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4 CHARLOTTE DAILY OBSERVER, MARCH 11909. Wjt$afttitttBbttott. J, JJ CALX-WELL, 1 D. A. TOMPKINS. I Publisher. EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR SUBSCRIPTION riUCE: Daily One year Six month Three mouths fcemJ-Weekly P '10 4.X' fhr.A var 11. "J tax month month PrBLISli-fclKf A . Ol'M'tMtN 1 No. 3 Soutn Trjon street. Telephone numbers Business -..ce, Bell 'pi.cne 7. liy editor. v!tic. '.--a pnope i. news editor. oTi.-. He.l ;aiu:.e A ui)scrit,r it ji del ins tr.e audi ess of bl P.rr ctiai.ged please indi es; lli udif.- i which it 1 going at tli time ut asks f i toe cnange u be lftftde Advertising rates are furnished on application Advertlaeis may r 3i ur that through ti.e mumni of this pawr they may react. ml Cl.ai lotto and a portion ot the best pevpie In this 8ut ar.d tapper So -air. 'si !'" ThU paper givrs ci iwifni'iiU a wide latitude n it thinks p-.ti.b pol icy permit!- but it is. 'n w " ponltiie (tr tr.eir H H much preferred thai wi ret -.onoen' si-." their names th. ir at . Vs.. .-peei.il-ly lo cases wi.oe c - uoa k p. isji.s or Initltution. t. ..:!. :.! I' no' l'e mended The ert.r.-.r r-se'vs 'lie i:gt to give the r.:ii' ' 1 "rie'P1 nder.is when they arc de n,.-.i.ded for the par pose of perion.o s;iOori n To re ceive ci.risiilei.ctior. a .-uinmunl' a'.mn must be ruiiidnle.1 hy the true name of the correi.;. -ndent- MOM V, MARCH 1, ! A UWOItU Of SE E.NTEKN VKAItS. It la )ut seventeen years since Caldwell & Tompkins I. ought and took charge of The Olic rve r. It v.a then The Charlotte ''hrnnlole but this u hanxci a few months Uf r to its present name. It is nut of the lina of Trie Charlotte observer of c., Chad. fi. Jones, and others, as many ...... r..... tr.w 1 1. . t r :.-....- tuurif.nl. 11 i ed oeveral years triors 1 S -. wneu i Caldwell & Tuinrkins took this one. At thl period ( 1 a i 2 ) The Charlotte j Chronicle was a morning paper of , four pases, mix iiilnmn to the page. The Observer, Its succestoi. is of j varylnn nunilifr or ag ten ir twolve during the VMk im.l twenty to twenij Mx sunilayo. with en col umns to the pug'--. The i ir. illation then was 1.10. the dully averase now Is V, SIS Its paper hill then was $1,600 per year, it is now $16.:')0. The rr.ei hani . 'il j.ttv t .11 Ih.-n was $H5 per week. It is now ti'Jl rii salai Hat then called ..r $T5 i"-r w.o-k. now for J 373. Il hid then carriers Ibe. now eiKht. It orcu.ied floor space then. J "DO square foet. now 14,t:5. Jt w ..-I t..y hand then. ! six Iir.o t., i . ii ,. hirics now. with oio- held In l'e. i Then It was printed on a or ... uniler lln i -be d ltaix-oi k press at 2.0iu lntpi esuioiis an hour, print two pases and turn; now on a Hoe pc-rf wtlliK Bt-reotyplnn jiress. capable of sixteen pair'-s at one impression, printed, anU folded. Ht lt'.cio, an hour, or sight puB""1 at "o.uoo an hour. 'I lo telegraph t' Us n . rased then Jill 1 er week; now 1-10. Iti p. ! lo!l then watt J 7 per week, now it is Si3 It then rented cjaartors ..n U'-st Tiad: street; th- Mine car the present management to,.k charxe it bought the building it now cnpies on Houth Tryon and lot. r a ided a story to It. erecti.-iK at the t,u:e of the panhase 4 tx-story iiK lijiiii al huildlnj 1m ' meliao lv in rear of and of ourse connected with the pp.peMy with the Tryon strep; troiitaife. Ten yeais ago It buii'iif a dall i-apr In fad; 'here tofore it had appeal. ! l.ut six da s In the neel. It carries more 1 . 1 1 ana loiein aooio: inn. ..... er r.nn.r In the Ht.it. and St H '.:;lv r rate, and col lei is n.ore money from j Its subs' rlj. t p.ii l..-t a. id sal.s than , any other. A go...l d..il m oe (-il'1 be ald hue this review villi p Interest few people. exe phng paper men. aryhow. new s - The nublic has been rood to i I.. Observer hut it would en'oy nooe public favor, irculation i.n.1 Iiif 1 nca except that It has nd been aide to pursue j.opular political policies. This has been i.nf ot t .mate for It In financial and other wan but could not be helped. "" his never known how to adapt lis cour- to i hanging winds and thus hat. alwavs 1 eeti In the mi nority. This lad h.is t.evci worried it except In no i. r as it i never agree able to be rnif'-cigel. tu have o-c t motives impuyi.el. to t-e under .