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CHAHLOT TE DAILY OBSERVER, FEBRUARY 23, 1909.' Sfjtfl)arloUe0b0mer. Publisher. D. A. TOMP1UXS. EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR tCBbCiUPT10' PRICE: . Pally On year "M Six months . Three month .Mi Scmi-Wcekly One year $: Six months ) Thre month 2 PVBLlsHKKS' AXXOl Ml.MI.vr No. J4 South Tiyon stieet Telephone numbers. Business office lie ime city editor's office lied r'''ie nw editor flire Bait fu. .i.e 14 A subscriber il oirieriug the aduiess f hl paper changeu i I please indi cate the address m whlui n is suing at th time I it- aska for the cnange '.j be made Advertising tales are fumUhfl on Application Adur.Ufr! may ll un that through in- . olumiik of this paper tli may lead, all Charlotte and a portion o! the tx ri people in Lhi State and upper South Carolina Thla paper glcS 01 respondent as wtd latitude as it thlnki public pol icy permit, but u I In no case re sponsible or their views Il 1 much preferred mat lOirespondenta sign their name to ineir articles espeotal ly In cases whaif they attack persona or institution!. ihoaj;!i this Is not de manded The editor reserves the right to grre the name of enrreiipondenta when they are demanded fir the pur pose of personal aai isf h ion To re ceive consideration a communication nun be eocompanied ty the true name of the correspondent- TUESDAY. rBRCAHY 2S. 1909. the tit rx sTEt;i. The leading manufacturers of Iron and tee! have determined to prote. t their customers and, "for the present at least, sell at such prices with re spect to different commodities in or ' der to retain their fair share of the business. " Since this statement wm. , given out last Friday night by Judge ; Oary, ihalrman of the steel trut e board of directors. conjecture has ; been busy. What purpose did th 1 trust have In vlew At first elan . Judge Clary appeared to o, .upv the I atthVude of confessing that even a Dingleylzed billion-dolls r inrporatl..n , could not Indefinitely defy the l.uvs .,f trad and keep prices at an extietna high figure the normal pn plus a graft tariff In lace of .-ia. k de mand. Apparently here was a mud that the artificial conditions whih the trusts and labor organizations have persistently maintained, i.. tin- Indefinite postponement of hurim -a I recovery, must soon reach an end. Commodity prices and wages, at le.isi getting off the basis of hvgone bo io were adjusting themselvea to n. i, .i . ndltlon. the cost of liun; and I lnislni'SB would again as suiij- i '.t-nable prvportiona and the country would take u fresh start to ward prosperity. Hut while some of these excellent results may conceiv ably follow, it, does not appear that the steel trust has surrendered to anything except necessities) arising from Its lack of an absolute monopoly in the American sterl trade. This conveys no implication that the rather hoL-glph artilh ialttles mention ed have altoxether the force of natur al laws. 8uch laws are asserting themsehea lrrelstNdy In several In dustries. and had they passed the steel industry by. the trust's monop oly would still be mitTlciently near "ompl't. !"t all practical purposes. An e..', ihe mighty steel trust has found tr. ib agreements which are ampiv I in.lini; under favorable oiinli tion otter le wn under the force . on'Tiin strain. It appears 'hat ihe indep'-ndents. who control tobom tvvi-ntv .cr i cut. of the ore outpot ,. ,,i forty p r i enl of the fi n Ished prod ti I. have been .shading prices l.i low "...ii- erttiit(e. by the "gentlenoi. fi iitlo lllrllt ' in effi-i't between then: and the trust. In great fear of the nnoister which claims the right to dutute 1 1. 1 1 p. dn les ' at. so- luteiv as S"iT- smai clously to. tat T.i, i hey i iffe t -d i . .. i p alona. Now .1 dye Oiat "for the ! . Sr ! trust !,! je,; .it respect to c.. : li order t.. r- i ,i ! . t. tfiiirn r gra- 1 h i :r . vislenoe. rii in . once i r s n mo iti'-es at least." the h l I u es vv it h u To.i.'M les l:i ..ire th.- ' lr :..l w i v buslnes T of iniicMn d ii sin. : ' ' I v prices. A ; . , : . trust s ii) t . Ihrea'.i h:n: t h !ndepender' ar Whll, J . quite f rat, k tht re at. . ' h I that th.