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. s . . - - CHARLOTTE, DAILY OBSERVER, .gUKDAY, AIAY; 24, 1903. . 4 I. r. CALDWELI Publisher. EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR 4 svBscBirno.f muck: Daily On year ' Six months Tore montii IS.00 4K' too riBlXSHJCKS ANNOUNCEMENT No. 34 South Tryon -tre.tel.phone number.: Business t; city editor's office. IrtU Pho' i l . . news editoi-s office, Be" 'Pnoo 31 advertising rate, are furnU bed on eppllcetloa. Advert. may fl hit through the criumii of IWJ nr they may re.b all Chert otte portion of the b- this State end upper South r?'m- Thie paper gives eorrwpondents as wide latitude a It thinks public sol ley permits, but It le In no eM,rrh sponsible for their view" U is much preferred that eorreepondenie " their names to their article", eapeciai ly la cases where they attack Pn, er institution.. though this le not -mended. The editor reeervee the TWii to jive the names of eorreepondenie when thoy are demanded for the pur poae of personal satisfaction. 10 celve coasideratlon a communication must be accompanied by the true name of the correspondent A subscriber if "rdertnr the dT,i Of hie paper changed, will pleane Indi cate the address to which It le -n at the time he asks for the change to be made MONDAY, MAY ti, 1909. OVERDOING THE PRIMARY. , In the nomination of municlpai and county officers the direct primary U an almost ideal method. But when the primary eyetem is made applicable to State or even district office seri oui objections present themselves. This from the news columns of The Richmond News Leader: "The prevent primary system for nomi nating; candidates for State office at the meeting- of the Htalo committee on Fri day night received a severe caattgallon. "Judge Duke declared that the system had resulted in building up an office trust la the etate or Virginia, that It was en trenched and that It was impossible for a poor man to stand for any office within the gift of the people. "Senator Shackelford declared that the ! scheme had been devised for a specific purpose and that It had signally failed to accomplish what was Intended, the ob jects ef the system apparently thriving undxr it. "The members of Congress from this State are believed to be a unit for the system, said a member of the commit tee, as It practically precludes any per son from considering the matter of run ning against them. "'People throughout the State are dis gusted with the system.' said a gentle man who has been In much of the Stale during the last three months, and who is In close touch with one of the candi dates for an office at the hands of the people." Experience has everywhere shown that the effect of the State-wide prl- rnJ"y is to put an enormous premium Upon political machinery and no small premium upon money also, a m.n who is neither an insider nor fat of pocket can with extreme difficulty im press himself on the large and wide ly scattered electorate. Conditions existing In practically every Southern State where the primary decide all candidacies are well enough describ ed by a recent declaration of The Charleston News and Courier that John C. Calhoun if alive to-day could not defeat a single one among South Carolina. noble army of "Depart ment Congressmen." The teudency toward "an office-holding trust" is everywhere, ay in Virginia, unniistak- , able. And a trust tike this both breeds demagogy abundantly within and can usually be overthrown from Without only by demagogy ranker , still. Even where each of two can didates for office conduct themselves as gentlemen, they must almost al ways Indulge in personalities to the exclusion of eerythlng else, the Issue being purely personal; this spectacle la presented in Virginia now and was presented in North Carolina last year, -It would be kindest not to mention the horrors of politics In Georgia, MIs- sisslppi, Arkansas and Texas. One party States have scarcely any escape from the State primary, but States r more normal In their political condl tions, especially those that would rather not be kept in constant politi tmi ferment whale they are trying to Stake two blades of grrass grow where one grew before, should adopt It only as an escape from an almost unlm aginahle something still worse. The Democratic party of North Carolina has never tried the State primary under the In wholesome condi tion which the State primary as an Institution breeds, 'but it has had suf ficient experience to induce a strong; spirit of caution about plunging In any "deeper. NOT INFALLIBLE, OP