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'nYT 1 n ir rTnmri B DAILY OBSERVER. lI0Vkl2BEir, 27, ' . 1 " - CHARLOTTE, N. C Chase Brenier, Sec. R. L. Gibbon, Med. Director, ' M. M. Dawson, Consulting Actuary, H Susman. General Manager T. S, Franklin, Pres., J. N. McCansland, Vice Prts., Agents be- Hfel PrriyW frtfLwiMr fit him NOW arvl protect yaur fanmy inouW YO U die Best for t i, ' cause the Eastern's re newal Contract guar antees the good agent ' a steady income, in stead of a hand to mouth existence. The 'Eastern Life" is a regular old line com- pany, maintaining the .' "Legal Reserve" re , quired by law. m THE GREATES An adequate Endowment, f'JJ in theEA STERN doesbptH ' LIFE-INSURANCE CQ W OF AMERICA , - Cf V HAAftPRtl IfilllPftlTIAAl 1 tKN INVtlfUN ffNJ ..;' 1 P '"' a '" T. ' 1 ':'-, j , jv. c. gg "Extension and enlargement of our own faculties." That is what a famous thinker calls our modern inventions. The Telegraph is the extension of the arm as by nerves of wire so that we may write at the distance of a thousan d miies The Telephone is the extension of our voice and of our neighbor's ear. The Telescope enlarges our vision so that we can see millions of miles instead of five. A Policy in the Eastern Life Exemplifies the foregoing. How? Because, like the Telegraph, it bears a message of comfort and cheer to far off old age, and extends your earning power beyond three score and ten. Because, like the telephone through it you hear the happy voices uf your children, and know that they will be educated, clothed and fed, even though the hand that now pro vices these blessings for them may be stilled Because, like the telescope, it enables you to peer far into the future, and see those children educated and equipped, as well as any, to fight the battles of life, and carry on the good work which-you have so well begun. Because the great grength and stability of the Eastern make it the best possible idstrumen tality for carrying out these sacrd trusts, H. SUSMAN, General Manager, The Eastern's new Continuous Annuity Policy secures for the beneficiary a LIFE in come which cannot be Squandered,. Misman aged, Taxed or Lost. "The nearly Eastern" has 2,000,000 in surance in force. Its System of insurance has stood the test for over half a century. T. 3. HACKNEY Vice President Rocky Mount Hank, N. C. GEO. T. LEACH President Eureka Lumber Company, WashlnRton. NT. " .It. II. WRIGHT President Durham Street Hallway. Durham, N. C. S. F. AUSTIN. Cashier. Bunk of Nashville, Nashville, N. C. T. C. BLANCHARD & BRO.. President Hertford Banking Company, N. C GEN. W. P. ROBERTS, Capitalist, Gatesvllle, N. C. J. M 8HEHK0D, Capitalist. San Francisco, Cal. STOCKHOLDERS M. II. WIIITIO. Capitalist Hertford. N. C. STEPHEN ". liKAtiAN. Attorney at Law. Washington, N. ('. J. P. BATTLE. Jr.. Phyxirlan, Raleigh. N. C. H. ,11'SMAS, Vice President Southern Furniture Company, Charlotte, N. C. T. S. FRANKLIN, Vice President Southern States Trust Co., Charlotte, N. C. ASMLKY HnRNE, President Clayton Hank Company, Clayton, N. C. J. W. SHEHItOD, Capitalist, Hamilton, N. C. .i'2!$3S R L. GIBBON, Physician, Charlotte, N C. L. W. NORMAN, Cashier, Hertford Banking Company, Hertford, N. C. A. M. DUNN AY, Cashier First National Bank, Washington, NC. J W. ZIMMERMAN. Commission Merchant, Charlotte, N. C. J. N. M'CAUSLAND, of J. N. McCauslund Company, Charlotte, N. C. CHASE BRENIZER, Attorney at Law, Charlotte, N. C. A. E. M'CAUSLAND, of J. N. McCausland Company, Charlotte, N. C. The Eastern Life Insurance Co , chartered by a special act of the General Assembly of North Carolina, holding the full legal reserve as required by law for the protection of its policyholders; therefore as sound and solvent no matter how large Reliable Agents wanted for desirable territory. Address Company, Charlotte, IM C. THE INDUSTRIAL CHEMIST A FACTOR IN EVKRX DAY LIFE. Application of Scientific Discoveries to Industrial Needs Has Conferred Numberless Benefits Upon the Mod era Sinn and Woman ami Affects tlw Very Vitality or Nation United States Kxporttt of $100,000,000 An nually Due to . Tills Work Attempts to Guard AgaiiiKt Impure Food Sltare In Building, Koiiroadliig and Cotton Industry. Correspondence of The Observer. Boston, Nov. 25. The various exper iment which the United States gov ernment has been conducting to deter mine standards of purity for food Bt tiffs have brought into nnonlnl nr,.,i,u,.a this year the modern development of chemistry by which, having- become fundamental in a great many manu facturing and mechanical processes it is now considered a prime requisite in technical training. There is hardly a branch, of 2oth century Industry In which an important part Is not assigned to the chemist. He Is no longer merely a scientific theorist; he is a professional man whose