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; ' "CHARLOTTE DAILY OBSERVER, gEPTEiXBER 13 1003. Publishers.. tvery Day in Ibe Year; scbsckiptiox price: On yesr 8lx months Three months , r V Seml-Wcekly Oii rear -Six nwnths Tliree msnths SS.M 4.W :.oe 11.04 .so .3 FCBUSHERS' AXXOfcMTEMEXT No. 34 South Tryon atreet. TeleDhone . numbers: Business office. Bell 'pbone . 3; city editors office. Bell plione, JM; ' news editor s office. Titll 'phone 234. f .A ubc.n?er It ordeilni; t Ji- JJivse of hla paper changed, tutt pleas.) Indi cate the address lo which it ia coins at the time he asks fur the chaos to be made. - advertising rate are turnished on application. Advertiser may (eel sure that throush the iolumns of this paper they may reach all Charlotte and a portion of the best people In this Stale and ippt-r South Carolina. This paper s'vei correspondents aa wide latitude aa it thinks public pot lev permits, but It is In no case re sponsible for their views. It is much preferred thai correspondents sign their names to their articles, especial ly In cues where they attack peraons or inatttutlons. though this is not de manded. The editor reservea the right lo rive the names o( corrst onde.its hen they are demanded far the pur pose of personal atisfaetion. To re celve coAslderaUon a communication must be accompanied by the true Bam of the correspondent. SUNDAY, SKPTFMBKIi 13, 1908. PREVARICATION' A.S A SYSTEM. Win. R. Hearst said In onu of his speeches last work that Wm. J. Bryan had on one occasion spokm of labor Ins men as beggars'' and undertook to Support the statement with an af fidavit by an unknown man who claimed that he had lizard him. Of course nobody believed It and Mr. Bryan did not dignify the chargo with a denial. In his Atlanta speech Fri day night Hearst said that liryan had approached him four months ago with a proposition that if he would support him (Bryan) In this cam paign he would support him (Hearst) four years hencr. At Cumberland. Md., yesterday tryan d'-nounced this tatement as "uttrrly and entirely false." A North Carolina Republican politician (whose name Is not to be mentioned here because he Is doad) once Indicated that the proper line for a Republican campaign to be con ducted upon vuii to "lie like hell and tick to it." Mr Willie Hearst stems to have taken Ipkmoiis In the. same school of politics and to have learned his lesson well In any case of con flict of testimony between Bryan and Hearst none, not een Hearst's own supporters, will liettltate about which to believe. THOSE WHOM PANICS DO NOT . PINCH. A paragraph In jesterday morn ing's paper referred to the excellent openings of the schools and colleges this fall, notwithstanding the hard times. A good d.-al of ridicule Is visited upon these Institutions, by the way, becauHe with the beginning of each term they announce a better opening than ever b-fore Vet the Claim la Justified. Th- educational ln- terest In North Carolina grows, year by year, and with each term opi-nlng the attendance of pupils li:cr. as, s. Riforrlng to that of this season, the curious operation of the panic Is sug gested. Undoubtedly tinif.s are not as good In this .State as tliey have oeen; yet people rind money with which to send their t hildr n t sclioo. Moreover, our resorts were never bet ter patronised than they were dnrinir the summer Just end. d and as many North Csrolina people, perhaps more, have' visited New York and other Northern centres '-t intercut and have gone abroad for pi asure than durlni; any other summer past. These facts demonstrate tnat there are people who have money to spend, for useful purposes or their own pleasure, and of this everybody should be glad, for the expenditures of the well-to-d i keep the circulating medium circulat ing, which Is Its only useful office af ter all. WORKING t)l( OTIfP.lt PKOPM:. The D.