COCKSE. ' T Agreeing with The Observer that l Bancroft' conclusions upon Amerl-,- can history. North Carolina history , Included, are well worthy of respect. ""Th .Norfolk Landmark proceeds, neSertbelean, to cite an alleged Inac curacy. Both Bancroft and Flake " have done Lord Dunmore "the serious though unintentional Injustice" of '' representing him a the burner of 'Norfolk during the revolutionary war. v Sounder information became avail able mot long- ago through researches made by the librarian of the Norfolk public library. Of 1.333 house tir ed, Dunmore fired only 54, while the colonial forces, under specific order, burned the town as a whole to pre vent the enemy from using it in his Operations These facts are attested by the records of the Virginia General Assembly, which made official inves . ligation. We are willing; to agree with The Landmark that Bancroft overlooked a 1ST ANTI-SHAKESPEARIAN A. H Those people-who persistently pro fee to find In Shakeopeare's play, evidence of Baconian authorship, have a their latest representative Mr. Wil liam Stone Booth,, of Cambridge, Mass. His conclusions are stated with some fulness by a writer in Collier's Weekly. Mr. Booth takes from the First Fo lio edition of Shakespeare the prefa tory lines "To the Reader," printed opp-otite Shakespeare's portrait and supposed to have been written by Ben Jonson. Rare Ben, according; to the Booth theory, was in Bacon's confi dence and assisted both the literary deception and the hidden devices whk-h reveal the real author. These lines Mr. Booth discovers to be woven through with the name "Francis Ba con," not by the simple valentine plan of making first letters in each Une spell out the name hut -by methodical ly scattering- significant letters throughout the text. To explain the alleged device would cost overmuch of our space; enough to say that Mr. Booth duly spells out the name. Now The New York Sun, taking the same verses and the same cipher respects every' letter rwrved for Francis Ba con's acrostic and spells out the acros tic of Theodore Roosevelt. In the whole First Folia Mr. Booth finds shout two hundred of hese hidden signatures. Doubtless any one asserting- Rooseveltlan authorship of Shakespeare could find Just as many. As a cipher-monger Mr. Booth, like Ignatius Donnelly and the rest, need not be taken very seriously. These attempts to riddle out Shakespearian authorship resemble the attempt of various other cranks to find sign in cant combinations of numbers, letters or what not In the Bible especially In the Book of Daniel. But by dint of lustv muck-raking the Collier's writer. Mr. Wm. Leavltt Stoddard may make Home devout Shakes pearian Just a trifle less devout. Here are the principal observations which he submits about Stratford's immor tal son: "What are commonly accepted as the facts of the life of William Hhakspere (rote the spelling of the Stratford man's name) of ihratford are as follows: "He was born In 164. He was married In 1582. A child was born In 183. and twins In 1M6. In 1590 the name of Wil liam Shakapere Is mentioned In a list of actors In the Lord Chamberlain's company. In 1697 he entered Into a con tract to purchase New Place, lils name appears from IftvS on in various legal documents, one of whioh Is an applica tion for a grant of coat armor to his father. His name further appears on as sessors' books and the parish register, from which we may safely deduce that he was a taxpayer and a property hold er. About 110-11 he Is thought to have retired tc Stratford. In 1816 he died. " 'On April 26 Shakespeare was inter red,' say two MogTaphers In chorus, 'in the parish church, and honored with a tomb in the chancel, not as a poet, but as Impropriator of tithes. His grave was covered wlfh a flat stone, bearing the In hcrlptlon known to all "flood friend, for Jesus' sake," etc. artless Indeed, but adapted to the capacity of the sextons for whose admonition It was designed ' Probably this is aa detailed a record of the funeral as Is extant. "William Sliakspere left no books, no manuscripts, no correspondence. His second best bed he willed to his wife. His children apparently oould not sign their names. The gleanings of nearly three centuries have ascertained no evi dence that a court would admit other than tradition, and some one's say-so. concerning the Incidents of his life, his personal friends, or his career. As an actor the ghost In 'Hamlet' seems to have been his best part. Of his hand writing we have nothing but five signa tures and (perhaps) the words 'by