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---.rr CHARLOTTE : DAILY OBSERVER JULY -17; 1 1903. - . r. cauweuv. P. A. TOMTtUSH Ivery Cay a die Year DUj , One . year ; Hla soenths ... Three montt 4 w Semi-Weekly On year j.:... Six reenth ... -. 1 TttrW mwitlie- V rCBUSUERV AXNOCXCEMEXT No, U South Tryon fctreet Telephone numtMra: Business office, Bell pbotte 78; vlty editor s office, Bell phone. nev,s editor's office. Rrll 'phne. 134. A subscrtcrr II iumv the . U e" of tils paper changed, will please indi cate the addrees to which It Is going at -the tlms he asks for the change te b made. Advertising rates are furnished on application. Advertiser may (eel sure i-lhat through tiie columns of this paper they may reach all marlotie and a portion of the bent people in tint State and upper South Carolina. TklS paper gives correspondents wide latitude as it thinks public pol icy perrelia. but it Is In no case rn sponalble for their views. It is much preferred that correxpornle nts "iKn their names to their article, especial ly In cases where they attack perm r Institutions, though this Is 'tuft de manded. The editor reserves the riRlit t- give the nsine Ql i-orri on(l..ts when they are demanded fur I ha pur pose of personal satUlaction To re ceive consideration a communication most be accompanied by the true name of the csrrefpoinif-n!. FRIDAY, JILY 17, 108. RATE LNCRKASE AND A CHA.NCE IT GIVKS. Whatever the relative weight of the arguments for and against the pro posed freight rate Increase -by rall . reads operating north of the Ohio Hnd Potomac rivers snd cast of the Mis ilseippt, there app'ars to be little or BO doubt that It will go Into effect as scheduled, On and after AuKust 16th . next these roads will collect rates . higher by an sverage of ten per cent, from the shipper. The South, of course, will be affected directly as well s through the general Influence upon business conditions, for nearly all shipments between North and South will have a more or less Increased rate to pay. For example, schedules cited a fairly representative chow that flour from New York to Krunswlck, Ga., will be increased six cents a barrel; hats, caps, clothing and drugs, two cents a hundred pounds; canned goods and oondenw d milk, live cents a hundred pounds, fui'h various smmodities as luraUtr, htilljlng materials, machinery, coffee and sugar will fare likewise whenever they cross the sectional line Indicated as well as when they move between the Atlantic and the Mississippi. The South has already been affect ed to konii! extent by the general rate Increase movement, for most of . the Southern roads have quietly raised rates here and there within recent weeks, especially on flour, freh meats and canned goods, and apparently In tend keeping up the process. Char lotte must pay eight cents Increase per hundred pound on Irish meats from St. IyOuls and ten cents from "Memphis. in emwhi ls degree,. Northern and Kumern roads have done likewise. Moreover, by such de vices as advancing minimum car load Weights the roads '1i;ive worked nuIi stantial Increases in ni.'inv rases where rates nominally remain the j same. Declaring that their employes re exacting boom-time wages from thein in a period of depression, they evidently ln-nl t make rate increase aa general as th-y.w-ll ran This rate Increase movement will give certain railroads a splendid op portunity to lessen in at least some mail degree the groBs and utterly In defensible discrimination which they now practice against North Carolina ' Shippers. My plying the Increases tipon favore 1 competitor In other States and Wlns; the hmvily over charged North Carolinian alone, the roads can work toward equalization nd the lightening of Jut grievances. They have as yet show n no Inclination to do this. Any g.io 1 use of the op portunity now offering Itself will he cordially appreciated by he whole people of the State We acknowledge a deep and peculiar-Interest In the election of I'of. .Bruce Craven, of thin state, to 'the uperlntendency of the pul!icechi!s of Lancaster, S- C, for the n-uson that it Is Lancaster county w hich Is primarily responsible for the distort- ed South Carolina history pertaining TO tiie birthplace of Andriw Jackson, i nd for the further reason that Pro- feasor Craven is the very man who! brought to light the records In th- ! , -Mecklenburg county court house j v which establifhed beyond ail contro- j ersy. once and foj- all. the fact that1 Andrew was born in North Carolina - Prnf... p,,.,,. . , . ' it... i t, .v. .. . . ' s to live in South Carolina and yet tin- , .""df-r-lhe clftumsiahcea we Surrender . him with some w illlngness! since tnere Is no such ned -anyw here fur ! T iIumMas nlsiiv i.t..ri,..i ' matter, as there is In lancaster. rept Irr the editorial offices of The Columbia State and Charleston News and Courier, - Say Th Davie Record, Republl- an:. ' . ' "We want ChrkMt in treat us nicely, and M t city to infiwted with snakes, we want th dly authorities to proceed . st ' once te extermtnat . them befor August 3la, We bop th city autnorl-tle-wm coununsQe no efTort er en courage any person of persons In as l tmjj to fill the city wit whisker 4ur- out stay In th Queea City. Uiv TW-DtT f t water siwi goed rations sad w will be satisftsd." . . " . We fee! authorised to ay that no body all! . b threw dowa nd crencnea. - - ; rv r.-o.J't -.'.'. THE VijATFOKST9 SILEXCEB, ' 'Th New Tork Worjd' opinion of Mr. Bryan's politics) ytheorle is "well knwa?v ThJa. oplnlin. ; stands un changed and t h World ha tendered thj Denver" convention' nomine 'o support, but, like a good many others. U finds in the platform unexpected cause for gratification. We ouotei "Are The New Torjc Times and The Brooklyn Ragle-wholly fair ta -tfaeHPem-ocratic pttrty when they Intimate to their readers mat rue kws piairorm is no on- ter than the J(W or the 1900 platform? There is not one word In the Denver platform about the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. There is not one word about bl metninjiii with or without the consent oi .other nations "There is not one word denouncing n Uonal hank note and advocating wild- cat errenoacK !iirrf ney. There is not one word against the T'nlted States Supreme Court. There is not one word about govern ment ownership of railroads. There Is, not one word about the Initia tive snd referendum and It was not so verv long ago rhat Mr. Bryan threatened In effect to drive everybody out of the fiemocratie partv who did not believe In the initiative snd referendum. There re taalts lr the Denver plat form, but It shows a very great Improve ment over the platform of ISW and the nlatform ,,t Ii It shows a very great Improvement over many of Mr. Uryan's speeches during the last two years. Without modi'vtiiB hiiv of the orit It 1ms made aralnnt certain nlanks. The World believes that the committee mi resolutions is entitled to areat credit, that the national convention Is entitled to great credit and that Mr. Hryan himself Is entitled to great credit for a definition of party policies which contains so much that .Is sood snd avoids so n"i,y of the disastrous blunders of the past " Which facts are truly stated and w hich commendationoia well bestowed. We had never dreamed until this July that a platform could contain, so many silences. Negatively speaking, it has very great merit. If there were no associated human platform to ren der Its silences menacingly signifi cant the w l ie-spread dls;rUst of the Democratic party as now constituted j would have gone up In thin air. j Thus sayoth The Norfolk Virginian Pilot "If Mr Hryan should be defeated The, Charlotte Observer iiud Its Kayet t il le namrsHk will not disturb the ttuditloa: thnt his forebears came from ViiKlnla. Hut should he triumph over the powers! of darkness and become the next I'resl-' dent, both thess voracUai mot veracious Journals) will consign to eteriml Infamy . the man who intimates that Grandfather" Bryan was oot a Tar Heel.'' I We are amazed thatyr usually fair contemporary should offer this suggestion. We have never said nor ever will that any of the forbears of Col. Bryan were born In North Caro lina. We Insist, however, that the motner of James Madison was a North Carolina woman and that Horace Ureely married In this State. President Roosevejcs action by proclamation In changing the name of the San Jacinto National Forest, In SMHhern California, to the Cleveland National Forest does him very great credit. It is peculiarly fitting be cause, as the President states "tn a very graceful letter to Mrs. Cleveland, "President Cleveland w-as one of the first to reeognlxe tine need of forest preservation, and the creation of the San Jacinto and other forest reserves, with a total area of !r,686.320 acres, was one of the results of his fore sight Ip this direction. A rrport now going the rounds has it that (ieorgla may properly be reck oned umong the doubtful States i in the November election. This, of! course, merely Implies a supposition