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'CHARLOTTE DAILY OBSERVER, JUNE 23, 1CC3. . J. 1 CALDWELXi P. A. XOiPaU"S Publishers. Very Day in Ifce Year nni TMr .......- ' an mouth j gj tares month ." - Beml-WeeaJy .'. Sl.M On year Thr month . rvBUSHEBs- .owcaaai' Ko. st aoutfc IbSS'-K ' numbers: Business office. Bell Pn""T of hi. paper charged, wUl uii thVaddrers to which U " at tha time he Ior Aa?55a, rate, are h Etat. and upper u.nI their Mini r-reM-rrea ui . "r, VI MOi.l, Mines to ineir 'v';-v hea they are dettianded lor the pur pose of pnwMi satisfaction. To re- must be aewmpanled by th true name of the correspondent. FRIDAY, JV'XK 2, 08. rmc orr-TAXT.iJ7Jf-D gambiver. Gambling in paper cotton and aim- 1 liar article on the exchange la an exceedingly delicate performance at time.. -When a corner ha been at tempted the operator concerned and all following their lead are liable to disaster through entirely unforeseeable and perhaps Intrinsically trivial occur- Htm. Accident or audden illnea befalllnar ome leading cornerer dur ing th critical period may upset the kti.i. nlinL the mere new Of ma J,. w , disablement very likely causing tampede. Thl 1 precisely what hap pened on the New Tork cotton ex- " chance Tuesday last when a corner In July contract went to piece like the -mA hv,,a. rhwh a phlld ha tram V U W " ....... - pled upon. The collapsing tructure bad been carefully and skilfully built np by a combination of New York tVew Orleans and Liverpool operators during the ten day previous. Just when prices had been boosted to about the desired point and the clique was preparing to realize on it coup its leading pirit wa taken ill, grew rap Idly worst, and faced the certainty of a dangerous operation. Thereupon the associated operator lost their morale, "and their nerve along wlta it Mutual distrust arising, the or ganltatloq went to smash In short or der. Each operator feared that every ther "operator would take the bad i new aa a signal to unload hi own holdings and leave the rest in the . lurch. It was every man for himself and devil take the hindmost 60, through no cause but their own de moralisation, these operator - began throwing their holdings on the mar ket In big batches. The result was Inevitable. July cotton, which had closed at 10.17 Monday, opened at lf.lt Tuesday morning, and then dropped rapidly down the ecale to .IS, thus (lumping 125 points, or $7.6 a bale. The bottom of the market had fallen out for the time be ing, and but for the active interven tion of large brokerage house cot ton prloea paper cotton prices might have gone very low Indeed. Timely buying by these Interest checked 'the market's rapidity of de scent and then brought about a slight rise, the price closing around 9.65. The bull acherae, so. nearly a success, had come to grief at the last moment. It had been shown for the thousandth time that, slips twlxt the cup and the lip are peculiarly' apt to occur in the realm of market gambling even by professionals. The lesson involved for speculatively inclined outsiders or non-professionals is, of course, vastly more forcible 'still. Few things on earth can be left strictly alone to bet ter advantage than merely gambling transaction In the crop and stock ex change. - TTHAN'YY t A HOSPITAL. An old disciplinary rule of the Grady Hospital, Atlanta, that the In ternes, or budding doctors, shall hold no social conversation with the nurses has been' revived and enforced. While recognising the blight dealt upon theae white-clad young men, the med ical, board of the hospital got the Idea Into it head that Institutional efficiency made uch action advisable. Jn other words, it believed co-educational association to have proved a failure from the hospital's standpoint. Did the lntern--elght of them ac cept this atern decree and attempt in ood faith to comply with It require ment no matter hoy sweet and alto gether attractive a nurse-might be? The fact la, they would none of it and there was a strike on at once. All eight walked out as one man, leaving tne uraay Hospital, Atlanta, quite without any staff of internes. Need leas to say where our sympathies lie. W should like to aire that Btedk-al board a piece of our mind and make things hot for each and every member of it . ; ' . FOR .THE SOUTH TO CONSIDER, j The Charleston News' and' Courier ..thinks the .Republican party decla ration against th election of United .State Senator by popular vote should brjng a feeling of safety and relief to Southern white men. ; , It proceeds to explain; - - -. 