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, THE CHARLOTTE EVENING 'CHRONICLE. FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 19 10. . mmm -n 1 1 " " i . " - t - I, U J. y i'- I 'I I J ! I f 1 f F K Wade H. Harris, Editor. Subscription Price By Mall. PAYABLE STRICTLY CASH IN ADVANCE. The Evening Chronicle. One Year T- - -99 Six Months Three Months One Month 25 The Saturday Evening Chronicle. One year ? 9 Six Months . ., Three Months 40 The Evening Chronicle Is served to the home by our carriers for 6 cents a week, navable to the carriers each week or at the office at above rates strictly cash in advance. TELEPHONES. City Editor Editorial Room Business Office 134 234 78 Entered as second-class matter at postoffice at Charlotte, N. C. the Office, 32 S. Tryon St., Charlotte. N. C. FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1910. 1XVITE ROCKEFELLER. It is time Charlotte is doing some thing toward a programme for the 2 0th of May for, of course, the city must have a celebration. It will not do to let the "2 0th of May" go by default. The people expect some en tertainment on that day and Char lotte must prepare it for them. Last year we had President Taft and the rain and while we cannot expect a return date from the President, unless he should prove extraordinarily oblig ing, we can arrange for other attrac tions. How would it do to make a try for John D. Rockefeller? He is much in the public eye. as the saying goes, at present, and will be for some time. It is quite likely that Mr. Rock efeller would be glad of an opportuni ty to make the acquaintance of our people and his presence here would bring the crowds. He would be a great card for the 20th of May. THE STfiTE COXVEyTIOy. Charlotte should send a delegation of its, bet workers to Raleigh on the 10th x.hen the executive committee is to decide on the place and time for holding the Democratic State conven tion. Charlotte is the strongest bid der and Ihc indications are that the convention will come here, but the city should take no chances. It wants tJ make sure. While the convention will have no nomination for Governor to mak.!, it will be an interesting and an important affair, nevertheless, and will draw a great attendance of dele ga.s. Summing up the work the convention will be, called upon to per form, The High Point Enterprise says thfct a Corporation Commissioner is to be nominated to succeed Samuel L. Rogers, as is also two Associate Jus tices and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. There will likely be a fight in he omvtntion as to whether Judge Manning will succeed himself. Judge Walker s term also expires this year, as well as that of Chief Justice Wal ter Clark. Besides the regular nom inations the conventiop will have to ratify the nominations of the Superior C-urt judges which will have been then made in the judicial conventions. THE COTTOy SUBTLY. The half yearly meeting of the Manchester Ship Canal Company was held a few days ago, when its chair man, Mr. J. K. Bythell, made a talk on cotton in which he expressed his amazement at the increase in produc tion. He thinks it wonderful that America should have increased her production of cotton in the space of thirty-five years from about 4,000,000 bales to the 14,000 000 bales, which last season's crop almost reached. The question of what America can do in the future is very important, not only for this district, but for the Whole world. Can America continue to increase her production to such an extent as to keep going the constantly increasing number of spindles throughout the world? India and Egypt are growing larger quantities of cotton, but experience has shown that their capacity for increased pro duction is relatively small as compar ed with America. The British Cotton Growing Association is doing excellent work, especially in Africa, and it is no disparagement of their efforts to state that it does not seem likelv that within a few years' time Africa will be able to produce, say a million hales. If the spindles of the world require, as they will require, an in crease of millions of bales during the next ten years, it appears to me that it is to America that we can look." He is right. The South has not reached its limit in cotton produc tion by any means. In fact, it 4 not yet half trying. It will be a long time before there need be any worry over a possible failure of the Southern crop to be equal to the demand. Farmer Highway Commissioner and Alderman King, of Greensboro, seems to be having, a lot of trouble over his transactions in slag. The grand jury has