-jc;'; Clon of something wrong and th .s lack friends wh"tn one imiiht other wise have. When the Populist par ty was i rgaioz. il it . ;bl r.ot statu: for Democrat!. -Hop j'.ist f..t i-m on the State tirket. nor :: S : for p. in . eratic-PopulIM fus.un en tio i...ti.,na! ticket Br'3n and Watson, the last named the ,,rg:a I'.-pnlut. I-.t.t i supported the Democratic candidate for elector In 1900 It could not sup port Mr. lit an and free .lv. r again, for that veor he added ant 1 - imperial -Ism to free tdHer as one of hi, let- .. abandonment of the 1 islands and the 1 "1 A met sens there to 'heir fate, a pp:ne 1 1 it I -: th: country had taken charge tioo-e i tnade Itself responsible- a th.t.g whi.h w have ever held it h .Id nev.-r have done. Last year Mr. Bryan abandoned both of these issues and The Observer found enough ground .O stand upon to support him though it frankly Mid at the outset that it bad no heart In the contest In State matteri the paper has stayed as close to the Democratic party as It has been permitted t". It could not go with Cba Pfrty in the prohibition elect -n fast year, because broadly peki g tt is an anti-prohibitionist and locally local optionist The paper's political record la sup posed by many to be variegated. It as been absolutely consistent with Itself and with the highest Democratic standards, It has never supported a r.epubllrasi earnJIdate for any offlee and lta editor hn aorer voted for k Republican. lxoklnf back over these seventeen years, some of them of storm and shadow. The Observer has neer taken a position on any mat ter of political principle or Important policy which it regrets or which It would reverse If all these things were to go over. It doe not regret, though Its heart has been often pained and it hiiS suffered In its finances except for this; that In 1S36, when it had no to ket at all, that it did not support the J'almer and Buckner sound mon ey Democratic ticket. W'e had no idea at the outset of rj.i.:i.i; ir.io all ..f this hut as long as e are at it H may as well he added that not w it hsta nd In K what miht he been, the paper has prospered In a way. otherwise It could not be the enormously expensive institution It Is to-day. This expense Is jutstitied i I.i receipts, all of which go hack Into : tho paper for Its betterment. The giouth of Its circulation has ne.er j been rapid lul nearly alwa; reason I at ly uteady. It has never suffered but 'one r' es.-'.on, that In 1 96. hen it lost about one hjndred subscribers in .-on.qiience of its haying bolted ; ftryan The. people have pardoned j to it much with which they did not agree ih.i because it has been to t them a paper which meets their de ! tmiiul lor news, as complete a service ' as conditions admit of and an accu i rately presented an possible. It Is minded to Bay here that, apart from -1 ita mere value as a newspupor, The Observer, whether they believe It or not, has never wavered In Its fidelity to them, has, in every position It has fver taken, considered their In terests before Its own, and has never had an axe to grind. To public ap preciation of what Mrtueu It has and to that charity of the people which suffereth long and is kind. It Is in debted for Its ability to meet Its bills, to enjoy a fine equipment and to have around It In Its little hive. In all departments, a capable, enthusiastic. inUu.tnous oody of workers, who know their duties and do them and I are happy In their w ork one of the j first requisites to good service. There has been a transformation In the paper In seventeen years. It j pauses to drop a tear to those who i have fallen on the field and girds up Ita loin for the race jet before It. If the people continue good to It and if tho number of Its patrons contin ues to Increase untb It shall hnve say In. 000 subscribers 'nstead of 1O.000. It will. If (5od continues merciful and things go wll. show them, after awhlh, a newspaper which will really be worth their time, for while it has a suffbiently good opinion of Itself now and is sure that it hn.s lived up to the full measure of Its oppor tunities, the men who make it are ripially sure that they have not dem mstrated all they know ahn.it the newspaper busiro hs and would like to np able to prove It. Pat don, masters! Seventeen years is a loot; time In the liiu of a news paper and The (in server, as will ap pear from a glum.