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'V- ,i - : See, our large. stock, of Colonial Bed Boom Suits. We offer great values in Velvet and Axmin ster Carpets. Inlaid and Printed Linoleum department in the basement. Largest stock of Of fice Furniture in the State. . 'V if READY READY READY; flor tlammotli Collection of Furniture, Carpats, Ougs and Curtains arc all here for your inspection! , The largest and mdst perfect collection ever; displayed in the Carolinas Every piece we.show is priced with -the view of giving-the best values; . for your money that it will buy' in this of any other :: market Our stock represents the select styles that are rnade by the leading manufacturers in-the leading manufac turing centers of this country. When you visit Charlotte this week ' and next do not fail to corrie to see tis It is a pleasure to show you through our stock whether you wish to make any.purchases or not The Retail Merchants Association pay railroad fare for 40 miles and return on total purchases amounting to $4000v We offer-special inducements to newly married people going to house keeping. .: ,r 4 , ; ; ; Largest Dealers jn the State 6 Wesi Tracfe Sfreet Domestic and Im- 'ported Window and Hall Curtains in great variety. , " ' . 1 1 . Seeour $30.00 ' 9x2 Eugs. .. They are, copies or reproductions of genuine Oriental Rugs costing two , to three thousand dollars. Some special bar gains " in Leather Couches and Library Furniture. ; i f ll. . . " l l Tm:4-.A . - l v I l I 1 I 0(.a I . ' I I J.-IUWWUO, . I 'll W OMW- L . : i I L : : :r ' ' '"' . ' I ' ' ' '"' ' ' ' " v " " ' i4 " j, 1 t ' " t i J I '" t V V t , n .'" ' "'' " " " ' : X v -t ' . i. 4 v ',t -- i - - . y k , jr y 'V ''' '";'"' ' ' . .1 ii iiii ..ll inn I ....Mi . . ii.ii ii.. , m.,1 n i ,,,, amjmmmuimmuam,mmHmmmmam .1.. i i J-f B UNIVERblTfS BIG DAY Continued Irom J'a(fs une " ' ducted on the lines of its theorJea. ; ' lite issue vt clean and honest, frugal an4 Imiilc reatfonalble, Indictable ' V- und iun!hal7le adrotnlstratlon withus ' vfrtM,v lusuen ot uurety fantaetlc lm- 1 port. Wo have got through with the tjitTvacy uutsrton, and we hope you , Jiav alo. We iearned In u hard school of 'experience ami of auftefinff , that cheap money degrades not nly " or nscal standing at home, but, our , . " vontmerrlal and moral Ktandlng " ' - nmone the nations ot the world.- To . ' tln'lr opinion tre cannot be indifferent which have on men, otherwise Bane, the incensing effect of red rags on the horned and bellowing terrors of field and of plain, My countrymen, If we leave t he quarrel words out of our contests or out of our contentions, out nr nnr xripofhcB and out of our journ alism, we shafl go far toward tinding out that the things wherein we agri'e vastly outnumber and Immensely out class the things whereon we differ. Take, for instance, the lapsed ques tion of bimetallism. That-was-a great and mouth-nillng. word with us well as with you. I nevtr knew of a human being who . was agalhsrt It, if international agreement made it pos lhit or who could tell how such nri'Mimont could he brought .about IVith tlu-ir adneral welfare our own i ' . i H it F 1 1 1 tr 1 1 L UQ L J mm - , bound vv. We have (earnea, anu w learned that if we went at . U hv ou have, that periodical, feu .,,,. th- nobiet tnetal rose to a j?re- m-w uncertainty meanH . periooiwi, u - . .. u with the baer j.ut inierupedlate. bumnes prowirauon. ,,.. ,hBrren ideality. We Mi we have ulo lwtrned that he , ,f undertook it In huld be regarded selfish and not -fnr.n( . 1 K h natlon8, they htatp.srnan)lkc who would gamble with the intercxii or fears of bulns, for political purple or for political ef fe t While bearing the Ills we have, rather than flying to others which . we -know iwt of. the sanliy of the North, and. linpo. tne sanity .ox . ine . riiintirtn. Our oolRlcs had inn "i"" " must e nations of our own class and that such nations refused their co-operations. We could not undertake U of ourselves. We could not propose It to our peers among government without drawing their scarcely ' re bus . retired from sneer, idol itr.y uttamnt io harmonise In a ulngle en- vctnient of mammoth proportions and or jiifinitf Intricacy the .theories of stiv p'll.tlriii party or the avarice of tun ivo In combination. We would . llku t smlxiitute a bi-partisan or non- partl.xan r'imnillon of bulnes men, .1 MTmaitent corns of experts n .