found a true bill' against him In the case of the sale to the commission and an indictment may follow in the casa of the city. In our opinion a great fuss is being made over a small matter. Hundreds of officials have done just what King admits to having done and nothing was said about it. -" A "prominent Democrat", telle The Concord Tribune that the office of so licitor of this dictrict ought to be giv- en to a Gaston county, man.. In our opinion the office ought to be given to the best man for the plac?, regard- less of what county he Jives Jn. No Judicial office should be made a mat- I ter or political barter and trad- .1 A COATR ST. William Wolff Smith, the Washing ton newspaper correspondent, takes Speaker Cannon's recent expression that Roosevelt is the greatest "press agent" that ever lived as the occasion to draw a contrast between Roosevelt and Taft. The latter, he says, can never hope to equal the former in the role ol press agent and has not at tempted to do so. This, says Mr. Smith, accounts for the noticeable ab sence of the score of sycophantic high-browed journalists so much in evidence during the last administra tion and who prided themselves that they were the eyes , ears and mouth pieces of the administration. The cold shoulder which Mr. Taft has turned toward these "familiars" of his prede cessor is largely responsible for their ho;.-ity to his administration, man ifested by what he has characterized a:? -contemptuous disdain," and "pat ronizing friendship." In this connec tion President Taft has expressed the hope that the American people will see through something of hypercriti cism, something of hysteria and some thing cf hypocrisy and "have a real sympathy with the man who, under a considerable responsibility, is do ing the best he can." It is evident, as Mr. Smith writes, tlat Fierident Taft intends to go di rect tf the people themselves and lay before them in a series of carefully planned set of speeches his ideas of legislation and the policies of his ad ministration. He has already made severai such speeches and his accept ance o? various invitations in differ ent parts of the country while Con gress is m session shows his intention to get to the people direct. Perhaps the speeches already made, particu larly in New York and Newark, may be fairly criticised as "smelling too much of the lamp," but the criti cism was leveled at Demosthenes and Tnft does not claim to be an orator. What ho said in each instance, how ever, was received as the profound convictions or an able, honest and up right man of sound judgment. A SMALL PIECE OF RCSiyESS. A small piece of business on part of Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, in connection with the ovation to Sen ator Gordon, of Mississippi, has just come to light. As reported by the correspondent of The Baltimore Sun, Senator Gore, the blind man from Oklahoma, conceived the idea of pre senting the gentleman from Missis sippi with a gold-headed cane, as a little token of remembrance and es teem from the United States Senate. According to the story. Senator Gore called one of the pages to him and told the boy to take a list of all the Senators and ask them for 50 cents each for the purpose of purchasing a cane for "Jim" Gordon. The page started his rounds of the Senate and Senators responded with alaerity. In stead of 50 cents most of them want ed to give $50. The page informed them that Senator Gore said half a dollar would be enough. Working his way around the page got to the room of Senator Lodge, of Massachu setts, and told him of the Senate's proposed surprise for Senator Gordon. It was certainly a surprise for Senator Lodge, ani the page received a "call ing down" that he will never forget. Senator Lodge indignantly called the matter to the attention of the serge-ant-at-arms of the Senate and that of ficial was compelled to direct the page to discontinue the collection. Senator Gore had to do some active work to prevent the discharge of the page. The only explanation of Sena tor Lodge's extraordinary conduct was that his senatorial dignity was offend ed. That, however, is but an ex cuse. Lodge was prompted, no doubt, by his ineradicable hatred of the South and everything Southern and of his horror of being made a party to such a piece of business as honor ing a Southern statesman. Observes The Greensboro Record: "Charlotte wants the next Democratic State convention and says that really that place and Wilmington are the only competitors. May be, but Ral eigh will be in the open market for the big' convention of 1912. Her au ditorium will be