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tags four. I ' - : y V ' ne cubtoxia ' !- ! i i -1 i:! II it 9 hi II 11 I. : I ' .- The Gastonia Gazette Issaed every Tuesday and Friday fcy Tha Gasetto Publtahing Company. B. D, ATKIXR, Editor. J. W. ATK1N8, Business Manager. No. tS Mala Aveaae. PHONE NO. 50. GASTONIA Coaaty Seat of Gaston Ooaaty Af ter January 1, 1011. SUBSCRIPTION PRICK: On year H-60 61x months Four monthi 60 One month 16 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1910. Keep Your Feet Off Your Mind By Using George's Corn and Bunion Shields. Relieves the Cause and Re moves the Corn 10c-25c C C C c The Best Corn Remedy Known 10c Offices Doctors SLOAN ANDERS WILSON and GLENN v Nurses' Register Calls for either will receive prompt attention day or night IMPORTANT NOTICE. The publishers desire to call to the attention of all Gazette subscribers the fact that the paper Is now op erated strictly on a cash-in-advance basis as far as subscriptions are con cerned. Every paper is promptly discontinued the day the subscrip tion expires, this rule being applied vith Impartiality. A postal card no tice is sent every subscriber at least a week before his time expires in or der that none may fail to have knowledge of the exact date of ex piration. If you do not want the paper discontinued please see that your remittance for renewal Is In our hands not later than the date of ex piration of your subscription. Re mittance should be made by postof llce money order, express money or der or check. It is unsafe to send money through the mails and the subscriber takes the risk when send ing it. Any failure on the part of subscribers to receive the paper promptly should be reported at this office and the matter will be thor oughly investigated. Frost Torrence & Company DRUGGISTS Call, Phone or Write Phones No. 16 and 5 L. D. THE SOUTH'S WATER POWER. Gastonia and Gaston county lose raluable citizen in the person of Mr. John H. Craig, who passed away last night and an account of whose death, together with a brief sketch of his career, appears on the first page of today's Gazette. A plain and unassuming man, Mr. Craig had done much to push Gaston to the front commercially and industrially and for this the entire county is due him a debt of gratitude. Personally he was a most attractive man, radiat ing sunshine and good cheer always. He numbered his friends by the hun dreds and to all these his death brings sorrow. In the annals of the county's history and in the hearts of many people his memory will long be kept green. The National City Bank of Cam bridge, Mass., closed its doors Wed nesday following the discovery of a shortage of $144,000 in its funds. The young bookkeeper has disap peared, having last been seen in Kan sas City a few days ago. The capital stock ot the bank was only $100,-000. Tills Natural Resource Is a Prime Factor m the Industrial Develop ment of the Section. The Review of Reviews says: The wonderful industrial growth of the southern states has been partially due to the development of the water powers. South Carolina, which for merly had practically no mills, now stands second only to Massachusetts in the number of its spindles, while North Carolina and Georgia stand, respectively fourth and fifth in rank as cotton-goods manufacturers. Dur lng the last 15 years, for which fig ures are available, while Massachu setts Increased her output of cotton goods 490 per cent. Rhode Island 19 per cent. South Carolina has increas. ed 730 per cent. North Carolina 580 per cent, and Georgia 233 per cent In 1889 there were 667,000 spindles In oneratlon in the south. In 1'890 the number was 1.712,000 and in 1905 it had increased to 9,205,000 In 1880 the capital Invested in cot ton mills in the south was $21,000, 000, in 1890 $60,000,000 and In 1905 $225,000,000, while the value of the cotton crop has increased over $350,000,000. During the same per iod the capital Invested In manufac turing has grown from $257,000, 000 to $1,500,000,000. Water powers have been develop ed on nearly every river of any size from the Potomac to the Gulf and nearly all of the larger southern cities now have either electric ener gy delivered to them from water powers, or have in contemplation plans for the utilization of such power, the cheapness and conven ience of which will enable them to compete with their neighbors. Great plants are now in operation on the James, Cape Fear. Yadkin, Catawba Broad, Savannah and other streams, and the cities of Charlotte, Augusta, Atlanta, Richmond, Raleigh Green ville and