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AT ' FAMILY IIlSTOniV . ' " tt.ry of tl'lRonstn-Mao , ( Hi-ri.-.i 'iiiroiicu. Several in m Srte of 80 Nowta, , t ,,; 'UmJu and IlrrcWWMi w . i? I Kix.i" In thffl Inlt-rr.-it of Social ritt Wbr ' thi Author 9 New . a 5iember of the French . ,.-.rv,,i,, nf iIia Obtectloaal i , .nux-s of Ms Work A Situly of 1 several olumes or tM bene. V.'ritton for The Observer. I Zola, despite his continued ef r-r of the French Academy. After his c- ,:h M. Ernlle Fsguet issued pam j ,.-t, widely, circulated In SYance,, t-.it-h represents the attitude toward v . rii.tio in . Utararv value of ; jia'a work, of the' great majority of tti Acaaemiciane. Aiinournsoimcwmi eJ to have applied scientific principles V mm-mn nn I ho Rnntntr "Ho WAS one of. thoee who,: either tram went! laxsness or from .inteuectuoi -weMnew, or from conceit and I think all these tHnsa coif be found 'vtntheeaseot Y nantv Ilk thai craft as a PTM.tt. and as, not like any ot -. the tilings which prepare and fit a man to cxerciae this craft 1 'who, only Mk Mint . tA astiflnr-' jwt n wwrtta. and : don't like to look attentively t the ' thing they want to paim, or 10 wiuuj anatomy before commencing wltht the chisel, or to reflect before setting pen to raper, And he ayt with m eiifrabls flnalltyi i -lt to wte poatble taat poaterttyj will aay nothing at all about htm.: .v(.v!'--vK--- ;:-V v : It to Just possible that M. Feguet la a true prophet, but H la much more certain that Zola will be discussed for Jong time to i come. The great ' "family history, that Zola wrote with Innnlte toll, not with supreme arb for I do not think Zola will rank aa an artist of mora than the second or third rankl eertalnly ne of the few most constructive achievement of our time. It Zola is given high rank by posterity, it will be, not becauee of hie art, but became of his purpose, lie waa a novelist, but more a propa gandist; tar more of a reformer than an artist I He laughed at hta detractors when they denied him the right to u the novel as the vehicle for social reform. He purposed employing It for this purpose, and no power ot criticism 2 .a -a - Vl efa.aaae Wtat mirriASA Hll': TREMENDOUS TASK. "An Intense vision el the truth." Henry James says, "must have been Zola's comfort from the earliest time to the years Iroedlately following the crash of the empire, during which be settled himself to the tremendous task he had mapped out. No finer act of courage and confidence, I think, is recorded la the history ot letters. The critic in sympathy with htm returns again and again to the great wonder of It, in which something so strange la mixed with something so august. Entertained and carried out almost from the threshold of marihood, the high project, the work of a lifetime, announces beforehand its Inevitable weakness, and yet speaks in the same Voee for .Its admirable. Its almost un imaginable, strength. The strength was in tha young man's very person Im nkMjM. fcla will hta nil ..inn 11, hi, .11 4 WW W , mm " - - . f ' his fighting temper, his aggreaatve lips, his squared shoulders, and overweening confidence: his weakness waa In that inexeperlencs of lit from which he proposed not to suffer, from which he In fact suffered, on the surface, re markably little, and and from which : he waa never to suspect, I Judge, that he had suffered at all." . One must needs go back to Balzac's great "Corneals Humalne" to find a task accomplished by one single man comparable with the one Zola act be fore himself in writing his "History of the Rougoa-Maoquart Family." It is surely a matter for wonder, as has been said, that a young man of extra ordinary brain and Indomitable pur 1 pose, wishing to give the measure of these endowments In a piece of work supremely solid, conceived and sat down to 1 Rougon-Macquart, rather than to an equal task In physics, mathematics, politics, economics. Some Idea of the enormity of the- task and of tKit r my r9 Tola's minramA ftffnrt to use the novel as an lntrument of social reform may be gained by an - analysis of this series, taken from Vlseteliys "Emll Zola." - - ROUGONS." In "t Fortunes des Rougons" (I, the ' author - describes the origin of the Rougons and the Macquarts. One 'Adelaide Fouque, a woman of