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'BECOXD SECTION. SECOND SECTION ) Twenty-Two Pages Twenty-Two Fa3 V' Tffi MBWG001D). The time is past for "Jobs" and "Junk." The Spring Season is rapidly approaching and our twenty different departments are rapidly filling up with the newest and v'. - : most fashionable fabrics that are being shown. l.jii VU LI . ' SILKS " Some of the new Silks that are being displayed, Man darin, Tussorah, Shantoong, Itagoda, Motora, Mir age, Foulards and every other Silk that is new and tip to the hour. '.,.,' BLACK TAFFETA SILKS Listen! 56-inch genuine Imported Swiss Taffeta, Black only. We have not sold this for ,- less 1 than $1.50. ; Monday this goes on sale at the yard. ... .... .$1.25 , f . SPECIAL NO. 2 " !,. S6-inch Black Guaranteed Taffeta. This number we have not sold for le,ss than $1.25. Monday you can ( liuy this for the yard. ....... ....... ... .$1.00 j - . DRESS ILKS t The greatest collection of Novelty Dress Silks that we v'.. have ever shown,, on exhibition at both stores. Price from!.... .... ;.4 ...... ..50c. to $1.50 yard ; ORIENTAL SILK ' iWliite, Black and all Colors, absolutely water proof. , j" Price the yard. . ... .... . ............... .50c. " JAP AD PONGEE ' '. Complete line of Jap Silk from .'.'...' 39c. to $1.25 Pongee (Imported) , , price the yard ....... 75c. to $1.00 Sole Agents for Ladies , llomeJournal Patterns and LSorosisitoes MEM ' IN THE OlEe-M sunnies The first vis th "Oibraltar". dis trict of Kentucky la the '40' of the last century, bo rtamed for Its lm- niense- Democratic- majorities; even W hen Clay and Crittenden, pixon and Underwood were leaders of the Whigs. Jt embraces "Jackson's Purchase," hat part, of tho State west of the Ten nessee river, where there have been nothing- but Iemocrats for threescore years andten. It Is a magnificent corfntry, as prodigally endowed by'na ture .as any other In the Union. The farm products are corn, wheat," oats, rye,- cotton, tobacco and whiskey. The forests yield Immense quantities of lumber and the orchards are proline i rf fruits. Vast stores of. coal, iron and stone are in her mines. -.Paducah is a growing and thriving city located where the Cumberland end the Ten nessee find ithe Ohio and near the con fluence of the Ohio and the Mississip pi. Some day it will be a great com mercial centr. , ; The Gibraltar district was never represented in the American Congres Jy a Whig, or a Know-nothing, or a Republican, though the bayonets sent ene or two "Union men" o Congress during the war, when some thousands f the, electorate were marching and fighting with Breckenrldge and riding and, lighting with Forrest in the big war. In 18(7 Fulton county oast but two Republican .votes In as free an election and. as fair a. count as was ever had in this Union. The present representative is a na tive of Crittenden county, the son ot it leading lawyer of that section, and a man born to public life. He was a ttician before he entered the teens ind a stump speaker at the comple tion of his second lustrum. At six teen he was a page in the Kentucky legislature and an active 'politician. . Ben Johnson, the present Representa tive In Congress from the Fourth dis trict, of whom this country will likely ' hear much the next double decade. Hvas the Speaker when James was page. Most boys would have been forever ruined living' that life, half ptt and half counselor of the leading nen of the State at that tender age. Ollle Jamea studied in his father's office, and came to the tar at the age f twenty by virtue of an enabling act f the Legislature relieving him of the disability of legal infancy. He became a partner in his father's ex tensive practice, and eoon developed into a skillful and successful trial law yer In courts of nisi prius. He "rode circuit" and. was a powerful advocate . Wore the Juries of the entire district. Then, as he is now, and as he will be at Seventy, if he shall survive to that ag, Olllff James was a big boy with , more capacity for making friend and . retaining their aftVotlon than any oth er man In the. tate. His sincerity js-aa, and is, transparent, his convic We Pay RlroadFare on Purchasej Amounting to $40.00 to Patrons' PUBLIC EYE tions deep , seated, his enthusiasm overflowing, and his good fellowship delightful. There has not been a day of his life that the people f the Gi braltar district would not hav chos en him to any office to which he was eligible undor the constitution, and the only fault they ever found with him was that he refused to stand for Congress as soon as he attained to the constitutional age of twenty-five years. . . , r. , It was In 18S, at the age of twenty-four, that Ollle James first asserted himself as a Stats' leader, and on