work is plainly practical and whose accomplishments are dolnjr at least as much as those of any other profession to set the world forward on th road ' of progress. The striking ' thing about 20th cen tury chemistry Is the relation of the pure science, which Is what the layman M'neraJJy thinks of. to the applied, which ia the practical utilisation of the experimenter's , discoveries, Indeed, though physical chemistry is commonly ') ueaung wnn aostract ques tions. the United States now markets i.i.nuaily over 100,OO0,000 worth of 1 -oducta obtained by the application of f.Iy a portion of Its results such prod I' ts, for example, aluminum, carbo ' mdum, sodium and bleaching powder. . j .e demands of manufacturers for lm - ved processes of products, the util- tion of waste, and so on, has atlmu : id and facilitated "pure", investlga t no; and n the other hand, the pur- of the scientist has driven on the wioKtilal chemist to experiments of as at general value as of commercial . -..-th. , , , w ' :--.' 1' important is this lnterdependency uiered to be. In fact that the Mass -etta Institute .of Technology, i may be taken as a typical prac 1 American scientlflo' school of to . liHH recently eat.hlha a tanaiat -. h laboratory, the first connected, 1 an American educational tnstitu- herein a group ot workers are' i r their entire energies to the' 1 iie applied chemist'ry of to-mor-l Dim wimr!rnent llK ifi , A . fcftl rooms devoted by the Institute to whole problem of armored warships WHY TITV I A HSiT 1 1 1 11 ST 111 I seems to be some misapprehension. If i of seem- y()U nvestiKate the record of this al chemical analysis, for every technologl-1 turns upon chemical methods of cal student, whatever his future work inur such intimate combinations of Iron is to be, must be lit least something of a and steel with varying amounts of car chemist; and frequently he goes from bon, nickel ami other elements as shall here directly into the private exbert- provide the greatest resisting power mental laboratories which nowadays against hostile missiles, and gunpowder are maintained by .many manufac- itself was a chemlial discovery, turers for the study of ways and means The operation of a modern railway Is of improving their processes. At the-' another place where chemistry would recent International meeting of scien- hardly seem likely to be much in evi tists it was said that the manner and deuce, but every large, railway system method of training men who will apply maintains expert chemists in whose to industrial needs the phenomena dis- laboratories questions of vital impor covered by the scientific recluse nrejtance to railroad economies are con "mntters which have to do with not stantly undergoing minute chemical only the future of chemical industries study. Chemistry is here chielly con- but with the very vitality of nations." cerned with the quality of the materials VOTEKS DISTHUSTED LEADERS. What pure and applied chemistry, working together, have wrought for the modern man and woman makes an used bv the road, from Its steel rails to its car paint, even going deeper than very soil of the roadbed. Some years almost endless ll:t, yet their work has ago. when a. passenger coach on the but Just begun. The drug trade deman- Pennsylvania. Railroad had Just come ded a quinine that should be devoid of from the car cleaners, an official noticed the bitter taste which made that valu able remedy so difficult to administer sometimes but should retain all Its anti malarial properties, and the chemist made quinine tasteless. Thorium oxide was known for half a century before it was utilized as the basis for Welsbach mantlee that have given new Illuminat ing powers to our gas-lights; the waste material for pitchblende was thrown away after most of the uranium had been removed, until suddenly It was discovered that radium could be ex- that the car paint had apparently been injured in cleaning. An investigation proved that both varnish and paint had been seriously injured and the car cleaners blamed the soap furnished by the company. The soap was sent to the chemical laboratory, declared guilty and the car cleaners cleared of alt re sponsibility. The chemist, with his expert and minute knowledge of the action of one substance upon another, had thus verified the statement of even so humble a person as the car cleaner tractea rrom it; 25 years ago 1'roressor and incidentally saved the company Ira Remsen, as a res.uk of strictly sot-.thousands of dollars In Its future pur entiflc Investigations, discovered bert- chases of so humble a commodity as zoic sulphimide, which under Its more soap. familiar name of saccharine has been In the larger sense this same chemist a boon to thousands of sufferers from safeguards the entire traveling public. ill health who could not with