- i-,nlc subj(!,l:, for a system hon hotipr our lives had been sweet er, our friendships hadOeen finer, naa we left such quarrel words as Silver frsssp. QoUl ltus. Coin cuppers, 'iu tocrats. Bloated Bondholders ana Koarlng Ttepudlators out of the con tention. Take any other of the aub tcts. for instance, by 'blch, with ... wind and tonaue. demagogues have i .nint.iit.ntr a n r i rfomi ni nr mnnrtn-F "Hecilr for a moment to the tariff. f'.test. or if tlM' int'-lleittiil Indigestion The concern of It must be revenue for f i.nii,,!' vii'i.:,rif. our .business the government. An auxiliary con l: v mi . ii. (. UixlRppodge neither aiderstlon of It must ne tne wage ot of in-tt-m in.r .f hypocrHy. tn- the people. The ilrst must be enough ri" -lonur. u loo mall fnr the mind and the second must not be reduced. rt ii chli3 Tim ramlil.'d needs, trtn It logically follows that duties must -.,,it,tnriitirtii !ntrt end the divsr- conserve and ureserve rates. Tnat Inr. rw- ami aitlvltles of our rule followed out would produce a Kto;tK in ;. large for settlement on business tariff which-"would be a aat- . rmrty lirxx. The effort to satixfy the ire to baptize with any airty name; vjotii thf notions, the views and as much of a satire as it would be "Sb" lieaniH, ihf- iiungpr and Ihe app'- politically to christen a civil or a - lUe of eumbmutl'ins and Mectlons, by clitnlniil code. t - iMd.ticai 1. fcis'.ation, has freighted "In the same way, take up civil ser- with scnri'lsi! -nd ctO(f(ed with con- vice reform. It is based on the prop- l fjsWm more than one endeavor to osltlon that publle business Is - buaU ; ' m .k tc irwvm of revenue run up tiess, and that.it is not more nor .i!J to stlmuuiti- trade by destroying less with the word public In front of AinflrktB, f rdu c the cost of living it than with that word left out. From ,. ,'hy taxlDi; n. i-.'n-arit-H and to promote I thla, it follows that, as for all business, the content of the poor by letting in I competency, fidelity ana intelligence JuxnrWs fre. should be a condition of appointment , 'Our people are aroused and, we i and a security of tenure, so in H ".'hope, you are aroused with us, to I business should merit, experience, ca- h ninsetine, and worse, of all this J paclty and character deserve and ob- f Hon or imng. we may nave to post-j tain promotion." BliiTuia ' onr inte pone any ik-w method of bUKlness ad- i goverhments and our national govern- ' jurtmenl till after foe national con- ment apply to their business the san yuWoh ot 1908. But after that task, ity. the Justice and the enterprise 4 from the very friction of two schools which flowered Into such Southern re- - ' o r,plnlm independent men should suits as the Atlanta, the Nashville, deduce a plan to secure Just such leg- the Charleston and the New Orleans ' iflyiimt as will bring revenue to a exDOsltions, making them . splendid needed figure and as will; for the rest successes of -art, skill, labor and co of the matter, let well enough alone. o Deration, , mixed with " brains, w . We have been toeset by theories and (should almost reaeh the. threshold of -we have been confronted by tonten- J the gojden age which is the desire of lions. We prefer the conditions we 1 nations. What stands In the way of fcnow to. tb theories we do not know,) this is something of whlc'A we hve no : Hie devils which, we have t the devils I right, to be proud and yet which, we iT-at iway deslj to nave us. " I have no power to deny. We realize ACItEEMEXTS OlJTfl.ASS DIF- It in the silenca of our . consciences. TERENCES. ' . IW admit it In the candor of perso '"If I have touched itipon , public na!l interpourae. Jt Is the barbarous t .ijecls. I have tried to do so with- thW Uwt politics ii war, that offlcei t ,.rt,m ' va t.ftd of Annri r P1 and that elections are a -,n rM'ft without, thinking of them, motley alternatloa of miction and of Is;. , loan from an extremely practical oV But tor the auperlorltjr of our ti .rtloa of the land can greet the yep- national character to our natronaJ eon- natives of the great - State of tentions, this theory would be carried Tsorth Carolina without a, ' conscious- conirvvermy imo conuuci. nnat i,e ot the common needs of a com. I done, we could almost dlspens with 7. .an nationality. From what 1 have all officers except sheriffs and receltr J T ?:.