wife, the reader of the fam ily, found his difficulties were much lessened. Philadelphia press. Too Much Like Work. The happy mother of a seven-months-Old bnby. w hose chief business seems to be making a noise hi the world, was paying her sister a visit, and the other evening young Master Harry, aged seven years, was delegated to care for the baby while his elders were at dinner. So he wheeled it back and forth, forth and hack, the length of the library, giving vent to his senti ments by singing, much to the amuse ment of the family: "Gee "vhlz. 1 m glad In f-ee! No wedding t.t-lls fur me!" Ladies" Home Journal. An Expensive Production. Too. were very lavish with the snowstorm in the third act." Yes," explained the manager. "I bought that snow w hen white paper vas not so high as it is now." Kansas City Journal. Domestic Note. Glve the devil his due.- he said. "I'm willing to," she snapped, "but you're In pretty good health, and be ll bare to wait." Atlanta Constitution. . Life without liberty is Joyless, but OTe without Joy may be great. The - greatness of life is sacrifice. Ouida. r Tea drinking is coming to be more popular than ever before in Great Britain and Ireland. In 1908 there ;was imported 323.469,333 pound of tea of tbe value of 10. 734.415. While the quantity was greater than In 1907, the value was bout 110,000 less. Tbe. increased import In 1909 will be oonsidera- .v.. m v t . - . jjiv vrer ui ui ma freriuua jemr. Bro s IK2 A NATURAL WONDER. The Devil' Race Course In the Blue Ridge Mountains. "The Clue Kldge mountains atmund In natural wonders.'1 observed an old resident of Peliinar. ".Most wonderful of I hem all. in my opinion, is the Dev il's Kate Course, which Is but a short walk from I'enmar. "At drst view this strange natural phenomenon appears like a broad roadway of great stones which ex tends away up the mountain Ln a path no human hand could ever build. Many of these great stones weigh tons, while others are only a few hun dredweight. Lying close together by the thousand, they present an extraor dinary spectacle. "Tradition has it and scientists agree that a thousand or more years ago this strange track was the bed of an , ancient river. The conclusion Is drawn from the looks of the stones. They I are all well rounded and worn smooth. I showing the action of water, which . had polished their rough edgea no ; doubt for centuries. "But the mystery is If this theory be true to explain how the great body of water was confined at the sides, for the course is not hemmed In by high banks, nor is it located ln ravine, in fact. It stands somewhat higher than the natural side of the mountain The puzzle only intensities tuterest In the jueer place and multiplies the ar guments and theories of its prehistoric origin." Baltimore American THE ANIMAL MIND. A Story About a Cow and the Calf She Licked. An absurd story is cited about a cow. showing what creatures of habit animals are. This particular cow would uot stand to be milked unless she could lick her calf at the same time. tor a long time she always bad a calf of some age or other to lick, but a: last by ill fortune one of her calves died. There is no reason why a bereaved mother (should mourn her loss just at milking time, but I here was the ti.ed habit of making certain motions. The farmer, however, was u practical psychologist. He stuffed the skin of Ihe calf with ha. mid let the cow have that to lick. To be sure, the hay calf had neither bead nor legs, but a cow has uu general ideas concerning the nature of calves uor any special reason for assuming that calves should have heads and legs. It fell right, aud it smelled right. It enabled her to go through the customary motions at milking time. Therefore it was suffi cient By dint of caressing and licking her little calf the tender parent one tine morning unripped it. The bay issued from within, aud the cow. manifest ing not the slightest surprise or agita tion. proceeded tranquilly to devour the unexjiected provender. E. T. Brewster In McClure's Magazine. A Gentle Rebuke. It was late in the year for straw berries, but Mrs. Beacon was deter mined to have some for Sunday din ner. Over the telephone came the news that they were "very tine, ma'am; very One Indeed." Being, however, a cautious housekeeper, soe decided to look over tbe fruit herself, as the grocer was not always to be trusted. "They don't appear very good," she said some time later, examining care fully a basketful. They look" here she extracted one and tasted It -they look a little green. 