me.' " Can It be that those who spell It Shakspere" (there are 36 spellings In all, we beileve) are unwittingly lending aid and comfort to the Ba contaln heresy? But this in a side is sue. Mr. Stoddard Insist that Ba con, 1n the opinion of such diverse and competent Judges as Macaulay and Shelley, was by natural gifts a poet as well a a philosopher and a Jurist. But how account for Bacon's concealment of his authorship? This the writer seeks to do in a fashion made familiar by fellow-Baconians: "If Mr Tuft. Instead of playing golf had written musical comedies, he would not wish to be known as their author: for we are a practical people, and would never elect a musician to the office of Presi dent. Bacon could not have attained or maintained the dignity of the chancellor ship If he had -been recognlxed by the people as a writer for the theatre In a time when actors and dramatists were among the lowest social orders. Simply, then, because it would hove ruined the career of an Knstllsh public man to ac knowledge poetical and dramatic prowess, it may he that Bacon used the common name of Shakespeare as a mask. An actor bearing the same name was got, let us suppose, to aid the deception. Ingenious Ben Jonson, at one time Bacon's literary assistant, without doubt wllllnc-ly helped. He at least, as we have seen, lent his name." Between them Messrs. Booth and Stoddard produce a very Ingenious and entertaining argument. But a con vincing argument on this side of this question we have not yet seen. While the theory of Shakespearian author ship Is open to some objections, every other theory that has been advanced is open to many more. The Duke of Norfolk sold a paint ing for $330,000 end used the mon ey for buying a eixty-acre park in Sheffield whk-h he will dedicate to public use. That was a splendid bene faction, but it cost the donor very little. The original cost of the paint ing was insignificant in comparison with the price the duke secured for it. Nevertheless it was a generous thing to do; many persons would have re fused to put so much money In a park for the public, even if they could have done so without any real sacrince personally. SENATOR LODGETA VCMiiC. In a speech in the 8nate ft f days ago Senator Lodge, of Masai chusettsv mad "thl statement, in ref erence to the declaration of the Re publican party through Its platform on the question of tariff revision: "Nobody ever pledged me to revise the tans downward or to revise It upwaro What we are pledged to la a revision, and I suppose ww are here, to revise in view of the interests of the whole coun try. If it is wise to reduce rates, then reduce them: if It Is wiser to aive great er protection we should do that, and if It Is wise to keep them as they are then mat snouio. oe aone. Commenting on this, The Chicago Record-Herald says it ha a fine aound, but the M&suach use Us Senator is disingenuous. The tariff plank in the Republican platform was adopted because of pub lic pressure for a revision of the tar iff downward. It was In answer to that demand and to appease the peo pie that the tariff plank was adopt ed. Senator Lodge well knows that no member of the convention which adopted the platform would have dar ed at the time to explain the tariff plank to mean what he and some oth er Republicans now claim for it. He knows that such a party declaration would not have satisfied those of its members who were demanding tariff revision, and to satisfy whom and keep them In the party a declaration for revision was made. If It was pur posely worded in such a way as to lead those of the party demanding tariff revision to believe it complied with their demands when it really meant something very different. In fact Just the opposite, then Senator Idge confesses to the practice of a fraud on a large proportion of the members of his party. The agitation for tariff revision was entirely for a lowering of the duties contained In the Dlngley bill, and there was much of this agitation in the Senator's own State and in ref erence to certain articles. Senator Lodge surely does not contend that those agitators in his own State were simply clamoring for changes in those schedules, whether upward or down ward as would seem best to the mem bers of Congress when they took up the matter of revising the present tariff. To make such claVm would be to stultify himself and the men of his State who helped force the dec laration for tariff revision on their party. The Massachusetts Senator cannot claim that the tariff revision plank was put In the