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TUESDAY, DECEMBER IS, 1010. TTIH C3A8TOXIA GAZETTE. PAGE SEVK3. All -Around Flour Light, wholesome breadflaky pastrycaka that melts ia your . mouth all out of one sack I . - That's William Tell Flour-equally good for every baking need. William Tell ia the most economical flour, too it makes more loaves to the sack than ordinary flour. That Is because it is made from Ohio Red Winter Wheat-richest iu bread making qualities. . Order a sack from your grocer today. William Tell Flour F. D. BARK LEY & CO., Distributors WOOD Pine Stove Wood, cut and split ready for use, good big load for $2. Pine Chunks for Wood Heaters, from 91 up according to size of load. Also Oak Chunks for Wood Heat ers. Buy from "hie and save the worry and trouble of having your wood cut and tplit, also the waste of chips, bark, etc. In the course of a year I will save yon several dollars on your wood bill. CUPID MAKES A CHRISTMAS CALL s F. L. Wilson PHONE 276 OR 285. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY RATES. Via Seaboard Air Line Co. The Seaboard announces Christ mas Holiday rates from all points to all points on their line, on sale December 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23,24, 25, 30, and January 1st, good tore- turn until January &th, 1911, in clusive. For further informat'on call on your nearest Agent or ad dress the undersigned. H. S. LEARD, D. P. A., Raleigh, N. C JAMES KER, JR., T. P. A., Charlotte, N. C. NOTICE. The directors of the Gastonia Li brary Association will meet Wed nesday, December 14th, at 8 p. m. In regular annual meeting for the election of a librarian for the ensu ing year. Applications should be made to the president. JOHN HALL, Pres. 13 c 2. You need hare no fear that your holiday pictures will not be deliver ed on time. Green delivers when promised. HE bad written to him: -It will seem quite like old times to bare you with us again at Christmas. It seems much longer than four years since you were here, but 1 aui sure things will appear quite as usual to you. We make no change lu our yearly program for Christmas. It Is really the children's day, as It whs when you aud 1 first spent it together. (I hesitated when I went to write how niuny yeurs ago. It must be eighteen. I But 1 think fa ther and mother and 1 take quite as much Interest lu It as grown people do in tbe circus quite for the children's sake, of course. "I would ask you to dinner immedi ately on your arrival Christmas eve, but If 1 dared to suggest the presence of an outsider there would be a hub bub among tbe powers that rule the nursery and at this season the en tire household. I simply dare not say anything save that we should like to have you come at 0 precisely, so that we in n y have a little chnt before the arrival of our other guests." And Indeed as he walked up the ave nue with his long prairie stride Christ mas ere be whs depressed to find everything so little changed from the night four years since, when be had left New York for the west to make over his life In a new pattern of work and usefulness. Here was the familiar door and the old bronze doorknob which had once been on a level with his eyes. And the hi butler, whom the Stantons had had for twenty years, opened the door to him and answered his greeting with a respectful "Good evening. Mr. Burn side." giving him his Christian name as If he had called only the evening before. But the hall was hidden In a mass of evergreen and holly, and the electric bulbs glowed In their shades like huge berries la tbe greenery. And here he seemed suddenly a stranger, coming now on the old Christmas spirit to which his absence had made him an alien. It bewildered him; it saddened him. ne entered the front drawing room and saw the hem of a skirt disappear through the portieres which hung be tween that and the second drawing room behind it. Some one was placing a Christmas wreath in tbe middle win dow, a woman's figure. He did not know her. She turned to greet him with an eager, "Why, Burnside. I am so glad to see you!" and grasped his brown fingers with a warm clasp of a white hand. She was not of that girlish fragility which be had remembered. She was the elder sister of her old self, but in the excitement and pleasure of seeing him her voice and manner were those of the girl whom he had loved and lost four years before. He smiled at her sadly. "How you have grown!" he said. She arched her eyebrows at him. "And you?" she laughed. "Why. you're as broad and brown as a soldier. I shouldn't have known you. You have changed!" . "Have 1?" He caught at It eagerly. She saw the trouble In his eyes. "They'll all be delighted to see you looking so well"' she avoided It "so big and strong. ' He saw the picture of himself which she carried in her memory of him, and it pained him. ne had thought that his letters would have told her. She held the wreath up to him. "I was pretending to bang it in tbe win dow." she confessed, "so that I should be the first to see you. And I didn't know you when you passed." He smiled again, and they sat down together. "How are they all?" "As well as ever," she said and be gan to tell him of them how the chil dren had been growing: bow her mother was aging. "And father," she whispered, "is so deaf. You mustn't westr she asked In another voice, fussing busily with tbe wreath.' He shook his bead. "Not that I. re member." "How did you spend