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IHE CHAIttOTTE NEMira AUGUST 19, 1911 ,v ■f f I' 4 T) % t % V 9 e t B P Is 41 I • The Charlotte News PwblUbed d«lly mna Sunday by mt: NKTWs riTBi.isniNO co. ‘W» C. D«wt rre«ldf«t and Oe» M«r. TrUirkMMi CUy RdJtvi *n nuciaeM .Mb Qg— ,J C. Editor A. W. eAUOWUUL City »dlt«r Ia. W. BUBCH AdT«rtl*lnK Mjrr. •mMcnimoif HATE3S f%m €mwe%mtm wcwb. Dally *od sucd«T> *09# yMiT ^•'aa SlV IDCQtllt -TBrrn r«OBtl« ' lo On* woaUi 7, On* v*«Js ** Sunday Otny. On# ^;'22 ;fli3 monthe 'Tb^«• ffiOnthB TifliM-Dcai»«rat. Ot)« rmmr itfix remtba !;* Tbr** iBOuthft Tb« Avt«nnctt ot m« puMic t* re- crectfa’ly in»ll«Hj t« inm followlnic: Uk CQtwxs, ObltUHrr Notice*. I*» Me- ' rc0riuu Sk®tt*b#h. Cards of Th*nk*. oommunfcatloQt* ■•(iponBin* tb*» cause of pn^Tite or»»rprl«o or a polltlrai c*%didst«> and «!«« natt®». will b« rharvad for at tb« raia or It'’® cents •» iln*. Inero will m ro deviation from th's ruiv- SATURDAY. AUGUST 19, 1911. The Hish P.iint Fnternrise pives a toast »3 follows: ‘Here's to Tlie Yad kin. and may she never ro dry!” Amen! Salisbury Post. Rt tu Catawba. The deiuooratlc conerress passed a wool !>i’l whioh revised the schedules. The president vetoed the measure, and It must be remembered that this bill, defeated by the chief executive's veto, W83 to siinij’an* that iniquitous measure '^liit h President Taft himself, upon one occasion, pronoimced as whollv •'indefensihle.' Voters will no doubt remeinhe’' theso thin*4S. It would now app-^ar that chances f.-r the paspace of the statehood meas ure are pood. Yesterday the senate passed the new Mil, which is said to And favor In the e>es of the i>resident, and indi>ations this niorninn jiointed to the final passage of the statehood bl’l and its endorsement by the presi dent. It were a shame to bar two pe titioner* from the union and deprive their citizens of the inherent right of local self-covermnent. merely because the president disapi>roved a trivial provision of the constitution of one of them. Greensboro Is waging a commenda ble war against cocaine dispensers. A negro physician, who Is said to have used a free hand at prescription writ ing, ^111 now explain to the superior court hit conduct, and in ihe interval prior to a hearing will rest in the county Jail. The News has always be lieved that the most iiernicious and ruinous habit in tlie world was the cocaine habit, and time and again we have asked that laws regulating its dispensation be made more rigid. At present it is t>o easy to obtain the drug. Tbi> fact is shown by the rap idly increasing number of offenders hauled into court for crimes commit ted when under its devilish spell. The b«8t thing any city could do would be to rid it.-ielf of all cocaine traffickers, and Greensboro has undertaken a work which will benefit the city greatly. tk>D8 In Soutb Carolina alone repre sent a combined capltaliiation of something like $20,000,000. It is ar gued tha* by combining their proper ties under one management great econ omy can thereby be effected. It is fur ther claimed that heavily financed cor porations are better able to weather occasional financial storms than small er companies. In addition it is the ex pressed belief of leaders in the merger proposition that by joining properties new markets can be opened up and the industry generally benefited. The south will hereafter do its busi ness on a large scale. Big business is taking the place of stiiall enterprise. The 5,000 spindle mill is no longer looked upon as a monster. We have the hundred thousand spindle plant and the five hundred thousand spindle company. The small furniture fac tory has been succeeded by the heavily financed concern. And in the pursuit of manufacturing there has been a marked tendency to branch out. Once the south made only coarse goods. The result was that a temporary depres sion in this line of textiles put a crimp in the entire industry. Diversifi cation, the policy which has blessed the farmer, is benefiting the manufac turer al.so. Mills are changing to finer counts and today almost any fabric made in New or Old England is made in the south also. The furniture factory, also, of today does not confine itself to the making of inferior prodticts. High-class fur niture and chairs are turned out—■ goods that compare favorably with pro- dutc from Grand Rapids. This means that the money which once went out of the south to purchase better goods is today kept at home. Big business is the order of the new day in the south. A HOMELY WOMAN. STIRRING BETIMES. Xext year is going to be an exciting one politically in this section at the very quietest estimate. A presidential campaign will be on. .