-illas. Texas. Times-Herald. says in commenting upon an editorial In The Manufacturers' Heeord show ing that the South la not living up to Its opportunities: "Awful, but the gospel truth. Take Trass, for Instance. W'e grow form ft) bales of cotton. New Knglsnd mills make up the fjeli-hed product, ship It hai k to Trias ar-a Texan boy It. Texas sells hides lo New England tanneries, and New Knriand msnufactutes shoes and sells the " w iriHiis. lexans snear tlir.r tnTi.n",,'tr,dhe,Ve,1t;r.il' ne made from the barks or Texas sheep The decline of New England' is a lose "When Mouth Csrollns. Georgia. Tennessee!! Alabama end Texas are manufacturing : Suma-brlr jenea, then, and not until then will NpW ' uotu on inn, ue.iine ol the threat- . ening sort.' J. P. CALDWniX D. A. TUMPtUXS . In a word, the gouth la producing ' IU t jnvicU bf working them on raw material for other neonir ti,he ro,il" We of course' understand make money out of The subject is ' ne upon which the Cibserver has namraerea much from time to time. The South will not have utilised Its opportunities until it manufactures Its products Instesd of sending them wgy In their raw state and buying hetn hmrk completed, paying the cot ojr manufacture, with protlt added, and freight both -ways. By degrees, ' happily, we are reversing this condi tion. ' When the reversal Is completed weVwllI begin to get rich as Massa chusetts and all manufacturing New England are rich. ' j , , The Columbia Plate asks: "How much will Carneglrj glvr to the publiean rampslgn fund ?f Vfi don't know, but If h ulves as much as the f ooih Carolina light-wads contribute t lh Brjan fund lie will gUH b far from realizing bis ambition to die poor, " . - A;.; A REFRACTOBY PRISONER. The. Sheriff of South Carolina' suit! other States has arrested Ths Norfolk Landmark for non-conformity nd tne prisoner i Is , In a condition of mutiny. The Landmark having pro tested against .the drastic metbjoda which the Sheriff employs in dealing with Democratic newspapers which are not supporting Mr. Bryan accord ing to the officer's notion, gets this as a further rebuke: r "When we see one of .our 'fellow Democratic newspapers' doing that which we know to be to the injury of Demo cratic chimera ol success It is a duty to direct attention to the peculiar situation w fa low the very aimpie ruie, that the newspapers sincerely desirous of the . election of the party'a candidate should work for that candidate all the time, and never against him. If the naiwp mdiiai fiinnnrt the party's candi date, then it should announce Its Inability o do so, and temporarily, at leaax, reuro from the party. The Landmark does not submit to this discipline with proper numimy but retorts In part as follows: The State's kind Invitation to us to retire from the party" does not apply to say nothing of the fact that even ii we were in a position to De reaa vui vi i, party.' an excommunication from South Carolina would not be pertinent, per haps The State has heard about the man In Kentucky who made a big fortune at tend ln to his own busiaees. Why dldn t The State invite Mr. Bryan out of the Democratic party in 1904 because lie dldn t enthusiastically support Uudge Parker. 1 It comes Wltn pecunmriy pr---- rare from The state iu jic.i sophistical doctrine that a Democratic newspaper snouio wora ir n candidate all the time, and never against him in view of The State's own record In the poUUc" of South Carolina. The Landmark expects to continue up portlnu the party In Its own way and in its own words, but has no disposition to receive In meekness vegetables thrown at It bv 'fnol Bryanltes' (begging The State's pardon). ' Brutus Insisted upon running the campaign his way. In stead of following the wise advice of the older soldier. Cassius-and '' c"lrR wss lost, lust as this will be if bulldoxlnr luetics are anW1 The country Is tired of that sort of thing." This Is lese majesty, but The Ob server confesses sympathy with Its Norfolk contemporary because It has been srr.strd Itself. But this Nor folk recalcitrancy calls for handcuffs and commitment without ball. TIMK ABOUT IS FAIR PLAY. The New York Evening Post, inde pendent, offers this paragraph In 1U Issue of Friday Mr Bryan. In his speeches In Indiana , ?r.","f"yvm- .h.r. c T,e rTdoubt that! the. Democratic party has suffered .. rirneuisi candidate to advertise him-, self and procure lecture engagements, lie freely arkno ledge, that his I r. ha. I. nrri Mill to aiw mu- ke niouev. But Joseph Cannon Is the laH man In the world to arouse another of prostituting his politi cal Influence to prUale ends. If there Is any point In which Mr. Csnnon is