hysteri cal nature who eventually goes mad, ' variety of disorders being trans- mitted to most of her descendants, marries a man named Rougon, nd on his . death lives with another named Macquart. By the former she has a ; son. Pierre Rougon; by the latter a Macqquart. This daughter marries u hatter named Mouret. and thus at the outset Of the series the second genera tion of the family is shown divided in to three branches. In the third gen eration it Increases to eleven members: in the fourth, to thirteen. In the now being largely spent; and though tbere are Indications of Its continu ance in sundry children who do not appear on the scene, the hope of child, a boy three months old when the curtain finally descends. In "La For i tuns des Rougons," then, we are shown - old;. Adelaide Fouque, her children and ; soma of theirs, all more or less poverty- ; sine aen ana striving tor wealth, wnicn t comes alth the foundation of the Sec ' ond Empire. The scene la laid at Plas - sans, and one sees the Imperial regime established there by craft and blood- ;. enea. VOU II-SON EXCELLENCE EU GENE ROUGON." wexi comes "Bon Excellence Eugene , Rougon t (H.) which carries one to . Paris,, where the fortunes of the eldest OT tn Rougon brothers, first an advo , cats and. at last an all-powerful Min ister of SUte, ; are followed in offl s, clai and political circles. The court "of Napoleon III appears at the Tuller , ies and at Complegne, where one meets, among others, a beautiful Italian ad ventureneaa. Clonlds Balbl suggestive ' AS sfhsk Mi'tfMlAtaa Tntintaaa Ja lion with mother reminiscent of Wsvdamt U Mwittjo. And in other hn rtsvrsl a thsi vaIiiim tha snt.amn vauiuv aaB sv uv:iitsits) and plotUng of the reign, the official Jobbing and corruption, are traced for .. several years. , : vols, nr and xw-vtA ,jrjEis', AN VAROaWT." Xa Cureo't:' IH.J follows ahd one turns to Eu&ene Rougon's younger brother, Artottde. who has asumed the psendomya of Saccard. With' him the reader Joma In tha great rush for the spoils of the new regime.. A passion fur money . and enjoyment seises on one and alt debauchery reigns in so cl"ty, and a fever of reckless specula tion Is kindled by the transformation rt I'arls under Baron Housmann and lis acolytes. Men and .women sell the" selves. Revea; Baccard's second riges from mere adultery to In r"-. becoming a modern Phaedra, v 1. ..a accard himself leads the life rf ft eager, gluttonous bird of-prey, v h he continues In the ensuing v, o, LArgent,,.,'(IV,) where the fce money market-ia shown v h ;i tt (rambling, its : thousartd i:' frauda :'?! i'.-.Vf': the siiea tnlght seem a mere f roguery. vi-e, and corrup t ' who Know the books t fiu-h 1 not the case, t And f-ir love and '" ft I" . .. I ) Mnrifnom and th lirninds. in the iw omi and third; and the devoted Mad ame Caroline, the honest Hamelln, the pious Princess , d orvledo. the dreamy,' generous-neanea piawmonw. the loving Jordan, and the unfor tunate Maiand all figure in ths fourth, amtd the scramble tor foi In which the other .characters participate., - ' .. 1 VOI; V." LE 'REVI5," ; in sharp contrsst with' thai greed for gain is the picture onerea oy me volume, Revo," (V.) where an im maculate illy arises from the hot-bed of vlc. -whence later, and as a further eontraat. a ; tvne of IOUI snameiew ness, Nona,, the harlot. Is also to spring. But It Is best not to anticipate. In tha first four volumes the Rougons. linden ;he ; Infl mm ; f ; heredUy: and surroundings, have shown themselves scoundrels, whereas, in Angellque; the heroins or "La Revs.'- a girl of; their blood appears who; Is all purity and candor. -2 sne . comes upon , in precisely at this moment,, to empna' tw Author's eoBvIetlon that, what' ever no may have had to depict In his solicltuda for truth, all Is not vice, ritrradatlon. and materialism, that them are other aspirations In life be sides the tthlrst for wealth, enjoyment and powr. And1 hre. too, the priest hood is shown in its better aspect; the ood Abbe corniue, tne proua, non broken Bishoo d'HautecoUr, In con- trmt with whom the scheming-, un scrupulous Abbe Faujas appears in the next section 01 tne series, Vol VI "LA CONQITETB DE . , PLASSAN8." . This is "La Conquete de Plassans," m whlrh retains one in the pro vinces (whither one Is carried from Parts in "La Revs,") and one is con fronted bv a carefully painted picture of middle-class society In a small town. this In Its turn contrasting wun me previous pictures of life In Paris. And now ths baleful results which may attend marlages between cousins are exemplified. Marthe Rougon has mar ried Francios Mouret, and both have inherited lesions from their common ancestress, Adelaide' Fouque. One of their children. Deralree. pnysicany strong and healthy. Is mentally an "Innocen:;" and they themselves are unhinged, the workings of their hered ity being accentuated and hastened bv tha wiles of Faujas. the priest who gains access to their home. He Is a secret agent of tho imperial govern ment, and thus one again sees the EmDlre at work in the provinces, util ising the clergy to enforce Its au thority, and as often as not betrayed by It. In the end all collapses. The maddened Mouret aets fire to his home and periahes in the flames with Abbe Feulas. while Marthe dies of a disorder springing from her inherited hysteria. VOL. VII "POT BOUILLE. The career Of the Mourets' eldest son, Octave, is next followed, first through the pages of "Pot Bouine," tvn.) in which he. appears as a kind of modern Don Juan, a Don Juan stripped of all poetry, all glamour, "a sensualist of our great cities, the-man who prowls, not among the unnappy creatures or the streets, but among the women of outward respectability who may help him to acquire position and fortune. The scene. Is laid In a house of the Rue de Cholseul. in the centre of Paris; and all around Octave-gravitate de praved, venal, egotistic and sickly beings, adulterous households, unscru pulous match-making mothers, demi- vlerges, who win only marry ror money, dowry-hunters, slatternly ser vant girls, and that type of the middle class debauchee who makes those girls his prey. And the pleasing figures In the work are few poor old Jasseraud, for Instance, and the charming Madame Hedouln, with the pj-oaperous author on the first iloor, who drives In his carriage and has two handsome chil dren. VOL. VIII. "AU BOBNHEUR DES 1 DAME.S." In "Au Bonheur des Dames," (VIII,) Octave Mouret appears again, a sensu alist still but also a man of enterprise, at the head of a"Grand Magasln de Nouveautes," a temple of temptation, which revolutionizes trade and panders to the feminine love of finery. Here the bourgeoisie is shown elbowing the class !medlatel below It, a world of employes, clerks, shopmen and shop girls, whose lives, likewise lire full of evil. But again a girl of admirable rectitude, Denlse Boudre, comes for ward to illumine the novelist's pages and redeem and ennoble the man who has hitherto regarded her sex as an instrument or a toy. VOL. IX "LA FAUTE DE L'ABBE MOURET ". In "La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret," (IX,) the battle Is again one between woman, love, and man; but a new fac tor appears religion for Serge, Oc tave's brother. Is a priest, bound by the unnatural vow of his calling, one of hysterical, mystical temperament also, enslaved by the superstitions of his creed. In his forsaken church, amid a semi-savage, brutish peasantry, he long strives to resist the cry of nature. But she at last asserts her might, and the novelist carries the reader Into the enchanted garden of the Paradon, where love reigns supreme. Yet the golden hours are brief: the priest Is recalled to his religion of death, and he cannot reelst the calls, for all the training of years which has confirmed and increased his mystical tendency comes back, and he is helpless. Thus the natural life is forsaken for the Illusions and dogmas of a creed: and Alblne, whom Sergo has loved. Is left forlorn with her unborn babe, to lie down and die amid the perfume of the flowers with which she has strewn her bed. , VOL. X. "UNE PAGE D'AMOUR." After that battle with nature and love, there come a companion picture: the face of Helena Mouret In "Une Page d' Amour," (X) She has hither to led an absolutely blameless life, but a sudden passion sweeps her oft her feet. A tragic somhrenesa attends the episode. No glamor Is cast over wo man's frailty in Zola's pages. It Helenc tastes an hour of intoxication she is punished for it as frightfully as any! novelist