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v.,v 1 CHARLOTTE DAILY OBSERVER, THURSDAY, 'AUGUST 27, 1914 BOBNVED BT J. r. CALDWELL AXD IX. A. TOMFaUJisV PuliBshad by Ttaa crrr Company at Jev IS South Tryct. e;ret. Charlotte. M. C, avary day tn tha year. SUBSCRIPTION RATFS. By Mali. Post af PaM. JJanV and eonflav. aaa m"ti I .W IJeJ'v an Bends y, tire montha.... f J"Hr and ftundtv. six n.rtnths Ot naflr ami Sunday, one ?r II tl , . M jm; cnVy. ;tha':::::::::::'.": .. m ''" institution uke IVflv otitv on- vm . !thc Hank of France or the iteichs- 2S:: 0?:;. IS"-- ri for ,a. Sesnl.Weekl. va- Ml I li- .-0111111 i. Nul for us wim i'i-- Ill.B- ' 1 - . , , .A.inMl t ,T"Tv "'rtnTlnn. fo 1l ""'"'T" I" hm T?nvrsal Postal Union. Including postal . nArLT avt rvnTt "ta moum . 11 w 'im vr iri- irvlUT nrM muiiiiia. . n 11 nr . - 1 On month., fl On vMr. .r.to 1 1 Vt WFF1TT.T- months flMlftna vrn' ... fn erilT to avoM av nn aerount of rerenpgl lttm tn Th ONirf hwiM rot hf nililrriiiit'1 to inv Inil'vldiial onneete(' v'.'h !bi pnrer. out aim ply t The Ob-rvrr 'omrany. AJtfrew rhanped orron nm flMftrert- but loth new and eld xiidrtrs mint b 1ve. COMMfN"I'-.Ti . :.H. AH emnmunlrs'lonii hoii''l h ad-troaseJ to Tb Ohaervur CoT.pt - B'id not to In- dtviduulf Tf wiMnn w ho ii'it'm't Mi for pubhVatlon. Wih t hw releet'd ar- tlrtea rtumeJ thev tnuit tn all raee aeod (tampa Knterad at th pei orno at rhariott ai Seroni C!u Ma'l Matter. TH!'KSIi.V. Al (.1 VI J7, KM I. GOVr:iioii 111. ni l i.t. It hot lie. I ,- 1 11 . nil. 1 -alt il from u. r fr.-in 1 '.r 1 . 1 t il,..i ;..,ei. lor Bleax i,m' li .1 . 1 . . : 1 1 1 r 1 . 1 . t I'l.i'e In fkiiil h " r. , 11. 1 , ,. 11 11 n k,,h 1 In- 11 sult cf vKttifT'liti.i: 1 oii!.n.-i. ll Was I : ' T 1 1 Hated l"l lio.rtl.nl I 1. if years at. 1:1m . !iI.i'..m-.ih t.,. . 1 A ht:; leatlii.K t-jT nn :n 1- .1 i-i 1 1 . lot n " -IM Tim fa ft .r wlit Mr 11. -if anl rtlatr.e'l ?nr i .in a u. t-i mn" eirpporl, elr: jii. u tin ' ) 1 i : 'r wet. on. wlili!, wv-i,l'l imt -.Mi. r .- have ticen hir T' : In- -i ' ,i' ' (raining for h.u bhrp of th f.i' Identifier! With ! If 1 1 f 1 1. a.. 1 , i-.iiti .1. .11. n I villi. he waa u. . i-vl .l i- u k'tt Senator Tuliuaii j.. 1 i him JU-t t'tfore I',' . in ii). 11. haied .,,,, ,,f retiftminat inn . iui. 1, roue h iK-eriiiii ef' ' Bleaae had ..l.-.tii .t. -i ' I , for the ' 'TUlnnm. m. w m: I W - I 'I'll. .ei nor ,H. am h .in: cr.mpletod a v-r m n . tv.n; whatever alteii.l.n.t 1 1 .i.IHi'-h. h a. about to f-aH 1 11 ( t ll.e ln.l nry .. llie fltats. Mr. Tillman . 1 . 1 .... i ..n.l Willi excellent reason, thut ' I ;l :n" .-111' Waa either a revival 1.1 a . x it nun ' auceeminr f.f 'Tllliiiaiiimn Hut Mr fl!eae made miiri) people thin), that U wvui. lie enrtainiy i:ii'.l up nml Solidified behind Iiiimx.-K ail the lin irerlnir ramor he ild IL- . -r 1 . i 1 1 1 -had a (food deal of In -1 1 hun he op. prtneirtd and wltti' i' .1 "iiii k..nii-iiii..i llill Itl'll-fflMlt 'h:!,. 1 . t, . In 1 1 fill den 11 ne iai : .1 I i. .v , .1 . . . , .. ; . 1 , . r.tly trnfdyuit; l h 1 ' -1 1 l"i a large imhi of . t f n.M- .nin inueh ei nee. tf 10.1 netnni i-ihIi'i n tion. when !n pitfeii i-ai n-.i: n Ktr.tniem im-n ih.lo-I ili.-inm-h.-ii Where they VM.nM i.lli' iw n. have rhoirn not to I.-. A -. t f.t. i..i he waa help.-,) 1,... ..n y 1.. tin- lem.m nation rimmm. wlu-li lie ,1: hi . il i'i" a I pea ra tin of . '.i a ml f 11. n . 1, .1 1 p.- f-eeti'lori In l Klr.ini Irm ...pei ,t,!r )IJt a.'i by I In I In 1 1- 1 . . 1,.,, ., whleh tntwt of h.x ..pp,.,,, .,'.. f, r from treatii.i; Willi Mn t.,..,..-- 1 i.r trey HllOUl't , n I 1 AJil llOVVIlVrl. ll.e fppoe Jnriirmnl Ii ba.l ii-aii.t at lai A 'ei v.. ,1 .- -i ; doubt Inr-H p In , , 10: , .- , n , l'lth the popnlur ' ol .''. a rr. on k the fit in...... u.,-, iaa be. ii il lean 'I t ..1 1 1.. Ij iii.i unit m! 1 . 1 1 at ' to Bay t h . 1 'in ,' U 1 v r '; ' never iood I' i an i'ihv Btrueli v e. I f he I 1 a?. 1 Mini I . ' ' . t I y I . . I : M I.. ul. !.- -. .'..i So. i'i l I... III. a K. I. ... I III I ill ! . mil I ii l, I ha Tien'e 1! Hli! i-e .ih a mi.ii ennaiderat.,' .'iffer. 14 V-n haa been W. hh-nihl lil t jrtiaaltii 1 it v 1 e , , .. it. f , h, diano'i eifiii u:tt. fi'im t. the fi.tur.-, tn H aufury t lu. t . - ,, . ,, they wuld !.-... 1 . w 1 People moia n: , . . ward Mr. Ii;. ..1 . . have rrow. .1 . I I: I" " I t ' I'lM't I t I" . H Mlllg civ , ... I., . , ; d , I iu: ii i i h i im i t i n Ieal ml'1 . . I-, i, i.. ' - a I . n . Oil Oerin.ur. ... I'.u . ii,,n I a days. J ii - 1 . - 1 1 , . . i , , , j , f military x, . i . v. . --. . ,, , , lt the ;! fi.-.. i, i ... . .';., , i ,, . III lln.-' t h .- I: I- , d I ., I I'ar.s . ar, : i , ,. ., sU It-Hi-t .. ;, . i 1 . p .-:!.' ., . a . end a 'niif i '. , - ,-. , . , i,,, W ai-hii.giui. .... , . JfW Yo'n i'ti a war i Mi i When Ihe ... brnke i.i.i inn v'.'