platform be cause of the demand of any 'persons for a revision upward of the tariff; that In adopting that plank an effort was made to satisfy persons who were demanding an Increase In the rates of the Dlngley bill. If the stand-patters undertake In this way to defeat the pledge of their party as It Is understood by many who helped to make the platform and by the public generally they will add to the discontent within the party and strengthen the hands of the Demo crats to a greater extent than had their party simply refused to take any action regarding the tariff, and in the end, they will do the people a great er service by hastening real tariff reform. Speaker Cannon knows he is safe in calling himself the servant of the House, for It i a caee where the serv ant is the boss, and nobody knows it better than he. If the House does not know It, Just let it try to boss Its servant and it will find It out mighty quirk. TALKING ABOUT THE TWENTIETH - WTuU Outedde Newspaper Have to Say About the Great Occasion and Matter Connected Wttto IU" This Is the one day we dent cele brate. Charleston News and Conrier, Of course, in future Charlotte will have the visit of the President to cel ebrate on the 20th of May. This visit is no myth. Charleston New end Courier. Oreat I Charlotte, N. C and Elder Caldwell is it propbet Hurrah for the Mecklenburg Declaration, whether it happened or not! Washington Herald. Now that Taft puts his seal of au thenticity upon the Mecklenburg Dec laration of Independence. Thomas Jef ferson's opinion will have to be re vised. Washington Post. Colonel Hemphill, of The Charles ton News and Courier, Insists that tne Mecklenburg Declaration is a myth. Nevertheless It will be celebrated as a historic reality long after Colonel Hemphill ha become a beautiful memory Nashville Banner. a declaration of Independence was drawn up end adopted. ' A to the genuineness of the dec laration, u appears that on April I a, 1I1S, a copy of the alleged declaration was published in The Raleigh Reglst- er, end the Legislature of North Car olina appointed special committee to Investigate the doubt expressed at the time, of its validity; and the re port so far satisfied the' people that May Z9 was made a State holiday, The historian, Bancroft,, accepted the declaration as an authentic document Roanoke Times. MHIUHKIUIilHHHiH "-hhhmhhhJ As a State that formulated a Dec laration of Independence and made it stick, Grand Old Texas on this beauti ful aunktssed May 20 extend her felic itation to Mecklenburg county. North Carolina, where the happy people are celebrating the flrt Declaration of In dependence that we ever made on American soil. Houston Post. Whenever the Presidents of the United States visit Southern cities it seems to be a special pert of the pro gramme to take them to the leading negro school. The latest Instance is in Charlotte where President Taft will speak at the Mecklenburg celebration to-day. After that he is to address a negro school. If they did not know that we had white schools in the South the action of those in charge of pres idential reception would lead to the Idea that only the negroes were In terested In education. Montgomery AdveJtiser. There will not be as many of us as we hoped; but as aforetime, 'Our band is small but true and tried. Our leader frank and bold, The British soldier trembles, When Marlon's name Is told." We think It a very nice thing for Charleston to be represented at the celebration of the Myth in Charlotte. To all outward appearances it will be Just as If It was all real, and there Is not In all the South a finer town than Charlotte. Charleston News and Courier. Providence did not smile on the presidential celebration of The Myth. With the eceptlon of the torrential rains of last August, such a downpour as there was In Charlotte yeaterday has not been seen In this section "in many year. The rain spoiled the celebration so far as the spectacular part of It was concerned, but It diJ not spoil the good humor of the peo ple nor dampen their enthusiasm In any reBpect; and the Taft smile prov ed contagious even under the lower ing clouJs. Columbia Record. If the consumer does not take the trouble to lay his side of the question be-fore Congress In this tariff contest he surely cannot expect the producer to do It for him, and there are no other Interested parties. The Mecklenburg Declaration of In dependence Is a good enough event for celebration in North Carolina, and on the present occasion there Is not only a considerable collection of Gov