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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS MARCH 11, 108 4 THE CHARLOTTE NEWS Published every afternoon except Sunday THE NEWS PUBLISHING COMl'ANV. W. C. DOWD, President and General Manager. Telephone 115. 3. C. PATTON Editor HOWARD A. BANKS City Editor. A- W. BURCH ...Adv. Manager. L C. SHERRILLi. .Circulation Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year $5.00 Mix months 2.60 Three month 1.25 One month 45 One week 10 Give your subscription to your regu lar newspaper carrier or 'phone 115. The columns of The Newi are open to legitimate advertising. Vo objectional advertising of any rfind will be accepted by this paper. All unsigned communications will be discarded. Rejected communications will not be returned unless accompanied by stamp. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1908. "Politics is politics" asserts the Spartanburg Herald. If you have as many varieties, in South' Carolina, as may be found in some places, contem porary, you should surely have written it, "Politics are politics." Eastern Carolina is not to be left out cf the baseball fraternity this year. The Eastern Carolina League has just been perfected. ALU AGREED ON CHARLOTTE. Charlotte's large delegation is now in Raleigh working for the state demo cratic convention, time and place for holding which, will be decided this eve ning. The News feels confident Char lotte will be chosen as the next meet ing place. In jts opinion no other city in the state is so well equipped with facili ties for entertaining so large a body as is Charlotte, and since this is the first time a petition has ever been offered for this meeting, it would be nothing short of a serious mistake to decide on any other place. As we noted yesterday, the press of the state is almost unanimously in favor of Charlotte. Greensboro is perhaps the only contestant standing any chance in the selection, and even Greensboro recognizes the superior claims of Charlotte, as may be seen from the following, taken from the Greensboro Record, of yesterday: "In all seriousness we hope Char lotte will not come out like that can didate in Cabarrus county many years ago who ran for the legislature without opposition and then at the last moment was defeated. Charlotte is working might and main for the democratic state convention. If any other town is splitting its shirt for the meeting we have failed to note it. As a matter of courtesy, however, Greensboro, we presume, will extend an invitation, but if there is any con cert of action to make a fight for it, it has not been announced. The truth is one hears practically nothing about it. It would be too bad should our neizlibor go down cocked and primed an-i get knocked out like the Cabar rus gentleman." Indicative of the general confidence in Charlotte's chances at securing the song, story and dance, with present convention, is the following from the Salisbury Post: "Charlotte deserves and will get the democratic state convention this year, a matter to be decided b ythe com-! mittee at its meting in Raleigh Wed-' nesday. i "Charlotte has the hotel facilities, and the auditorium to entertain, a com- bination that no other city in North J Carolina can boast of. We are glad) that the Queen City deserves to and will win." Similar expressions of opinion to those above quoted might be cited at great length, but space forbids. The News predicts that at tonight's meeting Charlotte wil be the choice. Thus will another feather be added to the Queen City's convention city cap. "And what is so rare as a day m spring?" inquires the New Bern Sun. Two, perhaps. Here's hoping our delegates "will bring back the convention. The peek-a-boo shirtwaist girl makes her best bow. Party Needs No Saving. "I see," said an enthusiastic and working Democrat on the street the other day, "that Mr. Morton of Wil mington, Mr. Murphy of Salisbury, and a few others have tried to have a meeting of Democrats in Salisbury for the purpose of getting up a fight against prohibition, and that Cy Wat son was expected to be present, but like a good many others expected, failed to show up, Mr. Watson, how ever, sending a letter in which he said he was in full sympathy with the movement' The funny part of the bus iness is that these men claim to be working to save the Democratic party when everybody knows that they are working to save old Booze if possible. The Democratic party needs no sav ing in that direction. It had better die than to be saved on a whiskey barrel as a life preserver." Monroe Enquirer. AN ISSUE. ARTIST EARLE DESERTED. The following dispatch from New York is interesting, in