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7 3B A VARIETY OF Tim el y Topics CRIMINAL LAW AS IT IS Thirty and forty years ago, writes ii. 0. Ninis in the World's Work, most ijwyprs had some criminal practice a i !?ast, they took such, criminal cases as came to them unsought and most ni them owed part of their reputation t successful criminal work. Today it a conservative statement to say that :!it criminal bar, in some cities, can not, claim even its proportionate share ut the best talent of the profession.1 This is not as it should be. Human life ami human liberty are of more import ant c to the community than stocks, i.uiids or dividends, and the prevention unjust convictions is of greater mo ment to the public than' that each vic t m of a trolley accident should be Mvompensed for his mental anguish. Many causes have combined to bring .ibout these conditions. In criminal as n civil courts the day of oratory is , er. No time can now be given to a i.iwyer to wax eloquent in the defense Hi Murphy, who hit Hogan in the eye ,Ki.t robbed him in a street brawl. A riminal trial once offered opportunity to oratorical counsel to remind the my of the heroes of ancient Rome and i; recce, to recite tragic poetry and to :t call the glories of the heritage of the vnerican people. In the courts of large cities there exists a strong presump that judges and jurors are sutt'i- r.t'y familiar with both ancient and ..odern history to warrant counsel in kicking closely to facts. Accordingly, : ;ip facts come out in quick order, and wurphy is back in prison before ye main;ler of the defendants the pay :ig ten per cent is largely made up ...f gamblers, pool-room owners, keep is of all sorts of dives, or. in short, ; risoners arrested for vice as distin guished from crime. The defense of . ufh clients has little to attract the average lawyer who possesses a good , i vil practice. The necessity, also, of ; i?hing cases through the courts has . one much to change the popular idea . ! what is necessary to constitute a riminal trial. The casual observer of the city crim- MR. DOOLEY AS AN EDITOR The name of Finley Peter Dunne is associated in the minds of the public atirely with the "Mr. Dooley" stories, it will surprise people to learn that he is considerable of an editor, and is writing "heavy" editorials on Collier's Weekly, in New York City. Despite the seriousness of his topics, however, his liumor is bound to make itself known, as the following specimen in the issue February 21 shows: A question of great moment to the nation has been decided by the joint action of the Secretary of State, the Ambassador of the United States to Hussit and a tailor. While Mr. Char 1. magne Tower was at St. Petersburg, he suffered Inconvenience, loss of dig nity and disturbance of temper by rea son of the fact that he was obliged by Democratic traditions to appear at ( onrt in the simple evening costume of the American gentleman or the French waiter. Mr. Tower was subject ed to many annoyances. Although he va a representative of one of the great world-powers, and bore a name that in itself conveyed the impression of irresistible dignity, he was frequent ly mistaken for a waiter. Russian no blemen tapped him on the shoulder and hade him order their carriages. Some times he was forced to stand outside the door of the Palace waiting for some one to identify him to the satis faction of a flunky. The entire court appeared to be in a conspiracy to force Mr. Tower into gold-braided panta loons. Eventually he succumbed and devised a uniform which is vaguely de bt ribed as "neat but impressive." When Mr. McCormick went up to St. Peters burg he was forced to decide whether lie, too, should garb himself in gilt and FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST. Renter's special correspondent says that the Boer contingent with the British force in Somaliland is bearing a willing share in all the duties, and is giving every satisfaction. After lying hidden for over two cen turies the wreck of the old stveniy ;,'nn frigate Anne has just been discov ered imbedded in the sands off Dunge ! ess. She was lost in a fight wit:. the French in 1690. N. C. Pine Tar and the Lungs. Tar Heel Cough Syrup Is made from North ( airolin r'ine Tar and is highly lecommended :r Coughs. Asthma, Bronchitis and Weak Lungs. Sold by Burwell & Dunn. 35c. Armistead Burwell, Jr. 25 N. TRYON STREET BELL PHONE 343 HARDWARE SPORTING GOODS. GUNS AND PISTOLS POCKET AND TABLE CUTLERY CARVING SETS SCISSORS AND SHEARS TINWARE AND ENAMEL WARE CARPENTERS' AND MECHANICS' TOOLS barrister of olden time would have completed his opening address. Nine'-tenths of the defendants in the New York criminal