1v -'h-" " ' "'In the South a considerable Trilnorlt-r of white men, by reason of illiteracy or failure, to obtain registration certificates, are excluded irom voting In general elec tions. The number of negroes who may qualify to vote Is rapidly increasing;. The disqualified white voters now participate In prfmaiies which elect the member of the Legislature, and as their votea count as much a do , the votes of others in choosing- Senators. If Senator should be elected In general elections the - whole power of the national Republican party would be used to assist Kepuoiican ana intteDendent candidates in the South, and the present satisfactory system by which the election of a Republican Senator, ia practically Impossible would be upset Who imagines that If the control of the United States Senate depended upon the election of. a Senator In South tjarouna. the Republican party would negieoi 10 aunnort. a candidate. srobabiv some ex cellent and wealthy gentleman. tjiq is T?mihilrn nnlv In national an airs, wno ran as an Independent in the November lection, with money ana in every uiw way Who supposes that a Republican Senate would hesitate to give the seat to a Republican contestant, regardless or evidence ana justices . . ... ti ini nf h matter, while somewhat novel strike ua a "well wnrtn tnniwrhtful consideration. If direct election of United State Sena tor ehould ever become a reality It might well give some of lta strongxxrt present advocate cause for bitter and unavailing regret. Virginia's rokrncAi menag erie. Behold some name familiar in the public Iffe of our northern neighbor. "Major John W. Daniel." note a cor respondent of The Richmond Time Dispatch, "is called The Lame Lion of Lynchburg. The Hon. James W. Marshall is rightly named Tyclone Jim of Craig Creek.' Th etenator from Valley of the Shenandoah is call ed The Tall Sycamore of Cub Creek.' " It Is urged by the corre spondent that an account of "his hard work and laborious habits" Senator Martin should be called "The Beaver of the Valley of the Rivanna." In spired by neighborly Interest, we de sire to express a hope that this sug gestion will be followed. Already provided with a Hon, a cyclone and a sycamore, Virginia politics would be greatly enriched and further dlvcrsl fled by the addition of a beaver. (But is it possible that no noble charger dwells along the banks of any Vir ginia river? Surely there must be an Old War Horse of the James, the Ap pomattox or the Dan. If not, this conspicuous lack needs prompt atten tion. It may even be that the State Legislature ahould take special ac Hon In the matter. "The New York Mall writes it 'fore casted.' This Is likely to nrarlnitatn a controversy among the paragraphers. The norioiK tjancimarK will proceed to open ins aiacuaion.-Houston t'ost. Bless your soul,- you benighted thing, Th Observer long ago wrote it "forecasted" and in the ensuing controversy achieved a great though bloodless Victory. "Forecasted" now stands firmly established In linguistic good society. The Post must be a very Rip Van Winkle of grammar never to have heard these things. At any rate, we deprecate such feel Irvg among follower of the various rand; late as would for eveo a short tine cause fair partisan of gjr can- i 'ito to conduct themselves toward I jMr,iwnt male person as once did rr.any similarly over-en'thuslasUe fair or.'i far on the ringing plain of wln- tf Kansas; . - ; ..- ""f X v shall ne'er b kbeed -i- it ty a l i-r'iiUi.- PROmniTIOY RESOLUTIONS. Text of Paper Tamed by Medical Bo nny itoiative to Illegal Writing of Prescriptions. The Observer is requested to nrint the following: Resolutions relating to the nr. scribing of Intoxicating liquors by pnysicians in North Carolina unani mously passed at the recent session of the State Medical Society In Winston- Salem, June Hth, 17th and 18th. 108. Wheress, the people of the State of North Carolina have 'by a large mi. Jority vote recent'y ratified an act which after January 1st. 1909, makes illegal the sale of intoxicating liquor in North Carolina except upon nhvsl- cians' prescription: Whereas, the Legislature of Knrth Carolina. In framing the prohibition law, did evidence great confidence In the medical profession of sold State by -placing tn the hand of such pro fession to an extent the success of failure of the law In that the mem- hers of the said medical profession are given the right to prescribe spirit uous uquors at tneir discretion: Therefore be it resolved: First. That the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina in fifty fifth regular annual session assembled do hereby condemn aa unprofessional and grossly immoral any lax or un faithful conduct tn Its members in the exercise of the privilege conferred in thl law. Second. That the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina re spectfully urge upon all the physi cians of this State, whether members of thl oclety or not. to Join us In demonstrating to th people that the members of the medical profession can be relied upon Implicitly to per form their full duty in aiding In the enforcement