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CHARLOTTE DAILY OBSERVER, JANUARY 19, 1SC3.' ' t . N : . . - . . . . .....r ; - v-W -.. . ; Mil ! -ei n m n kuj uuu vyuu IJotbecause they, were speechless, nor accustomed to talking, but because there was no time for talking, for Saturday just at 10 o'clock when wreck sale of Mus- , lin underwear was announced by the turning on-of four arc lights, everybody ;was silent and went down to hard guying. Women would select garments till ' their arms were full and refilled every one "sawing wood, " saying nothing, but busy buying. You ever saw anything like it. Monday will be another just such a time, for there will be more of the same wrecked lot of garments .on sale and at the same prices. This Ml-End Sale will continue in all departments this week. As fast as one line is closed out others will take its place at Mill-End Cost. - : 1 V . jL 'I - Prices of "Wreck" Muslin Underwear Garments worth 75c. to $100, for. . . . . . . . .. . ...29c. Garments worth $1.00 ta $2.00, for. . . . . .'. .". . . . . .59c4 Garments worth $1.50 to $2,50, for.". . . . . . . . . . f.79c. Garments 'worth .$2.00 to $o '00, tor;.T.v . . . . . ; . .$1.09 At 10 O'clock Monday In the "Carpet department a sale of two lots Rugs will start. ' V- " : ." . ':"'-' One lot Jap Rugs will go for .... ... , . . ... . . .,69c. One lot Smyrna Rugs for ... . .".. ..... . . . ... ,77c. 50 and 75c. "Mother's Friend" Waists, 25c. These are the best made and best fitting "Waists sold. ; Colors and White, nicely laundered? not .blouses, but .worth 50 and 75c; for. .......... ... .. .... ,25c. In clothing department. - , . " $30. "Sorosis ' Shoes, $3.15 This is the snappiest and. swellest ladies' fine shoe sold in" the city for $5jJ, Jpd. they are new and up to the minute. Still the Mill-End Sale Rays the "prk-e this week is. ... ... ............. ..... . . ...... . .$3.15 One lot Ladies' $2.50 and -$3.00 fine Shoes; choice Mill-End price. . . . , . r rr.--. . . $1.90 ' Silk Special - - ' Monday you can buy our genuine dollar , guaranteed Black Taffeta for t he yard ...... . ' 69c. Limit 5 yards to a customer. Stocking Special . . ' . 500 pairs LadiesV Misses and Boys' Hose; not sec onds, but odd lots, worth -up to 25c. Monday V spe cial Mill-End price the pair. . . . . Oc, Table Linen Sale Monday we put on sale at both stores two big "jobs m Table Linen. Lot No. 1 consists of Bleached and Half Bleached Ger- J man and Irish Linen Damask, regular price up to $1.2a. . For this special falc Monday the price is . . ,. .... . . ... . . . . .... .. . . 1 49c. a yard Lot No. 2. Real line quality Imported Damask, full Bleached and half Bleached; warranted every thread pure Linen. Special Mill-End price for Monday the yard. . ........ . ....... ....99c. White Goods Special 40 inch "White Lawn, lengths 2 to 10 yards. Special Mill-End .price .for 'Monday the yard .....4c. Blanket' Sale Monday in tliu BI g Pay In niankrl 200 pairs Leaksville Wool B lankets, ' 10-4 and 11-4 every pair is slightly damaged; worth regular up to 1.00. Monday's Special Mill-End price the pair .$2.13 . Sole Agents --for Ladies HomeJournal Patterns and Sorosis Shoes Sole. Agents Cor Ccntinuri and Adler's Kid Gloves We Pay Railroad Fare on Purchase! Amounting to $40.00 to Patrons Within 60 Miles of Charlotte, and De liver Free of Charge purchases Amounting to $5.00. in .-iiiir"'.-Mfi. THE NEGRO RACE; ?kto Races: A Sociological Study by Jerome Dowd; the MacMlIIan Company, Xew York. . t Claei of the notable things about the literature of North Carolina In deed" of the whole South is that it has produced very little of what may be called the structural letter of the world. Of local history, fiction, lyri cal Doetry. miscellany, there is, -per haps, enoug-h; but where Is the grave tome to rank with Drummond a "As cent of Man" or Campbell's "Puritan In Holland, England and America?" We have in Profesfor Dowd's book the preface of which was dated at Charlotte on May 1st. 1907 a challenge to serious corisldenitlon. It Js a blfr book well printed and etanVpod with the approval of one of the bet publishing huures In the world. II contains, even at casual Inspection, -n vast deal of Information, cwlled from more than one hundred authors, Kcg llsh. French and German. It haa Fpeclal map- f Africa, a' copious !n . dex and a chapter of sketches of the llvee of the principal explorers men tioned In the book. Moreover It treats of the subject of all subjects the most lmportaat for the South, the nejfro problem and It does It in a! new way. On appearance it l notj sophistic dissertation but pains-taking. srholarly