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THE OB^UKLOTTE NEWS JANUARY 29. 1911 The Charlotte News PubllataM A«ny ana sundar TRB MVWll PI7BMSH1NO CO. Wt C. D*w4« Vrcs. aad G«m. Msr. ga «.M,..Tr:r“.r m I*, a P4TTON 4. W. City Editor W. BUB& AdvertlBing Mgr. •VMomrpTiofr ratm CkarUtt* n«wa. mUjt and Banday* aaatW Hz ,Tkr«* Oa* MOBtfe 0«# wmK •*» Koaaay Only. On« /«ar 8t* utontb* *Ji)i Tkr«« TM TtaMt-Davotfrat* ■atnl-Waeklr. On# y««f g® fll» uoatha Thi-aa monte AaBOfi«Min«at. Tba attanttor. ot tnt. put>«o i» ra- apactfully iarlted to Imh following; & future. Ohltuarv Notices, In Ma- morlani Sketches. Caras of Thanks. coBHBiinlcatJons fRpnusIns the cause ot a rrlvBte enierpilse or a political canildate and lik* ^.atter. will be rharsed for et tue rate of five cents a Hna. There will t»« no deviation from tJila rule. SUNDAY MORNING, JA.N 28, 1911. Nl-beer in packing Its grip. Hou diii Anson get along before the Gjpslep came? Charlotte hnrbors more spankable timber thnn iTny ro>vn in Dixie. The (Jreensboro News has begim to Bwat Butler already. The fe**flve rpg has even soared out of reach of the nog On the third strike 'vc s'.all win. The pennant is ourn. The •'Har^-'m skirt” i.-> said to be an affljiify i'‘f the hobbit*. The l.ookworm is sometimes respon sible i.'^r the hookworm. Char’otto divt is keeping company with meat quotations. No. ‘Anxious Enquirer,” aviators are not employed to secure fertilizer from the air. Men may come and men may go but the Souiii Carolina dispensary scandal g0€P on forever. The Hougfton Tost is sorrowing ov er the proposition to introduce water 'vagons in Texas. .Teffries Davis probably never heard that story about the kettle and the pot. Asheville cails out "commiitees of one hundred" as if there were some to spare. ‘‘Ecgs are going down.” reads a headline in the Winston Journal. And how else would you get them there? It i.- emphatically not the time to take 'em ofi. regardless of whai the ground hog may say. Without doubt the man who believes that foxes climb trees should vote to abolish near-beer. "The Wiil-e Pis'er" wasr almost good enough to make tis forget ‘The Nig ger.” We n-e anxious to see that law which gives judges authority to exile citizens for mii.or offenses. In the name of decency, and for the sake of the home, dolft open any wid er the door to divorce. After giving it to the rest of us, Aunt Carrie Nation is afflicted with “nervous oreakdown.” Editor JesBP Clark, of the Raleigh Times, goes to the legislature by day and sings to his hookworm by night. Thanks to Senator Overman and others. Charlotte retains her mint, even though her julep Is but a memory of yesteryear. This continual nagging at Col. Bryan only goes to prove that the world will not permit a man to mind his ow’n busisesa. T)r. Stiles Bays there are 5,000,000 hookworm victims in the United States. The Raleigh Times has com pany at any rate. The Wlns'ton Sentinel—already one of the state’s most attractive dailies, has taken on the Associated Press ser vice. The disposition of the Raleigh News tnd Observer is Improving. It has not become red-headed over anything the legislature has done. It is a pity the anarchist didn’t think to commit suicide before killing Dfvid Graham Phillips—one of the brightest lights in the galaxy of au- thori. Ship subsidy itock ,is on the decline. It begins to look as if the treasury will once more be spared from the on slaught of the soft-snap grabbers. If the plans of the ship subsidy seek ers were realized Uncle Sam would •et a little gang of ship owners and ehlp builders up in business and then modestly be allowed to enjoy glory rather than dividends. Hully Gee— Luke Lea— Tennesse*. . . TO INVITE INDUSTRIES. In order to attract new enterprises to the city it is necessary that a con certed and persistent effort be put forth by those interested in adding to the industrial strength of the city. Other cities by the score are going after new enterprises with a faith and a determination which is achieving re sults. Baltimore has adopted the policy of offering new industries free sites for location. Many towns and cities ex empt new concerns from taxation for a certain period of years, in order to enable them to tide over successfully the “infant industry” stage of their growth. Boards of trade, chambers of com merce, iKJOsters’ clubs ^nd other sim ilar organizations bent upon expanding municipal assets In all parts of the state are going out and bringing into the fold new enterprises of all descrip tions. Greenville. S. C., is one of the most active cities in this respect just now, and during the past two months that town tlone has subscribed in tlie neighborhood of $500,000 to new enter prises. A factory