U h.LLQYr DAYIL-ON
C.li:i) HOMG TALK.
I .(ij!ii4y Wmiled to Know llrlfflit
i J.iily YcnrIny Morning Mhtit
I. ad iun Horns Wlih Ir. w. s.
Davidson Some Hoped That tlio
Descendant of a Mrimw Had Bw
Sent to the Roads While Others
Dt'dml 11 1 Acquittal -AH Sort of
IVo! Interested The fcpeeeh
' Mado by Mr. Maxwell Recalled Ilia
JlaimxiH Adilrens on the Ooora M
loon Th Jurjr System l Said to
be Good Tiling. ,)U ' VQ.'jf
Hav4 you heard 'what they ' did
with Pr. Davidson?"- asked a gentle
V nan of leisure of an Observer report
er, who had Jut left his home and
' started ui street, at Jl o 'clock, yeater
day morning;
"Nope, for I am Just out Hare
rdo?"
( "Uh"( fcut I read the story In the
rooming paper with a great deal of
:.: Interest That was all news to me.
1 tia4 Maa that mn manv (VtarXnttn
people'' drank liquor. More than 1,
tOO prescription in 45 days la start
ling."
. The interested citizen and the scribe
cam to the parting of the ways. As
the reporter passed In frpnt of one of
the city's moot attractive homes a
lady appeared on the front steps and
asked:
"What have they done with Dr.
. Davidson ?"
, "I have not heard," was the reply.
"I hope they won't hang him.'
"1 s the Jury still out on the David
ton case?" Inquired a preacher.
"I think so. It begins to look as If
they might bo going m acquit him."
'That would be a raiamlly," added
. the minister of the Gospel. .
At the Belwyn Hotel the newspaper
man met Mr. K. L,. Baxter Davidson,
Who mado such an intercntlng witness
on Tuesday.
"Would ynu mind saying that Dr.
Sinclair Davidson's monkey, who has
been very III for several days. Is bet
ter how and would be Kind to see his
friends."
"Certainly."
"You have heard about tho Jury?"
sked Mr. Davidson.
"Nope. What did It do?"
"Failed to agree two for acquittal
and ten for conviction."
COULD NOT AFFORD TO ACQUIT.
"I knew that the Jury would not
acquit. Dr. Davidson," said a lawyer,
at the squi.re, "for an officer of my
church was on it and his preacher
faced him."
"Why, that should have nothing to
do with a Juryman doing his duty,"
declared a hy-stander.
"Yea, but a man Is human. He
does not like to meet his preacher If
he has done something that he knaw
the preacher had his heart set
against."
"But I don't think that a preacher
has any buslne in the court house
on an occasion like that," said the
lawyer.
"Why not?" put In a merchant.
"He is a citizen."
"Certainly, but I believe that It
hurts him, not the prisoner at the bar.
'It weakens him aa a preacher of In
fluence." It waa evident that a prolonged ar
gument would follow. The news
gatherer moved off.
"I had no Idea that tho Jury would
convict," said a loafer at the Central
Hotel. "I mu sevi-ral fellows on
there who like to take drams. I
knew they would stand out for the
sinner If they had any ground at all."
"Yes, I looked at one man there and
took a bet that th Jury would not
convict," declared his rompnnlon.
"But Dr. Davidson Is an artist at
writing presrrlptlons. We all know
that. I had never dreamed thnt there
was such a demand here for prescrlp
tlona" This last remark was made to pro
voke a little laugh at the expense of
the prohibitionists of the city and it
did not fall to take
A HIGHEK AROITMKNT YET.
"You may talk about the Jury sys
tem If you like, hut It Ik all right,"
said a lawyer.
"Let us look at this case! That
Jury was not trying lr Davidson for
Issuing prescriptions generally but Jn
on particular After hiving
heard the texilrnony 1 ronfr thsf I
fall to see the clar chko that the
Mat is said to have made It a
question of 'veracity between H K.
Henderson on the one lio and K. I,.
Baxter Davidson, Pr W H Davidson
and Mrs. Moiiie Wilson on the other
"If two Juror liellewd the three
Instead of the on,- thut W lh Ir affair
I m glad thy ln-ld nut I am a
great believer In the jury I would
feel perfectly safe In the hands of a
Mecklenburg Jury.