- t b.. . ably mere i. ; : nates n e , ! about a de ic . t c . to wak-:i y . . t.i forts for re ' Perhaps the im miting the ' new, hope ;. . . , Further, ihe an excellent ct o dure the tr ,m s otep mediin-' : Whatever the -. nts. it is not j -public or the o general will be e h 1. ) h. t ; the I'SS S ! ,, ' . 'he greet Of a substantial and las'ing pre. Auction. . , Surely the I'n h i sta'es steel i-..r. poratton is smong all iiri.rai ions least worthy of favors ft -m the rv vtlve branch of gov errimcni l'r- dent Roosevelt must nor haw- ...,r: Jult himself when, moved -v tiie plea that the seneral busimss pan . prevailing at the time wouid oth.r vtiso become uncontrollable, he -pr easily sanctioned a transaction ' more than doubtful legality and p.-r-m'ttetj this gigantic hog to swallow Its only formidable competitor. Good morning! Have nid m. Msjoa "at sight?.' you been A JOB. AXD GEXHXE STUFF. The Lee County Time undertake to put up a Job on The Observer by citing It to a poem. "You Kissed Me," ! the alleged product of Arthur Cope- ! land, the as-yet uncrowned poet lau- jreate of Leo county." It begins I "You kissed me, my head hung low on 1 ur breast " I There ig somelh Ins more about "infinite rest. c"Led up to rhyme with "'"ur breast," hut we have for gotten what it is and it tlof-sn't mak e.ny d 1 (Terence, anyhow, for all we have to any about it Is that Arthur is a humbug and Tin- Lee County Tiroes is a ' hump if it thinks it ran fool us on poetry. Tin ri' is no telling U 1 1 1 i that poem of puppy love is. It is among The Observer's earliest re. ol'i., lions and fid. Joslah Rcece, of The Greensboro Record, once told us that he renvmher-; that it an in i M'ti tnat ne miimorir.eo it ana rei iteu It to a girl. Awa with family af hike.' 'hlckfty' (htckety . . , . split ami hookev' to 'run away,' 'play It and hear from the ,. , ,, ,,: motion Hills of Dan. The following citation la from the v llle Hev lew . lumns of The Ids- TUE LOST RRAW.KR He used io be so h.ippy When h. teached a certain plaie; He talked gieut and ar.api''. Hut not be dare riol '. 1 I- fai . Oh renien,ber, rn dear fi.ei,.) Oh listen and see if u i, i- ., lie, He said ao and "aid in f.i'i He would do as he .. ., -1 nil he died la this a he m Is it 1 1 ,o I Watll 01 all 1" h"! f"lfcM He wishes l,at h s hi. w. Ihrough. K"r r Ibul Frld,. s ialn he will forget. He was left and looked for In vain, p if mm f.'e-er.ee eouid not be seen. For so Ii a l"t.g walk tnrnugh the rain. H. je wot r.. .ok so thin. 1 lie is warned liv :i fnend vfiv soon. J n.1 o' t . - f ii i in I he fu ui e ! H ).e h r fHl as a chap In a ijebion J And keens .i). his I and-onie feature. He . d br-ia riios! all Hie time Viri 'ou; ie made noise like a coon; From him you never heard a whlDe, I F..r his cad luck was on the full of the m on I He ajwjys had something lo (ell. And l e as happy and gay I m s. u iv to say how loud he eould yell. Rut he lost oul one rainy day. Oh when lie you should pass. t ii mok at him and kindly smile. And look ai him as If he waa the last. For h walked through rain live mllea In the basemen! he dug like a nigger, And his friends said lie was lame He told them that he could yet dig to and fro. Hut lie did not like to go home through the Friday's tain TAU1AOK POWELb N'anee N C T h It., we confess, la a little obscure, but otherwise all right. If we follow the nightingale he ilngs of a gentle man who was in the habit of vaporing around a good ileal and running great big bluffs on the public, but one day K'ot caught In -the rain and lost out and since thrn has roosled on a low limb. We cannot qulfe approve of Mr. I'owella effort to make "sean" rhyme with thin" or "friend" with rain," this is too violent. II Is taking undue ailvatatage of poetic II. ense, but there is nothing 'be matter .with "coon" and "moon." or with "tell" and "veil ' or If there were every thing Is to be forgiven to Mr. J' ell for going after and bringing clown jduced u serum which promises to be a nameless but undesn H hie .itlzen :ninost a spec illc for pneumonia In Its who has been vexing Isiael. Oarlier stages. All the disease-bugs Come we now to th.