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CHAHLOTTE DAILY 'OBSERVER, SEPTEMBER 23, 1CC3. J. F. CALDWTAI. IX. A. TOAIPKIAS ; Publishers. . tvery Day ia the Year , CBSOUPT10X JPJUCEl ' .' k ; Pally . : One year i.'.i.. .................... R- ix months j..,....... 100 Xhree' months 2.00 VV;'-.?f Semi-Weekly One year H. Six mentha SO Three months -5 - i - AX OBIT CART 1VEIX BAtAXCED, I THE COMTXC IDEA' ITR ' CITIES. The. Washington Herald thinks that this obituary,' appearing In The" Ton ner Ala.. Eagle, ,"m.t negro PLTBLISttERS' AN.OUSCEtEXT No. M South Tryon street. Telenhone nunbtn: purines ofliee. Bell 'phona U; city editors office. Bell 'phone, 14; " um editor a office. B!t 'phone 234. ' A ubsonasr 1l enie:ii:c the JJrri ' Of his paper changed, mill pleaae indl eato the address to which it Is going at U) time fce asks for the change to be made. Advertising rates are furnlahed on application. Advertisers may feel sure that through the .olumna of this paper they may reach all Charlotte and a portion of the bet people In this Btate and Lpper South Carolina. This paper pr, es " correspondents as wise latitude as it thinks putllo pol ler peririia. but It Is In no case re sponsible for their views. It is much preferred that correspondents altn their Barnes to their article, especiai ly in cases where they attack persons or Institutions, though this is not de manded. The editor reserves the right to give the names of corrf onde:jt when they are demanded far the pur pose of personal sadsf action. Idi-Tt-ceive conaideratlon a communication mast be accompanied by the true fame of the correspondent. WEDNESDAY. StPTKMBEH 23, 1U08 THJ5 PRES11)K.T BKOIGIIT TO HOOK. ic pudiic iiprnap n.is as yet no fixed opinion as to whether or not Gov rnor Haskell, of Oklahoma, treasurer Of the national Democratic commit tee, has ever been In relations with the Standard Oil Company. Mr. Hearst Is very pjjecillc in hln charges and quotes what he alleges to he court records to sustain him, saying that he makes no allegations of his own but appeals to these records Governor Haskell U vehement In his denial and offers to resign from the national committee if the charge again t him can be substantiated. The testimony Is Inconclusive up to this time, but Mr. Bryan has put the case In such shape that something definite must necessarily develop. His telegram to the President yesterday Is direct, emphatic and manly, and there must now be a show-down or a re treat. The President has made him self a sharer with Hearst In the accu sation against Haskell and Mr. Bryan calls upon him, In terms so plain that refusal or evasion will be confession, to name a tribunal, pub lic or private, to which his proof may be submitted, promising that If the Charge agalnnt Governor Haskell Is Sustained or the President thinks It is, his HankH' connection with the committee and the campaign hall cease. There" Is nothing doubtful or equivocal about this proposition end we shall see what comes of It. Mr. Roosevelt, who Is a passionate man, without scrupulous regard for the truth, has a habit of saying things to which he cannot or does not stand, relying upon his position for exemption from an accounting. He is now up against a man who has no such re gard for the Imaginary divinity Which hedges about' the preoldentlal office that he is willing to allow Its occupant to give free rein to Ills tongue without being aketl. By what authority, sir? And n"'hinic could be less susceptible of mieiin'I'-ratandliKj than his warning to the President that nefther li nor other 'rcsiiori-ible men of the Republican organization" shall be permitted "to mlri pn wnt the attitude of the Democratic party in the present campaign " It lR distinctly up to Mr. P.onsevelt. A JLvnKit or xM;vri:NtK. Tho ObM-rwr will have to he ex cused from nuking war on Mr. J. Elwood fox during the remaining Weeks of this campaign; be Is too good a man ami too useful ft citizen to warrant It In trying to discredit him a thine- It could not do, any how, in the fvn of those who know him I'U this fact In l.eitik,' andi ousht to be hroucht to til,!ic alien-! tlon: that if he . re Gownor lie if the Springs. publication of good intent," affords an exhibition of "genuine diplomacy:" ' "Wat Kemp.' an old colored cttlsen of Fetennan, Ala- riled Saturday evening, September li'th. 1908. lie