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THE CHARLOTTE EVENING CHRONICLE , THUB8DA Y, :SEPTEMBBER.9, 1910. , . - f .1 . j ' tlvf1 .iA' l ; km . M ill 1 ; y faje H- Harrt8, Editor- Ill :W.7 tTtJ;ab!crlptl Price By Mall i&BLE STRICTI.T CASH IN ph , ADVANCE. Wl ear . 53.00 IX Momns. . .. . r ree Months.. On Montlj ' Ti rirprilnir Clironlrle 1 served to : the home by our carriers for 6 cents week. fClfV EatOT. . . : - .J "J Editorial Room -34 ?Bu!fnessa Office 8 I "Th Erenlner Ciironlr; is on mk fnt all the principal hotel, newstands n1 nfw-sdealcrs thronghont the ;t:nlte1 State. Ask for It wnen yon re traTellnar." i - Knterert as sPconrt-cmss matter at Jthe postoffice at Charlotte. K. C. 'Office, 32 S. Tryon Rr. Charlotte. N. C. THXJRSDAT, SEPTEMBER 29. v1910. ' PRESERVATION OF ROADS. "If one who travels over the mac- of the commission form."The Times orfam ronds In this county." says The Dispatch ' properly holds that a city Orpnsboro Record, "will keop his eyes open and observe the roads from iweek to week and month to month he will be convinced that the purpose! fibf the county commissioners to cover Shem with bitulithic is most wise. The idea Is to have better roads, of course, but what is expected is that they will Te better preserved; in other words, Hhat the covering will be worth more han It costs in keeping the roads good. Macadam is easily disturbed' by traffic; the top drpssing is of fine rravel and it wears awav fast. Auto- mobiles help to do the work, but with :a covering or Dnumni? me iaea is ?that it will be preserved." The maca dam conditions that prevail in Guil ford county, prevail in Mecklenburg. The more roads, the more the cost of xepair. It is now acknowledged to ybe the policy of economy to apply 'binders" to the macadam. As soon ?as the Mecklenburg commissioners; are satisfied as to which is the bes binder on the market, they will begin the work of preservation of the) roads. THE PISTOL TOTER. Editor Huggins, of Our Home, this veek pays his respects to the pistol-' toter, who, he says is the worst re spectable criminal a person can think of. The crime of pistol-toting Is wholly indefensible. "Why a fellow should have any desire to weight down the rear end of his pants with ;the popular 3 2-calibre pistol, while 'living in a civilized country," says Our Home, "is hard to understand. .'We have studied the matter carefully and about the only satisfactory solu- tion to the question that has ever pre-' , Bented Itself to our mind is that a fellow who is wedded to the pistol- toting habit, and is so often found fwith his 32 or 43 calibre pistol on !. , , ; his person, is possessed of a 22-calibre brain, if indeed he has a calibre at all. A large per cent of the crime of our country is the result of pistol- ( ; toting: The habit is feeding the 5 graveyards, filling out court rooms, . making hundreds of heart-broken and jruined homes In fact it is a twin jbrother to the liquor habit and the ' two together are simply robbing heav- en and populating hell. And still we Just go along through life and wink at the habit as if It were nothing ";more than a trifle." All of which is a very just arraignment of a menace 1 U 1 inat is ever present in all sections of the country. TALKERS FOR GOOD ROADS. A circular letter from Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt gives details of the second j annual convention of the Appalachian (Goods Roads Association, to be held i.fon the exposition grounds in Tfnnr. vllle, on October 3th. There will be a number of addresses on good roads topics by State and national speakers. i-3.l(,-'. jfjjT note that Mr. P. B. Beard is to I ' ?k on the "Sal:sbury-Hickory-Lenoir rhway, and Cyrus Kehr on the Charlotte-Ash eville-Knoxvills high way. Other roads to be discussed are the Spartanburg and Asheville high way, by Mr. John Wood- the Green- ;: . ville and Hendersonville road, by Mr. ;:John B. Marshall- the national hisrh- J way. New York to Atlanta, by Maj. ; or John S. Cohen; the capital-to-cap- .vfltal route (Richmond to Atlanta) by l Mr. Leonard Tufts. Dr. Pratt will i Jglve the details of his "Crest of the" K to these lndvidual topics, a number of speakers will discus good roads af-1 fairs in eenpral. omoncr tVio Uoai ' g ators being Messrs. H. B. Varner T v ? Rv; I Shipman, R. W. Vincent and James' iff; H. Caine President Finlev of thJ H ' Southern Railway is also booked fc for, 'iSii-U, . ' and on the whole this second? y-i W- J ; convention of the Appalachian asso- x-1 - v t'-elation ought to be productive of good' t ? i i .reauits. . , f-.Hlh Point, showed good sense In one. j ' y-Jf tVitnr. U A l 1 . ...111 . i fc. iic wan oiiub uiiuci jus guilt. U: j. flftement in