the light of sensational stories printed some months ago about Artist Earle's determ ination to forsa::3 his wile for his new ly discovered "canity:" "A dispatch from Paris says that Artist Earle, who attracted such noto riety in New York last summer by di vorcing his pretty wife, with a boy baby, with her consent, in order that he might marry his so-called 'affinity, Miss Kuttner, of Philadelphia, has broken with his new wife and that sne and her mother are on their way back to America. It is also stated that Earle has lately been paying much at tention to his first wife, now living with her father near Paris; that his visits became distasteful and last week the father requested Earle to cease his visits. So he is now deserted by both women." Such is the ending of an "affinity" venture. Who is surprised? There are few regrets, save that Earle's fate Tnitrlit nnt h.vpl.ppn with the wretched career he started. There was pathos in the way his first wife, seeing her affections no longer reciprocated, consented to step aside, for the younger face that had found favor in her husband's eyes. "Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap." Was ever a truer say ing uttered? The New York artist le gan to reap the fruits of his sowing ev en before he set sail with his "affinity." Met hy jeering townsmen, he narrowly escaped violence at their hands. De cency had been outraged. A good wom an had been wronged, and naturally, indignation was felt. This was only the beginning of the iMtrvest, which is now prolific in its fruits of remorse and disappointment. This drink bill represents almost everything of disappointment, dan ger, and disaster that we know. The wisest stawrmen admit it, educators and political economists say so. Sta tistics overwhelm us with the facts thechurch of God staggers and trem bles with a sense of it, thousands of hearts . are breaking because of it. An issue? The saloon is an enemy of the home, a social tyrant, the cor rupter of politics, the incarnation of greed, misrule, anarchy. No grand and self-governing people, no prosper ous homes, no peaceful social order, no joyous republic, no serene com munities can be built upon and amid its perpetual ruins. One hundred and ninety thousand saloons each good for from five to twenty votes stand solidly at each election for the maintenance and per petuation of this hellish system. Prayers, because unaccompanied with works, have failed to lessen or re claim the evil to any great extent. License has not materially re stricted, and "gospel temperance" has not conquered it. It is in politics. It lives because of somebody's poli tics. It will be in yours and mine unless we vote it out of existence. This we cannot do so long as the prayers, sympathies, moral efforts for its overthrow, running through three hundred and sixty-four days, twenty-, three hours and fifty-nine seconds, are dissolved by a license vote at the pivotal last second. Yes, and it ought to be. Revolu tion is better than a corruption, bet ter than crime, better than the death of the republic. The blowing up of two or three rows of buildings at the time of the Chicago fire would have saved the city. Some human heart must ache, some human brain resolve, and some hu man hand touch the forces of govern ment, aided and inspired with these convictions, ere Justice and Judg ment are set in the earth, and the righteousness of God goes forth as a lamp that burnetii. The independent voter has but one question to ask: "Is it right?" not, "Is it popular, pleasing, or expedient?' Reason, home, manhood, public safety, good morals, good government, yea, the life of the nation, are involved here. Womanhood mother wife, sister, friend her life, comfort, peace, are logically involved you and I are in volved. New organizations are inau gurated that have declared unequiv ocally for the overthrow and abso lute annihilation of this monster drink curse, for purity of law and lawmaker, for our common school system, for God, and home, and na tive land. Is this ideal, too, ethical, or theo ordtic? So is the kingdom of God among men. And yet, He has prom ised it shall come. Do you pray the prayer? Then help' the fight. Lay aside party idolatry. Invigorate, read, find the truth, then show the world that you dare to vote it. Elk's Meeting Tonight. An important meeting of Charlotte Lodge, No. 392, B. P O. Elks, will be held tonight at 8 o'clock in the lodge room over the up-town office of the Southern. All members are earnestly requested to ba present. Set your heart on a living and lose life. The fearful are always faithless. SPRING IS NEAR at hand, and if you're wise you will help Nature get