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CHARLOTTE DAILY OBSERVES, AUGUST 17, 1003. Publishers. tvcry Day in Ibe to- fcCBSCRIPTION riUCE: peljy On JMT Six month ......-...-- .,..! 'ihre month -' Send-Weekly On year .'.,...... . v?v".V 8ix months ....,....... Three months ,.t ........ 4.00 JO PCBUSHERg AKKOPXCEMEMT Nx 34 South rrywi reeHJ,?'p!!!!! numbers: Bustae c. ?" 7; ctty editors office. Bel Phn" ' setvc utor office, Bell phone, a. -A. iubcneir U. onietinit the " ot hi pajwr changed, will pleetndl catei riV addreWto which it is going at the time be aike tor the chang -' " BSaVltt. ' Advertising relet are furnihed on ' application. Advertiser may if sere that through the column of this paper they may reach all Charlotte - and a portion of the bet people in this State and upper South Carolina. Tata paper gives correspondent as . wide latitude aa it think public pol icy Hermit, but It is in no ce re aponalble for their view. It U mucp - rreferrwi that correspondent dm their name to their article. eapeclal lr to case where they attack person or iRititutiona, though till l not,a mended. The editor reserve the right ' to (rive the wane of rretondeiit when they are demanded lor the pur pose, of personal eatiafactlon. To re cetva consideration a communication must be accompanied -by the true nam) ot the correspondent. MONDAY, Al'GChT 17, 108. l!COClUGEMENT IXR JlIKiK ; TAFT A3 TO NORTH CAHOMNA. , An Interesting special of the 14th to The New Tork Tribune from Hot Springs, Va., tells of a visit to Judge ' Taft last Friday from Mmsw. O. 8. . Brgdshaw and Garland Daniel, -of Greensboro, and J. Klwood Cox, of High Point, bearing an Invitation to him to speak at the Greenaboro cen tennial in October. He told his call ers that it would be Impossible for Mm to deviate frym his announced policy not to speak during the year except at Hot Springs and Cincin nati, but he was no doubt an atten tive listener to what is spoken of an "some Interesting information to the candidate" which these gentlemen took him from North Carolina. "All the conservative Democrats of my State and the thirty thousand edu cated negroes, who are already regis tered, will vote for you. Judge Taft," aid Mr. Bradshaw. "Our people are lclt Of Bryan; they fear the result Of his election to North Carolina' growing Industries, and they have confidence In you." "Mr. Kradshaw later explained somewhat further the details of the political ituation in North Carolina. He said that there waa Intense bitterness among the Demowals, who had Jut suteeeded In nominating a I'upullal candidate for Governor in the three-cornered fight among Messrs. Craig, Home and iKItchln. the last-named receiving the 'nomination on the one hundred and fifty-ninth ballot." "Moreover, there was a feeling among many Demo crats that Governor Glenn had bro ken faith with them" in having called an extra session of the l,exlslature to repeal the pansenger rate law and -ent in a -vigorous prohibition men sage, resulting In a prohibition law. This he Mr. Bradshaw maintain ed, had estranged all 'the wet Demo crats,' of whlth, he said, there were - a great number. The radical rail road legislation of tlie Democratic 'legislature hart MtilUd in reducitiK the wages of the :2,00 employes -within the State, and It had prevent ed the Southern Kdllrnad from con tinulng the proposed double-tracking Of its line through the Ktab . It had robbed of employment many laborers. Who .had expected prosperous times a result of railway conxtructlon." Without further condensation we quote the correspond ent In full: "Mr. Bradshaw fairt further tliHt there' Ws a stronK detJiare! In the j.Urty for tho nomlnatlun of J. K. ' ft tjovern er, a lie wmild appeal to Hie huninp men Of the Htat and would cimniam! the Vole of nian I leiriM rats. Mr 'x t,thl that more than a thouKand I w niecr;il had pemonaly pleiijccii their otex t() tarn If he would aceein ihe immtiiainui. Mi Bradshaw asked Judit" latt tu urse up on Mr. Cox the necedBit v of hln iiceeptind the nomination and Mr. Taft did .. clean, uprlsht busineM men ! th- S-.H, I should accept nominations on the iiepub Ilcan ticket, nnd that it wu the duty of very Repubhcan to work fer the !areri possible iepuhlte,,n vote in c . i y South ern Ktste Mr. '"ox replld that he ha-1 rivr hel l public office, that he h i sever wri,ter to. and t hat lie eould ,ol make the nr. liic which I. is candidal wouid involve If is colH-ajCuej, seemed. hoTi-evcr, to think thr.t they mli'ht ulti mately indu'e him to accept Sir. Cox said that while tour yniri Sgw Kortli fiiiolina ave 4l.'i phitalHv, to Parker, te cause of lir.van's nnp. pu lardy the eoidltna were radc ally hf-; ferent thi year. H expressed M,e otl. . vitnion thai I'urker would h.i .