Jail, under trail, and the ijttn,hi life of ten years n the peni fff3v tentiiry. AH this leads to jtlie nope. tn -I tnt h will have th good se'ne not r'?Hy-S toappiy Tor a pardon, conscious tnat fl'tKM will never deservd on. The Chronicle is the only North Carolina that has ask- Cnus .BttTean to come along) SPREAD OF THE MOVEMENT. The Richmond Times-Dispatch - is) advertent to Th chronicle s aavo- rRV nf a commission form of govern- ment, and Incidentally informs " u9 from Hickory Nut Gap to Bat Cave that there is a State-wide movement ! for the great Charlotte-Asheville-w xHtnifl. nr! that ifl KnoxviHe hlghwaft' Mr. Fallas start- October a convention of municipali ties is to be held in Charlottesville, at which the new system of government is to be discussed. It might be well for Charlotte to be represented at that meeting. Going into a discussion of the matter, The Times-Dispatch says that "wherever the commission form of government has been tried it has measured up to al that was hoped for it and more, it cannoi- fail to gain strength and impetus. The' antiauated and cumbersome system' that now obtains in most of the rau-, nlcipalitles of the country has been shown by a thousand examples to be' ill-fitted for modern conditions-and' for the purpose of municipal govern- ment. Our own Virginia municipal!- ties have been infinitely better and more efficient than the great duik or the municipal governments in other States; but they from the very nature of things, cannot perform the neces- sary functions with th? same prompt- ness, economy and success as has been shown to be easily within the reach is not a State; it is essentially a business organization; it is the busi- ness affairs of the city that should be looked after and attended to by the city government and not the affairs of the State and nation. "TV e are per- suaded." it concludes, "that the com- mission form of government is com- ing, and when it comes it will stay, and we are glad to know that our neighbor on the south is as deeply interested in the subject as we are." These words of commendation are' encouraging. We believe that, look- ing Into the future, The Chronicle, in advocating the new system of govern ment, is rendering Charlotte a serv ice that is going to come into appre ciation. LAUDANUM IN THE GROCERY STORES. The story was sent to this paper frn Sfnt0c,.ni0 ih nt-ho-r HQV o negro woman being put to sleep for good through the medium of a dose of laudanum administered to her by! her husband He had given her a teaspoonful and when having been reprimanded by the doctor, explain ed that he considered a teaspoonful of laudanum a small dose, as he had frequently taken that much, himself with no bad effects. The doctor found that the negro had bought the lauda num at a grocery store and that the sale of laudanum by these stores is a common thing. Then this doctor j points out the danger of the grocery , store laudanum Tt in nnt nf nnfform ! strength. Some of it is weak, while some is strong. This old negro who ; would take a spoonful at a time, had1 J been getting the weak variety. That j which he gave his wife happened to i which he gave his wife happened to be of fuI1 strength, and it killed her. ' But what about the State law? Under provisions laudanum can be sold , , . , , onIy by drug stores and then only by prescription", and the sale recorded in ! the book of poisons. This law is one of the strictest on the statute books and verylikely it is much less re- garded than is the law against the sale of whiskey. It would be well """ere this law enforced, for, among other good results, it would make for tn procurement of only pure drugs, The grocery store laudanum is unsafe b' reason of its uncertain strength, If to weak it does no good. If too strong it is liable to kill instead of relieve. i The statement of facts by Presiding Elder Odell, as to the domestic trou- bles. causlnar nnt1on n. I er in Rock Hil1 from hls wife- was 1x1 excetient taste. Having become ac quainted with' the details of the trou bles between the preacher and his wire, ine presicang eider must have, formed some judgment of his own as to which of the two was the more to blame, yet the case nonld nnt hava j t,,,. ; ... . ,u puu,iC in a mure Training and Industrial School That impartial light, nor yet in a more Is DO'n, a Good Work in the Com satisfactory manner. That great vir- j inanity. tue of Christian charity seems to have j To the Editor of The Chronicle: an abiding place in Mr. Odell's heart. St. Michael's Training and Industrial By requirement of a law in South' Larolina' tne textile department of Ch?mson College is engaged in man- ufacuring the State flag. This is Pr'ncipally fpr the benefit