courts have no money to pay a lawyer's fee. The re sult is that these nine-tenths are tried by counsel who are assigned by the court when the prisoner is called for trial. Hence these lawyers (numbering about two hundred in all the courts of the country), who frequent these courts for the express purpose of getting these assignment cases, try ninety per cent, of the criminal cases of the county. The inal court at work is at once struck with the fact that the methods employ ed seem often to be against the pris oner and in favor of the prosecutor, even the furniture of 'the room being oftentimes so arranged as to aid the prosecutor. The old common law evolv ed a maxim that a prisoner was pre sumed to be innocent until proved guilty; but that seems to have been somewhat aba'ndoned. SUMMARY OF Strikes have made some successes during February that lie snug up to the goals for which the laboring interests are struggling; in other cases they have set machinery free that touches in active fashion the question of popu lar control of any tendency toward dis order. Beginning in Canada, the street car employes of Montreal, after a strike of almost record briefness, se cured both recognition of the union and an increase of wages. It was all effected without physical flare-up or battle-gauging of any sort other than a mutual show of numerical strength and power of unity in action. Further south, in Connecticut, on the other hand, the disorders of the Waterbury street-car strike, although less than five score of men altogether are in volved, have been renewed, and the Lgislature has been resorted to with broadcloth. The matter was left to the State Department, which pondered it long, debated it with, the White House and finally decided that while our army and navy and the power of our tri umphant Democracy were prepared to defend an American ambassador if he chose to attend a levee in a cardigan jacket and overalls, it would prehaps be better if in this one respect the am bassador should bow to the prejudices of the Russian court. And so the tailor has been set to work. The question has attracted attention from an austere Democratic press. But if the ambassa dor canf perform his slight duties with greater satisfaction to himself in a busby and Zouave pataloons, we are in favor of permitting him to occupy that attractive uniform. Mr. Choate, we understand, has so far departed from the severe sartorial traditions of his office as to appear at court in silk knee-breeches. THE AUSTRIAN TELEGRAPH "The statistics on which the Aus- j tralian postmaster-general founded his telegraph rates," says Hugh H. Lusk, in the Review of Reviews, "showed conclusively two things, that the fa cilities already supplied in Australia to the public for the use both of tele graph and telephone far exceeded those supplied, either by governments or by private enterprise, in any coun try of Europe or America in propor tion to the number of the population; and further, that the charges for these services were much lower in Australia than in any of those coun tries. They showed that both in post offices and telegraph stations the peo ple of the young commonwealth were far better provided for than either in England or America, and, apparently as a consequence, that they made more use of the conveniences, en abling all telegraph rates to be re duced to a point far below those charged "elsewhere without any loss to the revenue. The new common wealth rates provided for in the act illustrate the truth of his boast. For city messages, which includes a su burban area of a radius of 10 miles be- THE MARKETS (Reported by Ware & Leland, Private Wire, Geo. A. Howell.) CHARLOTTE COTTON. Corrected daily by Heath-Reid, job bing and commission company. Good Middling- 10 00 Strict Middling 9 95 Midddlinsr 9 85 Tinores 9 Staius 80 Finn. LIVERPOOL COTTON. Futures closed Quiet February-March 5.30 March-April 5.30 April-May 5.3132 May-June 5.33 June-July 5.33 July-August 5.3233 August-September 5.2122 September-October 4.89 October-November 4.67 November-December 4.61 Mid., 5.46 Spots, Quiet new York cotton. Futures closed barely steady Hig-h. Low Close Marc 10 16 10 or, Apri. 10 06 10 06 May 10 13 10 04 June 9 9 -9,03 in n.10 10 C6-0 10 05 06 9 85-86 Bulletin Bubbles. Mixed pickles kpcisel. Cheap quilts are not always down. Would Ireland spill without its Cork? Dots the landscape o'er the girl of the period. Presenting a stuffed animal is a dead give away. Dogs generally howl when they are driven to bay. 