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tl p! . . , 1 t3 vo; r; ii a gre -:'a the i ; leaders r.en remo t ! t; I or end c"!cj--s tie ( .i s; Cre;: voters to a ics. About 2 : e: to I. . . ' - -la tL: r ,. :;e morr ' , 1 went i.p orp-i, the crowd -i- . . 1 1 - I f 1 ((VII Lu ij Ilia i S i i ".J O 11,1 yy iao : vtiv j trsted with! fled - there was not a I'opulist there. V :i -las: "liit -emlioj the ., . U j. p. m. court: r a like i j the co ir.on people; Mr. Hat us Greer waa master oi cere r. .lie nee of the party, we j monies; he was a gentleman of the Cat all we had to do was; old school, and a most lovable man. whomsoever they put up, - r thing about it. This drove ' iha best Democrats Into the r rty, and some Into the Re i tarty.. -The principles of the ,ty were certainly approved by t men in America; for directly formation of the party, both , -Cleans and Democrats adopt - t tola the Populist platform; so i end '98 the State became Re ' In 18 Si Daniel- Bussall was i Governor with a majority of 1 lature of the same persua- t seven Democrats were -elect ' Senate. Elehteen Pomilists tinted Senators, but several of i were tolled back Into Rpubll n. But the better eliment of the r stood Arm as the everlasting lurted out to give someiDrthe eal workings here at home.' As I he Jeader in the county It will be sary to speak plainly Of myself, S.ljart I took In the county, and ay I was treated. It Is ten years It passed. I have done my duty, V cpen to the Inspection of the , I am proud of the course I pur ' f what I did for, the State and A but as no statement has been ! rf my acts, I thought it but Just juhg people should be Informed e difficulties I had to contend (in-order to save our county and . from the terrible calamities threatened both, which I was ate enough to prevent being en- Into laws. .. - t have but to look at Wilmington f. negro rule, the blood-shed that , ed, to have a correct idea.. of j; In all probability would have led In Charlotte had I failed to .iffsA . tn . tha .. nnAP&t .. Aaanmhlv In 1897. It is not pleasant I e .to write this history In which 1 so conspicuous a part, but u 1 do so, and that too at an early t will never be known by those vlli be In control of our Stat 20 i hence. . ' I expect ,to accomplish by this itatlon Is to preserve the truth tory. .' CAMPAIGN OP 1894 He introduced for the first speaker a Democrat aspirant for the Legislature, when ha approached the table and spread out his newspapers, turned ti where I was eittin and laughed bois terously for at least a minute, then turning to the audience said, "You good people of Steel Creek don't know Dr. Alexander, you think you know him. but von were evermore mistak en. Why, sirs, he Is one of the worst men in the county. If by any accident he should be elected to the Legisia- ture he would not hesitate to destroyj the rights of property. It would be an outrage for any community to trust Its good name in the hands of such a man." He spent his whole time air loted to him to speak 30 minutes in a similar strain of billingsgate ana ; - ; surprl. : to a ; i. , .'. .: s leva kr.o a I', r : t: i l-i v oppoFel to i -ivi' Cut it was a s'lrpri.'a to the ;:t tojy cf temperance peojl? of t:.a L'.ite because of Its lack of discretion, end also because of the fallacy cf his arguments, it is evident that he owes it to the Anti-Saloon League of which lie is chairman to hand In his resignation, since he is antagonizing the recent action of the league, and rejects upon the Intelli gence .of every member of that body. At the last annual session 'held In Raleigh it declared by a unanimous . i 1 ; : . t-ur, i 1 . . : ; , i- ; '" i ': on; t:. ;t K t..;rJ ;ro . tl I to an arch ire:: .;h at - -n Dleo. The r.irt t i .;T&1 i. r la America was l.r- 1 i -:.: r a giant elm tt Pittsaeld, Mats., the . --.ie trs under which the men 'of i t nel '.borho ... 1 formed when they i irche away t the War of 1812. V, . n Counectici :'3 charter was la dar-er -of etizure it was hid den in a hollow oak. Because the Scotch had "t 1 trees, trees," or "grief trees," on vvMch they hung their enemies in reality or in efllgy, early colonists here mil t needs have something of the sort, t-o they chose to set up liberty trees in. r,ew England. The Scotch tiad sycamores, the rev c i i. It i f -1 by aii. o. In a v - iriu-l cl.. neral. They looked so pitliui I cou.a not help -feeling sorry they were so cast down, but they had to take the medicine, nothing else would cure them. I tried to let them down as gently as possible. The candidates of the ring were so sure of being elected, that they died hard and It was dif ficult for them to believe defeat stared them in the face. My opponent noti- "e would contest my elecSon. ' After vote that It was unalterably in favor England