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4 PAGE TWO. T1IK GASTONIA GAZETTK. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1010. Watch This Space For Program of Home Talent Minstrel To be given in the Thursday Night, Dec. 22 For the benefit of the monument fund being raised by the Gastonia Chapter United Daughters T. W. PRESSON, Manager A SINGER Teaches Them to Make "As the twig is bent Practical and Instructive Price $3.00 This is not a toy, but a real Sewing Machine SOLD ONLY AT SINGER SHOPS, OR BY SINGER SALESMEN See them at office of Singer Sewing Machine Co. West Main Avenue L C. SMALL, Mgr. Holiday Suggestions Visiting Cards are always an ac ceptable Christmas gift. They are inexpensive and are always great ly appreciated by the recipient ANY : STYLE : IN : SCRIPT : TYPE Plate and 100 Cards for $1.75 Script is the most popular style in use now, but we can give you others if you want them. Come in and let us show you samples. GIVE US YOUR ORDER AT ONCE Gazette Publishing Co. 236 West Main Ave. Notice to Tax-Payers I will be at the following places on the dates named for the purpose of collecting your taxes. You had better pay your tax now and save the costs. Mount Holly, Cannon-Torrence Co'e. Store, Friday, December 16th, 9 a. m. to 3 p. m. Gastonia, City Hall, Saturday, December 17th, all day. Belmont, Drag Store, Monday, December 19th, 9 a, m. to 3 p. m. Bessemer City, Drag Store, Tuesday, December 20th, 0 to 3:30 p. m. Stanley, Carpenter's Store, Wednesday, December 21st. You had better meet me and pay your taxes. This is my third and last round, allthat the law requires. I will be'at Dallas on all other days except those named above. T. E. SHUFORD Sheriff Gaston County. Gastonia Opera House of the Confederacy for the Girls Clothes for Their Dolls the tree's inclined" :: Useful and Amusing Gastonia, N. C. GASTONIA, N. C Xmas Candies "None Uke Nunnally's" Your Christmas candies should be the best money can buy guaranteed for fresnness, quality, purity. candies for many years have been the popular choice throughout the South. We sell quantities of them because they're the highest grade made. You should place your order at once. J. H. KENNEDY & CO. (iaston Man Honored. An Associated Press dispatch sent out from Washington unuer date of the 13th says: "Giles L. Wilson. State bank examiner of South Carolina, was today appoint ed a national bank examiner and will have charge of all .South Caro lina and northern Georgia. Mr. Wilson is secretary and treasurer of the National Association of Super visors of State Banks." Mr. Wilson is a native of Gaston county and formerly lived here. He has been residing in Spartanburg, S. C, for me past ten or twelve years. He is a brother of Mrs. J. K. Dixon, of Gastonia. Mr. Wilson's many friends here and elsewhere in the county will be delighted to learn of the de served promotion which has come to him. The I SILVER. HORDE ? BV KLA DLAIH. Author of "The Spoilers " and Cwyrisht 1909. by H.rpw B Br. than CIIAPTEIt XII. A 1 HALF mile from Captain Peas ley's ship the rival company tenders were loading rapidly ' with union labor. The nest day Emerson and Clyde drove down to the dock with Cherry in a closed carriage, experiencing no annoyance beyond some Jeers and Insults as they passed through the picket line. Boyd had barely seen them comfortably es tablished on board when up the ship's gangway came "Fingerless ' Fraser radiantly attired, three heavily laden hotel porters groaning at his back, the customary thick walsted cigar between bis teeth. Are you going with us?" Boyd In quired "Sure." "See here! Is life one long succes sion of surprise parties with you?" "Why. I've flggered on this right along." But the ship is Jammed now. There is no room." "Oh. I fixed that up long ago. I am going to bunk with the steward." "Well, why in the world didn't you let us know you were coming?" "Say. don't kid yourself. You know I couldn't stay behind." Fraser blew a cloud of smoke airily. "I never start anything I can't finish. I keep telling you. and I'm going to put this deal through now that I've got it started." With a half embarrassed laugh and a complete change of man ner. he laid bis hand upon Boyd's shoulder, saying: "Pal. I ain't much good to myself or anybody else, but I like you and I want to stick around. Maybe I'll come in useful yet you can't tell." Emerson had never glimpsed this side of the rein's nature, and it rather surprised him. "Of course yon can come along, old man." he responded heartily. "We're glad to have you." The decks of the big. low lying tramp steamer were piled high with gear of every description. Ready now to sail Boyd went out to the dock of fice to wire Mildred of his success. 