many others are building electric energy in a rapidly increas lng degree. Already water powers aggregating more than 500,000 horse power have been developed and are being utilized. FOREST AND STREAM FLOW. A former Caldwell county boy, Mr. G. W. Houck, now a farmer in Lee county, South Carolina, knows how to make farming pay. He re ceived $6,000 for his cotton and $1, 500 for his corn raised last year. During the last two years he cleared enough to pay for a $6,000 farm. That is good farming. Subscribe for The Gazette. The Gastonia Insurance & Real ty Co. has sold to Mr. E. F. Kurlee two lots, corner Fifth avenue and Marietta street. Mr. Kurlee recent ly came to Gastonia from Mecklen burg county. He is now erecting a residence and a store house on his lots. Miss Mary Knight went to Low ell yesterday afternoon and spent the night with Miss Eliza Lindsay at Mr. Watt Titnian's. They returned to Gastonia this afternoon. Miss Lindsay has been teaching at Hand's school house and her school closed today. The Citizens National Bank Gastonia, N. C. The bank that is not so large or old as to be forgetful of its customers' wants and needs, and is as strong as any of them. Is the designated depository of the great state of North Carolina. It makes loans at the legal rate of interest when satisfactory balances are maintained, and every accommodation and courtesy ex tended customers in keeping with sound banking. We invite you to open an account R. P. Rankin, Pres. ' A. G. Myers, Cashier. Capital and Surplus, $75,000 1 Some Hard Knocks for Mr. Willis Moore's Views on the Relations of Deforestation to the Flow of Stream!- His Opinions Declared to lie Unscientific. (By John H. Finney, Secretary Ap palachian National Forest Associ tion). The opponents of the Appalachian- White Mountain Forest project in the Congress have been greatly heartened in their attitude by a re port on forests in their relation to rainfall, stream flow, etc., made to the chairman of the House Commit tee on Agriculture, by Chief of the Weather Bureau Moore, who holds some remarkable and fantastic views on forests, soil erosion, etc. This report, which seems to have been made as a personal presenta tion of Mr. Moore's views, Is remark able in that it is at total variance with conclusions reached by the For est Service (a bureau which, like the weather bureau. Is under the De partment of Agriculture) and by the Geological Survey, and fantastic in that they are not in accordance with well known facts and records. The Philadelphia North American well puts It: "The fate of Moore is to have the villain flare back still pursue him this time it caught him within a fortnight, for before there was time lor rorgetruiness or tne proclamation that there is no associ ation of floods and deforestation, the usually placid little Seine broke its banks and did devastation estimated at over $200,000,000 within the city limits of Paris." Mr. Moore's personal opinion has not only no scientific value, but is in the light of facts ridiculous! A report has Just been made by M Velain, Professor of Physical Geog raphy at the Sorbonne, on the causes of the Frenoh floods, which he attrib utes in the first place to exceptional rainfall during the past six months, and secondly, to the wholesale de struction of the forests, in this re spect M. Velain voicing, according to press reports, the unanimous opin ions of French scientists. The report states that during the last 30 years the forests have been cut down to a most alarming extent on the plateaus where the three af fluents of the Seine arise the pas tures and cultivated soil, which re placed the forests, no longer retain ing the rainfall, which sluices off as if from the roof of a house directly into the river. In other words, the report continues, the forests until recently absorbed the rainfall and diverted the greater part into the soil, whence it percolated gradually Into the great natural subterranean sheets of water. "Most of the for ests have now disappeared; their de struction is thus fataWy a national calamity, the terrible consequences of which have just been demonstrat ed by the present floods." Is of value to contrast at this VITAL CENSUS QUESTIONS. How the rople .Are to Answer the - , ' Enumerators. '' WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. Jl, The character of the questions con corning color or race, ago at last birthday, conjugal condition, num ber of years of present marriage, the number of children born, and the number of children now living, to be asked by the1 enumerators In the