that employs a hundred or so hands benefits almost every class of business. The merchant shares in creased trade. The grocer gets his part of the weekly payroll. The clothier, baker, ice man. coal man, insurance man. l)anker—all benefit by the in creased revenue turned loose. The city benefits by increased taxes and in other va\3. Hesido. the expenditure of capital swells the assets of the town, and broadens its financial and industrial life in many ways. There is no sound reason why Char lotte should not go out after new en terprises and get results. The city needs them. Advantages of geographical location, pioximity to raw material in many lines, excellence of shipping facilities, etc.. are such as should appeal to the prospective capitalistic settler, once his attention has been attracted to these advant ages. Scarcely any city in the South has more to offer the manufacturer. In an exclusive story, published Friday. The News told of the pro posed formation of a sort of underwrit ers association—a company whose ob ject shall bo to secure new enterprises for the city. Among the promoters are such level headed men us E. D. Lata. According to the reported plans, it is proposed not only to invite manu facturers but to offer still further in ducements in the form of stock sub scriptions. etc. In the opinion of The News this is t long step in the right direction. Some such organization has been needed for years. There is no reason why the ob jects sought after should not be easily obtained by an organization madp up of such men as are connected with its name. There is every reason, as w’e have said, why Charlotte should attract en terprises more easily than almost any other city in ihe South. At the very door of the cotton and lumber supply—the state's two great industries—it should be an easy mat ter TO convince manufacturers that the location of a factory in this vicin ity would be a wise venture. High Point has in the neighborhood of 60 furniture factories. They are prosperous. They pay handsome divi dends. They are operated by an alto gether desirable set of w'orkmen. They have made that town one of the most active and energetic in the state. The Grand Rapids of North Carolina is known the world over for its principal product of manufacture. The reason why manufacturers have done so well there is because they located their plants close to the limitless supply of raw material to be found in Western North Carolina. They can turn out a bed or a chair cheaper than the same product can be made in Grand Rapids and shipped back South, for the sim ple reason that they save the very considerable item of freight rate? both ways. Once our furniture was bought in Chicago or Grand Rapids or New York. We had to pay a price based upon the cost of manufacture, plus the additional item of freightage both on the raw material to the factory and on the flnlshed product back to the Southern consumer. Naturally enough the same product sold at a price based upon a cost of production tnat does not Include this enormous item found a ready market in the Southern field over the same product based upon a higher cost of production. Recently published figures show that while a great deal of raw timber is consumed by North Carolina facto ries, the output is by no means used thus, for the simple reason that the supply is much greater than the de mand from the present number of fac tories. A great deal of the rough lumber is shipped out of the state, to be made up into finished goods elsewhere, where outside manufacturers enjoy the profits therefrom. This should not be. The raw material should be utilized by home industries. If the few that are nmning today are eminently success ful, due to these natural advantages, does it not stand to reason that others would share the same thrift? High Point Is no nearer to the sup ply of raw material than Is Charlotte. If a furniture factory is a good invest ment in High Point it would be an equally decided success in Charlotte. We have dwelt at length on this one avenue which is opened to the manufacturer—that of woodworking There are others. Situated at the very door of vast supplies of raw cotton, manufacturing in this direction on a larger scale would pay. During the past month two new mills have been organized in Greenville with one million dollars capital each. Greenville has no advantage to oCfy the manufacturer of cotton which Charlotte does not possess. Why not go after the prospective cotton manu facturer? There are doziens of open doors of this kind. W'e have mentioned only two. The next few years should witness the location here of many diversified industries, and with some of the lead ing spirits of the city resolutely plan ning' to go out after them, we may expect a new day in the industrial life of the city. ANOTHER INNOCENT BYSTANDER “Charlotte is discussing a $1,000,- 000 bond issue for municipal improve ment&. The consolation or inducement presented to tax payers is thus given by The News: “ ‘As to the payment of these bonds —that people of the present time need not concern themselves about that. When the time comes to pay them there will be more people and richer people here to do that, and they will regard it as a bill well worth foot ing.’ •Succeeding generations have our sympathy.”—Union Republican. Oh Friend—kind, merciful, gener ous one—spare us! Is it not enough that we should answer for our own mistakes? Must w’e thus be victimized by shafts of satire which other heads than ours have called forth? W’e accept your apologies for this grievous blunder in identity, but what are vain regrets to a bruised spirit? It was ever thus with the “innocent bystander.” As another victim of the unloaded editorial gun, we crave your pity. We never thought it, dreamed it, said it—in our wildest moments. With yourself “future generations” have our sympathy. Surely to thrust upon them this burden with no sound er excuse in reason, or logic, is crool, and tnily we sympathize with those hapless sons and daughters of the next cycle. But there is no solace. To be credit ed with such devil-take-the-fulure doc trine, w^hen our sincerest efforts have been put forth in the interest of the next generation is more than mortal can brook. Please take aim before you shoot hereafter. After all. to speak plainly, it is simply a question of jealousy. The denominational schools, some of them at least, don’t w'ant to see the state schools prosper, because they don’t want them to be bigger and better than themselves.—Raleigh Times. And if this statement were true, (wi\ich w’e do not believe at all), we take it the rule is one which w’ould work both ways. . As for ourselves, we are of the opin ion that the men behind both state and denominational’colleges are entire ly too big to be guided by the narrow ness and prejudice with w'hich they are accused. It is a little strange that the million dollar bond advocates did not include a small portion for the work of public health. Much preventable disease. Many unnecessary deaths and the same puny pittance of a few^ hundred dollars for the preservation of that which if infinitely more important than interurban railways or street improve ments. “Spartanburg is- now-^ absorbed in the inspiring pastime of waiting in scriptions for the Confederate monu ment.’’—Spartanburg Herald. Inscription writing is said to be one of the chief occupations of Spar tanburg citizens. The Raleigh Times thinks that since Mr. Latta is buying up so much Char lotte real estate he must be planning to raise cotton. Wherein Charlotte dirt differs from Raleigh soil, which is notoriously incapable of sprouting peas or producing any crop save hookworms. In two months’ time Greenville, S. C., capitulists subscribed $500,000 to new enterprises. This should make the Columbia tightwads ashamed of themselves. “Blessed are the piemakers” softly murmurs the Greensboro News. Aw. Git out! Since you have joined the ranks of the Hearst Independent In- vincibles what chance have you for pie? To show how far behind Columbia, S. C. is, the inhabitants of that town still say, “I seen” apd “I taken’ with the same copiplaisance that Greens- borians say “Looks like.” It does look as If there Is something radically wrong when the governor of the state and members of the state supreme court bench draw smaller sal aries than many county clerks. The Salisbury Post refers to the president of the Southbound railroad as Colonel “Freeze.” That pun will doubtless receive a cold reception in WInston-Salem. “Baked ‘possum and ’taters maketh a full man.!’—Greensboro News. There you go again. Maketh a “full man” or a man full? MAY UTLEY AND HER KIND. “Leave Charlotte within 24 hours,” was the order of the court in the case of May Utley. And this in the face of the pitiful plea of the outcast, “Let me stay at home. Let me eat the diet of w^ormwood and acid, offered by a charitable public, in the place where I was” born. Let me remain in Char lotte—the scene of my undoing, the place of my ruin, but home, none the less.” But the law of the court is immu table. The girl was turned out into the street—a vagabond to endure enforc ed exile froM that place she had learn ed to call home, as a wandering Cain, bearing the flaming brand of dis grace. Unless you have read Edward Ev erett Hale’s “Man Without a Coun try” it will be almost impossible to understand the exquisite torture en dured by the creature without a