that the strong nnti-Hryan feeling which unquestionably pervades the State will take the form of antl-Uryan votes to a landslide extent. If we were so credulous us those numerous people w ho believe regularly every two years that Ohio Is going Democratic j they arc talking It now we would have to believe the Georgia story also "As Vice middl ed Hot the Democratic candidate (for President I lias "Worth' as a name. cunt the pciieuloiiy of The Charlotte Observer traeo The Observer Is heart and soul for Colonel Kern and wishes that North Carolina could claim him or some of his ancestors, but it has a soul to save and n reputation ror Historical accuracy to maintain and for these i reasons it relinquishes the colonel ; and his )ln with a pang. ' The ( ; teenshoro Record thinks that all the talk about publicity of cam paign funds made by the managers for Mr Taft or Mr. Hryan is pure buncombe; toat publication will pre sumably be made of certain contribu tors to the omission of others. We ! are not so skeptical, but whatever the course of events we believe. The Rcc; I ord will agree with us that both Mr. ! Taft and Mr. Hryan personally may be credited mat ter with good Intentions in th- j t!..i..ii. 1 Mr Martin lab-. t nominee I DraUl,. ' ' for rresldent. declines on the (round that being an Inmate of t oe Nevada State prison, he could not ' make an effective campaign. It would sem as if the party's hate and contempt for American Institutions must be d ttplayefl In some other man- n'r Aft, r rl' ' consideration we have decided that J Hamilton Lewis' re- mark about the .-men who allowed themselves to b.- boomed for tiie presidency to Improve their chances of getting Into State Legislatures was the best thing said at Denver. A beastly Republican paper of Den ver thus , speeded the departing guests: "Th tumult and the shouting dies, the bosses and their gangs depart. And now the Twlc-Kturu Sacrifice Is ready for another start." Tht was not nice at all. ' Without tw-taying any confidences, w are abl to state that at. the forth coming notifications, both Mr. Bryan and Mr. Taft wlli - undoubudly ac-. eept- ' -; - !- - 1.1. descent f.om some Tar Unci ,,nAj Facing the double charge c.etot if he does, of course. he,ion fr,,m ln. armv of thp ,Inl. a must expect the Virginia papers to take' L, " , . ,! u, , , t Y , issue with him -Wilmington Star ' "t Fort Mocumb and of a pre- JfEXT THING TO ROOSKVEI. I Secretary. . 0 State, - Jlllhvi iRoot; Secretary of tho Treasury. George von I Meyers Secretary -. of . War, Gen, Luke E. Wrlfht; vA.ttrneyv General, Prank- B. Kellogg; postmaster Gener al,' Frank H. Hitchcock; Secretary of the Interior, James A, Garfield; Secre tary of . Agriculture, James WlUonj Secretary of the Navy and Commerce and Labor, riot yet .selected. ' This la the cabinet which Hot Springs, Vs., dispatches "upon good authority" represent Mr. Taft te have picked out for himself. It is Just about such a revision of the present -cabinet as .Mr. Roosevelt himself might have mads. The correspondents are, of course, con- ee4bAt.jEh,an Mr.. TjsJfjeJlyershl8 speech of acceptance at Cincinnati he wfll re-affirm itia adherence to the Kooseyelt policies. Except that Mr. Taffs methods would certainly prove lens strenuous, less spectacular, and very much more considerate oj, bysfc nens In general, only those exceeding ly ardent Roosevelttans who set ' Mr. Roosevelt's unique personality above all other things political would fail to cognize in the new administration its predecessor prolonged. Thus the third-termers, seeing how they might not have fard nearly so well, may et conclude to be happy. The Houston Post doubts whether The Observer 'will ever become re conciled to the way the people of South Carolina pronounce 'Beau fort ' '' On the contrary. Beaufort, N. c, und "Uufurt," S. C, are as minli seperate and distinct proposi tions as Concord, N. C and "Conquer ed." N. H. In pronunciation, as In mo.st other respects, North Carolina holds primacy, and that's about all tlo rc is to the matter. WATER KATES, R EDITED. Charge Will He : l-S Out on a 'I iil-hikI (.alloiw n Month, the Minimum Charsr Bclnjj 50 Cents a Month. A reduction in water rules was or dered after an exhaustive discussion at the meeting of the commissioners lal niHIll. tne marge nere ,er in oe :i.l 1-3 cents a thousand gallons con , -urncd per month. The board for- w.ir.is to tne punnc tne snowing earn us a remit of their meeting w hich Is I comprehensive and shows their attl- tude