-ve n rrvwvrr lf t ont " the ra. I plead for tba- 4batM-f po)W : r'y vmM end the party aajectivesj tics ana xor, me arguments oi jour nalism. the sanity of " spirit which maintains the credit of our republic and which gives to . Its service the stability, solidity and morality which should be questioned only in the oaves of Sicilian bandits or on the decks of pirate ships In Chinese seas. NEED OF CANDOR AND LIBERAL- ity;. . ; - 1 might run the gamut of all ques tions by which, since the war, South and North have been at times divided, and by which they have been divided within parties as well as between them. My object, however, will have, been accomplished if I have suggested to the friends with whom v came and to the friends that we have madffl here, the fact that we all really agree rather than actually differ on matters, of vivid and vital concern to our com monwealths and to our republic. Too little of our argument argues. Too little of our debate, debates. Too much of our contention Is about names rather than about things. Too much of our controversy is around terms rather than around truth. Too much of our talk Is for victory rather than for veracity. Reform in these respects must be inductive , rather than direct. It must begin with the chief vlnnersour journalists and our statesmen. We must Import Into our writings and Into our speeches more of candor and less of passion, ,We must make our words purposely plain rather than deliberately ambiguous. The best place of us to look for the best public. Is In our hearts. What there we find to be true will be every A-hera and exerlastingly true, . The things other men are thinking-about are the things we think about when we think within ourselves. The states man or the Journalist who does that becomes, by thjj laws of universal na ture, on confidential terma with .hu manity. 'To thine own self ce true was the Inlunction of polonlus to Laertes. 'Know thyself was th In junction of a still greater philosopher. Thereby comes, courage. ,., Thereby (oniti strength. Thereby 'v comes assurance, which made . the heart of . Paul Indomitable ana me words of Paul Immortal:. 'If Ood be fnr ua who can ba against ns! -The intense earnestness and the equal slm nlicitv which will follow from, me conjunction of -our;' awn' heart with the heart of the race win maae ora politics of mediocrity or of Intellectual Immorality In America has been long. When;pne party has- seemed nearly destitute of statesmen and when the other .has. seemed V be . overstocked with partisans of tbe, second "rank, some thinker or some moralist ; has rfcsen or recurred to view, to apeak the' longed-for and the desired word to 'the attentive ear and to the hop ing heart of a noble people. I know that 'such a man trill somewhere be found or re-dlseovered. I know not whence he will come, tout I know lihat at our eiiu of the country politi cal philosophy was "not ell buriea in the ,grav of Hamilton, or Judicial greatness witn tne wis x.cm, andthat practical istatesmanBhip was not rommltted to the dust' when De- Witt Clinton was laid to rest or Silas Wright" tenderly entombed. And so I know that' not in tne oum is n roll' of great men 4h' roll of the dead alone..: Tbe spirttiot Patrick Henry ia ' alive as are his wards. The sublimity of Washington can be conceded J to no single - mortal, but portions Of his transcendent qualities can be ascribed to the heirs ot his fame and to the guardians of his dust. The versatility, the philosophy and aj -nt "Jefferson may be " ...V....V united in no one his .... - ., .. . . .... i ii tnrv sinstiltea. journalism unsopiusu rav utatesmen fearless and free, ' It .would, "deliver ,us from the miserable spK,'tacle of Nortnera. ana .esouinern Senators and Congressmen voting for whit thev condemn In their wn minds, yet voting for It, lest the'ra paclty or. the Ignorance of their sec tions