'Fingerless" Fraser soon ran in upon him. "They've come to grab you for killing that strikerr he began breathlessly. "There's a couple of "square toes' on the dock now. Better take It on the 1am'-qulckr "Godr So Marsh bad withheld this stroke until the last moment. "You'd better beat It qulckl" "How? I couldn't get through that crowd. They know me. Listen P Outside the street broke into a roar at some taunt of the fishermen high up In the rigging. "I can't run away, and If those detectives get me I'm rained." j Boyd clinched his bands In despera tion. "I gaess they're got me." ha said Utterly. There's no way oat" "From want they said I don't think they know you." Fraser coutluuuU. "Anyhow, ttoey wanted Pensloy to point you out. When they come off maybe you cau slip 'eiu." Boyd seized eagerly upou the kuj gestlon. "The wharf In empty seel I'll have to cross It lu pluiu slg'.it." Through the rear door of I lie olllee that oened uHu the dock proper they beheld the great floor almost entirely clear. Save for u few ton of freight at which Big George's men were work ing It was as unobstructed as u lawn, and. although It was nearly the slse of a city block, it afforded no more moans of concealment than did the little of fice Itself, with Its glass doors. Its counter ami its long desk, at the fur ther end of which a bill c lerk was wr ing over his task. They saw at the foot of the gang plank two meu talking wl;u Big George. They saw Bait point the stranuers carelessly to the ofllce. f whence he had seeu Boyd disappearing a few moments before, and turu back to his stevedores. Then they saw the plain clothes men approaching. "Here! Gtinnie your coat and lint, quick!" cried Fraser in a low voice, his eyes blnr.lng at a sudden thought. He stripped his own garments from his back with feverish haste. "Put mine on. There! I'll stall for you. When they grab me. take It on the run. Understand!" "That won't do. Everybody knows me." Boyd cast an apprehensive glance at the arched back of the bill clerk, but Fraser. quick of resource in such a situation, fon-cd him swiftly to make the change, saying: "Nix. It's your only 'out.' Stand here, sec!" He Indicated a position beside the rear door "I'll step out the other way where they can see me." he continued, pointing to the wagon way at the right. "Mvvy 1 When they grab me you beat it and don't wait for nothing." "But you" Already they could hear the foot steps of the otiicers. "I'll take a chance. Goodby." There was no time even for a hand shake. Fraser stepped swiftly to the door, then strolled quietly 3-ut Into the view of the two men. who an in stant later accosted him. "Are you Mr. Boyd Em?rson?' The adventurer answered brusquely. "Yes. but I can't talk to you now." "You are under arrest. Mr. Emer son." Boyd waited to hear no more. The glass door swung open noiselessly un der his hand, and he stepped out Just as the bill clerk looked up from his work, staring out through the other entrance. "Fingerless" Fraser's voice was louder now. as if for a signal. "Ar rest me? What do you mean? Get out of my way." "You'd better come peaceably." Boyd heard a sharp exclamation "Get him. Bill!" and then the sound of men struggling, lie ran. followed by a roar from the strikers, in whose full view Fraser's encounter with the plain clothes men was taking place. A backward glance showed him that Fraser had drawn his pursuers to the street Scarcely had Boyd reached Big George when a wing of the besieging army swept in through the unguarded entrance and down the dock like an avalanche, leaving behind them the battling officers and the hungry pack clamoring for the prisoner. "Drop that freight and get aboard the best way you can!" Boyd yelled at the fishermen, and. with a bound, was out into the open, crying to Captain Peasley on the bridge: "Here they come! Cast off. for God's sake!" The dozen men who had been sling ing freight on the dock hastened up the gangplank or climbed the fenders. while the signalman clung to the lift ing tackle and. at the piping cry of his whistle, was swung aloft out of the very arms of the rioters. Above, on the flying bridge. Captain ! Peasley was bellowing orders. At last the Bedford Castle was under way. Even after they were miles down the sound Boyd remained at his post, sweeping the waters astern In an anx ious search for some swift harbor craft, the appearance of which would signal that his escape had been