leaves many children, besides host of grandchildren, to mourn his demise. He was about seventy-five or eighty years old at the time of his death. The subject of this sketch has been a deacon for many years Ha wss one among the first colored dea cons that were chosen after the war of the rebellion between the States. A good man is rone. Eeace to his ashes!" Our Washington contemporary pauses to drop a tear to Wat and'ts throw a bouquet to the obituary editor of The Eagle. Fair-mindedness, courtesy, anxiety to please and consideration of his fellowmen The Herald sees "writ large upon his escutcheon;" and, addressing; Itself primarily to The Observer "What could bn more satisfactory to all parties concerned than bis apt expression. the war of the rebellion between the States?' We pause for the reply we feel positively assured shall never he forth coming. The quotation ia the very acme of diplomacy and the ultimate limit of Catholicism. It catches ' 'em a-gwlne and a-ooniln',' and you can't get away from It. It is so pally and precisely tbe right thing said at the right moment that we leel it deserves to be embalmed and pro- server tor luture reierence." "The war of t(je rebellion be tween the States!" Apples of gold In pictures of silver. The essence of diplomacy, to be sure. No reflection on anybody; no excuse for anybody to be offended or to feel aggrieved or cut up. What could be more finely non-committal? "Whose dead?" asked a man on horseback riding by a cemetery where a grave was being dug. "Old Jones." "What complaint? "No complaint every body satisfied." (Old but applicable.) "The civil war;" "the war of the re bellion." There are those who object to both. But "the war of the rebellion between the States" it is beyond criticism. A D I FFERKXOD L MEX. Judge Taft Is a great man and ono of generous Impulses. He Is all right when himself. He does not shine In this campaign because he Is a cuckoo. But he said something the other day when the disclosures were made about Senator Foraker's connection with the Standard Oil .Company which re dounds to his infinite credit. He probably hates Foraker, If he hates anybody, and with reason, for Foraker announced his own candidacy for the presidency last spring In order o embarrass him and has spared no pains to array the negroes against him; but when Foraker fell Into dis grace last week and Taft was urged o make a public statement on the subject he said. I would not, ror every vote in the country, kick a man when he Is down." That was noble. It Is certain that he had not asked fVr advice or received Instructions from Hagamore Hill about that matter for Mr. Roosevelt, when there was no call on him to do or say inyuuui, out of his way to bestow a gratuitous kick upon a man no longer capable of effective resentment. This from The Montgomery Adver tiser: Our usually careful and well Informed contemporary. Th narioim uu-i has been misled Into saying: " 'The night riders of Alabama and Arkansas have gone a how-shut beyond those of Mlcslsslppl who have merely notified sinners to suspend business In the two States first named, cotton plant era ore being held up with illre consequences unless they re duce nrreag' and hold their crop for the minimum price fixed by the Fort Worth convention.' "While something of the sort hns been reported In Arkansas and Mississippi, ther- hns been nothing ( the kind in Alabama. The farmers and cotton raisers of Alabama are nuttirallv law-abiding people, and we do not believe they will etigaga In such despicable practices a our North '"urollmi friend (barges agalnKt them. It Ik. wb are nirf, a case of mis information on Its part and we hope to nr-e n sticedy correct Ion of the error Into which It has fallen " ' Oenpany has long been a leader in showing- the world h6w lo do things. The national genius for efficiency, de reloped to the highest pitch by stern conditions of national existence, has erected upon a territorial base which is much smaller than Texas,, compara tively .'poor In natural resources and surrounded on every side by potential enemies one of the three treat pow ers of the earth. Bine , German unity was finally hammered out In 1870 the onward rush has been terri fic In the application of sciencf to the problem of modern Industry Germany has taken a unique position whUe-likewise constltatlng Itself in creasingly