'No wonder I groan." thought the table. "I'm set upon from all sides. Never saw a bull in a china shop, but we've seen a cowhide in a store. Some babies seem to think every day is a lagal holler day. It takes a man with nerve to stand a woman who has "nerves." The price of an evening gown is sel dom cut as low as its neck. A collection of old "saws" is not sharpened by being filed away. Even the magician cannot father the tricks of a vain coquette. Nothing goes to a woman's head so quickly as a lovely new hat. FEB'Y STRIKES a bill to render personally liable every person participating in any rioting or disturbance of the public order. In the West, the South Bend, Ind.. street-car strikers have ceased to provoke or to be the cause of outbreaks, but the ends of the strike remain ungained, and those who look for encouragement must jump from Montreal to the still further West before they see the things that please the ambition of men of wages and foreshadow something bet ter than strife as a means of making mutual progress for employe and em ployer. In and about and beyond the Missouri River railroad workers have been threatening walk-outs for nearly a year not fragmentary and local walk-outs, but affairs that might in volve the entire scope of Western transporation facilities.- The long-pending strike of the boilerniakers on the Union Pacific had almost overflowed to the Southern Pacific, and latterly demands for increase of pay had been passed up to headquarters in the Mis souri Pacific and the "Katy" (Mis souri, Kansas & Texas) lines. It seem ed to require only the making of such positive refusals by the two latter roads as have been continuously given by the president of the Union Pacific to precipitate a tie-up throughout the West. Fortunately, however, after a se ries of conferences, participated in by the heads of the railroads and of the employes' unions, the "Katy" road yielded, giving the men their proposed increase of fifteen per cent. and. at the time Collier's Weekly went to piess, the Missiuri Pacific appeared about to take similar action. Hostile elements, also, had been seeking to make it seem unlikely that the United Mine Work ers and the bituminous coal operators would be able to agree upon a wage schedule for the succeeding year; but. as if in keeping with the spirit of com promise exhibited by the Western rail ways, the agreement was reached and there is no longer apprehension of a strike in the soft-coal fields,. yond the city limits, the rate is 12 cents for messages of ten words and the address; for messages of the same length to any point 'within the same State, and the States are generally very much larger than any American State, the charge is 18 cents, while for similar messages to any station within the commonwealth, and from Rockhampton in Queensland, to Perth in West Australia, the distance of wire is more than 4,500 miles, the uniform charge is 24 cents. It is calculated, on the basis of past experience, that these rates will return a revenue suf ficient to pay operating expenses of every kind, including the cost of main tenance, anvd in addition interest on the original expense of construction, amounting to fully $18,000,000. This apparent anomaly, when compared with American experience, is at least in part explained by the fact that Australians send more than twice as many messages over the lines at the lower rates as Americans do at the present charges, and that where every postoflice is also a telegraph station, and every country postmaster a tele graph operator, the cost is greatly reduced." July 9 92 9 82 9 84-85 August . 9 57 9 48 9 43-50 September 8 98 8 91 8 95 Octorer 8 65 8 59 8 62-64 November 8 54 8 54 8 54 56 December 8 54 8 53 8 51 56 Spots dull; Middling 10 25 NEW ORLEANS COTTON. Futures closed steady High Low Cloge March 9 82-83 April 9 85-87 May 9 90-91 June . 9 93-95 July 9 97-98 August 9 63 69 September 8 99-9c October 8 55-57 November 8 46-47 December ; 8 45-47 Spots dull; Mid. 9 ... ' VJJ NEW ORK STOCK. ilBj Atchison - ...m. 85 Balti & Ohio 96i 3an Pac 1343g Chcs & Ohio 49 Chi & Alton 34i Chi & G West 26 Rrie 37 HI Central 14? Lou & Nash , 122 For Croup use CHLNEY'S EXPECTORANT. MIsso Pac" Misso K & T 2734 .146 . 78HJ . 32 .147 65 .174 62 . 34 . 4& . 40 . 97 32M New Y C Norfolk & W Ontario & W Penna Reading St Paul So Pae , So Railway So Railway PTd.. Tex & Pac Union Pac Wabash . . . . ' Amal Copper Brook Rap Trans 7A Col Fuel & Iron.. a Peoples Gas Sugar '. .102 .130 . r,8 . 13U . 87i . 154 Tenn Coal & Iron U S Leather U S Steel U S Steel P'f d . . . Western Union . . . V C Chemical CHICAGO GRAIN AND PRODUCE WHEAT May . . . Low 7738' 73 Close 73 72 " '47 44 35 V, 32 29 July . . . . , 74 Sept . . CORN May Julv 47 44 44 35 14' 32 29 Sept OATg May . . . . d.;8 33 July Sept PORK May .... 18 .17 .16 (ii 52 97 17 95 18 00 17 42 17 45 16 30 16 95 9 62 9 62 9 55 9 57 9 55 9 57 9 SO 9 82 9 60 9 62 9 50 9 50 Ju'y Sept LARD May . . . 