"It Is not a (ju-Htlon of whether the
two. If that be the corre t figure,
were right or not, but what
Is more Interesting in that
they thought they were right
and held nut agalnt preachers,
lawyers and fellow Jurymen It I
plainly evident that Dr. Davidson
does a thriving ttilm-- In whiskey
prescriptions but the question In
'Was he proved guilty beyond Moult
In this Instance'1 All 12 Juror did
not think that the State made 1 1 1 rune
clesr."
Kverywhert one vi-i,i yi-nterday be
had to answer nw (!.. n about the
Dsvldeon cnw Some uanierl to hung
the descendant ? a -ikTi' r In h'rt j
order, or, geret.il prim l -n, while
Other" wm, Id h:r.. I., , i k'l.Ml to ee i
him Hcijultt.d "utrifc-'it Him another'
group was pkiKH-d with t'o- dog full. I
All hnnds talked No on unit to
the "poor u n . . f t ii I,;-...) f. '
fender" an 1 fT-r d t . . --. f o him
or begged bl'ii t turn 'i n Ii'. evil j
Ways, but mnry 7 1 .;!. r. in i;nerl I
at home and .i d. : ,. tl.. lury
did not "nd hi-ri t" the ,ii Hni oil'
down Till- li. ii, oiiir the more,
Various minded The Pi-hter heurted
fellows, who take thlnt, and Mcnl as i
they (time. mp ui.y ii i.,y picking
OUt the rldlrul'Ml- f i or . s of the'
case. Thty m-n- like ih photo.'
grapher In Mark T inn's M-uy of ilie
The Man Who corrupted liadlehurg ."
They And tacts and imidcnt to tickle
their peculiar funny bones.
lilt. MAXWKMK HKNS ATIOV A I .
SPKK'MI
"Did you hear thut ieh of ("nl
Billy Maxwell's ?" iiU.,) a vounger re-
i " i -ji b "hi' r our.
"Nope: why?"
"Well, It was one of the most forre
fal arguments to a Jury that 1 ever
t: listened to. It was full of substan'-e,
Plilleul UTTdRm An. I ,.HMi.tl,.na l .
' U,Mtl Un...,l tU. II.., t , a,
ww - - w .- .-it.... . (1 1 ' p. , -
ttA fxmA it In tnlm "
; "WDf, ynu m 100 youv to rru
Ml U1IV I rantAUl miiAY rr ha
. M.r .a..j it t
Y':"WaH. 1 thought so, for that was
tha funniest speech ever mads by a
:; -.:'' ., A CARD,
t This Is to ertlfy that all drurglsts
r vthortseii to rfun4 foar monny if
iiMr" Honey and Tar fills to eure your
eeucb or coll It stops the roust, NmIs
ts langa aaa prwrata mrVmu results
fmm a aoli. Cure U grippe eixifH and
viwOUi pneumonia M ooeumptioa.
Contslna 9 ttat, Tha ganulna la in
a yllow peckior. ItafUM ubstttutaa,
A. u, Jar4ta A c,.f mm
Charlotte man. Cider.)'. ''.:oiuj have hot
forgotten It."
"lie made a scorcher ye'.tnrday.
The , prosecution " had declared
that the, conviction of Dr.
Davidson ; would cause rejoicing
from one end of the county to the
other. Mr. Maxwell ridiculed ; this
suggestion to .perfection. Ha told
about the happiness that there would
be, throughout tha county that one
more fellow man had been convicted
and sent to tha bad and declared that
ona man," and only one, Mr- Dooly,
could do tha eubjoct Juattca in story.
He pictured the good, Christian peopla
of the , county Jumping up and down
because ona of thelr fellow had been
convicted of a aerioua charge."' , ? U
"How much you reckon Dock made
out of them scripts?" asked ona fel
low, :I: i '. "
"About 1700, answered a lightning
calculator.
"Oosh. I b'lleva TU itop tpalntlng
and study medicine." ' .
After all, tho feeling is or two aortal
that harbored by tha "wets" and that
cherished by tha "dry. If an elec
tion, Instead of a trial, had been held
Dr. Davidson would ' have been
sent somewhere that , but few
good descendants vf Signers
ko. In elections the ma
jority rules, but In trials tha whole
bunch must be as one man.
Mecklenburg Juries are non-partisan.