examination of a great ques- tlon. Let us see to. what it is the ,uthor Invites our attention. i ' I. - In the Erst place It is well to note that this is but one of a series of volumes which tha author hopes to , publish "Con."i9(iiTr of a sclolog-lcal ftudy of mankind from the "standpoint - of race." In other words he Rives us here the rnwnoe of a race and pro poses to give us mre of the some kind If we like It liter. It Is surely a covel undertaking. Just why the author took the negro rate ifor his first study does not ap pear. Diubt:cjfi wo may ascribe It to hla Southern birth and keen In terest In the .social problem of the Bouth. But we are not permitted to think- that lbs orcTer of selection ta "bisrd upoT relative i values. It Is here made-plain that mir Is not any vhere a d.attached entity, free from th Influence of environment.! but rather Is he lik a riant subiibt to variation according to the climate, the -H. tre general ele.nents la which it live. . - Thus we see that there -are five reperate tribes or branches of the ne- Kto nice ir Africa: the Nearltos,-the N"lrtflan. the Fel'atahs, the Bantus and the Galls; and at a planre of the rrap we note that they Inhabit dlffer r aones of the Continent known as tb banana soup, the millet sone. the mttie tone and the camel XDne. It wl'l appear at we fro along, that the regro undcrs.-es certain cha.nKcs for me better as he emerges from tlie re Si V of prpeiwU vefptat Ion where o'ltu'e feeds him arid he needs no clothes Into a harder sphere of activi ty where h must work, -where agri culture and . ran pj.lslng become necessary and further yet to th place where he must travel. ue the camel, explpre, fl;ht for nw possessions and fo Weep his belonginrs. This Is the ennrse all 1he branches of the ?iur-an rsce. There Is no color line In the order ef development- II. The evidence of variations in the black men of tAfrka. according ti their enviormett ia laid bef jre us by our author with lavt'hr hand.1 'For rr-x-rlfnr we-will look at It, first, as affecting the physical aspects of the negroes second, as concerning tneir social and Industrial state and thirdly, as disclosing their Ideals of mortality and religion. It may us well be observed in passing that It Is not necessary for our purpose to note separately all the many sub divisions of the Negritos, Nigricans and Fellatahs which are the subjects of the author's treaties. - A few Il lustrations, will sunice or our purpose. The rygmtea, we - are told, live In equatorial Africa where almost In cessant rains produce superabundant vegetation. Some idea of the region may be'gathered from the statement at a traveler that he could not. read a newspaper or take a photograph at midday in some places on account of the density of the overhanging foliage which kept out the sunlight. How any sort of men could live In such a region is, hard to imagine but the Pygmies do It and have done It for ages rist. They average about four feet and a half in height. They are light brown, owing perhaps, to the fact that they live in the shade are slmean like in form and while quick are awnwara. tney live nvilnly upon the fruits, fish and game of the jungle. Their locus Is in the banana (tone. . Tho Bushmen, who Hvo far to the south of the Pygmies, In the Kalahari dosert region, where .there is . little rainfall, scant vegetation hut a pro dljtlntM lot of . form-klab! game, are a bigser an-d- stronger poo'ple. They are about five feet bill on he average and are skilled marksmen, but. hav ing no tillable sodl. they are wholly deficient In agriculture. The Hottentots,, who live In the Orange river rejlori and to the south of the Bushmen, are a pastoral peo ple 4ecause they live In ihe uplands where grass abundant but natural vegetation otherwise, scant. Their physreal aspect again Is dtfterept from that of the Pygmies or Bu.hmen foi the human fr.ime Is pliab!t being eas ily auapten to the needs r time and place. This truth would be : tin plainer though we shourJ follow the variations of the negroes now north ward through the millet xone, the cattle sone and the camel sine, toward the Mediterranean as we iwve south ward to Cape Colony. Thus far It appears that the -negro filmse'f Is ev erywhere a tiatuml prodnct. fitting the occasion and loosJIty if his crea tion. III. f ' We are toll that the Bushmen 'have on'y scant regard for children' and none at all for -ld people. They of ten slay the yonng without remorse for no 'better reasons than that the children re 111 shaped or in want of food which cannot be wad-lly sup plied. , ir a motner utes her infant Is burled with her. Anl a case