of the Schools. to which the flag is furnish- ed at cost- we consider this a good' ldea an2 Is calculated to result in aciualnted with their State flag. A Pvon of that kind would work well in North Carolina. In the past ten years, Richmond's Population has increased from 85 050 to. 127.628. This shows a gratifying Percentage of 50.1. The Newport News boom a decade ago, drew from Richmond at a distressing rate, but s boom a decade ago, mond at a distressing me census report shows not only a J complete recovery, but a rapid riflng Of the tide. It is n flno shnwlnv o. xu me souyi wui take pride . In it. The Winston-Salem Sentinel yester day published its tenth annual fall fashion edition, and it was a good pa-' per for men, as well aa for women. The Sentinel is thipty years old andi in the course of its life wag never, Quite so good a piper as it is now I The indication of renewed street Work n Charlotte will please the! people of this town mightily, in th matter of street paving Charlotte is) ia-r Denina ASheville i as China The Hendereonvjlle Herald of yes- a ,r Infnrni!) lift to this effect: "W. t. Fftnas, onne uiuivo. logical Survey, is surveying the road ed the work this morning, expects to be busy there for the next week, andi is receiving au tne aia ana wo ' can use from the enthusiastic and progressive farmers of that section." ( The Chronicle has had much faith in the ultimate building of this road, ! s long as Dr. Pratt is behind the project it will not be permitted to t languish. . - . f Editor Johnson, of ( Charity and Children, says: "We are pinning our faith to those farmers who drive mules, instead of automobiles." We are not so sure about that. We do not know of a farmer who owns an automobile who did not pay the cash' for it. While it does not follow that the automobile farmer makes more money than the mule farmer it might be construed that way. Any- how, we may put it this way: We would rather see a farmer driving an automobile tlvan a bull cart. . A . -. 7ZZTZZ7ZZZZ. ,,v .o.u l-""U6"" it would be cheaper to burn his trash than to have it hauled away, built a .nnfi,-A in hia v va -rr Wo snvod ten cents by the operation, but a neighboring barn and the Jewish syn- agogue were destroyed j. ne scissoring iur paragraphs in The Durham Herald will be suspended for a week or so. Colonel Joe King; hoc cnn 0 t V U-llhJlllllg. PERSONAL. AND OTHERWISE. A homh for tha dpstnirttnn nf tr! bugs and insects has been devised by Dexter M. Rogers, of Boston, Mass., who has dedicated the invention to public use. The bomb Is charged w-ith uowders deslsrn- ed to scatter death anJ destruction among . Per cent, to the Yancey county line is as the various insects which infest the trees, J u red on this side, while not greater than and it is designed to explode over the tree 34 guaranteed on the other. The propos when it reaches a certain height, having ed-line from Asheville through north Bun- been shot from a gun. The poisonous combe can be made either steam or eiec powder is. In this manner, scattered . trical as conditions would warrant. It can through the air and settles on the leaves be constructed, so competent engineers and branches of the trees. It is claim- 1 say, so as to haul all kinds of freight and ; cd that in this manner the powder will reach ail parts of the tree and the appll cation is made with economy and rapidity. Consul TvOuls Wostetter writes from T7r- m0sillo that the Banco de Sonora. or. ra ther, its principal stockholders, are to op- j er a mortgage oanit aoout the nrst or tne coming year witn a capital or ai.uou,- uuuurca. n. aim COO (gold), with benches at several points just east of Newton and hav been mar in the Yauqui. Mayo and Fuerto valleys, rled ten years. Their oldest child is nine This is intended for the encouragement of years old and the youngest two months, agricultural development along the west There are no twins in the lot, one child coast of Mexico. Settlers are to be giv- having arrived regularly each year. Mrs. en assistance in acquiring and developing their lands. STAIiKLEIlS. Geins From, the oexcel-Casketa of tJie Newspaper Paragraph-era. Judge. I '"Was a bomb droDDed on th shin?" -Yes- but it was counterbalance! by a torpedo which exploded under her at the. Pittsburg Post. ..Whr, m mt th. giant?" inquired the Art knight. "I don't know," answered the second knight. "I ll "eve,r Jmke aT mat,c,h with pother to- headed giant. It calls for double the us- ual amount of preliminary talk." ' asningiun Mar. "No," said the baseball manager. "I will not recommend a married man for the position of umpire." "Why?" lnquir-j ed the applicant. . "Because married hurts his capacity for quick decisions. It gets . him out of the habit of having the last word." I : Kansas City Journal. "Well, hav; you learned anything from ; your experiment at making garden?" "Yes; I have learned not to promise any one any vegetables." Pittsburg Post. "Do you chew your food fifty times?" 