- made ., far better tun in the State this veur tl.ani "tee ' JJeH-i.ykan. Mrssrs Brad haW and Ixmiels eemed to think Mr. j Taft's earnest words to Mr Oux would; result In the partv s gaining the best P" Ible candidste for the governorship w beni the convention meets on tjte ,th In-1 stant." I ; Without having intend-d, of course, J to mislead Judge Taft. Sir Bradshaw certainly f conveyed in the above! atttn-nt a good ueal of mismforma . tiOnC' Events, for Instiryt , will dern-"-onstrite that not all of the cnserv- ti Democrats of Xoith Carolina wlliyote for Judge Taft. and that not . aU'of the wet Democrats hAe been ' alienated frdm the party. If these two elf-ment should fall sway from -U the State would certainly' go Re publican which it certainly will not Th really , InterestinBi thing in this special, anil S1 that is actually new In It-- Is that Judge Taft vrgeiit. t siceeptilhe Republican' noml 'w'p Cthat Melirs. Bradshaw and I)anlcls are of opinion, In view of. this urging, that he may do a ,,,.' Not the least good thing about the it of aW)lutlTria Turkey is that it ! a kes a ret u - to absolutism in ..! a mora'.Jjr'jmpossible.' 3. p. cAt.mvmj, I. A. TOMPKINS- A GOOD FICamVQ CHAXCE. ' Colonel Watterson, the head ot the Brvan literary bureau. ? say in . the course of a letter, to a friend; M Bryan has "a igoed? fighting; chance now, and Jo my opinion Jt yrlif grow with' the progress of the wimpai. The New Tork Herald,- an unexcep tionable -authority, print the tore going and confirms Colonel Watter son diagnosis of the sltuUon. In dlcating unmistakably predilection for Judge Taft, It proceeds that "No one now fears that his Mr, Bryan's election would provoke an Industrial, commercial and financial cataclysm, As a matter of fact his speech of acceptance has strengthened rather than shaken public confidence. Mr, Bryan has evidently mellowed In re tirement. While Mr. Koosevelt has been arowinir steadily more radical in his attitude toward .economic ques tions, the Nebraskan has been stead ily growing more conservative and nmdent." It continues that "The question who will win is rendered atill more difficult to answer by the fact that there is no 'paramount is sue in the present presiaenxiai cam paign. If the party platforms were to be surreptitiously transposed no body on either side would evr nnd it out. It i a case of six of one ana half a dozen of- the other.' Mr. Taft could stand qil MrBrjan'i piatforrn and Mr. Bryan could stand on Mr. Taft'u platform without either one or the other f.'ellnir that he was on strange territory." "The personal fit- nesa of Mr Taft." it says further, "is evenly balanced by the personal mag netism of Mr. Bryan;" which la another way of saying, what has been said . .1 1 . . many times during the campaign, enai t la after all a contest of men and not of measures. And again ronowing the above declaration about the alml- laritv nf the rlatforms-7-"l4 is for his reanon that The Herald asji per fectly independent ana unoiasea newtpap'r agrees witn oionei w ai teraon'a assertion that Mr. Bryan has a gd fighting chance. Of tvuw ,he ha." All of which is a good deal for The Herald to cay. for generally in me progress of presidential campaigns it says nothing HKARST1TES AMIKAOV MKI,TIXG Except those on the pay roll, the onsplcuotis members of Mr. Hearst's ndependence party have been desert- ng at a rapid rate uurins, iu week "In New York, remarks The New York Evening Post in this con nection, "the process of dissolution moves on apace, ine oin war noraes desert The other day It was Judge Heahury who turned coat and Bold himself to the predatory Interests. To-day no less an Independence man darin than Attorney General Jackson said to be preparing to cast loose. In Brooklyn, where Hearst and Coler, his prophet, counted a large congre gation of the faithful, the sturdiest pillars of their temple are coming out for Bryan. It Is hard on Mr. Hearst that men who "nave been raised to high place through hl ef forts, should kick the useful