Is cited cf a father who sold his child for a -cup of srn'n and went away without st word of adieu. Old people, when too feeble to keep op with the wandering family 'group, are- left by the wayside to die of s-'otvatlon or to be devoured by wild teasts. These appalling features of African life are "a Id to be not unnriturtl since the Bushmen nnot .Jlvo "without rapid and long migration," and these, not Indifference, make it necessiry to sac rifice young and old a?lk. for tribal and personal preervatlon ' It i c6r!ous to note thst one -effect of the mljratory existence of these ravages Is- thai th-y have no knowledge of gran 4 parents and grandchildren. This ;-oults from the fact that the chlMr-m, on mar rying. go one way, the paints another ana in iiKennooa is they never meet again. As In the millet xone, the struggle for Vfe la harder, we find not only an improvement 1n the physique of tne natives nut it -marked advance In their ways of living, .lso. The ba nana xone terminates at about 11 degrees north of the equator and there the millet or grain tone com mences for the zone -produces a va. Piety of grain of which the, chief Is millet which, with sorghum, plays the ptrt for Central Africa mat wheat plays for Europe, corn or America and rice for China. In this region, nl, frier are great numbers of anlma's,' don-estlc and w-Ud, but the horse and the. camel do not prosper; so, -ss may be Infer red, the people are given to hunting as well as ari-cu!ture. Tut the "In teresting thing Is to observe that with necessity comes Invri.tlon; here we find thrtt nature doe not sponta neously supply the wants of man and he has to struggle for whit he .nee.ls for subsistence. Hence find here nwny kinds of manufacture;, for hoes and ajces must be had ns well as cloth and In one dltrrct (the Bau tschl but why this one only?) the people mke sop; in ethers gun powder. It la only one step from the producer to the -.trader and conse quently these people "have many an-J very considerable -market places wnerein they sell all manner of wares and "articles of luxury bsside Cow rlee answer for money, whreof 4,500 equal one American dollar or one French Ave franj piece; tut In the east of this xone small Iron bars are also used for money. Slavery exists in this region and wives are purchased with an open ness arwl abandon thai should onnke some alleged hJg'nly clvi'lzed persons ashamed of "themeelvea. In general wt man must have a house, some gnln ,blns. domestic 'animals. nr.d a little furniture -befofe"he caa confidently go Into the mirket for a wife. Thus" far the native of the 8outan and the native of the United Stale are on a 'evel! But wh;n It comes to the price- there Is a rreat difference: for in the Bautsch4 district, the African pays 25.000 cowries or about JS.B0; In Toruba about 110; am-irj the Kru men the usual price Is thre cows and one sheep, and In America we pay considerably morf! Concerning slavery, our author here rays something of more than ordinary interest: "Slave labor," he says in reference to tWs xone, "Is much in demand owing- f the exten sive cultivation of the '., manufac ture and trade. , " Instead of killing and eating war captives or offering ttiem 4 saciiJV-e as w-s done in the banana xnn1), they are here, as U generally th-j ta?e when man advances t. the grku'tural staje, employed s flet-t- laborers." And agivln: "In the mll!t (One of Africa there have been obvious ad vantages In slevery toth to the slave and to the ma-yter. Th slave found In the master th means ef suvln? himself from ths penalties of his 4ack of thrift and foresight and the master found In the s'ave a labor supply which, without coercion, could not have been ebtan?d The coer rlve union' of slave nd iraster en abled the country's reso'jrw to.be developed, caused the production' of many commodities which would nev er h-iv been voluntarily produced, and trained tooth slave en I master to some regular habits of Industry." AM of which makes us winier If the same could not be aaid of the elavery! days of the South; and then comes this quotation from Prfeor Ely) on slavery In general which makes us i reasonably sure It could: "There have been many discussions as to whether slavery l right or wrong. It Is both. There Is a tlmu In human development when slavery represents a step In human progress, ths best ana longest that men are then able to take. Such a step is always right. It Is wrong when men learn how to do better." We must now take some note of the more advanced life the cattle xone. Here the family Is '. more dignified and lasting Institution. The matrimonial market 1 not overstock ed