the world's chief exemplar In such widely diverse subjects as pure science, governmental admlnls tratlon, the art of war, philosophy and music. This young nation .made of old fragments has had a mighty youth. Though population has In creased apace, the stream of emi grants has been continually drying up, for desirable tasks became avail able for all at home. A recent writer In The Atlantic Monthly showed that Berlin has grown more rapidly than Chicago, and many other German cities correspondingly. German goods multiply In every market, dis place whose they may. And of all the marvels presented for study and emulation German municipal govern ment s not the least We find Its spirit the spirit of efficiency to which modern Germany stands a monuraent embodied In the Galveston commis sion plan without the least sacrifice of anything distinctively American. City after city Is adopting this idea of administering its afTalrs In the Ger man spirit, though, of course, not quite in the German manner. Every city which does such a good thing for itself puts pressure upon every neighbor city to do likewise if not content relatively to lose grqund. Thus the plan spreads. It will surely reach North Carolina before any great while. IL -1 V : Tales of ths Tswn and tHs Time Dt BED DUCK . ' Nearly every town has Its specialty. The enterprising town of Durham has two: trying murderers and litigating with the Southern Railway Company. It never permits Itself to have a dull time. TOOK MONEY OUT OP STOCKING. Negro Woman Robbed While Khe lr-I In KallHbnrjr Nation Two Grip Aluo SUrten by White Men- tknivlct Serving wion mn tapes Short Salisbury Items. Observer,, Bureau, 411 North Main Street. Rallsburv. Sept. 23. i. .nvnnwn robber stole a small sum of money from a negro woman v,v the name of Anna Dale at the Southern passenger station before ,kv this mornlnir. ' The woman was sitting In the colored waiting room asleep when the thief cut open ner stocking and secured the money, lie made his escape. Two young white men, J. W. Mlse- ' ... I A mer and aiattnew t-oon, were ecm i" Jail this morning in default of a $100 bond each to await Ihe next term oi Hunan Runerlor Court, for stealing two erins from the Houthern station. The grips were the property of Mr. W D. Wise, of Catawba county, ana Rev. E. J. Box, of Little Mountain, H, C. Only one of the grips was re covered. A Democratic club was organized at Zeb lust night with C. A. Jacobs, Information. The reference to Ala bama In the connection Is regret ted ami upon tho Intimation of our esteemed Montgomery contemporary Is withdrawn with pleasure. would have the apr, .intm.-nt FUte board of elect io-, Oi,'h ap points the county boar .! a id t!-ey In turn the registrars. U I a' ' no doubt that Mr '"X if ;..rnor Would appoint to th- Plate board of elections men whom b- thought honest and suitable but a' major ; y of them would of course b- Hep ihli cane and through th. m and their ap pointees In the counth s t'n! whoh election machinery of lh- Si ate would K turned over to th" K p i Ml-an party. We do not chare the f, ar of j some that this wou.d result In the nullification of the constitutional! amendment, but It wou'd not b' : "desirable condition and It should I,-1 'bvUted. Mr. KUchln would ap-j 'point a Democratic board and thui'J the election machinery would remain, i SS It ehould, in Democratic hands ! rThls would be a sufficient rrason if) 'there were no other why he should! be elected. and'Yh'reaed! Pnt: J- A. Cauble first v C. prepiueni; . J- iiut, pttvwhu president; W. Z. Zlmrafrman, third vice president; V. P. Lentz. secretary, ami (leorge Overman, treasurer. The Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society of St. John's Luth eran c hurch has elected officers as follow for the ensuing year: Pres ident. Mrs. I). J. Miller; vice pres ident. Mrs. J. O. Wertr.; recording secretary. Mrs. t . M. Hrown; corres ponding secretary." Mrs. A. W. Wine coff: treasurer, Mrs. John M. Bowies. , The Atlantic Hltullthlc people will Ye cannot recall the source of our' w , ,7,. t..,h,.. church A white eonvt. by the name of Mfilard, serving r short term on th Rowan chalngang made his escape from the camp near China Grove. It wa thought that he would make for f'ooleemee and a close watch will be kept for him. At a meeting of the Robert F. Hoke Chapter. Daughters