North Carolina Newspapers

' CHAKLO TTE DAILY OBSERVER,;.; KRIBAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1011. 3. r. cAixx :Pumib9n, V. A. TOMTKPf Published M N St Boctfc Try trt cruu-iott, N.vOt every day ,Vo. ! u.uiiint Alitor....... .....Net 24 ' fight 1 not yet over. Tne lawyer o equally - )a the., distribution of the business of th jrant combination. How th taUur of any or tne otpo ration recreated out f th general combination would promote the WU far of the people, we ' cannot; a, It - la' 'aid that', tha :,repreeenta tlve of the . independent tobaeca . or? gaalsatlona" declared ! after th Cir cuit Court had randarad deolsloa a tho plan of dissolution that th l ity kditor. ...,,.,,..... taitor C'lreulaUas Dpartnaat.,.., Tilting ' Hmm, VT ...No. 1 am ix? : armsmrpnoN PRICE: ' " BT MAIL Oaa Blx Tnraa One v PObIAOB PAID Tear. Mo. Moa. Mo. PaUr a Sunday .....0J I I f If I)llr without Sunday K .W Sunday edition only.. IcO LOft .SO .tt . fcW-WMkly... 1 0 JO .tt . Jit OBSSRVKR CARRIKR DKLITBRT ' , ... One Week Pally and Sunday .V lJCent Pally without Sunday U cent Sunday aaly TODAY, NOVEMBER 10, 111. HOW TO CHARLOTTE MAKE , I, '''' GROW. .'jWhat to needed In Charlotta la th AOmmlaalon form of government for " thl City. It la aane and safe. It . la la Sympathy with the sentiment f th times. It would place the piblla ! business on a bualnen baala. . t Would tak up a great deal of lest notion. It would raault In tha ' ; management of our municipal af fairs with tha severest economy con aiatant with efficient aervloe. It would eav tha community from the corrosion of polltica whjch tnuat eat ." Into tha heart of oomrtuntty life. It ! a pallor which haa worked with ; great advantage In other towna and title similarly situated, and It would be of tha largest benefit to thla town tn vry conceivable way. Thla 1 a lana upon which all good cltlaena, ragardlaoa of past or preaent political affiliatlott or factional difference, Could unite and ahould unite. , The Greater Charlotte Club oould -ot undertake a better work than a ' Campaign for the adoption of thla plan of managSig tha affaire of thla tows. We all want to aee charlotte grraw and thla la the way to make 1 It grow. A sound mind In a Bound . body, a bualneaa administration of . tha bualneaa of the people, wise plan- lag, good couaael, thorough work nd no politic In book-keeping, and th! community would go ahead by . ?"ap and bound. Let ua all get to gether for oommlaslon government In Charlotte because it will be for the . benefit of Charlotte. , THE TOBACCO SFTTTL EMEVT. With aom noj,. very important modifications, tha United State cir CtiltCpprr in Kew Tork ha approved tha .plan .of tha American Tobacco Company fo dissolution and reorganl tatloa. It la not a perfect plan, nor i'etanJf-ln fact, a Judge Lacombe PlalBd. the plan of the Company . jut rather the plan evolved from th paH log hearings In the case, a AtlhAMArff eri f n n.U I .k . . aounaellora of many Interests are responsible, in the opinion of tho Court It 1 the bfKt plan attainable and Is honest and was proposed In wi ii'ui, in wn;cn u nas Been ac- eepted by the Court. Where the Court bad authority It agreed with th f recommendationn of the Attorney General; it did not travel away from f th duties imposed upon It by the Supreme Court; but declared its con fidence In tha good faith of the plan proposed and the sincere purpoxe of tha Comnanr tn cnmnlv with th I,,,. - - uun naat of the gupreme Court In the Saaa. As Judge Lacombe raid the Circuit Court ha no authority to en- force any plan for readjuntment with ' eut the co-operation of the owner of . tha property, and, auch being the sif tiatlon. It "would be a sheer waato of - tm to consider any plan radically different from the one now before us. , Jt w find this plan would not cre ' at tha condition defined in the amn ion of tha Supreme Court or If t uch modiflcat ons a we may require , aa a condition to giving our approval $r not accepted by the defendants, W must obey the mandate of the Court or aelz the property and se'l It at public auction," V No on ha proposed a better plan, tho only alternative proposition bein tha appointment of a receiver, which uld ha, as the Attorney OeAeral has ad. a calamity; and tha appoint ment of a receiver, fa tha opinion of Judg Coze, who aat In tha Circuit Court with Judge Lacomba and Noyat, wald "produe tha very avil which' thla action was instituted to destroy." - . .; ,,v- If the "Judgment of tha ClreuU Court nU ha ' accepted hy the' Com-r-any and Confirmed by the Supreme Court,, the-. American Tobacco Com will ha split Into fonrteen com S ' . s; for a period of three year the t a jty-n!nr individual defecdanu in the present actio will: be enjoined from