- .ase of Mr. will some day be poisoned like the un Ernest Durham, of Manndale, N. C , welcome guests they are, as soon as who. w e are prepared to state upon j microscopic or other tests reveal the authority of The I'hapel Hill j their presence. We can see their fin News, is a "son of Mr. .1. Manly Dur- ; 1. 1, ),,,t ft fw centuries removed. ham. In Antlo. h church neighbor hood," and who loin lies bis harp to a strain more subdued He is evident ly writing the lat nlnht of th. old year and his song is neither mirthful nor reprohatory but admonitory. The llieme I THE OLD AND THE N'F.W What cauM- can he given of ihe change lo-nigot. As the clink Is striking; the midnight hour ? For human voices can he Ueard as m a flight. And th.- linging of bells In every tower Is It possible that o'er us a year has el Lied. Since last we heard this alarm? How time flies! Hut still we are guided Hy Cod a own strong arm. Many deeds have been don which men are regretting. And mane have lieen faithful and true. Yet thev may stand till the sun' last 1 1 1 n ii As pro. f to the work which we do. Many a home may have been filled with sadne.-s Hy lie providential loss of a friend. Hut cheer ap. ami in turn reap gladness. F"i not long and we may all ascend. Ms' t has now passed from mid-hour to a deeper shade. Start an- twinkling seemingly far and n a I he acc nipllacments oi res aie an maim, VVIo.t betterment shall we make in the i n -.ling y eal " -oine are making their great . -i fit.. 1 1 T . ., . the future with a stilfe. , , ,..,.(, i In the end with a clear rert, fie. ;. bivmiae of life ei some may still lw ungiateful. continue lo-morrow In their same fill way: s,. . ..ii t.. the cm. ii. now awiui t o t : i te t linr. on that celestial . t-n ! f ie.1 into His fold. an )ov unbounded forev-er. I he hui led into sorrows is will rn cease to flow, no I n t- !e vol e we who yet :i u. i.. t,,e lard of bliss, i HN oo 'lasting arm w hich e -mf'irt and happiness F Ft N EST L'CRHAM N C vv : nd i h .Him is unexceptionable; i .ad.;, e beyond .rlticism. This is ii p em .o what President Roosevelt wojld i. ill uplift." H is full of wise a . o . .r, it . ns, one of the most val- 1 wiide .f which is that while we may i'ufti r s-adn.ss by the providential ! loss of a friend." still, nevertheless and notw ithstanding, we ought to lliieer Ufl. We salute Rockingham and Orange and give hail and good day to Messrs. Powell, of Naace. and Durham. Of, Mannville, both of whom have the aa ursnce of our distinguished consider-aton. THE AOflSH DCTCII AXD TIIIXOS. The New York ' Sun maintain a tolld allenc a to tba chinkapin, but reinforced by it Aumlsh Dutch, re turn to the charge on "running a good hickory." Garruloua, Imagina tive and Ineffectual as It is, It Is never theless entitled to its day In court, and we quote: "The Missouri synonym, it Is said. is 'going a good hickory. The amount f Drc-sumuttui. in the explanation is noticeable. Apparently, the origin of; the phrase being unknown, the Vus- j t m' lias been invented to explain it. The process i f imillar. (ioln or running a good hi' kry,' means go- ing faat, or running well. How did It get the meaning? Knter the Aumlsh Dutch" adjective 'hickory' in the mean- trig of 'dissipated.' 'fast.' Knter run- tiers. Knter a hickory switch.' Full ixpianation made while you wait. "Now 1,1. kory.' It uocd In the de- rived .sense of fast' (dissipated) seems a variant of hK key. 'trunk, . f USI'U 1 1 1 lU'-T lilipir srimc .i jnfi, n if 1 i leariv or hip same iiiioih u oobcuic , .mi-'.h!ng very unlikely to expect .frorn eithir the Aumlsh or the Beam- I ' Ish Dutch. 