of the prohibition law and In building up a publlo senti ment that wl'l insure protection aratntt an illegal traffic In intoxicat ing liquor. Third. That the. Medical Society of the State of North Carolina respect fully urges upon the board of medical examiner of the State of North Caro- Jina the manifest duty of revoking the license to practice of any phvsiclan who may be proven guilty of abusing the privilege accorded him In the pre scribing of intoxicants. J. HOWKLL WAT. CHARLES J. O'HAOAN LAUQIMNCJ HOUSE. Unanimously adopted by vote of tb society and ordered given to the press 01 ine state lor publication. . - . t P. A. STANTON. eW. . J. HOWELL WAY, Pres.. W et Win Go ForHepsibtk-aii if Craig - U Not Nominated, Special to Tbo Observer. , J ' Murphy. June 71. The Democrat in the west cViim they have not had a Governor for Sf year and If not recognised this time wilt slve, their influence to the Republican nominee. ' . Vermont Convention. ' , Bulington, Vt, June II. It is like. ly that Vermont' eight delegates u the Denver convention will go unln stmcted although a strong sentiment baa devkped In favor of Bryan a the presidential nominee. Tne State convention wju be held, to-morrow., ASHEVIELE- PAST AND PRESENT 6y col. f. a. OLDS. A visit to'Ashevillo always produce interesting impressions. The ' place is both near and remote; North Carolin ian and not so.-To me tne contrast between the Asheyllle I knew a boy and the place of r to-day is so startling that it seemed almost an unreality. 1 thought of the time when 1 nad first one , there, tnirty-rour years ago, a youngster, and of how the place looked then. In those days one traveled over a very ramshackle railway, the North Carolina, from here to Salisbury, and over one even more so from Salisbury to Old Fore nd a I walked through our train tha other day and, standing on the rear piauorm or the' comfortable cnair car, saw the track spinning rearward, with it heavy rails, observed the at tractive stations at all the prominent points, saw the miles of sidings. done we went back to the hotel, and I never saw mv frient lmln for he left the next day' on a raid. - AshevlUe, in those day was not a resori, except of a few Deonla wno dared to make the rough train trip and tjie more pleasant one by stage. wnicn ot course had thrills, and so the place had only a local color and relish. But now what a change. The eoumern.. world xoes there an tne summer, the Northern world in the winter.-.- :w ,, .y , , - ; Invalid have made It a. great re sort for Quarter Of a. canturv. AH these thing were undreamed 1 of at tn time thl story tells about. It was the quietest of towns. Big covered wagons passed along; tn streets, with -smite - team, of threa and some times five horses. The country world ' Some. year ago an electric railway was started to Craggy - mountain, from which Ahere' is a wonderf vt view of tha country for many a mile, but when the grading was partly -finished the owner became angry, stopped the work and tore up the rails, but no another company has taken hold and tne road is to be bunt, one or ine lines runs to the only ""fake" I found about Ashevllle, this being what 1 called "Lake r Tahkeeotee," vUlch really isn't any lake at all, there, be jr sr.. merely a dam on tne enc Broad river at a power-plant,: which backs water half a mile or so up tnat racing stream, , Tha name of the lake. so called, i that which justly belongs to tha river. - The Cherokee knew lot more about name than we do. wore home-made clothes. .Everything There are five Broad rivers in North to eat was. so chean that it seems absurd to-talk about it in these ex pensive days. Fruit was to be had al most for the asking. It was simply a ragged yet vividly picturesque moun tain town, with the people practical- ly an natives and mighty clever peo ple, too. f - .-.v -O.--..-- Now the place Is a cross between ruieaurst and a New England moun- Carollna, these being; tne .Broad, the French Broad, and the First. Second and Third Broads. Soma of ths.-n are so narrow as to make the us of the word laughable. ,r '.:i?S;f Aabevilla 1 not mass of a maun facturing town, bat It has a law in dunrie and one of these is ' worinv or mention, being the manufacture of talcum powder. All of us have keen tain city. Most of the people, you see In the newspapers and magazines the you aon t Know and the natives wno 1 very pleasant face of Mr. Mennen, live there don't know them either. crowded with car, the big engines j The position of AshevlUe 1 therefore and the endless equipment at Spen cer, where the big shops are, the mind went back to the trains, etc., of s years ao, which to-day would be viewed with rather much of tnat cur. losity which comes to visitors In a museum of antiquities. : i There is an official whose duty it I to go over the North