Thirteenth United States Ceniua, be ginning April 15, text, is clearly ex plained in the printed instructions to the census-takers, which have been prepared by the United States Cen sua Bureau. All the questions relate solely to conditions existing on the 'Census Day," which is April 15 Answers relative to color or race are to be entered on the schedule as "W" for white; "B" for black; "Mu for mulatto; "Ch" for Chinese; "Jp' for Japanese; and "In" for Indian For census purposes, the term black" (B) Includes all negroes ot full blood, while "mulatto" (Mu) includes all negroes not of full blood but having any perceptible trace of negro blood. As to age at last birthday of the person enumerated, the enumerators are cautioned that this question calls only for the age In completed years at the last birthday. Therefore, a person whose exact age on April 15 is 17 years, 11 months, and 5 days should be returned simply as 17, be cause that is his age at his last birthday. In the case of children not two years old, the age should be given in completed months, express ed as twelfts of a year. Thus, the age of a child 3 months old should be entered as 3-12, a child 7 months old as 7-12, a child 15 months old as 1 3-12, etc. If a child is not yet a month old the enumerators are to enter the age as 0-12. A child who is just a year old on the 17th of April, 1910, should nevertheless be returned as 11-12, because that Is its age in completed months on April 15. The enumerators are told to take particular pains to get the ex act age of children. If the person was born outside the United States, the enumerator is to enter the country (not city or dis trict) in which he was born. Instead of Great Britain, he is told to write Ireland. England, Scotland, or Wales In the case of persons born In the double kingdoms of Austria-Hungary the enumerator is cautioned to be sure to distinguish Austria from Hungary. In the case of those born in Austria .proper, they are to dis tinguish also those born in Bohemia and those born in Austrian Poland. They should write Finland and not Russia for a person born in Finland. The Inquiry as to the number of children born applies to women who are now married, or who are wid owed, or divorced. The answer should give the total number of children that each woman has had during her lifetime. It should in clude, therefore, the children by any former marriage as well as by her present marriage. It should not in clude the children which her pres ent husband may have had by a for mer wife, even though they are mem bers of her family. Still-born chil dren are not to be included. The question concerning the num ber of children now living refers on ly to the children which the woman herself has had. The enumerator is required to include all of these chil dren that are living, no matter whether they are living In his dis- MONEY HIDDEN AWAY Draws No Interest, Benefits Nobody, And Is I In Con stant Panger of Being Stolen or Destroyed By Fire. Put your money in the bank, either at interest or sub ject to check, .where you can get it on demand, and you will find that you are better satisfied . Money Placed With The First National Bank Gastonia, N. C s ' Gaston County's Oldest and Largest Bank, Will be Handled Safely and Accurately. L. L. JENKINS, President S. N. BOYCE, Cashier. Ladies' Panama Skirts Also Ladies' Voil Skirts and Ladies' Spring Suits, Wash dresses, all colors and styles. Full line of shirt waists, Net, Silk and Wash, in all colors. Nice line of hair braids and Tur ban rats, all colors. Get One. Ladies' Slippers All the new styles in vici, tan, gun metal and patent leather, prices $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50. Men's and Boy's Pants Men's new Spring pants from $1.50 to $6.00. Boys' Knickerbocker Pants, sizes 3 to 17, price 50 cents to $1.75. Nice line of ties just received, 25 and 50 cents. Thomson Mercantile Co. trict or somewhere else. Senator Tillman,, whose condition last week was extremely critical, has very greatly improved since Sunday and his complete recovery is now thought to be assured. It time the radical differences of onin ion neid hy Mr. Moore as a sort of "academic contribution" with the serious findings of the French scien tists speaking from facts because these differences have a decided bearing on the fate of the Appalach ian-vnite Mountain project. Those who are lighting now as they have for ten years past for this legisla tion In Congress know that the last ditch of the opposition is this ques tion of the forest effect on stream flow. To