vulner able It is JuM that. Accordingly. Mr. Prvan found It very easy to retort to Mr. Cannon's sneers armul Hie grcaieni - vei Using agent on earth who. Dy , i.,a -rwi Ink hart come to le: worth more than tl.nOD.wm.1 A great many people would be glad to hear the answer to Mr liryan s question to Mr. Cannon. Will he tell us what he has been selling, to whom he has sold It. and how much he got for II '" " The question la pertinent and un der the circumstances proper. Mr. liryan Ktate.i, promptly and truthful ly, in reply to the Speaker's Jibes, that lie Is worth ,16U,000, and told how ho got It. One good turn de- serves another. Now let cannon it ii , iSrnator The lesson of the genertl what he Is worth and hpw he made It. i riot.on may put a different comples In his speech at Olncy, 111., Thursday, on ljpon matters but up to date the Mr. Bryan said: stand-patters have the better of the "He ICanm.nl began holding onice in i 1. when I was a yoai old. and durlr;! tlie' last forty -seven yeam he lias he'd office more than forty years of the time. ... ..... . 1. 1 .. rt.. b.,, tt tlm l time he has teen a member of Congress and has been .Hawing a salary that the mem- h ,g a jovlui man. n Atlanta, Frl hers of Congress thought so Inadequate; ..fi that the samiy ha. recently been in- day night, when he was notified, ciease.l. ..i' two thousand people cheered him and msda'anm hl" that Is bv Helling wind and Ink.' to use; jSK,. ,! Clarence J. Slicam, who- .uX'V' VuZiJtion'ever he Is: but p.p.o do not always of money by the strict attention " lu'- j vote as th'-y cheer and If the Inde-wealVhy"- "r"' r"r"""1 ' '"I r.er,dece League ticket pets ten per . . . tt. c-t 1 rrnt nf tho votn rrprrsrntcd In the ii i i wi i ri v nn ii .hi. i"ii or.' . i Havlnu ' tarted this thing it I his duly to see It out. He is rrput.'d to be not only wealthy but very wealthy. II.- Ii;. I.e. ii a life-time office-holder. How did he make his money? WHAT TO I0 WITIF CtXNVICTS. A special from Elizabeth City to yesterday's paper said that the grand Jury of Pas'iuotank county has rec ommended the abolishment of the chain-gang. "It la claimed that tha convicts have been a burden to th- county and that the class of work done on the roads was not satisfac tory ..r of sufficient permanency to I continue the system." Clearly this Is i not the fault of the convicts or of the chain-gang system. It Is a case of In. ilii lent management or not know Ins how road work should be done. The b, st and most economical use to which convicts can bo put Is to work them on th public roads, when a county has a sufficient number to form a gang; If It has not, then It can farm them out to a neighboring county for road work or supplement road-working from neighboring counties which may , . i. , . .. . , , haV conv'cts who could be hired. This of course pre-supposes efficient nd knowledge of prac- tlcal road-making. Where these unite a county cannot do so well, with that there are localities In which rock rannot be found and where macadam is out of the question. It may be so in Pas'iuotank, but the same special tWIs that the roads of Currituck arc In miserable ctrriditlon and the peo ple of that county contemplate & chain-gang and he leasing of the Pas quotank convicts. This disposition of them would sssuredly be' better for them and for both counties than maintaining them In Idleness. There must be a moral awakening In the Republican party of the State of Washington. Senator Ankeney, a candidate for reflection, an Ignorant, rich, notorious corruptlonlst, was da fested in the primaries last wk and wilt retire next March, unless, as Is evidently feared, h buys the Legisla ture, as he Is said to have done six years ago, notwithstanding the pri mary Jastructions. 1 . .