.t -u lt.glon eijx-lt' gave i' 'lire, m ,,, ha, Just as The blis-n t-i )i .ni ibm. , ,t since Ji-rirati victore i'i , i, . , rlaed their sights to a r.uigt o .wo ytars. s A" EXT YKAH s, (.OTTON CHOI'. jirW-hen In. European war adds very ,' ..Materially to the price of wheat, uud j fcliU off very material proportion of .y1,, rht would be a fair price for cot. ( u, . rjr .mien concerns itio rar fV, " lo ""B "'ttena. It U Irnpor. n " tmfmmr wgms now i .Chink about his er tor nest year, eotton le U U terrled for e yr vr t to eme, It tm Important that , jlne, farmer make eomethUif lee be. Ct4 cotton. " It le ' time or nlnil t vegw w hmbk emkat now ro rtiftke , crop Wwa Um tcettn ttad more food I BAXX OF K.OtAm BROJUC-A , 1KOIOATION. During- tha lone but at last splendid. ly successful flht for currency, re form The Observer pointed out that (ha Kngllsh systom aa a model would never do. It was w II filled to Eng land's own reyulri merits under ordi nary circumstances, which require ments, however, v.ere very different In in ipuih. Wo needed a system rest-in hllng not in organisation but In general principle (he plana used ly Fiame. Germany, HeutU iid and Cuna da especially Canada. While we ,. w . i .ii .,1 1 1-, h tlMtlll Of ItiSUIhg Itt U.I I ly gold . I v ., rein use ett I t: ii (.-.. dollar lor ilul - I , . . . , , , , , ,. , lur against notes. 'J 111 a would have . , .1 r ul, "-- - I in.w tils, anted plan of iiiiiii lu.nk eiirreney only iicuinul 1 Jo i-1 iilnetit In mix J'nKluriil h polii v w.n em jil'utien !! thiil of 11 i-redlloi- Nation, U'h,, 11,11 ,1 fntl il'v iiMi-w.-lf :,l ihm-cjimII V , , . , . , ' by i-ull.iit; 111 1 reiliM ami makliiK her .InljlnrH everywhere uland thi- hrunt. j It Mf.x 11 11 il Iri .1 .i-ZH Fyrtelll, as v. liu.' hud our lat-'.it oi:eaioi to realize iluniij,- ihe ,it few weekf. h.i.-t ir j.o 'j.i i. u the whole served i-;iieaml h w t l'. : I lias even been ! , , f 1 m-1. 1 to . . . in in' I - e at ' I ,; 1, to no 1. til illiale 1 11 v Hat' '. er Vi-t. i-v en for ; I. .1 in a .la NKeroiiM i-v mi em. ! i 'I v , . i.eeii ii .... t il time anil auain. , 11 in epi'ii of Knlund n uiiajiielv, .miik l iiarn ial po.ntion tile Hank of j Kljtah'l hail l-ltllel had I'i Villi ft 1 1" a .-iitp.ii.mil "f 1 1 h .halter. ' tlia !.:, 11.111 lly might be Kiven note tsoieM 1 la t em po ra rily a bd ndonllig the 1I0I-. 'la 1 - fur-1 1 1 . . r pr.n. iple, to lean' ht.-ivlly upon oiln-r i 11 .t il ut ion." I n ' ' : w.i r.-.". lly 011 a baiK of ledit . lainl 1 1 inieiii) by iikiliti the Hank , , ol l-"ram e. , ( In llie pleMTit Situation the Hank ! of Kngland ban been 1 tun pe I led to throw u)i 1 1 x lianiln hiKher than ever before ItK dim oiint rate waa at 10 pel rein, which ineiinl itint it could I, ot f.i.-.t n iiit Thereupon Knglieh lai'eilame bankann.1 banking houern 'were fa.e to face with ba 11k Miptey on a 1 1 1l1.1t would mean the mot .' I ! -.1 . 1 1 1. Wltckage 111 the 'A... I I 1: i'-1-. mill hiHiory. An mi foimer inca 'n"l.. the I inv errilliei.l threw Itwlf in. In lllr Lie, oh. Itn llml step Y-IXK 10 ' .... M iiuihine whn II We not onii have IKVI-I 1I0 lie tui which the 'n!ltllU- ..f 1 he I ihli-'l Hialej will not let In The v.Ty name for I be a. - '"h '''iknowii over lure, .wo that the woi l "iiioiaioilum" puxaled every 1. ne Iii i meant noininit less man .1 .11 h rit .1 repudiation of ilebtH for n ...,i,.i I 1 1 k t ti of lime. The IIimI pillud. w hi. h w.tH for 3D days, ban t. . 11 ixtenilotl. ami there la no I n 1 1 -mall. .11 tinw long, in all, the moni tor uni may bint Hut even thU prn 11 dure was not enuiiKli- KiiKllnh bcnliein had no prospect of being able t i meet tin Ir accepla nf es ill ?n. -"t r any other dcllniic number of days. The I '.a nk of KiiMltinil viriually closed iiiKolvent lovvaid Its IcmiiI an. I liiirttv fuiiriioiis Mm the Uovern n.enl look a H p w hi' h, w :,i!e not rev olul omii) from our own tinam tal viewpoint, was utterly I evolul hiia I y in Hit ..ens.- that it .iit lo the winds tvtiy pimi.l Li.aM rrr made for Ihe K i.g i Mi 1 1 nn in aa I slein and tin Itank ol Kiie land It was ihe complete com iii .low ii from a high horse The i ; v i i iiimi'IH guars ntee.l Ihe Hank of 1 1 1 Ii I Then Ihe itlillK 1 mini I e d "(o'lii: a rullicl' iit ViiIiiiiii' of ap pro. 1. 1 pupf. to relievn co minions l.eii hi thin. tin- banknotes now I in, I ....I me ir" in .1 noli l against thn . , m I. in I i i ei i ' of I he Kin Is ami t he tb i i . 1 1 1 1 1 1 . not against any specilied r. . i..-ie iniich lesH agallisl ah e.jiiil amount of gold. Tin re will be i i.r i t"t.l r- t m e. of course, I nil one gov .ip.njii . ,,.' ! ei i '-.I Ly ii" assiiran1 e as to propor tion .hmvi.i tmn. ,i will be nlmp v a matter of I i lir on... a el imping thio'igh Willi the n'd of v. I .a ' .i . er a Oil ; t miia I u i.m'i.i nml nr i.:uei ex 1 1 a . i d i na i v iiie.iMiiiea. 'I'm 1 1. in ii'.lli.i.ii tiu the requirement ii our new i ii it tn !.i w of the 40 I t .'Ml , old It'll v e w Ii h Ii m ust it,-.: a o I i ... II In lilt m .11 I I I V of I hi ll . i : . 1 1 ' . i ai p- I . I In obligation of 1 Hi. i.in'.ial n.nl- ami "I ihe itgnuia. I.,, i.... ami 'he ultima'!- runitiiiivi' of lint I'f.lt I a I Ibntil.mi I.L With II MVS- it in hi.. .nr new iiKi'io i s , ni i: n i: 1 1 i .1 vv .. i . ha ., li. t i, imon f..r I I ' I I I" bolt) at I n g t n j.ed ii o I it t r u in in- of .I'm... I Kiics- I' III ill l"l ill. IL a. Ihe Mil in- '!,' i'i"ii "1 ilia' t. i mi ot i . ' i r i i r i I I ' I.IW Wiled, W I. I le a hl,l i 1 1. g a 1 1 ''.. i.i,il:ii of a n-n: bank eiiri em y. I i i ,d ' h llml balll'. in. lis .