ladder away, but the founder of the Inde pendence party is wise enough In th ways of the world not to ho taken altogether by surprise. Prophets and leaders muHt always take into account man's Ingratitude." And so we see that Mr. Hearst's third-party game, whatever end It may hav.t In view, la not working well at all. If his mush room organization In New York and Indiana, not Lo mention Illinois and California, goes to piece's, the benefi cial effect u)"n Mr. Bryan's chances will be great nnd obvious. "GO fvMXKS" SOMK MOKE. Our accomplished correspondent, "I. C N ." tells via lucidly andi inter estingly the meaning and origin of the phrase "Go Knucks," of which he wrote a few days ago. A Stateavllle correspondent, writing In yesterday's paper, save the same Interpretation. sayinK that the word Is generally pronounced "snooks" and moans to divide, to share equally. Our Htats vlile correspondent is certainly cor rect In Haying that "no snooks" in K'tad in Iredell, with the meaning as Muted, but we diiin't recognize "Go Shucks." .Now "snook" (Scotch) mean to sm- II or search; hut we are -Tl vised that it has another meaning "Snook" ( iiroriounced "snuk") is a pereh-llke food tisb of American i tropical sea., a garfish, a mackerel; I like fish cauKht in Kreat numbers In I cape sea and salted and dried, j smoked, etc. Why, It Is suggested. ' shouldn't "Ko stink," or "suueks" i or "snooks" mean to go fishing for .snooks" and divide up? "lo snucks" ' tii-iy have been, we are reminded, a ; proposition to go lushing, but "t.. C. N no doubt state the origin cor rectly. Anyhow. It Is an illuminating conversation we three have had. "The Charleston News and Courier has- in one month raised $29.50 for the national campaign fund and J1S.50 of this waa paid fur. a gander nnd hen from North Carolina." Ho aay The Houston Post, which adds to the forcralng that "Tlghtwadlsh nesn has leen reduced to a scienea In the Palmetto Btate." All of which is very true except that our Houston contemporary hag its figures wrong. Of The New and Courier's fund of $29. SO, $2S were realized from The Observer's fowls, so hat Deacon Hemphill has raed only $4. SO ad ditional, none of which he contrib uted himself. -V. A an expert upon aeronautics.- we have to say that Captain Baldwin's aiffiible balloon, now unijcr teat by the War Department at Fort Myer, Is a very inconsequential affair. ; If a certain Tennesse contempo rary doesn't slop referrlns; to thla pa per as The Charlotte (N- C) Obser ver w will talk baut, It ai The Chat tanooga. (Tenn.) -Times. , ''... OCB BAD-SLVXX13RED BjEROES. . We recognize the fitness of having the. American articlpanu la the re cent Olympic iramea t Vndon given a formal welcoms by patriotic New Yorkers.,, Only- one ' coantry, the United Klngdonv led . 'am in toUI number of points, and' in trackail field events they were easily nrst, Th Marathon race, the crowning event of the games, was won by an Ameti can. Of all this w are proud, but In some other respecta' the, v American contestants as a- body did neither themselves nor their country; any honor. The reference here Is not especially to their complaints, tfiie British officials entering strong de nials, that certain rulings were un fair. This trouble, perhaps the re suit of honest differences, was in it self sufficiently regrettable. The one tiling certain about the unpleasant ness as a whole is that tne -American athletes according to the most plaus ible explanation, because about half of them were New Tork Irishmen and Inspired with the out-of-date hostility toward everything English which still persists strongly In -spots- showed an ugly spirit from tha very first. When tfce athletes of the na tions passed In review before the King's stand at the opening ceremo nies the American color-bearer com mitted the wanton discourtesy of re fusing to salute, his fellows their IBd thereafter openly manifesting ap proval. A willingness to make things unpleasant for their English hosts was evident on the part of the Ameri cans throughout. They rendered It certain that, bo far as England and the United 8tates are concerned, the games would serve anything but the avowed purpose of promoting inter national amity. On this account a welcome very moderate in size and heartiness should suffice for their home-coming. They did us great credit on tha foughten field, but their manners