could desire. Jeanne, her fondly loved daughter, who is devoured by jealous hysteria, dlos as the result of her lapse; and It is only afterwards, in pity as it were, that Helena Is granted the chance of beginning her life afresh. VOL. XI "LE VENTRE DE PARIS." Lisa Macquart supplies the next volume , of the series, "Le Ventre de Paris," (XI.) which carries one through snd around the great markets of the French metropolis, as well as Into the fin pork-butcher's shop, which Lisa-keeps with her husband, Quenn. The chief figure of the story is Quenn's brother, the unhappy Florent, who has escaped from Cayenne, and whom Lisa, that comfortable egotist, ends by be traying to the authorities. For that ultra-righteous deed counseled by Lisa's confessor one Is consoled by the presence of honest Madam Fran cois and of Cadlne,, the little flower girl, and Marjolin. her youthful lover, whose, smile brightens many, a page, yOl4XII-"LA JOlfc DE VEVttE i Then, WLa jbie de Vivre, '(XlQ comes Pauline, whose nature Uf.ao .flit ferent from that ot her mother; Lisa. She has no egotism-in her composition; she would never betray anybody;' she Is all human devotion and self-sacrifice. With ' her w are carried to the seashore, to a little fisher hamlet. Where her: guardian, Chauteau, dwells ; and he,, his wife, and his son prey Upon her, wrecking her life, though she re mains brave and smiling till the end. AJi how little Joy there may be in life Wsbown not only by her case, but by that of U:e crippled Chateau, bis em li'itere-5, ov:tous,- suspicious wife, hi ) .. i-n.5 ; cv.'i-t, an! 1 ! 1 -1: .;r(i son,: who trie to be this and that, but succeeds in nothlns and is consumed bv a.- foolish. unreasoning" dread of death. It Is to these that Paulina hns to minister, for" these that aha has to sacrifice heraejf, even as U 'Often happens that the good have to lay down their lives for tha unworthy VOL. XIII "L'ASSOMMOIR." 1 Paulina Is very different from her mother, Lisa, Equally different is Lisa's sister Oarvsise.'T' the pathetic heroin of "L'Asommolr,M (XIIL) with which tha family chronicle is contin ued. Lisa rises, Oervalse falls; so does It happen in .nany of the world s fami lies. At first Oervalse appears so cour ageous s mid her misfortunes tnat one can ireadUy grant her ; the compas sionste sympathy- accorded to every trusting woman -whom a cowsrd aban dona There seems hops for hr at ths outset of her marriage with uoupeau; a possibility, too, that she may provs successful when, industrious and ener getic sh starts her little ; laundry business. But her husband's lasy, drunken ways recoil on her,' the return of the rascally Lautler completes her misfortune, and then she roils aown hill, to die at last ot starvation, VOL. XIV ("L'OEUVRE. Nana already appears in her Child hood and her youth in the pages ot "L'Assommolr." but Zola does not pass direct from that work to the later ca reer of Oervalse's daughter. Hs first takes Oervalse's elder children, her sons by Lautler and "L'Oveure" XIV. unfolds the painful story of Claude, ths painter, u glimpse ot whom has been given previously In "Le Ventre de Paris." Asraln In "L'Oeuvre." one finds a record of downfall, but, whereas In L'Assommolr" it has largely resulted from environment and circumstances. It now proceeds more directly from an evil heredity. Claude stands virtually on the border line that parts Insanity from genius, and thus In his career, tne old hypotheses ot Moreau of Tours, and those subsequently enunciated In England by Neeblt. might nua piay. In the end. after a life of conflict and misery. Insanity triumphs and Claude destroys himself. His tale, as one has stated previously. Is linked with a pic ture of the French art-world. VOL. VX.