-.II. ill lie s. kai I b ii i 'I III Hit- Uih III. i . d I 1.1 v re iiii.ii- iesi.it bi t nine psvab'e bv 1 he , I'i ib iai i Po i t n itiini Tin,, piovif.ttn ' vva m. i h - iillclst-,1 liv KiiMii.-h baiik- t II. .. a .Ie.altlle fl'MO .'..l. . I bsilk- ' ii ; p'-.m :ples S'line of i"ii own I u : -i k ir n in.i'il i ii i.i r pi i f i us I l .l v. 1 1 1 1 1 , t Is 1 1 ' , e ilia' win h a .i.., ;v tli.n would be tib .i i i.iim ble If ill). ; . . , 1 1 . 1 1 1 .-1 1 1 tiowiieil the banks frnm il i ir 'i.... i f mill mn.-i, ooi r.irit mv 1 w i.iiln.iiz.s until, ng of the kind ... I. .tui. of the law has lai.-i Iv In,., i) (, it, It,) in n'l . .all. is w.lh I git'H'i-r f.tvi.r iHtiii tins one Ami now I Km la i. d ti t i ii 1 1 1 -1 it ) ep) lien. I- bears I W dl.t s In ihe Inn. lest tones V- how le. .gi .. thin an 1 1 v. r Tn t iiiiaiik'f has good reason to entitle itself The Ktatcman . The new Al. torriey (lelit-ral halts from there. Hu do Col. K. M House, w ho hss br n cal'ed our Assistant I'res dent, and PiMmaster General llurlion Kecre. tary of Agi l ullurn Houston had his heme there until this roving North Carolinian finally moved lo Si. lunula All the real of Tela Is Greaaerland by comparison wlih Austin. It Houston, In particular, hU Ha unkempt head. Ws woujd like to eitraH enougH grs iqa of truth from the mees of buncombe to let ts knew what part. If Mf, eeroptaneg and dlrlftbies bare Bleyed, v Tby re undlf PCll I A crowd of American touxtota ght Into Now York a few daVa aao on an Italian chip which they had prac tically bought, having- paid 11 16,000 for the uf of tha veaael tn bringing them over. Thene Airiericana were o,ujrht at Oenoa with plenty of travel- era' check and other food evidence of money, but they experienced con aiderable difficulty In raising the cash for the boat. It wan a cae, however. in which Amerlean perseverance and Ingenuity triumphed. They were oh llgated to pay (0,000 franca to the Hteamahip company by 4:10 o'clock on the afternoon of a stated day, and five minuted before the lime waa up. Hie caahler of the party wmh on hand with the guarantee fund. Hut a bal- 1 ni.ee of 450,000 franco had to ha I Iial-'.d before the day wet for sailing. , ' i or account of the operation of the i ' ! ii.Nminriiim the banks were pay'iie mil only elueken fee, while traveler' 1 -lo k m were worthless for the pu- lume. Then Ihe American neifollat irs haiijiened to think of the Oenoa off!'-'-where Ihe American Fspreaa Com- piinv wan doing bualnewi, and thcr " iln-y mei the Hiimaritan. The man- I airer of ihu company took stock or x.;ch credit paper as the party was able to produce and by various expe dients In the process of gnuraiiieelnsT ami valorization, enough was raised to yati.tfy the Mteutmhip men. The crowd 1 cached hire In good shape, but a la, In nre of (4U,I)0U is vet to be raised to Mpiare aecounls with the nriuuciul engineer. They are talking of tak'ng their trouble lo the Hlute riepartmeir, but the mailer will probably have i'i be net I led nut of court. I .WOTIIKK WAV Till; WAIl fit' UTS. (l.iiiiany hud been making rapid I proiirenj in Ihe race for Industrial and .manufacturing supremacy when the war trouble fume along and put a I Mop to it Al that time Jermany,waa 'developing the hydro-electric industry 'or 11 large scale, hut fill this has been I blocked and the I'nitcd Stales if Riven i another chance to prollt at the ex I pciuic of that country. It was from I'lJerm.-uiy that the H'lUthern Tower rompiiny got its idea of making nitric acid from Ihe air and which resulted in the establishment of the plant at !r eat Kails. Tho American 1 'y.t na nnd 1 'i.mpany . at Niagara Kails. Is making large prolitK from the Herman idea 10 extracting nitrogen from the air, itt. lining ,i Z'j per cunt on Ihe Invest ment This "mude from sir" Ingre d a nt w hich is being produced al ll'eal I'll I Is will be ehippeil lo the 1 uin pa 11 v s p. ant at Mount Holly, j w I 1 re it will be used in the manufac. I Inn of a commercial fertilizer. Thus, ! while (iermany Is under a cloud, Ihe i 11,11 is .ililiung over here and Ainerl (hiik arc maklni' hay while it shlnei joei many s h v drn-i e. t nc development wlih h hud secured eu h headway will be retarded for yearn, and that Is by no means one of tho lemur calumnies of Ihe war for thai country THU Kl'OAIt NITI'ATION. 1'iTlwips there Is no use talking 1.I1011I ir now hut there h HfMrei.lv a free trader In the whole, country ! who will not admit that the cut In tin taiiff on sugar Is producing bad results. The country would have been In belter position now, sn far as prices mi sugar are concerned, had the cut not been quite so deep. The l.inoi a nr inigar planlen were deprived of i llloe I lull III SUCH nil I'lll'lll lllrtL IhouHnnilM of acres t Iih I had been de voted to sugar cane were put tn col ton ami other oii.ii, and In coime queiife. l-ouiHiunii sugar Is not tha far- I lot to the riii.rl.et It hfls hcn (o- im ul. in with tliis en million in the American sugar producing Industry, beet sugar growing in the European i -nun tries hss been for thu time aban doned. The sugar beet Industry In this country Is scoring a lost oppor tcnity, all of winch combines to make an ideal situation for the manipula l on of the sugar market. Hugar stems to be n victim of circumstances. NAM 10 (l.l STI FF. We tec. ill no