lncreaalng th!r: atoclt-holdlng r a the recreated corporation; none ' tvr fourteen corporation will he red to make- loana r 9thrwle i credit to any., of the other, i will reduce the buslnea in a .re at leaat to aaa of. dof dr,g and tha fallura of jtha weakest of the pack and tha aurvlvai of :; tha ritest, it being unreasonable to aa uma that, however fairly the aeU t the Company - mar " be..'' divided, h of the new corporation wU) ha the National Cigar Leaf Tobaeeo A aooiatlon. the cigar Manufacturers' Association of America and the Inde pendent Tobacco Salesmen' Associa tion said Wednesday night that he would advise hla ollent to take the case to th Supreme Court tor re view. Tha president ot the Inde pendent Tobacco Salesmen'a Aseocla tlon, in announcing hla dissatisfaction with the decision of the Circuit Court generally approving the plan of reor ganisation, said that ha believed the American Tobacco Company would continue to control the tobacco trade "just as effectually a if the Government suit had haver been brought." It would aeem that there ar a good many combination in in wu business outside of the American To- tiioM fnminnv. and it might be competent for the court to ihiut Into the nature and purposes of these several organization and the evi dent understanding among them ana what they would accomplish for the general public by their respective combination Are they alao banded together in defiance of the terme of the Anti-Trust lawt Are they oper ated in restraint of trade? Ja there any working agreement among them touching the buelnes in which they are engaged? Should not the Gov ernment whloh is determined to put down all unreasonable combination cover all these and lngular of the independent which have been mak ing common caua against the parent trust? Association with ucB name as "National" and "American" would aeem to require some lnveetlgaUon on the part of Wlckrham and hi aa slstants in this great strugg'e against the Trusts. It is not unlikely that the pupreme Court will approve the Judgment of the circuit Court, and then we shall see what we shall sea. The effect of the Clrouit Court decision wa wholesome, If the oour of the mar ket is to be taken as a sign. There was a general advance yester day In the pricea of many of the leading aecuritlea. Steel went up five points, and 421,000 shares were sold at something over IS, and the demand for the bonds of the steel com bination, the atrongest but least wtoked of all..the great combinations. was good with sales of M. 171.000. The common stock of the American Tobacco Company went up sis point, and the other efcurttie of that con cern showed a healthy advance, which means, of course, that the trad ing public thinks that the case ha been practically ettled. There was also a gratifying advance in the price of cotton. It would be a fortunate thing for all the industrial Interests of the country if we could get through with the dis turbing litigation of the times and settle down to business. It Is to be expected that there will be many and violent proteats against the de cision ot the Circuit Court In thl case; but aa one of the trial Judges expressed it, no one has submitted a better plan or a mors honest plan und down to this time, happily, tnis has been a country of law and order If the American Tobacco Company should be old at auction, who would be In better position to buy It ihn the people who own It? If they Bhould buy their own property in block instead of building if. up by piece-meal as they have done, now much better off would be the coun try? If they could .not buy what they own, that would be confiscation and confiscation Is not a remedy for statutory offence. r'roDSDiy u dieted ' for . deertlng hie. : wife who ive at Orang la .that, State. TV, r We do not- anwvytWn7 about Ulrica : hut 'we 1 do not ; believes, thai Booker, had slvaa aim any caua for the brutal aaeeult , made :upon ; hint add it would Uka av food deal mora than the verdict of :av divided court to make u heliev that he waa guilty of the orfen charged ; agalnat him. wa have aald before, if Booker wild etay down South with hi own whit folka, n would he batten for nim, and wa ahar fully In thl char. itable vie of . The Nashville Demo crat: "The noted aegro educator haa borne a aioelUnt reputation where best known, and thla unfortunate in- cldent aheuid not be permitted to impair in the least hie undoubted ua fulneaa to hla people and thla sec tion " The Greensboro Dally Record also "reading on tha right pace" when It ay: "The loss of his ease la not perhaps new to Booker Waahlngton. H know hi Northern friends, having pulled their legs often enough, and know Juat about how much ua tbey nave for a negro when the rub eomea. Had