- - . . . O, LISTEN TO THE MOCKIXG BIRD, , We had feared that wjth the la rnented decease; of Miss Mattle Peter son the: spirit of poesy had become extinct in eastern North Carolina, Not so. . There has arisen In the city of , Wilmington Mr. B. F. Penny, who,' like her, has attuned his harp to mortuary music and adorn the columns of our valued contemporary, The Evening Dispatch, with these few moving lines: ; : ' MORE ABOUT "BEAUTIFUL OAK- DALE.". (By B- F. Penny). There is a dear spot Near this tows; It Is where some day I'll be laid down. . The grounds are One And laid out well; lis little squirrels. In them do dwell. Of sll the sacred Spots to me It's beautiful Oakdale, All covered with trees Eight thousand bodies Are burled there. All of them, and more. Some .rts y will reappear. Its kind directors Are business men; Its superintendent Is one of them. The scenery of This beautiful place Is very superb ' And In Its place. So many loved ones Have crossed this stream; Of our departed I often dream. With Mr. Donlan. Who superintend. To his courteous niannc There Is no end. When this pood keeper. Days are passed. For we're no more Than fading grass. We'll think of him Krom time to time With the beautiful grounds X)f his make to remind. "Now don't that take the lead!" The late Jake Halyburton, of Burke, when editor of the Morganton paper, was wont to accompany his mention of the death of every favorite sub scriber with some lines of original poetry, wherefore it grew Into a say ing in Burke that Jake had added a new terror to death. The opposite is to be said of Mr. Penny. He has 0efprc(j a landing Inducement to the citizen of Wilmington to croak, why hould they want to live In that besotted town when just outside lies Beautiful Oakwood with Its trees and onH Mr Donlan there with -i his courteous manner ready to re ceive them politely and treat them rlfc-lit? Mr. Penny la a benefactor to hi fellow-townsmen and deserves to take rank with tho other Immortal H,ii-!r,rds who have smoothed the path wuv to the tomb. Governor Cummins, of Iowa, who Is somewhat of a tariff revisionist and who desires to fill the unexpired term of tho lute Senator Allison, has been run over by the steam roller. ; Tho extra session of the Legislature, after having taken a number of ballots, has adjourned until November 14th, after the election, without having elected a . .tuatlon low suuauou Mr. John Temple Graves Is a fa- vorMo In Georgia and naturally so. for Atlanta meeting it will do better than is to be expected. TltAVIOtJCHS TO HAVE A DAY. Commercial Men Will Parade, Five Hundred Sining. They Say, From Nliiih Mrcvt to the Fair Ground Vnferenf3 IlHl NlglU. A meeting of Charlotte Council, United Commercial Travelers, and the other traveling men of Charlotte was held at the Belwyn !at night in con ference with Messrs. C. F. Creswell, W. J. Chambers and William 8. Orr, of the management of the Mecklen burir Fair Association, to make ar rangements for Traveling Men's Day at the coming Fair The result was ! most satisfactory. The Fair men gave to the travelers Thursday, the best day of tho week, for their special celebration. Among tho features will be a parade in which It is believed that not less than tOO traveling men will participate. The line of march will be from Ninth street to the Fair grounds. Their numerous "stunts" will be gone through with. There will be s band at each end of the parade. All during Fair week a spec ial booth will be maintained In the centre of the Floral Hall for the accommodation of the travelers, with telephone accommodations and the like. The following committee were ap pointed by the U. C. T.'s: On deco ration: Messrs. g. M. Pnyne, W. M. L,ylea and U N. Bchlff; on advertising: V. M. Lyles, N. H. Johnson and B. K. Cates; on parade: N. V. Porter, R. W. Barnett, H. J. Herb, I N. Schiff and C. O. Kuester. The stores will be asked to close on Thursdsy this year Instead of Wednes day, as usual. Telepltone May Surs-rsede) Telegraph on Soutiiern. Greensboro Industrial News. It Is reported that the Southern Railway Is contemplating superseding the telegrsph wfth a telephone sys tem as a means of keeping 1n touch with trains. At the office of the gen eral superintendent yesterday It was stated that such a schema had been considered. Just as any other device giving promise of better service would be considered, but no decision to make the change has been reached- 'Tale 'Well Worth Reading. ' North Wtlkesboro Hostler. ' ."Tales of the Town and the Times,' by Red' Buck, now appearlnr daily for several weks in Th Charlotte Ob server, wllL, we understand, be pub lished In book form. They sra well worth reading for entertainment and truth, showing Mr. Bryant's healthy knowledge of