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4 CHARLOTTE DAILY OBSERVER, FEBRUARY 10, -1009. Publisher. fver Day in (he Year srBSCRiPTiox rmcE: Dally On year .. Six month 4.00 2.00 T&iee month Semi-Weekly 41 fa One yeaf fix roniiiH ... Three month .60 LBUSUEKS ANNOUNCEMENT No. J4 South TTyon i-trect. Telfpl.on numbers: Business office, Bell , i hone city editors office. H' p'lone w. new editor ollice. tc-U 'P A subscriber In ordering llm address of hi paper changed. will plea rate the address to which It is 8 :o ng at the. time he. ask for the cnaiiK U be made. - , - This paper Hve correspondent -s wide lalliuue as It thinks public pol icy permits, but it Is in no case re sponsible lor their view. It is maui preferred that correspondents uta Uielr name to their articles. y in cases where they attack Pe"-"s or institutions, though this I not fle manded. 1 lie editor reserves the right 10 rive the names of correspondents when they are demanded for the pur poeo of personal saiisluction. 'VJ JeTve censideration a communication must be accompanied by the true name of the correspondent. Advertising rates are furnished on application. Advertisers may feel sure that through the columns of tins paper they may reach all Chariot e and a portion of the best pe.oule ai this Slate and upper Houth t.axolln.t. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, MOS. WE THINK HE WIMe AND OT1IEH THINGS. The Waynesvllle Courier repro duces this from a recent editorial in The Observer: "These men, and they are the men who will elect, want a wise. uf. construc tive, powerful statesman for President. They want a man who knows not only what is lisrht, but also how to bring the right to pass; a man who will command the confidence of mn of affair. 1b Mr. Bryan such a man? Will any one of his most enthusiastic admirers answer this question iu the affirmative?' And asks" Without attempting to answer The Observer's question, though It could he answered in the affirmative If The Ob server will consent to the broad definition of "men of affairs,' we should be, glad ti turn the uuestldh upon the name of thj man and ask If any man will lilt the b according to the above rationale. Will John Johnson?" We think he will, undoubtedly. Mut there are tho who would fill it more completely, as, for instance, Judge George Gray, Judge Jutlson Harmon. Senator Chan. A. Culber son, tut would not Mr. Uryan's friends stick their knives la Judge Gray because he; voted t-r Talmer and Buckner; In Judge Harmon be cause he was In Cleveland's cabinet and Is of Cleveland' school of De mocracy, and thoee of the North 'In Senator Culberson because he Is more a conservative than a radical and Is a Southern man besides ? We do not think as others do that the- lust uh; Jeetln would "weigh heavily against him but arrant that they are right and Via a avallfllil riftvriinr John son? He, ws a free silver man, an earnest supporter of Mr. lirj-an In both of his campaigns and Bryan could not have the face to say of him as he said of the candidate of 1904, after announcing that he would sup port him: "A Democratic victory will mean very little. If any, progress on economic questions. Mr. Iarker Is as thoroughly committed to- the side of the financiers as Mr. Hoosevelt.' Bucfi "support" was of course, as hurtful as nutrient opposi tion would have been but Jurtjje Par ker nevr-r nrofewipd to ha n frlnnd of Mr. Bryan while Governor Johnson has been, snd.we cannot bplleve that Bryan would. If he knows the nnma ft gratitude, he ss anxious to encom pass the defeat of Johnson ns he was glad ,of that of Judge Parker with whom" he kept the word of promise to the ear hut broke It to the hope. Our Waynesvllle contemporary did not Invite all thi. Its question re lated only lo our Judgment as to Gov ernor Johnson's quiillflcatlons and we mlg-ht have stopped after answering It. The rest is gratuitous, because It relates only to availability, upon which we are not Interrogated, but It Is hoped this will be pardoned ns a discussion of a phase of the general subject. "The Norfolk .VVtern Railway Company, in a report to the corpora tion commission of this Ftale. admits thst the freight-rates In efTert In this FtMe sre higher then to i-lnia points. b-t rontend that th!s state nf sTsIrs U due to competition." And what is "competition" but n name; a charm that lulls to sleep, a shade that foriows wealth or fame and leaves th!"wretrh to weep? Are the Norf ;k k Western, the Southern, the Atlantic foast Line and the Seaboard re-nr.eJtirs a! Junction points? If so, do )'ir.Mon-F-alem, Charlotte, Dur 'isrn a,,) W'debnro derive any ad- vai.tH.ff in through freight rale, froin