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1 V t ' 4". "A A . " CHARLOTTE DAILY OE3EBYIR;APIlILtllSC3;iS';' r in nSMmmmiFmW GINGER AlaiES 0 consigned 1 T ' Wijii,, PJ EVER BEFORE has such a Large Shipment'of Ruri EsceHence and. Superiorly of BEAUEONT -GINGER ALE over aU other brands, and the Popularity, Ener gy aha Prdgressiveness of-jmMOMbWmake CAR-LOAD SHIPMENTS A NECESSITY Sn IN YOUR ORDERS F(TR TflS H05TDELIGlf Fill AND REFRESHING GINGER ALE tvf" v A SOCIAL HIGHEST CLASS" lioLD BY ALL FIRST CLASS GROCERS Ho: SOME CHWKOM HISTOBY MOItlAN RECCORD GENUINE ' M mks& - 1 iKxmiiMjitt Vrom the Archlvef R terring to Uie Adoption of Be the ' AfKblnhntv Iliini'lHi nf Tiwlii. . pp)tdnce. Was Written in Salem, ADont September, 1788, by Tnu VA 7' Bane 'No - Doubt of the "Franment's" Having Been Part an .Parcel of tlte Churcb Diary. WriUei 'for The Observer. " In -September, 19M, Mr. O. J. Leh man,T.l Betfoanla,. N. C. discovered amonithe paper in the Moravian ArchXvea at that - place an , historical ketcjU bearing on iU cover the title: "Bruchatueck Aufsas von den Norkommenheiten wahrend deni Revolutions Kriege , itft welche elneh' Beaus etif"'' die Wacheu . . -MS" & ' hattep Vbi Ende 177.". - .'.. In this paper Mr. Lehrrfatf founJ a ponted: reference to the Meckelenbur Declaration of Independence, which he fransUaernd sent to The Charlotte mrnm1fSrV. 4a'nd.7- its' translation '!re-ra ;f9lqFs:' .lehf' ltatt a Ende dea J775 aten. JAhres nicht unangemerkt lasaen. dass action im 6ommer selbegen Jahres, das is im Mayk J uny, Oder July, die -. County Mecklenburg in Nord Carolina etch fuer -so frev u. Independent von- En land declarfrte. u. ' solche Einrichtung sur Verwaltung der Oesese unter sicH, macnte, ais jamaien aer continental Cbngresa hernach . ins Gams Kethan. Dleser Congress aber'eahe dieses. Ver- fabnen ala su fruehieitlg an." (Tb underscored words are written in Enjr lleh 'script) "I cannot leave unmen tioned at the end of the(t775th, year thats already In the untmep of thia yeaf, that is in May, Jona or July, the . County of Mecklenbnrar'4eclared Itself free and independent "of vEpa; land, and made such ; ai"ranrements for the administration" W; the law among themselves, as later T f tmti nentai Congress piade for - alci thia vroceeamga premature. . - K . The publishing of this paragraph in 1904,; and the printing of the fac-slmlle In December, accompanied by an ar ticle from the pen of Mr. Alexander Graham baa brought forth a number of letters inquiring as to the date and authorship of the "Fragment," which unfortunately lacks both date and si i DRUGGISTS AND CONFECTIONERS. i - ... nature. -inese Questions may be con i denned Into five, which cover the whole ground: ,s ; , .,, U The authenticity o 'the Moravi an Church Diaries la beyond question, but this paper, by lt tltirls not a part of the Diary, but only a "Fragment" can Jt be considered reliable? " (J) Taken alone . the paragraph reads, like a kind of a nostscriot. and was. certainly written after 1775, since it refers to the later proceedings of Congress: is i a part of the original document? , , t Where waa-the paper written? . (4 Who wrote 'It? ' "-5r When. was It vritten? "A considerable, amount of, time, care, - ana "researcn nave, been necessary . before these questions could be satis . factorliy answered, but the following siatementa may now tie made. . , ' THEJ-, DOCUMENT'S ' RELJ ABILITT. ' U) Can it be considered reliable? It was customary to keep the dally i Church Diaries as concisely, as possi- f ble. and any. event which required h , more extended notice was written, sep arately and, filed -with vine diaries. Memoir accounts of special Church ' , services, historical -sketches,' etc., are ' , classed together byi Moravian Archlv- ' 1 : Ists under ' the i technical ; name of y "Bellaae." the ; term emnloved by the i earlier diarists, and thla Fragment" : -;i o im counierpan in numoer "or 5 ,i sucn papers written at ainrerent. pe- ' clods. Many of hee "Bellage". re . t - stilt between the pages of the diaries. "- others have been taken out from time ' time for reference,' and when, no remnvat'A. that amrtalnlnar nf mnA '- authorship is difficult, aa practically f-' none are signed. This arouse no f Susprise in the mind.. of any one who i hay worked among the reeorda, for y-.lt was -not customary, to .sign any ' thing, even the carefully kept minutes , 'of the various boards give the name , ', - and signature of neither chairman nor secretary. Apparently, to their minds,' , .'the subject of which they wrote was , all-Important, -their ''own . ,conneotlon Vwlth It entirely secondary,-but their , palnstaklnsr acuracy is so marked ; that the careful student give them entire confidence even while regretting that their custom did not- conform to modern usage.' ? j , . . , , - - - AN MI8T0RICAI gKETCIt -L C) I itav part Of the Original docu . ' went? . The "rragment" la neither - diary, .nor mechanical compilation from diary.' It la an Tlstorlcal .. sketch,, well aanritten. clear-cut; showing' , ": , keen Insight tnte the affairs of the '. State and nation, as well aa the most Jntimate acquaintance with, event