may. defeat them for re-election The wretched manifestations of men of historic names ana lames uuaing driveling slush to .rabbi throngs would not then challenger tne scorn of man or tha Judgment ot heaven. Th nootile' of both' sections are far .. r . .... better than those wno give w.m a low moral rating Their Intelligence la fae oruater than W'.inat ot mose who serve out to them the food ot which tools are fed. Rentiers tiejter edit editors than editors tneir papers when the latter put Into them any thing which they know to b wholly false ,Dr only 'partiaiiy ir." LEADERS RAHN'ESTLY: WANTED. - "My Utate, your- Pt.ite, -our nation await the men of thought and the men of action to" clear th way. At no time was the need of them greater er the--prespert -f -them iora aaepl- Clous. , None ot the periods of tha nA bis - Drlnciples -" cannot be' confined 4r restrained or ptrod led Jn the South wnicn no nui and. .which. In . large , aejise. led him. rrt,. ...mni a well as the decisions, the character a well aa the lrarnlng r tnhi. Marshall are neither an ex tinct nor 'an .ounawea . hhkouuiw hi neonle. The geniua and the faith ot Stonewall Jackson wilt ever be a factor among mose i4 fnr whom he died,' The rrntnM and the grandeur, the mag. n .. -j- . m j. M'-"-MAnssA' nanlmlty ana tne ihodctijt, uw Vw cratlon and .the, courage, the exitnple and the Incentive which Robert E. .te personified on the neia oi war anu th tin' air of delightful atudies in roliPirlata'uhndes will 6o not only for ever a -benediction," but. forever a transforming influence not oniy wnnin Virginia 'n'rtt'onlv within the South, not only throughout tn Republic, but across tha aeas ana arouna in worm. 'it mav be well to suspend triDuie, at this nolnt. for analysis. . The men ot the South who won immortality sin tlie civil, -war? were mainly, soldiers. urfat civic . capacity tney may nave had, but that must be left to conjec turet Events did not occur to enable them to show It. Your President, Jef ferson Davis, was unjuatly imprisoned though hi political headship or tne confederacy made nut mere arreai; m itself not a surprise, wnen tne persjnj, flcation af the whole souttt in mm was borne In mind, and when the facts of the wlnd-uo of other civil wars are studied In tha light cast by passion and conquest. , , Beside. It ourht to be remembered that h was arrested when . in flight and when seeking to escape from the country. Me had his reasons for not staying to share tha fata of his people. Those reasons are not to be censured They had their cause In presidency he neither sought nor shirked, and lb an Implacable temperament which was his inescapable . endowment, and at once his strength and his misfortune "Nor can other considerations be Ignored: Jils night concurred with the melodramatic 8fian.slnatkn of A bra team Lincoln. That, transcendent mis fortune is now realized to hav been a greater calamity to the Bou,th than even to jie North. The suspicions, the baseless conclusions, th? tmment- urablo jnendacity which ensued,. oauld not have been exceead by tha conse quences of an administration of an emetic to helL It is easy now to un derstand the -in justice , which was aroused. It wag impossible then to In etruci and to correct at Once that In justice. . Time, - refleotion, returning reason corrected it, aajd the . time averigert It on the wicked and passion ate fiends who sowed broadcast the 'Injustice." ' ' ' "Northern men of all shades of po litical opinion secured the discharge- ment of Mr. Davis. A Northern chief Justica not qnly liberated him, but or dered his discharge, from the mons trous Imputation. - He died of old age under the government he neve ack nowledged. His widow ended her. days in a Northern cUy,wher she waa sus tained ""by the ' atoning generosity of her husband's former-foes. Rena ra tion could, perhaps, never equal the wrong wrought, but reparation -did all It could and U yearly doing more and more. ,.