Carolina Rail way once In a while, in behalf of the State, and see that the equipment is kept up, so as to be at least what It was when that road was leased from the State by the Southern. Never did man nave an easier task than this. for there must needs have been Im provement to allow trains to run at all. But to get towards our subject. namely Ashevllle. I can never forget the trip from Salisbury there in 1174 It was in August and the country seemed vastly different then from what it does to-day. When we got to Old Fort there was an old-fashioned boarding house and a very motherly looking woman was at the head of the tuole. The little engine and the murh battered cars were in view from a window and one could also take a squint at the Concord stage, a dull brown affair, hung on thick leather springs. The most Interesting thing about the stage was that John Pence was the driver. People had begun to talk about him a lot and Miss Fisher, Christian Held. 1 had made him quite a hero in one or two of her delightful novels about mountain life. It having been given to her also to give the charming title "The Land of the Sky" to the great mountain plateau upon which Ashevllle Is set like a Jewel. Anyway we did full Justice to he country dinner in the little hotel. There was In those day both "short sweetening." otherwise sugar, and 'long swni-tenlng. otherwise molas ses," some guests taking one and some the other. I recall the fact that there was a little talk about politics, a pass- ing auusion to the Ku Klux. who had gone out of date a trifle, and some one had a very pleasant word to say a oout oovernor vanoe who waa then llvln- at Charlotte. After dinner we took the stage and to my delight I was one of the lucky ones to ride on top. Just a I iwas about to ascend a stout man, very wen dressed, and who reminded me somewhat of Willie Collin' villain. 'Count Fosco." in the "Woman In .White," steppVyi-trp and ald to me: "My boy. where are you going? To Ashevllle?" I said yes and then .he said "Where will you stop?" I replied at the Eagle Hotel and then he said, f lease give this box to Ous Weddln. the clerk, and tell him to put It away for me for a day or two, until I come," with these word handing me absolutely unique in North Carolina. I would not consider it a North Car. olina town at all. Tha' Northern ele ment dominate It most of the year and there. are Northern, line of thought and activity and not a lit tie pf that Northern Indifference which think not of the next dooc neighbor but only of ono' personal following, so to speak. How different from the days when dignified General Clingham used to step along - the streets, cane In hand, exchanging tne compliment of the dar with the la die of the place; when people played checkers in the ' shady places, or smoked their pipe and talked moun tain taix. . fVe used to go out to "Connonly's view" and lie there of an afternoon and look across the river at the "prospect, where Biltmore now 1. Aladdin, he of 'The Wonderful Lamp," had not then come to Ashe ville, but some. Tears later he drifted there and began his magical wotk. The railroad carved its way through the mountains. Its services Improved and then came the people. Five years after my first visit X had the honor of going; through the partially com- pieiod e wanna noa tunnel with Sena tor Vance of blessed memory and Ma jor James W. Wilson, the ' superin tendent of the Western North Caro lina Railway. The convicts who had built the 'road for the Bute had hauled with Infinite labor a little en gine and train of dirt oars over the mountains, so that work was going on from both ends of tha tunnel, old Engineer Aldrlch operating one of the trains, and I know the engine whis tle sounded really uncanny in those Buncombe glens, then unused to such noise. W had dinner at the house of one of the men in charge of the convicts who were digging the tun nei, this being at the very top or tne mountain, nearby being a shaft which inter-sectea me tunnel at ngnt an gles. The "boss" was a big Scotch man and a very Jolly fellow. Those were tha days when everybody took a drink and when brandy waa very popular and to be sure it waa on hand on thl particular occasion. Of course Senator Vance had to make a little talk and he displayed bis usual wit, when, having passed through the tunnel from the east ward to the west, he declared It to be the funniest way in which he had ever entered Buncombe county. In taos days of '74 tha stags line ran to ureenvuie, s. C-, and also to Warm Springs, which has now In creased Its temperature and become Hot Springs, and I took in both places. It may be imagination, but the mountains then seemed bigger - and higher and 'we got nearer to them. a cigar box tied with two piece of I Maybe tha railways have dwarfed other things, but for seeing