were nothing leas than atro cious. BETTElt THAN HARMONY. Republican National Chairman Hitchcock Is certainly a resourceful political manager unless report errs. n crediting to him an arrangement reached by Tennessee Republicans. If al goes off as pfanned factlonal- sm will 'actually do party service. The "home rule" or Brownlow-Au- In-Houck-OlivCTr faction has already met in- convention and put out a Stst tickot. It wrote a 'State-wide prohibition plank in its platform and will get all the votes possible for its candidates. Thte Evans-Sanders fac tion nas also met and nominated a Icket, minus, however, the prohibl lon addendum. Both factions will ote for one set of electors. ' Thus Mr. Taft may well get mors votes han would come his way if flarmony prevailed, and very hopeful partisans ilk with some little conviction about arrying the State for him. . Verily, politics is a queer critter. This is the hour of The Observer's triumph. The Charleston News and ourier Is mad at The Baltimore Sun because the latter, after more than a month's deliberation, has come out for Taft, and says that "It must be cry gratifying In the elrcumn'tances to Mr. Gadsden, In view of the real ffection he feels for his Gander, that this bird of wisdom waa not entrusted o the manipulation of The 8un." O, 1 It hasn't been a month since; according to The News and Courier, the Gander was a disreputable bird nil not two weeks since Mr. Gadsden was ungracious enough to say It on id n't look him in the face". Now, by The News and Courier's testimony. It Is a bird of wisdom, whic h wo have nown all the time, and Mr. Oadsden frnnklv admits that as a result of its xemplary walk and conversation it ax Won his real affection. The (3an er has suffered many things at the hnnds of many physicians but its vin- ttlon Is complete. Hut why should th voluntary ac- lon of Northern and Western ne groes in renuking uooseveir. ana in- Id.ntally aiding in the election of Bryan, cause any defection of whites font the Democracy in me wouin.' - s a question addressed to. rno uoser- er by The Danville Register. There s rather more than the "voluntary etion" of the negroes to this matter but we don't see that anything Is to be gained to Mr. Bryan's caus in he South by discussing the subject urther or noing too closely into the argument. According to figures given by The Wall Street Journal, the stock mar ket lias made an average advance f twenty-six points since the panic of last fall. 8lnCtf June 22d last the railroad list has gone up ten points. During last week the market exhib ited very grsat activity, transactions for the six business days aggregating nearly five million shares. Isn't Wall rHreft going considerably faster than Industrial and mercantile conditions as yet warrant? It looks to us so. No wonder the last few days have' seen a very noticeable recession. , Governor Glenn did a proper thing In offering the judgeship of the fif teenth district, vacated by the . death of Judge Fred Moore, to Mr. Locke Craig, and we regret that he could not see hit way clear to accept It. He .U a lawyer of distinction and would make a righteous judge. . Messrs. Bryan and Taft may each be said to have werked very Import ant emendations via vhie- party plat formMr. Bryan reaching after con servatlve Democrat and Mr. Taft af ter radical Republicans. ' ? . - fi lie Might. Charleston New and Courier. - The . present owner of the Gander might get even by selling quill frem U to the Br an editors. . Tales ef .rfi Tevyh and tHs Times DT RED " There are Various kinds-of. humor and tne average .vortn caronnian. though he be jfji;t, Sees the ridicu lous side of ' life , as he journeys turougb this vale of tears. O, Henry how I wish . I knew . what that O. standa for so I could spell ' It out and make the name look fuU is a typical y Tar Heel of the ' humorous) sort Senator Vance was the humor ous statesman: O. Hehry, the hu-; (porous writer. The humor of Sena tor Vance helped '. him to success ' at nume auia aoroaq; tnax oz xxinrj Is making Dim fame and fortune. In readier the books of O. Henry one Is struck with delightful wit and humor In their multitudinous forms. is. bis story on The Handbook of Hymen" he makes Sanderson Pratt, one tf hi characters, say: "I've seen them Eastern college fellows working in camps all through the. West, and I never noticed but what education was less -of a drawback to 'em than you would think. 