rid of the impurities collected in the system during the Winter months by taking a short course of the Bitters. It is wonderful the amount of good it can do at this particular season. HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS will purify the blood, make sleep rest ful and cure Spring Fever, Colds, Grippe, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Cos tiveness and Malaria, Fever and Ague. We guarantee the genuine to be ab solutely pure. First to Wear Out With Age Gives a Home Prescrip tion Which is Valued by Elderly People to Re lieve Kidney and Blad der Trouble. The great majority of men and wom en at. the age o 50 years begin to feel the first signs of advancing age in some form of kidney trouble and bladder weakness. Few are entirely free from, that torturous disease, rheu matism, which is not a disease in it self, but a symptom of deranged func tion of the kidneys which have become clogged and sluggish, failing in their duty of sifting and straining the pois onous wraste matter, uric acid, etc., from the blood, permitting it to re main and decompose, settling about the joints and muscles, causing in tense pain and suffering. The bladder, however, causes the old folks the most annoyance, especial ly at night and early morning. A noted authority in a recent arti cle stated that he has wonderful suc cess with the old-time "vegetable treatment." He states: "Of sixteen cases of bladder troubles and rheuma tism which have been treated with this treatment only one very compli cated case failed to fully yield to its remarkable influence. It is the most harmless treatment I have ever found to clean the system of rheumatic poisons: remove irritation of the blad der and relieve urinary difficulties of the old people. It is a true vitalizing tonic to the entire kidney and urinary structure, reinvigorating the entire system." What he terms "old vegetable treat ment" consists of the following sim ple prescription, the ingredients which can be obtained from any good pharmacy at small cost: Compound Kargon, one ounce; Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half ounce. Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three ounces. Shake well in a bottle and take in ,teaspoonful doses after each meal and upon going to bed, also drink plenty of water. ' This prescription, though simple, is always effective in the diseases, and afflictions of the kidney and bladder. Thinking On One's Ways Rev. Dr. McDaniel Elab orates Tellingly on One of David's Testimonies T h e Speaker's Fine Gifts And Power. The crisp, clear weather enabled a splendid audience to be in attendance at the First Baptist church last night to hear Dr. McDaniel. The body of the church was well filled, and a re markably large proportion of the au dience wras composed of men. It is too generally customary to consider religion a matter for the women to look after, and to allow our churches to present almost unbroken pews full of ladies, with only a man here and there. But this gifted and eloquent visitor from Richmond is touching the hearts of the Charlotte men in a most J peculiar sense. Most of those who are professing faith at these meet-( ings are men, and more and more are in the audience each evening. On of the most noticeable features of these meetings is their lack of that excitement which sometimes prevails to a harmful dgree in revival services. That the people are being profoundly moved no one who gazes into their ear nest eyes, or listens to the glorious congregational singing, could for a moment doubt. But this emotion is not superficial; it is of the inmost heart; and its signs are not to be discovered in excited language, or ac tions, but in the absorbed attention of the congregation during the preaching of the word, and in the gratifying num bers of those who are seeking Christ to the salvation of their souls. The preacher is a man who carriers conviction of his great earnestness and spiritual power in his every sen tence. No hearer can misunderstand the whole-hearted sincerity and conse crated purpose with which he delivers his message. His themes are well chosen and forcefully impressed; he drives home his argument with logical directness, not depending in the least on the beauty of his diction. Were his subject any other in the realm of hu man affairs, this latter quality would attract attention a muqh greater de gree. As the mouth-piece of his Mas ter, he does not use his eloquence to give his audience the intellectual treat, which he is so well qualified to furnish, but aims every sentence full at his goal which is the convicting and converting of sinners. . Nevertheless, when Dr. McDaniel