-"LA BETE HUMAINE." In these last sections ot Zola's series the march of deaenerescence is has tened; downfall follows downfall; be fore long that of Individuals is to be ucceeded by a supreme collapse, tnat of the regime under which they live. Thus after "L'Oeuvre, comes La Bete Humalne" (XV), Claude's brother Jacques, an engine-driver, in whom a murderer appears among the Rougon- Macquarts. The hereditary virus, transmitted from Adelaide Fouque, has turned in him to an insensate craving for woman's blood, and, frankly, his story is horrible. At the same time, while one follows the growth of his abominable disease, many a vivid page arests attention; awful, yet a master piece of colloquial narrative and full of a penetrating psychology, Is Sev erlne's account of the murder of Presi dent Grandmoln, very human is Jacques' love for his engine, La Llson; and striking are the pictures or the snowstorm, the railway accident, and the death ot Jacques and the stoker Pecqueux, at the end of the volume. when their train, crowded with sol diers, is seen rushing driverless, like some great, maddened blind beast, to wards catastrophe and annihilation. VOL. XVI "GERMINAL." Next the story of Oervalse's tbjrd son, Etlenno, is unfolded in "Germinal" (XVI), this again a tale of the work ers, the hardships, the misery, the de gradation of the sweated toilers of the coal-pits, who are maddened by want to revolt. And then, of course, they are shot down by the soldiers at the disposal of the capitalists who batten on the sufferings of labor. A tribute of compassion, a call for justice, a cry for warning to the rich and powerful such, as Zola himself said, as "Germin al." Those who wonder at the hatred of the workers for those above them, at the spread of socialism throughout Frunce, need merely read, his pages to understand why and how such things have come to pass. VOL. XVII. "NANA." But "Nana" (XVII.) now confronts the reader. He has Just passed through the world of labor: drunkenness, deg radation. Insanity, crime, revolution have been Indicated successively as resultants of the condition of the masses; and here comes another prod uct of an evil social system, the low born harlot who, like an unconscious instrument of retribution, ascends from her native dung-heap to poison the bourgeoisie and aristocracy the rulers, the law-givers, to whom the existence of that dung-heap and its evil ferments Is due. In "Nana" depravity corus cates. Here is the so-called "life of pleasure" of the world's great cities, the life of Indulgence which recruits its votaries among all the aristocracies, j all the plutocracies, all the bourgeoi sies, ail the bohemlas. To some. Nana may seem to be "a scourge of God" 1 assuredly the world's Nanas have 1 wrought more evils than its Attllas a punishment on men for their lewd and lawless sensuality. "In Zola's pages one does not witness merely the ruin and disgrace of the professedly profligate; one sees also how natural. youthful desire when exposed to temp tation may ripen into depravity and end la misery. One sees, again, the rellex action of libertinism on married life how wives end at ttmes by fol lowing the example of their husbands, and even "bettering the instruction." From first a stupendous warning for both sexes, as great a denunciation of the social evil as ever was penned. VOL. XVIII. "LA TERRE." But the scene changes, and In "La Terre" (XVIII.) appears Jean Mac quart, soldier and artisan, who be comes a peasant He, though a broth er ot Gervaise, has escaped the hered itary taint is strong, sensible, hard working, a man destined, one might think, to a life of useful and happy ob scurity. But fate casts him among the Fouons, a family ot untutored peas ants, barely raised above animallty; and a drama of savage greed and egot ism is unfolded around him. Old Fouan being no longer able to till his fields himself, divides his property among his children, who agree to make him an allowance. But he Is cheated. Ill-treated, robbed of his savings by them, and finally murdered by one ot his sons. That same son. Buteau, Is consumed by a ravenous earth-hunger, but ani mal desire Is also strong within him. He is both enamoured and Jealous of his wife's sister. Francolse, who ts Jean Macquart's wife, his passion for her being -blended with a craving to appropriate her land. At last she. by violence, becomes his victim, and in a struggle with her sister, who Is pres ent, is thrown upon a scythe and mor tally Injured. That crime Is witnessed by old Fouan, and it Is for fear lest he should reveal it that he IS stifled then1. burnt. .'-.; :?.- t-v .-tv,.-; .if, VOL. XIX.