home. It is not the judge that we would criticise so much as the system which generated and countenances this cow ardly method of dealing with outcasts —this shuffling of responsibility, this supreme piety which passes along con tamination lest the hands of society be polluted. With all our vaunted charity, with all of our religion, we are sometimes willing to stone the scarlet women, ev en though, as a sorrowing Mary, her pleas of repentance mingle with the harsh tone» of her sentence. No home for May Utley, and yet a w’arm welcome for the leacherous beasts who fashioned her ruin, who taught her the hell of the outcast, who schooled her in the ways of vice! No home for a ruined girl, in a city of thousands of professed Christians, w'ho weep as they read of the compas- »ion shown by their Master to that other sinning woman! With all of our rescue homes, our reformatories for children, our homes for mental and physical unfortunates, have w'e no home for the woman who is a moral defective? May Utley was young when the ser pent entered her Eden of purity. Per haps her environment in early years w’as not so conducive to righteous- neS’S as yours or mine. Perhaps the lessons of discretion were not taught her as they should have been. Per haps, as the lawers would say, there w'ere extenuating circumstances which would explain w'hy this frail piece of clay stumbled and fell where others managed to keep upon the narrow path. But even if the child could offer dozens of e’^cuses w’ould they be con sidered as pertinent by her charitable ;udges? Are there not Pharasees, in sheep’s clothing today, as there were in cen turies past, willing to s-tone the fallen woman? The system is all wrong. No matter to what depths this child has fallen it is the duty of a purer society to re claim her, to lift her up rather than kick her dow'n—to point out the path of reform rather than to open the door of exit. Have centuries of civilization and Christianity not taught us the les«on of compassion? Can we supinely fold our arms and exile the fallen and still claim to follow the teachings of Him w^ho said “Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavily laden,” and “Let him who is guiltless cast the first stone?” What effort has Chris-tianity put forth to save May Utley? When has the spirit of sw'eet charity fallen upon her face, traced with sin? “Leave the city within twenty-four hours! It is no place for the outcast. It has no home for the prostitute. Its form of charity was not meant for the scarlet woman. Even granting that her presence is a contamination, i& it the part of fair ness or wisdom to rear her, and per* mit her ruin, then to pass her along to another community? Is this the way to solve the social pr. Jem, by transferring that which e do not care to take the pains to harbor and reform? Is this not a sort of quick remedy which works both ways, and which permits the filling up of the city with unde&irables as fast as they are discarded ? If we hear of a tubucular patient, we do not send it away. We attempt to treat it. If a case of smallpox devel ops, w'e do not deport it, but provide a place where treatment can be effect ed. But for diseases of the heart, of the soul, infinitely more fatal in their results, we offer another remedy from that given in cases of diseases of the body. The injustice of this uncharitable, unchristian system is enough to make the angels weep. What is the mission of the perfect, if not to ease the burdens of the im perfect? What is the lesson of human* ity if not to lift the fallen, and give strength to the weak? After all is it not true that our sy&tem of treating such women as May Utley—and there are thousands of them—tends to consummate rather than prevent their utter and absolute degredation? There was no home for the Nazarene in the Inn—and there is none for this creature of his handiwork in our city. BACK-BITING. You tell me, friend, that Mr. Wax abuses folks behind their backs. I surely do agree with you that such a trick will never do; but Mr. Wax is out of town, and you, wno roast him up and dow'n are guilty of the meanness that you say he keeps beneath his hat. I think it is a vicious plan to score and villify a man as you are doing here today—and Mr. Wax so far away! I think it best to try to find the goodness in a neighbor’s mind, to note the- vir tues of his heart, and not be tearing him apart, and gloating o’er his little sins with fiend ish and exultant grins. I hold it wise to seek the best that lies in every human breast, and when that habit’s gained, in time, all human nature seems sublime. To look for blemish es and faults in those who on life’s highw'ay waltz, to always speak the carping word is foolish, wicked and absurd. The man who does it narrow grows; he fills this sunny world with foes; he’s like the digger In a mine who overlooks the ores that shine, the gems that might be all his own, to gather quartz and worthless stone. WALT MASON. I Gentle Raps at TtuNew^ Hookworm and Bonds. Patton, of the Charlotte News, seems to be scared of bonds, too. Looks to us like all the hookworm advocates were lining up against bonds and all the anti-hookwormers for bonds.