modern war In which tin charge of using dum dum bullets va. not made, nnd we recall no t use in which It was ever sulsjuautlated. I to ems o Im made simply on gen ital principles wherever one side ami In the pre-ent war one side com iii.mli .t a. t b a lly all the facililli s - is m-ising to cast odium upon the other. Kven in the ll.ilUan Wars this pHltlcu- l 1 -1 1- atiniitv was shown to have been i barged without reason, .N'o Kngllsh- iiiiin will now asmut, nlthough It wa I the repeated Khghsh assertion at the It'iiii'. thai the llnera mteil diim-duin btjll. is We hIuiuIiI be greatly sur I i i "i ll ii 'he liiurge of diim-duin bul- , i- is wi ie tmt heard now along with l-'.'h 1 1 1 u i n i na 1 1 vti Incidents n one re- portetl In a I'arls dispatch to The New ..I U Sun. the o iismred dispatch stat ing thai n I'rench soldier was brought tin re with 11 bullets shot cleanly Mm nigh his body and might live. Tammany derides to be good It will have ew York endorse the Wll i..i AtliiiinUt ration, letting Mr. Hearst si. de Mi 1 1 oil it- accordingly an m iimes that he hss never sought thn seiiiitolNhip. It would be ri ndatuke I i s-uppose that Tammany Is wrung nun h mnn- than bnlf the time. I iidniildedly war has Ita recom p. 1,-es. Home of those Americans who went broke In Europe would lisve gone broke anyway. The thing Is happening every year but It Is not e cry year that Americana sn situated ""' l"MC,, ,'nr'' Hltl ,or wha,'ver they may require. Hi nee the war began we have no b ubt developed many great strate gluts throughout the United Slates, but happily no need to tap these new military resources eslsls. Senator Hoot deolarts that the wild men are on the run. He seyi this as If he believed It, and there li iven a poselelilty that H may be true. wltted o the Uftloa by the Dress ef 1 WIRELESS IN TIB IT ELD. A Hand Equipment Carried -by the (ornuta Army. (Ixindon Dispatch.) O. Baall Barhnm, writing In The Dally Telegraph, glyea pome very interesting Information on the German wireleas equipment for war. Hia article fol lows: "In the German Army at least it would appear that the days of field telegraphs have passed'and the labor ious and lengthy method of laying wire between distant points In order to establish communication ia now obsolete. Only along established lines or communication will wires be laid for telegraphic and telephonic pur poses; the field equipment consists al most In entirety of portable wireless telegraph outflta. 'In other countries portable equip ments or tnla character have neen cumbrous and far from easily han dled. The Herman engineer had, however, worked hund in glove with the Herv Ice man, and the Kaiser's forces are now equipp d with a means of communication which is ho light and portable that a motorcyclist with a Mde car could readily transport ono or tne smaller outfits some 200 miles in a day. "The short rung.- Instruments will aend and receive over an uverage dis tance of 35 miles. Where the coun try is level, as in Holland. It Is pos sible the range might be 40 or 4." miles; In hilly country it might not exceed 15 or 20 miles Tho larger sises have extremely long range and over average country a message could no doubt he sent 180 md'-s or more. "Whllo the range Is good, the dis tance to which messages could ho sent has not been sn object In con struction so much as has been port ability and ease of erection. As re gards the latter point any of tho equipments can be unloaded, set UP and at work within 1 r. minutes of arrival, and they i-nn be taken down and packed in even I ss time. As regards portability. It Is sufficient to aay that a horse will easily carry un outfit of average range, while a long distance sot can be carried by four horses who also carry riders A pack horse and a man between them could take one of the larger sets a distance of go miles In the 24 hour". It has been recognized that it might be necessary to take an outfit into a position whor, neither horse nor motors could pnss, and the Ger man equivalent of our engineers have devised a stretcher of bamboo on which one of the largest seta in use can he carried by eight men over the roughest of country. As the usual wireless crew consists of seven men, two to look after the horses and five to set up and dismantle the set. with two officers to send and r ceive mes sages. It is evident that In field work there would be no necessity to draw men from other duties to assist with the wireless. "The mast, which s mad" of an alloy of which aluminum is a prepon derant compound, is built in eight sections of six feet In lengih. These are provided with altp joints, and the mast is first built up on the ground I ami nrterwntd raised In position. The bottom nro ruber is formed of a socke", bedded In bitumen, which In turn i encased with a metal tube provided wnn a pointed shoe. This is mink il Ihe ground and so supports the! mam out emcient guy ropes av pro vided, to that for hurrb d work the sinking Is not donn. bq- those of the wireless crew who are not sending or generating electricity simply hold the mast in position until the message is HTit and the answer received. "The aeetial is very Ingeniously devised. It consists of a number of I'lonae wire conductors radlatin out li lh, r," n inver:ed