1 Why, once over 'on Snake river, '-when Andrew McWtl-" liams' saddle horse got tha botta, he sent a buckboard ten miles for one of these strangers that claimed to be a botanist. But the horse died." Where .could one find a paragraph, more pregnant . with subtle humor than that? , ., HOW TO' WIN A WOMAIf. V In "Telemacnus Friend." the same author tells how to get to the heart of -VweBM. In- leading -JipoV-a rivalry between himself and Paisley Fish, hi friend and rival, Hicks, de clares: "The only perfect case of true friendship I. ever knew was a cordial Intent between a Connecticut! man and a monkey. The monkey climbed palms In Barranqullla and threw down cocoanuts to the ,man. The man sawed them in two -and made dippers, which he sold for two reals each and . bought rum. The monkey drank the milk of the nut. Through each being satisfied with his own share of the graft, they lived like brother. But in the case ot human beings,' friendship is a transi tory art, suBject to discontinuance without further notice." Having won the girl from Fish, Hicks mkea this observation: "Now, I give you my own recipe for in veigling a woman into that state of affairs when she can be referred to a 'nee Jones. Learn how to pick up her hand and hold It, and she's yours. It ain't so easy. Some men grab at It so much like they were going to set a dislocation of the shoulder that you can smell the ar nica and hear em tearing off band ages. Some take it up like a hot .horseshoe, and hold It pff at arm's length like a druggist pouring tinc ture of assafoetlda in a bottle. And most of "em catch hold of it and drag it right out before the lady eyes like a boy, finding a baseball In the grass, without giving her a chance to forget that the hand is growing on th, end of her arm. Them ways are all wroflgr "I'll tell' you the right way.- Did you ever see a man sneak out In the back yard and pick up a rock to throw at . a tomcat that was sitting on a fence looking at him? He pre tends he hasn't got a thing in his hand, and that the cat don't see him, and that he don't see the cat. That's the Idea. Never drag her hand out where she will have to take notice of it. Don't l"t her know that you think she knows you have the least idea she Is. aware you are holding her hand. That waa my rule of tactics." SOME LOCAL STORY- TELLERS. Every., page in O. Henry's book are rich with droll humor. He is a gifted story teller. XA North Carolina has many men. who, If they had -turned their talent to writing, would be shining in the literary world to-day. The- short story is in great demand and few TOTAL PROHIBITION. How It Isn't Enforced In the Empire Ktate of the South. Atlanta Constitution. Savannuh's Tity treasury will suffer nothing as the result of Georgia prohibition law. ., - y The process is a simple one. The .city has kwued - an edict pro hibiting the opening of "blind tigers on Sunday! Rut nu for week davs. it la the City that Is blind and not the tigers.1 Except that once every six montns the city wakes up, summons the alleged eyeless .nes into the rei corder's court, extracts jrom feacrs $100 and sends them on their way rejoicing In another haif years Immunity. t By this process the city treasury Is enriched to the extent of 150,000 a year the sum thought to-.!nave bee nlost as tne result of prohibition sum now Become me - price vi open and aenant lawlessness.- . an honest enort to eniorce mo Rilnd tle-er uroDrletors werer arrested and brought Into court with seeming ly unquestionable eviaence. -anere wo h nn noticenhie laxity about the prosecution and yet petit "Juries came buck promptly wttn empnwm vn- diets of "not guilty." ; . - And so the question arose,1 it juries will not convict. If pupnc enimeni will tolerate, why should not the city have its erstwhile revenue? Savannah has . answereor py pro ceeding to collect U. ' Batch No. 1, Improved and Recog ia rtrrier nf Riind Tigers, ninety- three in number, has just been haled into court, leaving fioo eecn ,suu for the city treasury -and there are hundred others yet i to come. An interesting condition this which rntifrnn tsOftorirta Wlin ine niosi stringent prohibition law yet adopted ny any isiais. , , A condition or iwiwm u lute, recognised and licensed by municipal government! ". . :i ; But what about It? ' -. - Is there any hand that will or can be raised