safety useiHis delicate apparatus not only deter sugar; aind in several branches of in dustry what was once considered a waste by-product has become the main material of factories. The chemist has his share In practi cally all forms of productive activity. The Department of Agriculture, while It is testing foods. Is at the same time experimenting with methods of treating soils. In the cotton industry, for In stance, the chemist begins his work with the cultivation of the ground in which the seed is to be planted and does not finish it until the tinted fabric is wound and bundled to be put on sale In the store; he begins with the digging of ore from the mine and follows the crude material through Its manifold changes till It becomes one of the great mines the working value of' the raw material that makes the locomotives and trucks and couples the cars to gether, but keeps this material up to the standard. When new sections of track are built the soil Is often chemi cally analyzed to see how It will stand the weight of the structure and on this analysis depends the depth to which piles must be driven tor rock ballast laid to make the track permanently level. In building the typical American city, as well as in managing its public works, the chemist is equally impor tant. Chemical investigation has made all steel and iron construction possible and Is still working out the Question of the sky-scraper as the characteristic vf 2lih '?rl.tVour commerce structure of the cotning century. To ship seem far enough removed, yet cnemiscry is one of the Important uiuuies me young jmen whom Uncle Sam selects from the Naval Academy at Anhapolls and sends to the Institute of Technology to. be turned Inta naval constructors. In modern nsval construc tion, to tone a single Instance, the protect steel and iron from the chemi cal action of air is the great problem of the 20th century construction; and It Is here also that the "pare science," seek ing solely for knowledge, is always likely to find- , the new combinations such a discovery, for example, as would lead to a new kind of steel and iron Immune to atmospheric conditions. Cliariwter of Most of the Men Who Control Northern Democratic Coun sels Declared t lxi Such us to Kch1 Confidence--Parallel Between North ern Democrats and Southern Ke publicans Drawn by u Former North Carolinian New Theory Advanced to Account for Cleveland's Second Election South (Should Take the liCUll. To the Editor of The Observer: Now that the presidential election of 1901 Is past, and the Democratic nomi nees are known to be badly beaten In all except the Southern States, it may interest readers of The Observer to know why in the North the Democracy is so persistently repudiated by the ma jority of voters. The reason Is simple enough, vvslde from David 15. Hill, In New York State, and a few others, else where, the men who assume to lead the Democracy are well-nigh destitute of that quality of character which inspires confidence. In my own behalf, in in variably voting for Democratic nomi nees, local. State and national, I have so voted In spite , of personal qualities of the nominees; not because of these qualities. Generally they are men who would not be permitted to assume prominence in Democratic politics In any locality in North Carolina. In other words, in the Northern sec tlon the Republicans are "the people" In the same sense that Democrats are In North Carolina. The extraordinary majority given Mr. Roosevelt is not taken tp be a tribute to his alleged policies so much as it is understood to Indicate confidence in him personally and in men who surround hfm in Congress nnd In cabinet. It is thought that now there cannot be great excesses In any direction, because re sponsible people are In control. Had Mr. Parker been elected, we would have to admit that large numbers of men. Incapable of rising to any responsibility whatever, might have obtained office. T nnn nnv ic f 1 1 1 .1 . v. . nA consfderable'number of voters 'look with1 tne Invitation to . vote for - a man who favor upon a tariff which discriminates against the domestic consumer in favor of foreign markets, that the extraor dinary naval development proposed leged Democrat, from his accession to the office of sheriff of Erie county, N. Y., to the presidential election of 1892, you will find his success was due en tirely to dissensions in the Republican ranks every time. In 1S82 he was chosen Governor of New York by 200,000 ma jority. This was caused by the fight between the Stalwart Republican (Conk-1 ling adherents) and the Half Breeds (Hlaine supporters.) He carried the State by a close margin, as presidential, nominee, in 1884. Here again his suc cess was due to the Blaine and Conk-! ling men. When the election of 18SS took place, Conkling was dead, and