- t the length of this article, has fallen Into the gar rulity of old a. lie. HEIIKIN K 1M) ST NOT AT ALL,. The WaMuiiuton Herald and The Hi. him. nd .N. vvs header are so ab surd as to shout at The observer In chorus th it John Sevier "not only was not birti In North Catollna but si 1 iluin went there when he eoul 1 help It." (if course we never said that General Sevier was born In North Carolina, we said, in reply to the Tennessee claln. upon Andrew Jack son : s beliij. 111 ai ilon and achieve ment a Tonnes-iean though a North Carolinian bom. that in aition ac 1 achievement John J-Vwer vv as no lens a North Carolinian. Mis life as fron tier soldier and statesman was lived 011 North i"ari.lin:i soil and Hmong men of whom neaily all had been 1 i.nrn within .North Carolina s present I t.o-ders lb-cause he found himself Excessively remote from the State j . apital. he reluctantly under th'i 1 pressure not only of circumstances ,n;t of his associates as welllet n Mrong loyalty to the old State give civ. He became he father of the Slate of Kranklin and, ultimately, with North Carolina' full and free . .insert, fathe- of he State of Ten nessee. And lieie w e are reminded t.. say th.Miiih. wl'h the past year's history before n. r.-t at all boastful ly that the hole S-ate of TontlPS i.( was born in North I'arolt-.a. The Nashville American s.iys of Judge J. M. Dickinson, who Is to be President Taft'n Secretary of War, that he has alw ays b-en a Democrat, and. as his friends know, did not vde for Mr. P.oo.seveli nor for Judge Ta.'t " It Is equally well known that lie did not vote for Mr. Bryan, eith er Mr. Ftutiklin McVeagli. of Chi a so. who is to go Into the new cab. net as Se-rotary of th- Treasury. Is another K ntlen. in vv ho controls his own vote. He had been a Republican b.:t leant- a Democrat in 1 S 92 w hen Cleve iai.d wi-s nominated the tecond time and was the Democratic candidate fcr I'mted S'ites Senator In 18?4 and canvassed the S'ate but was defeated. IU r.-ait when Col Bryan took charge :n : ar.d has been a Republican sirn e. Happily, there chances of par y do not injure a man In the North and West. How different In the South! For the price-rf one torpedo boat Congress can assure the country that its naval a.id military service will keep up with foreign countries in re gard to the already Important and contn(!y more important Item Of aeroplanes and dirigible balloons. But Congres practically contents It self with awarding the Wright broth ers medals. The Wrights and our other pioneers of the air have to go abroad for financial support. It is sn unfortunate case of deficient enlightenment. AH JEOpNOMIC " EVOLrCTIOX. South Carolina wtli doubtless be better off without Its lien law. It will certainly be better off when It gets rid of the customs which the lien law has fostered. For many years the generality of South Carolina mer chants dul business practically on a loan basiB. They furnished the far mer with his supplies, necessarily at swollen prices, taking in return liens on anything or everything he had. They virtually owned him. Under this .ystern the farmer living on his own land often fared no better than If he had been a mere cropper. He occu pied an economic status scarcely dis tinguishable from that of the Missis sippi or Alabama negro tenant who raises nearly the whole cotton crop of those States without seeing five dol lar from one year' end to another. Of course ths system had It origin In his dire poverty and lack of actual money, but no syntem making more powerfully for continued strait could easily be 'm.iglned. Jt was rulnou to the farmer without really benefiting the merchant, upor whom the far mer's troubles Inevitably reacted. Gradually deliverance came, not through the various wild scheme agi tated In the politics of South Carolina and the .'