colonist chose elms, which I went to Raleigh, the sheriff of Wake of absolute State prohibition, and op- were i made to serve nw. Pr county served me with another notice posed to dispensaries and . licensed Under them meetings were held, from thafmv election would be contested, saloons. Mr. Bailey attributes their their-boughs the bodies of offenders but nothing -came of it. - action to thelf ignorance of the.Qoe- ana ?nflr 8naa ? tul 0Ul w 8 , t t t v-v KKrnvrt I thBtfn..nfvwnUrd3, Uarg and thieves eat In the 1 ""' 11 111 1,11 ' ' ' 1 - CIVICS liaU U ICU -v-v fawuauAuvM v-. . fc ' . TI1E MORGANTOX SUICIDE. had abandoned it because it was In- da?J"e n S!I0thA I?n5 effective. To this statement" I desire ar history it stood near the long A Reply to "The Facta in the J&se," to ente? a most emphatic denial as tff-ti$&t$1 Umi, h. rrrnnnnt. After the Temperance Tear Book, to which " n5.f J-vr5.. n.i.i.i:. .,1.. ,. cmnvh and neither can such a conclusion oe rt j -r .v.- persyuai 'r? t FVjr the Unfortunate Young o- " " " i ?? Vi viuaKereas. under it Mrs. Oliver was interruVed him. Xs soon as his time , man, indulges in fcome ierrosun. m ta mtended to ehow ' the f i w tr . - Tl IPO - . - I .... . . . . . I w kBL. 1VI1 Alt Bk. TMU rr Z ' , -m, ' J attitude or tne various ponucat par- Btorm and a detachment of police To the Editor of The Observer: J ties as to the temperance cause since haji to be cMfa to keep the Bouvenir u is nop my custom 10 carrj ajoi. une year euun. vnc iuv owiiw i collectors from cutting it to nieces. la Th or hUSV. MUI I i ti..A. Iom U v.xl . . . .... - r - bles to the people. They we busy., uai wherft yeneral naUor laws have, been An offshoot of this tree, about forty &.UtJJSfl52i'-.S; P.assa? AW J. Tear. old. 1. to take Its place. U 13th the charge of "misstatement of mey nave been repeaiea; Dy mo van- xne dean oi America's history trees facts" is so near an approach to in- ous parties1 at .0 different times. - In S the, Washington elm of Cambridge, fringement upon the approved Rpose- the explanatory foot notes it is shown "Under this tree Washington first took veltian formula that a brief reply; is that in five Statea-the laws passed command of the - American Army. fleemed necessary. - - - f M were declared void by the courts. In July 8, 1775," reads the Inscription In the course or the ' TOf n J1 Alaska In this summary it is stated compiled by Longfellow and engraved th .fVthV hearing in that President Cleveland established on a tablet Some say that the first pxntred. Mr. Greer called on me. : l went to the table and addressed my audience, and asked them to excuse me till I could pay my personal re spects to the man who has Just ad dressed you, I walked back to the end of the hall' where he had taken his seat. What I said to him would not look well in print; but suffice it to say before I left off my personal talk, he got up and said, -."I acknowl- airn tkot T Viava mlanmanntAn . tft aoctor anaf w u taKe " December VastT at which Mss Ball gave prohibition, and that Congress after- evangelist in America. George Whit any one of tne one hundred . Demo- r: r .v.' .mn4otration. I v. j t a.m nr imri thia cam. crats who were present when the she. mado the victim of a sertea. ot state lt la deciara(1 the laws werel Twice has the lightning struck it- meeting adjournea, at least zo persons petty persecutions by thadmtnistrauon inoperative by weakening nenalties both times In the same place and no came up -to; me and Invited rmr to and its-adherents, and .that many-p "Tlv.0' !L " " re. doubt Its days are now numbered. spend the nignt wun inera. i ie sons beiievea tnat soe w." vn, - - , -.;;. ohe of the famous peace eaks that never had an opponent to attempt ffi SSTtSW thj mn --.t'tSL i? "S mexistenc7 R bTought to SlrJ1 Semeons the missionary by the Indians he had - - J - . V USU ICi-W VDU - -w to attend the meetings, out wnen wo. got over to Matthews, we had a fair t t.r id t.r t. i Ir-iive C Karr1ct an J v t Monroe '..'i mlr.ghftm, and t roe wltn r f -r : . f i No. 4 J ; f : - . . . I : t or"tra ' r : w i under t: 'at: ; Vkii l Cat was born. Other apple trees wer found down the valleya by the first liters, though thev were not of a kind Indigenous to the 6011. iaany Deirevea mem to i have been planted by a crazy man Known as Apple beed jonnny, ipho came to the settlements east ot the Alleehenles everv fall, collected great bars full of aDCle seed from the cider mills and then disappeared over the v.icbi'oni V Western rnnnntalns with them. lthe East with il f Ha had an Idea that as apples were JrwriM9 and s i of great benefit to man the trees Mon( snouia De piamea in ume io oe imuj out ci.