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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, JUNE 18, 1906 BUYERS. : i A Town is Known By the Women in it. BY NATH'L C. FLOWERS, JR. Dear Women: I don't call you ladies. God made the women. The cook-iady and the scrub-lady were made afterwards. Yon love the town of your birth, or the town of your adoption. You mag nify its advantages, and you belittle its disadvantages. Xo woman is half a woman unless there is engraven upon the looking glass of her mind that partrioti motto of local progression. "My town first; other towns after wards." - You are the owners of your town. Man may think that, lie is monarch of all he can survey, but he isn't. He who would beard the lion in his den; who would press his finger -upon the button of trade, that business may jingle when he connects the wires; who would smoke his cigar before the all-ready-to-smoke mouths of many cannon; dares not face his wife-of-over -a-year, wearing the second pair of trousers mada by the tailor who does not fit him to suit her. The mother of creation is the buyer of creation's necessities. Without depreciating the great me chanical and financial interests of the country, I will make the surprising, and yet positively true statement, veri fied by the unimpeachable statistics of the world, that the large part of the product of the earth and of machinery, is intended for the inside and outside of the human body, and is used in the economy, comfort, and luxury of home living. Woman controls the family. She is the queen of the home, the home maker or the home-breaker, the cap tain of the house, and the naturally elected buyer. Woman, not man holds trade in the hollow of her hand. Eighty per cent of the advertise ments in your newspaper, in your magazines, and in your family papers, are written for the eyes of women, and announces goods used by women and purchased by women. The woman buys for herself, for ie children, and for every member J the household. The women of your town, not the men of your town, make the business of your town. "Within the woman is the power to make or to break the town. Unless the town be merely a subur ban bedroom, its character is reckoned by its business. Show me the business street of a town, and I will tell you the sincerity of its churches, the size of its libra ries, the breadth of its schools, and the character of its people. The business street is the giant ar tery of the system of progression. In local home-business is local pro gression. "vVhere tnere is local business there is available money for better churches better libraries, better schools, and better everything. Annihilate local business, or stunt its growth, and there comes a depres sion that depresses everything even to civilization. Would you, as representative wo men, have your town satisfactory to yourselves, satisfactory to your visi tors, good enough for your children, so progressive, so pleasant, so filled with 1 every needed advantage, that your sons can afford to make the town of their childhood the home-town of their life and business, and your daughters may not be driven across its borders in search of husbands? In your hands rests the fate of your town. As you will it, so will if be. The business of your town makes the town, and you make the business Let your local duty be your first duty. There can be no second duty, while the first duty remains unattend ed to. There cannot be business without customers. You are the customers. Don't go to the distant city a-shop-ping or a-buying unless necessity de mands. Give your local stores the first chance. If your town is half-way decent, there is very little of necessity, and almost as little of luxury, which you cannot, buy at home at big-city prices. Don't for a moment think that I would be as foolish as to say it is a woman's duty to buy everything at the local store, unless it pays to do so for I am aware that there are ex ceptional towns where the local stores are not worth patronizing; but I know, from', experience, that in ninety per cent of the local towns of fair size, the stores carry goods good enough for anybody, not perhaps in confusing variety, but in sufficient number to satisfy the . reasonable demands of sensible people. ' Did it ever occur to you that the shoddy woman of shoddy style, who whitewashes her gingerbread that her neighbors may think she has frosted cake, is sometimes the one who makes the biggest fuss about shopping, and vfho often spends the most, and gets the least, for her money? Really she works harder in getting rid of her money than in getting it. ' You have a duty to perform, and that duty is for you to support your town from progressive