mountain country, an old Concord stage beats any conveyance. Our seemed a part of the landscape. Everything fitted in. In those day there were fish In the mountain streams, trout, etc, and we used to sea Indians, Cherokee, com ing into town, walking all , the way from their- reservation and once we saw thc-:r chief and his squaw, who were on tneir way to Raleigh, and thence would go to Washington to see tha 'Oreat Father," otherwise the President. The squaw walked a Dace' or: two behind her lord and his conversation was largely made up of grunts, while she seemed voice less. When the chief would. arrive at Raleigh, he would stop at a hotel, go to the capitol, meet the Governor, give and get the glad hand, smoke the pipe, then if it waa twine. I took the box, got on the stage and when we got near the top of the mountain we saw piles of de Dris from the eastern end of what is ow the Swannaaoa tunnel, masses of blueish looking rock, a lot of It Ilka slate, and everything had the appear- nee ot abandoned work. Nearby were some apple trees; old fellow, na we got off and knocked down some applet, which tasted very well. ni aitto oouffht some Indian peaches-. as red as blood, from some native. Meanwhile I held on to the box, with- out thinking of the content, but simply as a boy will to a trust. When we got to the top of the mountain, the irest of the "great divide," pence merrily blew his long tin horn, which waked the echoes, and down the west- wara siojie wo went. Presently we changed horses and then w made a fin run to Anhevllle. I remember I session time, would rn into tha lerls- that we crossed a little branch Just I lative halls and be given the "orlv- at the edge of the town and noticed I ileges of the Root.- The sort of thing mat me roc us and a lot of the trees had been done a long time with the were wnuewasned. -Up the unpaved I Cherokee of the "Eastern Bank. nd rather twisty streets wo went I who happily yet abide In the North and pulled up at th Eagle, a three- Carolina mountain and perhaps live story brick building, with three en- trances, each with a little portico, and saw standing there Mr. Clem- mons, the owner of the hotel and of the stage line, a big white-bull dog ueing wun mm. t went into the office a happy a life as any people In the State, rinco they can claim to be the original c I ti sens, lords, proprietor, first settler and all that sort of thing. When I was at Ashevllle a few day and gave Mr. Wcddln, the clerk, the I ago. I found it to be a town of town. cUar box and he stuck it in n mr. Two days later I happened to be sit ting In the office when the man who nau given me the box came in; asked It has mr paved streets and better paved one than any place anywhere near Its l-4alh Unltsd States and it has by far the. largest number Weduin for It; got It, asked where I lot handsome dwelling and business was, and when 1 was shown him. in vlted a boy friend and myself to go up to hi room. A a matter of fact I did not know him when he came In. because his conventional costume of black which I had seen at Old Fort was replaced by on of blu jeans, mount4n-made, . wl t cowhide boot, very well greased. Joo, and a hat, which must have -weighed five pounus; one of those wool hats. iaKrtt. V. 1 L. I ' i.la . - houses 1 nave ever seen In a place at all aqual It in population. The Battery - Park Hotel surmounts the highest point, where we used to go when I was a boy, nllmblng over a little fence Of chestnut rails, naulns mrougn some straggling oowa, and going to the top ot tha hill, ' then known as "Battery Porter.' where there wtra the very plain remains of an eartnworx which bad contained about which the' politicians used to I some guns. The hill could haa hwn discourse not a great many years ago. bought probably for $50. Now money In other words, my friend was . in the could hardly buy It I saw men dig- ecret service and he was all things to king; what is now "Patten avenue," all men, and had many costumes and ne of the nicest business streets In disguise. He was an Italian, and the State. Upon the mountain nearby, sharp as a tack, and he was always "Beaucatcher, they used to call it. on th trail of counterfeiters, moon- there was another dismantled battery shiners, etc., whom to be sure were and w used to go up there and look thick enough in those parts in those days. I'p in hi rooms he opened the box.: and goodness gracious: It was packed with money. It was going to bo, used to pay off a lot of court ex penses or something like that and he had trusted it to a boy, as if it were a mere cover for 160 cigars or so. He asked me the next day te go with him to the big old Jail, which stood in the rear of the very dilapidated court house, and we went ud on the (.third floor, where there was a large cage wntcn occupied much of the single room there. In this being vari ous and sundry gentlemen for whom ITncl Sam had taken a violent liking. With the secret service man was a photographer. Those were the - wet plate days, "snap-shooters" being- un known, and. there, had to be an ex losuru of some time to get a picture. The gentleman whose picture was de aired wa very obstreperous and gri maced like a baboon,' while he twisted and turned. 