umbrella these nr accuratelv balanc.l imt counterpoised, and the radiating wires are attached to insulators fastened near the bottom of the. mast. For sending purposes dry batteries of a sptcial niake nro supposed to bo used, bir In case these are not available a small dynamo, coupled to a pedaling arrangement, forms part of the out lit With this a man can easily drive the generator nt a speed of 1 DOo In 1.400 revolutions a iniiinle and so provide a current of one ampere at 60 volts, whnh is amply sufficient for sending purposes. The weigh of dynamo ami pedal drive Is H pounds and it is so arranged that it cn be carried by one mnn by means of atraps. which fasten across the shoul ders "The transmitter and receiver, the latter of which Is of the well-known 'head dress' pattern, are designed s' as lo be as light as possible, and it might be considered that u curtain amount or efficiency had been saerl tlced to obtain increased portability and ease In erecting "It Is in:er. sting to note that the wave length is about 3M meters, with a coupling; of eight per rent (invari able, and Ihe etiulpment can exclude waves of five per cent variation. The sending ran be carried mil with great rapidity, ami the traiismiiing and receiving- uppuralus, without the mast and aerial, weigh onlv S5 pounds." Till: SMITH SCHOOL. A Uefcnw of the Old fiulldlnc From a StMiilmnital Ntnndxdiit. To the Kililor of The Ohserver: T am sorry to see tho en- rules of Ihe old graded school building arc again on the war path. This I very much regie: to see as this old build ing Is very near and dear to many of the obleM eitliens of Charlotte as well ns other sections of North Caro lina and other States Tf something mus' be done to suit those critics alter and srrango the Inside to suit but leave and let the front and outside walls remain as they now stand and have stood du ring wars earthquakes, cyclones, etc., snd still presents as good a front as any of Charlotte building". Mv first experience In Charlotte was In this building as a student when It was used ns the North Carolina Military Institute under the management of Gen D II. mil Muny have gnno who attended school at this place and many still liv who know It as the North Carolina Milltnrv Insiltutn it will be n shame to bother the front or walls of either the .South .School or the Mint building. it ,hat some or ihe new Issue ore advocates of changing or doing nw0y with all things with any uga and replace with modern things even In the profes sions It is getting to he a dlgrc In the eyes nf some new Issue" to kos anv person or thing of much age prosper or stand. I beseech our Peo ple of reason to preserve and take ears of this n of Charlotte's moat prominent old buildings. F. O. HAWf.ET. Superintendent of Health. Chsrlotte, Aug. J. A WAItiY CHIP FTIOM THE PAHAGRArnF.iva woonrrtB Mr. Debonair, entering dining-room of ralaee Hotel, hands hie hat to waiter, who offere him a check. Mr. Debonair -"Thaaki; I've no use for It." Walter "Ne use for It. sir t It's a chard for your hat." Mr. Debonair I n'iUndi but I've no use for thin about muelo. he'd mils how It take the best hat I eanlenunded womdaV-WaehJnttoa 9af Xeel Srtnts. I Nw avnd Opinions From tbm la pers x ttaa) Stabs. First Oabarrva Bale. (From the Concord Tribune. 24th.) Mr. M. F. Teeter sold yesterday the first balvj of nw cotton for the sea son. It brought nine cents and was bought by Mr, J. A. Kennett for tho l.ocKe Mills. School House Cornerstone. (From The Laurinburg News.) The tine $15, 000 brick school build ing of Uibson will be dedicated on Friday, August 4. The laying of the cornerstone will be In charge of the Masons of the county. A Time for 'lcan Cotton. (From The Smithtleld Herald ) .1 in oi me Kiiuumi iiiipoi tun. e 10 every farmer that he exercises areat care In trying to save his cotton clean this year. As soon as it opens well, get it out If possible. Have it char of trash and keep it dry. Iani aged or bad cott.m will be a drug on the market this year, and it is fur this reason that we ar. calling the farmer's attention to the great im portance of getting hia cotton out clean. The HiiiMon Hciinlon. (From Tho Marshvllle Hum..) Mr. and Mrs. Jerre Illusion hud a reunion of their family yesterday at their home three miles east of M1111 roe. For 52 years Mr. and .Mrs. llin- son have been living at their present home. They movmi there a lew days alter, they were married. At that nome ii ennuren were born to tlmm and 10 of them are living. There are C3 living grandchildren and 10 are dead. There are six great grand children, ail of th.-m living. A Well RalniK-cd Delegation. (From The .Monroe Journal.) "Old mon for counsel, young men for war." In the selection of its rep. reservation in the next General As sembly I'nion County has kept up its reputation of well balanced propor tions. With Uio young men, Messrs. McNeely and Vann. Squire hong, an old soldier and one of our best level headed men, fits in admirably All of these men are personally and politically clean, and tho county will have no cause lo be ahlxiiiK-d of its representation in the law making body of the Htate. Fruit darn and Sugar. (From The Cleveland Htar. ) There could be no kick registered against the prlco of fruit Jars this season and their cheapness aided much toward saving; the bountiful fruit crop which has. a tendency to lower the cost of living. Compara tively speaking a quart jar is cheap at II v e cents which also includes a tup, Hirer, jobber and retailer. The b ilriiwlinrk in rnnin, .M. Ji,. niiirir-r- unit rii-i.rit t .....'