&r.gh, roaw for the settler- who would one aay wnv.K.y. t -a. populate the valley. When the tide or. im ttfu0- iwiiio occacn uuu . i eonneounf vun 4' iu way there was rreat astonishment ham and the Southw. and rejoicing over the waiting trees, Jet for Richmond ,g .k in Ann... or,A Rnh nropti-I York, and tne t&Sl V, cat foresight can rarely be found In F?0Tda iJa' mo noouies mi crazy men. s ilor Rlcnmona, vmar, in Audobon Parlt. New Orleans. iVork. ana in East. Va fumnni H,. niV that holnnd for Rallgh. PortSITiou, make the beauty of the spot long ago gfj! ont when It was the property of ML De I "rrilln. arrlve in Cbario Bore. Audobon studied under these 1 Ko. 133, 10:0 a. m, Ux. a mui a tk. nlantotlnA I K'nrth and South. T nvn.Udnn ifDnA. a famtiia mlir. I NO. Uii, T.W P- JH., Oailf, in wi"i " . Ifardton. Shelby, Llncoiato i nolla unoer wnicn a treaty was signou y. Railway point. an inner an no one knows what it I m. m n.oo d. m.. datlr, ntaa ahnnt On tht road from Or an re ton. Hamlet and Hon to Fredericksburg. Va.. near Rhodes- poinU East .North and vllle. is the ea' under irhich the Mar- 05;- nnio rt Lafavette's tent was pitched -iithrouin trail as he supervised the building of the South and Southwest, STSTO." lTltJBU&t , tree was pointed out to visitors in De- between Jersey City. ) , troit, and near King's Mountain in Memphis, and Jereey CUjc Mnrth fnrolina IS tne awry lunp ire, i Tine. v " Nortn carouna v information. . t!m-t on whose lower or"-'"'" " YS: I tlon. on Beaboara de.cr; werehanged after tne Datue oi xviu ly Ueket aiienta or b divide of Populists; from thw on round to Long Creek there was fair play. ; , ?; A. - . A MOB - AGAINT HIM. , The canvass was to be wound up In ore the Democrats . held their lilon to nominate candidates f6r 7gislature the rnost, prominent !ire on the lookout for picnics, i where a crowd should assemble, the people know they were wil tosacriflc themselves for tne jiheir country, and lncldentai ithemselves and their party. It bretty generally known that b represent the People's party h canvass for the State Senate; jwaa the mark for the great bulk mocrats to pick at, and also ot men. It is extremely difficult for ji reoently 'come of voting age to thnw a. Ponntlnt vti trntffi or indignities' wefe heaped upon f After attending a big dinner i "politcal rally in' the grove at flence church. Mr. W. C. Dowd, r McCair , and myself Sen sed the crowd in the afternoon; -as a well behaved crowd, every pasBed off pleasantly. It acted iihd to me. I yas foolish enough boose, the Democratic speakers, e women we should meet, would .i .Fopunst wun tne same cour- ieV would a gentleman or any cloth or persuasion. But ; we out differently before we were ears : older, in a few days a indsome young man (I will not the name of the family) came drug store and told me Ms fere going to give a supper to nslative candidates, and as you je only Populist in the field, I Vou to have a-fair.5 showing, I leet you at tne depot ana bring jl out to our house in my car it I accepted his invltatlonrand lessrs. Dowd and Clarkson ar- here about sun-down. The la- it us in the porch, where we .rltroduced even" to the . baby, 1'afs cautioned "not. to go near id Populist, or he might bite 1 :ad off." I began to wish I had en to deal with,, although so , r worn en said nothing, but Joln- jAe hilarious, amusement at my a. This fun was kept up. for I rninutes, till supper was an d. whew I supposed in my sim- j that the insulting behavior of jsociates would be finished. The probably because I was the I person at the table called on tbc a blessing, this I did in my Vay, when one of my opponents j to the hostess and made a "complimentary remark about 'n she said, "I would, have ' to'do with him, not even to -inany with him" Such loud y clapping , -of hands and kg of feet, I never heard at a 'person's table. Up' to this time (never, spoken a word since I Jtered the hoise, save to ask a Y on the evening meal. Now at i ge of the great hilarity a splns 10 " was sitting' nearly opposite 'etched- her arm half across tho pointing to me, and said", "I ill you were a Populist by your 'lod knows I. have no use for (Another burst of applause if : more deaf enlng than any of tprs, and lasted longer; and 4, been for mydeterminatlon iph In the end, my legs would rriedmeoff. I put out my'arm 1 lt there till I, succeeded in 1 quiet,- then ,said, "You ladies e to regret your conduct to for I am a widower, and as i this campaign is over I am start out to hunt me a wife, enow .ot no place where I can hieleerant ladles, who know so w To entertain and make their fl easy and at home." 