\orth Carolina will be called on to elect state officers and a United States senator—and al though the former contest is as yet a matter of guess work the latter has already developed into a four-cornered fight which Is attracting much atten tion. Furthermore in at least tliree of the congressional districts the inctim- bents are scheduled to have opposition —and that, too, from this time on al though it Ib nearly a year before the congressional convention will gather. In the sixth district, Hon. Geo. H. Bellamy, of Brunswick, is being groomed to oppos-e Representative H. L. Godwin and it is not unlikely that the lively contest of 1910 will be dupli cated next spring. In the third, Hon. George Hood of Wayne who narrow ly missed th»* nomination last year is drawing up his lines against Rej)resen- tative John M, Faison. And now comes word by the way of the Carolina Democrat that Hon. R. N. Page of the seventh will be numerously opposed. Rumor is busy with the names of Edi tor Archibald Johnson of Tlioniasville, Editor R. F. Beasley, of Monroe, and former State Senator Ix)ckhart, of Wadesboro. Verily men and brethren there will be busy times for the statesmen before the next spring apples are ripe. FURNITURE MERGER. The merger germ has now per meated the furniture manufacturing world, and the Grand Rapids of the south offers a combination represent ing several hundred thousand dollars In capital. The Globe-Home Furniture company and the Tomlinson Chair Manufacturing company, two of the largest plants of their kind in the south, have Just been consolidated. The chair company has Increase^ Its capital stock to $750,000 and plans to make chairs and furniture on a much larger scale. Recently a number of cotton mill mergers have been effected in th« south. Four comblna- Hounted House Scares Away 2 enants (By PAUL PIERRE RIGNEAUX.) Paris, Aug. 19.—A haunted house in the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne has chased and frightened away a whole series of American tenants, the latest victim being Mrs. Petty Paul Memberg Keogh, formerly the wife of a well- known New York dress maker. A lit tle over three months ago Mrs. Keogh came to Paris and hoped to find tran quility and rest in an elegant apart ment which she rented In the Avenue du Bois During the day this dwelling place was as peaceful and as silent as a cemetery, but at night about (he hour when graves give up their dead and ghosts walk abroad, strange noises were heard. Mrs. Keogh frequently called in her friends in an effort to banish the ghosts and goblins, but fighting disembodied spirits became too much for her and sacrificing the rent due on the tmexpired portion of her lease she asked the American Ex press wagons to take her household goods to some less super-natural abode in the latin quarter. Mrs. Thomas Malthus Hall, a young and pretty New York widow lived at the same number in the early part of this year and is said to have left for the same uncanny cause. She did not remain even as long as Mrs. Keogh, Another victim is Mrs. William Holt, the widow of a New York broker. It is claimed that during her tenency tables were upsei by tmforeseen forces attributed to invisible spirits while games of bridge were in progress. But Mrs. Holt spent her summer by the seaside and her winters on the Rivera, so the ghost had not much opportunity to harass her. The appearance of plain-clothes men from the police bureau above the apartment house was thought by those not knowing of the situation to be a complimentary body guard for some near-royal notables residing there, but it now apijears that the aid of the po lice was sought by some hypertimed tenants to protect them from the mys terious happenings. In the days of her prosperity Cleo De Meroile also lived at this fatal num ber. She was as superstitious as beautiful, and thoroughly frightened, she soon took to her light feet and skipped away. Bothered By Custom’s Spies. Male and female detectives belong ing to the secret service of the Ameri can Custom Hotise are spreading ter ror over the Rtie de la Paix qtmrter, and jewelers, dressmakers, modistes, the venders of subura locks, of per fumery and of other luxuries are up In arms against them. The big jew elers have taken measures to pro tect themselves against the work of what they contemptuously call the “American spies.” The largest house here has had a vestibule constnicted so that the outer door closes before the inner one opens. Another firm has been forced to put opaque screens