--LA DEBACLE." , Prom "LA Terra". Jean Macquart passes to ,,La Debacle" (XIX), for ths time has now come for the great smash up Of that Empire all tinsel ' without snd all rottenness withtm . War ahd invasion descend upon Franca -Tou rollow the retreating soldiers from ths Rhine to the Mouse, on that terrible, woeful march to Sedan, -where all be comes disaster;- Tou see the wretched Emperor borne along in the baggage train of his srmy. v carried, it - was thought, to' certain death In the hope that France mlgUt then forgive, and allow his eon to reign. And you see htm unrtor tire, vai.--lv courting death, wMrh win r. f 1 - 1 , Then the hor- rors of Uaseilles. ths struggle tor ths Calvary, ths great charge, ths hoist ing of the white flag, the truce, and ths abject surrender- follow in . swift succession. Next comes the battle-field Camp of Misery, and later ths efforts of ths jNattona! Defences, the peace Imposed pn tha vanquished, and then ths Commune's horrors crowning a IU But from first to last human interest In never absent: one finds it in the friendship of Jean for the unlucky and degenerate Maurice, in the story of Bii vlns and Prosper, In ths bravery of wclss, ths heroism of Hsnrfstts, Jean's love for her, and ths hops that both. hereafter, may be able to begin life afresh and together; a bops whlcn Is blasted by ths fatality , of civil war. when brother rushes on brother and blindly slays him. VOL, XX. "LE DOCTEUR PA8CAU- At Is st comes "Le Docteur Pascal'' (XX), .ths sealous scientist who sits la Juds-ment on his family; Tou him among his documents, sifting evi dence, explaining ths heredity of ana and another relative, expounding ths whole theory ot atavism which under lies Zola s series. Ths old ancestress. Adelaide Fouque, Is still allvV a cen tenarian, mad, confined for many years In a lunatic asylum. Her son, Antolne Macquart. also survives, still sn un scrupulous knavs and; a confirmed drunkard, until spontaneous combus tion destroys him, while hemorrhage carries off little Charles, ths last deli cate dsgsnerats scion of ths exhausted Stock. Pascal himself would seem to hsve escapsd ths hereditary taint; but after a long Ufa of celibacy, spent In ths study and practice of medicine, his passions awaken, and he falls In love with Clotllde, his niece, Hs strives to overcome that passion, hs wishes to marry the girl to his friend Ramond, but shs will not havs it so, and In her turn becomes a temptress. Then ths Impetuous blood of the Rougons mas ters them both, and tbsy fall Into each other's arms. Previously, old Madame Fslicits, Pascal's mother, has tried to use Clotllde as an Instrument to effect the destruction of the documents which the doctor has collected, for the family would be dishonored should they ever see the light Ths girl has slso tried to convert Pascal to her own religious views; but all in vsln. . A period of delirious folly ensues. Pascal turns prodigal In his old sgs, and Is at last brought to ruin by a dishonest notary. Then Clotllde and he have to part, and ne dies, struck down by heart dlseass. The young woman survives with a child, his son and hers, who. perhaps, may yet rejuvenats ths dwindling race. And we see her nursing her babe snd Indulging In a thousand hopes, as the curtain st last descends on the his tory of the Rougon-Macquarts. TO THE REPORTER. New York Sun. No rhyme immortal has been writ To them the chaps that choose for ua And polish with their ready wit The Dest of all the news for ua Through rain or shine, through heat or cold. 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Its use prevents and cures Dyspepsia, Liver and Kidney Troubles, Constipa tion, Skin Diseasss and Rheumatism. 8 EVEN BARKS is purely vegetable and is guaranteed to euro any ot the above diseases. For sale and recom mended by R. H. Jordan A Co. MM Tuesday December 20th. Matinee '. and Night SHEPARD'S MOVING PICTURES Prices: Matinee, 15, and 25c. Night, 25c, 35c, 50c. a. 'Vl ?i IVaa Shsvas ; U for 30 Days V. miHm. in avytnS MaaU. waaar aaa au ma tM a HUat SaSay llaai, w wis w J im M ban Abaatav m trial Ik. Gillette gafatv Basse h) S Baaaw la Saa. ntiu m 9tfm luiirn aaa turn hwtn WinwaU N Mm uM tofrta tftaw. SMk M. unt nas smsm Ne gtraaalatf a eaiag ait. IM'"' awa, artlrMie) Iiii. la mkaa St a at uKL. . St.liw itm. ;TEXIPEH TESTER. , . V - '.