understand the situation clearly, one must go back to the re port made in May, 1908, by the Com mittee on Judiciary of the House on the "constitutionality" of forest re serves, In which it was held that such forests couM ho when "clearly shown to be of aid to navigation." Logically, therefore. the opposition extends a cordial wel come to such contributions as Mr. Moore's, which attempt to show that forests do not affect water conserva tion and cannot, therefore,! "aid nav igation." To those who know the situation there need be no hesitancy in placing a correct valuation on an opinion so at variance with facts, and so timed as to do the most harm to the pro ject, nor any hesitancy either, in saying that it will utterly fail in its purpose. It can be said unequivocally that this project, based as It is on abso lute justice to the East; on undoubt ed national sanity, must finally be established by the National Govern ment as an Imperative duty, owed by the nation to Itself, and that these views are well known, and must fin ally prevail even In the Agricultural Committee, where the 'bill now rests. There is no governmental policy more firmly established than Forest Conservation. There undoubtedly exists a majority In Congress for the Appalachian project, as the Agricul tural Committee realizes, and this Committee must finally awaken to the fact that dilatory tactics and be fogged Issues cannot prevail against national demand that is so univer sally voiced as this. Held Under $500 Bond. William N. "fallson, who disappear, ed from Gastonia sometime ago while resting under a $500 bond awaiting trial on the charge of procuring an albortion, was brought to Gastonia Sunday evening by Sheriff Cauley, of Lexington connty, S. C, where he was arrested a day. or two previous. Wednesday he was given a hearing before Magistrate T. H. White at the city hall and was held for trial at the approaching term of Gaston Su perior Court, being required to give a justified bond of $500, which he made. At the hearing Wednesday the principal witness against Wil son was Miss Edith Elmore, the al leged victim of his crime. Wilson is a man of family and was formerly connected with a GaBtonia cotton mill as a boss. Held for Larceny. Anderson Griffin, a negro about 18 years old, was arrested by a police officer yesterday afternoon on a charge of larceny. He was delivery boy at the Robinson Shoe Company's store and It was suspected that he was stealing shoes and selling them Already ten pairs of shoes, the cheapest In the lot retailing at $4, hare been recovered and It is prob able that he disposed of many moore. Griffin took them from the store and sold them at any old price. rAlso two hats hare been recoreredr Grif fin confessed to Chief Carroll. - He will be tried in police court tomor row morning. .Elliott Mack, also colored. Is held on a charge of re ceiving stolen goods ' In the same connection. He was 'apparently do ing a regular land-office business In retailing shoes. Truth in Advertising. The Bookkeeper. A. W. McCann, advertising mana ger of Francis H. Leggett & Co., of New Tork City, in a recent address before an advertising class in Brook lyn, gave some Interesting practical illustrations of the effectiveness of telling the truth in advertising. His long experience with a house which knows how the best results are ob tained enables him to speak with authority. "No matter how well our story is told,", he said, "If not founded on facts its effectiveness will perish. Untruth has no place In advertising, because the common sense of the consumer challenges the merit of the article brought before its attention, and if every detail of goodness claimed for that article does not assert' itself upon personal inspection, the interest of the lndl- . vidual Is lost. A caution, therefore, which harmonizes with the first commandment of simplicity Is fram ed in the second commandment, "Thou shalt 1e truthful of silent" Hon. Leroy Percy, of Greenville, Miss., was chosen Wednesday as Uni ted States Senator for the short term defeating ex-Governor Vardaman by a small margin. - Miss Goldle Cantrlll, a pretty girl of 17, was taken in charge by the school authorities of Morehead, Ky., Wednesday, when they found that she had been attending school as "Sam Murray" dressed In boy's clothes. She Is an orphan and makes her home with an aunt In Salt Lick, Ky., and has made two or three ventures In male attire. For several weeks at one time ebe earn ed her living as news "butch pa trains. . V-
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