'Well, that's a good crusade and I'm for it. but I have not time Just now. I have Joined a movement which obligates me to kin flftv flies eveiy y." I Buffalo Express This Joke about not being able to keep a diary Is all nonsense." "How do you ' know?" "I've kept one ever since along in Mnv and T'v eot dnwn pvprv lant eram. our team played. ST. MICHAEL'S SCHOOL. i t-jmrii uoiiM i or me opening or a School, corner of Mint and 'Hill streets, will begin its fall term on Monday morning. October 1st, at 9: SO o'clock, with aDDronriate Rrvnrnnii a short addrea. Parents who expect j problem created by State versus na- to send their childTen to this school , tIonal clalms for cntro1 of water- are earnestly requested to send them, Pwer sites, which excited the lrrlga- In promptly at the opening. so-that!tlon congress at Pueblo, came before the; may classified to the best ad- the regular day students, but arrange- i ments will be made to give special in- J ouutuuus lu young gins wnose cir- cumstances are such as to prevent thm r 0ttrfiM v, i..r--?n.:. school. . connectlon with this notice. I nf AVhrintVr o 7 ! publ c to lend us their support, both financial and otherwise, because one of the chief objects .or aims of this uphnnl in tn moot an1 c.mt.f A tAHn felt need of this community, namely, good reliable proficient domestic ser- vice. Please help us. We need SI.- Improvements and support for our teachers. Dona tions may be sent to the Rt. Rev J B. Cheshire, D. D.. or to the Rev. Walter J. Smith of the Thompson Or phanage, or they may be sent direct to the principal. P. P. ALSTON, v 416 W. Third street. Charlotte. A Slow Race. Houston Post. "Yes. your honor; that man chased me, for two blocks at headlong speed." "But, madam, that man is a crip ple; h,e could not chase anybody at headlong speed." - " "Headlonjr sneed ain't mnh ii2iakiIheJL: i'lLi.." AFFAIRS IN NORTH CAROLINA. Daily Incidents. Facts, and Comment Gathered From The Newspapers of the State. MOUNTAIN KAXUROAD. Significance of the Voting of Bonds by Yancey County. Burnsville Special to Asheville Gazette News. The election in Yancey county to auth orize the county to issue $100,000 in bonda to aid in the construction of the Black Mountain Railroad from Boonford, on the C, C. 4c O. through Burnsville to Cane river, carried Saturday by 305 majority of all the qualified voters of the county. The company is to begin construction work at once. The surveys were completed some time ago. The bonds are not to be issued until the road Is completed to Cane river, a dis tance of 15 miles. Part of the bonds be come available as designated section of the line are completed. The Black Moun- tain Railroad Company has satisfied the county authorities that it has the funds i JvaUable ep n elated that at last a railroad for the coun- ty will become something more than a I dream. The country through which it 1 Pes is rich in agricultural, mineral and ! timber resources, Tne special to The Gazette-News from Burnsville to-day was regarded as highly 1 significant by those who have been work rallroad COnnectlnff Asheville with mg in eeosun twiu uut to See a. liiiu ui with the ' Carolina. Cilnchfleld & Ohio Railroad. The sentiment in favor of extending the Ashe ville & East Tennessee Railroad through tr the Yjncsv eount.v line i. crrowiner at ; a rapld rate. I The officials of the Black Mountain Railroad Company have given assurance that if the people or suncomoe ana Mia- lson counties will insure the construction of a railroad to the" Yancey county line, they will build their line from Cane riv er to Ivy gap where connection Ja to be made. The Asheville & East Tennessee Railroad Company has already completed surveys to the gap or Ivy ana the Yan. I cey county people have surveyed out their route. A maximum grade of three j passenger traffic. Nine Children Born Singly In Nine Years. Newton Enterprise. Mr. Thad Moose took a picture last week oi mm is. Aiiey gravis anu tneir Travis is but 26 years old, and in the pic ture looks more like a young girl than the mother of nine children. It seems that a Kansas City paper has been making a specialty of Items of this sort. Mr. L. Aleck Yount wrote the paper about Mr. and Mrs.' Travis record to date, and it has attracted a great- deal of attention in the West. It is considered the most re markable case reported. Gov. Glenn in the Campaign. Concord Tribune. Hon. Robert B. Glenn, former Governor nf 'Vorth