toward a matter about which j there has been a maximum of agita- Hon: , To the Wuter Consumers of the City j of Charlotte: The members of the board of wat er commissioners, after a careful and ', painstaking investigation, have reach- j i ed the conclusion that the municipal' water plant can be operuted upon a ; self-sustaining basis by making the j minimum rate '33 1-3 cents per thous- j and gallons consumed per month (the minimum charge being SO cents per ' month) asjigalnat 50 .cents per month . on quarterly basis, and the board has : acc-ordlnglv ordered the rate thus i changed to take effect on the first day 1 of Julv, 1 90S; this rate to remain in force until It c,,n he ,ietinifiv. Hscer- ; tairied whMther the plant. can be ope rated upon u self-sustaining basis un der this rate, fTriiT" If It shall apjjTaf in the future that it can be so op crated under a lower rate, then the board will accordingly reduce the rate. If, on the other hand, It shall appear that It cannot he operated upon a self sustaining basis under the rate above j fixed, then the board will raise the rate sufficiently to enable it to operate the plant without loss to the tax pay- ,-rs of city. The Individual members of the i board Wish it distinctly understood that it is tludr policy to operate the w ater plant upon no other than a self Mistaltilng basis, and it was for this purpose alone that the rate was chang ed In the first Instance. 10. T. CANSLEK, J W. CONWAY, K. M. M II. LEI!, C. A. WILLIAMS, Ill-.KTIOX, FOUt.LKV CHARGED. Durham .Smith is In Trouble Must Answer to I'nitcd Males Govern ment nntl TIk'ii to Star? of North Carolina. v inns offense of forgery at Salisbury Durham Hmlth, a young white man, was yesterday brought to Charlotte and committed to the lockup by the , sheriff of Davie. He awaits removal ; to the Northern post w hich he left. , The arrest was made by the Davie flu riff, who has known SmlthTrom his youth, the latter being reared In that section. After serving about! linn- months In the army .Smith de- soiled a year ago. oeing promoted, ne says, to a corporalshlp, on th day he , anil when , February. 1895. the fold left V.stcrday morning the sheriff reserve fell to $41,000,000 when fore went t" the home or Smith's brother : ed suspension of ifold payments -was to sere a warrant for an affray, and apparently only one day .off Mr. i found not only tho brother but tho deserter 000,000 gold from an International It is thought by the officers that . syndicate, on the pledge of the syndl fear of arrest on the charge of forg- ' cate that the gold' ould not be pro erv as the determining clrcumstan- 1 cured from the Treasury, and that c. s Inch led to his oesertlon At anv i further withdrawals would be averted. rate he ! answrratfe to Unele Sam , , rrVlJ'i2 .htot0rjr nr!tt 1 fac ed such a clamor of abuse and mls- "My I ncle" is at ljitta I'ark i A i -arlng comedy entitled "My Un cle was presented at Latta last night with treat success Park A gfMjd-sir.ed house was present and 'all , wrf. ,,l,Hed. "Mv Uncle" Is Dlaved ! In three acts. The first one Bets the laughing, the second sets them roaring, and the third act makes them i scream. To-night and to-morrow ni,jht concludes the engagement of the i'eters mock company, ana aoum- less record-breaking business win pre- VHll at the' park. Sunday rk-lnsil ConfercwT To-MorroW Special to Tlie Observer. . Durham, July 6. At Duke's chapel, four mile north of the city, Sunday school conference win De vlce-fheld Saturday. This will be the con- ference el the Durham circuit. Methodist Church, and It Is expected that there will be a large number present. There will : be Jtn old fashlohed picnic dinner served on the -grounds. The conference will be conducted by J. D. Fletcher, who I president of the Sunday school organization., and by Rev. a. W. Fisher, pastor of the Durham- circuit . On the charge of trespassing, or rather "quattlng," on property that did not . belong to er, Mary - Hop kins, colored, was to-day-seat lo th county work house by Justice of th Feace. D, C. Gunter. . She was ar rested on complaint of the owner of th property, who' could not get her to vacate property that she had taken charge of. and the court gave her ten day sad taxed her with th costs, ; ;. --;'. DID CLEVELAND CAUSE IT V .. .-.v.... .... . . THE PAS 10 OF. 18S REVIEWED. Mr. Cleveland and tfaa flaandal Mar- ken of the Early inetles Did Ha Oiuae the Panic - of 18S? The .. Verdict of History on a Ulrhly In- .IcreistlnsT Period Real ory of .'