be comes fully absorbed in the exposition of some vital point, his language takes on a beauty, and his thought develops a wealth of imagery, which only a master speaker can attain. This is particularly true of his illustrations. They are not too numerous, as is the temptation in the case of such, a fluent raconteur, but they are ready at his command and invariably of perfect aptness. He does not waste ammu nition shelling the woods, but points his guns full on the enemy's line. Ev ery now and again, we will recount some personal experience which has impressed itself on his memory, and whether it be bright and sunny, or sad and pathetic, the picture is most vivid ly presented to the minds of his hear ers. . The meeting has already attained most gratifying results, and before it Continued on page 9 Q . ; 1 ; - -. , ill Q Shatungs, Rajahs, Foulards, Pon gees and all other new things in silks waist Silks and Dress Silks. 36-Inch Chiffon Taffetas, 98c. These are the real Chiffon Taffetas, new Blues, urowns and Tans; no better goods made for one dollar a yard, 98c. Black Taffetas. Not since we have sold a black Taf feta has our stock been so complete and well bought. Beginning with a pretty All-Silk 36-inch Black Taf feta at 75c, we show all grades up to $1.50, and to see our line means to buy. The Newest Thing. Just in today, the newest fabric in Shantung Stripe Silks, in Old Rose, Copenhagen Blues, two shades of Tans. You must see these to appre cite them. Nothing like them here, and we only have them in patterns. Come see them $1.25 yd. Foulards and Fancies Beginning at 48c. we show them at different prices up to 98c. White Goods 40-Inch Wash Batiste 25c. This is the Batiste that we started .i Jl 1 ji T- tne season on anu uaa sucii u run a nn All the. ladies who havp. heen 1 waiting for same can get it now at same price, 25c. a ! j. read this. ' , 4 Very Important Notice in Re- 4 gard to McCall's Patterns. 4 f ' Miss Mary Frisbie, a special representative of McCall's pat- terns from New York, will be 4 at our store on Wednesday 4. 4 and Thursday, March 11th 4. and 12th, and will take great 4. pleasure in explaining to the women of Charlotte and sur- rounding cities the great and 4 superior merit of McCall pat- terns, the simplest, most eas- ily put together and best fitting 4. 4 patterns in the world. 4 We should like every woman 4 4 who possibly can be present. 4 4 You will not be asked to buy. 4 4. 4. j 44444I'II,I'II,44,,44 i French and Persian Lawns. 46-inch French Lawns - IOC 32-inch Persian LLawn 12 1 ? 32-inch Persian Lawn ...V." 12 ily are 'going rapidly. A New and Novel Fabric French Cot ton Voiles, 25c. This is by far the prettiest Cotton Dress Goods yet put out and our colors are the new shades. Looks like fine wool voile, 25c. Cosmo Suitings, '12 1-2c. If you want a pretty Easter Dress and want one that will take the place of dollar wool goods, this is it. Looks like real fine wool and wears well -joc. Linen Tamise, 25c. All-Linen, sheer quality 25c. 45-Inch Persian Lawn 25c. 45-Inch French Lawn 25c. $1.25 Long Cloth, 12 yards .... 93c. $1.39 Long Cloth, 12 yards $1.25 Limited quantity of these goods. Come fast and get them. Remember this: When you are out to buy anything in White Goods, no matter whether Linen or Cotton, you make a mistake when you buy be fore seeing headquarters. We are away ahead. i CONJECTURE VS. REALITY. A Few Home-Truths About the Gen eral American Attitude Toward War. Do we absolutely ignore the lurid fact of war? Have we no glimmer of an idea of our part in an internation al crisis? Of course not. We have a lick-and-a-promise war time plan. There is a vague general idea that in the event of war: . . .,,..; ,. , , .. 1. The ranks .of the regulars win fill from fifty per cent peace strength" to 100 per cent war quota. 2. Volunteers will spring up like blades of grass. 3. Somehow, from somewhere, arms and equipment for them will be forthcoming. 4. The new recruits will he trained by experienced soldiers and there will be plenty of teachers. 1. Will the . regular ranks fill so? No, the plan fails there. With the alternative of the romantic volun teers, no man will enlist in the aus tere, regulars. The enlistments are so falling, off at this moment that regular companies all over the states are slowly descending to bed-rock. And if the ranks were so recruited, the happy fact would invalidate them for weeks. The addition of twenty recruits to a company demoralizes it in peace time in war an influx of more than its original number in raw material would place it with the non-effectives. 