Carolina will anealc ut Rockv Rivsr ohurch on vidav. October 14th. in the' daytime, and at the court house in Concord At night. Governor Glenn Is one of the greatest speakers in the State or out of It, and every voter. in the coun ty should hear him on one of these occa sions. Salisbury's Marble Buildinj. Evening Post. To-day witnesses the laying of the top most piece of marble on Salisbury's new public building. This completes the walls, the decorating stone around . the top, in fact all the marble that is to go on the building except several new pieces which 1 are to be . Inserted to take the place of those damaged rp" the falling of the big derrick some time ago. Lexington's Southbound Depot. The Dispatch. Arrangements are being made for water and lights at the Southbound deDOt. The city is now extending the water main. A four-inch main will be run to the station, It is pleasing to the people of Lexington to know that the new station is to be one of the best equipped on the line, mod- em and up-to-date in every particular. - 1 - DOES STATE OR NATION CONTROL? Problem Created by State Versus Na tional Claims for Control of Water Power Sites, Which Excited the Ir rigation Congress Came Before Them in the Form of a Resolution Demanding state Control. (By Aisocialed Press) LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 29. The1 the resolution commitee of the Amer- form of a resolution demanding that State control be recognized ana ronn- with laws be passed which will enable ... , . , the sites to be leased and the power developed, while the revenues from such leases shall be devoted to the protection of watersheds from forest fires. D. L. Foster, of Colorado, present ed the resolution. It calls for sixty- year leases of water power sites and declares that the water Is esesntial for tvi furthor CvninrmQv,i v, mir. ing inteersts. It may cause an interesting session either in the committee or on the floor of the congress as there are both friends and foes pf State control among the delegates. The resolutions committee deliver ed a favorable report on the additions, to the plans to eliminate the "wild! catters." This was a suggestion by Lewis Asbury, nlne commissioner of California, who recommended that In all mining and oil States that have) no such' officers now, a State commis-: si oner of corporations be appointed with power to Investigate all mining" AGRIOTJIFORAIj schools. A Iovement That W1H Have the At- ' tendon df the Legislature. Lexington Dispatch. - An interesting feature of the meeting of the Davidson county agricultural asso ciation Saturday was the reception ac corded the "agricultural school idea." It is known that the next Legislature will be called upon to appropriate sufficient funds to aid in establishing an agricultu ral school in every county in the State. The bill will provide for an appropriation of $2,500, to be given toward establishing a school in any county where the people of the county will fumlsji a like amount tically certain that Davidson county will be among the first to take advantage of this act If it is passed. One good citi zen told The Dispatch man that he would guarantee that hla community would furn ish at least 25 acres of good land and would do even more, j Charter for Road from Roanoke to 3Iount Airy. Winston-Salem Sentinel. A charter has been secured in Virginia for the building of the , Roanoke and Mount Airy Southern' Railroad. This line as projected to run from Roan oke, Va., to Mount Airy, N. C, through the counties of Roanoke, Floyd, Carroll and Patrlek, in Virginia, and Surry, in North Carolina. The maximum capital stock authorized by the charter is only $50,000, with a minimum of $10,000, but in view of the usual issuance of construction bonds this is not significant. It will be remembered that the Virginia Railway expended a dozen millions of dollars be fore its capital was increased to as large a sum as that now carried by the Roan oke & Mount Airy Southern. A. L. Sibert is president of the com pany; R. H. Angell, first vice president; C. Q. Ogden, second vice president and general manager; L. C Stewart, secretary and treasurer. The other directors are: S. B. Pace, E. A. Thurman and George W. Payne. AU of these live in Roanoke. Oats and Vetch Hay For Sale. Wilmington Star. That we can reverse the ruinous custom of buying forage from the West, and in stead produce our own forage crops and keep the money at home, is indicated in an advertisement appearing in The Star's "business locals" column yesterday morn ing. The Holland Nurseries, at Castle Haynes, offered for sale "oats and vetch hay." This is something new under the sun. The lands in eastern North Caro lina are incomparable