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THE GASTON GA ZETTE PUBLISHED TWICE A WEEK TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. SINGLE COPY 8 CENTS. Devoted to the Protectloa of Home and the Interests of the Oonnty. 91 .ftO A YEAR IN ADVAlfCB t VOL. XXXL GASTONIA N. C. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1910. NO. A OYER GASTON COUNTY. BESSEMER ROUTE ONE, NEWS. r-nrrDondence of The Gazette. thw?semER CITY, Route 1. Nov. 29. Mrs. WH1 Carpenter and little son. Webb, spent the weea-eno. v .mm Caroenter's mothers, Mrs. A Clark.Miss Zona Stroup. who Is In school at Davenport College, vis ited homefolks last Saturday and ui.0 T.nia BrldKes. of buuuu;. niioa - kii,m Mountain, is teaching school at Carolina school house this win ter. 'Misses Jessie and Mattle Mul- f T.lncnlnton. visited Misses Cled. Helen and Annie Pasour for . .i, t Ram Ho vl who is teaching school at Bel- Lit this year, visited homefolks last Saturday and Sunday.-Messrs. thn and Sidnev Mltchem, of Lin colnton, visited at the home of their aunt. Mrs. C. A. Clark, near Besse mer City, last Saturday and Sun day. Miss Lizzie Farris, of Cherry' ville, spent a few days last week with her Bister, Mrs. Barbara Hager. Mr. Jesse Carroll, of Cherryville, has gone to Florida where he will spend the winter. Mr. William Pa- sour, of Savannah, Ga., will spend the winter with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Pasour. Mr. John Baldwin and sons. Messrs. James and Oscar, have just returned from a trip to the mountains. Miss Ore- bell Clark SDent last Sunday with the Misses Pasour. Misses Ada and Lucy Eaker visited Misses Florence and Barbara Snead last Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. M. F, Pasour were in Gastonia shopping last Tuesday. HICKORY GROVE NEWS. Correspondence of The Gazette. HICKORY GROVE. Nov. 30. Hickory Grove school started Mon day morning with Mr. Sid Brown teaching. We - hope he will get along nicely. 'Mrs. Bertie Beal Is spending some time with ber par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Bost, at Clare mont. Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Pasour and little boys spent Saturday at Long Shoals with Mr. and Mrs. Klser. Mr. and Mrs. George Howey are ell smiles it's a boy. Misses -Venia and Emma Lee Carpenter and Ada Ramsey visited 'Misses Lucy, Bryte and Marietta Pasour Satur day. Paul, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Carpenter, spent Satur day with his aunt, Lucy Bryte Pa aour. An approaching marriage of in terest to many Gastonians will be that of Miss Georgia Smith and Mr. R. H. Plyler which will take place December 22nd at the residence of Mrs. L. C. Torrence, No. 201 West Third avenue. Miss Smith has for the past five or six years held a po sition in the millinery department at Thomson's. Mr. Plyler is connected with the Spencer Lumber Company, formerly the Page Company. Poultry Show a Success. The Gaston Poultry Association's fifth annual show, which began Tuesday morning, comes to a close today. It has been by far the larg est end best exhibition in the asso ciation's history. There were 521 fowls (listed and almost every breed of chicken is represented. Mr. F. J Marshall, of College Park, Atlanta, Ga., one of the best-known poultry judges In the South, judged the fowls and awarded the prizes. This was quite a difficult job and the task was only completed yesterday afternoon. The 'Gazette will pub lish, probably Tuesday, a list of the prize winners. The attendance has been good, though the cold weather for the past few days probably pre vented some from attending who would otherwise have been on band. The Gaston poultry show has, reach ed a point where it compares' most favorably with the largest and best hows in the South. It is a credit .to the town, the county and the men who have, through persistent effort, built R up. New Bridge Completed. The new Iron bridge which the county is having built across Indian creek on the Shoals road, four miles above Cherryville. will be completed this week.