the laoident taken place In the South the brethren across tha line would be yelping yet. The New Yorker love a negro as long as he can make use of him and no longer." W ar sorry for Booker. We do not believe that he haa done anything wrong. If he hod wanted to call any white woman "sweetheart." he would doubtlesej never have gone to East Srd Street to find her. His frlende In New Tork do not live in that part of town. He ha behaved himself with great propriety in all his dealings with hla own white folka down South. He know them and they know him, and a majority of them do not credit the storlee that have been told about him in thla affair and will not approve the dis position of the case by the Court In New Tork. BARIUM SPRINGS' CACSB The Presbyterian orphans at Barium Spring are fortunate In the champions who pleaded for them be fore Synod yesterday, Mr. A. M- Scale of Oreensboro and Rev. Dr. C. O. Vardell of Red Springs. Mr. Scale and Dr. Vardell put the question what Synod proposed to do about it And 8ynod responded with of a required S0, 000 pledged on the spot. It Is evident that the want of Barium Springs orphanage a.re go ing to be supplied. Since a notable controversy when Editor Clark of The Statesvlll Land mark stirred tip the brethren by Bet ting forth conditions at the orphanage aa he conceived them to be some very necessary step toward a betterment of condition have been made. If the question of the relative claim of home end foreign causes had not unfortunately become Involved there would doubtless have been prompter confeeeion of delinquency toward Barium 8prlnga than there waa. But the good effects of tnl controversy are not yet ended. It ia neces sary sometimea to speak out in meet ing, to drag an lsu forward by tho ear, to ssy "Thou art the man," and to bring matter down to a point. 711,111 negroea, Thl U a, net gam ot 67, H white for the decad and tndlcate.at;:before'';the;,oenua''!l of 11 o t south; : Carolina wt h whitev Ml!alppi ia prhap Jn year nearer thla goal, while Florida and Louisiana became whit ten year ago. In North Carolina there are slightly over a mil lion and a half white and neatly even hundred k;, thousand - negro, whit preponderance havlne; Increaaed by juat three- ten tha , of one per . cent during- the decennial period.- It ia unquestionably for the beat interest of ftha country and' f both race that relative population jncrae should foUowHha general course la dlcated . here. fin-. particular, it Is wholesome that negro population should tend to diatribute itself more evenly over tba country at large. Ton many negroes induce aerloue diffi culties, socially. Industrially and po litically, anywhere. Their presence In excessive numbers la good neither for the whites nor for them. It also causa sectional antagonism and mis understanding, as It formerly caused the war between the Statea. These truths are ao obvloua that they need no speolal atreaaing- here. It is note worthy, however, that North Carolina la tha whitest State, except TenneaSee and the border Statea of Weat Vir ginia and Kentucky, south of the Potomao and Ohio river and east of the Mississippi river; and that in North Carolina raolal relation ar conspicuously good. Almost all the raolal trouble North Carolina ever experienced ' arose from the fact of excessively large negro popula tion concentrated in aome of the east ern eountiee of th Stat. Through out the 8o,uth and th country con ditions have been constantly becoming better la this very Important regard. . Emerson' remark - about hitching our. waaroa to p. star. wa not apoken ln:';,tha spirit 'jpf .1; pi-opnyiT;.:t the coming of a time whan theaa. eeieatlal bodies would ; enter 'lata 1 competition with, gaaolin to pull or propel our aanaf means, f conveyance Af.IOKO THE EDITORS i (From the Spartanburg Journal,) " A drat aHore In Charlotte has heea tried In court for "retailing." Aran Th cresant lnw. avalnat waaranav wtl remain inadequate to meat o diUow Jut so long as tha dafendaatslflrna atore i ehariott allowed to are altlo to reach t down in : thaiir J retail t Or are ; they restricted A. to vmmtm ana prouuca an amount 01 1 wwu eaab that wUl van make tha court 1U elf hluah with s, feeling of poverty. . From .tha Greenville Reflector. ) f Jack Johnson's .thiar kr.aK. i 1 nn aauonai page or we vnarioite ... j7r V 'r.' l'Obwr is the brtgntes gem n tn t produces gound that la said t Worth rarollna 4onmallam. M In faot reaembl th throwina; ; an cf tha lit Is not surpaaaed hy anr; paper la dutch. : .v. . 