the fa t that thre of the towns are touched .r two f,( the systems and ine .,f th-m br thre nPVPr hesrd of It. Thus "competition" af fects rates tn VlrglnU but r.ot in North Carolina As The Industrial News, of Greensboro, says. "It l not clear what right the members of ihe Federal corjoration commWion have to draw their salaries unless they n going to put a stop t.j these admitted diWiminstlons against the cities and towns of this Ptale." ur uiuji.mi m Atlanta nave been baled to -ourt f0P selling "listerine, rosewater and other toilet articles containing sufficient alcohol to Intoxi cate." Jamaica ginger is barred, of course, and camphor Is out cf the jnet!n. Witch hatel Is under sus pension, laudanum Is holding- on ty ts reHdt and presently nothing will be le't evrept morphine snd -oeJne, the supplies of b!th are yet ample. f .... - j 1 - , . . r. CILDWEIX A. TOMPKINS . ' ghe rs a x.vvv. Congress is again considering: the. advisability of giving to the navy but half of the amount asked for by the administration. Congress knows about these thlnr?. of course; It know ev erything. The President and the pec retary of the 'Navy,' whose business it Is to look thoroughly into such mat ters and to know the facts in reference to th nation's foreign relations, have recnmmrw1A h addition of four battleships and several other vessels to our navy. But. the committee on naval affairs knows better than this; two battleships would be a aufficlenf addition. And so, unless" sOme change come over the spirit of their dreams, the navv of the .United States will remain at Its present strength; for the two new battleships would Only - re. nlace "old and practically obsolete - vessels." according to the statement of Secretary Metcalf. : We ars told that economy demands the denial of the administration's re qtipst; that the nation stands for ptace and should not engage In the building of a giant army or navy. This is strange. These are the iden tical words used by those who advo cate the building of a navy as great us any that nues me ea. v j right? What is economy In this mat ter? The very fear of war would cost us more than a hundred read noughts, to say nothing of the more fttn.-tn. The. possession pi navy equal, or superior, to any in -the world would be the most powerful preventive of war against us. Who doubts what Japan's action would have been In the recent International friction If she had- possessed a navy as greatly superior to ours as Is that of Kngland? Yet Japan Is steadily build ing a nuvy of Dreadnoughts although her treasury Is empty: and we talk of economy. In 191 Germany will pos sess sixteen Dreadnoughts; and yet America continues to talk of economy. Since the nations have refused to disarm, the Burest method of prevent ing war Is the building of such power ful fighting mrtchlr.es that the appal ling results of battle will deter bel ligerent nations from resorting to the arbitrament of arms. This fear alone has k-pt France and Germany at piace although the mention or Alsace Lorraine to a Frenchman will all but break Ms heart. England's power on the seas has given her peace, although other nations of Europe have seen her growth and greatness through hate bllnded eye's. But If war rnust come In pplte of things, we want to be girt to th battle. Let the day of our peril find u ready. THE TARTY, NOT CLEVELAND. The Columbia State, replying to a recent editorial in The Observer, says: ' "Hut does nut our contempomry realise that Cleveland on the morning side of sixty. pitted anulnt the Nebrnsksn, would' Inevitably low.' because of the failure and rout of Democrats under Die second Cleveland administration? The most vulnerable Joint In llcniociHtlc armor to-duy Is the record of failure, disastrous failure, while the party con trolled the government in Cleveland's Incumbency. Mo Is a Mg man, and he was twice elected President, but the second victory was worse than defeat." There was never brought against the Democratic party a more fearful arraignment than this. It Is equival ent to saying and it Is the truth-;- that it fell away from Cleveland be-J cause he was right and It was wrong a fact long since obvious to candid minds and says In terms, that jtf he were now less than sixty he would lone a against a man full of fads and vagaries, who Is almost uniformly wrong, who has a uniform record of defeat and Is about to add another to the list. "The most vulnerable point In Democratic armor to-day Is the record of failure, disastrous failure, while the party controlled the govern ment In Cleveland' Incumbency," Yes, "while the party," not Cleveland, "controlled the government." and en grafted upon it. against