1 don't know. Just let me try one." She took soother. "1. guess I'll take one box. please. Yon don't put very msny ln a box. do youf she inquired. "There was." said tbe grocer respect fully, "but there's been so many ladies looking 'em over that there ain't" "You may give me two boxes," said Mrs. Beacon. Youth's Companion. Consul L. J. Keena reports that during the visit to Chihuahua of President Diax last fall, after an ab sence of thirty years, a commemora tive album was pre J red by the au thorities showing the growth In wealth and Importance of the State during those years. tliers' ! WITH A LION. A South African Child Who Ran to Meet the Big "Doggie." The lufuut sou ot otie oi the Dutch settlers m Souib Africa had strayed away. After some lime a search par ti discoveri-d little ttprnits leading in the direct luu of the busn. Follow ing up ttose. the search jwrty came upou a larg oen space, at the far ther side of which they discovered the object of their search silting huggiug a little wooden doll and munching a piece of bread and butter Beiire they could make ths-ir way through the thick, tangled undergrowth a large liou sprang into tbe clearing. I'he lit tie boy. tar from being friguiened. ran to meet the liou. holding up ins Plead ami butter aud said. "Take a bite, doggie " The father suxnl powerless to move or speak through tear, expecting each instant to see the child crushed under the lion's paw. but instead of doing as he dreaded the liou turned himself over and lay on his back at the child's feet, looking up in his face as a cat would do at play. Watching his op portunity, the father raised his gun and tired, hitting the lion In the leg The animal sprang up and. leaving the child, rushed on the party, injuring two of tbe number Iwfore it was final ly killed From this circumstance tbe child was immediately Christened by the settlers "Daniel " - Loudon Family Herald WAITED FOR HEALY. An Incident of the Land League Agi tation In Ireland. One morning during tue l-and league agitation Mr. Cameii left Dublin by the early mail tram for Koscommou to address a meeting. On arriving in tbe town he received a telegruiu from Dublin which ran: Missed mail train. Will get down at a o'clock, postpone meeting tilt i arrive. HULL Mr. I'arnell was pleased to learn that T. M Healy. M. P.. was comlug dowu. Delighted, too. were the local promo ters of t Ue demonstration, and the meet ing was giudly postponed lor a tew hours. At 3 o'clock the railway station and Its approaches were thronged with people with bands aud banners, and tbe train from Dublin steamed In amid lerrltic cheering tor Tim Uealy. The train pulled up. a carriage door opeued. ami tbe local receptiou com mil tee rushed to II. wueu out stepied "Uealy." but it was not 1 M. Uealy. M. I It was VV. Wallace Uealy, a well known reporter ou the staff of the Irish Times. lie had beeu assigned to the Hoscoru mou meeting, bad missed the mail train, aud it was most luiportaut that bis paper should have a report of Mr. i'ariiell's speech; beuce the telegram. I'earson's Weekly. Vhat Yeomen Were. Yeomen were formerly cousldered to be by their title ou a level with es quires, and (hey were called yeomen because, in addltlou to tbe weapous proper for close engagements, they fought In the wars with arrows aud a bow which was made of yew; hence the word. After the conquest tbe name of yeoman, lo reference to tbe original office lu war. waa changed to that of archer. The term, however, was continued with additions tbe yeo man of the crown, of the chamber, yeoman usher, etc. and we Obd that considerable grants were bestowed on some of them. In tbe legal view a yeoman is defined to be one tbat baa fee land of (be value of 40 shillings a year and Is thereby qualified to serve on Juries, to vote for knights of the shire and to do any other act which tbe law may require. The yeomen al ways took a lead lug part In whatever concerned tbe regulations or Interests of tbe kingdom, and their renown as warriors Is fully established by their numerous heroic achIevements.-Loo-don Glob. Fuael oils are by-products of the alcoholic ' fermentation, which - are found, especially ln the manufacture of brandy from potatoes, for' the most part aa an oleaginous, liquid, swimming on the surface of tbe die tilling apparatus, 'being tbe residu um In tbe process of the rectification of. spirits. - In the lot you will find the prices ranging from $1.00 to $10.00. The sale prices will range from SOc. tp S4.50. ... V ''"''V Come, whether you want to buy or not, and see what a little money ) would do if you were disposed to buy. A thorough examination of these garments will prove to you the values that are here, if if ff Department FRAUD ORDERS. The Way Our Postoffice Inspectors Protect the Publio. When a person or firm that Is un known to the postoftW Inspectors he gins to receive large quantities of let ters the lnse-tors lei:ln to investi gate Thev visit the office of the con cern and learn what they can If it is a legitimate and Honest business it is not Interfered with. But if it looks "shady." if it hapiens lo be a mining or land scheme that offers large re turns upon the iih estnieiit of money, tlie insectors abstract a dozen or so of the Incotnins letters from the mail, get the names and addresses of the writers and then reseal the letters ami permit them to lie delivered Tbe next move for the inspectors Is to visit the, iersotis whose names and addresses were taken fro- the letters and to get from i- . thi corresjKind ence of the supisised fraudulent con cern. With this the inspectors "make" a iise and either cause the arrest of the dishonest persons or cause a "fraud order" to be Issued against lt A "fraud order" Is simply an order made by the postal authorities at Washington declaring that such a business is fraudulent and warning the public