WHAT MIGHT BE INFERBEb.
Mr. Maxwell Did Not Intend to Re
flect on the Solicitor Who, He hays,
la an Honorable Man The Dlltcr--nce
In Hendersons.
Mr. W. C. Maxwell stated to an
Observer reporter yesterday that he
had not made any attack on Solicitor
Clarkson, as might be inferred from
the report of the Davidson trial In
The Observer. On the contrary, he
said, that he had stated that he did
not mean to charge the solicitor ot
wrong doing and that he was unwill
ing for the Jury to suppose that he
did for he declared that the solicitor
Is an honorable man and Is Incapable
of entering Into such an agreement
with tho witness.
Mr. Maxwell was not striking at So
licitor Clarkaon.
In the same story of the trial the
Initials of the witness appeared to be
"J. E." in one place. On aeelng this
the friends of Mr. J. E. Henderson,
who claims to be one of the hottest
pro-hlgh-bltlonlsts in seven States,
went after him with gloves off. They
wanted to know what he had bten
doing with prescriptions. Anybody
but a dummy could have seen that
the linotype machine had let down a
"J" Instead of an "It," but Mr. J. E.
demanded a retraction. Here it la.
One ran look at Mr. Henderson and
tell that he never got a prescription
for liquor.
Real Kxtate Transfers.
Messrs. H. O. and J. E. Marsh have
sold to Mr. K. B. Johnson for $3,000
a lot beginning at tho southern Inter
section of Kleventh and Pine streets.
Mr. W. T. Wilkinson for a consider
ation of $400 has transferred to Mr.
E. C. Stllwell a lot In East End.
Mr. 11. C. Severs haa bought from
Mr W. R. Alexander a lot on Western
Heights, a suburb of the city. The
price was $ 1 37.
Dr. C R McLaughlin has sold to
Oeo. J. Miller for $3,100 a lot begin
ning on the north side of West street
at the pouthwest corner of L. J.
Walker's place.
Mrs. Julia J. Potts has sold to Mr. !
W. S. Hall a tract of land In tho coun
ty for $2,600.
Charcoal Stops Gas
On Your Stomach
Wonderful Alworblng Power of Char
coal When Taken In the Form of
Stuart's Charcoal Iozengea.
Trial Package Sent Free.
Charcoal, pure, simple charcoal, nb- 1
sorbs 100 times Its own volume of gas.
Where doe the gas go to? It Is Just
absorbed bv the charcoal tho gas ills- ,
appears a id there Is left a pure, ;
fresh, sweet atmosphere, free from
all I m pun t Ion and (terms. ;
That's what happens in your stom
ach when you take one or two of
Htunrt'n Charcoal Lozenges, the imM
powerful purifiers science has yet dis
covered. You belch gas In company, some
times by accident, greatly to your 1
own humiliation. That Is because there
Is a (treat amount of gas belntf form
ed In your stomach hy fermenting
food. Your stomach Is not digesting
your food properly. Gas Is Inevitable.
Whenever this happens, Just take one :
or two of Ktuiirt's Charcoal Lozenges
rljtht aftir eutlnK, anil you will be
surprised bow quickly they will act.
No mon belchlngs; no more sour
rlclriKs. Km nil you want and what
you want, and then If there U any
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Cb.ur''al I.ojunne, will take care of '
all the (as.
And It will do more than thut.
Kvcry 1 1 u r 1 1 1 1 of Impurity In your
stomach and Inti-ptlmn Is going to b.
carried awny hy the charcoal. No on"
seems to know why It does this, but
It dneH, und ilm.p It wnnili'ri'ully, You
riotlrr the dln'rin e In your appetite,
general good f-i lln. and in tho pur
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You'll bnve no mure bud tasie In
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Other people will nothi. your bad
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nnd meet, so when ym t;ilk to others
you won't (llsaust them .licit one or
two Stuart Charcoal Lozmikcs wU
miiki' your hreath w, nnd ninke
ou feel bettr all ovi-r fur It. You
i.in ent all the union nnd odorous
foods you want, and no one (gn tell
the dlfTi rence.
Ilesiden, charcoal Is the best laxa
tlv known You can take a whole
hoiful nnd no harm will result It la
a wond'-rfully easy regulator.