-oath at large but through Southern Industrial development. The factory w aa instrumental In procuring much better prices for cotton, tobacco and timber than could otherwise have been obtained and also In making a market at good or high price for per ishable products which had hitherto gone almost begging. It constantly turned the farmer's competitors into his customers, at once regulating the supply and Indefinitely increasing the demand. 60 even the most luckless farmer came to know what actual money in iuantlty looked like. The heavily en ridden Houth Caro lina fanner progressed toward deliv erance along with the rest, though at an exceptionally slow rate For 'ert years pu.st II ha been lnct ai.trig ly possible for merchants to open up In a South t'arolina county seat where not long before a few older-established houses had the whole county tied up with them and do profitable busi ness on business lues. The lien prac tice, nlwa.vs productive of mora evil than good, has happily become an anachronism and departs accordingly. lMltSMIH,F. TO KiNORF THK (.IIKAT. The rjreensboi.j Keoord savs "the papers that so sttongly oppose Mr. Hivmi are doln-? more to keep him I of. .re the public than any others. At every opportunity they lamba.st him and thus arouse his friends. The best way t- relegate a man to the rear is to let him alone -ignore him. If you please." Tills Is. of course, Intended for The (ibserv-r. which, without more definite designation than "the papers," "some papers" or "certain papers," was honored with two or three other lectures of the same sort j last week. This Is hot new. It was i heard often In ihe happy clavs when .Mr. Marion Hutl'r ran North Caro lina dniiote him." "don't mention his nam-." etc hut how to run a newspuper and Ignore a United States Senator w ho controlled the State and had more than half the people in his train was something we were never able to find out The problem re asserts itself. Here is Mr. Wm J Hrvan. the leader "nd master of the Democratic party, the most popula man In it. the only candidate for Its nomination for President in 1912 and (ts prospe tlve nominee, and we are told that the way to relegate him to the rear Is to lunore him. Ignore the man who Is to be inaugurated Presi dent four pari from next Thursday and who In the meantime is to forniu- date more gov ern mental policies and oiitribut. more to the miscellaneous dm than anv fifty other men In 'he nat.on? Nd if we know ouiselvVs. not until The Observer abdicates as a riewspiij'oi. It did as much as any other newspaper in keeping Mr But ler before the public" aa long as he was u'jr most popular man and the people Insisted on hearing ubout him daily. Shall we do less for Mr. Bry an and his admirers? Nay. nay, Pau line .Notoriety is the breath of his nostrils and we shull contribute our share of the- free advertising. The country over, there has been marked decrease In popularity of corporation-baiting for the baiting s own sake as distinguished from rational and proper control. Especially has the feeling toward railroads changed Even In Texas, we learn from The Houston Post, there U great change in feeling. because "development has suffered serious Impairment " There are some victories in legislation which, for the people, are worse than defeats. It Is pleasing to think that safety and sanity witt rule th lav for awhile now. Some of our contemporaries, par ticularly The Lynchburg News, do not think that In appointing Judge Jacob M. Dickinson, of Tennessee, as his Secretary of War Mr. Taft showed a really liberal spirit. They point out that Judge Dickinson, like General Luke E Wright, has never been a Brysnite and X the last election vot d for Taft, which tatement is in correct. But under what earthly obligation wu Mr. Tsft to appoint any manner of Democrat, especially a Democrat from the States of the Inner arvd 64H solid South? - For once we line up with Oldio Cannon. The reference I to the bout in the. House Saturday. Happily that pesUiVroua phonograph. John Wesley Gaines, of Tennessee, was defeated for re-election last fall and will retire from public view next Wednesday. The rope Indisposed. prm f-eb ;n The Indisposition of h Pope continues. The attending physicians expect that hi holiness will "be entirely