'They .tely applied their napkins to he'r blushes - and cried out, rt hr. we didn't know It. we i now it." "Well I give you fair f my Intentions, that you may r my coming." I completely 1 the-family, but lt made me I, had a spell of the Jaundice .XXVASS OF COUNTY, 'ere '-soon to enter upon a res- ' .fis of the county; my friend. inldn, was a'.candldate Tor the ,f . Representatives; and a bet i, a better Christian does not ; I felt sometimes like telling was too good a man to drag ich a slum. The first plao wrs . at Collin's nrtore; from had left also at a place where it wouia 'Z taught, and planted by them as an not probably escape notice, the address summary can be aeon la Tear Book l"MLIon 0f neace At Dedham It her father; that ,after this discovery l05on page 1. - , . 55ttS oak Is nSed out as the nuN .i. th tow friends wh had not Thii no-atn fr- tan anotner oaK is pomiea out as me pui- tZ'A'AZ: once used by George Fox, the n chawV when a meeting house was ity and have an effective search Insti- rr'- -v. -.-" 'f. denied him. tuted; that ttus was not cone; tnai in -"""" " pnn'i famsni treatv tre fell in a -." " tJ,tin that th vnunir and whn AluA n mnrfvr tn Ma hnng. fenn s lamous treaty tree tea in a Charlotte" T hai heard of the mob, W had disappeared-reached - Morgan- less task" and said there are a num. V ma?5d in ts that was going to be present; and fl- to. S 1 ffi? thT the SSuff soldiers ter consulting with many "lenast " TpartiVs and found the body, peanon'. wn 7,7 BPeclal uard around 11 was deemed best not to have .Mr. Joe, eaTn,g statement was made only as upon reMson a own words, ; uttered six JLrln tn RevoluUon. After it was Kank n present lor certain reason- information. Professor Godwin ana ur. e i ueatn Derore tne tRua hv a sale In 1810 a zreat nart that" his friends thought valid, f He jeter "profit to state facts within their Minehaha Club, of Chicago. In this tret was sent to .the ofd Pen" wasleft in. my drug store while we personal knowledge, although it appears address on pages 65, 66 and 57 lan- f'g St a" Stoke new Windr all went to thexourthouse. -The mobi that Dr, Jer was not tafo thattt. fuagecould not be more -emphatic SSSni! wh U -V JaulrSSSS' was there in run lorce, ana tney were Xut Bollock and it will noi ftV ' J rfoni " s." - Hear .rJane McCrea, 1777." Is an inscrip- not backward In letting lt be 'known J, that Professor Godwin, at the im-trtwJil!"ar enty-flve cities tlon that was seen for a lonjg while on that I should not.be allowed td speak j'S the tragedy and the search, was towns In Cumberland county be- a large pine -tree near Fort Edward As soon as I began to speaK, the lead- , Raigh, more than 200 miles away "ides Portland, and there Is no such on the Hudson. This tree was the er of, the mob who was standing di-!trom tho insUtutlon! t said 1 was In thing in existence as an open saloon silent witness of the death of the girl ir1"'"1'1 or an open bar. It does not exisfc whose scalp was taken by an Indian ru . iiai. niia waa oivadai wi ai4i . the dogs, Trip, Trick - and Train, to Join at their Inhuman attack on me. J-ust at this time, Col. John E. Brown uu inrjr t : .. - ana ior tnat reason t oiaim nriv. n t.. . j .u-.o They say that when Miss Ball leu tne - tL:.7 . k" y O.u"s,'uo u, nchboi on Wednesday evening she told 1 "v. v ww.. OSBess mat prom- her lover, who recognized it, aesertea a servant "she was going for a walk." "yon proniDiis. inen in the closing the army that would allow such prac whn -Via failed in return SLt Biinner I Words Of this address ha enva T 4a iia l , 1 . . . I 1 IK II J.V ' - .y-- I . ' W . A I hlWVBl ' ana rrann usuurne Biirmis uuun uw, titn it rnnrluded that she had tola not Know that t ahull A vi t- xrn, vv tK n t . . .-.3j A A-in. '-- - ..... , . . I ...... tw v v iuq Alt Ainr vn. ww iiitftByiiviiu ..- jmuuiin aim pucum v.uc. ! tne seryB.ni a iaisenopa na n b . lanninuation or the X'. last : aaloon lit on the tourist cars will Point out a me crown l nao. as mucn ngni ;w, Morganton to auena. r America, but I believe thara . tv,rt.l -,n tJn r thr .n.,r r,,m trAPH iiirhioii'nt-iha rnuiui mnooi uianonum., ill, . ..r.. " - v. o-... , r----- --- - - . i nere wno wni." . 1 tv,- speak in the . courthouse as any JAM 3 Ki-K. JU.. 20 West Tr"1 Ci.fi. Southern L rrr-taU: XZ2'-Zrn:rSlZZr. ungna ,imerana agent or .the liquor dealers' assbcla- teen trees that aeierminauuu. v j,uu wiii nut iicar iuw. -mf I : i' , . m . . . i . t. i uci n kit kiii wi 1 1 i v' wnini tinvn iKrn siMar W tho onnntv' "Rut h tnoh h owl fd having been oeterminea tnat sne must " v t . . i i -"w ""6m"i v "ui viDw, in, tne county. ,s iiui tne moo nowiea, munni 0,Mitnrim in. How Mr. Ba lev ran writ a. .al and .Fifth .vnn nd tell von that VIZ JjfliS-.Sfv-Lt a-? 