motives as well as from selfish motives. If your local stores don't carry the goods you need, the chances are it is your fault, not theirs. They cannot afford to carry good things in great variety if you spend your dollars abroad and your cents at home. Give your stores the opportunity, and they will give you the goods. Spend your money in a aisiam cuy, and all you will receive are the goods you buy. Spend it in your town, annd it will come back to you, not only in the goodss you buy, but in better streets, better schools, and better everything. Spend your money away from home, and you only receive back the princi pal Spend your money at home, and you get back the principal and ever lasting interest. '. Read your local papers. It's your duty to know what is going on about yRead the advertisements of your lo pyil stores. HOME Keep posted on the business of your town, as well as upon the social func tions. Many a good thing is lost to the woman who does not reguraly read the advertisements. Patriotism is not all in rallying around the flag in the tone of the trumpet, or in the roll of the drum. All those things glorify, but the bril liancy of the halo of their glory is de pendent upon the background of hard reality. So long as there is money there must be business, and the business of a town is the maintaining element of comfort and progress.' The town is yours. What are you going to do with it? X. C. Fowler, Jr., In Cotton Seed. MR. STEVENSON'S SPEECH. Ex-Vice President Spoke to "Home Comers" Saturday. On Lincoln Louisville, Ky., June IS. The fea ture of 'Home-coming" day here Sat urday was the speech of Hon, Adlai E. Stevenson, the occasion being Lin coln Day. Mr. Stevens said in part: A Kentuckian born, I have kept the faith, and at your invitation , return ed to bear some humble part in the ceremonies of this hour. The an nouncement that Kentucky had set apart a 'Home Coming" week, that the latch string was out, and aglad wel come awaiting, touched the hearts of all the sons and daughters of the grand old commonwealth. "Once in grace, always: in Grace. Once a Kentuckian always a Ken tuckian. For whether on this green earth the footsteps of her children may have wandered, all roads, at some time, lead back to the old home; the the hearthstones around which cling the tender memories of childhood; to the little moundss where sleep the ashes of ancestral dead. The earnest desire to meet with those whose ancestors with ours endured the hardships and dangers of frontier lire; whose fortitude and wis dom made sure and steadfast the foundations of a "splendid state has been realized, and from beyond the Mississippi and Ohio, at your cordial bidding, we are today in our ancestral home. The "Home Coming" to which you have invited is without a parallel. The kindly words that have been spoken, the cordial grasp of the hand, the hospitality extended, all give as surance in the largest measure that we are welcome. I am honored by the invitation to speak on this, "the greater Kentucy day," of the most illustrious of all the sons of this old commonwealth. Of one, a Kentuchian by birth, by adop tion an Illinoisah, .and at all timesin its grandest conception an American. Of Lincoln, no words can be uttered, nor withheld, that could add to, or detract from, his imperishable fame. His name is the common heritage of all the people and all times. His career in grandeur and achievement has but a single counterpart in our history. And what a splendid com mentary this upon our free institu tions upon the sublime underlaying principle of popular government. How inspiring to the youth of noble aims every incident of a pathway that led from the frontier cabin to the chief executive mansion, from the humblest station of the most exalted yet at tained by man. , In no other country than ours could attainment have been possible for the boy whose hands were inured to toil, whose bread was eaten under the hard conditions that poverty imposes; whose only heritage was brain, integ rity, loftly ambition, and indomitable purpose. Let it never be forgotten that the man of whom I speak posses sed an integrity that could know no temptation, a purity of life that was never questioned, a patriotism that no sectional lines could limit, and a fixedness of purpose in achievement that knew no. shadow of turning. In the light of what we know so well, nothing is hazarded in saying that the death of no man has been to his country so irreparable a loss one so grievous to be borne as that of Abraham Lincoln. The men who knew Abraham Lin coln, who saw him face to face, have, with few exceptions, passed to the grave. Another generation is upon the busy stage. The book has forever closed upon the