for the production of forage crops and not one dollar should be sent from this country to the West for supplies of this kind. When we keep our money at home, Instead of sending it away for something we can raise at home, the country will have an element of prosperity long neglected. Asheville Raises the Money Asheville Citizen. With the greater part of his work In this city finished, Mr. George L. McKay, the financial representative of the Isother mal Traction Company, leaves this after noon for New York. Yesterday the work of raising the $3,000 stock subscription, the amount which this city was asked to sub scribe, was completed, and the assurance is now given that this electric line from Gastonla will be built Into Asheville. Five Buyers for Fayetteville. The Index. With five active buyers on the market and plenty of competition, Fayetteville is prepared to offer the farmers and cotton growers of this section an unsurpassed local cotton market. There is no -reason why prices should not rule just as high if not generally a little higher here than anywhere else in Cumberland, Robeson, Bladen, Sampson and Harnett counties. Clover Seed $10 a Bushel. Newton Enterprise. Mr. W. F. Rader had threshed last week 194 bushels of clover seed. As clov er seed sell vat $10 a bushel, it requires very little calculation to find out that t clover seed are almost as valuable gold dust. as i Cotton Opening Fast. Newton Enterprise. Farmers tell us that they never saw cot ton opening faster than it has the last ten days. The fields are white and the bales an be turned out in a hurry. But r most farmers are still busy with their hay and are not rushing the cotton pick ing. cat" is found to kill it by means of publicity. INSTALLING NEW WATER SYSTEM WorkmLi Are Laying Pipe m tne Water System in East Spencer Will foe Ready for Use by October. Special to The Chronicle. ' SPENCER, Sept. 29. The -pipe for the water mains to be laid in East Spencer has been placed on the ground and work is being pushed rap idly. It is stated that the pipe will be under ground within tho next thir- j- -n Vkaf Vi tip a at nrt 11 V a U8J9 ' fl ' have been protection and the citliens of the , town will be supplied with an ample supply of water fof domestic use. KOREA SEEMS QUIET OVER ANNEXATION Since She Became a Province af Ja an There Has Been Very Little Evidence of Discontentr In a Mis sionary Center There Was Some Disquiet. SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Vfa Victoria, B. C, Sept. ?9.) Considering the magni tude of the territory and population annexed to Japan when Korea was added, there has been very little evi dence of discontent. Ping, Yang an important missionary center, has shown some disquiet but not more than two hundred people have been concerned. In Seoul some of the students adopted an irreconcilable attitude and arrests quickly followed. Several stu dents out the little fingers from their hands and wrote an incendiary docu ment in blood, threatening assassiaa- SOZjTH CAIIOL1NA HEWS m . . When the Teaching of Slaves Was a B3arsome Offense. Fort Mill Times. In. 1834 the General Assembly of South Carolina passed an act providing tnat "It any person shall hereafter teach any slave to read or write, or shall aid In teaching ay slave fo read or Write, or cause or procure .any slave to be taught to read or write, such person, if a free white person, upon conviction thereof, shall for each and every offense, against this act, be fined not exceeding 100, and Imprisoned not more than six months; or if a free person of color, shall be whip ped not exceeding; 50 lashes, and fined not exceeding 50, at the discretion of the court of magistrates and freeholders be fore which such free person of color is tried; and if a slave, to be whipped not exceeding 50 lashes, the informer to be en titled to one-half of the flne,;;nd to b a competent witness. .And if anjp free person of color or slave shall keep any school, or other place, of instruction, for teaching any slave or free person df col or to read or write, such free person of color or slave shall be Jiable to the same line, imprisonment ana corporal punish ; " ttS a L"1B - "pa ana in flicted on free person, of color and slaves for teaching slaves to read or write " The Ousting of Deas. Fort Mill Times. Ousting E. H. Deas, negro, from the State chairmanship, in accordance, it is said, with the wishes of the administra tion at Washington, the Republican State convention, composed for the most part of negrdes, met in Columbia Monday, arv following a stormy session elected J. W, Tolbert, of Greenwood, a white man, to head the Republican party In this State. Although there was not a repetition of the free-for-all