completed by that time." How do you know it? Raleigh has been talking auditorium ever since the name was coined and hasn't built one yet. If it will 4,uit talking and go to work, it will get results and no doubt save the reputation of Colo nel Joe Tteece as a prophet. That ia about the only reputation he has left that might be considered at all salva ble. In the lace of what appears to be some corroborative evidence, The Chronicle is inclined to believe that the later reports of the White House incident when President Taft is said to have profanely exploded, at an in tercession by a North Carolina dele gation in behalf of Mr. Shaw, will materially modify the affair. We once heard the President deplore the habit of profanity indulged in by a certain public official. We are inclined to believe that while there may be a good sized grain of truth in what oc curred, the grain is rather thickly be set by the barnacles of rumor. Those English spinners of whom Mr. C. W. Maeara is the head, will die dreaming of some land that will compete with the South in the culti vation of cotton. An agent that they sent to India has just returned with a report that India can be made to produce 10.000,000 bales of cotton if. There is always that word "if" in the way. If Macara evr xpect to de velop into a cotton farmer, he had better return to that Texas proposi tion and quit spending his money chasing rainbow r ' THE MISSION TO CANADA . The government has appointed Prof.- Emery, -chairman of the tariff board, and Mr. "Pepper, of the Bureau of Foreign Trade Relations, a com mission to visit Canaa and make a tariff dicker with that country. The object is to get Canada to loosen up smmfi of its tariff regulations. The Washington correspondent of The New York Journal of -Commerce, thinks this an illustration of the im portance which is attached by the present administration to avoiding, if it can, the danger of tariff war with any country. If any country is to be attacked the preference is that it shall be France, but the strong feeling in administration circles is that It wilt never do to suffer the higher rates to go into effect against Canada. "The sneers and gibes against the news paper press of the country in which members of the administration in dulge as opportunity offers," he says, "indicate a condition of feeling based upon the belief that the maintenance of the tariff on wood pulp and print paper is the cause of the tariff crit icism originating with the press of the country. Entirely apart from the ques tion where there i9 a vestage of jus tice in this view, it remains the case that the application of the exorbitant rates of the maximum to Canadian goods and especially to pulp and pa per which were given a clean bill of health by the Mann investigating committee, including some of the highest protectionists in Congress, would be unfortuntate politically." The Journal's correspondent recalls that in investigating with the Ger mans we startetd with some rather toploftical suggestions, then gradually backed down from one thing to an other until we took our stand upon the proposition that we must have an exchange of minimum rates. Of course this extension was of little or no account a$ it affected only about three per cent, of the trade with Ger many, nearly all goods of a compet itive character having been previously admitted by the terms of the agree ment arranged by the tariff commis sion which went to Germany some three years ago. The Germans, there fore, were very willing to close with us on that basis. It might be thought that we would say the same thing to Canada, viz., that Canada must give us her lowest rates granted to any country, ho matter whether we wane to compete in goods affected by such rates or not. Instead of this we are undoubtedly getting ready to say to Canada that we will take a- set of minimum rates applicable to those goods only in which we sharply com pete with other countries. This is where the fine work of the adminis tration in interpreting what is "un due" discrimination will be seen. It will have to vary its demands to suit the needs of the case and nothing probably will be undue if it serves to attain the desired end. A delegation of Rowan and Iredell people left for Catawba county yester day, to inspect the work of the dredge machine and in this connection, Edi tor Julian, of The Salisbury Post, who was an active and alert member of the Legislature, tells us of a dredging law that was passed, last year. This law gives the clerk of the Superior Court of any county in the State judis dictlon and authority to