against sending money to It. After that each letter conslna ad dressed to that concern Is stamed "fraud" In red ink across its face aud returned to the sender. Thousands of schemes for defraud ing the public has been stopped by the posial authorities, and they are always on the watch for them. - Kansas City Star ROQUEFORT CHEESE. The Discovery Made by a Poor French Peasant Boy. A shepherd boy with a poor appe tite discovered the secret ot making Hoquefort cheese. True as gospel: They swear by that story today tu Roquefort. Frame, and if tbey only knew the lad's name they'd raise a monument to him. lie was out tend ing sheep, aud. the sun smiting down bard, he went into a cavern to eat his cheese and rye bread He failed to get away with all ot It and threw a bunk of tbe cheese off to one side. It hap pened to drop ou a natural shelf, aud a few months later tbe boy found tbe cheese still there. He saw that It bad undergone a constitutional change, for Instead of being dry and Hard It waa moist aud creamy.. Beside, therq were veins of greenish mold runuing through It. The boy took a ulp. aud the taste was so pleasing be carried a crumb home to bis mother. She must have been rf woman of Intelligence, for do sooner had she tasted than she took one of the largest rolls of cheese from ber dairy, had her son guide her to tbe cavern aud placed it ou tbe sbelf. In due time the same cbange was wrought, aud Roquefort cheese bad arrived aa a if ijrtlcle of com merce. Ail tbe natural caverns around tbe quaint old town now are used for ripening cheese, and tbe women work In them with small oil lamps strapped around tbelr chests. New tork 1'ress. Hood and His Aunt. While still a boy Thomas Hood went to Scotland for a holiday trip and stayed wltb his aunt, who was a rigid Sabbatarian. Ue describes bow upon one occasion tbe old lady was too in disposed to go to ber beloved kirk, but found entertainment In tbe descripUon of tbe Rassersby furnished by ber ir repressible '"uevvy;" '"Tammy, my man, keek out-wba's that?" Y That's Bailie So-and So's daughter, aunt, and Isn't she making desperate love to young Somebody, who's walking by her aider k "Tbe graceless bizxle: I'd wauk ber. gin 1 were ber mammle! Keek out again. Tarn." "There's Sirs. Blank, aunt,'' and she's got on a grand silk gown and. such velvet mantler . "Set ua no, laddie! She. In deed, the alilie wastrlfe bodle! She'd better far pay a abe'a owing. Wba'a nelstr Aod so tbey would go on. tbe crabbed old ' Scotchwoman' Uttle sus pecting half the "stoor" proceeded from the active Imagination of, ber "neTTy to heighten tbe fan and draw ber out. "Mr. P. T. Heath, of Atlanta, was In town yesterday on business. A LOVE TRAGEDY. Ruskin's Adoration of the Lovely Rose La Touche. ' In ISTtS, when Kuskiu was lu his fortieth year, he was asked by a Menu to give some lessons in drawing to n child named Hose Iji Touche, Whose name, indeed, was French, but whose family were Irish. There sprang up between Kuskiu and this young girl a very charming friendship, which, of course, at the time could be uothiug but a friendship. Tbey wrote each other letters and exchanged drawiuirk. and then for awhile they did uot meet Ten years passed by before they' saw each other. Meanwhile the child whom be bad remembered as a blue eyed, saucy, clever little blond with ripe red lips and hair like tine spun gold, had become a very lovely young woman of nineteen. i'hey resumed their old acquaintance, but in a very different way. Though Ruskln was now nearly fifty, he gave to Rose Iji Touche an adoration and a passion such as he had never felt before. On ber side she no longer thought of hl:n aa "very ugly." but was singularly drawn to him despite tbe differeuce in their years. The two met often. They took long strolls together in tbe pleasant fields of Surrey, and at last Kuskiu begged ber to make him happy aud to be his wife. Oddly enough, however, she hes itated, not. because tie was so much older than herself, but because be had ceased to be wnat she regarded as "a true believer." Some of the things that he had written shocked her us being almost atheistic. She was her self, underneath ail her gaiety o( man ner. a rigid aud uncompromising Prot estant. She used phrases from the Bible ln ber ordinary talk, and when she 8ske of marriage with John Rus kin she said tbut she could not endure to be "yoked with an tiulieliever." Yet her heart was lorn at the thought of sending him away, and so for sev eral years their intimacy continued, he pleading with ber and striving bard to make her see that love was every thing. - She. ou tbe oilier baud, read over tbose passages of the Old Testa ment which seemed to bar all com promise At last. In 1872. when ahe was twen ty-four and he was fifty-three. Rhe gave bim ber final answer. She would not marr.v him unless be could believe as 6he did. His honesty forbade him to deceive her by a pretended conver sion, and so they parted, never to see each other again. How deeply she was affected is shown by tbe fact that she soon fell ill. She grew worse and worse until at last It was quite certain that she could uot live. Then Ruskln wrote to her and begged that be might see ber. Sue