his protest, policies which have brought It to its ruin and to a succession of disasters, sines his retirement from Its councils, to which fach recurring election adds greater emphasis. Its record under Cleveland. In so far as Cleveland made Its record, no further. Is Its crowning glory. Our Columbia contemporary sur prises us In harking back to the fate ful days of 16 to 1 and laying to Cleveland's charge responsibilities which all the world ought to know lie properly not at his door but at that of the party. Arcordlng to the press dispatches Amerl-H la soon to receive a visit from no less : a personage than 111 Hlsh and Mightiness Nawab, Kultan of Mulk Hdr. Ill Orlehtalness Is ex pected to Und at Pari Francisco on the 14th, bringing with him ns his suite the .following comle valentines: Dr. Muhatnh AsVruff, Dr. Chatnar rate, fapt. Ghotis Mlhloh. treasurer; Khaja Ismail, private secretary; Fa-, kruddln Kansama, body sen-ant; Mu hammad Khaja. dressing boy. and GrousipJde En. cook. W shall be delighted to swap a few with Nawab, hut really the customs officers J'Frl o ought to -collect sjiecinc duties I on the nomenclature of his entour- ace, or else compel those fellows to adopt simple aliases like Pmith. Jones, etc. while traveling In-these domains." 4 ... It was stated In a dlspntrh In yes Urday's paper that Fat Clr-burn Camp Confederate Veterans, of Waco, Texas, adopted a resolution Friday nUht "strongly objecting to soiicltirnr the government for pensions for Confed erate soldiers' This Is m proper manifestation of sIf-refect on the part of the members of Tat Cle'ourn rmp ftnd n example which all other camps of Confederste veterans CoulJ follow to their credit. THE RIGHT ROAD TO SAFETY. "It hi distinctly, to the credit of the Democratic Senators that, they'could corns to no agreement on the Bailey currency bill," says Th Norfolk Virginian-Pilot:- and continuing:- "The measure Is an attempt to resurrec the heresy of flat money and if adopt ed -would open the door for a period of wild inflation on which but one end could ensue. The unsoundness Democratic minds on financial sub jects appears to be Ineradicable, and it is that more than anything else which makes the people hesitate turning to Democracy for relief from the burdens and corruptions of Re' publican rule." It is to be deplored that the Democracy, the historic party of sound money and a sound financial system, should have allowed the Republican party to chisel it out of Its financial principles and leave it dodging from side to side in search o some policy that Is popular. And It is strange, In view of It general Integ rlty and Its astuteness In some re spects, that jt does not learn after its many disappointments, that it does not pay to run after new device or old vagaries in new grulse. The peo pie of this country have a great dea4 of sense and as voters they have first care for the soundness and stability of value of their currency. No party thflt-J;hy doubt on this point will command their support and bitter ex perience should have taught the De mocracy ere this that this Is not i subject It can afford to trifle with or assume a position, upon that Is not exactly erect. It Is upon this that, as our Norfolk contemporary points out, it Is most distrusted;, and wisdom would suggest to It leaders an effort to restore the broken confidence in it instead of aggravating the distrust by financial propositions against which common sense revolt. - "James .Hargls," says The Louis vine Evening Fost. "man of strife, a man of blood; a feudal lord born out of time; strong in his purpose, going straight to his mark regardless of cost or consequence, no respecter of men, with n-o regard for life, no concern for the right of others. Is slain by his own son. It Is an awful tragedy, aad yet an end like unto this end was the Inevitable close of such a career.' The manner of the termination of such a life was perfectly logical; and this tempestuous man was laid, as the story goes, alongside three brothers each of whom had died with his boots on. Out In Breathitt county, Kentucky, where they burled th late lamented Judge James Hargis Saturday, they have neither hearse nor undertaker. Here Is a fruitful field for an enter prising young man with sufficient capital. :' u was a aistressine; turn that was given to the hearing before the House Judiciary committee Saturday when It developed that Chairman Jenkins and Representative ICahn are both -Morally Stunted. THREE CONCERTS. Metropolitan Grand Concert Com pany to Give) Two Night ami One Afternoon Concert at Auditorium Many Season Tickets Hold. - Three delightful concerts will be given here Wednesday