-, it Is one of the best bridge of Its kind in the county. This road is also now In fine shape, the work of rmainr bavin . w a " O MCru Mtone under th Mr. S. S. Harrelson. DR. COOK HEARD FROM. Antic Explorer Confesses That Hel Doesn't Know Whether He Reach ed Pole or Not May Have Been Insane Makes Statement. An Associated Press dispatch from New York dated November 30 contains an interesting state ment from Dr. Frederick A. Cook, the Arctic explorer who claimed to reached the North Pole but who, since his claims were disprov ed by Explorer Peary to the satis faction of the majority of the peo ple, has been in hiding. Dr. Cook has written an article for Hampton's magazine which is in the nature of a confession and from which some uaraKraDns nave Deen amu uuunv ... nr Pnnk Rftvg- 'Did I et to the North Pole" Perhaps I made a mistake in think- ing that I did. Perhaps I did not make a mistake. After mature thought I confess that I do not know absolutely whether I reached the pole or not. This may come as an amazing statement, but I am will ing to startle the world if, by so do ing 1 can get an opportunity to pre sent my Case. By my case I mean not my case as a geographical dis coverer, out my case as a man. Much as the attainment of the North Pole once meant to me, the sympa thy and confidence of my fellow men mean more." The publishers of the article is sued a statement tonight saying that nowhere in his narrative does Dr. Cook either cast any reflections on Peary or Question Pery s claims. Dr. Cook, who has been in hiding for over a year, has informed the editors of the magazine publish ing his story that he will return to the United States with his wife and spend Christmas here. Continuing Dr. Cook says: "Fully, freely and frankly I sball tell you everything. Tell you every thing and leave the decision with you. If, after reading my story, you say, 'Cook is sincere and honest, half crazed by months of isolation and hunger, he believed that he reached the pole, he is not a faker,' then I shall be satisfied." Dr. Cook tells the story of his life, and pictures what he calls the overpowering ambition for explora tion that beset him until it finally culminated in his effort to reach the pole. Dr. Cook declares that at the time he convinced 'himself that he had discovered the pole he was half mad. He spent two years in his quest, and during that time endur ed hunger and privation that, he says, would unbalance any mind. The explorer states that it would be impossible for any man to de monstrate beyond question that he had been to the North Pole. He characterized the region as a re gion of insanity, where one cannot believe the evidences gathered by one s own eyes. Dr. Cook and his wife are now In Europe and the children are in a convent in France. Most of the time during his exile Dr. Cook has been in London. "I have been called the greatest liar in the world, the most monu mental impostor in history," says Dr. Cook. "I believe that in every undesirable way I stand unique, vitu object of such suspicion and vitu peration as have assailed few men." Placed in Hollywood Cemetery." Following a brief ceremony con ducted at the grave by Rev. G. D. Herman yesterday morning the bod ies of the late Prof. B. E. Atkins and of his oldest daughter, Mary Fowler Atkins, were committed to their final resting place in a cement vault in Hollywood Cemetery. Prof. At kins died at Russellville, Ky., in February, 1909, and his body was placed in a vault In 'Maple Grove Cemetery there. Mr. J. W. Atkins, who went to Russellville last week returned with the remains yesterday morning on No. 36. The casket was removed to the rooms of the Ford Undertaking Company and remain ed there until the body of his daugh ter was disinterred in Oakwood Cemetery. Both were then tak en to the new burying ground. Miss Atkins died in July, 1909. The pall-bearers resterdav worn Messrs. B. T. Morris, WS. Morris. S. S. Shuford. J. L. Beaira w sso. park, W. H. Jenkins. W. Beam and Otto O. Baber. COLD WAVE OVER SOUTH. Freezing Weather as Far South as the Gulf States Marked the Entry of Deremlier 1 Snow Flurries Reported In Kentucky and Ten- nettaee. Louisville, Dec. 1. Freezing weather as far south as the Gulf States marked tbe entry of the first day of December. Snow flurries are reported from many points in Ken tucky and Tennessee and low tem peratures prevail in practically all sections. Points in the Mississippi valley as far south as Arkansas re- ported temperatures ranging from tfae weather at tDe8e points as balmy compared with the conditions tnrougnoui xne and Nortwest, where .Miaaie wei anows and blizzards drove the mer- cury down to a point twelve degrees below zero. Cold weather Is predicted for practically the entire South tonight, with indications of ;i freeze In north ern Florida and frost In the central portions of that State. MILLION A Duly. Red Cross H;w Sent Out 00,000,000 Christmas St-ttls Warns Against Misuse of Stickers. Washington, D. C, Dec. 1. An nouncement comes from the head quarters of the American National Red Cross that Christmas Seals are being printed at the rate of a mil lion a day and' that already over 60,000,000 have been given out to agents in all parts of the United States. The demand for these holi day seals is greater this year than ever before. At the same time the Red Cross issues a