'To run hickory' equals j to run hlrkety,' fast and hard. The j origin being lost, the amateur phllol- ogers get busy." All of which, being entirely unintel ligible, answers the purpose of many another like argument. There Is noth- Ing comparable to It In all literature I excepting the learned discourse of the benevolent-looking parson at the county fair who by his erudition hyp notized Moses, the son of the Vicar of Wakeheld. and did him up handily. The dun proposition, like Ihe par son's discourse, meaning nothing whatever, and beln therefore Incon lro ertlble. It can afford lo take on an angelic smile, beam complacently, and bid us brln in another horse. Ami yet. not h vvii hsl andmg its odious purpose 4o deceive and confuse, we are minded to admit The Sun again to our affections for Its generous ad mission thai The Observer "has bath ed oftener and deeper In the well heads of Tar Heel song ' than any other has. and for i opylng "A Narrow Kscape" in full and giving to It Its un qualllied approbation. Despite the hn kory. Ihe hlckety-split and Ihe Aumish Dutch we may be friendly yet, you bet. "Hefoie we come forward.' that Is. any faitber forward than we are. and we are .glit up on the firing line and got theie tirat, we should like to know where The Charlotte observer stands and what It la going to Jo We Cleveland Democrats oi'ght to Rel together Kesidea. while we have consented io allow the Elder to write poetry, we must Insist that lie ru.ght not to wrltj communications to his paper and sign litem wild fictitious name;; -Charleston News and Courier Th Observer "stands" pat. As to "what It la going to do." sufTlcient unto ihe day Is the evil thereof. Further, it is one Cleveland Democrat who Is always "together. ' It some times xets demoralized but never scattered. The last "Icloua sentence of Ihe above quotation It passes over with the silent scorn It deserves. Sir A. K. Wiluht. a noted English pathologist, who, vvo be-lleve. was Joint discoverer of the new- tvphoid j fever anti toxin, has. aided by Dr. I Timothy I.eary, of Tufts College, pro- Representative Landis, of Indiana, has Introduced a hill to appropriale i.'.'iii.OOO for a summer presidential residence on the military reservation at West Point. Thla bill should un questionably he so amended, striking out all conflicting words, as to read somewhere within the Slate of North Carolina." This grand old Com monwealth has mountains, sea coast and all sorts of things, Including one of the hottest towns north of the bad place, bi t vv een. Those who expect the Legislature to rush through an extraordinarily large mass f business In its closing days may encounter disappointment. True, there Is the pressure of time, but then It must be considered that the latter half of a session has many more debaters than the first. A full core of new members who would not trust themselvea to speak have now leArned the art and are to be heard on every occasion possible. It appears from a Washington press dispatch that recent naval experi ments make a very poor showing for wireless telephony In Its present state of development. We hope wireless telephony, which, unlike wireless te legraphy, requires no experience, will soon attain usefulness, so tnat we can all have the chance to become heroea. " First In pesce. first In war. end first In the hearts of his const ryrrven.' Wasn't thin stealing North Carolina's thunder" Norfolk landmark It merely goes to show that the ! mortal Heorge waa among American patriots what North farolina ha been among American States. We are happy to not that the good ship North Carolina fell In with the battleship fleet and headed with it for Hampton Roads. The fitness of things requires that a ship ao named should head In first. "One regretsble fsct that the com munication which bears a "nom it plume' carries but tittle weight." Ahe vtlle Cunen Same way with a good marly of th other kind. Perhaps President Roooevelt thlnka he is ex-offlclo right in every position he takes. j MuMlerer I lobs Officers anal Escape"- Bristol. Tenn.. Feb. tl After hav ing been brought across the continent from Oregon, V. H. Mend, wanted In Scott county. Virginia, for murder, mad a daring cocapa et an early hour this morning from two offleeni at Appalachla. Vs., after robbing them of their money, gun and watch. DEEEXSE WELL PLEASED (Continued from Fag One.) i. ,:'' desperately: but ' the . eourt ruled against them. Coming to the point where the Coopers were approaching Car mack Just before the shooting the State asked: "And did not your father ay: 'There' the d d rascal now; we will go out and shoot it out with i mm . "No. ir,' be did not. He . said; There a Senator Car mack; I want to . lallr to mm. 