of the Confeder acy, hld In the parlors of the Kmplre Hotel this afternoon. Mrs. William H. Overman was chosen as delegate to the State convention of IT. D. C.'s which meets In Ooldsboro Octoberi lf.lh. At a late date Mrs. John 8.! Henderson. president of the local chapter, will appoint one or more delegates to the general convention which meets In Atlanta In November. "we had seen the trail of a large snake about our lltte mountain home for two years," eakd a woman from the western section of the State, "but try as we might we could not locate the monster. Not Jong ago, when the first cold days came with a chill of frost in the air, we saw the same signs we had seen the year before. In the sand, at the corner of tho building, we saw the track f the crawling reptile, followed it under the house to where it entered through tne noor. For several days every body looked for the snake. We were afraid to gO to sleep at night. Fi nally, one of the children discovered a large, slick hole In the bottom of an old sofa or lounge In the bail, and there we located a rattler with 14 rattles. It was evident from the signs Inside of the sofa that hU snake Ship had spent at least two winters there." This story seems almost absurd, but those who live In the rattlesnake country know well rfhat they will hide in a house If the opportunity pre sents Itself. Several years ago, while walking in the mountains, I spent the night at the home oY a typical moun taineer. After eupper we discussed various eu-pjects, especially snakes and much to my discomfort he told me of an experience that his little child had a week before with a rattler. The cabin was surrounded by corn and grass. Leading to the front porch was a pretty sandy walkway. The 3-year-old baby who played in the yard began to crow and laugh, and when the mother looked out she saw the little brat dancing around a large rattlesnake, on his way to the house. Some one has said that the Lord takes care of children, fools and drunkards In time of peril, and It does seem so. It Is the rarest thing that you hear of a child being bitten by a snake, and occurrences similar to the onei chronicled here are frequent. The rattlesnake gives warning before It strikes, but the average child does not know a note of warning from a love! call. JACK AND THE BOW. Mr. Sidney Galther, of Morganton, owns a big Irish eetter named Jack. Some time ago a mad dog scare pro voked the commissioners of the capi tal of Burke to order all dogs mp lied. A muzzle to a spirited dog Is as Irksome as a long-tongued bore. Jack Galther did not take kindly to his metal attachment and would have grieved himself to death had not re lief come. The Galthers knew not what to do with their dog. If the new law was enforced etrlctry for long he would go mad. For days and nights the poor brute tugged at his muzzle, trying to get rid of It, but If was one of the few things that stick During Jack's sojourn at the Galther home he had never tbeen known to be away for more than a few minutes at a time unless he were in the field with his master. Therefore, one night when he could not be found anywhere In the neighborhood MY. and Mrs Galther became alarmed, lest he had committed suicide or run away on ac count of the muzzle. An hour after supper, when on her way to a party, Mr. Galther saw Jack In the assembly room of the town council, . where 'the .commissioners were meeting to consider the advisa bility of repealing the - ordinance which had caused more trouble - In town than any law; ever passed iby the Legislature. Jack eat In the midst of the city fathers, looking and listen ing, more Interested than any member of the board. W3th his muxrle, buck led tight about his mouth, he ' sat bolt upright, with the dignity of a shyster lawyer in a Supreme Court The arguments pro. and con were heard in silence by the setter, but when the 'teller announced : that a majority of the commissioners had voted to rescind the order he jumped over two benches, 'barked as best he could and ran home. The explanation of this Is that the people of Morganton stir things to .such a fury when they get mad that even the dumb ibrutea understand. Jack had never taken any part in politics before that night but he will be on the lookout for dog-haters here after. Two months ago when I wnt to Morganton every dog that I met greet ed me