fight of the last convention, there was much confusion, the meeting ending In a bubble when T. L. Grant, of Charleston, claimed that he was defraud ed out of the vice-chairmanship. "The con vention was attended bj about six white men and upwards of 100 negroes, regular- i ly named delegates. Seventeen Cents Cotton. Newberry Observer. Mr. &. B. Summer sold to Mr. Gist yes terday a bale of long staple cotton at 17 cents a pound. The seed came from the agricultural department at Washington. He expects to make about 25 bales of this kind. He says the yield is about as good as the short staple. Mr. Summer's bale that he sold yester. day weighed 412 pounds and brought $70.04. The seed brought $14.40. Railroad Will be Extended. Orangeburg Times and Democrat. Since the project or opening the river has met -with such encouragement, Hon. Samuel Dibble, owner of the Branchville & Bowman Railroad, has announced that just as soon as the river is ready for navi gation, he will have his railroad extended to the banks of the Edlsto river, whlcfi will give almost direct water transporta tion to Branchville and Bowman. This will mean much for these two towns. Sumter's New Industry. Sumter Item. Mr. A. B. Stuckey, a prominent attor ney of this city, has Introduced quite a novelty Into the county In the shape of placing at his farm at Providence a mod ern cleaning apparatus, for preserving pears for shipment. Mr. Stuckey has on his farm about 350 acres of Keifer pears, and this season he made a "thundering big crop. The pears could not of course, be sold sufficiently fast to keep him from losing a part of the crop and so Mr. Sutck. ey decided to can them and place them on sale in other cities. Dedicit'on in Anderson. Anderson Mail. The new Catholic church will be dedi cated Sunday, October 16. The Right Rev. H- P. Northrop, D. D., will officiate. The Right Rev. J. J. Monaghan, D. D., bishop of Wilmington, Del., "Mil preach at the morning service, and the Rev. J. T. Budds of .Charles-ton, will b, the orator at the night service. The music will be a very attractive feature of the two services. To the morning service, which will be the dedication service proper, admission will be by ticket only. By this arrangement all who have contributed towards the erection of the new church will be first accommodated ,and the others will come later. The seating capacity of the church la between 350 and 400 and it Is expected that this will be taxed at the service. The catholic church has Just undergone a so complete remodeling, inside and out. Pale Delicate Women and Girls. The Old Standard GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL. TONIC, drives out malaria and builds up the sys tem. For grown people and children. 50c. BUSINESS TOPICS Business Notes of Interest and Worth Careful Reading by Chronicle Readers 1 MAGIC! INVESTIGATIONS MlBiC iLn'inSnSfS CIvl, Criminal and Commercial powder that relieves instantly. Try casea handle1 ,ecreey and one the next time, at patch. Correspondence invited. Jas P Stowe & Co branch's detective agency Udfc. JT. OWW Qo jv. First NaUonal Bank Building. Char- (S. Tryon Street Druggists.. lotte. X. O. 'Phone 2IM. DR.WM. PARKER I Wish to Announce DENTIST to my customers and friends that I Office Over Jordan's Drug Store. am now in business at 39 N. College I Phone 1408. . street, instead of 28 N. College street. Residence Phone 1619-J. Respectfully, J. R. Hemphill, thp ! ZZ T 7 gtt-m nc j. . tailor. Cleaning, pressing and dyeing. Fresh Cabbage $1.25 Crate Telephone us. Oat Flake new crop, best quality, 3 77Z ; l " picks 2 5c, Selfrislng Buckwheat, new Don t Complain crop, fresh goods 5c and 10c package, . . pla' Buckwheat Flour 6 pounds with your back or weak kidneys, 25c. all fresh. - Chicken Feed 30c learn the way to Eagles' drug store, peck, $2.25 bag, Egg Noodles 10c, 3 and ask for a box of Foley's Kidney nice Macaroni 2 5c. Pills. Immediate relief, permanent BRIDGERS & CO. cure. We solicit your prescription 203 West Trade street. trade. Prescriptions called for and " delivered promptly. 