night and Thursday afternoon and nls-ht respec tively at the new Auditorium hy the Metropolitan Grand Concert Com pany. The three programmes are devotej no the three distinct forms of musical composition, operatic arias on the "Grand Opera Night," songs snd song cycles on the occasion of the rtftetfioon recital, and excerpts from oratorios on the "Oratorio Night." These programmes, which have been sent broadcast, bear wit ness of the excellent taste and good Judgment of tJbe artists, for the com positions chostwi for rendition are ot a kind that will appeal, not only to leirned musicians, but also to those who love melody without being able to dissert. on the technicalities and oonstrur-tlon -of musical composition. A great number of season tickets has been sold within the last few 'Jays, and Indications seem to point to a large audience for the three concerts; Admission tickets for the slngle per forniances iyo now on sale at Jor dan'f. where the owners of season tickets may also reserve the seat which they desire. To Combine North CI 1a riot to and Ep worth CI 111 relic. At the quarterly conference last week of the Joint charges of the North ' Charlotte Methodist church and the Epworth church. It was vot ed to sell the Epworth property and tpply the money to the debt of the new" North Charlotte church. Both congregations will thus untjte. The deal has not been carried through as yot, however, owing- to some differ ence nt opinion as to the disposition which should be made of the money. Home of the Epworth parishioner wish that It be kept as a trust fund until pt some future date the erection of another church at p different lo cation may be feasible. On this show ing one member of the board of trus tees Interested has declined to sign the deel for the present, and another his declined to rn It until the for mer dies. Thus majority of sign ers has not been obtained. The trus tees are Messrs. p. H. Howell, of the North Charlotte church, D. A. Bark ley and c. W. Tlllett. Mr. R. IT. Jordan Worw. Mr. U- H. Jordan did not rest well ytrdv' or f last night and his con dition nt an early hour thi morning was very critical. Mr. George Jordan, another brother, arrived. In the city last tilght from Greonvlfle. S. 'C, to be at the bedside. As previously stat ed. Mr. Jordan has pneumonia both lungs belnsi Involved. Unless ' there is a change for the better to-day his condition will be desperate. Meeting at I'plss-opal Church. A series of meeting at ft. Peter' Episcopal church will be begun next Kunday morning by Archdeacon Wil liam Jeffries, of West Virginia, and will continue througn the following Hunday. Announcement to tlmt ef fect was made yesterday by the pas tor. The meeting I eicppcted to t one of much print and spiritual uo lift. - NEEDS OF MOUEBN LIFE A FIVE SERMON TO, WOODMEN. Large - Congregation Hears Special eeniiou by Ilev. Harris Mallln-.c-krodt at St, Peter's Episcopal Ctiurclt to Woodmen of the World Industry an Eseential Factor, But Honesty - In Business la a Thtiig Much Needed by the World Unfair Dealliur, Eale Advertis ing Are Dishonest Methods. Im perative Xect, lor aa Elevation of Onr Horlal Life. .1L Earnest, courageous and appealing was the sermon delivered by Rev. Harris Malllnckrodt, rector of 6t. Peter's Episcopal . churchy yesterday morning. 'The tuition was addressed especially to the Woodmen of the city, but was broad enough in its ap plication to Include the congregation and the world in general The text was Romans. 12:11: "Not slothful In business; fervent m spirits; serv Ing the Lord. The sermon, coming at the close of the beautiful Episco pal morning service, was heard 'with Interest. Tho member of the var ious camps of Woodmen were pres ent In a body. The Woodmen of old,' said Mr, Malllnckrodt, were the pioneers, who both In the earlier stages ot tne world's hlatory and again at a much later stage, after the discovery of the New World, went forth into the wu derness of forestry which coyerea America from end to end and carved out a way. No sooner than was, thla accomplished and nature conquered than were the same weapons put in to use in the erection of homes tor their wives and children anj next In fighting in their defense. For usefulness, for power and for con auest were the same weapons, tne same tools wielded. 