that occasion he was desperately and de fiantly wrong. A convention was held In, the Western district, embracing one-tmrd the state, and the buttcut of the Democratic tparty,- to nominate a candidate for railroad commission er. James was a delegate and made a speech In favor of It to 1 4. hat simp ly stampeded the convention- .which gave him the platform "and the candi date, he favored. sAt that time the State was for sound money, and at the State con vention endorse dthe- Cleveland ad ministration, and made a sound money platform, but Wat Harden, a Silver-man, was nominated for Gov ernorj- Ho was a brilliant orator, a popular favorite, and one of the best loved public menof his day; but he was defeated - at. the polls and the Democratic party of the State was so hopelessly demoralized that McKln ley carried Kentucky In 189. The late Isham G. Harris was a great man, and had he been President of the Confederacy it Is altogether probable that the South would have gained her independence, by 1865; but senator Harris was no political econ omist and fell into the grand error of the Batista. It was in 1895 that he convoked the Memphis conference which pledged the Democracy of the Mississippi valley to 16 to 1. The country had accepted the Wilson tar lit and had gone to work1 Just as two years later it accepted the Dlngley law and went to work.. The iron and steel business Is. the infallible Industrial barometer, and when that Memphis conference was called hundreds of furnaces that had been cold for two years were in blast. Labor was In demand; wages were advancing; pros peritywas on the threshold; but all this was -reversed as soon as Harris' Memphis conference declared for 16 to 1. (Industry folded Its arms and waited 4Wb year longer. The Repub lican party stole Grover Cleveland's flnanctal wisdom, engrafted It on the law not all of it, more's the pity business came out of Its gliding, labor went to work at the biggest wage In the world, and prosperity came back at a hop, skip and Jump and the Dem ocratic party took to the wilderness. O, the folly of ill ut the gods ar powerless before stupidity Then came the Goebel business that split the Democratic party of Ken tucky wider than, ever, sending, as It Splendid line Plaids, neat mmtff did, many Bryan 16 to 1-er's of 1898 into the Republican party,' where they are tnis good day. The present Governor of Kentucky is a Republican, chosen by 18,000 ma jority, due to the Impression made on the minds of some 60,000 Kentucky Democrats that there was a machine at Frahkfoft that was governing the ftate as though it was . a satrapy. Conventions convened to ratify the will of the machine Primary elections were held to fetch in. majorities for nominees alreadjLchnseiwFrank -Hat-! ton said Kentucky would go Republi can, all rlghtl - There are two men who can save Kentucky to the Democracy and keep her In line. One is OIlie James, of the'flrst district, and the other is Ben Johnson, of the fourth district. Neith er of ' them .has ever been mixed up In the quarrels and faction hates ot tho past doseii years. Neither ..is In any sense a boss. , If he lives, James will likely hold a seat in Congress as long as Joseph G. Cannon, -and it Is a good bet that he will some day be Speaker. Repeated attempts havei been made to Induce him to seek the office of Governor, snd had he been the nominee last year the majority -10,000 more than 18, 000 would have been on the Demo cratic side of the account It is like ly, too, that James will some' day be Senator, if he wants . it. But that would be a mistake. Just as it might, and probably would, nave been fatal to Joseph O. Cannon had he succeed ed John A. Logan or John M. Pal mer In the Senate. The House of Representatives, a stormy body, where J politics is something like a football match. Is the iplace for James, as it Is for Cannon, for Grosvenor, for Champ Clark, if you please. Those old fath ers of ours Intended to gtve the House the relative , Importance under the constitution of the United States that the Commons has under the British constitution; but the thing did not work, and while It is considered a misfortufle to be transferred from the Commons to the peers In England, with us it Is regarded as a promo tion to be sent from the House to the Senate. , . It did Joe Blackburn positive harm to go to the Senate, though with Beck It was different.