. the Hovenunent Bond? Syndicate." New Tork Evenln Post. . ' - t The death of ex-President Cleveland lias necessarily revived discussion or me relation of tils administration to the country's financial history of the paat generation, and this discussion has already Illustrated the persistency witn which an unfounded imputation, believed by people at the time because of political prejudice, will often cling to the traditions of the period. "A good man, bat he brought on the nnntit" tKle w n rka nlThsn) aAmmallr fa-aaw hill TVM I S9 VltIHU VUIM'U- 1 dTnundredri ggnoTTir least vei1 age intelligence, when they, got last Wednesday's news. Yet nothing is more certain, as a matter of financial history, than that Mr. Cleveland did not bring: oft the panic of 1883, that he did great service In averting Its worst after-effects, and that In so far as public measures or public policies actually had a hand In the financial chaos of that panic year and the years which followed it, they were measures and policies to which he was openly opposed, and which came upon the scene of action when he wa-not-in office. CAUSE OF THE liii PANIC The -familiar argument that Mr. Cleveland's tariff policy was the cause of panic misses date. Wlfatever their theoretical beliefs, most people now I concede that the plan of suddenly and radically altering the entire list- or Import duties is unsettling to business, for the reason that importers must necessarily move slowly, when such changes are impending. In order to. avoid Ions on their longer projects. A merchant w ho should Import goods under high duties, and who had not disposed of them when the duties were lowered or removed and whed his competitor had Imported the eame goods on the new basis, would natu rally be undersold. This, though it would scarcely make for panic, would be extremely apt to create dull and narrow trade. But the tariff policy of the Cleveland ad ministration was not considered until the last months of 1 893, nor Introduc ed in Congress until December 19th, nor enacted until the middle of 1894, and the panlo Mgan In May, 1893. and reached Ha climax In July. This would no doubt leavo open the theory tna. f(,ar f wmU fne ,awr might b had tr,.ttted beforehand; but tne peeuIIj.r fact In that-regard Is that nolodv on the financial markets paid any attention whatever to the tariff matter while the panic was raging, but thnt all attention converged on a very different law, enacted in 1890, and then operating directly and un- mistakably to break down the' public credit. THE SECOND CLEVELAND ADMIN , ISTRATION. The position with which Mr. Cleve land was confronted, when his second term began In 1893. was this: A revenue law had Just been passed which, by removing the sugar duties, struck off upwards of $50,000,000 from the annual public revenue. Public expenditure, which was $297,000,000 in the year when the revenue law in Question was passed, had risen to $383,000,000 In the year when Mr. leveland took office. Deficits In Treasury finance were beginning, and thU happened when the government's floating debt, id the form of notes Is sued to purchase and store away silver bullion, under the law of 1890, was Increasing at the rate of $50,000,000 annually. A banking concern in the position occupied by the Treasury In March. 1893, would have stood on the brink of insolvency. The gold re- serve for redemption of government notes, which the law stipulated should be $100,000,000, stood at $100,982,000 when the Cleveland administration took charge of it. and It had been kept at that figure only through the extorting of $7,u00,000 of gold. In ex change for notes held by the Treas ury, from reluctant New Tork bankers. Mr. Cleveland dealt with this disas trous situation through four distinct and Important actions. He person ally declared that the law. In his Judg ment, required thnt thejiotea of 1890 should be redeemed. If the holder so desired, In gold. He forced on Con gress the repeal of the vicious statute through which the government's float ing debt being uselessly Increased, and its gold reserve depleted. When the after-panic trade contraction sent these notes by the mfltlotis back from general circulation into the, banks, started a gold-export mflVettient, and ofleser-KrtJlS2ttrSPfi JTT? (tli us again caused the notes t f0r Procuring gold from the anJ when consequence. to be used Treasury, the gold reserve fell below 170,000,000, the Cleveland administration utilized its lawful powers, in the face of