... th.. in ,.,..,. i,. ,i, .?,i.... f ... . " 7 .? ..... .,, v..c ... Mill still that "sweet" has not gone bo y"n1l1 ,h,p limlt for Profitable cunning and recent newspaper reports say it is dropping back. Wholesale prices dropped from 7 "2 ti 7 cents Friday, a half cent less on the pound. Two Good IHvors. (From The Newborn Sun.) Newborn is rich in Its two splen did rivers. On tha Trent we have mir regular freight steamers and also vessels from Hyde County and points up the Trent bringing in cat tle and chickens and vegetable coun try produce. And on the N'ense In a single day there were noted craft of varied uses and kinds, from the rvg ulur old sea-going three-masters of romance and thij enormous slow moving lumber barges to all the 67 varieties of smaller boats. Home times a putting little tug would be seen plodding along, and usually be hind it a long chain of logs like some giant black snnkev Always are ta be scon snorting gas hnats on sun dry noon pillions bent. some purely pleasui-Hble and others strictly busi ness, while dotting the water here and there ar-. the quiet and gentle row-boats, with perhaps a fow fish poles laaily extending themselves over the stern. f China's Cnrrronoy. (li'oiri The Wall Street Jntirnnl 1 China has other uses beside boin i borrower from the F've Powers '""I a lio!d for Standard Oil products. nina Is the country Hint made Kaiser Wilhelm possible, because lt first discovered gunpowder. Not onlv that, but the Chinese were the. origina' Southern Congressmen. They diseovf'd paper currency. This latter fact !s pointed out by Won I'ln Wcl, I'h.R, of Co lumbia Cnlversily, in n monograph 'The Currency problem In China." Mr "Wen also writes about a great ninny equally curious facts. Taper money first appeared in 'iiina n ihe Tnng dynasty, in the year SOU A. 1 . The country's ninta! iirrenty hud fallen into so bad u slate that in some parts of the Kingdom It consisted ((f nothing but lion. The Government began to issue puller certificates of deposit In exchange for coins. After a t mo this paper money was suppressed, because It was driving the metallic money oul of circulation. Hut not long afterward it came in again and at Intervals ever since Ci na has had paper money in various terms. Chinese greenbacks made their debut in 103s A. 1. when tho Government began to Issue currency notes on ita own account. For a time these were well secured by specie, but in the Wllr wth tnc lartuiM the Government y elded to Hie temptation to make lalrfe issues as a means of raising revenue and the currency beeamo heavily de preciated. China, fact, has been irough every experience of infla tion and resumption, and suffers even now from a depreciated paper cur rency. In Ug-liter Vein. "I will show my love not bv words, but by deeds." "I think, dear, you had belter show the deeds lo our lawyer. " Dolt I more American. "Is the mun who works wlih his bunds or the ono who works with his head the hard-r worker?" "Don't ask me. I use a typewriter." Cleve land Plain Henler. WIIIIh "Highflier had a narrow escnpe when he wrecked thut bank." GUI is "Yes. f he had swiped only a couple of thouvand less it would have been larceny instead of finan ciering." Puck, Mrs. Hashlelgh '(handing boarder second cup) "You are very fond of coffee. Mr. Smart. Smart ."No, but the doctor ordered me to take hot water for my Indigestion." Boston Transcript. "yea,' said Mr, Cumrot, "we spent a lot nf money teaching our boy Ptrctval Claude to play the violin. But It was wasted. "toen,t he playT" "Tea But If he knew any thlna about muelo. he'd reside, how It . CLOSES GERMAN WUIEUESS. Ctoldachmidt 8taUkn May be Ooo flaoated for Operating tUegally. (From The New York Sun.) The Goldschmidt German mireleea tatlon at Tuckorton, N. J., which has been doing business by courtesy of the Government since It waa opened early In August without a license, waa closed yesterday by or der of Acting Secretary of Com merce Sweet. Aa the Hague agreement prohibit the licensing to a belligerent of a wireleas plant on neutral territory the company has not been able to get a license. Rut by the courtesy of the Government a permit waa granted to the GoldBchmldt Com pany, under which, up to yester day, it had transmitted commercial messages In plain English. A censor has been at the plant to see that this privilege was not abuaed. The notification to Theodora R. I.emke, manager of the GOldachmldt Company, from Acting Secretary Hweet said, however, that the station 1 ' ! n.td been operating illegally and that onilscatlon of the anuaratiis would be the penalty. Mr. Ietnke w!U go to Washington today to protest against the confiscation. Mr. lmke added that It was not until his company was asked by Amerlcuns to trunsmit messages to their friends nnd relatives abroad that permission waH sought to op erate under a special permit. fie placed the station at the disposal of the State Department. The sta tion communicated with a station at