by knocking the bark off my bins with his wire musxle, but the other day a gentle rub of the damp nose was the sign of welcome, THE CAT AND HER KITTENS. One evening last week when at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Neave, at Salisbury, I heard a cat mewing, and on looking around saw a gray and white tabby carrying a rat. , "She Is hunting her kittens,' said Rebeka Marsh, the grandchild of the home. "Where are they?" I asked. "Dead." - "Dead?" "Yes. They have een dead four weeks, but every night kitty brings in something, usually a bird, and hsnts the house over for them. She had three, one was killed by accident and the other two got sick and we had to chloroform them." Imagine a more pafhetlo story. The mother lost her little ones, how she knew not, but she has never lost hope. Night after night she goes to the fields and catches a bird or a rat and carries It to the nooks and crannies where her offspring used to be and calls In vain. She has no way of ascertaining the truth. Explana tions she cannot understand. Our hearts go out to the mother and father who have a child kidnaped Think of the poor .brute, without the power to reason, and her children! Others may drown kittens and pup pies, but I could not do it A friend told me of an Incident at his home. He had hist hired man drown two puppies by tying a rock to their necks and sinking them In the mill-pond. An hour later, when the mother ar rived from a ramble, he trailed the slayer to the pond, found her dead puipples and brought them back to the house. The mother instinct was there. ST"?' i j 1 i GnllnV (I H u U 4J II u U Uf u u vuj iu u vu r luu u li Hj u SEMiEE IKMiBE Corniniig .In on Every train SKXATOR BAILKY'S REPLY. Monday morning we reprinted from The Chicago Dally Socialist a letter from Charlotte reciting specific cases of alleged cruelty visited upon con victs whose names were given, said to have occurred In Gaston county. (The presumption Is that the recitals i related to treatment, real or Im j aginary, of conv icts on the county ; chum-Kant.- We took the liberty. In ; behalf of the good name of a neiKh . bor lounty, of questioning the truth VISITS SCKNE F ACCIDENT. - The circus, a sure-enough circus, is coming in fact, snd we congratulate the community and county, the grown-up and the children There Is : no entertainment that equals that ' afforded bjf the circus: no other that puts all people. Without regard to rank, or station, on the same footing. It Is the most 'democratic Institution n earth. The ' malefactor of great of th Matem.-nts. and have hon.-d 'r something on the subject from I Mcnitx-r of the Aerial Kxncrlment As .Olrie Of The Ol.rvi.r' I SOclatloil IXMlk OVMT tllC PSnUlC ,., rr , . ,, ;rouiik at Fort Meyer. lorr.sponictH m t.aston or from Washington. .Sent. 22. Prof. Alex some responsible county officer and ; andcr Oraham Bell. and Messrs. Htil) Indulge the hope of a denial ofiOirilss nnI McCurdy, members of the uti. ;.i,..n. f ,,., ....i I.,. I the Aerial Kxperlment Association, of l,. """""" which Lieut. Thomas K. Selfridge i live source i R ef.rflliry visited Fort Meyer to day and looked over the parade ground, which was the scene of the accident to the Wright aeroplane last w eek Tho engine and such parts of the wrecked aeroplane as Mr. Wright thinks may be of any value to him hereefter have been packet! and will be shipped to the Dayton, O., plant of the Wright brothers. "The track for the aeroplane and the starting apparatus will be stored at Fort Meter for tho future use of Mr. Wright. Mr. and Mrs. K. A. Selfrldge. the parents of Lieutenant Selfrldge will arrive in Washington to-morrow, when arrangements will be made for the burial of their son. During the period anterior to the election or li,.t May Hon. Cyrus I!. Watson, of W inston one of the best nun In the world wasn't much re ardrd by the Moral Forces, but he is hi the fvht now for the party, as he always is when he Is needed, and hai b'en granted absolution. Friday rilcbt Uct he made a speech to the Democratic club f Winston, which Is hems circulated as a campaign document, and In which he. said: "I'urir.g this spring I have heard word" an, have received letters from men which were hitter indeed, but I hope some time to take these letters snd. with those old friends who wrote them, lautrh over them." Mr. Watson is a Cutmti.in It i a pleasure to see that the Democrat of Alleghany have again nominated ex-Lieutenant nnrnnr wealth and the groundling: the fine,1niKh,(m ffr lhf, Lr1ut lady and the black mammy with a bandanna handkerchief around her Aead; the scholar familiar with all tore and the lout who spells God with a Httl t; laugh alike at the spotted clown, gaze ; open-eyed oa the ele j hint, and are transported with e . tjtt by the music, f the steam plane. .