a wild outcry of protest, and procured gold from the New York banks, through public loans. THE BELMONT-MORGAN SYNDI CATE. When even this recourse failed, be cause the banks drew the, gold for heir bond subscriptions out of the Trei..n, In .tl-h.n fni-lnl tender. Cleveland Issued bonds to buy $65, - oj'ii-nriuaiiuil an ut vnt? vut uu HIV nu- : nouncement of this contract, and Mr. ! Cleveland well knew beforehand that I he would have to face It Hut If he had flinched, and had let the emerg- encv ex nod lent irO bv default because of Its unpopularity, the United States mt - nrnm. 4n Mireh tlS m,r.,,)A .ave KOne td a silver basis, r. It was not Mr. Cleveland's habit ' to flinch in such a crisis, and be met the situa tion, it is worth asking whether the chorus of tribute of tt'spect and admiration, paid to hla mlmorjr ptil week even by plowing political Ar ctanlzatlons, was not In very consider able part a recognition of this achievement of fSSS. and of the Prrs (dent's steadfast coursgie at the helm of state during th panic of 18J for which he wa not responsible. Mar) Und uvl Bryaa. Raltimore American. Bryan' election, w hope, can nev er be. If he were th finest and jurest patriot that ver breathed th things h stand for and the men wno stand behind him make the -thought of his election Inconceivable; Mary land will do her part' Twlc she threw her vote heavily against him, and this year it will be a landslide. , , Ttm Riartcr Foritll. ' -Greensboro Telegram. ' ' -'--': - Th gubernatorial campaign M11 has commenced. Mr. Efiwarff-Cinifhi, now of Boston, but formerly of North Carolina, has started a ooojri for Mr. C. W.Tlllett. of CJarlottv At any, rate'ther la plenty of Urn to "watch. Tlllett grow . v T- THE OLD-TTMK DAJULET. He Has Beea: Mirrored by None So frfthfnllT- by Harris and Mc- ul : . Charity a-ad CWltfreo. , . f y Th Charlotte Observer recently re rn&rked tnt Joel Chandler Harris and John Charles McNeill - are - tho moot faithful exponents of the spirit e-nd - letter of th avnte-bellum negro' Mf that ha ye n written. W are persuaded that (Ms obaervaaioa Is en tirely just and true. . Other asnong Southern writers have done welL but these (.wo are th imvrtor 4o the realm of (he literaitur of the colored man of tbe old days. TheV wero not oopylfts, -but wrote imderstandlagly. They were closely associated with, the finer type of darkle now. x-rapidly j passing away. We happen o know a l VfHi U u ft or- JVjhn- Ci great deal about tne eariy sussocnuu.o i MCNeair,, .Hjq3?iu: much, of Wa boyirood among the ne groes who even yet peait reverently of "ole marster na - oj mwui. They told him their -quadnt and -cd-rioua ai ories when he was a Httle boy. Into hla younj Ufa waa -poured th richei of that lore, th fine humor and pathos of 'w'nich only trrose who knew tne oia-um iikk iv wj derstand. We ttak it that Joel Chand ler Harris was reared under th same conditions, with the advantage In fa vor of the latter, because Ms clvlldhood s jiearer the - period -when - the Southern darkey was In til glory. Tlicae two men, eo highly girted, were .hiFiMii themselves with th wealth and beauty nd exqudsst humor cf tho language'or tne race, sua -g lw the world In Its original purity. Never. In all they wrote, do the writer make a negro say: "'ded I do. '.for they knew no old-time negro ever had any use for "Indeed." 'iney .nave pic tured for all time to come the old-tlm darkey as he really was. PELLAGRA EXISTS IX SOITU. Dr. Jaincs Woods Bbcock, of Colum bia, Makes a Discovery oi luterest to tJic WetlUal World "Italian lienrosy" Oontru-tcd I'roia Vnsound and Inunature Corn. Milan Dispatch, 15th. in American physician. Jaans Woods Uabcock, superintendent of the State Hospital for the insane at Co lumbia. S. C has succeeded In solving the question which ha been under in vestigation for a long lime a i .K.h,.r fhe disease pellagra, common among the peasants in Italy and the south of Europe, exist in me una states Dr. Babcock. who ha been aided In his researches by th Italian authorities, has proved that tne Italian pellagra and a disease common in the Southern States having almost Identi cal symptoms, are one and the same. The disease pellagra, wnicn is called Italian leprosy. Alpine curvy. and Austian rose, is accompanied Dy a radHiin nr -of the skin and some times a hypotrophy of the skin and marked mental symptoms, and it Is said to be caused by polsonou mare taken a food. The Importance of Dr. Babcocg discovery can be understood wnen mt extent of the