dis covered. "I won't feel safe until we are past Port Townsend," he confessed to Cher ry, who maintained a position at his side. "The police can wire on from Seattle to stop us and take me off at that point." "If they find out their mistake." "They must have found it out long ago. That's why I've got Peasley forcing this old tub. She's doing 10 knots, and that's a breakneck speed for her. Once we're through the straits I'll be satisfied." "What will happen to Fraser?" she queried. "Nothing serious, I am sure. You see, they wanted me and nobody else. Once they find they have the wrong man I rather believe they will free him In disgust" A moment later he went on: "Just the same, it makes me feel depressed and guilty to leave him. I I wouldn't desert a comrade for anything If the choice lay with me." "You did quite right" Cherry warm ly assured him. "You see. I am not working for my self. I am doing this for another." It was the girl's torn to sigh softly, while the eyes she turned toward the west were strangely sad and dreamy. "Two boars more." he told her as the ship's bell sounded, "then I can eat and sleep and sing." Captain Peasley was pacing the bridge when later they breasted tbe glare of rort Townsend and saw , In the distance the Cashing searchlights of tbe foru that guurd tbt straits. They saw him stop suddenly and raise his night glasses. Boyd laid bis hand od Cherry's arm. Presently the captain crossed to them and said: "Yonder seems to be a launch mak ing out See! I wonder wbats up. By Jove! They're signaling." Tbe two boats were drawing together rapidly, and soon those on the bridge heard the faint but lncreusbtg patter of a gasoline exhaust. Carrying tbe same speed as the Bedford Castle, tbe launch shortly came within 'hailing distance. The cyclopcan eye of the ship's searchlight blazed up. and tbe next Instant out from the gloom leaped a little craft, on the deck of which a man stood waving a lantern She held steadfastly to her course, and a voice floated up to them: "Ahoy! What ship?" "The Bedford Castle, cannery tender, for Bristol buy," Peasley shouted back. Tbe man on the launch relinquished his lantern and. using both palms for funnel, cried more clearly now: "Heave to! We want to come aboard." With an exclamation of Impatience. the commanding officer stepped to the telegraph, but Emerson forestalled hi in. "Walt. They're after me. captain: It'a the Port Townsend police, and If you let them aboard they'll take me off." Turning, the skipper bellowed: "Who are you?" "Police! "What did I tell you?" cried Emer son. "What do you want?" "One of your passengers Emerson. Heave to. You're passing us." "That's bloody hard luck. Mr. Emer son: I can't help myself." the captain declared. But again Boyd blocked him as he started for tbe telegraph. "I won't stand It, sir. It's a con spiracy to rnlu me." "But, my dear young man" "Don't touch that Instrument!" From the launch came cries of grow ing vehemence, and a startled murmur of voices rose from somewhere In tbe darkness of the deck beneath. "Stand aside!" Peasley ordered gruff ly. But the other held his ground, saying quietly: "I warn you I am desperate." "Shall I stop her. sir?" the quarter master asked from tbe shadows of tbe wheelhouse. "No!" Emerson commanded sharp ly, and In the glow from the binnacle light they saw he had drawn bis re volver, while on the Instant up from the void beneath heaved the massive figure of Big George Bait, a behemoth, more colossal and threatening than ever In the dim light. lie wrenched open the door and with one sweep of his hairy paw flung tbe helmsman from his post panting. "Keep her going, cap, or I'll run them down!" The launch was abreast of them now and skimming along so close that one might have tossed a biscuit aboard I of her. The sputter of the craft along side was now punctuated by a volley of curses. The police launch sheered off. and the sound of her exhaust grew rapidly fainter and fainter. But not until It had wholly ceased did Big George give over his post at the wheel. Even then he went down the ladder reluctantly and without a word of thanks, of ex planation or of apology. With him this bad been but a part of the day's work. He saw neither sentiment nor humor in the episode. From the crow's nest of tbe Bedford Castle a week later the lookout stared down upon a white expanse that stretched beyond the horizon. At dawn they began their careful search, feeling their way eastward through the open lanes and tortuous passages that sep arated the floes, now laying to for tbe northward set of the fields