recovered In a few days 1 . . . ' MODEB3T yoiTRT. Pro-test Against Aseomption It Is on the Decline. Current Literature. When other topics fall magazine writers invariably resort to the de cline of poetry. A lady writing tn Tho Bookman asserts: "Writers of verse are left, but let us accept the fact that this is a mechanical and commercial age. and hot eek to re place Tennyson and Lowell by writers plainly unworthy to tie their shoe latehets." Speaking of magazine poetry, the same writer affirm that terrible stuff can be fonnd In almost every Issue of otherwise excellent periodicals. These verses teem with every Imaginable fault, the slender est and most unpoetlcal of Idea be ing expressed in lines whose rhythm defies scanning and whose attempts at rhyme are an offense to both eye anc" ear." We, part of whose busi ness It 11 to can the magazine montn after month, cannot subscribe to this pesrtnitstle opinion. While there I much drivel, ntver a month passe without the publication of at least half a dozen poem that seem worthy of preservation. Men are wont to seek the golden age in the past, or In the distant future; even in Shakes peare's day they .have deplored the deterioration of the drama, and we need not turn many pages In the crit ical Journals of Victorian days In or der to find utterances even more pessimistic than those ,ln The Book man. The late T. B. Aldrlch, in a letter to nr. Madison Caweln, regrets that in England as well as in the United States, the poet who has had a great following is dead, and that no one has come to take hia place Yet he hopefully admits, and this Is a point we, too, should like to make, perhaps the great poet Is with us in cognito even now "When Keats was laid In his grave ut Home," Mr. All rich remarks, "there were not twelve no, there were not two men In Kngland who suspected that a great poet had been laid at rest. heigh Hunt had a strong ideu that Keats was a fine poet, but not as fine a poet as I.elgh H int Byron. Moore, Rogers and S-'outhcy ...uld not read 'The Eve of St. Agnes' and 'Hyperion ' No great poetry t except, possibly, in the case, of Tennyson) was e-. er Imme diately popular." The Old Blue-Back. North Carolina Education. Commenting on the handy spelling 1 01b s in last month s issue of North Carolina Kducatlon The Charlotte Chronicle, whl. h, goes up head on spelling as often as any other paper In ihu State, pays deserved homage to that fine old ape 1 ling-master, Web ster's Blue bac k. Succeeding wlth one's ' ceeds" and "gedes," suys the Chronicle, "is as easy as falling off a log to any ono having an acquaintance with the blue-back." Editor Harris then lays down the following rule for learning to spell, h rule which, we are b'!a.! to believe, is adopted by an In c teasing number of our lea. Hi r anl superintendent for the pupils in their s. !,i .Is The best rule for spelling that oibi 1 e formulated would be to i.u iU. down to the old blue-ba.k and pa., careful attention to the way It talks. ' "Kt-dd'1 Walsh Slgii-i Patriot Con tract. Oreensboro Te legram, 2 6th. A good piie n of news to the baseball funs of the city comes in the an tiouin enient by Manager .lames Mc Kevltt of the signing of "Redely" Walsh for the approaching season. Walsh vc.is one ot the mainstays of lad v.ars pennant winners doing n.ii.h at 1 ritif-ai limes to steady the younger piav .is The local manage ment intends making a number of substantial improvements to the local giounds and stands in tune for the "I "ii.iiii game -Manager MoKevIti and .Mayor Hiandt will io 01, t 10 tho park to-niorrow to look over the ground In order to deternnre J 1st what improvements are needed Four teeen players, including six of last vf.u team, have already been signed and the ludi ations are that tho new team w'll be consider. :c stronger and faster than the one of last year. Washington (Tub Kiit.M-talns Hperry and Ills Oltlcers. Washington. Feb. 