1 ': ''. f Sveataol Vp Kowi,' f ' (From the Saliaburr Post.) There is no apparent good reason why tho Eecedere should have taken to the wood to hold their annual Synod a indicated by the faet that thie paper haa failed after persistent attempt to gat telegraphic report of the session. Having extended all the usual mean at command In such emergencies, the Associated Pre, tbat can penetrate a Jungle with its alert aaa 1 service or send detailed eocounta a 1 a, vvw . - m . . : j . m tk I.!. . rum., ni China, was requisitioned, but without avail. The meeting, by the way. 1 being held at Troy, Tenn. A court , la 8t, Loula haa ordered a huahanA it wtk hi. v.kv kM y' r1' toSnhrgnn v fwi imarniDf auurtaa 0f th fact that it ha at laat got to apply to tha judiciary of that dty. even with Conoord. And tt U all he- causa cnartoti naa a croueyieas cari If there 1 ye anybody who hast .' . not d.i..rf . r.1.. ,1,: I'r:...:. th. wumington sur, to be informed that 1 .i,'. 1, , CharlotU.la now reaeWn. put for to be informed that U wlU aooa be concentrated and mora eoonom- ume to piaoi anctaer. ical government. It la to he hoped that aha will get both in the new With an abundanoe o( corn bread charter which la being considered for and cabbage, potato pie and turnip tBat greena, tne rotas in tha country who M3mxmtxv&l ana no contentment with Ufa Dosaeas i,.M n. u.aa v.nt a awpoaition mat ja little lasa than Apropoa of hi new relation to th terocioua ana ar certainly not fit home of the "Mecklenburg myth," aublaota for ana af tha mla. .i,.n. Editor Hemphill Of the Charlotte Ob server narrates rois miliars aiwry 01 the negre and the haunted house. wtitnh nnnelitdaa with tha nea-m'a rau Unieaa he tried, to gat reduced rate mark: "Law. Mister; you ain't need for hla aubject. the bandit who made me run yet." Kuff ad. The major's tries a Washington roan drink cocktail on n" mmmm all night at the point of a pistol Better By Far. howd a savagery at which we R.).i.n Ntw, tumbl for a name to daaoxibe. server.) No wonder the Charlotta papers If the Presbyterian Synod can find occasion to prolong Its program for a sufficient length of time, the weather promises to do Its part toward mak ing up the deficiency in rainfall that has been lasting for about a year. It Is an impressive fact that those denominations that have for many year been using the new hymns ar now clamoring to return to the old songs, while those that have been using the old Palm ar trying to modernise their versions. any would satisfy the "demands" of the public If the advice of The New York World should be followed and a selected number of the highest of the high-brows should be sent to Jail. That would not Interfere with the regular and due course of business and It would prov to the much har ried people that the Anti-Trust law i really a criminal statute. BOOKER'S TROUBLE IN NKW YORK. Last March, Booker Waahlngton got into considerable trouDie in New York City. In looking for a man by the name of Smith, whom he wished to consult on certain mat ters connected with Tuskegee Insti tute, he went to an apartment house in East (trd Street, where he thought Smith lived. The vestlbul of the house waa dark and In groping about to see the numbers and name on the door plate, h was suddenly as saulted by a man named Ulrlch and badly beaten. Probably he . would have been killed had h not sought safety In flight. Aa it waa, h was badly bunged up. Ulrlch wa arrest ed and held for trial for assault and battery;- He charged- that Washing ton had insulted Mrs. Laura Alvarea, with whom Ulrlch boarded, by saying to her as she passed him in the ves tibule, "Hello, sweetheart" Washing, inn denied positively that he had done anything of the kind, and after a delay of eight months the case wa tried in the Court ef Special Sessions, before . Jn4e' Q'Kecfc, ... Mom and Seller, last , Monday, and tTIrleh ---was acquitted. Justice O'Keefe dissenting. Immediately upon the conclusion of this case. Ulrlch wss arrested again; charged with being a fugitive from '.'y well managed and will hareNew Jersey, , whera he baa been In- WHITE AND BLACK IN THE CEN SUS. That the proportion of negro to white population Is decreasing in tho United Statea aa a whole, but moat rapidly in the South, a bulletin Just Issued by the Census Buresyd unmis takably shows. According to data prepared from returns as of April 15, 1910, the population of the United States proper was 11,972,2(6, of whom whites numbered 11,782,(87, negroes 9,828.294, and the remainder were divided among Indians, Chinese, Japa nese, etc. The country wa thu nearly nlne-tenthg white. Except for the period 1890 to 1900, whose, re turns are considered defective in this respect. it had been growing steadily whiter during at least thirty years. Negroes now con stitute only 10.7 per cent of the total, as compared with, 18.1 per cent in 1880. Of course Immigration of foreign -born whites acco'unta for much of this