human nature, ' Talcs ef tKs Tewn and lhl. Ti I BT BED 1 1 spent several days of last week in concord, a breezy little city north or Charlotte, on the Southern Rail way. While there I saw several of my old friends, among them Uncle Jimmie Brown, who fought In three wars, attended the Democratic State convention in Charlotte fifty years ago ana would welcome another skirmish between the North and South: Prof. Jean Napoleon Ingram, of Sldoo Creek, Known nere as Jimmie Jones, and in the suburbs of Concord as Billy, the nussian uoat; col. Jack Wadsworta. formerly of Plneville, and akin to peo ple in Providence; Dr. Frank Smith, the keeper ofa rendezvous of good feliosvs, and Dr. Grlihn. the raconteur of Brown's stables. Uncle Derrick. President Roosevelt's colored friend, is in. vor some time ho has been con fined to, hla home, and, recently, to his bod. I did not sec the old fellow. Before long he will hear the' summons from beyond the River Jordan. VERY FEW CHANGES IN CON CORD. Concord is about as I left it two years ago. The burning of two cot ton mills was a calamity, for hundreds of people were deprived of employ ment and families that had not moved for years were compelled to seek work and homes elsewhere. The former residents of Forest Hill, the Odell Mill settlement, were of the best class of cotton factory operatives. They are inririy, industrious and sober. The fire that consumed Number Four' of the Odell plant caused many changes. Morally, oCncord is where it used to be: Old Innocent thinks it ideal, a model, in fact, and Old Jones knows that it Isn't. The town Is still "dry" dry to the pro-hlghs who go to bed with the chickens and never wake up. To the solicitor and Old Innocent all Is well In Cabarrus. Stmt as In Charlotte. Court convenes, the roll is called, and the records answer: "No change." Peace reigns. Old Jones, who has been given prohibition by his solicitous neighbor, blinks one eye. smiles knowingly and follows the rope. He has been saved by his friends. All Cabarrus, like all Gaul, Is divided Into three uarts: those who are fooled and don't know It; those who know that their neighbors are fooled and don't-aro If they are, and nincompoops. All hands are satisfied. Old Jones can get a drink and Old In nocent doesn't want one (?) - TWO SMALL. MONOPOLIES. The hackmen, who meet the trains at Concord, have formed a hard and fast combination to sting the traveling man the poor drummer .who flits from place to place like the honey bee Where one used to pay 25 cents for a round trip fare he is touched for five cents extra now, the price being IS cents each way. The rise Is not great but the time lost In making the change is an Item. Only one hotel is open to the public and the rates have risen from $2 and J2.50 to $2.50 and up. One clerk, one bell boy, good table fare, a few mosquitoes all for $2.50. Concord does not seem the same with Mrs. Dusenbery on the re tired list. A BEAUTIFUL ROAD. Kannapolls, the home of the big Cannon Mill, over which Mr. T. L. Ross, formerly of China Grove, pre sides, is eight miles from Concord. This mill has 50,000 spindles and, when running on full timo. will re quire more than 1.500 operatives. Where doodles made merry two years ago several thousand people live and prosper. The County of Cabarrus is building a turnpike from Concord to Kannapo lls. the cost to be about $20,000, and the money to be advanced by the mill owners. When the road Is completed an automobile can make the trip be tween tho towns in twelve minutes, and a horse in less than an hour. The route is through a fine farming section. Already Kannapolis is full of life JOKE OX CHAIRMAN ELLKR. Lost Sight of the Fact That the So licitor of the Fifteenth Juribial District Is a Republican and Wrote Him For Campaign Contribution. Ashevllle Gazette-News, In the course of every political campaign many amusing Incidents occur, but, according to an Ashevllle gentleman who was recently in Ra leigh where State Democratic head quarters Is located, the richest joke of the present campaign Is on X. H. Filer, the Democratic State chairman. The joke has t do with a premlnent Ashevllle cttlsen and likewise one of the best known Republicans In the district It seems that while the Democrats in the