1 MRS. M. CROSS j. EAGLES, Druggist, is now prepared to make all hair 'Phone 237, 38 S. College. goods to order from comings or cut Sten0frraphers Wanted. Switches Si. 00, Chignons S1.00, I want three or four competent Single Puffs 2 for 25c, Single Curls 2 stenographers for Immediate work, for 25c, Wigs from $5.00 up. Call at once. , I have moved my of- All mail orders promptly filled. Ace from 1211 Realty Buijding to 22 i TKEMriE riana0113 WITTIER SPOON STTMMEltS ) ?on teet' Cour- Reporter andPnhUo Stenogr We Furnish and Install ,A GREAT SMOKE Sewer, Gas and Water Piping, That was. This Is what you say Plumbing fixtures, ras. gasoline and when you have smoked one of w Coal Burning Hot Water Heaters and cigars. They taste, different. Latest Boilers, AcetyUce Generators, Water M25"inf nlri?.UCaJ?".wT. Supply System. Deep Well Pumps, CLYDE .WALSH CIOAB STAND. Sewer Disposal Septlo Tank Systems, fSelwyn Hotel). giving both city and country homes m-trc nvmr such needed comforts. We Invite AJCUci U-JUJu. your Inquiry. Hotel and Cafe.l . Up-to-date dlninff THE PIEDMONT CO., , Inc., room seating ,100 persons. Luncn 85 8. Chnrcii St Charlotte, N. C. counter unequaled In South. Con Thone 708. Plumbing Contractors, venlently located " on South Tryon unitary Engineers.; i street. .; Strictly European, that it la practically a new lng the Urn that the work ha.?' IUr der way the crvices have beL Vn Ul the council chamber of the 2 held in About H,5Cd hag been expended hal1 Improvement and the church V tha most attractive and convenient nw a building. : uy "ranges THE SlLIiYlAYS OF I86l. Most Humorous Battle of civil ,TI ught at Rock Creek ar Kansas City Star;. -It was the sihy season of t which may have'.aocounted f0r ij8!?' other explanation has ever w 0 fered, at any rate, for th .ir!" N Rock Creek," that was "fought t 0 13 of that year near where thUl?8 Westport and Independence road-?? tersect at Rock Creek on land t owned by Barnett Noland fat hi e" William A. Poland, now a Sf I Independence. "uzen or For several days ther n v camped about 300 recruits from th1 farms of Jackson and adjoining "9 adjoining COun. rAD I Tlrn - ties', pa.ffpr tn a - & they said. They were Southern' svm i,U -TXT "r.. .war. gft in. sat r ' iui iney around the camp fires and chafp the delay that kept them from show lnr tnat tnmr t 11 Bn0W- wicj dub enoucn wef v. roes. It seemed a shame that sola iers of their valor, they told 7h other, should be wasting eo muoh time that might as well be'empiovea to good advantage pulverizing th enemy. " ino Here In Kansas City the Union troops were camped and the mornin of June 13 two Confederate scouts re turning from a reconnoltering expe" ditlon announced that a company of the Union troops were approaching It proved to be Capt. William E Prince with about a hundred men' under a flag of truce, and Col. Hollo way, of the Confederate trooD3 art. vanced to meet him. There was a conference and the two officers start. ed back to their respective rnm. mands. Nobody ever knew exactly wha started it, but just at this Juncture over in me uonreaerate camp every body appeared to be shooting arid running at about the same time. They weren't firing at the enemy, but had turned their guns upon one another in their confusion, and before i the shooting could be Btopped several men had been killed, among them Col. Holloway. Many were wounded. Of course, the Confederates thought they were firing on the enemy. The unl- iuiiiio vsi. tuc vunicuciaic auu tilt) UI1' ion soldiers at that time were largely improvised, so that such a mistake was easily made. As for the "enemy," they were standing on the hill several hundred yards away, gazing In astonishment upon the demonstration that was go ing on in the Confederate camp. When the firing had w subsided the "enemy" marched calmly back to Kansas City, glad enough, doubtless, to get away, for its hundred soldiers would not have made much of an impression. pTobably, upon the 300 men in the Confederate camp a lit tle detail which the excited Confed erates appeared not to have consider ed. Subsequently most of the men In the Confederate camp became brave' sold iers. But at that time the men were inexperienced and undisciplined, and their nerves were not yet panic proot. The Battle of Rock Creek is be lieved to .be the only humorous bat tle in the Civil War. . Advantages of Speaking Tubes. Toronto Globe. ' Having been shown the, speaking tube and had Its use explained, Flynn, the new porter, blew a mighty blaB in it. The proprietor came to the tube and inquired: . .: "What'B wanted down there?" ; " 'Tis Oi, Paddy Flynn. Ar' ye, th' boss?" "I am." "Well, then," yelled Flynn, "stick yer head out av th' second-story windy wholle Ol shtep out on th' soidwalk. Ol want to talk f ye!" Foolinjt the Public. Why did you have your book ad vertised as the unexpurgated edition? There is nothing in it that a child might pot read. "1 know; but I had to do some thing to boost the sales." Effective Disguise. Pittsburg Pist. . "We like progress." explained the Young Turk, but we can not allow our women to appeal publicity without veills." ist. "You needn't fall behind the pro "That's all right," declared the tour cession. Put 'em in auto goggles." . V
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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