'Industry ia an essential part of life. The Bible doesn't condemn business, does not say that business men are going to perdition or tnat lawyers and doctors are doing the country harm. God wants lndsstry. He wants Christians to be business men and the best business men pos ible for them to be. In any pro fession it is desired thit the men shall rise to the highest pitch of his power that his labor shall be ekll'ed and honest, giving full value. . "It ia not necessary In these days." said Mr. Malllnckrodt, "to urge men to work. The tendency I indeej too much. In the other direction. Men haven't time In many cases to loo after their famlliea. Their physical constitution Is "undermined by the strain and death ensues. . Nervous ness, restlessness and carelessness follow from over-exertion. The de mand for recuperation and pleasure follows from this. HONESTY NEEDED. But honesty, an important Woodman - principle, Is needed In business life. Men are not careful to be honest. Every one ot course realize what It a to be honest in the loose use of the phrase, to take not that which is the property of another. But the work man who is careless in his work and falls to give a Just value for his wage la a dishonest as he who will nil pay his debts. Wrong advertising by business concerns, working . one-half In the dark and one-half In the light. misrepresentations of any and every lass these are the methods of uis- honesty, Tho man who practices them Is ft Immoral as the .sensualist." The nation's demand for honesty Is Imperative. The newspapers and magazines play up In the limelight, where all may see the lives of those under suspicion In publW life. But great as is this necessity for honesty In the high places. It of equal Im port that therebe fair dealing and nonest efforts in every vocation known among men.. Temperance Is another great need. This Is to-day a force at work in the world. The great business .enter prises are demanding It. No one can be Intemperate without suffering from a sluggish brain In consequence nd the drinking man if found out by his employer finds his career at an end and his family penniless. This question Is solved by business. SHOULD ELEVATE SOCIAL LIFE. The elevation of social life Is u third Incumbent duty as It Is a press ing need. By social life Is not here meant the life known as society, but the intercourse that goes on in the orld. iMcn are all fashioned alike and the sooner they learn brother hood the sooner will the Church grow and the cause of Christ spread. There re men to-day who love others bet ter than they love themselves. For others they will do things they would never ask anyone to do for them. It's very easy to love the world as well as you love yourself. Do this, nd instead of taking you straight to eaven God will watt a thousand ears to show you how goo J a place the world can be. New York 1 the richest city in the world. There men of money spend their millions In the wild pursuit of whimsical pleasure, with Incomes-sn large that forces of men are required to compute It. There men walk the" streets attired as comfortably as money can.-clothe. And yet at their very doors are people who are starv ing and freesing for lack of means. There ia something wrons; with art In stitution which permits' conditions like these to exist. There Is some thing wrong with strch a society. It Is selfish to the core and Inevitable reaction comes, sometimes In the rm of wrecked health, sometimes In the blight of Innanlfy. Like Dives In he mythology of old who was offer- J the most tempting oeiicacies wntcn ere snatched away when he stretch ed out for them bis hand, their p'pas- res prove their perdition. Mr. -Malllnckrodt told of the cus tom which once existed smong a people In Abyssinia who carried out literally the Biblical injunction that the sun should not set upon their rath. And every evening at sunset reconciliations took place . between hoae who had become estranged dur ing th Jay, the neighbors forcing this If necessary. The result was a compact unity of spirit and friendship hich made them stand together in attle. an almost Irresistible erray of warriors. Thus was exemplified the correlated qualities of standing to gether and forbearance. The family life hou'd te held sac red. The fimlly life was the first Ood gave to the world. Americans are wont to say that the home In this country Is hold sacre.l, that he who crosses the threshold with hostile purpose is killed. But the fact re mains that these things are not real ly true. We degrade our homes and our youth by wrong-doing. The life we lead la not the life which we ought to lead. Dally the pi pern re cord crimes' committed because we have not th proper resprct for puri ty. Not only the fsmlly. but the In dividual heart shou'd be made pure and when that I done all will be welt. We need to return In spirit to the day of old when chivalry held away and ?a'.!ant knighthood held it self In reodlness always to avenga an lnnlt on womanhood. But the man who does ret em brace Christianity cannot msse him self pure. There ! 