-., .... "Contrast, however, -ths personal love of the South for lta great military chieftains with the profound resnect of the South for lta Intellectually great ana intellectually implacable Prai dent. The difference between the hom age of the heart and tha homage of the Dram, can perhaps be ' realised. - No wrougnt pressure, no external -or inci dental or accidental circumstance ac counts for the feeling of the North and of the Bonith .for the military chief tains of the South. Lee takea his placs In, our Hall ' of 'Fame by .Northern votea, and Lincoln,' Washington and urani companion mm more, jr as mortal they' -were unequal as im mortals they are (ndivlsable. "Take your Lse aa pre-eminent. It Is significant that our Lincoln, and,' let me aay. your Lincoln, outclasses any aoldier of the civil war, cm our side, by far and by much.,, in this is great food and cause for thought. It is not Decuttse Lincoln died by the hand of a- fustian bravo,' the very night he had ruoifiy outlined a plan for Southern re habilitation and ' Northern pjacatlon. The monstrous method of his murder was a , passing: ' sensationalism. The grandeur of his large In tents was soon, learned. The god like, benlgnlry of his great heart was soon disclosed. .The simple greatness of his magnanimous and crystalline brain was almost instinctively realized. reconciliation was i purpose. Re construction waa not .in the sense the term came to signify.. He newer as numed the Union waa to be restored. xor ne never admitted it had 'been de stroyed. He assumed It had been dor mant and should and could and. would bo revived.- .. i , , . "He decreed emancloaUon- nniv tn ena any text or pretext for any further misunderstanding between States re welded . In the crucible of civil war, Suffrage by count of nosea was never in his thought. Suffrage based on col or only was never in tils mind, - Suit Lrage based on black racial flttedness only as and when that could be secur ed, was in his mind. Hla writings can be examined In vain to show that he would not make brain flttedness alone the condition of any extension' of the ballot, beyond the whites who were historically and generically its safe custodians. Universal emancipation, as In or of itself At" once carrying uni versal suffrage,, was -unthinkable him. . Retrospectively there is reason to believe he would have upheld the colorless conditions to aufrragi which tha Southern States have Impartially proposed in terms, and which they are effecting as constitutionally In fact as the preservation of civilization pre scribes wlil permit. Our Lincoln your Lincoln, and ymir Lee, see eye to . , ... . - ......... - eye. as, nana in iimia, utey kaik to gether tha fields of light, where full ness of vision and onetwsaof incom parable heart and Infnd and knowl edge long ago dissolved the possibili ty ot misunderstanding. vAn earlier Southerner, an earlier American, pre- boeded them Into the silences. Greater t)ian -they he only hs.' Mount Vernon holds his sacred dust In trust for all tha world, but the heaven of heavens Is neither too largo nor too high for hla incomparable soul. - ' "Nor'can any New Yorker, nor can any North Carolinian ' any more. than any Georgian, nor can any American, especially can no American of my pro fession, despair of Commonwealth or of country when ho . recalls tne , ja- mlltar' figure, and tha. shining face oi Henry Grady, His presence waa an in carnate welcome. His voice waa an in- unlrlnr onnpaL Hla thought and the memory of it are an upliftina power, From the Boutn he gatnerea, en w enejik. hla heart and mind. His ex perience of it made tha very blood and brawn ana Drain pi me. . xi garn ered the best of what was and knew and felt and had wrought into death less words which he cams' up among ua to deliver, and,' delivering, to 'die. More Immortal he than the immartala he' Joined. ' He entered their yanks younger than they were at their trans lation. The initial aate or nis eterni ty was earlier than their. Better, per haps, that he died on tha tftreshoh of a great career. Handled at the zen ith of th possibilities of youth.