9 . 9 . 0 , 9 9 . 9 65 60 60 85 62 July . Sept . RIBS May . . July ., Sept ., CHARLOTTE PRODI ICE MARKET. Corrected Daily by Onions Chickens old Hens per head Butter Eggs Beeswax Turkeys Corns Ducks Wheat Wheat seed . . . . . . Oats Rve RMes Skins calf Hides dry salt .. .. Tallow unrendered . . H. G. Link. 90 1.00 , 22 25 , 28 32 12VZ 15 11 11 1-2 20 a 22 10 i2y2 60 20 ffD 22 60 sl 90" 1 00 45 1 00 9 3 10 40 fit :".( 10 2 IV-z THE WEATHER. Forecasts for tonight and Sunday, for Charlotte and vicinity: Fair and colder tonight and Sunday. For North Carolina: Fair and colder tonight and Sunday. much High southwest to northwest winds. WEATHER CONDITIONS. The storm in the southwest yester day developed greatly in energy in the past 24 hours. It has moved to the Lake region attended by heavy rains eiist of the Mississippi river. The dis turbance, bringing fair and consider ably colder weather. Unusually warm temperatures prevail today along the Atlantic slope, but zero readings are again prevaiient in the Dakotas. Rain is falling this morning in portions of the Carolinas and in the Middle and Eastern States. G. R. OBERHOLZER. Observer. whet? MISS MABEL COOK, Secretary Woodman's Circle, 3647 Indiana Avenue, CHICAGO, ILL, rs. A POLICY IN THEvv nRQTECTS -our Drooertv against resources back of it, :: Insist I PIEDMONT policy and sacure that .. V. THEATRE In the engagement at the Academy of Music next Monday night. Manager Elburg promises local amusement lov ers one of the greatest treats of the season, in "Hello Bill." the jolly com edy by Willis Maxwell Goodhue, which has achieved such a pronounced suc cess throughout the United States and Canada the past three years. For the benefit of those who do not know what "Hello Bill" is. we will say that it is a legitimate comedy of the Hoytian type, with no suspicion of the variety horse play clement, the characters are all cleverly drawn typos such as one meets in everyday life, and the lines and jas. f. Mcdonald as BILL IX "HELLO BILL." situations are said to possess a bright ness surpassed by no modern comedy, and worthy of the efforts of the best comedians. The plot tells of the adven tures, or rather misadventures of one William Fuller, who. on the eve of his marriage, is caught in a raid on a gambling house, and finds sixty days in jail staring him in the face. How to ex plain, to his bride to be why he must leave, her at the altar and absent him self for two months is a pretty hard nut for the luckless "Bill" to crack, and the manner in which he solves the problem keeps audience shrieking with unrestrained merriment for nearly three hours. The play is said to posi tively bubble over with funny situa tions, and there is 110 let-up in the merriment from the start 10 finish. The ompany presenting the merry play this season is said to be one of exceptional strength, and comprises such well-known artists as Miss Kath ryn Vincent, Miss Pauline Hickler, Miss Nina Carelton. Miss Corinne Car keek. Miss Marion Kirby, Mr. S. S. Wiltsie, Mr. Arthur L. Cogliser. Mr. T. S. Sprague. Mr. Gideon Burton, Mr. Robert Watt and Mr. James F. M:u donald, who has been especially en gaged to assume the leading comedy role of William Fuller this season, and who is proclaimed as the coming light singing comedian of America. Broadhurst & Currie's big musical comedy, "Mr. Jolly of Joliet." has won the enthusiastic approval of a large clientele of theatre-goers wherever it has appeared and comes to us with the stamp of approval of the critics of many of the prominent cities of the country. The characteristics of the play are skillfully worked out and remark ably well handled by a. cast of farceurs headed by the versatile comedian, Mr. Edaward Gravie. The author. Mr. Charles Newman, with his accustomed energy has devised many situations new in comedy and has proven himself fertile in fun producing of a popular I hare been I could get around About eight fWf firef V.,,ffU In a few weeks I was 1 was in better health in vears. I taken. of Cardui and am kept Thi3 was the hardest kind of a case to cure, but Wine of Cardui never fails to benefit any case of female troubles, no matter how severe or how chronic. Miss Cook being helped, desires to help others and her letter snows you the way to health. Wine of Cardui brings certain relief to a woman suffering any symptom of female weakness and per fectly regulates the menstrual flow and gives strength and tone to the weakened organs of womanhood Wine ot Lardui stops bearing down pains by permanently relieving the irritation which weakens the ligaments hold-' ing the womb in place. After taking Wine of Cardui