—Raleigh Times. Lightning Headquarters. "Give us more light!” exclaims the Charlotte News. All right, beloved. Subscribe for half a dozen copies of the Durham Sun.—Durham Sun. ♦ lhat Bond Issue I The Same old Story. It begins to look as if Charlotte would have a rather hard time be fore that million dollar bond issue la carried. The city is already bonded for over a million and a quarter and according to the esteemed News the people want to know where the mon ey is to come from to even pay the interest. The income now is only $200,000. while if the bonds are voted it will take $125,000 to pay interest charges. The News tells why the amount of taxes is so small—under valuation of property, the same old story everywhere—Greensboro Record. A Bond Issue. An editorial in Wednesday’s Char lotte News in regard to a proposed bond issue makes interesting reading, and just now it is applicable to Con cord, as a bill has been introduced at Raleigh to allow the water and light board of Concord to issue bonds for $50’000. It is all right to make tion i? tavpri fnr i public improvements when they are ruallv dossps Th needed, but at the same time, it is rto liJ^t m nn also advisable to look into the meth-1 JJrl h h ' ^ ods of spending large amounts ofjf ? xf't ^ money. We reproduce a part of the to f ' for $3,000 and pav^ s,,„. mortgage for the balance 'h i this property at the ’ u ^’'etiir, and $2,000 of this hasg ‘■'gas. £ot MIC b owned by him, anri also expected to r., the mortgage under , --ue ent credits. If this is «t s„' tion w.th a veng„„,e . '» to know what is irl Rockingham, has a bi’V.7 ' of lur '•Km b abo'- present legislature this much desired - —u there are enou^ih of xru,; ^ H tious members in fhi'' ■ pass it. But the m h,-s >*'to ment in North CaroU-ui ly and the machinery- ^lot. so complex aufl r- judging from pas-'ex . 'k has failed so often public pulse beat, tnai feeling pessimistic or But I have digresfteii to make plain is small means in his on 'Qich iture, tielp hi tion, being taxeu ou* his more fortunate brer niaa home builder for ones is yoked down’ b- vt- ings far more valuabtn 1 TV-,. ac. lait News’ timely editorial for the bene- done my part in grow. I am not oppo.-c!.. ^ per &e, but in this ii'.star;> long enough to take n,. ; ulate and adj'ist e,\: Eliminate existing- ev : the movement heart ai ■ wise let me pass. T! ; to ao '.are '^'.6 '.av^ harlvij ’■(i iss,;»s "''i' d irp fr,' but I ^ ! _arr. XTER. The Hookwarm and Hair. What effect does the hookworm have on the color of the hair? Pat ton, of the Charlotte News, says it causes red hair, but Cowan, of the Wilmington Dispatch, resents theal- legation and threatens to show the alleg.*itor a thing or tw'o. We aslo expect to see Whichard, of the Green ville Reflector, for obvious reasons, come to the defense of the red headed man. Patton, however, has been making a special study of hookworm and may be able to de fend his position.—Raleigh Times. Let It Pooze Away. Time we expressed hope for the dissolution of the dissolute Standard Oil, the Greenville Reffector butted- in W’ith the suggestion that it would be more fitting for it to evaporate and then the Raleigh Evening Times rushed forward w'ith the declaration that it could go to blazes. Now the Charlotte News w-ants it to ooze aw^ay. Next we expect the Durham Sun to wish it to boze away.—Wil mington Dispatch. Sorrel Tops et Al. Since Editor Clark, of The Raleigh Times, has proven himself to be both a resourceful and clever sleuth in his hookworm investigations, w'e name him as a committee of one to pass upon the color of hair effect ed by Editors Cowan and Whichard. Let the report be made at the Win ston meeting.