Kilvese, near Hanover, Germany. At tho Hayville, I.. T. station of the Atlantic Communication Com pany, llerlin despatches announc- ng Herman victories near Metz were I 'cclved yesterday. Ensign O. It. j """" '"c oatiiennip I tan Is the r'"M" "wiBnen to tne station Amateur wireless operators say (ode messages have stopped since Ihe censorship and nmw the station is doing only about half the busi ness it did before. It was admitted that the station has been in communication with the German War office almost daily Mince (he outbreak of hostilities. "n!y the messages Bent to Germany are censored. Tho station has not been in communication with any of the German battleships since the censor arrived at the station. (iKKMAX SHIPPIXG IPI.E. 27 IVr Cent. Mia lored or Captured, Kays French. (Paris Dispatch to New York Sun.) The French War Office issued the following today: "The German muritlmo commerce is in a bad way. A Imdon despatch informs us that lierman commerc has been reduced to a state of In j activity by the operations of British : cruisers in different parts of the 1 world. i "The German war fleet Is incapable of intervening or protecting her com no rcc on account of the presence of ! the chief Hrltish fleet, which has Its cruisers in full battle line, preventing intervention with the KnlUsh "Icrulsers in outside waters. Already i seven per cent of the total of German ,1 , ,,! , ci.i.V. l..H t-ni.i.,f, ...in ,n,., ,i til," .-,...e., liail"a und L'O per cent hides shattered In neutral ports. The remainder finds itself in (lerman ports without being able to m'v or to seek other shel ter than It has. "English navigation, except for one per cent which was In German ports at the moment of the declara Hon of war. follows actively its work on all great commercial sea routes, I n comprehensible. (Krnni The Greenville Piedmont.) The Englishman and the German who are after all one in blood, never have and never will be able to un derstand the Frenchman. They are phleginatio and awful stubborn. They say littlo and there is Do bombast in what they do say. They look on in amazement while the Frenchman i ffervesccs with theatrical eloquence. For Instance, when Napoleon III wurrendered an army of 108,000 men nl Sedan, he said to the Prussian King: "As I could not die at the head of my soldiers I come to lay my sword at your feet. No English man and no German is capable of saying such a thing. Jn the first place, it is unlikely that either tho Knglish or the Germans would sur render, no matter how tight t place they were In, if there were 108,000 of them, with ammunition. But If an Englishman or a German could lliink of such a thing as the third Napoleon said he would not utter It, for he would know the menal answer "Nothing kept you from dying at the head of your troops. If you had the grit." So in advance of the actual hos tilities, little or nothing was said by the Knglish nnd Germans, but from France came a great deal of k'randiloquencc Wo were assured that retreat had been taken out of I'rench tactics and that French sol diers hnd only been taught how to iidvanco, that France hail no de fi ns vi only an offensive policy for via r. Again, Knglish and Germans would not talk that vvoy, for they know that, while they are stubborn fight ers, there come to all armies times when to retreat Is tho most sensible thing to do. Retreat may have been eliminated from French tactics, hut It has not been eliminated from the necessities of war nnd nature, seems to have taught the French soldlera to do what they say is not taught In their tactics. Events of the SDqij. 1 I Observation Gathered From the Xewa Field. Syria hast been so denuded of timber that all Its lumber has to be Imported. Most of It comes through Alexandria and Beirut, from Humanla und Hussla. The Alpine Benedictine Abbey, at Ditentls. celebrated its 1,100th an niversarv recently. It was founded 'n (111 by St. Blglsbert, an Irish prient. who is ald to have ur rounded himself with the learned men of hia day. The State penitentiary at Rusk, Tex., has done away with the lock ing of cell door, rrisonere are on honor and all save two of the keep ers have been discharged. The In mates work on a farm a mile away and go far no one has even at tempted to escape. A doen year ato, at .Abilene, Kan., Mrs. rf. A, Moody of Milwau kee saved two eld people who were In danger of being burned to death in a burning house; she also took rare of them for several day after the fire. Now she receive a letter informing her that under a WW fl'ed at toe Angeles iaat weeks br the 1 eeeutore ef onT.f. the A aWful r I -I - Editorial Skatche on ' Varied Mlnot Bukjacta. Tha African possessions and pro tectoratea of tha European power now at war are more than three times aa large aa continental United States. They are more than three time aa large aa all of Europe now plunged in war, and are 11 timet larger than England, France, Gar many and Belgium, whloh control them, says tho National Geographlo Society, in a statement Juat issued. They occupy 8,687,631 of Africa'p 11, SIS, 000 square milee. "The largest Individual holder of African territory is France, with 3,- 12,000 square miles, more than a mllliun and a halt of which is the Sahara Desert," says the society's statement, "England controls l.dll, 246 square miles; Belgium, with Belgian Kongo as its sole possession, 802,000 square miles, and Germany, 1,035,01111 square miles. These figures make surprising contrasts with those vf the European holdings of these countries. European France consists of 20", 084 square miles; England, 121,391 square miles; Belgium, 11, 373 square miles, and Germany, 208,. 