'S. Rear Ad ml. ral c'haile.s s. Sperry. commander of 'he Ad. mile battleship fleet, and the Hag crib ers unci captains who served unci. 1 him on ihe memorable world ro'.n.l cruise were guests of honor to night at an elaborate dinner given by the Metropolitan Club. About lub covers wer laid, and those attending included high officers of the army and navy. Senators and Representatives and members of the diplomatic corps. Nathaniel 'dsori. vice president of ihe club, was toast master. President Roosevelt was unable to be present. Soldiers Warned Against Wood Alco hol. New York, Feb. 28. Major Gen eral Leonard Wood, commanding the Department of the East, has Issued a general order to the officers in the department commanding them to Im press upon the enlisted men the dead ly effects that follow the drinking of wood or denatured alcohol. The or der is now in the hand of the post and company commanders In New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Delaware, Vlrglnli Marylund and. West Virginia. Major Franklin Fighting For the Charter. Raleigh Times. The mayor of Charlotte. Capt. Thomas S Kranklin, so well known In K. of P. and other circles in the State. Is in the city to help save the new charter for the City of Charlotte, which has been butchered by those w ho did not like it. He hopes td save some part of It. but The Observer of that city has said that If the enemies get all the meat, they are entitled to th hide as well and so throws It to them. I nthliiktble. Charleston News and Courier. We are Informed by our esteemed contemporary. The French BroaJ Hustler, that Mr. Will Corn is to be tri?.1 by the mayor of Hendersorivllle on the charge of selling whiskey. We cannot believe that an unlawful con nection between Corn and whiskey could exist In North Carollna. Work. on, lulaml Waterway. Beaufort Look Out. Dredge No. 9. working on th in land waterway, is making great head way up the ship channel towards Core creek. This big suction machine works day and night Good progress is being made In every part of the waterway work. 2, point Wortb Rmembertnw' Real Estste Record. There is a great deal more satis faction In handing your your rent morey through the building and loan associations window, to be credited aa part payment on the house you live in. a. : jC agaxx is song, v Richmond's Bard and Hi Kewapaper Organ Shy tfae Poetic-sU Castor Into the lUngw a Welcome to the Fleet. Richmond News Leader. . Attention of The Charlotte Observ er, The Naw York Sun and other envious or admiring contemporaries is directed t the fact that RICH MOND'S poet laureate has burst out in a direction entirely new and gorgeous. Inspired by the return of the battleship fleet, he has reproduced the long neglected poem ha poemed but failed to promulgate to a de prived world on the return of the Manila ' fleet eleven year ago. In this connection he displays a letter signed by Theodore Roosevelt. As sistant Secretary of the Navy, prom ising him a berth on a patrol service to be established on Chesapeake bay. It will be perceived, therefore, that Mr. Andrews la not only poet and warrior but by Intention sailor also a fact doubtless accounting for th billowy and variant and occasionally tempestuous aspooi to his verses, changing In measure and cadence as the changing sea. The Charlotte Ob- i server s out-classed poets may find a suggestion and Inspiration in the artistic use of the inartistic name of I the capital of their own State. j "THE MANILA TLEBT." (Kespectfuliy dedicated to the Manila I Fleet, by A. J. Andrews, Richmond, Yl) I THE GLYMPIA. I On th Philippine coust she ruled the I roast I When bewsy was her captain; Neat hummocks made of the wave 1 Dead Spaniard to be wrapped tu. hung may she wave, our good old ship ! brave, I And spur to resolution. Let seaman beast and landsmen toast 'ihe Flagship of the nation. THE BALTIMORE. There came by chance, to Join the dance, The Iron-ailed Baltimore. With hitsilUig gun and Maryland sons. To wrestle in this furor. I A well-directed shot In a certain spot j Sunk a Spanish ship on her first war trip, Her equal can't be found the whole j world 'round. ' THE BOSTON. Th Boston, a crulaer bold. On the foaming ocean rolled. Commanded by Captain Wilds, The Dandy, O. t Spaniards never found their match Till the Yankees did them catch. Tor the Boston boys for fighting Ate tho Dandy, O. When the Spaniards hove In view Ssys Captain Wild to his crew, come, clear the ship for action, and