—Charlotte News. W^e didn’t know that the gentle men mentioned had any decided “ef fect” on the hair of any color. Sor rel tops are not contagious and w^e see no reason w^hy they should have any “effect” on the surroundings. Raleigh Times. fit of the Concord public. The News is anxious to hear more details of the plans of the bond ad vocates. What means are to be adopted to increase revenue to such an extent as to meet heavily increased bur dens? And if such plans are formulat ed. where is the million to be spent —exactly where and how? Also who is to handle the amount? Will all ^ ^ ^ ^ sections of the city share alike the j \ vast investment of improvement | X matters about J Ffom OthcT Sanctum^ } which the average voter, who pays T ^ the freight desires to know. The city ▼ \ needs improvements. There is no ’ doubt of this and the News yields] Keep ths Doors Barren le in its desire to see the j Easy divorces in^^ans rjp pressing needs supplied. But, before * the family. Keep the cl. we bond future generations, is it not! New^s & Observer, the course of w'isdom to sit down 1 _ and soberly count the cost? should Demand Supposing all property in the city] Still if the in^iir9n.P mn,' were assessed according to its true | are right (and every mai. value, would there be any necessity; ed innocent until pi ovpii VuV., •t"'! for issuing one million dollars in are wrone- to fljrhr ocn; \ ' bonds? If there are no other means by which these needs can be supplied, ^ ,n, „„ The News favors bonds—that is for'apt to grow," because ' human‘nSt! specific puoposes, and under certain; is a most emotional and in'ouUi l conditions. As stated before, it is a thing.—’Wilmington Di.snarc!^ matter upon which it is almost im possible to for an intelligent opin ion until more light is thrown upon the subject—Concord Times. ■'■'ioiior. rtf r ’'arred..- Murder! Fire! The prices of many up but pencils, pen and ink rema:a about stationary.—Durham •A paper weight will hnvo m bp ^ on that to hold it uov. h, Greenvii'e j Daily Reflector. The Bond Issue. Editor The News: — Before giving my support to the is sue of bonds I w'ould like to see the question settled as to the equalization I Look Out For Swati. of taxation, and if this is done it is Poor Moorehead, pnor Bmior' my opinion that a much s-maller way the Daily Nev>s vvili . ^at ihem amount will be required, and if it is J will be a sight, provicief! Mr. Hilde- not done, or made plain to the people . brand keeps up the I'ace he ha that it will be done, it is not probable been keeping in his Asheville paper that the bond issue will get the sup port of the voters. For my own part I could not con scientiously support a measure that would raise taxes on the poor man’s ■ little home which is already loaded —Greensboro Record. Good Farming Section, A man in Charlotte is advprtifirj a large farm in the oi;y limits for sale at a bargain, iie says lie has down with taxes beyond and out of | been raising cotton on i'. hut wan s proportion to the rich man’s valuable ; to dispose of it and go pppt holdings which are now listed at a ‘ he can raise cotton sure enough. K;s valuation ridiculously low. farm Is located within a mile or no Thinks He’s Immune. W'hat effect does the hookworm have on the color of the hair? Pat ton, of the Charlotte News, says it causes red hair, but Cowan, of the Wilmington Dispatch, resents the al legation and threatens to show the allegator a thing or two. We also expect to see Whichard, of the Green ville Reflector, for obvious reasons, come to the defense of the red-headed man. Patton, however, has been mak ing a special study of hookworm and may be able to defend his position.— Raleigh Times. Go way, boy, and quit such silly questions. We had red hair before this hookworm business was ever born. But, by the way of information accord ing to the theorizers, hookworms have a hanking after pale, sallow folks, and don’t waste breath trying to catch the florid kind.—Greenville Daily Reflee- tof. First . and foremost all property ought to be listed at its real value and the rate of taxation so adjusted as to meet the requirements of the occasion and then w'e w’ould not have to go blindly about it but would know just w’hat we w^ere doing. In speaking of the poor man’s bur dens of taxation there is one subject that has been long uppermost in my mind, but overlooked by the public. I refer to the manner of listing property .without allowing the deduction to the extent of the mortgage resting upon , , . . ^ j,., it. For instance a man buys a home of the “Square,” he pavy, and ^''.1 make a fine residence proper;; Greensboro Record. A Hot Mixture. When a man like Jeffries Hrra r- tacks a man like Mari-iii Butler. ■ •alls to miiid the old sa:'in£: “blackgum against thuiidor."—Greets- boro News. Mr. Latta’s Plans. From the way Mr. l.ntra I.' I'liyi-s real estate in Charlotte he muf ing.—Raleigh Times. Book Reviews THE IMPOSTER. (By John Reed Scott—Published by J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia. Price $1.50.) Heavings Spare Us. Time we expressed hope for the dissolution of the dissolute Standard Oil the Greenville Reflector butted in with the suggestion that it would be more fitting for it to evaporate, and then the Raleigh Daily Times rushed forward with the declaration that it could go to blazes. Now the Charlotte News wants it to ooze away. Next w'e expect the Durham Sun to wish It to booze away.