warning calling attention of all users of Christmas Seals to the ruling of the Postoffice Department that these stickers must be placed on the backs of letters and packa ges. To avoid the possibility of the misuse of holiday seals, warning cards are being posted in every booth where Red Cross Seals are sold, telling that the stickers are not good for postage and must be used only as seals. Already several million seals have been sold to large manufacturing concerns and other business houses in all parts of the United States, and orderB are coming In hourly. The outlook for selling 100,000,000 seals and thereby making good the slogan of the campaign, "A Million for Tuberculosis", are very bright. Child Badly Burned. Maston, the (little three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Parham, was quite badly burned Wednesday afternoon when his clothing caught fire from the grate at the house of a neighbor, Mr. Sam Grigg. Mrs. Grigg had stepped over to Mrs. Par ham's, leaving the children in the yard. They went into the house to the fire, where the little fellows clothes caught and he at once start ed home. He was met by Mrs. Par ham, who extinguished the flames, but not before the child was pretty badly burned. He is reported this morning as still in a critical condi tion, but there is hope that he will recover. She Outwitted the Officers. Lexington Dispatch. Mrs. Josephine O'Neal, of Rocky Mount, N. C, has the whole depart ment of justice of the United States backed off and beaten to a frazzle. She is charged with sending obscene If iters through the mails and when officers sought to arrest her, she bar ricaded her .doors, loosed two fero cious bull dogs In the yard and han dled two big revolvers with fearful carelessness. The officer went back ith five assistants and the wily wo man, knowing that the six men would be able to storm and take her castle, lay down upon her bed and feigned illness, declaring that she was totally unable to move. The of ficers tried to move her, but found It impossible. She tips the scales at 250 pounds and is not easily car ried around. She has not yet been brought to Justice. The Winston-Salem Journal' says that eighteen citizens of Waugh town killed twenty-five hogs on Thanksgiving Day whose total weight was 10,002 pounds. What community can beat this record. OUR HONON ROLL iList of New Subscribers and Re newals During Past Ten Days our Hperui ireniium offer stiii ,n w During tne past ten days, or since our last list was published on No- vember 22nd, the following persou have made payments on subscrip tlon: Miss Bertha Johnson, C. J. Llneberger, William Holland, R. A. Rankin. R. J. W. Moss, J. H. White, Rupert Clemmer, J. E. Dameron, H D. Roberts, D. M. Arrowood, G. 'M Shives, Matt R. Jenkins, S. E. Foy, Mrs. Nannie E. Rhyne, D. A. Llne berger, Dr. W. H. Hoffman, E. B Ware, G. A. Morrow, Ed Whitesides, Rev. G. D. Herman, T. M. Pearson VV. L. Lineberger, J. E. Russell, .Dr. D. E. McConnell, W. D. Robinson, J. V. Miller, H. N. Garrison, J. M Hamilton, Mrs. R. N. Wilson J. W Blackwood, S. M. Pearson, E. L Shelton, R. L. Goble, J. G. Jenkins, B. G. Bradley. J. S. Jenkins, A. W. Neill, Samuel Hurley, Thomas E. Hovis. G. H. Sherer, Mrs. K. J. Ken nedy, J. M. Nolen; C. P Carpenter, Mrs. Minerva Puett, Rev. John Hall, Marshall Robinson, E. B. Robinson, W. M. Boyd, A. A. McLean. Pearl Gillespie, Sallie Brown, J. R. Ander son, W. D. Dameron, R. O. Howe, D. B. Glover, A. J. Rankin, .1. P. Stowe, A. A. Armstrong, J. W. Stowe, H R. Elmore, G. P. Caldwell, J. A Capps, J. K. Bowen, G. A. Howell R. T. Barnes, M. W. Sanford, Miss Edith Lineberger, J. L. McCarn, J M. Sloan, J. L. Brandon, S. L. Jen kins, J. W. Bradley, H. F. Oakley, A. R. Rankin, 'Mrs. Ann Stowe, E.J Rankin, E. H. Rankin, M. A. Rut- ledge, T. L. Clinton, J. W. Millen, J Flay Bess, O. M. Boyd, A. W. Wim berly, H. D. Hanna, J. R. Hender son, H. M. Lineberger, S. E. Fergu son, R. C. Kendrick, J. M. Gaston, Mrs. M. M. Robinson, R. C. Rbbinson Mrs. H. F. Gash. E. D. Huffstetler, C. L. Spencer, Oscar Pasour, E. E Ratchford, Mason "McArver, W. H. Moten, J. C. Pasour, M. L. Kendrick, W. C. Petty, J. Lee Robinson, D. A. Garrison, W. D. Anthony, Frank Hewitt, Grigg & Alexander, R. A. Caldwell, Perry Wright, R. E. Long, J. W. Clanton, Susan Kennedy, J. M. Craig, J. L. Stowe, L. F. Ewing, H. C. Johnson, F. P. Hall, T. A Henry, W. G. Beattle, J. L. Ken drick, G. F. Wright, F. A. Cathey, G. A. Gold, Frazler-Wetzell Co., Swan-Slater Co., W. Y. Warren, Rev. J. W. Carson, J. N. Moore, J. W. Patrick, J. L. Gaston, J. W. Mc Kee, P. J. lineberger, Mrs. Harriet Hanna, E. P. Clark, H. W. Allran, Cherryville Hardware Co., J. W. Kendrick, A. W. Howell, B. S. Sum