to stay It!, ' Or will It thrive anJgrow until unrestrained example. has spread In fertlnn to ethers communities ef the Sta'e? An economic problem Jt, dP Jntjlcacy here presents. Itself.. ORIGIX OK, -GO SNVCKS. The Observer fellghteel Regarding This PYvullsr Ttmr hlch Means PI vide the fipoll. ' -. To th Editor of The Obserrerj . , Surely-. to 'shed; light tipon " the mountain-top 1 a"hlghnd blessed privilege; Wherefore,,. In- compliance wtrh your request for enlightenment,! w"l unfetsTwd pleasure that I Write you as foKows: Jn clden Ume in EngUnd .the ; prototj'P : of that common official, known nowadays, a the, coroner 'was entitled the "body searcher," . and nU bunlnes wa to examine the bodle ef the dead, and make report- aa to the cause of the death. - For Ui service he. was al- " , - .- - DUCK are" the 'persons who know how to tell them, i What If - Mr. C. Wat eon, of Winston-Salem, had taken to literature' instead of law I He would have made h la titate famous. So would have Senator Vance, v Jack Adams and others. Mr, Theo? V. .Klutta, of Salisbury, made quite a reputation as story teller-, during- his services - as ..Con gressman In Washington. : He tell most 'delightful stories, not Jokes, but short stories, from life, and full of humor. The Kowan county Dutch men, -with his quaint manners and customs, . ha . furnished ' - him . with tales. . As an instance of hla style of story the following Is cited.' A Salisbury lady, who had - more cats than he needed, told a farmer, her butter man, that he -could have a kitten if he wanted it. : The man was delighted. .--,.- . ),"I will bring several of the little fellows so that' you can see them," said the lady. : - The farmer waited - on ' the porch. . "Here are two kinds a . mani (which, has no tail), and . the old time one; you may take your choice,' said she, putting; the kittens down, . 'Picking up the long-tailed kitten, ihe man said: "I think I will take this one; he look a little more fin ished." Our people are humorous without Intending to be. In my junkets over tha Stette I have seen and heard jpme funny things. :. ,v .y,. THE. SMALLPOX SCARE. . I - i - ' About ten 'year ago I made my first trip from Fayettevllle to San ford. As the train crossed the sand hills I mada notes -of everything that Impressed me, . Among other thlng I saw a tramp shaving himself un der a railroad bridge, using th run ning stream for a wash, bowL and the engine chase a white and br indie steer from the track. It was at that time that smallpox; waa taking rank hold in tHe State. Every town and city was quarantining against its neighbor and the people were fright ened out of their wits. At Jones- boro, aMoore county, I saw rtulte a Commotion in the street GrJjps of people stood about the town, talk ing seriously. I got off for a mo ment to ascertain the cause of the solemn agitation. "What's happened? I asked. "Smallpox," said the town mar shal. ' "Where?" "In the country, about ten mile."! "You certain that it's smallpox?" "Almost, but not Quite. The doctor ha just come back from there. He aw the patient but could not tell exactly what he had. Being a young fellow he waa scared to tackle it. When he got there he was afraid to go in the house, but he mada tha m. i tient stick his hand out the window and he felt his pulse with a pair of tongs." I crawled back In the train. In 1898 I rode about North Caro lina on a bicycle. One of my favor ite pastimes was copying; sign, from tree, posts and' postofflce and court houae doers. In one of the eastern counties I found this trespass notice: "Any man or woman's or steer or cow caught into these oats Is lia ble to have his or her tall cut off a the case may be." Up the Carolina Central I ad this on a dilapidated - blacksmith hop: "N. B. Th copartnership heretofore resisting between Mose Skinner and me am this day resolv ed, and all what owe the firm will settle wld me and tham what the firm owes will settle wld , Mose." In a hamlet 'on the Carolina A North Western road this warning ap peared on a slab In a roasting ea patch: "Any persons ketched on these grounds, or cow or weemins, Is liable to find itself in a scrape." lowed a fee of II pence, to be paid out of the goods of the body "searched," if he were " worth it; otherwise, from the public fund of the parish. , . ," " " In ordinary times these duties are said to have been performed by