larger white Increase, but by means of data at hand the bureau 1s able to make proper al lowances, estimating thei natural white Increase since 1900 at IB per cent, aa against ll.t per cent for the negro. It is true that aside from Immigration-) the rate of increase among whites has decreased during each decade, tint among negroes the rate of in crease has not kept even this slacken ing pace. Here In the South, where natural Increase of white population I consid erably higher thsn In the North, tho last decade saw whiter gain 4,025, (03, or 24.4 per cent, as against a gain among negroes of 82(,421, or only 10.4 per cent During the whole period since 1880 the whitos have gained about twice a fast as th negroes. Today South em population I approximately van-tenth whit and three-fourth negro. Oulaid th South there are riow considerably more than 'a mil lion negroes. Emigration of negroes from the South is credited with caus ing a good part of the larger white Increase. Owing to emigration negro population In the three State of Maryland, Kentucky and Tennessee haa actually declined. On the other hand, becaua of Immigration from other Southern Statea, It constitute a larger proportion in West Virginia, Arkanaas and Oklahoma than it did ten years .ago, , " ' - From one of the statistical tables which th bureau appends we; : get detailed confirmation of an earlier an nouncement that in the only two States having fewer ' whites than blacks, the. numerical preponderance of negroes is shrinking rap'dly. south' Carolina now haa 7,lll whites and About the only sensible thing to say about It 1 that those drummer who fail to attend the traveling men's banquet her tomorrow night will leave out of their lives the actual pleasure and the , refreshing memory of a very fin occasion. Brooks' oomet would play .to a much Ar advocating a ehang la th math- larger audience If It would consent to od of city government, sine th give matinee performanoe Instead of mfor ha t0 rar h oor" ,oc4 holdln. th. bord- .nar-antrv at E to kVD A Wn'm ? L" L.1 - man to nil a vacancy, a commission o'clock In th morning. I u better than the aldermanlo irre sponsible and divided Power sort of Tha man who is not moved to the government under which Raleigh and best emotion whan observing the rapidly-changing gloria of tho flowers and flelda and forest in these good days ought to be paying poll tax at the North Pole. Charlotte live. It la somewhat singular that th par capita consumption of malt liquor and the per capita circulation ef eur renoy run along on about an even basts In figures. Justly Famous Birds. (From the Columbia State.) A sly dig in the Charlotte Observer aimed at Woodrow Wilson and Wll Ham J. Bryan recalls that Charlotte was the birthplace of tha notorious gander and th cackling hen. A Nortb Carolina Farmer. (Clarence Foe, tn the World's Work.) Re took me to his home la an auto mobile (and he has a right to run one. for his net Income in 1910 was 110, 000); and we got out and went Into a hall lighted with electricity; when I went to my room I found the nous Th Republraan and Democrats will stage a muck more spectacular performance within the next fe month, and those who cherleh dieap- w" fitted wfth an up-to-date syetem ,,,, ... a oi wKerwari ana were waa a type- polntment over th. late draw In the wrtT 0B my t., desk and a tele bout ar prom lead that th Issue will phone sat besid It And this man Is be much more olear-cut and the re- a farmer and haa made his money ...it ,..h nr. .nliln than. tanning, mis name is W. B. UODD TOumy vi ngovno, nun oi norm Carolina; age 86. Eighteen years ago he wa an ordinary looking 18-year- old Southern farm boy, with eighty acres of land, two males, one horse and aome one-hora power plow, and just on thing else; plenty of pluck. DOVH Gfl THE FAIli.1 ;.'-:':--','--;fA Fine). Colt ii' ,y, l (From The Wadesboro Ansoalan T''ji v Tha flliaat l.vaaj..nld Mnlt aa.n trnrl .. ,-' n ; Utany years was shown v on the street Ucuday morning ; by Mr. -. Oideoit u.frs a cltlsen ot Wades. . b.re tiwnslip. lh colt la a noauty , 1M avalvha. SiS muhii Mr Jam.''' a, Lwskttart 'o ka a fine olt of . which he Is very proud. Isn't it abtut -y. time Anwn-had a htje hoT ... A Monster Potato. (From The Rort Mill Times. . . ' - Tha largest . potato aeen - her 'thla season was ah own on tha street Monv day mornlnr bv Rev. W.' A. Hainan ' Tho potato was preaented to Mr. Ilaf-' ner several days ago by f Mr. Ov JLt fugg. a farmer of th county.. Mr. Hntner stated that the tuber 'weighed pound and added if he Just had aom of splinter Tabbit foot" to go along with it, ho would be fixed all right,-. .;. .. --., w r Harvesting Their Yams. . (From Th Newton Enterprise.) Wbeticvervtha around laan nmk