mit, A. M. Anthony, J. H. Dellinger, Guy Dellinger, C. P. Beam, P. S. Eaker, J. C. Ballard, J. E. Wyatt, C. L. White, R. E. Wyatt, Henry Craig, J. T. Wylie, L. C. Small, C. E. Wright, Joseph Holland, L. Thomp son & Son, Chas. B. Boyd, Mecklen burg Marble & Granite Co., W. F. Lewis, J. L. Lewis, J. N. Roberts, K. M. McKee, J. F. Dilling. We are still giving a handsome pocket knife free with each $1.50 subscription, neiw or renewal. If you are not a subscriber, now is the time to get on our list. We have founor five styles of knife to select from, and we are giving one to ev ery person who pays us $1.50 cash on subscription, whether a new sub scriber or a renewal. If your sub scription will expire within the next few months, It will pay you to call and renew now, while we are mak ing this special offer, which will on ly be In effect for a few weeks. Re member, we give everybody an equal chance to get a knife. New Presiding Elder. Rev. Dr. S. B. Turrentine, the newly appointed Presiding Elder of the Shelby District, Western North Carolina Conference, will preach at Main Street Methodist church next Sunday Morning, December 4th, and at West End 'Methodist church Sun day evening. Dr. Turrentine is well known as one of the most excellent jireucuers oi me v onrerence and his L appointment as Presiding Elder of this district at the recent Conference! at Winston-Salem mil wHh general! approval. He will doubtless be heardfl by good congregations at both 8ervI - ces next Sunday. "V A dispatch from Albany, N. Y.. says that the late David B. Hill's es tate is valued at $62,000. A FAMOUS PICTURE Rosa Bonheur's Stirring Master piece, "The Horse Fair." A PRIZE THAT FRANCE LOST. The Artitt't Native Land Permitted the Great Canvas to Find a Home In Thii Country The 8tory of the Painting and It Replioaa. One of the chief glories of the Metro politan museum In New York Is Rosa Bonheur's stirring masterpiece, "The Horse Fair," a picture which for its irresistible movement and living por tralture of mau's most useful frieud holds a unique position In the annals of art ami tbe affections of lovers of paintings. Few, however, are acquainted with the Intimate history of that notable canvas, and fewer still are aware that there are uo less thau five horse fair pictures in existence. The one in New York is the original and, It will be re membered, was first the property of A T. Stewart and then purchased for the Metroiolltan by Cornelius Vanderbilt for 250,000 francs. It was painted in Paris, the models used being the horses of the Paris Om nibus company and a few animals studied at tbe horse market of the French capital. It was first exhibited at the salon of. 1853, but went back to the artist unsold. A part of the further history of the famous painting Is recorded by Ernest Gambart in his manuscript memoirs, which have been freely drawn upon for the "Reminiscences of Rosa Bon- heur:" "After the closing of the 1853 Paris salon 'The Horse Fair' was intrusted to the Society of Artists of Ghent for exhibition in that town, where It had a great success, but whence It also came back unsold. In the spring of 1854 I expressed to Mile. Bonheur the desire to buy it from her. At that time it was in Bordeaux, her native town. "Her preference was that the munlc ipality should purchase it for the city museum, and a price of 12.000 francs had been mentioned at which the town authorities might acquire it. But she said to me that if the canvas came back to her again she would let me have It However, she could not let it go to England for less than 40,000 francs. "I unhesitatingly accepted the bar gain, and it was agreed that the pic ture should be mine unless sold to Bordeaux. As the picture was back in her studio again In the following year, I told Mile. Bonheur that I wished to take it at once in order to have it in my 1855 exhibition and that I should like to have it engraved by Thomas Landseer, the celebrated en graver and brother to the painter. "She was delighted at the idea of the picture being engraved and said to me: I have asked you 40.000 francs for my picture, although In France I cannot get 12.000, and I am pleased at your consenting to my terms. On the other hand, I don't mean to take un due advantage of your liberality. How can we arrange matters? Let us see. Well, the picture Is very large, and It will be difficult to find a place for it In an engraver's studio. Besides, you want to exhibit It. Wouldn't It be bet ter for me to paint you a smaller copy? " That suggestion she carried out and explains how the second canvas came into existence. That smaller copy was the one from which Landseer's well known steel engraving was made and Is the picture which is in the