in Wachovia. - While for convenience the - author divides hie acounts Into yeara -h ha frequently run forward to- link ' i -To ; llBBS HESTTHKKiQKRO Wl GLASS OF THE The some result to Its cause. For exam ple, In reciting some of the events early in 1776, he states that - the sail ors on the English merchant ships in Charleston harbor, being unable to se cure permission to land their cargoes simply threw them overboard, so that they could load with rice and sail for home. Salt waa one of the articles so destroyed, and he comments on the great scarcity of thia prime necessity later on, and the suffering that the Having of this salt might have averted. Paper money claims his . attention in each year's history, but in speaking of the first issue without royal authori ty, in 1775, he notes Its utter loss of value late in the war; and again, in 1777. he mentions the statement by the Assembly of 1783 that the depreciation began in '77. The Introduction of later developments In the Mecklenburg paragraph Is therefore quite In keeping with the rest of the paper, and its form is also paralleled by similar editions at the close of other years, where 1 tenia which had been omitted in the current account were added at the close. This paragraph is plainly a part of the original document, and entitled to aU tJj credence thaj may be given to any par thereof i , (3) ' Where was ft - written?! : Alw though found In Bethania this ' oaoer waa most certainly written by a man who lived in Salem during the Revolu tionary War." Not only doea the whole story centre about Salem, then already the principal town of Wacho via, hut evepts transpiring there are given with a certain intimate know ledge that can have no other explana tion, -t The paper must have been tak en to Bethanls at aome later date, perhaps In comparatively resent yeara () Who wrote It? The handwriting of the "Fragment'; differs from that found In the Church : Diaries of those years, and certain features in the pa per itself suggested Traugott Bagge as Its althor. This waa confirmed beyond a question by finding In the Land Office in Salem -several Annual Statements of the store, written, dated and signed by Traugott Bagge. The script, though small, is unusually firm and distinct, and. It Is possible- to compare 4wo specimens, letter -by: let ter. when una test is appuea to ine 'Fragment.' with thes : Annual Statements i writing MPt : the standard, , the the "Fragoiept" Ms found to 1 be "Bagre'S throughout Moreover, In the body of the f Frag ment" there is given a list of the men Who signed a certain paper ex plaining the position of the Moravians In regard to the War, and their neu trality, and "in this list appear the name of Traugott Bagge: Laid by the side of - the signed statements already alluded to It be comes evident that, this name Is a genuine signature, and by the fortu nate insertion, of this ' last signature of the author is contained in the body of the paper, although It floes not ap pear at toe ena. ITS ACCURACT GUARANTEED. This hot only proves the -author hui guarantees the accuracy of statement in the "Fragment" for Bagge Waa the meet able, man .of affairs In Wachovia during the war.v At that time the store was the, center of trade for all the coun try round, and under Bagges skilful management -" the neceeeartes of life were never entirely lacklnsr for those wno vepenuea on nis storeto supply them. . iHls Influence saved the -town from financial ruin .in-tne flood of pa per, currency wmcn swept - over tne land;' and a he went torChariestown for supplies, to Hills bo ro or Newbern to appear; before iho Assembly, or to uia tticnmona to toe county courta, he was ever on the . alert to watch the trend or events, and It was doubtless h. k. - I.J. -, A , ' . ' a ma via, taav.. 4inva'liavivu i. nv, StUnaMl. Ud With the- aid of his 'Shrewd ludsment that .the minister charged with con trol of affair In Wachovia were able to lead their brethren safely through the very great oerslexitles and dan. wers 'that 'surrounded i them. I As mer etimntf nnancier. pouician. as a sturdy. vuiiacivnuous man, Taugoil JHagge ranks among the flrsf in the historv tt the State. t - . ... a. DATE! OF THE WRITING. ? . When was It written? The tlon of date presents the - moct dirfi- fulty.'but by a process of elimination is naa become possible, to decide on the month and year In which It was written, and the occasion forMtvA busy active man Hke. Traugott Bagge would not sit down and cover, forty pages with close German script,1 run bing forty-two lines to the iage slny ply for. amusement and he did ndt live te an age when too abundant leis ure would be an incentive thereto. The latest date in the "Fragment" is eon talned in the reference to the Assoro. bly.- oT 1783,. already mentioned. This Assembly met In the sprmg sot the paper, could not have been written he fores April. 17M.( In the & far of 17S. the - first nertlnent entry is on April, ii a; ; . . . . ' .Cr. L S I signs 01 u are ever seea aala aad rosterity is blessed with a rurs Mood U1- .' . wrtte for to hear of the aignlng of pac pre- uii'7 won tao wooa sou say mea.cai aavice uesirta W:'3,t Car;5, " . t, , , .'V., linjlnarle on January at Paris. On XZH CV.