consumption of Indian corn In the Southern States Is consid ered. Corn Is the staple oiei among the negroes and Is also largely eaten by the whites. According to Dr. BaococK peiiagr was unknown in th United States un til after the importation, following the ivil war, of Immature and unsouno corn. It is inougni inai ni mK"'i may lead to government Inspection or corn. FORGOT THE BABY. Frame Dwelling on the corner oi Third and South caiciweu naaiy Damaged by Fire. The iwn-storv dwelling- situated on the corner of East Third and South Caldwell, known as the Kitty wesi house, was badly burned ana proDaoiy rrcparably damaged by nre snoruy fter midnight this morning, if. wa ust a few minute peiore n wuc.i the Inmates, colored, or tne Duuoing discovered th fire and began to scream and turn out. After some ae- iv the alarm was turned in neamy. The fire department came and1 after ome further delay, caused oy tn- billty to open the hydrant nearpy, the water was turned On anq tne nre extinguished in a few minutes. The hemical apparatus lent wme as sistance. A colored woman namea isana Dorrltee and her mother had JUBt moved In yesterday to run a board ing house. The origin of the fire was not known. All the household furniture practically wa piled into the yard and street and saved. Sev eral hundred people, mostly negroes, witnessed the nre, all degree of ap parelling being represented In the motlev throne. The house Is owned by the widow of the lafe H. J. Green, colored. All . the roofing or tne ouse was ablaxe, but tne aeiuge oi w ter rnuiiBuiniKu . j A young negro man namea unw ford found a baby In a bea ouring the. excitement and brought It out In safety. The Inmate had evidently lost sight of It in their wlldness. ITEMS FROM DURHAM. 81 utre in Firemen! Relief Fund Over tl-,0 Clialrman Brawiey Appoints Members of Hi Committee. Special to The Observer. Durham, July H. State Insurant: Commissioner Toung has notified Chief Maddry, of the fire depart ment, that the Durham firemen are entitled to receive under the opera tions of the new firemen relief fund act $455.21. "He say In his letter that this amount may be ellghtly in creased by a careful cocking of the accounts. , M. A. Walker, formerly of this city, but now of Porto Rloo. Is' here on a visit to his brother, J. B. Walker, and other relative. He represent tixe American Cigar Company in Porto Rico and has been Inl the State- for a week. He will remain here a short while and will then return to hi adopted home. . Chairman 8. C. Brawley, of th Democratic county executive commit tee, has appointed the five members who are to compose his centre) com mittee and act ar a personal ad visory board to the chairman. These are: Messrs. H. A.. Foushee. - Q. C. Farthing, V. 8. Bryant, John, gprunt Hill and R- P. Reade. From thl time on active campaign work will bo on. ' ' ; '.' - r . , ' . . Time For Watson to Let tTp. . Grenvtile, g. C. Nw. j - If Tom Watson, of Oeorgta,-1 h sincere, honest man nm - of hi friends tielieve htm to be. he will quit repeating th statement that Bryan said he would not rote for an ex-Confederate, in view of tho positive dental and the fact that fc did vote for an ex-Confederat three . Onreo In Con gress, I";.-.-" ' A Correction. Madison County Time. -. ; - The-artlcle In 'week before last' Is sue stating that Mr. arid Mrs.,Dooley were - prented" wltH a aoUd , . al iver butcher knife, should have - read a solid llver batter knlf. y -: THE LITTLIE-LONG ' CO. ; HKll Dpif I Beach Double wridth Herringbone (washable) Bleach Suit ing, the very newest wash fabric on the market. Price the yard . . , 15c East Lake Another shipment of new yard Stripe The most elegant washable material brought out this season for tub suits. Price the yard . . . 25c. Roman Stripe Crepon Kimona weather makes this material very popular. Price the yard..., , , 15c. New White Goods Double .width, sheer Check Dimity, for waists, worth 35c. Our special the yard... 20c. Colored Check Dimity New sheer Dimity with Eed, Pink and Blue' Checks, regular-price 25c. Special tho. yard., ;Vv 15c, Colored Lawns Fine, sheer Figured Lawns. Price the yard. . . .5c- Cretonne New patterns in Cretonne c Price fne yard.;., a,.;. Silkallne Btandard quality Silkaline, yard -V. m LITTLEIL at I Suiting Cheviotte patterns. Price the 15c Poplin and other Drapefies.' .12 l-2c, , new patterns. Price the . . . , . , Xdc, . - 06 CO.
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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