'He did not want his pic ture to go Into the Ro-ue' Gallery." by any means. - rresenuy tne secret service man tired of these and with a gesture like lightning ho whipped out a big revolver and thrum the mus cle between the bars and took a close aim st the gentleman Inside, Tha latter froze Into stillness and' the rhoiographer got him all rltiht. This at the view of the village and over into ununn'S cove on tha other side. Nobody lived on top of the mountain and everything was wild and on felt almost Ilka a discoverer. Now the trolley goes everywhere It can and where It can't thor are food drive ways. W tramped It one all the way to Mount Mitchell and spent a night there and the better part of two days. That is now about a wild as K wa then. Another trip was to Pisgah. that absolutely wild, but now owned by the Aladdin of the North Caroli na mountains, to wit deorge Vender- nut. the State's greatest landholder and overlord, who has some quarter minion acre in that vicinity, owns about half of two r three mountains and lta a domain some fifty miles long, rrom ni J'lfgan lodge-being a view . of ' hi chateau, r -Biltmore House," th latter being exactly ilk our dear old boyhood friends the genius who responded to the rubbing of the lamp by Aladdin and has lifted a little- bit or France, buildings, grounds : and all. and set it down there. Such I tha msgh of money and taste. And with It all Van derbilt la a model sort of a fellow, not stuck-up a bit; who works amidst hi laborers and who, with his wife, has com to lore their gm of a horn in th "Land of th Bay." . that gentleman who Is amassing fortune out of North Carolina tale. This is shipped o him in the North and West, ground, perfumed and put up, ; and away it goe all over tha world. - Now eomeVme, on Ashevlile's mam street, has a factory which makes this product, and the very de lightful odor pervades the atmos phera for quite a distance ' Ashe ville'a main gifts nave ' come - from outsiders. Such 1 the Vance monu ment, the gift of Mr. Pack, and , In honor of the latter the square named. , There waa a Mr 'Roebiing- in the place, but he took umbrage at the action of the people , In making Ashevllle dry instead of wet and so, literally as well as figuratively, ne shook off the dust of the place from his feet and winged his flight to his old Northern home. Some of the AshevlUlans bemoaned thl - action, and other smiled, but In truth , the gentleman had done a lot ' for " the place. ,; ;-; . ' ,- ' -. ,-' L -: I paid a visit to the "Henrietta. Thl used to be the Patton, home, built, some time before the civil war; a stately old place, on tne main street, with those big and lofty cell Inged rooms, which somehow give one breadth of - thought. - in tn arter year this house wa occupied by an other well-known family and after a while cam to be a club house. Then it passed into the hand of the Toung Women' Christian Association ana now is In It every- happiest state, namely, has been made a home for young women; a home In fact aa well aa in name. The gentle matron , in charge showed u through and ' told ua that 24 youna women .boarded there and that 14 had rooms In the building. Over the, stately entrance In golden letter Is th name, and the work done In that place is all golden, too, a weetwork, which has no doubt moulded and Is moulding the character of may a young woman. One of the vital forces of Ashevllle Is the chamber of commerce, to which I paid a special visit. It has 100 members and all of these seem to be, to use a slang phrase of the day. live wires." They put up plenty xf money and during half the year they advertise their town in th north and west and during the other half in the south,- putting in thousands of dol lars In this way, using every - promt nent paper, magaslne, etc and -pic tures galore. Ashevllle is tne nest 11 lustrated town In the South, by far, as any photographer will tell you. It ia said that 100,000 visitors go there during ; th summer. s Panics don't trouble the place. It lives pretty much as Washington does, very largely up on "floaters." Industries cut but a small figure: people are wanted: peo ple with money, too, lor if cost something to live in a. smart town like" Ashevllle. The Elk have very cosy quarters now and they are . accumulating money and -Intend to put up a $100, 000 building of their own. Tne jamo lie are 'building a very striking church; unbeautlful If unique aa to exterior, but in the inspae a wonaer, with every bit of the wood-work broftght from abroad and fashioned most wonderfully. - ' ' . Talking to a friend about this In terior decoration from abroad I told him something which h did not before know, thl being- that Mr. Pembroke Jones has in- his house. 