And then, too, It filter your blood
eviry partli l of pnoii or Impurity
In your blood I destroyed, and you
begin to nolle the difference In your
faee first thing your clear complox
lon. Hluart's Charcoal Losenge r
made from pure willow charcoal, and
Just a Utile honey U put In to make
them palatable, but not too sweet
They will work wonders In your
stomach, and make you feel fine and
fresh. Tour blood and breath will be
purified.
We want to prove all this to you
so Just send for a free sample to-day'
Then after you get ,t and use it you
will like them so well that you will
go to your druggist and get a IGc
bog of these Hfaarfs Chsrcoal Lo.
ngea .
Bead us your same and addrese to
day and we will at ence send you by
mall a sample package free. Addrwi
cod. .; . ; .:
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, After tlio tiilii.iicyn in; 1 j,.c in
His Recon t RoutuU dio I'uit round
Home Very IntereMlnjr I uet 1'hla
' Well-Known City osiieer JleeW Jto-
huffa on His . Jiamlric About tlio
; city is Taken l 'or IiiMurance Agent
V and Hue Man, , : : - ;-
Col. J. R. Winchester, care-taker of
Charlotte's pets and assistant . build
ing Inspector, has Just completed his
rounds In the residence section of the
city. ' Ha haa gathered om very In
teresting Information and had singular
experiences and dona the town a great
deal of good in, condemning chimneys
arid : flues. ''X Y'l'-x-'Xt''h, ..
In .talking with an Observer man
yesterday afternoon Mr. Winchester
aid:' I have inspected, outside of the
fir limits, 4,6(2 bouses, distributed as
follows: 1,804 in the First ward;
$21 in tha Second; 971 lit the Third,
and 1, 059 In tha Fourth. In my ram
bles I disapproved 4S1 chimneys and
flues, 134 In the Flrsf ward; 1(6 in
the second; 124 In the Third, and 37
In the Fourth.
"Why Is It that In the Fourth ward
there are 105V houses and only 37 bad
chimneys and flues? That has pus-?
sled me but I believe that the houses
In that ward ar generally owned by
neonln who live in them.
"I found 180 brick houses In the
four wards, outside of the Are limits,
45 In the First ward, 63 In the Sec
ond , 21 In tha Third and 48 In the
Fourth.
"Inside of the fire limits there are
223 brick buildings, making a total of
414 in the city."
"Did you have smooth sailing In
your rounds?" asked the reporter.
"Sometimes I did and sometimes I
did not," was the reply. "I caught
tho very old Nick at some places.
Sometimes I wanted to laugh and
sometimes I wanted to swear.
"I went to the home of an old ne
gro woman and told her my business.
She stuck out her Hps, planted her
self in the door and declared herself
against any sort of Interference. She
told me that she owned her home and
that the city had nothing to do with'
it. 8he told me to show my warrant.
Finally, I had to brush her out of
the way and go In. There I found a
stove pipe running through a piece of
plank weather boarding.
"At one home, where white people
live, I came near not getting in. The
lady of the house sent me word that
she had all the flues she wanted. I
told the servant to tell her that I was
a city inspector. She then explained
that she had all of the Insurance she
needed.
"I tell you I had it up and down
but after all it 'was a very pleasant
experience.
J,And what were the provisions of your
uncle's wtll?" ,, . , fc
"tk.i i .hmiM hov nil ho left after
the payment of his Just debts."
"Ah, very good of the old man, wasn 5t
It? What did he leave?"
"Just dents.-'
Believe In ofners If you would have
others believe In you.
A little learning makes a man dan
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It's the highest standard of finality. It's
a natural Ionic, cleanses and tones your
system, reddens the choeks, brightens
the eyes, gives navor to all you eat;
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The mere fact of the
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owner.
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Manufacturer of the Artlatlo
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Trade at McCoy's we lead in low prices on good
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Royal Axminster Carpets, $1.75 per yard.
Roval Wilton Caroet s. $1.75 perwd. '
Imperial Velvet Carpets, $125 per yard
iiiX Axminster uarpeta..5io per yara.
Ingrain Carpets, 60
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Coco Mattings, Hem p Carpets China Mattings, J apan Mattings, Stair and '
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When you need a table for your Library, Parlor or
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See our handsome mahogany tables 30x48 inch top,
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Golden oak library tables $10.00 to $35.00. Golden
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