the Catawba sweet potato raisers are now putting In good time plowing up and housing thslr big. rich-flavored yams. The September and October, weather wa Just right for thl crop : and .the yield is going to be a big one. The good potato crop will to om extent mak up for the short crop and low price of cotton. , Tho farmer who put a few acre la pota toea and a few In cotton ami rataa their own oorn, wheat sad pork, are not hit as hard when cotton prove unprofitable as the farmenrwho put all their egg in one basket. Plenty of Gam. (From Th Newton JBmtarpriss.) Tha open huntlna aeason In fv. tawba oounty will bgln November IS and end January IS. Durlnr the and Ob-1 two months every kind of gam can dc hunted, birds, rabbit, squirrel and 'possum. W are told that the protection under the new law thl year will result in an Increase of all kind of gam .and that hunting will be good when the Ud 1 lifted. A Tourist Hotel. (From The Greenboro Newa) There is not a point in the entire South that afford a more promising location for a large tourist hotel than Greensboro, and such a hotel Is one Of Now ha erona BOO aoraa af larul haa .1 ,- .v.VIII.I.. .LI. . 1 . . iao ariy pruoaujiiuoa lur uw twnty-vn hores and muhvs. b. The State of Maine ha beed pro nounced officially "dry," but th bat tleship by the same name em con tent with Its present attitude. Those paper that ar having fits of laughter over the present political situation tn this city ought to have learned long ago that even when at tempting such a thing as a filibuster, Charlotte la merely displaying Its spirit of doing everything it tackles up to the Queen liking. The pushmoblle 1 the latest fad with Philadelphia youngatr. If these Uttle fellows ever attain to the possession of a genuine gasoline mechanism, they will probably find that thslr preaent diversion will have served aa a liberal education. "The Thief" pleased Greensboro, an nounce a headline. It 1 commonly reported, however, that th brother hood of burglar ar sorry that they can not make the admiration mutual The statement of a scientist that th human skull 1 so clastic that it can be laterally compressed to th extent of a whole Inch and then come back to It original dimension ought to be heralded with delight on th part of th football profession. We see no reasonable ground vpon which th court In th McNamara case excused a Juror because he had weak lungs, sine, it I Indicated that, unless children ar chosen to hear that case, the whole bunch will be dead by the time the trial ia ended. Disposition having been made of all the 1910 nickels that have go far been held in captivity, the report that this make of the money is counterfeit pro: duces no panic at jhl moment It is distressing to reflect upon the announgementihat the iniquitous ten. dency of all commodities to rise in price has strayed over to, the de lectable cranberry Juat at th tlm of year when the. appatlt has naen put in training for an annual conflict with hi majeety, the gobbler, whose presence on the plate 1 alway in complete . unless . accompanied by a goodly smearing of sauce. . In verv few localities of thla county I it Impossible for a farmer to bring hit produce to the city without wad ing for many hours through slush and mud, which I only Another way of remarking thab Mecklenburg baa been vangellsed With the gospel of good roads. , , t - -t r S f j t , f ! k " t , 4 1 - . Even In Charlotte they are able to And only acant objection to a $200, 000 tourist hotel for Greensboro. The Chronlcl says: i "There Is talk in Greensboro of a $200,000 tourist hotel. Were It not for the fact that -Greensboro is so close to well-equipped Charlotte, such, a hotel might be made to pay." To show you Just how w feel about that, Greensboro doea not object to being "so close to well-equipped Char lotte," and we would-not have the dis tance Increased a singl mil. We do not feel at all handloapped by th short 98 mil between ua, miles that have been made short by rapid trans portation. Future development will make them shorter still. We congratulate Charlotte on ita equipment It has set an example that Is worth following In soma lines, and Greensboro doe not feel too proud to emulate a good example. Be ing outsid th corporate limits of Charlotte and inside the metas and bounds that have been fixed for th purpos ot keeping house for our selves we have duties to perform for the advancement of our own muni cipal family interests. Th building of a tourist hotel we believe to be one of those duties. If we do not build it we will neglect a duty. Would "well-equipped Charlotte" have an advantage in competition T We think not Oreensboro occupies a convenient point of distance between the rigorous North and East and th