—Wilmington Dispatch. And from the recent decision in the case it seems that the sentiment put into the mouth of the Durham Sun about expresses the situation.—Ral eigh Evening Times. , We appreciate the solicitude of the Wilmington Dispatch in thinking ahead for us. This is an unctuous matter. We think we would have said in the first place, if the Stand ard Oil company wanted to do the “reflned” thing, “light out.” “Booze away” Is good, for then possibly they might have arrested it for dunken- ness, and got a fine after all. But It strikes us '^‘snooze away” would be better, after the lights are out.—Dur ham Sun. The Imposter is a story of Annapo lis in the days of Governor Sharpe, an impossible sort of story, written in a common-place style. It is without the usual clearly dsfiiied hero and heroine, but rather interests the reader in what may be termed the “Governor’s circle” —By far the most interesting charac ters in this select circle are Sir Ed ward Parkington, the Imposter, who is a refugee from justice and a cast off son of the Earl of Doncaster, living in the colonies under an assumed name; Richard Neynadier, a member of the governor’s council; the Mar- bury family, consisting of old Manley a self-made man^ and his five children, George and Judith; and last, Martha Stirling, the governor’s niece and a merciless little flirt. The story devel ops in a succession of house parties and gaities, reaching its climax when the governor discovers that Parkington is masquerading and demands an ex planation. A happy ending however, evolves when, at the critical moment news arrives that the old Earl is dead and Sir Edward is declared Earl of Doncaster just as the happy ending leading in a play comes about. In fact the Imposter would make a far better play than book. The other active cos tuming of the colonial days, the ar dent leve making, the dramatic scenes would go far towards making an alto gether pleasing play. * * * * « DIXIE HART That fellow Marshall who wanted a free text-book bill passed for the state showed his insincerity when he ob jected to its application to his county. A Good Proposition. Wouldn’t you regard a company owning the electric railway systems of Greenville, Anderson, Charlotte, and possibly, of other Piedmont cities, and having these connected by interurban lines, a pretty good com pany in which to own stock? These are growing towns in a growing sec- toin,—Spartanburg Herald. > (By Will N. Harben—Published by Harper Brothers, New York. Price $1.50.) Dixie Hart is the love story of a very natural girl, living under very unnatural circumstances. Mr. Harben emphasizes in both the lives of his hero and his heroine, the absolute tyranny of circumstances. He has de veloped in Dixie Hart a very extraor dinary character. Longing for the free dom and good times of girlhood, she puts these aside as not for her and if not willingly, yet unhesitatingly ac- b!s : ifl , the IT' d’-p.w ^fjv fa:. !'o« of providing a home for them. I voluntarily, because shf' had fered a way out—she could havp ffir- ried a degenerate, a w-aUhy gambler, who would hrive takor. without marriage, if he cf> ild ha’ ’’ ■ who had not the slif?lnrRt ' a pure woman was, Ka *' Mirouef “ vague impression Di.xie L'l - madeu, him, wnich prompted hi^ ^ ^ marriage instead of ‘tk Siruggle, Dixie had i>eron:e'i-'y-- ,. upon her next doo'' Henley. He was a succ* > • ■ W'ho had made a sadn*- of by marrying the woman w-anted. He, too. and the very fact tliut struggling bravely to Mfin circumstances, seeineii together. They conspquo love, but never once ? ® liberty that would siio'v the wife he was ^0. been eager to marr> and snirt . den to stronger shoiildor?. »’i she realizes that she loves Hen ^ marriage is out of ’-e Is so brave, that wher. last does come to her .hr g;; a sigh of vast relief o .1 ^^^5, his practical jokes mu.^t ■ ^ He is merciless as to lives to laugh at tlie ^ Dixie Hart is an all i: and one worth reading f*'! ^ contact with fine chara ■ books, sets one to thin- ?■ * * * H ‘THE ROOT OF EVIl- Thomas Dixon's la *'-?' ' Root of Evil,” ptibiishf d - ^ Page Co., New York, i- will be reviewed in ; - early date. “THE PHANTOM Of THE 0 One of the ^eirdeK^ cinating novels of tue * Phantom of the Opera, by Bobbs-Merrill Co.. full review of thin in The News soon. alts; \vii: i!!' ai ■ Affliction's sons tress; cepts the responsibility of supporting A brother to relieve- an old mother and an invalid aunt and the bliss I I
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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