-Hold : yowrself ia constant tadioeas t,r tha circus, will not be In that body a man of better poise, more sober judgment or sounder sense. n is an Ideal legisla tor and if every member of the Gen eral Assembly were a man of tike type tbe people would not need to worry about what It was going io do for It would do nothing that was not wise or for Ue best Interest of tbe fitate. . , , . , - v. -. . -,v Fed- Governor Noel Would Call Fop rrsl Troop. New Orleans, Sept. 21. Gov. E. F. Noel, of Mississippi, speaking of the possible growth of night riding In the cotton belt said to-day that If necessary he would call on the Federal government for troops to stop such raids lie would first use Stat troops, Mr. Noel said, and finally seek Federal aid to restrsin lawlessness at any cost. He added that he espected night riding to stop without military Interference. The speech of Mr. J. W. Bailey at Hickory Monday night was well re ceived by a large and appreciative udlence In the opera house. This Is conceived to be the strongest speech delivered here so far during this campaign. After the . speaking a Democratle club was formed with an enrollment of about III members. . Says It Sibley is (icnulu It Clears Him or Certain Charges of Ills ' Kiiciiiles. Gainesville. Tex., Dispatch, 21st When an Associated Press corres pondent asked Senator Bailey to-day what reply, if any, he desired to make an to what Mr. Hearst said regarding him In his Memphis speech Saturday nUht, Senator Bailey dictated the fol lowing; "AsHumlng that the Sibley letter w hich Mr. Hearst read Is genuine and that 1 am 'Sonator B to whom tt refers, 1 am very glad that It has been given to the public for it com pletely refutes a charge which my enemies have been making against me In this State for the last two years. They have been claiming that I am an attorney for the Standard Oil Com pany and insinuating that I have be?n friendly to it in matters of legisla tion. This letter distinctly shows that I am not their attorney and It also distinctly shows that my position could not be changed to suit the in terest of the Standard Oil Company. The letter to Mr. Sibley suggests tint he might arrange for Mr. Archbold to talk to me'and Mr. Archbold's re ply, as read by Mr. Hearst, says that he would like to talk to me. As a matter of fact Mr. Sibley never, made to me the remotest suggestion of a .conference with Mr. Archbold and I never spoke to Mr.- Archbold In my life about matters pending In Con gress or any other legislative body." LEOPARD KILLS HIS MATTE. FORAKER EXPOSURE AIDS TAFT. y Senator's Friends Deeert Him to Join the ll-ewtdentlal Nominee. Cincinnati Special, Jlst. to Philadel phia Times. Fear of harm in Ohio from expos ure of Senator Foraker's alleged affiliation with the oil trust no long er exists at Taft headquarters here. Letters and telegrams by the dozen have come to the' candidate's offices to-day from former Foraker men, telling of their determination to turn from the Senator and give their alleg iance to Taft and the national ticket. The small following the 8enator had Is steadily going from him, steadily turning to Taft Foraker himself Is stilt determin ed to run for the Senate. He said so last night . He repeated the as sertion to-day. and. while he has been compelled to renounce even the pre tense of affiliation with his party or ganization in Ohio and the country at large, he believes he still has a chance tor re no ml nation to the Senate. He seems unable to appreciate the force of the blow Hearst baa dealt him. But Foraker men-are flocking to Taft, making what seemed a danger to the national ticket a pronounced advantage. . :-V. v; -., Both Kinds Hare the Same Habit Houston Post -'-'? t: , .