110, lcgc In the argumtnt which, soms men usa to THE PRESIDENT'S DENIAL (Continued from Page One. nominated in the usual fashion oa the recommendation of the outgoing Congressman; and . that the third nomination was made on the report of the Inspector and would have been made without -the slightest regard as to whether there waa a presidential canvass on nana or not. .The statements fn the editorial In question are therefore untrue In every partieular. - ..".'. MORE fcPEWSPAPER ' CRITICISM. As or your quotation from another newspaper, running as follows: "Federal. office-holders may be com manded to use their influence and their authority In behalf of a candi date. Such a command has been Is sued and the President should know of It Somebody has In structed postmasters -that they must obtain from their subordinates either their resignations or their pledge of support for Taft delegates to the con vention. , v "Even In Massachusetts efforts or this kind have recently been made, but happily they have been stopped, partly., because the postmaster on whom the attempts were made had the courage to resist, and partly from other causes." There is really nothing to say ex cept . that It does - not contain the slightest particle of truth, and that the misstatement Is so gross that it Is difficult to believe it other than a deliberate Invention. There Is not the slightest foundation for It, and no successful effort can be made to show j thfit there is the slightest foundation 1 for It. As regards the - Massachu setts postofjlces, in all except five cases my appointments were re-appointments; that Is, the ' incumbent was renominated, with the consent of the Senators or Congressmen,- at the expiration of the regular term. Of these Ave cases, new men were put in three times -because of "deaths and twice because of the resignation of the Incumbent. -In each case, whether of appointment or re-appointment,, I followed the ordinary custom, accepting the suggestion eith er of the Senators or, of the Congress man, or both, as In each case the men suggested were eminently fit. Not a particle, of difference has been made in this respect between those Congressmen who were for one pres idential candidate and those Con gressmen who were for another, and so far as I know ,ln every case the appointment has fully satisfied the lo cal people. In other words, the ap pointments have been made not to control, but to recognize, the senti ment of the locality; MUST "SHOW" HIM. If such ' assertions - as those of these papers are made tn good faith, ' on knowledge of facts, and with any other purpose than to produce a po litical effect by false pretensu, or by reckless statement without knowledge let those making them produce the specific cases to which they refer. If In any such case the accusation is found true, it will have occurred without ray knowledge, and I shall deal with It In the precise spirit of my Instructions to the civil service commission hereinafter referred to. 80 far as I know the only other ac cusations that have been made as to the use of patronage .have been in connection 'with the pension agent In New Hampshire and a collector of In ternal revenue la Ohio. In the case of the pension office, the Senators and Congressmen could not agree on a nominee, two recommending one man and two another, I decided to send In a man recommended to me by outsiders, whom I believed to bo bet ter than either.. The Senate rejectea him. His name would have been sent in If there had 'been no presidential j can vans at all at thla time, as re gards collectors of Internal revenue,; some are appointed on the recom mendation of Senators, and some on the recommendation of Congressmen. In Ohio the collector of internal rev enue wnom I nominated In the first district was recommended' by the Congressman of the district. In the tenth district I followed the recom mendation of the two Senators. In other words. I followed tne same course in Ohio as In other States as regacds all these nominations, the only difference being that Ohio Is the slnrle State where the bulk of the Federal employe nave been In cllned to be against the presidential candidate from the State. , In New York. Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, so far as I know, the enormous majority of appointees are In each case for the presidential can didate from the state. Thi ha not been true in Ohio; and my interfer ence" with patronage matter in Ohio ha been limited to insisting, as I should Insist anywhere else, that op position to the purpose, pollcle. and friends of the administration shall not he considered as a necessary prere quisite to holding the commission of tho President. , ORDERS STILL HOLD GOOD. In mv letter to the civil service commission of June 12th, 1802. which now holds good, and will be enforced, officers are warned not to use their places to control political movements, not to coerce their subordinates, nor to negU-t their public duties for po litical work, not to cause any public scandal by their political activity; but outside of the -classified service they are not otherwise limited in politi cal acti-.ltv. No officer will bo per mitted to violate the above Injunction. wit tny l.uow ledge. no matter f.i? what ran'lidhie he may be working: and I ma vtuld trat the onlv officers as to yom any question of vlolattoi of 'this injunction has hila.-tto aris en have been men who are ot woik :ng for Mr. TXt. - m The above Is afull statement of the facta Not an appointment has been made that would not have been made If there had been no presidential con test impending, and in no case has there been a deviation from the course that I would have pursued had none of those who actually are candi dates for the uomlnatlod been candi dates. ... Yours truly, THEODORE ROOSKVELT. Hon. William Dudley Foulke, Richmond, Ind. Mr. Clem Iowd Sinking. Th mndition of. Mr. Clem Dowd late last night wa desperate. He wa no bettr fcut on in contrary was much weaker by reason of wasted vitality. Practically an rT n oeen abandoned and the end :a expected at any time. - Mors Ha Nothing to Kay. Queenstown. Feb. . When the steamship Etruria stopped here to day. C. W. Morse, ot rsew yora. who Is a "pa seen r r. refused to be dis turbed. He sent word that he nad nothing to say regarding his affairs- Justify themselves in not Joining the Church, that many church members are Irreligious. If all the facts are faced, it will be seen that the majori ty of the people who are walking up rightly are tbos who stand in the ranks of th Church members,- ,H Is the other class which fills th Jails and court houses. Late -i On a yesterday's express we received from a fashion able, tailor of New York, the centre of fashions, a lot of swell models in IiadiesV Voile and" Panama Skjrtsi, novelties of spring 1908 This quantity is limited ' for the present, and tho first gets first. A most attractive lot is that one the choice of which is a Five Dollar Bill. , ' . " .,':; . .. "ODDITY" ' ' , u This word may not mean just what you think it does, and if President Roosevelt don't eiplain it to y0u,: come fo Mrs. McDonald and she can tell you plainly that it means she leaves for New York Tuesday and if you want a Coat Suit ori Hat not like any one. else's, she will be glad to take your measure and or der for it. I?e sure to come Monday if possible. HOW IS THIS? While we have pleased many;; Ladies tickled their husbands on ' '. I'"'''..' ' ' : 1 '' ' '' V please many more in that lot of 1908 spring sample line of Coat Suits. There's no two alike, and the prices run from $20.00 to $45.00, and as swell a lot of stuff as your eyes ever beheld for the money and for the samples. ...... . . .1-4 off these figures. . " CURTAIN TIME NEAR And a Special Curtain Sale Tuesday at 10 O'clock V This is a big lot we bought about one month ago from the factory direct, to make a run on. JS ow if you exj pect to have to buy Curtains this spring at all, here's . your opportunity. If you come on the opening of thej sale you can get what you want and all you want One big lot Nottingham Curtains, White and' Ecru, worth $1.25 to $1.50; all right new goods. Sale, price ( per pair . ...... .......... ......... . . .L . . .9Sc, A KficnnA (t. worth SS1.50 trt .rV o nnir At m m -w w .vy f -' - - ...... ...a .... .....,............... y Third lot, worth $2.25 to $2.75. Sale price. , ... . . $1.78 ,. Fourth lot, worth $2.75 to $3.25. Sale price. ..".$2.19 Fifth lot, White, Ecru, Ivory and Beige; worth $3.25 to $3.75. feale price. V. . 1 . V. .. . '. . ! ..$2.79 Sixth lot, in Ivory, Green and White, worth $4.00 to; $4.50, Sale price. ... ... . '. .$3.63 One lot $6.00 Ivory Nottingham Curtains. Sale price .... .... .... 4 ; ... ... $5.00 t - . t -, One big assortment Irish Point and Brustle Net Cur-; , tains; worth up to $7.50. Sale price... ... , .,.$5.00 Don't let the men folks forget. Any one of our best makes of Suits or Overcoats iu glen's and Boys' go at 1-3 off for cash. ' a 4 I Ait s4 4 J II A 1 A t AstlAsfr sVA llllH-Nllilill.ti,8it,s)4j mm in Suits and the saving, " .1 '""'" still k we can - - sbbvv w tia ; svi tiv J. ' 1 VJ - vtv.. . I -A. 4
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Feb. 10, 1908, edition 1
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