with girls for the reasort "that they are valuable to their parents In the productive activities connected with cattle raising, agriculture ind manu facturing." p. till wives ere bought at moderate prices. "The , Jolofs pay In addition to cattle, w.me gold, sliver, clothing and other valuables. A !lnfci- wife costs about twenty cows and a 'bull," But the Kanurls have a way of letting the girls choose for themselves anj- this Is said to be the first' sign of romantic love among the African.. In this xone, also, men do a targe part of the labor necessary In the household and on the outside which is the contrary of the. millet xone and banina zone: and women ere, "In some places, permitted to own and enjov property In their own right. And, of course, where property rights are! so wen siennefl tiere are laws of In heritance; but some of these are mo' astonishing, for Instnnce. among the Jolofs, where one broker inherits from another, the surviving widows and concubines po with the other property. In the TOnka families the property of the father goes to his children but If he have nore the near est male relative takes It and also the widow. All of which mnkes It sem that there Is t good deal of uncer tainty and humor In th life of the average rr.ile of the cotton xone. IV. We come now to the last and most interesting phase of this subject: The natives of Afrrc.i are In general an Immoral and. superstitious people. It may well be Imagined that the moral code and rellgtou obligations would find alight consideration amon the Pygmies and the Bushmen who ter of a pond or river hns a spirit which must be propitiate 1 by a hit of rum and a littU blarney if one expects to catch fish therein. The spirits get .hungry and thirsty, of course. And when the rplrl of n boiling pot gets, enough of it and de parts th pot brinks quli naturally. Most curious are the Influences of spirits In Judicial and police regula tions. For inntance, the Togbo peo ple of Asliantl throw an sccui person Into the river and If he Is guilty the river spirit will pull him down and drown him, but If innocent he will be cant ashore. The spirit police are the best of all. "For ex ample,'' ayi the author, "suppoon mat a negro mercnant nas some palm oil, bananas or other articles that he wishes to sell. He places them anywhere along the.hlghway. under the protection of i clia;-m, with a few cowries to Indicate the price. He then goes on about his other business with perfect' prace of mind, and If any thief should dare Interfere with, the goods, a kra, slaa, nhuman or other varmint would leap out of the amulet, . begin to gnaw upon his vitals and probably caue his death." Will any shrewd mer chant In the United States take the hint here given and start an Import business for spirit policemen? It Is Impracticable to follow the variations of customs, cerennonluls and rites baced upon belief In .spirits among the people of the different xones, hut It may be useful to ob serve that snakes are th only creatures; to which tho Dlnkas or Shlllocks. In the cattle xohe, pay any sort of reverence, and other tribes are Inclined to serpent 'worship. It Is not too much to surmise that something of thls crude fancy of an African race found Its way north ages ago 'and cropped out In the Imagery of our own preceptors, who regarded the serpent as a symbol of wisdom.- Thus even Christ ad monished his disciples to be "wine as serpents and harmless as doves" (Matt. 10:16). And before leaving the author, who has labored prodigi ously and well for our entertainment, with tho motto It would seem, tout blen ou rlen, we most not be too TWO VOI 0 VTO.MFY I.V I'KJUL. Were t'hn-H'd by a Negro, Who At- temple;! to Commit a Heinous Salisbury Post, 17th. A telephone messuae to-day from Dr. C; ai. Poole.; of t'raven, tells of an attempted crlnr.nal assault upon two young -white lnd-.es of this county by a nogro In Davidson county at a pulnt Just across the Yadkin river about 11 o'clock Wednesday morn ing, i . Ml bps ''Snider and Keexer, two highly rnpecttibla yojng women who live on Dr. Poole's farm, left their home WedneB'lay morning to visit cousin In Duvldson county. They were arcomiKinled: as far as the river by Mies Snlder's brother. AftT reaching the Davidson side they were approached by a negro man who made indecent pronoia;s and then at tempted to n.ault one of the young women. Both screamed and ran to a house on a hill nrartiy. All the men of the family had left home and the negro did not f.es until s. general alarm was given by ail the women on the premises. A search was In stituted for him, but He could not be found. Xcgro