Bo Handy. O. To tLe weather-gage, boys get her, And make my men flght better, edvs them EVANS gunpowder Mixed with Brandy, O. The first broadslie they poured t arrled the Spaniards by the board And made their lofty frigate Look abandoned, O. Admiral Montejo aid. "I am done," And fired a Lee gun And the Yankees struck up Ysnkee Doodle Dandy. O. THE CONCORD, PETREL AND RAL EIGH. Great gallant warships were these three The Petrl. Concord and big RALEIGH. They steamed In behind In one solid line. And looking as primp as you ever can And The Petrel was the smallest on this flght- li g trip She sunk in twenty minutes a Spanish wa rsnlp Then rame the Concord, with oannona booming. Tl en the big Kalelgh the Spaniards doom- nv ' The Raleigh's gunners were the best. I Aid killed more Spaniards than all th lest. ; In .1 few hours' time the victory was won J lion the thunders of the Yankee guns ! Si. let the nerry church bells ring, j 1 .1 commodore Dewey's victory sing; To m California's golden sand 1 prune Dewey's men all over the land, i Tl y rielorired to us. they belonged to all, 'And snaw. red to their country's call. These brave men fought not in vain, For In this battle They REMEMBERED THE MAINE. What Is a "Horseback" Opinion? To the Editor of The Observer: At stippc r the other night in Ral eigh over a "cold bottle and a hot bird" I wa discussing with a num ber of legislators, what action the committee would take In a matter of great Interest to my county and my self, that wat then before them. After fully going over the merits of the case a member from the western part of the State, I think, gave us his Idea, but qualified It by saying "that was only a horseback opinion." Not car ing to show my Ignorance of the Klng'B English, "a she are spoke," I kept silent, mentally resolving I would go to The Observer, headquarters ior the derivation of obsolete words and phrases, and And out. Please tell me what kind of an opinion Is a horseback opinion, and how did the expression originate. NORTH ROBESON. Red Springs. Feb. 27th. 1909. For The Observer. A CHEERFUL HEART A cheerful heart, with winsome ways, Is welcomed everywhere; It fills a life with gladdened days And makes them all seem fair. 'TU sweet to hear the cheerful note She sings the livelong day. Like bird, with ever warbling throat. To drlvj black care away. The soarins lark, up In the sky. While pouring forth Its glee. Sings not its song, in night on high. More free from care than she. No trouble settles In her face To scatter gloom about; Her heart may ache, but there's no trace Or line to find It out. She keeps her trouble In her breast; They lodje not In her eyes To dim their lustre with unrest And deepen others' sighs. Her cares she keeps; her smiles she sows To bring forth heartfelt gladness That lighten sorrow's heavy woes. And dry the tears of sadness. There are enough of grief-born sighs Te burden life with cares. To bless th soul that stops sad eye "Trom "'s1MMmg'-Wtndtns? tears. - She's like the brightest midnight star ' That lends tu light to night To cheer Its gloom from way afar, While twinkling with delight 'Twere Joy to live with one like this A Joy of heaven's own Kind earth-bora angels brew such bliss. For those who sre forlorn. Oh. eheerfulnew! It sing a lay With evsr fond retrain, Aad leads despair along the way . Te Sad lost srailee again. . . -te B OWTIfX. ' ti na. MitO COAT The Coat Suit sale advertised for Monday is being added to by new arrivals, making the three special prices of $17.50, $2000 and $2500 the very best values of the season. It takes nerve to put $30 values on a $2000 rack but we've done it. NOVELTIES We received by ex press to-day another ship ment of fancv embroid ered all over frontings for waists, in both white and colors These are very stylish and new, and very scarce in the markets, . come quick, they wiU be on v display tables Monday. Our 5c lace table is still the talk of the town, being added to every two or three days with the very latest styles and best values obtain- able. unmmtni mm hmwiumhh MMtWI.WMMMMMIMIMUllHIIHMi ii as on eiiifim ffyvi drV TJsJ. w. 1 zona extol I
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