Miss Cook had no more pains or suffering at the menstrual pe7 1 uu 0U "led l10t 8U.ffer ?very month if yu take this medicine. The periodical discharge will be painless and healthy without continual weakening drains. Wine of Cardui will make vonr health riht and you may treat yourself privately m your own home. All druggists sell $1 .00 bottles of Wine of Cardui. Secure a $1 .00 bottle of Wine of Cardui todav. , G J2- PIEDMONT FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY loss by fire while you labor and while you that your property Is Insured In the PIEDMONT. Represented by all agents Ii Charlotte ease of mind in Knowing mar you nave protection. - ... i I L A C A D E M M o n d a y E v e Goodhue and Kellogg Present the Jolly Comedy Success essazasai A Fine Company! By WILLIS MAX u 'HELLO BILL' is the best American Comedy in ten years" Philadelphia Public Ledger V The FUNNIEST THING UNDER the SUN Prices: 25, 50, 75c and $1.00. Seats now on sale. X2 ('order. The music is catchv and s:oes with a dash and swing that is highly refreshing. A handsome and shapely chorus is included in the large com pany carried. "Mr. Jolly of Joliet." comes to the Academy of Music next Tuesday evening. In presenting this, their latest (-rear ion in minstrelsy. Messrs. Primrose Dockstader have in store for the public many new surprises and novel features, also a complete new sieceme and lighting equipment, and give to the public the only first-class and meri- PRIMROSE AND DOCKSTADER. torious minstrel entertainment in the world. Primrose Sc Dockstader and their company of minstrel artists will b? the attraction at 'he Academy of Music on Wednesday night next. By their past.they have proven themselves t.) theatre-goers and forced their pat ronage to acknowledge that minstrelsy is a choice form of entertainment, when properly given, and is equal to and in some respects superior to the legitimate drama inasmuch as it readies a wider range of appreciation. Its pure and charming melodies, whole some comedy, vocal excellence and en tertaining specialties make up an en tertainment which can be attended by ladies and the very young, as at no time is it beyond the limits of propri- i wmm wmm Chicago, III., Sept. 27, 1902. a sufferer with almost every kind of female trouble for years, but as lonff as and do my work 1 would not try patent medicines as 1 had no faith in them. months ago I had to take to my bed, suffering with prolapsus of th uu0, wn.ii ucai iiig uuwh pains anu intense pains in tne oacR. me, told me or Wine of Cardui and sent for a bottle. T am 1 1 4. . out of bed and in three months S and stronger than I had been do$e nnw acmnll,, nf w;o if in perfect health. f I occreiary n sleep. It is a home organizatinn for the 1! . P Y of M U S I C n ing, Marc h;2 IHI E Bright Witty Tuneful The Comedy Hit of : The Decade WELL GOODHUE ssshee Aca.demy of Music Mabel PaLige Matinee Today: "THE OUTPOST." Tonight: "ROXANA'S CLAIM." Prices: 10. 20 and 30c. Seats now on sale at Bra'nnon's. 4cademy of Mvisic Tuesday, March 3rd, EDWARD GARVIE In the big musical comedy Mr. Jolly of Joliet. Prices: 2.",c, 50c. 7oc, $1.00. Seats on sale this morning at Brannon's. ety in effort to be fine-se-siecle. The Primrose & Dockstader Company this season is unequalled for comedians, vocalists and specialists. The scenic ;.nd lightning effects are beautiful. The original company will present at the Academy next Thursday night the magnificent production of Paulino Phelps and Marion Short's beautiful comedy drama. "Sweet Clover," and is headed by Mr. Otis B. Thayer, whose impersonation of character roles have stamped him as an artist of natural and convincing methods, and the crit ics are unanimous in declaring him to be the legitimate successor of . the Tate James A. Hearn. His associates have been carefully selected for their apt ness to the various parts they 'play! and include Miss Estelle Carter, who is generally conceded to be the greatesi of the younge:- emotional actresses. Other well known people are Lew New comb. Fred G. Hearn. Percy G. Lennon. Edmund Ford. Jake Mayer, Geo. P. Lowe, A. A. Thayer. Elenor Sheldon and Evelyn Temple, comprising one of the strongest companies which has been assembled in recent years. " a ' ' The greatest success of all recent ro mantic successes, is the "Prisoner of Zrnda," which is announced for the Academy of Music next Saturday night. My aunt, who came to nurse ind,) ua fi,f a:a r lU, LUT II A fl 11 Mil J I M II lAJjCU vTmTvJ A . m ... . . or woodman's Circle No. 70. o "mm of CHARLOTTE N. C. vvvvvvv protection of our home people with tfniit and throughout the State. Ask for a 3
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