Bor. Shown Corpse. Dashes Through Window. Chester. Ps., DNpatch 17th. , James Thjmas, a negro, of Darby, called at Deputy Coroner Charles Drewes" m-rrje to deliver a package. While In the m'jrgue Mr. Drewejaald: "Come l;er-, Thomas, and I will fhow you a ul.'e ChrUtmas present." As Thorrrts Jre near, Mr. Drewes opened an Ice-box, displaying the- form of a dead person. Thomas iurnd almost white from frar, and instMd of taking time t open the dojr, lie plunged through a plate-glass window. Regaining his feet on the nl.larf.ilk, he dashed down the road nt full speed and did not stop until he reached No. tollgate in Sharon 111!!, about a mile away. There he fell exhausted, -but was finally rrKUfdtaf c.l. iif..-: u r -w W A. J Bigger IK V3" M tre not f"lr removed from the mon- v'c"h;'u I'T ' ,w " -'" l keys in form and habits. But U ls ,Ml critical of the savages for curious to observe that the belief In ",V .. , ,. . iw 1 , mL. spirits nlaysa ruling part 1.1 the civic ! Mt? of "J,lrlt'' ,n the worlJ- Thl" an.y religious, as well as the domef Ic I na ,he W,,I primitive life of most of these negroes. To begin with, the Tshl peotle believe tfit every man his two souls one corresponding to the physical j body and the other a dream soul or kra which f Jfcible to escape ry the mouth If It M not properly guarded. Now. of course. If one loses hli own kra another und a wlckd k'-x may get jsplrit departed from hlm.v possession of him and if this bap-jl:CI). pens tncre is Homing t .!) tut send ror tne wttch doctor. undeveloped races. Kven among the Israelites in the days of Samuel tha belief In- good and had spirits pre vailed: "And it came to pass when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took1 an harp, and played with 'his hand: so 8nul wss refreshed and wrm well and the evil (1. Sam. This l bow the medicine man then proceeds: He "diagnoses the esse as on of ab sence of dream soul, Instar.tlv clrtps "a cloth over the mouth und nose, and gets hl assistant to -hold It there utrtfl the patient gets herd en to suf focation: but no matter Its the pro per eourse of treatment to pursue. Tha witch doctor hlnwelf gets rcidy as rapMly as possible another dream soul, which, 1f he Is a careful medi cal man, he had brought wKh him In a basket. Then the pv.en is laid on his back ind the cl-ih removed from the .-mouth and rom and . the witch doctor ho'ds over them his hands containing the fresh oul. Mow ing hard at U so s to get It well Into the patient. If this Is success ful th pat'ent .recover If the And finally, as we put the book aside and reflect upon its contents as si whole, we cannot recap a greater tolerance of the shortcomings of the negroes, deep pity for them In their faults, error and mistakns and hope of their gradual emergence from them, but we reallxe afresh the In eatlmablo bltrnslng which has been vouchsafed to tn,e wOrld in the? growth of the belief in one Ood and In Christ, In whom and through whom, we learn all the true principles nf life for the Individual, the family nd the State. A NATIVE; SIMPLE IUTMEDY FOU LA ORIPTE. Ia Grippe eoushs are durgrou a thf-y frqiint1 !Vop Into pueumoiva. F"'-;'; liowy nnd Tar net onlr stops th cough but hfafs nd eirerf!h-ns tha r?r.Tf , Ti .T?r 1 ?w? ! "red. Th. genult.. Folev'a Honey and else, animals n.l least one, and so ha does. ininss eTeryTir.ng (xr contains ro htriil t'rugs and In In luinimiic, nu i a yilo'V pnekng. FU-fusa subrtU'ites. Tne wa- i it li. joroan Co. rhe value of commercial fertilizers has been demonstrated over and over again by both government and private comparative tests. We stand ready to demonstrate to you at any time that the surest way to "in. crease your yields per acre" is to use Miyinia-Carolina Fertilizers t Hon. R. J. Redding, former Di rector of the Geor gia Exp. Station, la authority lor the statement that experiments made at this station show that well balanced commercial fertilizer applied to one acre .of land, and well cultivated, may be reasonably ex pected to produce an Increase cf yield of aeed. cotton.. At the present price of cotton this would mean a large extra profit (for both lint and seed), after deducting the price for fertilizer." i ou u nna reports ot many other comparative) ta (n.lV .iil. ..1...L1. 1- I A r land culture in the new Ytnnni:.Mi;. Book or Almanac. Ask you focal fertilizer dealer for a copyor well send you one free, if you write our .nearest eales office. cernin Year Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. TKirtum. V P. Cbarluua.S.C EiltMoorr, Mi. r HiU ' . MaaqOktr.Toia. . ? J uv - 1 j
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