tenth, were poking fun at John a. Grant anent his "Latin constitution," Mr.'Eller was busily writing a letter to Solicitor Mark W. Brown, earnestly pleading for finan cial aid. - ? ; "The Democratic chairman." so I am Informed, said this returned Ashevllle clttsen, -"lost sight of the fact that the solicitor for the fifteenth judicial district Is a Republican and sent him a mighty pleading commu nication for help. Mr. Eller said In effect that ths Democrats Just had to have money and that he must know at once where the money was to com from; that It was hla purpose to ap peal to all 'our officials and a large number of our liberal friends' and wound up by saying that It la neces sary for me to ask you at this time to send me a substantial contribution.' Request was then made for "not less than 159 . ' "l was told that when Mr. Eller re ceived a reply he had a sort of sink ing spell for an Instant The letter In reply did not contain a heck for ISO, or any other amount The Republi can solicitor, without reference to hto political affiliations or putting Mr. Eller wse.' said that he had decided to support the Republican national, Ftate and county tickets; that he thought Mr. Craig had been badly treated by ths .eastern-' Democrats and that besides he was dally becom ing more fully convinced that the principles and policies of the 'Repub 1K(b trnes DUCK and with the return of prosperity It will have close to 6,000 inhabitant JOHN WADSWORTH'S BALL GAME. Colonel Wadsworth la oasslng Into the reminiscent stage. . He like to tell of days cone by. "When have you teen to the dty of your nativity, Plneville, Jack?" I ask ed the Colonel. , "Plnevillet" ,.... ..'. "Yes, Plneville; were yea not born there?" , "No, but I spent the first ten years of my life there. I am a South Car ollnian, having been born Just over the line. "Henry," said Colonel Wadsworth, calling me by my father's name, as he always does, "you oon c recall the great game of ball between the Pleas ant Valley and Plneville nines?" "That was before my day," I ad mltted. "We played in Morrow's old field on the day of a big barbecue. I caught for Plneville. The score was 1J7 to 1 In our favor. We started at o'clock and quit at 4:30, and at the close of the ninth inning there were but four players on one side and five on the other. Some had stopped for dinner and others to go home and do ur the turns. Cell Morrow got ruffled because the Pleasant Valley pitcher pitched a fast ball and quit. You know at that time 'drop balls' were popular. The pitcher tried to make the batter hit It. We had energetic fellows in the field." "Who was the umpire?" "We didn't have any. One would not hare lasted through a game he'd been killed. ' That was thirty years ago. John Miller. Cell Morrow, Ed Klrkpatrlek, June and Ed Russell and others were on our team. I don't re member the names of the Pleasant Valley boys. A WAY OF HAZINO. "Soon after leaving Plneville I en tered college. I went to Carolina Academy in Providence three months." "I had been to several colleges. said Mr. Wadsworth, "when I turned toward Davidson, where I entered and matriculated. "I had paid my fee and signed my name and been assigned to a room at the Presbyterian college when Jack Scott, of Graham, came and told me that 'the professor' was ready for me to stand my examinations. I was escorted into a large room, where sat Ed Chambers Smith, of Raleigh, In large glasses and side-whiskered, look ing as wise and as solemn as a creek owl; I did not know him at that time but was a little suspicious of the at tention Jack Scott bestowed. I was as careful as a blind mule about them Before making a step I stopped and felt for a hole. No sooner had I en tered the room than did I begin to see earmarks of mischievous fellows. But I made up my mind to feel out a little before making a break. "The first thing the learned profes sor gave me to do was to commit to memory two pages of the college catalogue. That seemed odd to me but I took up the book and made out like I was at the bat. But my eyes were peering over the too at the pro fessor. I had never liked burnsid.s, or, as they called them at Plnevlllo. mutton chops, and the ones before me attracted my attention. They seemed to bo out of