over the doors and windows so that its customers cannot be Keen by the spies congre gating on the outside. Another has a guard stationed at the door who per mits no one to enter suspected of be ing a spy. All the shops Indeed are striving to prevent the New York Cus tom House detectives from seeing what purchases are being made. The high-class, well-dressed men and women employed on this secret agent work has made the work of their de tection by the shop keepers very diffi cult 80 that the merely “pricing” American woman gets scant courtesy in the Paris shops today. The service is well organized and regular reports are made to the chief. The treasury agency In the Avenue de rOpera was once a valuable aid to the Ctistom House but since the sensa tional suicide which occurred there a year ago its effectiveness has been curtailed. French merchants are now circumventing the Custom House by consigning goods purchased in Paris to themselves In New York and then hav ing their representatives distribute the articles to those Americans who had already purchased them. Thus they paid duty only on the production cost of the goods which is regularly at tested to and gained the difference be tween this and the duty on the whole sale price at which the goods were really bought. When was ever honey made With one bee In a hive —Hood. (By Bentztown Bard.) Her feet w'ere large and also flat, Upon her head no stylish hat Sat in its feathery splendor fine; Her waist was w’ide, without one line Of grace or beauty—none the less ' Her soul w’as sweet in comeliness. Her hands were rough, her fingers scarred. The nails with iiousehold drudgery marred; Her neck w’as thick, and muscles ran Upon her shoulders like a man; Her wrapper was beyond all art— But God wrote "Mother” on her heart. Her teeth were jagged and dark with stain; She had no time to care; in vain To speak of fashions, prate of style; Her fashion was her will to smile. And hum a little tune all day. The while she w’orked and slaved away. She had not seen for many a year Inside a place of sun and cheer, Except the place she tried to make A home of peace and cheer for sake Of those she loved, just as you love Your own all else in life above. Her jaws let down, her brow was streaked With wrinkles and her cheeks were tw’eaked With shadows hei‘, when her life of rain And sombre duty and of trust Brought weariness, as did the dust. A homely woman—such you meet Each day. perhaps, in some poor street; But though her feet are large, un couth. To some a flower of human truth She shines, as year by year she goes To give her loved ones food and clothes. .^nd is there not some beauty more Than outward grace in these our poor? Some beauty? Yea, some loveliness That has its place in life no less Than you proud magnate’s wife, who stares Disdainfully at poor Miss Cares! Some beauty? W^hy. look yonder, see Beneath worn hands, large feet, bent knee. Carved forehead and unglimmering eye The soul that must more deeply lie Than skin or blossom of life’s art— A hoinelv woman with a heart! TORTURED FOR YEARS by a cure-detying stomach trouble that baffled doctors, and resisted all rem edies he tried. John W. Modders, of -Moddersville, Mich., seemed doomed. He had to sell his farm and give up w^ork. His neighbors said, "he can’t live much longer.” “Whatever I ate distressed me,” he wrote, “till I tried HJlectric Bitters, which w'orked such wonders for me that I can now eat things I could not take for years. Its surely a grand remedy for stomach trouble.” Just as good for the liver and kidneys. Every bottle guaran teed. Only 50c at W. L. Hand & Co. COCAINE PEDDLERS. Special to The News. Greensboro, Aug. 19.—About a month ago when the city commission form of government 4iad got well un der way Commissioner of Safety Brown notified the police force not to make a specialty of any particular of fense, but to execute all law^s, regard less of who got hit. In consequence, within sixty days Municipal Judge Eure has had before him over 30 \re- tailers of cocaine, nearly all of them being negro men. The evidence in most cases was bang up, and as a re sult, 25 able-bodied negro male dope peddlers are now at work on the street convict force as punishment, and about half a dozen fat negro women are doing duty for the county at the county house of correction, and co caine blind tigers have become scarce in Greensboro. The Reason. (From the Argonaut.) Representative Brownlow, of the First Tennessee district, was a man who knew' how to get things for his district, and was especially successful in procuring offices for his