answered with a note in which she feebly traced the words: "You may come If you can tell me tbat you love God more than you love me." When Ruskln read this bis very soul was racked with agony, and be cried out: "No. no: then I cannot go to ber. for I love ber even more than GodT -- Wbeo she died, as she did soon after, the light of bis life went put for Rus kln. Lyndon Orr in Munsey's Maga zine. The Ocean's Age. Tbe ocean, of course. Is not as old as the earth, because It could not be formed until the surface of the globe bad sufficiently cooled to" retain water upon it. but It seems chimerical to try to measure tbe age of tbe aea. .Never theless Professor Joiy undertook the ,task. basing bis estimate upon tbe ratio of tbe amount of sodium it con tains to tbat annually contributed, by the washing from tbe continents. Be thus reached tbe conclusion that tbe ocean has been m existence between 80,000.000 and 170.000.000 years. This does- not seem a very definite determi nation, but then in geology estimate, of time ln years are extremely difficult because of too uncertainty of tbe ele ments of the calculation. The most that can be ssld for such results la tbat they are probable. . His estates. . Truth Seeker. "Well, my ittth man," Inquired a visitor pleasantly "who are you?" ri'm the baby's brother," was the fngenuous reply. . Store" A MERCHANT OF FE. Description of His Rise and His Igno minious Fall. The merchants of Fes are to be fouud all over Morocco. In due course All Mabmoud launches out Into busi ness ou a large scale. lie prospers exceedingly and presently purchases a black female slave to assist his wlfo In her duties. All Mabmoud takes a bouse 'in the Medina quarter of Fes. i overlooking the pleasant olive groves, ln course of time be buys two more slaves and is fairly set up as a house holder. When his first daughter Is born there is great rejoicing. The baby Is Immediately stained all over its little body with henna aud then smeared liberally with butter aud wrapped In woolen cloths. On tbe seventh day these are removed, aud the child is washed for the first time. When the girl has reached her first year her bead is shaved, leaving u little tuft by which Mohammed could catch ber up to heaven If he were so disposed. , lu ber seventh year her bair has grown -loug again. She is then Veiled, and her proud father sets about looking for a husband for ber. It Is still tbe custom to betroth children from In fancy. AH Mabmoud prospers, and, save for a few domestic troubles, bis life runs smoothly. In the evenings Ail will sit aud smoke in the bosom of bis family. Ou Thursdays and Saturdays he ris- . its bis friends. They pass tbe time in simple games of cards or in listen ing to the weird efforts of Itinerant musicians., Our merchant gets stout as he approaches middle age. One day his world tumbles about bim. Such is tbe uncertainty of fate ln Morocco. lie was serving in his shop when tbe customer suddenly raised bis voice and cried out that he was gettlug false weight. The accusation was terrible, and All vehemently protested his In nocence. It was au arranged charge by--an enemy of the merchant, who philosophically bowed his bead with the saying: "Kismet! Mine enemy has found me. and the serjxmt requires milk." The arbitrators are called, aud. V having beeu bribed "previously; they find Mahmoud guilty jind seuteuce him to the usual punishment meted out to givers of false weights. He la dragged to the southern wail of the city, to a place where a tall gibbet is erected. By the irony of fate It is within sight of bis own bouse. A rope Is made fast to bis right wrist aud hoisted up until his toes can Just touch tbe ground. Here he Is left till sun-sets- The idlers Jeer at bim, and the gamins of the quarter pelt bim with, stones and refuse. -At sundown b' friends carry bim borne, a poor, bruis ed and senseless body. Broken and disgraced, thus ended his career as a respectable, merchant. Morocco Cor, ' London Graphic. - Oil Bathing. OH bathing is a regular Institution among tbe Hindoos. An experienced masseur rubs tbe oil ou il patrons, friends or relatives generally once a week. And It is a fact that moles, warts and such faults of the surface of tbe skin are very rare among them. Tbe newborn Infant gets tbe oil bath . dally for forty days. Tbe Intervals are then gradually lengthened, but be will be considered a very naughty . boy wbo during his school days tries to shirk the oil bath at least once a week. As a youngster be yells all the time be Is being bathed. Perhaps It Is 'good for his lungs.. Anyhow, nobody thinks of finding fault with tbe nurse ' for tbe hallooing of ber charge, and generally speaking It may be said that Indiana bave better lungs and better pectorals aa compared to tbe body weight than tbe Europeans,' and tbe feminine bust Is decidedly fuller and more perfect. C M. Saldanba in Lan cet. ... . --: : POSTED NOTICES. For sale at the following prices: 2' for 5 cents; 8 for 10 cents; 12 lor 90 cents; two dosei for 85 cents; SO for 80 . cental " Hall orders receive prosnpt XtraUon. Gasette Pnbllab Img Co JVo. 238 Mala avenue, Gaa tonia, X.a r '.
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