Blaine was. sick In Europe. Cleveland received only 168 electoral votes, and; was beaten. In 1892 Mr. Whltelaw Reld, editor of The New York Tribune, sought; the Republican nomination for Vice President. He had for years clased his newspaper composing room to union men, but, when the office hunger seized him, he quickly made peace with the local typographical union, paid the ex penses of a committee of its members to the Minneapolis convention, to vouch i for him, and was nominated. But, al- though a few union printers had said i Mr. Reld was "all right," their state- j ment did not convince the organized' labor men In the country at large. There are not lacking those who say Cleve-i land won in 1892 on the tariff issue. But to those who analyze the vote of that year It is plain he had the support of organised labor, which loved him not over much, but loved Whitelaw Beid a great deal less. Hence Harrison and Reid met defeat In about the same pro portions as did Parker and Davis In1 1904. As a successful politician, Mr. Cleveland was always an accident. Democratic policies have not been en dorsed unreservedly by the people since I 1856. I When the time again arrives for a Democratic national convention to as semble, I trust It will nominate a South ern statesman in whose sincerity there can be no question. I believe the North- . . . t, . . . ern ana western vuiern win ibi"iu iw HIS BAD BREAK. Called a Man a "Bird" With Most Astonishing Results. New York Press. "Talking about fright and gray hairs," said a traveling man, "my hair never came so near turning white In a single night as It did a couple of weeks ago when I was in a town in one of the wildest patches of country m the West. I entered a cafe and started In to In gratiate myself with the boys, and was getting along fine. "There was one old fellow who hung around the bar a great deal and seemed to have everybody scared. I made up my mind that he was a chap I wanted to have on my side, so I started in and made up to him the bestlknew how. I told him all the funny stories I knew. Every time he laughed everybody else laughed, and when he didn't seem to like it there was a general attack of the blues. After awhile he told a s tory himself. I laughed as hard as I could and slapped him on the shoulder and said: " 'I've heard of you before.' " 'You have?" said he, looking suspi cious all of a sudden. " 'Yes,' said I, 'and .you're all right. You're a bird!" "I never saw such a swift change of scenery in my life. The floor was cleared all of a sudden and all the occupants of the place except the old man and myself were looking up from behind tables. lie had a six-shooter pointed at me, and If his finger had trembled I'd have been the subject for 'a dear est Willie, thou hast left us, piece of poetry then and there. Just then a young girl rushed into the place and threw herself between us." "Of course," commented a listener, "this is about chapter III. She ex claimed: 'Spare him! Spare him for my sake!' " "No. She didn't say anything of the kind. She merely said: 'Don't be a fool, dad. He didn't mean anything. He ain't heard a word about it.' , "Then she turned to me and said: " 'You want t be keerful about how you talk about anything In the fowl line before dad. He was tarred and feathered week before last. - He ain't got clear over It yet, an' he won't Stand the Jokln' about it, you see.' f ,. Patronize Home Industry. See That Your Dealer Furnishes You 1 . MATTRE5 5ES Manufactured by The W. C. Thomas Mattress Co. All grades, styles and slaes made by the latest machinery and best opera tives." HYGIENIC FINE FIBRE MATTRESSES A SPECIAXTY. Factory Seventh Street and Southern Railway. 'Phone 355, ESQ does not appeal to the people; that they care not a picayune about the Philip pines; that in any question raised be tween the whites and the negroes( their sympathies are always with thwlwhite people. If any one' of these questions could be presented to the people on its represents not only a principle, but whose environment is such, as to com mand confidence. : ! DEMOCRAT. Newark, N. J., Nov... 24, .1904. . , THOUSANDS CURED. De Witt's .Witch Haws! Salve has cured thousands of cases of Files. "I bought a, box of DeWttt'e Witch 'rl' IT. "V7"e lK,en iaereon-no ot our druggist." bo writes O. H.1 other matter being at issue it wouldlrvM bedeolded as the Democrats have main-f0r a etubborn case of Ftle. It cured talhed It should be. i me permanently." 8old by R. H. Jor- Aa to Mr. Grover Cleveland, there dan A Co. ' ' Velvet Lotion FOR ROUGHNESS OF THE SKIN, CHAPPED HANDS AND J&PS. RENDERS THE SKIN 80FT AND SMOOTH, - AND JS NEITHER GREASY. NOR STICKY.' j. v , :?.-!; in.,.. ' ONLT AT t o, K ! I ' We Le HAND & CO,, Cor. CoUendTradeltre et A. "S : 1 o
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