dead pageant of civil strife. Sectional animosities, thank God, belong now only to the past. The mantle of peace is over our entire land and prosperity within our borders. Through the instrumentallity, in no small measure, of the man born upon your soil, the government es tablished by our fathers, "Un touched by the finger of time," has descended to us. The responsibility of its preservation and transmission rests upon the successive generations as they come and go. To day, at this, auspicious hour, soared to the memory of Lincoln, let us, his countrymen, inspired by the sublime lessons of his wondrous life and grateful to God for all he has vouch safed to our fathers and to us in the past; take courage and turn our faces resolutely, hopefully, trustingly to the future. A woman is pretty sure that if she understood mathematics better the housebillswouldaddup So Tired It may be from overwork, but the chances are its from an in active LIVER. . , With a well conducted LIVER one can do mountains of labrr without fatigue. It adds a hundred per cent to ones earning capacity. It can bekeptin healthful action by, and only by s TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE. TiffsR The soda cracker is an ideal food. Uneeda Biscuit are tfie- ideal soda crackers. Indeed, ' -. the Only made in the first place, rightly protected first, last and all the time. 0 In a NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY - . When China Awakens. New York Mail. They but prate who speak of the "Yellow Peril" that shall como when the 450,000,000 Chinese and Japanese awake at last, fa2o tho 450,000,000 Europeans and Americans. The vis ion they draw of the yellow man and the white, grappling in the death em brace of Armageddon, is not philoso phic nor cheerful. Neither is thPir forecast ol an economic competition whih shall be more dreadful than the competition of war of the abstemi ous Mongolian, with' his lower stand ard of living, underbidding and under selling the Caucasian, and finally driving him off the scene in the un equal struggle for existence, as the great reptiles and. mammals h replaced by creatures of lesser bulk and appetite. ' That is not nature's way. Depend! uyuu iL. wuaiever nappens m the east, there is to.be no infernal world wide competition hemisphere pitted against hemisphere. The eternal balance of things will be redressed. It will vindicate itself. When it is day in America, it is night in China. When it is day. in China, it will be night in America. When the Orient awakes the Occident will go to sleep. To use Plato's figure, It will hand over the torch to humanity's almond eyed heir-expectant and drift content to the dark oblivion of the bed cham ber.' The Celestial has slept long. He is refreshed. Shall his be not the burden and heat of the day, the trafficking, the tumult of the captains and the shouting? When China awakes, the nations of the west will have a , better protec tion against its recuperated energies than the unequal competitions of war and trade. They will adopt its own seclusion. They will ring themselves around with prohibitive tariffs, with inhospitable customs, with literal or figurative Chinese -walls.- In the ex haustion of their own extraordinary exertions there will come to them a sense of the futility of all starving. A static civilization. These will be Lands of Evening Calm, and the white-skinned '- peoples "the mild-eyed melacholy Lotus-eaters" . to whom "slumber is more sweet than toil." While he is in bivouac, the poppy shall bloom for tne tired Caucasion and distill its lessons like its juice. White humanity, having performed its part and completed the cycle, will watch yellow humanity toiling and fighting without the gates. It will adopt the Celestial's love of color, his fondness for "saving- his face," his easeful existence, his imperturbable philosophy, his contempt for "outer barbarians" who take life seriously, his bland "cui bono?" There may be open ports on European and Americans coasts where energetic Asiastics will exercise jurisdiction, and perhaps "punitive expeditions" of Manchurian warriors will march upon some pink Forbidden City of Occidental exclusion at; London, Berlin, Washington. The only remants of the strenuous life left in;;these sunset lands may be the fire cracker and the gong. NEW RAILROAD PLANNED. Northern Capital Promised for a Line Urom Front Royal to Richmond. Front Royal, Va.. June 16. A meet ing of the citizens of Rappahannock and Waren counties was held here this afternoon for the purpose of organiz ing a company to build a railroad from this poinnt through Chester Gap, Rap pahannock, Madison, Greene, and theiice through Louisa, Fluvanna, to Richmond and tidewater. An