constitu ents. He had a colleague, Henry Gib son, who was unable to get anything to speak of. Brownlow was big and good-natured. Gibson was small and somewhat irascible. “Brownlow,” said the little man one day, “I should like to know' how it is that you get so many places for peo ple in j'our district. I can’t get any thing for my district.” “Gibson.” and the big fellow looked down on the smaller man with mock seriousness, “if there was anybody in your district that could pass a civil service examination, you w'ouldn’t be in congress.” MANY A SUFFERING WOMAN Drags herself painfully through her daily tasks, suffering from backache, headache, nervousness, loss of appe- tie and poor sleep, not knowing her ills are due to kidney and bladder trou bles. Foley Kidney Pills give quick relief from pain and misery and a prompt return to health and strength. No woman who so suffers can afford to, overlook Foley Kidney Pills. Bow en’s Drug Store on North Square. ‘GET IT AT HAWLEY’S” Soda WITH SPARKLING ARTESIAN CARBONATED WATER and the right touch of de liciousness. Drinks that are thirst-satisfying and palate- pleasing. Made correctly, served pertly and cleanly. ex- Havley’sPharmacy TRYON AND FIFTH STS. 'Phones 13 and 260. Academy Advance Sale. CLEAR THE DEC FOR ACTION This means business, in the Navy. The same holds good in the mer cantile arena. Clean up everything, this order is imperative—the manager of every department obeys it with promptness. And this is the only way to “unload” is to drop prices far, far below the usual Belk figures. Here are values that will create enthusiasm. Scan over the list. CLOTHING AND FURNISHING VALUES Men's Suits, $6.75, $7.95 and $9.95. See special counter Men’s Suits, original price $10.00 to $20.00, reduced to .... $6.75, $7.95 and $9.95 MEN'S PEG TOP PANTS AT SPECIAL PRICES. New fine Men’s Peg Top Pants in all the new colors.. $3.00, $3.98 and $5.00 Men’s W’ork Pants .... 75c, 98c and $1.25 Serge and Alpaca Coats go at a big cut. Boys’ Wash Suits at give aw'ay prices 38c, 39c and 98c MEN’S SHIRTS, 48c 1 lot Men’s White and Fancy Shirts, all sizes, 75c to ?1.00 vai- duced to ' ' ' Men’s and Boys’ 50c Dress and W^ork Shirts SUMMER UNDERV/EAR AT SPECIAL PRICES 50c Nainsook Shirts and Drawers 50c Pepperell Elastic Seam Drawers Good Balbriggan Shirts and Draw^ers Men’s Ponis Knit Union Suits 15c Black and White Foot Sox 10c Black and Assorted Color Sox All the new shapes and colors in Stetson Fall 1911 Hats. SELL IT FOR LESS ••• Misery loves company, but It Is generally a case of unrequited af fection. No man should ask for a friend’s candid opinion unless he is prepared for a shock. 4 f Clearance Sale r FOR BOILS , ^ Tbies’ Salve, 25c. ♦ t ALL DRUGGI8T8 t I -AT- STIEFF’S Entire stock of pianos reduc ed 10 per cent and 6 per cent additional for cash.—Three out side Cabinet Piano Players to be given away with first three Stielf Pianos sold. Specials at $167.50 and $190.00. Many dealers call them $350.00 pianos. Our price as above. Chas. M. Stieff C. H. WILMOTH, Manager. SOUTHERN WAREROOM B West Trad* Stmot CHARLOTTE. • N. 0. SPECIAL You can get a 25c bottle of Woodall & Shepi^rd’s Headache and Neuralgia Remedy For 10 Cents. 4 Bottles for 40c. Until Saturday, August 26th. WOODALL & SHEPPARD DRUGGISTS. Phones 69 and *166. Buckhorn Lithia Water Tryon Drug Co No. 11 N. Tryon. fiOOP TOOLS not BL.AKE S DHUG SHOP On the Sauare. Prescriptions FU!ed Day and Night. QUICK DELIVERY That means we send it to you In a hurry. A trial will convince you, so when you ^rant a PRESCRIPTION or anything else in the drug line John S. Blake Drug Co. PHONE 41. *Phones 41 and 300. Registered Nurses’ Directory. 0 h THE KEY THAT UNLOCKS SUCCESS IN BUSINESS GIVING CUSTOMERS GOOD VALUE FOR THEIR GOOD| MONEY. WE HAVE DONE THIS,* THAT’S WHY WE HAVE a| BIG, GROWING HARDWARE BUSINESS. IF YOU’VE NEVER DEALT WITH US. -BRAZl IP IT'S TIME YOU WERE GETTI.NG ACQUAINTED ’^5 Charlotte Hardware Comp an m For Rent One 10-room house, N. Tryon St One 5-room house W. I2th St One 4-room bouse S. Tryon Ext One 3-room honse S. College St. One 3-room house, Winona St One 3-room house N. Davidson St C. Me Nelis Na. 33 East 4th St. 'Phona No. 604^. Medium Weight Clothes Should you need a suit for special occasions we can fill your wants in every way. Blacks, Blues, Solid Grays, in fact, our entire stock of staples will please the conservative man in every particular. You will find these Clothes in all the sizes, large or small. We Fit the Hard-to-Fit. C0Py*l8HT 1911 HAMBURGER BROS.C CIS Ed Mellon Company
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