two old women, but In time of epidemics these "quarter plunk" fell into the possibly more competent hand of the "chi-surgeons. Notwithstanding the twenty-flve-centlnesa of the fee. quick deaths might develop fine profits. And otherwise the. business had lucrative . possibilities: the "search me" of the dead might easily thrust Into the hands of the searcher some tainted valuable be yond his fee. In times of plague the office was not without its haiards, and busi ness was brisk, and the searcher was never searched. - And bo a noted searcher by the name of Snacks found his business with profit he offered one-half of the profits to any one . who would join him fn the execution of his duties. Those who went with him for a division- of the spoils . were known a "going with Snacks." Hence arose the common saying, "go with Snacks, now, by - the cor ruption of Ignorance through time, "go snucks," which by interpretation is to say, divide the spoils. . - It. CN. Aug. l'th.,X08. 1 . t'RGKt) TO ELECT, BRYANT. Mr. R. B. Redwine, of Monroe, fas Durham County Will T)o the State a Great Service by Kcntllng Victor b. Bryant to Next legllatnre, s To th "Editor 'of Th Observer: ' - In to-day Observer I notice that a call to .service has been made on Victor, S. Bryant, of Durham. This recalls tome a conversation ofStwo year .ago in Raleigh; when I was asked to name a half-dosen of the brightest and ablest ' young men in the ' State.' , Among those I named Victor a i Bryant, of Durham; Cameron Morrison, of Mecklenburg; Ar 8, Deckery,- of Rockingham, and Walter Bickett, ;. of Loulsburg. , At the time I stated that in' my judg ment it would be Wise for the Demo cratic party to keep in training some of the best young talent within fta ranks, and expressed Hhe hope that the - three first-named - gentlemen Would be members of the next Gen eral -Aseembiy of this State, Mr. Bickett at the time being a member of. that body. Mr, Dockery has al ready been chosen by his party for th Senate; it is too late now. for Mr. Morrison, but there is an opportunity for' Durham ': bounty to , do . herself pTond"manhStfm-',srreat''arvice by sending Mf' Bryant to the next Oeneral Assembly. He would be an honor to th Commonwealth : and would be placed in - training - for future wsefulnees. ".We .-should have In reserve capable men well trained for future contests which . are fast coming. Bryant "! on of . them. -, R. H. RLDWINB. - Monroe, Aug. 1$. 1901. . .. - ' Rl AJ AND we m To show the Kew Fall Iline of 'Uress oods and Silks, including all the new, popular weaves and colors. Tricot Messaline " 4 ' . ' - .. ' - ' The new soft Satin Finish Silk, which will be very, popular for day, dresses, evening' goyns, etc. Colors, Cream, Pink, light Blue, Green, Mode, Brown,, Navy, Old ' Rose Price the yard..., Fancy Silks Splendid assortment of the new Fancy Stripes, Chev ron Weaves,. Persians, etc.; all the leading shades. Price the yard..... .75c., 88c, $1.00 andt$1.25 Woolens We are showing an elegant line of Wool Goods in the new fancy diagonal and herringbone weaves, the new shades of Browns, Blues,-." Green, Garnets " and Black. Price the yard', .V. . . .1.00, $155 and $1.50 Parasolsr Half Price A' few left of those fine' White Linen and Fancy. Silk Parasols to be closed at. exactly half price, . Figuredi Lawns ; At less than half price the be cleaned up at the yard One lot Colored Lawns worth' 5 to 7 l-2c. Clean up price the yard; ... ... Mercerized White Aeolien, 3 to .9 yard lengths, worth 18c. Price the yard, . . r. . . . -. . 10c. New lot of Hand Bags and Purses in the new Blues, Browns, Tans and Black. Price each. , ,50c. to $1.50 Plain and Fancy Silk Belting, White, Cream, Light . Blue, PinVNjavy and Black. Prince per. belt - ' , .... ;S . . . ... .... 19r 25 and 30c. Tourist Ruchllig,: h. . '. ; ' 25c Per. box .rNew lot just in, fnuf sed.,, - ; 1 f. - - tt" ' NeV shipirient just in of the "Catawba Earenware. i : One to five gallon jars. 1 ' 4,4 , ? e.,- - .-- - - t f - 4 V, rf- - f - - ' y - '; , - ' t ,- -. . J- v . Anottifer ew lot' of- Jelly Glasses 'just in. V '.' - 1-2 gallon Fruit Jars. ; . . , .. . .7; , ',. . .'.$1.00 per"do. Just a lew dozen left.'; , - K: YlV) ' Lavender, Pearl Gray. ana Black. ,....$1.00 ,10 and 15c. 'kind all to . t. . . . .. ..... . w . . . V.5c, ' . . . . . .3c. 07 4 i r
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