- He was saved from the-' misinterpretation of .the vears, and from the disappoint ments and tha misconceptions, of the .evil ' to come. . Neither , mental nor physical decrepitude was to be-his. Qj him and of all tho great soul of the South 1 whomthe North rejoices as in a precious national possession, ' It can be, said: . ., Y-" u-- - While 'round- the suit old Mother Earth Pursues the ever-neetlng years,1 , A nation, shall recount their worth . With mingled pride and jy nd teare. ''Fellow citizens, let us. remiembeJ, the onenea of our American aenvia tlon and destiny. -Let us be thankful that in the baptism or blood all sen ous causes of diylaion and' reproach wens punned away. Let us be grate ful for the1 years . of peace ; Ihrough peace,. Let. us halt them. a but tne prelude f -atllt better, days to- conw From this, tableland ot time, looking backward on the past, and forward on progress and , of progress through ternvnt of. politics; for -the cleans future, let us strike hands for the bet ing of rule; for the moral .trusteeship of private wealth, and of public pfiiee: lor tne lining . or, poverty, tnrougn aclf-help. Into comfort; for the con siderate leadership of ignorance into knowledge; for- the transmutation of provincialism Into patriotism land of patriotism into- r)hilmxtiropy.' In this work, while our. country Is our sllcl tude let our field he the Wjorld.! While our. countrymen are our preC?renee let humanity be our client ' By recasting our hearts,t our. etate shall prosper, our cities shall coma to honor, our communities shali onquor the pin naeljg of material and of moral achievement, and our nation shall at tain to the benign purposes of Deity tn lta discovery and in lta development And from, the vantage ground of this republic will sweep streams of bless ings to all the race of man. If t this we here dedicate find here consecrate Mirslves, the North of our home and tha South of your hearts, the North end the . Sooth of our ceuntry, will eventually be constrained to admit that we iughf well and though well and for our own." ' , . .- v ' BIO TtECEPTIdN LAST NIGHT. . Tlie"" cekbr4o.s'"', wcr" IHWnfiTy brought to a close by a reception to nlgh,t in the Carnegie Library Build- ' ing, given by the faculty to the alumni, citizens of Chapel. Hill," sen-"'-iora and second year professional atu- denta, A large num&er was present Elegant refreshments were served and these' together with .the good feeling and-the beautiful quarters in which the reception waa held, made It a de cided success. v ' , ; v-.H Salisbury's Anti-Saloon league Organizes.. , - Dlecii io j. tie vnnei t 4 lv , "Salisbury, Oct, I2.--The Salisbury-Anti-Saloon League was ye-organlzed ; last nighf with W.' B Smoot presi- , dent" and !p. S. Carlton secretary," The Law and Order League also held ' a (meeting. ; There was discussion about an election on the "wet ' and "dry" proposition, but nothing came , of It." Whether or not. there" will be a .vote , on this ' great Issue "poon 1 la " very doubtful. It lsVery certain that '. some of. the "most potent '"dry" .man will advise agalnat It how.' , I ' Hobson Makes Ills Characterlstlo ' gpflcch at DavWsoiu - , Special to Tho Observer. , , . . - , . - Davidson. Oct. 12. Capt. Richmond . Pearson Hobson lectured here , to- 'm night, holding the undivided attention of the audience for two hours while he . preached ," the doctrine t of a big navy 'for .the United States, special j e tress being fald. on !.thd Imminence -of -war with Japan, that nation' want- . ing but the least sort of pretext for It., He' was introduced. by; Dr. Mat tin. , V -"p k ' dppoatuiTY life tpsurance is not a luxiirylt la a .'necessity-,'. Wherever clvllzatoii ex--' tends there life Insurance flourishes.' The peoplo want It an't io with out H must'- have lt-rget It, But they-do not' go In search of .It They have formed the habit of waiting Until the agent brings It, explains ,X and aids them . In selecting the klnj that will best serve their purpei'Js.". The Equitable ( Society 4 lookhig for Industrious men of integrity an reputation to sell Us, Standard Pol cies. ' 'C t t , Z "Experience Is not essential. Any intelligent, man can, f from the start, earn a fair living as an. .agent; un der the guidance which the .EquItaLS glvfs. ' An energetic 'and resourceful agent can In ' ,time accumulate - a liberal Income H identified With Tho ' K -,.'. , - Equitable, ( , If Interested, write, 'phone or talL XI,' J. RODDSYv Hanager, - ttock-nnvs.' cr I M
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