'JJ-ii; aulry about her waa made at Captain does unless he was the advocate or these are all that are left of the thlr- Alexander Hamilton the original col street there are inese genuemeu bj him oumo ui i tu ... ' . . " --.j, v. . - u to-night, but I will make you . hear, her most intimate friends , were opposed ZlXr"'" .!ao fcna a?' S ti 171 10 giving a general aiarra. nuw uiun; j mjuof , uavocait - Ifl , of tham---and iwhen before were their the State. HIa article Is a contradlc- thev having, been a present to Mr. wishes so tenderly regarded? In anj tlon of his indorsement of the Watts Jumel , from Napoleon, brought from event, the fact Is made to appear from and Ward laws which nr ct0t- Egypt. ; - . - thi. i statement ? my!!f" prohibitory laws 'with , SeiStin.rS New Haven haa been known . for inai a- BCiiciai aiaiiu t,o.d uvv bhou iuii.ii . j.. . , - - "about 9 .o'clock" Thursday morning, Jfwns with over one thousand popula- and they do not undertake to say that tl0n- I" prohibition is good for towns searching parties were not organized by of 999 people, would lt- not be a-ood citizens Qf Morganton fcefore that hour. for tOvlns with a normlntlnn iniihia It Is noteworthy that this letter of ac- inis nimberT Th Jwl-. t.i cusation is singularly silent as to the JJ ,The larfT the towns fnot that mi Rnii. at tha harintr tAati. ntaKes praeijcaly no difference, un. fied adversely to the administration, and 1 less It be said the officers of the law as to the theory tnat consequent unmnci i are more liable 'to perjure, them me In the future." This was the last Fpeaaung in me cuinpttiKn, tne eieu- 'tlon was held the next week, when the entire Democratic ? ticket in the county was elected by nearly one thousand majority. It was natural for them to feel happy and Jubilant. . I was pictured off in their partlzan pa pers as done for. In one place I was represented in a coffin ready for the grave. But I had only to wait for another term;- and then the tlda in the affairs of men took a turn. I do not remember how the parties stood in the State, but the Republicans were in the majority. .1 know that the Rev. Dr. Soloman Pool got his pre- terfded salary of $4,000 paid for being president of tfte University of North Carolina, at the session of 1895. But more of this later 'on. During the next "two -rears I was ostracised by most of those who voted th Demo cratlo ticket; but I" am glad to know tbit during this time I had an approv ing conscience that had labored for Lthe good of the country, and that waf worth all the rest. -THE MEETING IN" LEMLY'S. In the summer of 1896 I. was the People's party candidate to represent them in the Senate. I had a most vivid recollection of what I had to put up with two years before and I waa DreDared to meet them on mora ad vantageous ' grounds. Some parts of the county' where Populism did not eeem to havegotten a start, I did not meddle with. I was after votes, and I cared- but little where they came from so that they counted In my col umn. 1 1 remember one afternoon Mr. DOwd and myself met' at Fiddler'a sawmill, in Lemly's township, where I knew every person in . ten miles. As soon .'as I looked over the crowd I knew Its complexion; there was four. Democrats, eleven Populists ana thirty-five Republicans. I had got r him into almost as hot a place as I was in at Collinsr store. ; He never dreamed what kind of an audience he had be fore him; but Imagined that he was at Providence and began matting a hot Democratic speech, and the men all got up and started off, saying "they had heard enough , of that , kind of clash." J came as aulck as possible to his relief, and Insisted' on them returning and give him a patient hearing, that wo had coma seventeen miles for, a political talk, and not treat my opponent so rudely, resting assuredly that i win taae care of hhn. With these promises on my part the crowd returned, but Mr Dowd was ao flustrated that he could not "begin where he left off," and soon termi nated his speech. He looked ' very much like I felt in Steele Creek, where I had no one to stand to my back. In Lemly's township, where I lived and practiced medicine for , thirty-four years, I got nearly all the votes cast in that box; all parties cast tholr suffrages for me, which I took as a great com-i pjlment, wlilch I will always cherish as the grandest token of love and es teem that my countrymen could give. But I tried faithfully to prove to them their confidence was not misplaced, i A LIVELY CAMPAIGN. : We made the usual campaign over the country, with -Mr. Clarkson as as sistant to my opponent, ana Dr. Cra ven with me. We had a lively time. but .not always pieasant; some re- treatment goaded her to self-slaughter. It may be that the public does not care to know the true history of this tragedy. At any rate. If the management ot the institution la content, under the circum stances, to rest Its cause upon the cheap charge that I misstated the facta, I can afford, upon the foregoing statement, to treat the incident aa closed. - - W. A. SELF. Hickory, April 20, 1907. selves j than In smaller places. If