establish a levee or drainage district in any part of the county, to cause to be con structed any canals and to straighten, widen or deepen any ditch or water course, which may be considered con ducive to the public health or wel fare of the community. Upon a pe tition signed by a majority of the res ident land owners in a proposed drainage district or by the owners of three-fifths of all the lands the Supe rior Court clerk shall have the right to authorize the work done and charge to the land owners. This law was passed, evidently, to get around the occasional stubborn land-owner who is generally found blocking the path of progress. The Greensboro News remarks: "The only copy of The Congressional Record that we really cared to see was the one containing Senator Gor don's' speech ; and it was the only one we have missed since the present ses sion of Congress began." That partic ular number has not turned up in this office, either. We have been on the lookout for it. It is possible that Sen ator Gordon is not in the habit of rushing his copy to The Record, as is the case with some of his colleagues. A CHRONICLE BOUQUET, A Delightful and Superior Papei The Travel Sketches Considered a Good Feature Also the Trolley Rides. To the Editor of The Chronicle. For sometime I have intended writ ing to tell you what a very delightful and superior paper you are getting out now and, for a penny too. Don't see how you can afford it. Especial ly do I enjoy your editorial com ments and most particularily the very interesting travel-sketches to which you occasionally treat your subscribers. Hope yon will continue them, for certainly your readers will gain a much more intimate know ledge of iNtorth Carolina than most of them probably have. Another thing I wish to express my appreciation of and that .is the delightful, series of trolley sketches, the first of which appeared in last Saturday's issue. Mr. Allan is a charming .writer. A friend of mine is to visit me in the early spring and I am going to preserve these sketches for her edification before starting out on our trolley rides, so that she may see the wonderful growth of Charlotte since her last visit here. Lest I weary you, I will stop short. Yours appreciatively. JESSIE ALLEN PERSON. A Popular Man. Durham Herald. Just now Mr. Moreheari v,o friends among the Republicans f the AFFAIRS IN NORTH CAROLINA. Daily Incidents,- Facts and Comment Gathered From The Newspapers, of the State.' AN OLD MAN'S HARD LUCK. Loses His Remaining Good Eye by a Flying Chip. Hope Mill item in Faye-ovii'e Observer. t ?ne Tday about a week ago, Mr. John Johnson went with his mule and cart into the woods to get light wood. While in the act of splitting a stick a chip flew up and struck him , thec,riSht eye, rendering it sight less. Some 16 years ago Mr. Johnson- had the misfortune to lose his left eye from a flying piece of steel while engaged at his trade of black smith. So this la.fif nrHlont left him completely blind, alone and helpless in the woods. -He called loudly for assistance for some time until a ne gro man, hearing his cries, went to hia assistance and carried him home. We regret to learn that his condition is improving but little, if any, he be ing enabled to see very dimly and that only occasionally. Mr. Johnson is 8 4 years of age, the oldest citizen of Hope Mills in point of residence and we believe, in point of years. His many friends sympathize deeply with him in his trouble and hope for his speedy recovery. Mules Worth a Farm. Monroe Enquirer. Four large, well broken young mules were standing out in the street last Monday and prospective buyers were examining them and lovers of mules were admiring1 the fine specimens of mule flesh. Said Mr. T. C. Collins, "You could buy a good plantation a few years ago for what you will have to pay for those mules now." That was putting it strong it seemed, but a' little figuring showed that Mr. Collings had not spoken without thinking. The mules were held at $700 a pajr, 11,400 for the four and a few years ago you could buy good land in this rounty for five dollars an acre, and $1,400 would buy 280 acres of $5-an-acre land. Undertaker Catches Blood Poisoning From a Corpse. Salisbury Post. Mr. R. M. Davis is seriously ill at his home corner Church and Bank streets with blood poison. Mr. Davis is president of the undertaking es tablishment of W. B. Summersett & Company. On Sunday and Sunday night several bodies were prepared for burial and it was while engaged in this work, it is thought, he be came infected. He had a small scratch on the hand which caused the