- as it was different with Carmack and will be different witl) John Sharp William. But Ollle James' place Is the House of Repre sentatives. He Is a born parliamenta rian, and experience will maks of him n accomplished and able legislator. In a rough and tumble colloquy he Is already a very dangerous antagonist employing the tactics that made him o formidable an advocate at the bar and pursuing the methods that made aim so powerful on the V.ump James Is the most trusted adviser, as he Is the most enthusiastic follow, er, of William J. Bryan In ail Ken. President thl year Jame will be the tucky. If Bryan should be elected happiest man on the continent. He religiously believes that Bryant speech at Chicago was in all and ev ery respect the greatest oration that ever fell from the lips of mortal man. and he it wa who grabbed,the banner of the Kentucky delegation and mad a progress round the hall that did much to keep alive the enthusiasm until the nomination was made. He DRESS GOODS New Pana jah, 54 inches wide. Colors: .Champagne, ... Brown and Navy. "We are the only house that will show this goods in Charlotte this season. Price the yard ...$2.00 ' . NOVELTY DRESS GOODS A beautiful line of Spring Novelties, in dress patterns only, and these will not be duplicated. All the popu- lar colorings and weaves represented. Price the yard ...... .... .... ...50c. to $2.00 ; WASH GOODS ,- White and Colored LinenS, plain and fancy weave, for Tub Dresses. Price the yard .... .... .25c. to $1.00 NEW GINGHAM new Spring Gingham, Checks, patterns. , Price the yard GALATEA : You know the price of Galatea has been 17c. -Monday our new Spring line goes on sale at..... 15c. a yard Within B0.Milest- of Charlotte, and DdUver Free of Charge Puxchasss Amounting to is now a stronger advocate of Bryan's nomination than ever before, and when Bryan shall have hfen defeated next November, as he is certain to be, he will not be half as miserable as Ollle will be. Mr. Bryan has a wonderful hold on his party, and If he was gifted with the wisdom of a Jefferson or a Tilden he would be a very great ms6 In deed; but he is brilliant without saga city, eloquent without logic. On the ptump he would dwarf Ollle James; in the trial of a cause at common law-4fore-JearneAiAndinipartltt! Judge and an intelligent and unbiased Jury Ollle would make a monkey of him. There Is nothmg solid in Bry an's utterances. He allures, but nev er convinces. ' . Ollle James is, perhaps, the most popular man personally in Congress. His associates of both parties know that all the money in the Tre-aaury could not buy him1 to cast a corrupt vote, and that sort of character gives a man a place of immense vantage In that council. He is good-natured and kind-hearted, a great tlg boy et heart, disingenuous and confiding and yet with a big brain that can think. His place is the House of Represen tatives. He ought to remain In that body the rest of his natural life. He will some day be Speaker, and the Congress of which he Bhall be Speak er, if ever, will have a true man for its head. NATIONAL. DECADENCE. Growing Solidarity of World Makes It Empty Phrase. ' New York Erenlng Post; What renders much of tho present talk about national decadence partic ularly empty is the unmistakable, growing, solidarity of the world. The primitive theory of commerce, stlil adhered to in the Congo, perhaps, and at Washington, held that one" of two parties to a bargain was -bound to be the victim. Economists have now taught us that free exchange will benefit buyer and seller alike. One-of the two may get the Shelter of th bargain, as we call it; but the whole process Is based on the principle that both get u certain amount of good out of It. It Is largely the same with modern historical evolution. Nations may compete but even when ne na tion gets so decidedly the better of the other as Germany did of France , in 1870, good 'accrues' to both. Germany attained the hegemony In Europe, but France, out of the ashes of defeat, built up a more complete democracy than she had had since the revolution. No nation can progress without draw lng other nations along with her. Our own unparalleled material develop ment does not Imply retrogression for Europe. - On the contrary. Great Brit aim Ireland, northern Europe, Italy, in giving u their surplus population, have themselves profited tremendous ly. By commerce, by the telejrrapa, and the cshle.; fey the triumphs of science which knows no eountry, by such international movements as so cialism and the emancipation of wo men, it Is helng made less and le.s possible frtr one nation to sicken and decay without Inflicting hurt. eyond Its boundaries, or to move forward toward a healthier life without ' Im pelling other In the same, direction. WHITE GOODS Monday we will show the most magnificent line of White Goods that has been brought to the city. The lines consist of Sheer Check and Plaid Dimity, Stripe and "Figured Waisting, new Shirting Madras, Persian Lawn, Mercerized Batiste, etc. All new and crisp from the looms and finishing plants. Price the yard from . . . . ......... v ... 