prohibition Is good In part It is good In whole. If the - licensed . sale of liquor la morrally wrong In one place it is morrally wrong in every place Would Mr. Bailey extend hia local option theory to other things? Would he say . the : same thing about gambling, running lotteries, prize fights, bull fights and bawdy houses? SIR liAUNCELOT AND GUDfTVEREI If the locality, town or county should settle the licensed sale of liquor for Like souls that balance Joy and pain. With tears and smiles - from heaven again - The maiden Spring upon the plain Came in a sun-lit fall of rain. In crystal vapor everywhere Blue isles of heaven laugh'd between. And far, In forest-deepa tinseen, The topmost elm-tree gathered green From draughts of balmy air. Sometimes the linnet piped his song; themselves, why not these other things?. If the licensed sale of liquor Is not morrally wrong, ' why - does the .State Incorporate schools and churches? Why not debar or In corporate them against dry goods stores, grocery . and hardware stores shoe stores, etc., etc?. The highest courts of both State and nation have said the liquor Sometimes the thrcstle whistled strong; traffic ia morrally wrong. It has been Sometime- the sparhawk, wheeled along, maligned and condemned by every re "Ai I1JhKSVwith0rf.!5 .f ZXn iou body in the land. - The liquor Bv erassy canes with fulled sound In curves the-yellowing river ran, -And drooping chestnut buds began To spread Into the perfect fan. Above the teeming ground. Then, in the boyhood of the year. , Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere Rode thro' the coverts of the deer. With blissful treble ringing clear. She seemed a part of Joyous Spring; A gown of grass-green "ilk she wore, p.urkled with goldon clasps before; A light-green tuft of plumes sho bore Closed In a golden ring. Now on some twisted Ivy-net, 1 Now by some tinkling rivulet, - In mosses mixed with violet . - - Her cream-white muie nis pastern set. many generations as the City of Elms, the first having been brought there from Hampden by William Cooper, and given to the Jtev. Mr. rierponi. On the green stands an elm known I as the Franklin elm, having been bought by Thaddeus Beecher from one Jerry Allen for a "pint of rum . and some trifles," and, planted9 on the day that Franklin died. For many long years a mulberry tree stood to mark the place where the Calverts and the Indians made the treaty that gave Maryland to the Catholics, but it reii nrty year Church furniture was made from it for use In the ancient townwf St. Mary s, and the Bishop of Maryland ha a aravel made from a bit of lt. ; The strength of the tree la almost incredible. At Jamestown a syca more tree grew up between the graves of Commissary Blair and his wife. It carried one-third of Mrs. Blair's tomb three feet above the surface, holding It fast in a crotch, while the roots and the body of the tree shat tered Into tiny bits the stone slab that marked the commissary's tomb. On the eastern borderland of Ten nessee, far tip in the mountains, there stood for many years a tree bearing this legend: " D. Bdon killed a BaTon this tree vear 1760." It was a rough record of the prowess of a 26 year old Mountain. Th Rntannlsal rardena at Wash Inrttn ara rlrh In trees that have as sociation, as almost every man of prominence , In political ana meriy affairs has piantea one. .-yy from thA seed that Mrs.- Jefferson Davis brought looks across the walk to a haAoh that Sumner, the abolltlou- . . a a. t . V aolnai Mtlt st. was lniirameiuain i . B.-Followlng woi' a out. The memorial trees of Presidents u-w.,. l'JAra,i ana. potentates oi, aivenscuv - guaranteed. Jfittect Jrebruari wave their long Dougns wwiu i-u a. mv. No. . daiiv. othar anil foreet the cast in xneir i ton and points North. Pi present effort to. make the yyorld and day coachea to Wash: beautiful. Among tnem is an-eim a. m., no. b. daily, r ii,.! i- ..'Anhnnt of on fhat Wash I and local Dolnts. connects r !?!2 .neDd Nerbed TOead . uiuvdu wudu j""-v " w - i jqj. jy'orlOUt, I 4:10 a. m.. Na S9. dally. BUST BIJIvUjNU'1v. Pullman ileeper and day tto mgtoa to Atlanta. ciMinMn' tt ttiA - Holt-uranlto I B-.25 a. m.. No. 27. daily f ywv avavva v a vm - . - i. t 7 , Manufactnrine Company Elect New -?J. i-0J"iD1 8n?ioc: Officers-Dmg Company Moves Into t'w ,5 0 r t" Jianosome , iuiaing nviiw x ur- man car ana day , coacnes. nlshlnir.ComDany Pushing Work on Washington. Ita Ilpantiful Structure. ' m.. No, 18, daily er 1 ,n. H,.l,ai.f11A Taw A.. . opeciai 10 Aim uwiw - points, connects at fiio- , Burlington. April : 21. At a recent Wlniton-Saletn and at t i,i,nHN .nf tha I Jisnevnie ana points west. ufannfartnrinir Com- 10:86. a. m.r Nq.83. dany, f u-n-uiouuy , - a.ni Augusta. - Handles ru. pany, of Haw Kiver. ine lonowing New York to Augusta atd changes In officers of the company i waenington to Augusta, ..