trouble. Blood poison set in Monday and since then he has been very ill. His physicians have hope that he may soon recover. The Distinction of Providence Town ship. Waxhaw Enterprise. Mecklenburg boasts of being the banner Democratic county of North Cnrclina, and Box 2, in Providence township boasts of being the banner Democratic precinct in that county. It is declared that a white Republi can vote has not been polled in that precinct since the adoption of the constitutional amendment. This precinct throws out the challenge for any other precinct in the State to beat this record. Cabarrus Man Moves to Canada. Concord Times. Mr. Jacob N. Hartsell and family, consisting of his wife and four chil dren, of Locust, will leave to-night for Moose Jaw, Canada, which place they will make their home. Mr. Hartsell will farm. He will be locat ed about 200 miles north of the State of North Dakota. Mr. Hartsell is a son of Mr. J. Hartsell, and is a good farmer. We regret to see him leave this section. WK Garilncs. Waxhaw Enterp.-'v Blue birds and mocking birds, the unmistakable harbinger of spring, have within the past few days made their appearance about town, but the early gardeners, like the ground hog, seems to have a preference for re maining in his hole a little while longer. The most they have attempt ed to do so far is to sow small quan tities of tomato and other seeds in hot beds. A Bad Loc In Jail. Concord Tribune. In the Cabarrus county jail are four prisoners to be tried fr !if.?. The two white pr'sjners, PiiiK Dry, and Gaston Blake ir under charge of murder, the first htri'iir at thd l;fct term of court bting a nl3tr.':ti, a ne gro woman is t be tri-?l for the 1-111-irg of her grandjiild and now B,L Burton is up n a charge, tit penalty of which is death. His Only Satisfaction. Durham Herald- Mr. Holton may take pride in the record made as district attorney, but it seems that this is the only satis faction he is to get out of it. Will Lay Cement Paving. Concord Tribune. xne city wn spen.i something- oKt; ?i,ouu on eemt-.it sid'iwauss this spring and summer. Little Talks to Business Men. No. 11. One of the most successful newspaper publishers in the world in discussing the way to get the larg est number of readers for a newspaper said "first tell the story you have to sell and then have the people get into the habit of reading your story of the world each day. The way to get them in the habit is to have the price of your paper, within reason and then have your selling force make it hard for the people not to buy it." The way to extensive newspaper reading in Char lotte was pointed out by The Evening Chronicle and the habit acquired by the people through the. penny price which was a new departure. Through the energetic boy who hails you on the street or who comes to your doorstep each day rain or shine you find it hard to escape reading it. The story of the happenings of the day throughout the whole world told in an interesting way for the whole family, and all these elements combined make for the advertiser in The Evening Chonicle the ONE sure method of getting a word in the ear of the reader of the paper at he evening lamp. Revival of the Spelling Bee. Our Home. The old time spelling bee Is com ing back and taking its " place as a kind of entertainment in some sec tions. And there's nothing that'll beat it. A "spelling match," ajs it is sometimes called, is one of the most interesting things that was ever "pulled off." Unlike the present modes of entertaining, it is educatio nal, and there's nothing about it to invite the contempt of the most criti cally inclined. Truth of the business is, It's needed, and needed badly. The public and high schools, as a rule, are deficient in their modes of teaching spelling, and a return to the days of the old "blue back" would be an improvement. Lots of high school students, and we might say college professors, are mighty sorry spellers. They may be able to tell you all about Greek and Latin, etc., which iis all right, but when it comus to mastering their own language, the words are too simple for them to knew how to spell. We have not a word to say against these higher stud'es, but we believe the English languagei should have more attention before it is thrown aside for some thing efe Many Deaths in Albemarle. Stanly Enterprise. There have been more deaths in our little city tne past iew weens than have ever before been known for ' a corresponding period. An epidemic of measles, together with the damp and disagreeable weathe" we have been having havo combined to form conditions hard for