ernors, but the presence of the Fres- IJent. The evidence, however, that the action of the Continental Congress in this city July 4 was anticipated In the North Carolina town Is extremely weak. There was undoubtedly a meet ng of Colonial patriot at which the yrant George III wa properly de fied, but meetings of that sort occur red at the time in many localities There Is no detailed contemporaneous recorj of the assemblage, and there s reasonable ground for supposing that in after years the recollections of what occurred there were confused with the knowledge of what occurred later In Philadelphia. Philadelphia Record. Beginning Tuesday and ending thair three day celebration to-day, Char lotte, X, c, and the County of Meck lenburg challenge general attention In their attempt to give the so-called Mecklenburg Declaration of Independ ence a definite status a part of Ame- Ican history. The presence of Presi dent Taft to-day at the crowning ex ercises of the eelebratlon lends addi tional interest and significance to the belated honors accorded to the lgn ers of the alleged declaration. Cer tainly It la an interesting and notable fact if, a the Charlottean and Meek lenburgera seem to believe, a Declara tion of Independence was really adopt ed in Charlotte. May 1S-20, 1775. ante dating the declaration at Philadelphia more than a year. That President Taft' presence and participation In the celebration will tend to give the story of the supposed declaration a standing in history is also true. And yet. despite the brilliant gala events and the three days of parades, pageants, speeches and song, the old doubts as to the authenticity of the famous declaration will not down. Thomas Jefferson In hi letter to John Adam marshaled many and strong reason in support of hi opinion that the declaration was spurious. Many of hi argument have never been satis xactoruy answered probably never can be. Furthermore, historical evl dence recently discovered, goea a great way In confirming the correctness of Jefferson a belief, w. Henry (Hoyt, of the Harvard Law Sohool, two yeara ago, in his book on the Mecklenburg Declaration, clearly established by the aid of evidence not available to Jeffer son of the mythical character of the facta upon which the believers in that document rest their case. Some reso lutions were adopted on May 31, 1775, in Charlotte by the committee of safe ty, but these, when examined, fall far short of the honors claimed for the declaration. But the myth-makers and not the myth destroyers have their innlnga to day, it will be Interesting to note what President Taft In hi address to day will have to say on this mooted question In American history. New York World. " 'A snake was killed In Kink street In Charleston the other day. We sfppose It was a king snake.' says The Anderson mji How do you know It wasn't a water moccasin?" Columbia Record. We believe there is now enough water In Charleston harbor to allow moccasins to swim around. If everybody were to pay es they go more people would know whither their road led and they would receive more and heartier God-speeds from their fellow-travelers. ALL'S WEIJi TIHT ENDS WELL. The strike againet .negro firemen on the Georgia Railroad, with popular demonstrations againet the negro fire men at various points, is much to be regretted. Ope of the Souths Just TTnlted States Army Men Art-epl Apol ogy Irom Mr. R. V. Stokes and All Ik at Peace. To the Bdltor of The Obssrver: We read Mr. Stokes' letter In this morning's paper wltn a sense oi gratification at the manly acknowl edgment of his unintentional refer- . . . . 1 C . . 1 .. n ence to tne i nueu oiir ns nu soldiers. We were almost sure that Mr. Stokes made his remarks without in tentionally offering any offense to his country's flag and its defenders, but under the circumstances we could not allow such words to pas unnoticed. We take pleasure in publicly an nouncing eur acceptance of the apol ogy Mr. Stokes so freely offers, and we sincerely trust that anything we may have said in our letter of pro test, will not remain as a reminder of the article referred to. J. WETZEL, HOMER W. MASON. HOSEA H. HIGHTOWER, EARL JOHNSTON. Local Recruiting Party. EDWARD SPENCER. Woald Be Excnaeble, et Least. Richmond News Leader. "We don't want to brag." says The Charlotte Observer. No doubt; no doubt- But Just can't help it when the anniversary of the enarlotte Declaration come around. The ever-present and ever-attrac tlve sentimentality of the South found expression at Charlotte yesterday In Mrs. Stonewall