'Will you say what Senator mack was doing with that pistol the time you saw him draw it until j you got in his line of tiro?" ; He was holding it behind Mrs. ! Kaatman ready to shoot.'" .-Bllt hl. did not gnoot untu you g0t i around the pole, did he?" j ..Xo glr .. He ga,d the Bt(,D from n,a 8(,arf p!n waa bwn out by the , tonrujon from Senator CarmaelfS j rpvuv "What was Kenator Carmack doing when you began to fire?" "Hi was aiming his revolver direct ly at me " "There had been no unpleasantness nnd you did not draw your revolver until you were shot?" T did not. I was h0t before I opened tire." Was he standing erect at the last shot ?'' "1 cant say, he may have been falling.'" Hobin showed the Jury the Scar made by the wound In his ahoulder. "Is not the wound or course of the bullet distinctly upward?" asked (ieneral Mc'Jarn. Apparently." fHITIClSED CAR MACK'S POLITI CAL COl'HSE. "Did you. in the spring of 1 908, to Attorney People, denounce Senator Carmack with profane oaths and bit ter language?" T did not not ue profane or bitter language I may have criticised the Senator's political course." "Didn't you use the expreBHlnn ii d d m Senator Carmack?' " "No, lr, I did not " "Did you use that langauge about Senator farmack In his senatorial contest with Governor Taylor?" "No, sir, for I was a warm suppoprt er of Senator Carmack In that race." The Attorney General foundered minute at this stage and then went back to the time of the shooting "As the Senator drew hi revolver," Robin testified. "I moved In and the Eastmans moved over tqwards the Inside of the walk." The counsel for the State consulted110 hop of his recovery. He leaves a moment and then to the surprise of everyone the Attorney Qeneral ?al(1 That Is alii your honor " Judge Anderson re-examined the witness briefly. "I desire to make a statement," said Robin "On cross-examination I was asked 'If I waa armed when I I talked to Governor Patterson I was but want to say that the Governor did not know It." SHARP CALLED. He was then excused and John D. Sharp, another of the defendants, was called to the atand. He was ques tioned hy General Meeks. Sharp Is a tall, athletic, dark man of middle age, hair sprinkled with gray, and piercing black eyes He said he had been con stable three terms, sheriff two terms and Representative one term. He said he was away from Nashville for two days' preceding the shooting, hav ing gone lo St liouls at the request of Oovernor Patterson to get the latter a son who had enlisted in the army. Sharp said that being tired from this trip he slept until nearly 11 a. m. the day of the shooting He did not see the Coopers tltf morning preced ing the shooting nor the night before, and had not communicated with either or them the night before or that morning. "I saw Colonel Coop er In the Maxwell house about S p m. that day," Sharp testified. "I spoke and passed on." "About 4 p. m. I met Representa tive Matthews. While there talking the Coopers came up." "Was there any agreement to meet there?" "There was not.'" "What happened?'' "Colonel Cooper asked me to go to the liovernor s mansion and I agreed. We walked." Sharp said Cat mack's nam was not mentioned un the walk until Robin saw Carmack, and that then Robin tried to get his father away. Sharp said that he then turneu and walked toward his own house . When about half way across the street, he said, he turned and looked down the street. "Why did you look down the street?" DESCRIBES SHOOTING. "Well many things came to my mind. I knew there was an unpleasant feeling between Colonel Cooper and Senator Cat mack. His aon Robin bad betrayed ahxlety to get his father away. I turned to see what might be the result of the meeting. I saw five people. Robin was In the street. I saw the Senator step out towards the curbing, his hand thrown back to his hip pocket. When he got In my line of vision again outside the pole I saw he had a pistol In his hand. As Robin got near the pole Senator Car mack fired. Carmack shot twice." "What did Robin do?" "He jumped Inside and swung around the pole." "What did lie do?" "He shot three times." "What then?" "Carmack fell after the third shot." "Where was Colonel Cooper?" "Standing near the pole." "Did you meet a young lady?" "T met Mis Bkefflngton a few minutes after the shooting, srie sain: wnat is that?" I said 'Shooting ' Phe said. 