mild and balmy Florida winter r sort, a tourist hotel here would fur nish an ideal stopover resting place, a desirable break tn a long journey. Moreover, the fast tourist train from th North to th 8outh arrlva bar at an Ideal time of day for a stopover tneae schedule have been maintained for years, and will likely be continued. Arriving her at S and T o'clock in the evening would be more desirable than arriving at bedtime or midnight In any aspect of the case well-equip ped Greensboro would have nothing to fear In competition with "well equipped Charlotte or any other town. v.. v. . , , ;'; ' ' Anyhow, a tourist hotel ' 1 one ot the things the Gate City has put en It hook for future reference, and we believe we are going to get it aides a gasoline engine, a ebredder, a hay press, a manure spreader, a grain drill, a corn binder, a wheat binder, harrows, lister, cultivator and th like; his neighbors call him "Senator Cobb" (for he la a member Of the up' per hous of th General Assembly ), and he expect to sell 180,000 worth of stuff this year. Nothing to Bo With It. j )From The Lancaster Newa.) ' We quote from a recent I Waxhaw special: . . " y-'-'..f'ft' "Very -much excitement, a well as amusement, waa . manifested hare on the streets of Waxhaw thl evening, when- It beoama known that tho targe sign painted and pat up by the peo pie of Waxhaw to designate the birth place of Andrew Jackson had been taken down and moved down th road for a mile and put up on South Caro lina soil, pointing directly to th plao and spot th-South Carolina friend claim tha much-honored j President was aaw''i8 ' ' .4feu'!i?&i4 No, we don't bellev that tho Dea con had anything to do with moving th sign to the right Dlacet least not directly. . Hi .Illuminating, en lightening and convincing editorial on the subject of Jackson's nativity. whll holding down his Charleston Job, together with Historian Salley and Professor Basxett's unanswerable argulhents In favor of Couth - Caro lina's claim that Andy, was born oh her soil, have no doubt caused many Tkrf Heels -open Z to conviction to change their minds and ,lt 1 likely that some of th thu converted have, prompted by an exalted sens of jus tice, eased their consciences r ny re moving the sign to the place where 11 shoul dhave been originally ereoud. V Pant of Archery. (New Tork Pre.) In the day when the buffalo was found In vast herbs on the Western plains there were Indians who, while riding at a gallop, could send an arrow through a buffalo's bodv. Remark- fable as thla archery was, yet it did rnot quai that reached by the archers of ancient times It Is of record that the MaeRae of Galrlock, Scotland, were such skillful archers that they could hit a man at tho distance of 800 yards. In 174 the Turkish ambassador at London shot an arrow in a fflsld near that capital, 41S yards against th wind, and 481 yards with the wind. The secretary ef the ambassador, on hearing tha expression of surprise from the English gentlemen present ksd th Saltan had shot 80S yarda This was the greatest performance of modern days, but a -pillar, standing on a plain' near ConstantmopVa, re corded shot ranging up to 800 yard. Sir Robert Atnalle, British ambassador to the Stubtlme Porte; record that la '1TI8, he area present when the Sultan hot an error it yaxua. (fflRpuJf. " Tjot ef Banting Going cin, (Everybody Magaalne.) Old Captain Wilkinson Jones of fArkansa paid W flrat jirtt in 4 year to Maw iorx last ai. vn uu kflrat momlnrth started, for a stroll down Broadway. At canai vee, on of. the main cross-town arteries, hs wss halted by th streams ox tramo, which rolled by In four .weaving stream. H contemplated th end lea procession of loaded trucks, vans, drays, carta and wagons some minute. Then he approached Traffic police man Kelly, on duty at that corner. ; 'SuV inquired captain Jones with a courteous bow, "a r you connected wtlth tha city government hero, sunr ' "WeU,, aald Kelly, "I'm a polioe offioar. if that's what ytm mean.'? Te uh,M ;4d.th captain; fan X Judge .from v youah costuma ana a otment . And I would Just Uk to ay to jfow.i uh, that you gattUemen h.. . flna itv Tnera. uh. a- truly marniflcant city. But tell tn, uh ain't you got powaniuiiy . pnjna wun youah bauun 7; - ",: ',riwamotida and Ijetuotta. ' ', .;iiaMf8 Journal) ' Forcible Illustration ot tth working af th tariff law 1 seen in the rates of diamonds and on lemons. ' ' r On leroons hnportad into., thw countby. eonumers pay. In addition to other cost, at tti rate of TStt per cent . Last year ear people paid 8tSS,U8 In the shape ot duties, on Imported lemons. oli!aiBnd .tth rate I I per eant" jjeatons aara m nT mm nm Tita nnaunwi man wt but dictated by the tariff-protected producer. fonaa. whloh are of no- real s except for oruement-tf Tthtat ay be called u- those whose mean enable thtem to buy them are let with a petty W Per cent lnoreas in price -:'p,jrhl,vrur taw .wwrnlnaWi'S:'';'?;; The tariff massrs as noi presens m lemon in a literary sense to the people: but thtey co it in - tn sense or current and expresslv slang. ..,...,,-,':"...'";"-.., Oahbpgo Growing. (From The Newton Enterprise) Mr. B., A. Moose, orlrlnator of tha Idea of oabbaga crowing in winter time, give no tie at another place that ha haa three-fourth ot a acre of plant that ar now jut right for transplanting. Mr.