10c. to $1.00 HANDKERCHIEF SALE Monday we put on sale one hundred dozen Ladies', Initial Sheer All-Linen Handkerchiefs. Genuine 25c. value, for, . - 19c. each, or 6 for $1.00 LADIES' BELTS V New assortment of Leathers, Kid, Silk, Elastic and Beaded Belts. Price each. . . . .... ... .50c. to $4.00 DRESS TRIMMINGS New ideas in Dress Trimmings, Paris Novelties in Gilt and Silver, Gold Filet Net and Bands, all right up to the hour. HOSIERY Stripes and Our American ... 10c. to 25c. numDcrs. ucx in toucn witn tnese xwo numDers. Price the pair . ... ; . ,50c. . LADIES' GLOVES Our new Long and Short Silk Gloves will be on sale Monday. Price ..50c. to $1.50 USICAL 111 KAKL VOX "Well, how did you like it r ak?d the manager of the Metropolitan con cert troupe of inoffensive bystand er, when tho first concert w&a over. , 'Trctty Kood" "Isn't the soprano's voice glori ous?" "VeTy lllfi. fhe-rmly teok her de parture from 'Mother Earth' and flew to higher regions too soon In the Rirr.lectto quartette." ' "What do you mean?" question 1 tho managerial Individual. "Nothing much; Jut want to say, I'm sorry that the soprano did not stick to the earthly score and landed a third step above the ground on the lasjfnote." "Hump," said' Hie manager then he Continued his queries: "How about Miss 'Hussey's voice? Has sho not a mngnincent contralto? How would she compare with Schumann-Helnk ?" "Retro, Retro, Don Rodrlguex! Go slow and come back to earth! I'm, not much on impossible comparisons." Quoth the Metropolitan Concert man: "Please do not peak In riddles, but give me your plain nd honest opinion." -, . "All .right. , I'm not much of an orator, but I see now that I'll have to, hold a short discourse. . Now then, every species of human voice has Its peculiarities. Soprano, are generally endowed with 'limpidetza,' they are flexible and graceful; while, on the other hand, contraltos are like the heavy artillery; they gTowl and thunder and make their mark, but are slow of moving and clumsy. -Tou know the difference between water; and molasses, You have tred, per haps, the old experiment to turn on the faucet and cqyer with your thumb part of the pipe. You have watched with pleasure in what graceful figures the water would squirt. In different directions. 1 Were you to tap a barret ofmolaWes and try the same experi ment, you would lgnomlnli-imly . fail unless same molasea were an extra ordinary preparation. Such are sel dom found, and ther same Is the case with flexible contraltos. There Is but one Rchumann-IJeln every cen tury. Mdlases has not yet made the Ingenious invention how to provide it self with nimble feet and thus run as fast as water. ' Furthermore, there are different grades of this compound, some of higher, some of lesser purity. Madame. Kchumann-lleink U "one hundred proof,' while the general run la 46 per cent, pure sugar and 6t percent, charcoal, capiato?" "Your flight of thought, is quite rapid, and your mode of expression rather extraordinary, but i believe that I understand what you are driv ing at. Tell me, however. What Im pression the tenor road upon you." "He has some very fine high notes, bat his medium register reminds me of the 'rrfodel' young man. who re bukes every somewh Inaesthetlc remark- with an ' affectedly lisped: Mercy me, you naughty thin.'" A little pause ensued. Then the manager made one last desperate at tempt to extract jme few w"ord.4 of genuine praise from the omcuious mortal. , - "What about Martin, the basso? Beauty and 201x -are the most popular Sole Agents for Centiimri and Adler's Kid Gloves .A.I MELANGE LA WHEN Z. Ho has repeatedly sung at the Wor cester Festival, ho has toured the whole continent and has never failed to elicit complimentary remark from those who know." "Well, ho van very good. Indeed, a redeeming feature! Don't take my few innocent comments amiss, old man. It win a very human per fttfflMWw, ftcr. alWaunbtams and shadows, you know and, aueune. rose sans eplnes. not even the "American Beauties' So long good luck to you." . t , Tho first messengers of spring have arrived Nature is in an awakening state. There Is something glorious arid fascinating about . this waking from the Involuntary slumber Into which winter with his robust strength has mesmerized her. .Many poets have spoken unto us of this beautiful state of transition, and ..musicians have ererted many an artistic monument In its honor. Tho truest and best of the latter is Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony," wherein we may hear the voice of earth, her sounds of spring With the accompanying phe nomena, her storm and her melodious rest. Over hill and hoi'.ow, past sleeping fields, over miles of moorland, the flrnt low sounds of a familiar pipe fall on