'Who Is shoaling?" I said 'Between Colonel Cooper and Carmack ' A minute later she said: 'Mr. Sharp you are Jesting? I said 'No I am not and I fear Ur. Car mack has been killed.' " WAS I NARMED. Sharp said he was do( armed that day and does not own a pistol. Did you- bear Senator Carmack any malice 7" 'None, sir. but I opposed him very strongly la hi campaign." Were you friendly . Personally, yes. He called me John whsn we met and oftea consulted m about train schedules on political trips." After-the noon recee the direct exami nation of John D. Sharp was resumed. Th witness denied apeclftcatiy ever hav ing u id that caroaaca aoojaia nave Been dead and In hell for yeare. He had probaSTy said some hard things about th Senator political methods. Take th wltnees," said General Meek. V -- . Oeneral Garner's first aueetion else It en that Sharp and th Coopers were do friend. Th witness declared he never w the revolver Room Cooper used un til th boy waa shooting It and had DO knnwltdg of' Robtn Cooper or Robin Jones wanting to borrow a gun. Toe 8tt theory is that the automatic; r relver is John gaarp" and three time It baa had the number on the gun entered. in too record ., . .::-.. .;,,. Sharp, said ha went Oht In tha camoabra for Oovernor Patterson sod had done a. great deal of work for him. He said A never had any private conversation with Carmack and sever heard htm discuss the Cooparai 1 '; '. .. t "If the Cooper and yon had kept on North street there would have been no killing at the telephone pole?" -- "Not' at th pole, no, air." ; ' FEARED TROUBLE. . ' ',, "Tou fait . so apprehensive of trouble that you broke your promise to go with Colonel Cooper to the Oovrnor'i mansion and started borne?" "Well, yes." The defendant fought oft the ques tion but General Garner pounded them and repeated them half a doaen times. "Those shot were nred very rapidly were they not?", "Yes, close together." "So the shots went Into Carmack all at once before b fell?" "No. afler ihe first ahoV Cafnjack turned his head around and began to fail." "You saw It all? You saw Carmack1 dead and the son of your beat friend shot and you went on home?" "I started home. I intended to tell my wife what had happened and return to the scene." "Here Is Senator Carmack' revolver, the one found near his body. It Is a dark pistol et you say on that cloudy day, you saw this pistol at that distance?" "I did." "And you saw Robin's pistol also, a dark one?" "i did." The witness was closely pressed, too, about his conversation with Miss Ekef flnston. He denied very emphatically that he had used the language attributed to him by her, that Is. "That is Dune Cooper shooting Carmack." He admitted that he had not turned back to the cene of the killing until he had met Mis Hkefflngton. He next went around ijown town and stopped at a number of places He denied that he did this to establish an alibi The State declared at thin Juncture that It proposed to take up the cross-examination on a new line and that as the hour was late, It would be better to adjourn until 9 a m to-morrow. The court so ordered. THE DEATH RECORD. R A. Safrit. of Salisbury. Special to The Observer. Salisbury. Feb. 22 Another Con federate veteran died last night when Mr. R. A. Safrit. aged 66. answered i the summons. He was paralylzed last Friday and from the first there was a wife and ten cnnaren I ne iunerai will be from St. Paul's church to-morrow morning at 11 o'clock. John A. Prltctielt, of Greensboro. Speetnl to The Or server. Greensboro, Feb- 22. Mr. John A. Prltchett. Oreensboro' oldest native inhabitant, died this morning at the home of his son, Mr. Oeorge W. j prltj-hett on Aheboro atreet. aged a little over 2 year and nix month. He had been in feeble health for several year and last Thursday morn ing suffered a stroke of paralysis, and It was then seen that the end was near. The funeral will be held from the residence to-morrow morning 'at 10;30 o'clock, the service to be con ducted by Rev. M A. Smltri. pastor of Centenary Methodist church, of