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4 The Charlotte News ii- Published Daily (Except Sunday) NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY. W. C. DOWD Pres. and Gen. Mgr. C. A. MATTHEWS City Editor WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1906. Think of a flyless town in the suni-cier-time. Don't forget the date of all dates the 20th of May. Dowie and Vesuvius are vieing for first place on the first page. The counterfeiting mania seems to have run in the Smoot familv. The dirt flew fast from hand to hand tcday at the big land sales. It begins to appear that soon there will be "Xo flies on Asheville." Dowie says the devil is in Zion City. Probably awaiting the return of the '"First auostle." What about hiring a fly-exterminator for Charlotte? But then how can we expect the fly-paper manufacturers to make a living unless we let our flies alene? Asheville is undoubtedly undergoing a remarkable house-cleaning. She has already cleared up the Ted light dis trict and now is preparing a crusade against the house fly. What would the old stager of a quarter of a century ago, whose only way of murdering flies was with a leather paddle, think of the idea of cleaning uy the stable thereby anni hilating the fly family? Gladstone Dowie says he has never been kissed. From the prominence the name of his daddy has attained within the last few days there are probably a number of females who should like to have one of the Dowie brand of kisses just as a souvenir. The Daily Free Press has this novel way of describing Charlotte's inten tions on the 20th of May: "Charlotte is preparing to split things open endways with this year's 20th of Mas celebration." Well, to put it in a nut shell, that is just about what we are going to do. This from the Columbia State: "When 'Jeff' Davis of Arkansas heard what a scandalous body the United States senate is he immediately yearned to go there and elevate it." Most of them went with reform ideas in their minds and new resolutions on their lips but alas from what heights the great may sometimes topple. A step in the right direction was the formation night before last of the Tex tile Social Club in this city. Charlotte is the center of the textile interests of the Piedmont section and the forma tion of such a club for the promotion cf the textile interests was altogether tiniely. Much benefit will surely follow the formation of the club. Mount Vesuvius daily increases its death list. Almost every dispatch tells of new horrors and tragedies. There is no step to be takn which can cause a cessation of the disastrous eruptions, and the combined world prayerfully and patiently waits for an end to the horrible story. When we learned the perfidy and in nate hypocracy of the false leader, Dowie, and of how his scheming net caught a multitude of suckers we were not surprised to see other classes fol lowing other false gods. Somehow or other we are so constituted that we rather enjoy being inveigled and fooled; and any kind of fool bait is sufficient. THE JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION. Gigantic preparations are being made by the management of the Jamestown Exposition to make it sur pass any former event of its kind. It is announced that the managers are not expecting to depend upon the Mid way, Pike, etc., for its popularity either and this is a good idea. For some these features have their peculiar at tractions but there must be something else and that something else will be found at the exposition. The location where the Jamestown fair is to be held is all that could be desired. On all sides it will be hemmed in by the sea and the many avenues of pleasure connected with the beach will be open. Thousands of our people go to the beach every summer when there is nothing unusual to attract them. But since the exposition is to be held where it is it goes as a matter of fact that thousands and thousands of persons will be in attendance aside from the regular contingent.! We are glad to note that the man agement have been so successful in their efforts at geifcing appropriations, etc. The time is to be a great one. The military and naval pageant will be per haps the most attractive the world 'ever witnessed and the entire affair , will be something new and unequalled. A FAST AGE. Occasionally when we are brought face to face with statistics about the rapidly changing events of the day we are made to partially realize what a really fast age we are living in. In fact it is so rapid that this realization is only experienced seldom but when it is we are appalled and made to start at the sheer facts. A nerson today lives just about ten times faster and more strenuously than did his ancestors of a half, or even a quarter century ago. New York has been termed the Paris of America and possibly justly so. It would probably be safe to say that life in that city is just about as rapid as anywhere else