-.. J . U. W : Ua.nrnn1 I SCrVlCa. . wore eucvicu. jm. " I 1ft ft a m .. tlo M oIW t retiring ironv tne presiaency, . ton and points North. tvUv S. Robertson, formerly secretary, aa Room ileepers to New Yot elected president with T. Holt lMt rfn Ca vice president; C. B. wrignt, secre- BtctfJ ar. oreen-boro for TV i tary, and John A. Trollnger, treasurer. p,i,iigh and Goldsboro. teraay movea tnear iiaimsjiiio , - barg far Hendprsonvllle an fixtures and stock into the! new u:00 a. tn., No. SO. daily building on Main street, 'The liulld- jt"') SrNtortMawL v n,..nn -niah dn Ins Room, sleeper to New mg una uecii co.Uv.u.., - coaches jacKsonviiie ta conveniently arranged for : a drug Dlnina car service. store, and. with the fixtures harmon- eli:oo a. m. . No . a. dally f izlng with the building, the whole is NoK m, one of beauity. land New Orleans Limit" Work on the handsome new build- Drawing Room iieping cars. ing at the corner of Front and WottH . !' ' n streets is inrogressing ' rapidly. The ir. car. ww York to Etrm K.iiMlnff whan omn1etrd. . will h a Pullman train. Dlnln car briok with hlte cornea atront ana piaie kihjso h uhi. wu uiw i b:so p. m,, no. zb aauy e and second floors, and win he occw-1 freight and, -passenger, ior i. j v.. ' 11.1 T)..11nrtinm TTntvon TiSn-y I C. nd local POlnta. P,eu. t No. 84. dafly. f mailing vuu'v"j, ,f KODOI For Dyspepsia clears the stomach and makes the breath as sweet as a rose. KODOL is sold by druggists on e guaranteercuer pian. n conrorms sir ictl y to the- Nat tonal - Pure Food jind Drugs Law. Bold by Hawley s Phar macy. - - . ' 1 1 . a. I . S mo f MaAlA O M 4 VSft. ?Jt" . A8. l" a t Kft! hunter, and was a familiar landmark States lhad trie'd towpw tt. tVafnc! to traveler, and hunters .for many and had failed In so far as to lecure 'S"'l4.i: --Li.-V-; -' 'the banks of complete prohibition It would " be' tFun ,",an,d Tt nibs's Lick' noting more than we have done .in th. 1 Jgltw other things. The government nas Mora than 100 years ago a -ought to suppress Illicit distilleries. ameJ gpencer spent the winter ever since there . was a tax upon naneu vpe i v. - , liquor. Must lt Btop its efforts and' V none was not so pretentious as Pander to this kind of business? Hli .Xrnia settler who, assertion that there are five times as neither time nor "money to many - open saloons In Kansas with. KUud found a hollow redwood and State prohibition as In North Caro I Una without the positive proof . .and facts is challenged by others - who And fleeter how she ektmnVd the plains know as much and more about Kar,- bus umn air. umiey, a nave nearu the remark made that there was more liquor drank in Charlotte, Greens boro and Durham than when , they Than she whose elfin prancer springs v.v nteht to errv warblings. When all the glimmering moorland rings i With Jingling, bridle-reins. s . As she fled fast thro' sun and shade. I The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlets .irom tne oraia; She looked so lovely a she sway'd The rein with dainty finger-tips, A man had given all other bliss. - . And all his worldly worth for this. To waste his whole heart In one kiss Upon her perfect lips. Lord Tennyson. HAIUmiAN. immediatelv converted lt Into a two story dwelling. - He had a living room downstairs and a bedroom above and lived , there several years with his family. Not far away from him stood the larrest tree In the world, the Abraham Lincoln, once called the Hermit, measuring 18 feet lndlameter vui v uu uuiuaut vnau nutii mvj ilflliui. metuiui wi 10 had saloons, but the court records, and 320 feet in height, prove Just the opposite as to crimes The- live, oaks of California are a and drunks. Recent published facta feature in themselves, the largest showed arresta for drunkenness inf measuring 10 feet in diameter, being Durham had been cut down -about' In Tulare county. 'Those on the cam- two-thirds, and crime for all causes ous of the university grounas at .about one-half. But suppose the a sertloh were true, Kansas has more I than fifty timea as many foreigners as North Carolina, having had In 1900, 67,025, while North Carolina Berkeley are especially noted for their beauty and also attract attention from the fact that some of them ex emplify modern methods or tree sal vation and protection, wnere oecay iviU promptly char a iii Gripp wi)en takfnf only or Thou Insolent and swagrrerlng privateer Ct Pnafn,ia Aavad of tht rnmanna Which lends to Captain Kldd's high-sea ton. Ashevllle, finance A certain pleturesqueness, thy career -Measured with his most sordid doth ap- . pear. - , , , i Thou tlcked-souled and tape-bound financier,- ) Drunken with money and the arrogance That money breeds thou shameless en gineer - - - . 