which the deceased w as a member. The burial will be with Masonic honors Mr. Prltchett was born in Gree. J boro August 8th, 1826. and spent his entire life here- He was a Justice of the peace for 43 year, and during all j that stretch of time was detained from j his office only one day. Failing health forced" him to give up the office several '. year ago. He was ever Interested in affairs affecting the welfare of the community and, a number of year ago, represented Guilford county in th Legislature for two terms. fciquire Prltchett la survived hy his ased widow, two sons and two daugh ters THAT MEETING TO-NIGHT. Gathering of Cltiirns to Make Fur ther Attack on Charter and Ap point a Delegation to Raleigh. Circular containing invitations to the public meeting of cltlien In the court house to-night have been dis tributed plenteously over the city and It Is likely that a large aggrega tion will be on hand to make merry while the new charter la being dis sected by the chief opponents. The leading purp,oe of the meeting Is to appoint an official delegation to go to Raleigh to make baltle In the legislative halls and keep the new charter from going through. If pos sible. It is understood that the five alder men who are Irrevocably opposed to the election of the mayor by a board of aldermen will Join hands with the opposing citizen and forward a minority report to the Representa tives from thla county, perhaps, going In person, ome of them, to make war. The chief of these la Col T. L. Klrkpatrlck, who announced at the late ratification meeting that he pro posed to use hi influence, as far as possible toward downing the proposi tion. Car Lond of Maxwell's. The Southern Automobile Company yeterday received a solid car load of Maxwell car to supply the local de mand. Tnl la one of the most ub- star.tla agencies held by this company and already a number of the car hve been sold- Within the past few days the Southern Automobile Com pany haa sold more than a half dozen of the eoveral cars for which It holds the agency in this territory. The Martha Washington reception given last night at the residence of Mr. M. C. 8im, No. I0J South Tryon treet, proved extremely enjoyable. Given under th auspice of the Janu ary and ebruary Circles of th Church Improvement Society of Tryon Street Methodist church for the purpose of raising money .for church Improve ment purpose it waa successful fin ancially also. A silver offering, with a minimum of IS cents, waa charged and the Martha Washington' at th door took in In this fashion, a gen erous mm. Orsdoua dame .- and charming damsels in th moet attrac tive of costumes, did the honors. TWO TRAVELERS. 6. E. Klser. ia Chicago Record-Herald. H traveled far through many land, He beard th Adriatic roar; H waihed oa Egypt' burning sands Aad stood where Caesar stood of yore; H viewed tlW .pyramids and sphinx.. 'And when at las be had .pome bom H oaly talked about the drink They served In Cairo and in Rom, Sh found her war to Ispahan. She spent week la far Bombay, Aad harried onward through Japan Aad paused at lielbourn for m day, And. having reached feer native shore. Her only subject. Brat sjtd last, Conoeriied tha clothe th "women wore f .Within tho realm through which ho ' 9ad. ' - , iM f II I isj M M H II I mmtlUM MtKHUI t4M Ml Mil il y i ,, : ;,..".-,;VJ:V A. SPEC E HADES' MISTS Our buyers sent to-day by express 85 beautiful net waists- writing us that a manufacturer needing money closed out this lot at just half price They consist of Black, Cream, some are button have insertion and pointed sleeves If you wondered at our bargains of last week you may marvel at this lot .On sale Tuesday and as long as at the remarkably low $298 and $349 Also one lot of tailored linene waists colored striped fronts with collars and cuffs to match, a spec ial bargain at 89 i The Special Suit Sale Con Don't overlook our attractive lace and embroidery counters. r - JTTVWTfVTrf eu i ..,, i. iijiiiweH v.-.-. .i. Ecru and trimmed, White, others lace with tucked they last price of cents each Coat t pes f-
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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