Jackson's greeting of President Taft. Next to Lee, no one Is more enshrined in the hearts of Southerners than the sturdy general who paraded the Virginia Military In stltute cadets at the hanging of John Brown, and later fought so magnifi cently from Bull Run until his death on the field of Chancellorsvllle at the age of forty. That his widow should, Just forty-six years later, welcome an Ohio President so gracefully and warmly as the "great harmonixer of all our hearts," Is welcome proof of the softening passage of the time. Not more so, however, than the recent presentation to the battleship Missis sippi of a silver service marked with the portrait of Jefferson Davis. But few have protested; no one has waved the "bloody shirt," as would have been the case had there been such an inci dent twenty years sgo. Where else In history is there a duplicate of this spectacle this honoring of a defeat ed traitor and a rebel in this semi official, if not official, way, after so short a lapse of time, and this without any change in the national belief that Jefferson Davis' cause was morally wrong and the occaaion of a fearful loss to the nation? Truly. Americans deserve the title of the most magnani mous of peoples. New York Evening Post boasts in connection with the so-call- . vitally important record on this point. ,ed race question has been that the though, a The Landmark knows, it i negro Is given an equal chance for his was bis practice to spare neither time nor expense In searching out every ' record which might exist Absolute Infallibility nobody ever claimed for him or any other historian. The maxim "false In on thing, false in everything" does not apply here; there is, consequently, no ground for argument. - livelihood which he does not enjoy in the North. We would Hke to know if the Phila delphia woman who has Just celebrat ed her 106th birthday can remember the time when there was an honest administration of the affairs of that city. The Xatnrnl Inference. Anderson. S. C, Dally Mall. President Taft ha appointed a Democrat to the Federal Judgeship iri North Carolina. Which shows you what kind ef Republicans they have in North Carolina. Masterly Self-Repression. Danville Register. . If tRe North Carolina Republican develop any great enthuaiiasm over Mr. Taft' visit, the fact has been carefully concealed. President Taft was In Charlotte, N. C. yesterday, and participated with the North Carolinians In the celebration of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. Most of us have heard of the Meck lenburg Declaration of Independence, but few of us are acquainted with It, or the conditions under which the declaration was made. It la alleged that the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence ante dates the formal Declaration of Inde pendence which we celebrate annu ally on July 4, by at least a year, and comprises a number or resolutions adopted at a meeting of the cltliens of Mecklenburg county, N. C, In May. 1775. The Mecklenburg Declaration has been a subject of historical contro versy from the time that It was first made public, and this controversy has given birth to . a' literature which sharply queations the authenticity of the declaration. , These are the circumstances sur rounding the declaration: In the spring of 177, Col. Adam Alexander called upon the people of Mecklen burg county to appoint delegate to. a convention to devise way and taean to assist their brethren In Boston. The delegates met In Charlotte on May It. and after a free and U dis cussion of the various object i - for which the convention bad been called. There seems to be abundant evi dence going to show that the Meck lenburg, (North Carolina.) Declara tion of Independence was adopted more than a year ahead of the Phila delphia Declaration, which has since been spelled with a capital letter. The Mecklenburg ordinance was passed May 20, 1775. while that of Philadel phia was passed July 4, 1776. The Mecklenburg pronunclamento profess ed to speak only for the people of a ingle county. That county wa will ing to throw off the yoke of bondage and take the consequences. The Phil adelphia Declaration professed to speak for all of the colonies. Which was the more heroic? Not less tharf two histories, and possibly a greater number, have been written of the Mecklenburg Declare tlon. One of them Is by Dr. W. E, Fitch, formerly of Savannah, and the other Is by Mr. James H. Moore, now an editorial writer on The Macon Tol egraph. and formerly editor of newspaper In Charleston. Both Dr Fitch and