- Moora shinned hla first lot of plant Tuesday to Tennes see, n i an old confederate soldier who 1 making a good living In truck ing. Cabbag. sweet potato, and Irish potatoes are his special tie. Tho Ranter tn SSk. (From Th WUkeaboro Chronicle.) 'Squire W. T. Land of Elk towaahin inform us that th 6entr I in his neighborhood roving around loose. oaring people and frightening doge. He ha been heard for several nights, and he-holler, according to Mr. Land-, a great deal like the mountain lion of the Rocklea One night laat week about dosen men armed with dor and gun mad a hunt for him. They could hear htm holler, but could not get eloe to hJm. The dog are afraid or htm. 'Squire Land any they in tend to keep on hunting till they get him. They dont Intend to let a little aantar from Iredell or Alexander dis turb the peace and dignity of Blk township. Some Fine Oabbaga. (From The Newton Enterprise,) . We have nvr aeen finer apple and bigger heads of cabbag in the Nwton store than they are now hav ing, and both ar Bailing quite reason ably. In fact both apples and cab bage are cheaper and more plentiful than during th summer season. They come from beyond the Blue Ridge aa the apple and cabbage crops on this aid cf the mountain were almost as near a failure as in this county. This accounts for th fact that the apples are of different varieties and better flavor than we are accustomed to get from the wagons at this time of year. OOMMTSSTOX GOVKRTMEXT. (From Th Durham Sun.) Thar la nothing that 1 doing mor to create publlo sentiment In favor of tha oommlaslon form of government for cities than the endless bickerings of aldermanlo boards over problems of peanut politic. An excellent example of such nick ering is furnished by the board of aldermen of Charlotte. Charlotte is faoe to face with a new clvlo era Bonds to the extent of one million dollar have been Issued for Improv ing th streets, constructing a water system and other far-reaching clvlo betterment Many problam are de manding the solution of th board, upon the wise solution of which de pends the future welfare and pro gress of th city to a large extent Instead of getting together and Delv ing th problems quietly and syxt matieally, th board of aldermen of the growing metropolis have wasted almost the entire year in idle' bicker ing. , For a number of months the aldermen kep the dty in an uproar by attempting" to hound down a large corporation whloh has done more for th development of Charlotte than any other agency, on a paving pro position that should havs been settled in a business-like manner In few hours. This fall the Charlotta board ha devoted almost Its entire time to the election of one -new member of tha board.' Meeting after meeting has been held, wires have been pulled, quorum broken and the entire time of tha board that ahould have been, devoted to constructive work has been wasted. ; There came a flnaJUnW Monday evening when the mayor took' a firm grasp of the situation and ta-, tinned several policemen at tha- en- ; tranoe to tha council chamber to pre- ' vent the members of the board from . breaking th quorum until the hew ' member could be elected. The affair led The Charlottt Chronicle to re mark that: t ' ' , avv "The -mas. who-v originated '. the ' phrase Peanut Polities' must hav got ; his bearing from what the star said would be in store for charlotta in t tha year lt.".'iic-tv-; -:,.'. .... ; sv.t. ( It 1s not In Charlotte alone that at. . dermanta boards how their unfitness for governing a city wisely. There 1' hardly a dty in North Carolina but that is cursed with political agi talon In its government ' That the nrenar form of commission government will eummat these undesirable conditions to a large extent ha been demon-- r .1 trated many times., ' r j mi n ."....mi i i J'K " tFor'Tft Observer v , THE tiAW. . tj , H robbed on woman ef her gold, J v ' Her purse's wealth aloaer ' i They gave htm chains and strlpes-'twa right .'-.-.,, ' , That a should thus aton. . H robbed another of her nam. ' - 4 Twaa aU shs had to lose; tn all th book can there be found NO lew that htm accuse MRT GROOMS M'XINCH, 4 f 6