harmony with the professor's hair, and, on closer in spection, to be glued on, I had a clue. The professor had been fixed up for the occasion. When certain that I was right about this I took a sneak, and on passing out I was greet ed with a smile by Ed Carson. I left a number of youngsters In there com mitting the catalogue. Professor Smith, whom I think they had Intro duced as 'Professor Hood' saw me go ing, but said nothing. He realized that I was wise. "Will Bynum, of Greensboro, and I were classmates at college. I attend ed a number of Institutes In my life." lican party are for the best interests of the people. The Republican so licitor reminded Mr. Eller that Iredell Meares and ether leading Democrats have recently left the sinking ship of Democracy and that Indications pointed to other desertions before the November election. The solicitor then handed the Democratic State chair man a lemon and said that 'with the facts above stated staring me in the face I am net disposed to contribute $50 or more to be used by you in your efforts to placate the western Demo crats who were so unfairly treated In the last State convention.' "Of course It didn't take Eller long to get. next and to become painfully aware that the joke was on him. He made reply to the solicitor's letter, in effect saying that had he been better advised Of the , Ashevllle ' srentleman's sympathy and political affiliations he would not. of course, have made the request" Strange Light in the Heavens. Wlnston-Balem Journal.' ltth. Those who were so fortunate as to be seated on their porches and look ing westward last night at a few min utes after I o'clock, had a rare treat In stellar, phenomenon. At first sight of the clow In the skies, ' two long bsrs could be seen. These gradually came together and the whole lingered for. a few minutes before fading away. The ' glow was especially bright and attractive and those who saw It looked k almost breathless wonder, no douw. until the whole faded away. . ' Tor The Observer. OPTIMISM. , Optimist 1 Would te God that ' -He who. In luxuriant ease, ' Doth tmsa proclaim himself, , - .-. r Could for a single moment Reallsa tbe hollow mockery -. ' Of bis unUceruml claim Ti him a Kns . w ho In pala. Forgetting his stress. Dolh administer a mills -Or a tear as the need may be. Belongs that tHvlne Inheritance. -UAAOLD CHILD. i 'l.H CtiTtlsCifMaJi i'y,jn J-Mf kspssjs s . i . ' : ';- ste Cap E c;o ffii oiiini Ta $15.00 to $30.00 seeraswrr tee. sv TtS s, MICHAELS-STErtlH FINE CLOTHINC iSNSCLs. sriae a aa shmmsstss, These Clothes are the productions of manufacturers of merit. The Coat, Vest and Pants each has an air that marks artistic designing and perfect workman ship. The fit is qual to that of most any high-class tailor. The designs, both in fabric and fashion, are up to the minute. The Mixtures, Plaids and Shadow Plaids and Stripes are beautiful and very swell. We" have the neat, loud or medium patterns; something to please every one, even Suits for the young men or , old men at $10.00 and $12.50. School Shoes, $3.50 to $8.50 Browns, Greys, Blues and with or without belt straps and with plain or Knick erbocker pants. Our "hit" is a $5.00 Suit with two pairs pants, one plain and one Knickerbocker. The Three Hats Our "Dnworth",$2.5b,,"No Stetson $3.50 and $5.00, in soft or stiff and the newest fall shapes and colors in the three. New Neckwear We've got the new. things shape. ' .i Sox " V ShawKnits, Imported and Domestic Gauze lisle , or regular Balbriggans, 10c to 50c. for plain or fancy. , "Dawbrth'' and "Knox t Shoes This "Dilworth" is one of the swellest and . best lines of Men's Shoes in the city at ; $3,50, $4.00 and $4.50. Then our "Knox? and "Sorosis" are. our finest Men's Shoes for $5.00 and $6.00 V , '. - . " . : I Ladies' Sorosis : 5 . Wear this once and you'll wear it all the time. Price for Ladies' $3.50 and $4.00. Our Artistic is $3.00, Florine $2.50j Superba $2.00 and Grover's $1.75 to $3.00. School Shoes for alL : . . v . w. MM I mm. I II II MM! , U I , ,,,,, mS ' .j 1 : ' - ' ' - - " - : -. " .'- '-'" - - ; ; M it mere i c a 0 0 y: at Blacks, in double-breasteds, Name" $3.00, and John B. at 25 and 50c, and in every. ''
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