British National gallery. When she heard that it had become the property of the British nation Mile. Bonheur decided to make a third copy, thinking the second was not good enough for the London collection; hence "The Horse Fair" No. 3. But the National gallery authorities were not able to accept the substitute, as the painting which it was designed to replace had been given to them as trustees. Besides these three, Mile. Bonheur executed a water color replica and a drawing based on a large photograph. Of all these, however, the picture In the Metropolitan Is by far the finest work, which is only as it should be in Tiew of the fact that the artist always found her best public In America. This was recalled to her detriment when the rosette of the Legion of Hon or was requested In her behalf. "She hns ceased exhibiting at the salon." objected the president, "and sells in America everything she paints." The complete answer to that was that the French government had had the op portunity to buy "The Horse Fair," but had neglected it Argonaut " ,I,M Su8,e Hoffman a'rrlvedV from Charlotte a few days ago and is spending a short while at the nome of Mrg. E. c. wllson. Qn next T ... ., t , , . eave ior rnu- adelphia and New York, where the will spend tbe winter. Subscribe for The Gazette. mr TIM - W2 At her beautiful home on South Oakland street Mrs. John F. Love, entertained the S. and O. Club and a number of invited guests yester day afternoon from 3 to 6. The house was most tastefully decorated for the occasion in potted plant and flowers. The afternoon was pleasantly spent in playing games and delicious refreshments were served In two courses. At her home on South Marietta street yesterday afternoon Mrs. W. J Clifford delightfully entertained the Friendly Matrons Club and the following invited guests: Mee dames D. A. Cline, George A. Jen kins, I. A. Campbell and W. H. Red dish. The club members and guests eng"-d in fancy work and bo'-i . 1 i-jiiverae. Refreshments were serve. l in two courses. Music was furnished by .Wiss Annie Clifford. SOCIAL. Mrs. Robert A. Love returned last night from Cliffside, where she at- teuded the marriage of her brotner, Mr. Grover C. Haynes, to Miss Ima Fortune, which took place at the bride's home there on Wednesday aPternoon. It was a quiet home wedding, only a few special guests being present besides tne relative and near friends of the bride and groom. Handsomely engraved Invitations reading as follows were received in Gastonia yesterday: Mrs. Anna E. Branson invites you to be present at the marriage of her daughter Nancy Elizabeth to Mr. John Graham Carpenter Wednesday evening, December the fourteenth Nineteen hundred and ten at six o'clock Methodist Church Florence, South Carolina. Announcement of the approach ing marriage of Miss Branson and Mr. Carpenter was made some days ago. The event will be one of es pecial interest to the many Gaston friends of the contracting parties. ORPHAN BOY CLIMBS HIGH. Worthen, New Western Union Ss perintendent, Is But 34 Years Old Native of Shelby. Atlanta Journal. H. C. Worthen, whose appoint ment to the position of general su perintendent of the Southern divis ion of the Western Union Telegraph Company, with headquarters In At lanta, to succeed the late B. F. Dil lon, as reported in The Georgian Tuesday, will not assume his new duties for several days. Practically all of Mr. Worthen's services with the telegraph company have been In the office of the general manager, with headquarters in New York city, and his duties have car ried him all over the United States. His only visit to Atlanta was in September, when he was on an in spection tour of the Southern divis ion. Mr. Worthen, while only 34 years old, has had a rapid rise. . Born in Shelby, N. C, his parents died when he was quite young, and he was placed in the Oxford Orphan asylum, where he was reared and educated. While quite young he learned tele graphy and at the age of thirteen secured a position with the Sea board Air Line as telegraph opera tor. In 1898 he Joined the Western' Union forces and has been steadily promoted until today he occupies' one of the best positions in the gift of the company. A Good Newspaper Creed. Louisville Courier Journal. To print nothing of a man which, we would not say to his face: . to t print nothing of a man in malice; to look well and think twice before consigning a suspect to the ruin of printers' ink; to respect the bid and defend the weak; and lastly, at work and at play, day time and night to be good to the girls and square wlta', the boys, for hath It not been writ ten "Of such la the kingdom ot heaven." , . '" . LOB "
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