Mr. Moore present quit sufficiency of authenticated proof to show beyond the peradventure of doubt that the initiative for American Independence was taken at Mecklen burg, and that the Philadelphia decla ration followed along the trail that had been already blazed. There has of late been something of an effort on the part of certain publl cations to disparage the importance of the Mecklenburg Declaration, bu we strongly suspect that It haa been undertaken more in a spirit of Jest than In an effort to keep the records straight Why there should be a de sire to joke about a matter of such historical Interest we do not pretend to say or understand. But the facts with relation to the Mecklenburg af fair are so clearly set forth, and so conclusively proven by documents that It Is not possible to comprehend a se rious attack opon the authenticity of it. Rather, it would seem, the critics had been flippant The anniversary of the Mecklenburg Declaration is being celebrated this week, and President Taft will be the principal speaker to-day. It Is un derstood that he prepared a speech embodying the historical facta as thty have been authenticated. This apeech giving hta authorities, ahould set at rest the newspaper stories of the 'Mecklenburg Myth." Savannah New. Mill inerv .u ucpfltuucjii 10 experiencing the biggest J or any season since its existence. The Up-toJ methods and svstem pmnl v r-j uimrjea with df bility, beauty and style, is the At U 1 mi8 pnenof nal increase. Every new idea in hats is found in this centre of correctness or accesd Coat Suits This ever popular section has been crowded and J to its utmost since the opening of the season and reduced prices of last week, and the still deeper ting on certain lots tnis week, means to the ladiej Charlotte and neighboring towns an unprecedeJ saving. Testerday was celebrated at Char lotte, North Carolina, the seat of gov ernment of 'Mecklenburg county, th uLh, or some other, anniversary of a declaration of independence from tne tyrannical government of George, King of England. - Being of peaceful disposition we re frain from either affirming' or denying the historic accuracy of the celebra tion, we do but affirm the fact of it But If forced upon the witness stand and required, against our will, to tes tify in the case of Mecklenburg decla ration against the editor-in-chief of The Charleston New and Courier, we would be compelled to develop a a witness for the prosecution. The charge is libel, and it is of record that for days, week, months and year. The New and Courier has Insistently, persistently, vindictively and cruelly assailed, the Declaration of Independ ence which was celebrated yesterday, as a ' Myth." The printed record 111 also show that every effort was made by that newspaper to frighten from Charlotte the President of the United States. He was threatened wlth'rldi cole and contemnatlon for contribut ing by his presence to the fastening upon history of a ludicrous anacron Isnx We kept out of their way, bnt a th fateful Twentieth' of May ap proached, we Imagined that the hor rors of the crime against truth which was according to his belief about to be perpetuated at Charlotte would cause the Charleston editor tp take to a paddling boat and seek escape amid tho sand dune of th barren coast from the shouting; end the thunder of th press reports from Charlotte. Just as ouf sympathy was - silently (Contlneea est Pag Klaa). Third Floor Trade Street Here you find a most complete ready-to-wear seel All the newest in Lingerie, Batiste, Lawn, Linen Silk Waists, trimmed in every new style. Muslin Underwear in every conceivable style, piled! in mountains of whiteness for Monday's selling a full line of Princess Slips. And a little motherly talk about the Children's Rej Made Dresses: You get them here neatly and m ly trimmed, and perfect fitting, and when you cons cost of material and work and worry, it's eheapa buy them made than to make them. Wash Skirts are on this floor, White and Colored! qualities and a great selection. Also Ladies' Gauze Vests, extra values 10, 15, 25 and Complete line Ladies perfect fitting Union Suits 50c. and $1-00 Children's Rompers, Baby Caps, Nurses' Aprons, Miscellaneous Specie Extra values in Towels Monday at 9. l2 15 m ik urn Shell Hair Ornaments. , Extra quality Table Damask 10 35c. quality All-Linen Suitings ' 5 and 1' Extra values in fine Laces at Aihs. or.iTof HrtHi CWnreA Plaid Wles r 12 1-Zc. i i m inn' J I mnn iiiiinMiiiiiiMlMmlffH V V v
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