engineer has gone over the . pro posed route during the past few weeks and, has reported that the road could be built for about $5,500 a mile. The survey from here to Snerrwiiin win cost $1,600. Nprthern financiers have indicated to the board of trade here their wil lingness to finance the scheme, which their representatives say is a very at tractive one. This route would furnish connections for Richmond with Balti more and Ohio, Cumberland Valley, Southern and Norfolk and Western from points . near here.. , . Eeanthe i6 King You Have Always Bought Eigmtvre CAST B&tb ta 8 KM You Rave Always Bouglft Bowi toe The Kind You Have Always Bongfil crackers rightly n dust tight, moisture proof packagt. TO SLAUGHTER HORSES. Band of 18,000 Wild Cayuses Will Be Killed by 400. Cowboys. From the Anaconda Standard. This is the month fixed upon by general agreement among certain cowboys of the state of Washington for an event the like of. which prob ably never occurred in the history of the United States. That is, the pro posed deliberate slaughter of a band of 18,000 wild horses. ' The cattle men on "the range" in Washington want the grass for their beeves. It grows on government land, it is true, rmt they claim it as their own, and the wild horses which have multiplied there, particularly in Douglas county, : have become obnox ious on account' of their large con sumption of said grass. So the ani mals are to be rounded up and put to death as a means of preserving to the cattlemen a monopoly of the an nual crop. 1 As scheduled, 400 cowboys will take part in the ride after these wild crea tures of the range. The purpose is td rid the range of this great band of grass consumers and the effort, pre sumably, will be to dispatch rather than capture the horses. These untamed and practically un tamtamable animals are the product of nature left to itself on the great range for 30 years. The stock is in terbred and of course underbred, and has no place in ' the economy of civil ized life. : - The careless settlers of 30 years ago who allowed' their ponies to run uncared for on the range year after year were culpable in this matter. Their action, or inaction, was without excuse, except such lame excuse as thriftlessness makes for neglect of duty, and the result has been a mul tiplication of unprofitable animals that " have eateiuout the grass on the range for years, to the detriment of the interest of a"iegitimate stock in dustry. -: " It is doubtful, however, if the sen timent of the American people can be brought to approve a measure which no business sophistries can rob of its atrocity. The cattlemen them selves are, we believe, in fact tres passers on the very land from which they propose to sweep these inno cent herds of wild horses. Quite pos sibly a majority of the people, who are the real owners of the land, would rather have its grass cropped by the horses than by the beeves of the trespassing cattlemen. The latter are not noted;-for their tender .care of the range grasses. Thousands of square miles of land, formerly rich with grasses, are now barren as the result of overgrazing by cattle and sheep. If it is within the power of the Secretary of the Interior or of the President to order the proposed round up and slaughter stopped, it should be done. MILD HAZERS CAN GO BACK Senate Authorizes Reappointment of Midshipmen Punished Too Severily. Washington, June 16. A bill author izing the President to reappoint to the naval academy such of the midshipmen recently dismissed' for hazing as in his judgment may be restored without prejudice to the interest of the naval service was . today reported to the senate from" the committee on naval affairs. It wr.s obvious that the sen tence of dismissal, in several of the cas"es was too severe for the offences, but the law . was -mandatory. The bill will permit the restoration of those convicted of Mild hazing. The bill was passed by the senate after an explanation by Chairman Hale that only seven or eight midshipmen would be affected. PUT OFFICERS TO FLIGHT Montengran and His Wife Afterward ' - - --" Captured. .. Hagerstown, Md., June 16. Sheriff Delbert, and ten deputies this afternoon raided a" railroad workmen's camp, at McCoys Ferry, and arrested Rade S. Pavicevich and wife, Andja Pavice vich, Michael Sabel, and Joseph Kren tzer, subjects of Montenegro, on the charge of conducting illicit - saloons. I They were brought to Hagerstown. and locigea m iaii. ?. , : Constable 'Starliper and two deputies yesterday --attempted to "take Pavice vich and wife, but they attacked the officers with knives and pistols, firing .sixteen shots after the officers as the J latter fled. 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