in this continent, if not more so. We give be low a few statistics on the happenings in that city as they occur day by day in rapid succession. From these facts we can faintly realize what a fast age we are indeed living in. They are as follows: In New York Every forty seconds an emigrant arrives. Every three minutes some one is ar rested. Every six minutes a child is born. Every seven minutes there is a fu neral. Every thirteen minutes a pair get married. Every forty-two minutes a new busi ness firm starts up. Every forty-eight minutes a building catches fire. Every forty-eight minutes a ship leaves the harbor. Every fifty-one minutes a new build ing is erected. Every fifty-two seconds a passenger train arrives from some point outside the city limits. Every one and three-quarter hours some one is killed by accident. Every seven hours some one fails In business. Every eight hours an attempt to kill some one is made. Every eight and one-half hours some pair is divorced. Every ten hours some one commits suicide. Every two days some one is mur dered. JARBOE CUTS HIS THROAT. Sends Note to a Cousin Saying He Was Tired of Living. Upper Marlboro, Md., April 11 "I am tired of living. You will find my body in the barn. Good-by." Shortly after peninng this note and handing it to a negro to be delivered to his cousin, Lambert Jarboe, near Clinton, today slashed his throat ffith a razor, causing death within an hour. William E. Mudd, to whom the note was addressed, rushed to the barn and found Jarboe unconscious. The coro ner declared it unnecessary to hold an inquest and issued a certificate of sui cide. Jarboe's relatives and friends in this vicinity are unable to explain his act. He was about fifty-eight years old, and from one of the best families in this part of the State. His father was once the leading Democratic politician here, serving in several official positions. Jarboe had lived in this vicinity sev eral years after moving from Wash ington, where he was employed at one time. He has a daughter, three broth ers, and one sister. His sister and two brothers, Mrs. Maggie Sweeney and Claude and Nelson Jarboe, live in Washington. MISSING MERCHANT KILLED. Indications of Suicide in the Case of Calvin Young, of Rugby, Va. Roanoke, Va., April 11. The dead body of Calvin Young, a merchant of Grayson county, was found yesterday within 200 yards of his residence, near Rugby, with a bullet in his head and a pistol on the ground beside him, giv ing the appearance of suicide. March 12 Young mysteriously disap peared, after telling his wife that he would remain at the store for the night. The next morning the store was broken open, and the floor was found spattered with blood. A search result ed in finding a few chickens with their throats cut. A North Carolinian named Scott was arrested on suspicion, but was afterward released. Two weeks ago Young's valise, with a change of clothing, was found hidden in his barn, and it was reported by a neighbor that he had recently seen Young, who had shaved off his beard. At attempt was made to connect Young's disappearance with that of a young woman who left town about the same time, but nothing definite was learned. The police are absolutely without clews to explain either suicide or mur der. Half a Pint of Corn Whiskey Kills Boy. Bristol, Va., April 11. Howard Good wyn, five years old, son of George Goodwyn, a farmer residing in Wash ington county, died of convulsions to day as the results of having drank half pint of corn whiskey last night. The function of the United States Senate is to scold the big trusts and corporations before the public and to pat them on the shoulder m tne cioau rooms. j. The devil never allows his mind to be bothered much about a community in which he has a few loyal representa tives to look after his business for him. SPRING TIME brings many ailments, especially when the system is overloaded with win ter impurities. You suffer from Spring Fever, Aching Bones, Head ache, Sleeplessness and Impure Blood. To stir up the liver, stimulate the di gestive organs and overcome that tir ed feeling you'll find HOSTEITER'S STOMACH BITTERS excellent. Then It also cures ' Poor Appetite, Flatulency, Dyspepsia, Indi gestion, Costiveness, Female Ills or J Malaria, Fever and Ague. Try it. Elastic Paint. Paint must be elastic it must give and take with the shrinking and swelling of the wood and with the swaying of the building. If it is not elastic it soon looks seamy, cracks and breaks away, un able to protect the surface which it is sup posed to cover. The most elastic paint is Pure White Lead and Pure Linseed Oil. It is so elas tic, in fact, that a piece of soft white pine , fo painted may be struck sufficiently hard ' with a hammer to make a good-sized dent, without cracking the paint at all. Try it with a paint composed of zinc, barytes, etc., and see what happens. The hard, inelastic paint, which refuses to give under the