1 Of shameful deals, that with collossal .nerve .: . ". , - i '-" " .- And cheek of brass thou freely dost ad- v . ... vcfriirimcb . ...... . - . - , i had only 2,530. Ills argument based, has set in the foresters , wve iuy on the sale of stamps to drug stores cut out io u.r,aOC way mat uninnio .v...., r, in a filling of cement to prevent furth- decay. ' . Further down the coast, In Banta overlooka the fact that; In Wilming tnn Aahavllla Wlnntfin . Ea . .m neidsvllle. Rocky Mount.-Tarboro and! tTc?7- Washington, all large towns, have open saloons, while . Raleigh, Wilson Klnston, Henderson, Oxford, Green ville, Warrenton, Loulsburg, Fre mont and other towns with over a thousand people have dispensaries. Ills comparative stamp figures with these exceptions amount to no proof at all. A great many people have questioned Mr. Bailey's sincerity as mit : V - v minders were given that will not soonv,rnI1 punishment condig-n thy deeds d- leader of the Antl-Faloon L-'ssrne be forgotten. At -every "pending place, ?r' "l"",,". Iorc" m inf tr!U' TCq l'-," we made an 'agreement how long eaehAt ,htr'6 6 rnay 0 now orly nnflrnifl thf-lr -' wvU-l ns. COMMISSIONER'S RALE OF REAL . . ESTATE. """ By virtue of a decree of the Su perior Court of Mecklenburg county In the case of Mary E. Wriston and others vs. Mary V. Smith and others, the undersigned,, commissioner of tho court, will proceed on Monday, the 3d day of June, 1907. at 12 o'clock m., at the court house door In tho city of Charlotte, to sell to the highest bidder - the following real estate; - v Situated ' in 'the southern section of the city of Charlotte,1 adjoining the lands of J. S. Myers, Thompson Or- pnanage ana the Charlotte Consoli dated Construction Company, con talnlng eeventy-flve and 8-100 acres. This tract has been divided Into three tracts, one containing twenty eight ana 88-iuu acres, the second contain log twenty-six and 8-100 acre. on which there are several acres of tim ber land, and " the third containing twenty and 12-100 acres. Also an other lot or parcel of land at the. intersection of. Saint - Catherine and Middle streets, in .the city of Char lotte, containing four cottages, three rooms each, lot ninety-nine by one hundred feet. Also lot on Saint Catherine street, In the same block as above, containing - one j four-room house, lot forty-eight by hinety-nine feet. v,'-:v;;.. Terms of sale: One-half cash and balance in twelve months. 1 Title to be retained until the purchase money is paid, and option to be given pur chaser to pay off all th purchase money at once or at any time before the maturity of the deferred pay. n-ient8.:' ,v "V;'.:j.r-'i-':..... !, -:; A map of the lands and full In formation may be obtained by apply ing to the undersigned at his oiBpe at No. 33 North Tryon street. B. R. LEIS, Commissioner. This 15th of April, 1907. ton and nolnts worth, w ar. Auoiista to New To , ileeper, Charlotte to New coaches to Washington, Put Bnilsbury to Norfolk. imir TK n. m.. No. 12. dally. I and local stations.. Puihi Room sleeper, Charlotte t 7:10 p. wo. a. aauy e fow Btatesvllle. Taylorsvu - points. Connects at Statwrv vllle. Knoxville. Chattanoo; and points west. 8:&a p. m., sho. , oaiiy. 1 Pullman ileeper and day c? lolte to Atlanta. - 0:06 p. m.. No. 88. dany, and New Orleans Limited, f to.n and points wortn. ruim Boom sieepirg can. utv Club cam to New York. Din vice. Solid. Pullmnn train. :30 p. m.. No. 83.. daily, f and points South. Pullrrn Boom sleepers to New Or'' infngham. Day coaches v ; New Orleans. Dining car t J0: p. m.. No, 29, Sally, t Savannah and Jacksonvlt'. Prawlng Boom eleerer tv . Whlnrton to Jacksnnvlll. Tickets, sleeping car re?r detail lr, formation can be ticket oftlbe, No. 11 Smith T O. H. ACKERT. Vice Pres. "M . P. H HARDWK'iC. W. H. TAYtoi:. r R. T. VERNON. v:v:r.-.,w C!" On Independence Sijuaro, Charlotte, N, C rNTirn Nrw and LirrrtAL yri'cr.rcrrr, , co -.- irsxiAL ii EADprART: ::!. r.ites J2.00 to 13.00 t'-t day. American inn. Cr ii in t: cify. Tl' Central In ttn hr' r- 7 s-c-! 1 f 1 tJ SEABO '.ah iixr." SPECIAL RATES VI AIR LINE I ' Richmond Va. C erans vreunion, I! 80th; rate of one twenty-five cents v : Durham, N.-C. I', c. sociatlon. May 22-2 1 ; one-third on cert:.: . j will apply Pinehurst, N. C. C Education !n the Sou one first-class fare 1 : cents for the round tn i Dickson, Tenn. C Cumberland Presyt--May 16-25; one r"; r-. twenty-five- cent3 v, . ! San Francisco r Cal. Imperial Co Of tho Mystlo fh:- . based on practU round trip will vr $76.50; Wi'.m!: lotte. 376.50. Blrmlr-hJi". snifc!y 1're -'. Ur.itel Ut . C'i.,3 I'M I' i t t; rc i.u'nd" Arr.erH. ' v '.1 t:' r 1 r r To r"t n tiT to t' rtrM! . - ' ' i: r ': ,v 1 T! T n;v liW 11 ; 11 , V" ' C.-'tari " 1
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