-' A North Carolina preacher says: "There are too many laty men lying around the house letting their wives support them'f Antl there are some very energetic husbands who lie around the boas entirely too much. Terrifying Fight In Bronx Park Cage Lion Houho in Uproar. Xew Tork Tribune After a desperate fight which lasted for half an hour, and which tho keepers were powerless to stop, Devil, the male leopard in the Bronx Zoological Park, killed his mate. Nig ger, yesterday afternoon. The fight started at 4 o'clock, when the keepers thrust chunks of raw meat through the bars of the cage. Devil devour ed his portion and then tried to take the female leopard's share from her. She snarled and struck at him. Im mediately the two attacked each oth er, and the lions,, tigers, panthers and other Jungle beasts in the lion house roared In frightful chorus and lunged at the bars of the cages. The crowd of visitors rushed from the building and the keepers rushed with long Iron forks to the cage and tried in every way to separate the Infuriated beasts. Both animals were bleeding from claw wounds and bites and were rapidly- weakening. As Nigger staggered back from a vicious attack Devil leaped and sank his fangs' into her throat, killing her Instantly. Deail was driven limolnxly into an adjoining cage, and Dr. W. Reld Blair, the veterinarian cared for him. It will be several weeks befpre he re covers. The pair had lived In the same cage for two years, and aside from minor fights at meal times had never attacked each other. The leopard which was killed was full grown , and considered one of the pest specimens In this country. She was valued at 12,500. Fire From Spontaneous Combustion Destroys Stable Manure. Anderson, 8. C, Mall. This sounds mighty unreasonable, but Mr. W. P. Snelgsovo vouches. for it. He says that a nile of stable manure, which he had" placed on a field near the Orr Mills, became so hot' which caused spontaneous com bustion, that it burned completely to ashes. Mr. Snelgrove says that the manure had been placed In the field some two or three weeks before It was burned; that a rain came before he was able to have it scattered, and that the rain caused the combustion. To' Chester by February 1st. . Cheater, S. C, Reporter. A gentleman who was In Charlotte a few days ago was told by Mr. W. S. Lee, Jr.. of the Southern Power Company, that his company ' would surely get into Chester by February 1st He stated that the towers for the line, which were purchased sev eral weeks sjto, would be shipped shortly, and the work of construct ing the line would commence imme diately thereafter, r ' j .- - American Bark Wrecked, One Hon dred and Tern I4tcs Lost. -. . - Seattle, Wash.. Sept it. A . cable dispatch to 'the. army signal corps confirms the total loss of the Ameri can bark. 6tar of Bengal, on Coro nation Island. , Twenty-eeven persons were saved and 110 drowsed. Includ ing aine whites. . The colorings and styles for the fall season are settled upon and the sooner you make your selections the more likely you are to get just what, you want. Ca tawba and Tanque are the leading shades in all dress -materials, with hat and gloves to match. We have them all in high-class and medium quality Dress Goods 50-inch Chevron Serge, very popular for coat suits, all the leading colors. Price .the yard. . . , ...... ,. . .$1.00 . Broadcloth 50-inch Imported and Domestic Broadcloth rich, per manent lustre. Price the yard $1.00 and $1.50 Novelties New Novelty Dress Goods, Stripes, Plaids, Mixtures and Plain Weaves. Price the yard. . . . .60c. to $150 Silks Imported Bordered, Brocaded Crepe de Chine, evening shades. This special style is confined to Fifth avenue. Price the yard. . . ..... H $2.00 to $5.00 Waist Silks New, crisp line Waist Silks, in patterns only. No two alike. Shades and colorings suitable for street and evening wear. Price the yard 75c, $1.00 and $1.25 Gloves Our complete line of the famous Centemeri Kid Gloves is now on sale, any shade that is being worn, either long or short. Every pair guaranteed for first wear ing when fitted at our counters. Ladies' Furnishings Every day we get something new in Ruchings, Belts, t Belt Tins, rurses, etc., etc. Tnr din and Saucer Sala v,v,v:- HJJ . ; " ' Four rich decorations m th at real thin Jap China. Just j the Cups and Saucers and the shape of the cup", is ' nne. v in sen one lor zoc, or a set oi six for fiJo. If you love pretty China visit this department. ' MMIM MM KM 'mi miiniiniMii
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