$ CrZZiriJ C2 ATZZTT. CA ' A1 f n. WEAIW CO,."" l'M ' wKHrtnanvu tm tBJVItru I - . sj... . a. a,--. 11 a i a ....... 11 X m jm .. a a.. l . I lASTliaav 1 si. t -.ii.,. wv 'A-. i-.,fir..:-w ,..if.. . -THE LARGEST INTERIOR JOBBERS IN BeaufSnt l-ithiai Water Co. by the Governor of North Carolina, Salem had a great peace jubilee. The programme Is given In full, (see Clew? ell's History of Wachovia, . p. 170), but no mention is made of historical pa pars. Under date of October 8, the sec retary of the Aeltesten Conferens (the ruling board of .Wachovia at that time) make this entry: "The mem oranda concerning the protection of Qod during the American war, which have been collected by Br. Peter, will be gone through at a special Confer ence meeting." On November 23 the congregation, hears of the signing of the Peace Treaty or. September 3 and on December 11, In common with the Moravian congregations in Pennsyl vania, and by order of Congress, they celebrated a "Frledens Dankfest" by special prayer In the evening, service.; On December 3, tne Aeltesten joinery ence fixed the program for New Tear" eve; "The children shall have their closing (meeting at three o'clock; the adult congregation shall have a love feast at night In the evening, at ten o'clook the Memorabilia for this year and for the war shall be read, and the closing meeting shall follow at Tialf; "past eleven." This Is confirmed oy 'tne . aiary ror .jyecemoejr .st, wnien says " of the ten o'clock service that they "remembered the many mercies Which the Lord had showed them not only during -the year, but throughout the eight years' war." It will be noted that Bagge's name does not appear, and the War Memorabilia, under title of "Lob und Dankopfer," read In the service and filed with the diary, Is in the handwriting of John Frederick Pe ter, then minister in Salem. But Peter did 'not come to Wachovia, .until 1780. 'would therefore have no knowledge of events prior to that time, and It seems evident that when he began to- col lect the memoranda which he pre sented to the Aelesten Conferens eary In October, he turned to Bagge, who al his request wrote the "Fragment'' under discussion. This explains why Bagge ended his account with De cember, 1779, for from then on Peter knew aU the circumstances as well as he, and the closing then Is otherwise inexplicable, for he stops Just short of . the time when Wachovia came dt-i rectly in contact wltih the opposing force, and passed the most perilous and most exciting days' of her history.. ThO paper was far too long- to read In a one" hour service, but the ""Lob und Dankopfer" Is strikingly like a re sume of . Bagge's sketch, and the sup position -that it Is such is .strength thened by the fact that in the archives of Bethlehem, Pa., there are two cop ies of the "Lob und Dankopfer," one ot which, evidently, the rough copy, la In Peter's handwriting, while ad ditional notes pasted on the margin, and slipped loose between the leaves, are. in Bagge' handwriting-. The oth er, Incorporating many of these notes is entirely in Peter's handwriting. That Bagge,. having helped Peter prepare his paper, should later, without any apparent reason, take the trouble to amplify ; the sketch to the limits of tne "trraarment," seems most ? improb able that he should In September have compiled his sektoh. and s then later assisted ' Peter v make a proper re in accord with the prevailing Interest tn the close of the war. " , , , ' ; Traugott Bagge died Iri lAnr!,, 100,. but a close scrutiny of the diary from Janaury. 1784 on falls to give a single reason for the writing of such. a paper. The Salem congregation .had a servk every evening In the week, and stead Everr one has aaemlltarff rifftt sVstfoor, healthy boif i but bow many do w see wno luive inberite4 that matest of H mlsfortttnea. Scrofula, an4 are struglin under m legney of disease n4 offering? Scrofula ia,s.onsUtuttonal trouble handed down A'parefct to child, jit corse Irdnt geaeratioa'to f'etaeratioit m long' at, tym crofulous matter la allowed to remain, la the family hlood. AS the very foundation of the blood is. diseased we see .this awful aJHiction jnanifested la many ways, such as enlarged gland or tumors shout the neck, which oftea burst and become discharging ulcers; weak eyes, chronic Catarrh of the head, thia diseases, etc. This blighting disease being so firmly intrenched la the Hood oftea attacks the bones, resulting id White Swelling, or hip disease, .while a pallid, waxey appearance of the skin, loss of strength, and oftea long affections show that the disease is entirely destroying the rich, autritive qualities of the blood There is but one way to cure Scrofula, audi that Is to purify the blood and rid it of the germs of disease, sad for this ptxrposS nothing equals S S. S. Its purifying and building-up properties rU.IZLY VCTACLG.medicine' "''T" " and may young or oll' t It so thoroc;hly removes the poison from the blood that no .: Gilige :A!c fceen; hrought inters section of Carolina. But the EUFOW V f ' . 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