last Christ mas T" "In a railroad train. I bad to make a trip to Frisco." ne spoke abstract edly. "I haven't had a real Christmas since I went way. I felt like I dont know what when I saw the old ball. She caught her breath at bis tone. "Ob, did you?" abe said ay m pathetical ly. "We fixed it in the old way Just for you to make it seem like old times." She hud come back to blm. distressed by his manner. She looked down at blm helplessly. "That was Just It," he said. "Noth ing has changed." She guessed what he had left unsaid He needed encouragement, cousola son oxb was rucrxo a Christmas WBSATU IN TUK WINDOW. In Mecklenburg Superior Court last Thursday Will Hall, a negro, was sentenced to ten years In the penitentiary for attempted criminal assault on a ten-year-old girl of his own race. Had the girl been a few days younger, under ten, Hall would probably have gone to the electric chair. Think how many homes you can gladden by sending a beautiful pho tograph of baby at Christmas time. Phone 147 or call in at Green's Studio. Robert Miller, the Charlotte ne gro who, while crazed with cocaine a . few months ago, ahot and killed Hester Sowers, a negresa, was tried In Mecklenburg Superior Court last week, and was sentenced to four teen yean In the State penitentiary by Judge B. F. Long The solicitor allowed him to plead guilty of mur der In he second degree and the case did not go to a jury. HEBE HE SEXKZD SUDDEJTLT A STRANGER. let him see you notice it. It was the grip last winter." As for herself, her life was the old round. "I keep it full. I ride with a groom. It isn't as jolly as when we used to ride togeth er. But you you must be a famous horseman by this timer' He remembered those rides. What a fool be bad been to forfeit all that! Yes," he said vaguely. "What an age I have been awayT 'And what a lot you have done." she reminded him. "You don't know bow proud we have been of you. I used to read your letters and Stewart's out to father as soon as they came." She had risen. She went over to tbe win dow to hang the wreath, with her back to him. "lie used to watch for them almost as eagerly as I did." Yes. you were all very good," be sighed. It was unkind, though, for her to say such things when she meant nothing by them. "Did you meet any nice girls out tlon, the assurance that his life in the west bad cleaned the blot from his escutcheon. She began to busy herself about the room, pinning sprigs of Christmas green on the hangings. "Do you remember how we used to dec orate together?" she asked him. "Do I?" he said. "Don't you let the servants do it yet?" "No." she laughed, "lt'd spoil the fun. I have to do It alone now." "Oh, I beg your pardon." he apolo gized, coming over to her eagerly Can I help you?" "Well," she said, "if you haven't for gotten how" "Forgotten: he exclaimed. I re member the proper place for every ber ry" "Get tbe holly, then." she ordered. We'll have to hurry. They'll be in on us in a few minutes." ne brought the branches to her and they went to work together, putting twigs of It among the bric-a-brac and in the vases, drooping clusters over the tops of the pictures and twining them in the chandeliers and electric brackets. She saw him smile with something of his old boyishness and was encouraged. They stood in the center of the room at last and. looked around at their work. "I have one sprig left," be said. "Where can I put it V "There's not a corner left." she said searching the walls with a most in nocent eye. He could see none either 'Why," she exclaimed, "there's the old place over the mantel." He looked up at tbe carving. "I can't reach it without a ladder, even yet. She measured his height with a glance. "Stand on the arm of a chair." "With my weight?" he laughed. She studied the situation. "I'll do it if you'll steady the chair." He drew over a corpulent chair of puffed upholstery, with an arm as broad as a cushioned window seat She hopped Into the ample seat of it with a show of dainty slippers and put her hand on his shoulder. "You will have to catch me if I fall." she smiled down on him. ne reached up and took her hand "Be careful, he said and closed a firm grasp on her fingers, which were trembling despite herself. She stepped up, swaying, on the arm; he held tbe chair with his knee and handed a sprig of holly to her. He had forgotten the four years that had passed. She straightened np slowly. "Oh. I can't," she said and fell back to him again. "I'm afraid you can't bold me." ne came around to tbe other side of her. "Put your hand on my shoul der," he directed. It was the way they had done it before, and he longed for the old touch. When she stood up on the arm of the chair be put bis arm about her and held ber there. She reached the branch of holly into its place In the carving slowly and then lowered her hand to his shoulder. Theru were tears In his eyes. He took her fingers and put them to his lips. "Thanks." he said huskily. She slipped down to him in a sud den wave of weakness. "Oh. Burn side," she whispered, "how how you frightened me!" She was such a little thing In his arms. The blood choked in his throat "Have you forgiven me?" he asked quickly. Her hand stole up. trembling to flut ter a touch of pity on his brown cheek. "Forgive you?" she whispered. "I forgave you tbe day you went away and cried all night for you to come back." He gazed into eyes that were swim mug in tenderness. "God bless you." be said to them "dearest" to her lips. The butler coughed In tbe halL "The mistletoe has come. Miss Frances," be announced. "Bring it In." she cried. "We'll have some on the chandelier." j "And a piece over the mantel." Burn tide suggested, slyly. She looked at blm with a sidelong imile. New York Commercial Advertiser. ENDORSES FLYING MACHINFS Secretary of War Dickinson Wants Them for Use by the ArmyCon' grena Asked to Spend Nearl; Twenty Million Dollars to Fortify Panama Canal. An Associated Press dispatch from Washington under date of the 9th says that Secretary of War Dick Inson, In his annual report Just made to Congress, strongly endors es flying machines for army use and recommends to Congress an appro priation to provide tbe signal corps with a reasonable number of the better type of machine for Instruc tion purposes and field work. The report called attention to the fact that the entrance to Chesa peake Bay, one of the most Import- ant nolnts strategically on the At lantic coast, Is wholly unfortified. With this and possibly one or two other exceptions, our coast defenses are In good shape. Congress Is asked to authorize an expenditure of $19,546,843 for the fortification of the terminal of the Panama canal. Including the con struction of ports for the perman ent garrison, and $7,000,000 of this sum should be made available Im mediately In order to complete the project within three years. The ad ditional sum of $2,000,000 is also wanted immediately to be applied towards the cretlon of naval estab lishments in the canal zone as a ne cessary part of the defense of the canal. The Secretary notes with gratifi cation a reduction by 30. 6 per cent in the number of desertions last year, compared with the preceding year. Altogether there were 3,464 desertions or a percentage of 3.66 of the strength of the army, which was less than any fiscal year since 1899, The decrease was most marked in the engineers, field artillery and cavalry. This is believed to be the result of extraordinary effort made by the de partment in the direction of prompt and vigorous pursuit of a deserter by means practically certain to re sult in his apprehension and subse quent punishment as a military von vict under the hard and rigorous conditions of prison discipline. The death rate in the army last year was the lowest that has ever occurred, the total number being 370 of which 228 were from disease and 142 from injuries, 6 of the lat ter being killed by hostile Moros in action or while on sentry duty. Tu berculosis claimed the greatest num ber of victims, numbering 43 and there were 51 deaths from gunshot wounds. There were 33 suicides and 15 homicides. SALE! SALE! The Greatest of ALL Sales V sale that is of intense interest to the entire community. The wonder ful bargains should com mand the imme diate attention of every per son. Visit our store. You will find better goods and for less money ctaeMter Sacrifice S 122 West Main Avenue - 1 aie Gastonia, N. C. READ THIS Come in now and look over our latest work and be convinced of the possibilities a few photographs have during the holiday season. Green's Studio. Don't Forget the Old Man. Statesville Landmark. Mother deserves all that has ever been said in her behalf and more, but about this season it's dad who should have the prayers of the church. In addition to the care of the family, a serious problem in the average household, dad will have to come across" extra for Christmas. Don't forget the old man when you ask help for those who need it most. It Will Make You Money Myers & Tate have decided to close out their winter stock of goods to move out West. Everything will be sold at and below cost. They do this to move the goods, as they want to close out at once All Xmas Toys at Cost GO RIGHT AT IT. Friends and Neighbors in Gastonia Will Show You How. Get at the root of the trouble. Rubbing an aching back may re lieve it, But it won't cure it. You must reach the root of it- the kidneys. Doan's Kidney Pills go right at it, Reach the cause, relieve the pain. They cure, too, so Gastonia peo ple say. Dolls, Doll Carriages, Mechanical Toys of all kinds, Doll Furniture and Beds, GlassNovelties; in short all hol iday goods in'our store to go at cost. Don't fail to see them now Mrs. G. W. Taylor, 221 Lorny Mill House, Gastonia, N. C, says: "I received so much benefit from Doan's Kidney Pills that I am pleas ed to testify in their favor. My kid neys were disordered and my back ached eo severely at times that I could hardly get about to attend to my housework. There was also a lameness through my kidneys and often pains radiated throughout my body. Hearing Doan's Kidney Pills highly spoken of, I procured a supply at the Abernethy-Shields urug uo., ana arter using them a I short time, 1 was cured." MYERS k TATE Next door to Abernethy-Shields Drug Co. GASTONIA, N. C For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. FosterMiIbani Co., Buffalo, New York sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doaa's and tk no other. We Have fad Many Hard Jobs to Tackle but it's a waste of words to talk about our facilities for successful carriage and wagon repairing to oM . customers they know all aboat them and us. This card only re minds them. To you it is a courte ous request to let us try our haaaa and heads over your nextfob la oar line. Well do it riht. Robert C. Warre Near the Court House
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