-A;.. , . mbmsmSmsssssw ,1t-''K--:;"i-i't:- "3" No Wonder Soma - Charlotte People ' ' Are Annoyed. . Very little rest night after night . Very little comfort day after day. ' 'Ths Constant Itching ot Piles or Ecsema.!' . . Any Itohinaaa af tha atrlM la rom per tester. ' , t , 1 . voan s ointment is a nsver-falllna cars. - . .. a m. .w, all Itching akin diseases. -: J. B. Freeman, ear Inspector, living at tit North Trron street says: "Doan's Ointment, which I have used for eciema Is tha beat salve for itch ma skin diseases whlnh 1 tiv vr tried. I had suffered from this an noying dlseass for a lone tints and ortan it ilmnit a m nu. Ointment has stopped the itching and i iw sooo. goi ins oint ment at R, ,H. Jordan Co,'s drag for an t j-tars.i.M 4 4 . 11 n. w - suffering Crom any similar complaints w FwvuHi w..e rvmear sina at least give it trial." For sale by all dealers. Price BOo. Foster-Milbum Co., Buffalo, N. "iH sole agents tor the United Statea Remember , the name Doan's and take ne other.. . : Dresses TOU WILL NEED THEM DURING THE HOLIDAYS. If that Crepe-de-Chlne, Chiffon, Silk, Lace, Voile. Mull or any oter kind of dress is soiled send it to us. We can Dry Clean It so nlcelv that it will look like new or Dye it one of those pretty delicate Greens, Blues, Lavenders, rich reds or any shade you like. Our prices are the lowest consist. ent with the best work. Tou take no risk In sending your garments to us. We clean Gloves for 10 centa 011 ein MRS. J. M. HESTER. Pronrietresa Phone 246. 209 N. Try on Street THIS IS STIEFPS GAT He is laughing because he overheard several Christmas secrets to-day. There is nothing more ac ceptable than a Stieff Piano for Christmas. Stieff, Manufacturer of the piano with tha Sweet Tone SOUTHERN WARBROOMS: 311-111 North Tryon street, Charlotte. N a 0. H. WILMOTH, Mgr. Evening v Jt ' Selected by tho State of North , Carolina, , v As the depositary for the security giverr hy the How- , t, ,; , land. Improvement Company the; lease' of the ; Q :Aaantic and Nortli Carolina Railroad. , It . Xt THE : '. ' REASONS ARE MANY- :. " ' A ' It ; xt "Waclhiovia TELLS ALL . ABOUT. THE Nj LIQUOR, OPIUM, MORPHINE, AND OTHER NARCOTIC DRUG DISEASES, THE TOBACCO HABITS NEURASTHENIA no TDr rHAi ictiai . t wm w s.ri 11 v OWNEY'S CANDIES W I HAM) K f0 Leading Druists IT. Le UtXlW X LU., Cor. College and Trade Street HYGIENKB PINE MATTRESS Jtk Tour Sealer Hygienic PINK Mattress natum's veqetable ClIKLEO HAIR" Pscseuiss sis EB&iife aifios A NttttrAt ginst sit veaet mssk ncaicrrrato toe for PhU tmbtt The W. e. Thomas Mattress Qo. Manufacturers. Factory Seventh street and Southern 'PHONE 855. Every day ts DIAMOND DAT with us. We have a selection of gems that cannot be sur passed for brilliancy. Every stone we sell has our guaran tee with It. Invest in one of our Rings or Brooches for a Christmas present and you are eure to please the recip ient The largest assortment of .useful holiday presents In the State. Garibaldi & Brans. . DO NOT FOROET TO ASK FOR COUPONS WHEN YOU PAY CASH. THE GTATE'O SEAL STAMPS APPROVAL THE - is absolutely responsible. ' JHves to execute the trust until the end 1 u..aaA etAU artMeU1Vel ! And ttrlfldtOnia 4 1 " ' ' I 11 is known to le an fight In everyway, is safe ana souna. - Its resources ajre over $J,S00.000.09. .- ' ; " - "' " It 4ct as. executor, administrator, guardian, trustee,, assignee, commission- f rs and agent ' Hoan . 'S& . r.!;:3Torj saiem, n. c. I IVIlf , Imperial Work Baskets, Silk Boxes. Handsomest Line Ever Brought to Citv; Incomparable Christmas Presents. "Nature's Vegetable Curled Hair." Possessing the health giving properties of the pine tree. A natural protection against all vermin. Take It and sleep on It and if not satisfactory return to dealer at our expense. We renovate this mattress tree of chance for you at any 'Protection Vermin time. f Railway. A Brooklyn Blue Flame Oil Heater is Just the t: in& to make your bath room com tor table. Ws portable and con venient 'perfect ly safe. J.N. McCausland & Co LIBRARY VOTINa TICKETS. . J .&1 iiliilsil ' Is North Carolina's Greatest Financial , Institution V. ' ! " of theMease. (99 yeart W4 beln under State supervision. vv f v -.... .- m ,- Tsrust - ' Cci, men rcirT, s? 1 1
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Dec. 18, 1904, edition 1
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