tap of the hammer, will also refuse to ex pand and contract with the wood under the action of the sun, the ram and the snow. To make sure of a paint which will not look seamy, crack and lose its hold, specify LEWIS Pure W hite Lead (Made by the Old Dutch Process) and Pure Linseed Oil. Send for a booklet containing several handsome reproductions of actual houses, offering valuablo suggestions for a color scheme in painting your house. A test for paint purity is also given. JOHN T. LEWIS & BROS. CO. 231 South Front St. Philadelphia, Pa. LOVED STATUE TO DEATH. Sculptor's Apprentice a Suicide at Feet of Venus He Admired. Chicago, April 11. Like Pygmalion's love for Galatea Poniepo Fulponi, a sculptor's apprentice, fell in love with the nude marble figure of a Venus in the studio. For hours at a time the youth would sit admiring the figure, his interest, he explained, being born of his love of sculpture. Later he was heard to call the statue "Mathilda," and to talk to it is if it were a thing of life, laughing and sigh ing as if the cold marble ears had heard and the lips had parted in reply. Fellow workmen twitted him about it, and he told the story of Mathilda whom he had left in Italy. All the artists were leaving the studio yesterday when Fulponi said he would join them in a monent. When one went back to look for him,' Fulponi was lying dead at the feet of the statue with a revolver in his hand and blood flowing from his temple. A Wonderful -Remedy For Burns 243 Acres Four Miles South oi Charlotte for sale on reasonable terms. Thl (and lies on C. C. & A. Railroad and Is suitable for factory sites. HUCH W. HARRIS, Atty. EST CHARLOTTE, N. C, Under the Management of C. E.Hooier&Co. Offers: An Excellent Table, Large, Light, Warm Rooms Clean, Comfortable Beds Attentive Servants. And every substantial comfort belonging to a well-kept modern Hotel. Filing Devices and Business Systems WABASH PRODUCT Visited Six houses before placing order. We are satis fied now that we dealt with the best house when we dealt with you. BERRYS Inc. Ghicago. Houston-Dixon & Go. Exclusive Representatives Do Not Invest your money in cheap Jewelry. It pays to buy the best. We handle goods that we know to be just as represented, dia monds, Cut Glass, Silver, Hand-Painted China and Fine Jewelry of every description. Our goods are the best on the market, our prices as low as best quality can be bought. . GARIBALDI I & BRUNS. LEAP The Buford 'Copyrlal 1906 By fi ' SfeJe of High Clfess Merchandise ever held in Charlotte, The J. G. OOD CO. very fine class of goods and there'll be great sell- ing when we throw this stock on the market at the prices that will be pit on it. This is one of the Largest Stocks thrown. or this market in many years. KEEP AN EYE ON THE BEE HIVE. BMP1' PERFECT Be SCHLOC&VBROS. & CO, Fine Clonics Makers Baltimore"and New York mm til fflE carried a The splendid fit of Schloss Garments is the outcome of twenty -five years' experience making Clothes as good as they can be made. The lines correspond gracefully to the natural lines of your figure because the fittings were made with MEN - not dummies for models. : j ' "- ' And just as one live man is worth many wooden manikins, so a Schloss Garment is worth a houseful of ordinary garments. We'd like you to get that idea firmly fixed in your head, because the sooner you do the sooner you'll have clothes ihat are REALLY satisfactory. Don't take our bare word for it see the clothes them selves and then, judge for yourself. You're more than welcome to examine and try on anything we have, and under no obligation to buy unless you wish. Fit and fashion, fabric and findings match the product of the finest tailor so what's the use paying his exhorbitant price ? Schloss Clothes cost $10 to $25. Come in today and see the New Spring Styles. Spring Suits and Top Coats, $10 to $25. Other good things in Men's Apparel to correspond. riot m WHOLESALE AND 4 COAI For All Pirposes WHATEVER YOUR FUEL REQUIREMENTS MAY 6E WE ARC READY TO FILL THEM TO YOUR SATISFACTION. WE HAN DLE ONLY THE BEST COAL THAT MONEY CAN BUY STEAM, DOMESTIC. BLACKSMITH'S COALS. ndard Ice & Fuel Go - It's to Your Advantage to Have Us Do It Acme Plumbiri&Co. 12 E. Fifth St., Phone 722 W. S. DUDLEY, Mgr. H. P. HUNTER, Sec. and Treas. HHH"H"I''I"I"I"I"M"!"I"I' $ For Insurance There is nothing that will becuncy anu resttumess than the knowledge that the Virginia Fire an Marine Insurance Go. Let us explain the advantage of having a policy in the com- JL pany d. N. G. BUTT & CO. AGENTS. HI.rT..I..T..;,.I..I..;l,!..I.,I..I HIT 9 o rf h RETAIL JJ . - i Warm Your Tar Heels With AVANT'S oal and Wood O Do You Know That Avant is the only man in Charlotte who can deliver Beth Wood and Coal in the same wagon? Telephone 402. DO IT NOW. v'M-I-M lead to a more perfect feeling of J, CHARLOTTE, N. C 4MMrI..I,lMM.I..j..:..;J4..;..j..M. 4-'
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