to clear a path before them, now stealing through some narrow lead that opened into freer waters. Captain Peasley did all the navigat ing in person, but eventually they were hemmed in so closely that for a day and a night they could do nothing bat drift with the pack. In time, bow ever, the winds opened a crevice through which they retreated to follow the outer limits farther eastward un til they were balked again. Late one evening they discerned smoke on the horizon, and tbe next morning's light showed a three masted steamship fast in the ice a few miles to the westward. "That's the Juliet." Big George in formed his companions, "one of the North American Packers' association tenders." "She was loading when we left Seat tle," Boyd remarked. "It is Willis Marsh's ship, so he must be aboard." supplemented Cher ry. "She's a woodeu ship and built for this business. If we don't look out he'll beat us in after all." "What good will that do him?" Clyde questioned. "The fish don't bite I mean run for sixty days yet" Emerson and Bait merely shrugged. To Cherry Malotte this had been a voyage of dreams, for once away from land Boyd had become his real self again that genial. Irrepressible self she had seen but rarely and his man ner had lost the restraint and coolness which recently had disturbed their re lations. Of necessity then cramped environment had thrown them much together, and thetr companionship had been most pleasant Two days after sighting the Juliet they raised another ship, one of the sailing fleet which they knew to be hovering In the offing, and then on the 5th of the month the capricious cur rent opened a way for them. Slowly at first they pushed on between the floes Into a vast area of slush Ice, thence to a stretch as open and placid s country mill pond. The lookout pointed a path out of this. Into which they steamed, contlug at ieugto to clear water, with ib low shores of tbe uiaiuland twenty mile awsy. Al sundowo they hid bored In the wide estuary of the Kalrlk river, tbe noisy rumble of thetr chains breaklug the slleuce tbal for mouths bud like a smother upon tbe port (To be Continued.) BALDHEAIIKD MEN. Ignorance of the llalr Causes Mucli Baldnees Among Men. Early piety doesn't cause bald ness, neither does any kind of piety. Some baldheaded men console them selves with the Idea that baldness is caused by a superabundance of gray brain matter, and would have the world believe that a baldhead Is a sign of great Intellect. Such, however, Is not the case. Ninety-nine times In one hundred, baldness Is caused by dandruff germs which dig down deep Into the roots of the hair, destroy Its vitality and cause it to fall out. All this may come gradually and take time, but as an up-to-date hu morist would say "what's time to a dandruff germ?" If you have dandruff, the little In visible, persistent devils called dandruff germs are at work. De stroy them at once, or sooner or la ter they will cause your hair to fall out and you will be compelled to take your place In the baldheaded class. In France baldheads are few be cause men understand how to care for the hair. Parisian Sage is a hair grower and invieorater that s guaranteed by J. H. Kennedy & Co. to grow hair If the hair root is not already destroyed, to eradicate dandruff, stop itching scalp and falling hair, or money back. 50 cents for a large bottle at J. H. Kennedy & Co's. and druggists everywhere on money back plan. 2-16. -Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Hovls, of Bessemer City, route two, were in the city Tuesday morning. Mr. Ho vis having come up to meet Mrs. Ho vls on her return from Blackstock. C, where she has been for some time on a visit to her mother, Mrs. M. J. Lewis. PROFESSIONAL CARDS W. H. Adams Notary Public Office Citizens National Bank. Carpenter & Carpenter Attorneys-at-Law GASTONIA, N. C. 204 Realty Building. DALLAS, N. C. Office over Bank of Dallas, Jones & Timberlake Attorneys and Counselors First Floor, Realty Building. GASTONIA, N. C. A. L. Bulwinkle Lawyer 201 Realty Building GASTONIA, N. C. David P. Dellinger Lawyer Notary Public, Money loaned 6 on improved farms Building- and Loan 65c share monthly Loans anywhere Room 203 Realty B'Idg, Gastonia, N. C. Dr. T. C. Quickel Practice Limited to diseases of EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT Room 214 Realty Building GASTONIA, N. C. Dr. Frank R. Anders Dentist 212-213 Realty Building GASTONIA, N. C. Phone 256 Dr. Arnold Stovall Physician Room No. 403 Realty Building Gastonia, N. C.
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