the ear. Spring i practic ing hi stiff finger as he blows a few trial notes Into his mellow reed, anJ gradually the disused Joints are loos ened, and the notes form themselves Into a melody. - Birds and Insects, flower and tree know well the sound of that pipe, and come forth at the call of the vernal shepherd. Everywhere, as the glad monotonous sound swells, old Earth stirs herself again; here she ha a school of youn Insects who must be tauxht their business; thero she is decorating a green corner with wind flower and crocus; In the depth of this shaded pood 4he starwort at hei touch begins to spring, the lily to reach up tiny hand to the sun; and far out on the brimming tide she must repaint the grey front of some old,' reck, making the sea-pink and mallow bloom again. And still a the shepherj draw near, on of hi penetrate Winter sleep; new life within the old; Earth takes up her plain-song; Timo gtve the tie to De-uh. And man, from his enchanted land, see the first stir rings of sleeping earth, and hi own heart stirs to the impulse, the blue eyes of Spring look at him from the grass, and his own eyes shine again at the sight, he hears the rush of foaming rivulets, long In the bond age of Winter, leaping down the hill sides to embrsc the green earth, and In his "own heart rise fountains of grateful love. For, while the world Wa harj and black, he seemed to forget the sweetness of the spring air and the greenness of the green, but here Is the old cycle unfolding itself; again, and something within him ro-j members, an I leaps at the memory. The essence of this movement 1 a Joyful mon-jtony. as of a vt'k-e th.tt sings to ItsHf some grateful - etrain, an I sin it aa!n and ofn-n. 1ft that "sweet monotony is the spirit ef spring and of life itself which is $5.00. without beginning and without end, blossoming out of corruption and springing again where it perishes, "ANDANTE MOLTO MOSSO." Pprlng has deepened into summer, and the melody of his pipe has' .lied on the perfumed air. Instead, June makes harmony with her choirs of bees and gaudy files; and the brook that foamed and tumbled merrily, an Infant freshet, down th mountain side, now murmurs and quietly talks to Itself as it fares through field of corn and poppy. The busy sounJs of creation and re-awakening are heard no, jnwer the stream t life is brimming at its flood, and the earth lies hushed In a charmed silence, bal anced on the ed-e of Summer. Through this silence the low sound of the brook gradually makes itself heard, and soon It becomes the fore ground of the tone-picture. How, In a comparatively few bars of music we are mad sensible of Its. endless flowing. The simple orchestration gives us alt the changing lights on the water; here and there the under tone of the two solo vholoncelil show up for a moment and Is gone, lUe a shadow under the 'surface; now there Is an eddy, now a bend In the course, but incessantly the stream U moving.' moving, ever so alowly. As we wander along It banks the child like song beguile "us Into deeper dreaming. The song fall on our outward ear, but it language Is alien we should need the wisdom of chill dren to understand it. But the crys tal clearne. of It, at least, we can understand, and long for something VV e watch the stream as It passe u and trouble; we would arret. if Ve nf d he ,br?let till glide on past the popple In melody of laughter and dreams. "AIXEGRO-AIJLEGRO-ALLEGRET- noi1 wr,t,'n nr ago that It U not good for man to b alone. v. hef children selfishly to Isolate theni- fn "Je,"W!U And man who '""f Plctura stands for the obser vant half of a divided consciousness, ha long been alone; in th quick ening woods, amongst the Bower, be side the crooning streamlets. n thinks, perhaps, that here is the 11 r for him: no trouble, no toll, only to 'Isten to the talking branches and th w hispering wind.' So.-when th merry sound of a pleasant party first fall on his ear, his soul dies in him. The rude glee of the yokels jars hint to the quick: why are they here, mak ing their Infernal din, blots on God s landscape? The loud bassoon sing no Jubilee for ' him. and the tart, squalling oboe that persists m enter ing Just om beat too lite, sets hi nerves oa edge. From his dreamy c j tenttnent to this acute discomfort is a cold and shocking plunge. And there is no d .ubt that this peas ant scene Is a daringly haivh touch in the eymih"n H vonifs suti li n! Jike a JjH in the smooth and gliding -progress, an I we Mrt up, ru4iy shocked, in ev:i ino"J. Liae most of the daring thtnjrs. that Beethoven did, it !. ju:i tifd in tiie tad, shhoush-st tv iv. -mmi Its re -n i net cir.ir. It H f.tr more than- the pm-tH bumvt tCorUnued on rS-5 '"'
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