7V0 square miles. "England leads In the population of her African dependencies, with a total of 49,458,600 inhabitants, more than two million of whom are Eu ropeans. The bulk of her white population is in the Union of South Africa, which consists of Good Hope, Natal, the Transvaal and Orange Free State, and In which dwell near ly 1,600,000 foreigners.' Thvre are approximately 40.000,000 people liv ing In French African possessions, more than a million of whom are white. The center of France's white population Is Algeria, where nearly 800,000 Europeans and 6,000,000 na tives live. There are 15,000,000 peo ple in Belgian Kongo, 6,466 of whom are white, and IK. 266. 600 German subjects in her dependences, of whom nearly 30,000 are European!. Thirteen thousand of these live In German South-West Africa. "The natural resources of many vof these African possessions are among the richest in tha world The Union of South Africa, under British con trol, exported In 110 llM.r.03,000 in gold and $40,199,000 in diamonds. The imports and exports of Algeria, a French possession, exceeded $SS, 000,000 in 1912. Belgian Kongo's exports now pass the JIB, 000, 000 mark annually, while Oermsnys col onies are sending to other countries about $25,000,000 worth of produce annually. "The principal British possessions in Africa are the East Africa Protec torate, Bochnanaland, Rhodesia, the Union of Bouth Africa, Northern and Southern Nigeria, Gold Coast, Uganda Protectorate, Komaliland, and Nyasaland. France numbers among hr possessions Algeria, Tunis, Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Conxo, Madagascar, Senegal and the Somali Coast. Ger many controls Togo, Kamerun, Ger man South-West Africa and German KatJt Africa." Parle In In 70. (From The Syracuse Post-Btandard.) There are said to be 600,000 un employed in Paris. The task of providing for them will be a heavy one, although at present the In dustrial and commercial situation tu the cities of the allies Is far less threatening than in Germany. That they are threatening enough cannot bo doubted by anyone who has stud ied the effects of the last war oil tha soli of France. Subscription! from New York City, placed In the hands of Mr, Washburno. our Minis ter to France during the Franco Prussian War, were large, but tr. Washburne says in his recollections that so great was the suffering in all parts of Franco where the in vading army had been that It was hard to say where the relief should first be sent. France will at loast be spared the sight which Frenchmen of 1170 were forced to behold, of armies made powerless hy-political Intrigue, and the life blood of the Nation poured out in vain under the leadership of politicians instead of generals. It may bo hoped, too. that at the worst Franco will be spared any on oh disgraceful and humiliating spectacle as that which Washburne recalls In the second volume of his book. Tho National Guard which had done no fighting during the siege became the governing power In I'arls when the cruel treaty waa at last concluded and the $0,000 Ger mans withdrawn from the Capital. From the rise of the Commune. anarchy and terrorism reigned u- preme. Hostages were murdered. tho Tullerles was burned; for two months Paris underwent terrors not unlike those of the gTeat revolu tion. Finally National trnons frem Versailles overcame tha National Guard and entered the city. Rlgault, ine leaner or the Commune, waa ahot In the streets, where his body lay ior nours kicked and spat upon by passers-by. TlfK BELGIANS. (By The Boston News Bureau Poet.) 'Horum omnium fortlsslml sunt Halfaa' Caesar's Gallic War, Book I.) 'The bravest of these are the BslglenO Ho Julius Caesar said; ' The bravest of all are tha Belgians. Again Is written In red. Hearts Galllo and gallant, unchanging Through centuries between, No more than in days of the legions Do thsy fear a war machine. 'Twas forests and fens and marshes, 'Tl gardens, factories, now, But never a change tn the spirit , Disdaining to cringe or bow; 'Twas awords, spears, skins and bucklers, 'TIs shell and machine guns hare; Both odds In the proud Invader. Vet never a shrink of fear. Shrewd Caesar adjudged they were val. lant Since far from the soft'nlng things . Of luxury, peace and comfort j Tha smooth-voiced trader brings; Now long hava they been purveyors. Bland, busy, adroit and gay, Of things to adorn or amuse us, But theirs the same soul today And theirs the same soil, war-re vaged. Now drenched with a deeper dew Then s'r in Brabant's old squabble, The crimsoned at Waterloo, The soli that they die to keep: sacred. And now with their blood retrace. The lek ef a broken treaty. What glory, and what disgrace! Aye, vote lo plh ribbon of honor On XJege e battered wall,- , I Ierns Kai-er. that tbeee m
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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