'Airlle." at Wrlghuvllle. near Wil mington, easily the most notable thing in North Carolina, certainly in the way of woodwork or bouse rurnisn Ing. this being tha staircase from the home of Sir Waiter Kaieign, "tiayes, In England. Mr. Jones found It for ale there, bought It, brought It here. and had it put up. It ha not been treated at all and give on a 'good idea of the rough, if effective, wood work of 1680. The wood. J not dark, but a light brown. I had the pleas ure of walking on thl stairway and as a little later I went to the'Hayee" at Edenton. named in honor of - Sir Waltefa home, there was an added test Jn the memory of AlrlleM and the brave knlirht. too. . But to set back to Ashevllle. The town has a large sporting ' element; people who are interested in - thing because they ar of Ashevllle, and so I found seODle there, not native at all, who talked about Locks Craig and hla chances of being nominated tor Governor, speaking about this, as they very frankly said, because ha was an Ashevllle roan, and not aa a North Carolinian. " In fact they did , not know anything about the . rest of North Carolina." The mere fact that he bailed from Ashevllle put them in touch with him and this Is the key note to the thought of no Inconsider able number ot the residents of th place. -..',' LiOOKlng at ABOCvino liiiuugu avea or thi oast and present, so to peak. It wa very delightful to make a trip, over a good -part of. th. city and out to Ulitmor an one 01 nm handsome, teams so nnmeron In th mountain metropolis, and to alt beside the driver, William Hall, whom I had known when on my orst visit, to tne town. William wa a magasine or information and he could bring to memory every sort of Old Impression and Incident, all the way from where so and no lived 10 -odd years ago. and where wa boys used to occasionally take watermelon and fail to leave our card in the "patch" a a mark ot re spect to the owner. Now there are. very fw grown iZS'ortn .caronnjan who have not stolen a watermelon, so that thla ofTenae 1 regarded a a very venial one, unrecorded perhaps, and most certainly on which no North Carolina Jury would take the least cognlsanra of. ' . . ' . In my early day there was a friendliness between many of the white boy and the colored ones, which 1 all gone now to return no more forever. It wa something less than a decade after the civil war and even reconstruction did wot affect this sentiment of friendship very much, but in the early '10s the -end began to come, and now, except in very rare circumstances, one never sees th white boy and the blacks playing, hunting and fishing together, etc. It H,ljfs'aAr OO 1 WOO m I: FBI (0 3 :THE: 1, It has been ten days of hard brk, but we feel doubly paid, and still there are .two days leftto-day!' and to-morrow. These two days we shall work things to ; a ''finish.'' Wfi shall makp nnr nYnnoHfvra -nttvnA a v I , " - vMa , V WU tf VUUkWA -' and our patrons talk, becavse 'of such woriderfnllv low V prices. The new, clean, desirable, and seasonable goods ' will be down to within the reach "of the most modest purse, and the odd lots left . from the ten days' sale wil) ' be bunched and prices put on them to where it will bo i J " - , -- - t bUVUUOV. . watcpi M te Don't let Saturday pa? s unless you' send at least ' one hour at the wind-up of thef Mill-End Sale. Look out ior the big circular. - ' .'' A: Special. That -'Goes' On IrrSciay COAT SUIT DEPARTMENT IN "We place on sale this morning "a lot of Lingerie Dresses, bouerht SDcciallv to wind im this 'men, "fill: . . . -a. End Sale. They are grand, they are beautiful and just what everybody wants. The prices on these for to-day anl Saturday are very interesting. .They are 'in White, Blue,,Pink and Lavender. Prices $6.00 to $15.00. 'A swell lot VMadam "Butterfly or Jumper Suits, ; in striped French Ginghams, and this is' the "ONE" t Summer Suit, too. In Grayand "Whi Pink and White, ' also, Blue and White. The Suit, $7.50. y" ,-. A " Third . SpecoaiO r; Wc also place on sale this morning a lot of .Wash- Coat Suits bought specially for " this wind -up sale. Made of Striped Madras. They are the suit for this weather, and the price is just $139.. (Continued on I'aga &TnJ r rrT r Ay - s r rs ' '" " " ' "n-N-m.-.j, .luiiii.nf -r-i f !,.... -I'll J. '-I-iWii v4tn?Tv j;; r :rttts:jtiJUkAA
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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June 26, 1908, edition 1
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