medical skill to overcome. Many families have had from three lo nine casts f measles all at the arae time, and In some homes there t.:s probably been inadequate nursing and a spars! ty of means for proper care and treatment. Depot Rumor. Fayetteville Observer. There is a rumor in Fayetteville to-day from a reliable source that the Atlantic Coast Line and the Raleigh & Southport railroad companies, have decided to erect a handsome union station, near the Ramsey and Hllls boro streets' crossing, filling in and using the V-shaped piece of land formed by the junction of the old C. F. & Y. V. and the A. C. L. main lines. The Bride 30 and 6 Less. Wilmington Dispatch. License was issued yesterday after noon for the marriage of Mr. William Baker and Miss Lena Piner, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Piner, of this city. The wedding will be of interest on account of the youthfulness of the bridegroom. The license register at the court house states that the age of the groom is 66 years, while that of his bride to be is 30 and six years less. Cline For Judge. Newton Enterprise. An organization; has been effected in Hickory to advance the candidacy of Mr. E. B. Cline for judge of this judicial district. Mr. Cline is one of the best lawyers in the district, and is by many considered the best quali fied candidate in the held. With aw united and enthusiastic support from this county in the convention, Mr. Cllne's chances will be as good as any of the candidate's. Rebuke to the Croakers. Concord Timea The receipts of the Concord post office for February show an increase of $340 over the receipts for the same months last year. -This is a remark able increase, and is an effectual re buke to the croakers. SOLTH CAROLINA NEWS. As to Tillnmn's Successor. Johnston News-Monitor. As rumors of Senator Tillman's (supposed) resignation fly thick and fast, all eyes turn toward the Hon. A. F. Lever, Lexington's honored and I gifted son, as his successor. Mr. Lev er has the brain, vim and experience, and with a high moral character, he is the logical candidate for the posi tion. Palmetto Fronds. Spartanburg Journal. R. W. Brice, aged 75 years, a well known citizen of Chester county, is dead at his home. W. J. Nicholls, who organized an alleged wildcat rnoney concern at Greenwood, has been arrested in Ok lahoma and will be brought back to Greenwood for trial. A. J. Steinkuhler, of Chester, was bitten by a dog supposed to have been mad. He was taken to Columbia for treatment. The Bank of Camden has brought suit against the treasurer of Kershaw county to recover $704 paid out in 1907 in taxes. Col. H. P. Nelson, a well-known lawyer of Columbia, is ill at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. A knitting mill will be operated at Chester in the near future. The company will be capitalized at $25,- ot)0. Blograph Day at Edisonia. Some of our Strong Sped day and ' 40-INCH Two Cases 40-inch Mercerized Batiste and Mulls, fine soft quaities worth up to 25c per yard, Specia 10c Pretty quality book-fold India Linen Lawn.. .. ..10c 40-inch India iLnen Lawn. .; V im :. ... ........ ...10c ; ' 4 PERSIAN LAWNS Fine sheer quality book-fold Persian Lawns.. ,...10c Regular 25c quality book-fold Persian Lawns, very thin and sheer. ., .... . . , t.. ... . ., . . ., . .15c YARD-WIDE BLEACHED DOMESTIC AT 5C 2,000 yardsd best quality Bleached Domestic including short lengths of Barker Mills, Androscoggin, Long " Cloth, Cambric, etc., worth up to 12 l-2c a yard. Spe cial Saturday and Monday.. .. .. .. 4 - 5c 2 Cases Engish Long Cloth in perfect short lengths up to 12 yard pieces, at. 5c CHECKED AND STRIPED DIMITY Fine sheer quaity checked and striped Dimity in small and large size checks, qualities woth up to' 20c per yard .10c Fine soft quaity Plaid Dress Swiss, at 121-2C Good quality White Dotted Swiss at 10c Fine sheer quality Swiss with good embroidery dot 12 l-2c Best quality Cannon Cloth full vard wide 10c No. 1,000 English Long Cloth 10c 12-yard bolt fine soft quality English Long Cloth.. 98c Best quality English Long Cloth in 12 yard bolts $1.48 NEW SILKS AT 28C 3,000 yards new wash Silks in plain, and all the new fancy figures, Crepe de Chenes, etc., Black, White, Light Blue, Red, Tan, etc., nothing in the lot worth less than 50c per yard, lengths from 2 to 10 yard 28c pieces, Special at LADIES' WHITE PETTICOATS FOR SATURDAY AND MONDAY 2,000 Ladies' fine White Petticoats bought in a sample lot, Skirts worth up to $2,50 with the newest Em- 89c broidery and Lace trimmings at '' 1 ! ! 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