2. Will volunteers spring up like blades of grass? Yes, luxuriantly; because with no one to take care of them ,they would better not, for they will also die like grass; and further because 3. Arms and equipment will not be forthcoming. Equipment for even one-fifth enough infantry does not exist. Rifles, hardtack, guns, shrap nel, saddles, uniforms, tents, clothing haversacks, belts, bayonets, sabers, all the jumbled circumstance, of war will have to be manufactured, after the outbreak of hostilities. We have some 150 field-guns; Japan has ten times as many, and guns are won derfully made. Their manufacture requires trained men, special ma terial and machinery, and weeks of painstaking care. 4. If the volunteers were mustered, would there be instructors to make soldiers of them? Absolutely no. The regular army is so denuded of company officers by present peace time demands from the army itself, that .there are not one and a half officers to an organization; there should be three. The increased de mands of War will reduce this num ber to less than one to the company. Lieut. Hugh Johnson, XL S. A., in the March Everybody's. THIS DATE IN HISTORY. March 11. 1544 Torquato Tasso, the italian poet, born at Sorrento. Died in Rome, April 25, 1595. 1619 Two sisters burnt at Lincoln, England, for the alleged crime of witchcraft. 1702 The Daily Courant, the first Brit ish daily newspaper, issued- in London. 1785 John McLean, associate justice ' ' of the 'Unite'd States: supreme court, who dissented from the majority opinion in the Dred Scott decision, born in New Jer sey. Died in Cincinnati, April 4th, 1861. 1 1856 Nicaragua declared war against r-k-4-rt T3 jHLa 1AH CX. 1865 Parliament at Quebec adopted ; the confederation scheme. 1874 Charles Sumner, Massachusetts statesman, died. Born January 6th, 1811. Charlotte's One Priced Cash Store i Heavy, impure blood makes muddy, pimply complexion, headaches, anu sea, indigestion. Thin blood makes you weak, pale, sickly. Burdock Blood iBt ters makes the blood rich, red, pure restores perfect health. Stops itching instantly. Cures piles, eczema, salt rheum, tetter, itch, hives, herpes, escables Doan's Ointment. At any drug store. For a mild, easy action of the how els, a single dose of Doan's Regulets is enough. Treatment cures habitual con stipation. 25 cents a box. Ask your druggist for them. "Dr. Thomas' Electric remedy is the best remedy for that often fatal disease TLToct yacTt llSfid With cno naca ciuup. dm " ---.--,. .in our family for eight years." Mrs. L. IWhiteacre, Buffalo, N. Y. THIS IS MY 62ND BIRTHDAY. Lucius Tuttle. Lucius Tuttle, president of the Bos ton and Maine railroad for the past 15 years, was born in Hartford, Conn., March 11th, 1846, and received his ed ucation in the public schools of that city. In 1865 he began his railroad career, in which he was destined in time to become one of the recognized masters of modern railroading. He served in various subordinate positions until 1889, when he became commis sioner of the Trunk Line Association. A year later found him the general manager of the New York, New Haven and Hartford road, in which position he served for two years, when he was elected vice-president of the road, 'in 1893 he became president of the Bos ton and Maine, then a much smaller system than it is today. Under Presi dent Tuttle's direction the system was expanded until now it controls the entire section of the country east and north of Boston. Since 1896 Mr. Tuttle has been president also of the Maine Central railroad, which is closely allied with the Boston and Maine interests. Pipes, Cigars and Tobacco We take pride in our Smokers' Department. If you want any thing in Pipes, "Tobacco, Cigars, etc., you will be suited here. Have you seen our big window display of Pipes, Tobacco, etc.? Woodall & Sheppard Druggists 21 South Tryon St. Phone 69 1 J HUYLER'S Always the Best. Fresh shipments of Huyler's Candy continually arriving. Don't you want a box to-day? JJo IP (Cosi pOOJl votton 5c Per Soool DRY GOODS SPECIALS 45-inch White Lawn, nice sheer quality, only 10c yard India Linon Lawn, regular 12 l-2c quality, at 10 Cents New Patterns in Shirt Madras, nice smooth quality 10c yard New Striped and Checked Dimities in short lengths, from 2 to 5 var l.s t ; Piece 10c a aYr:l ,W?M?I?X"In 'I"Il'H ! v 40-inch White Lawn, very sheer quality ICc a yard. 'H''IvIrl-'HHItl"! -; . v vK- 40-inch Linen Finish Lawnn, regular 18c quality; special 15 Certs rt yd Yard-wide Lonsdale Cambric Sheeting, the brand ..tan-ped . i v:ch ; ' at 10c V-J 'I"I"ItH'4I":-I"I"I"I"I"2 -H-S-i-W'-HWv'H-v I 4. ...... .T. 4 Mercerized French Batiste, nice smooth ouality 1-c yarc'. v 40-inch French Lawn put up in Book Folds 12 12c '""r: 44-inch French, pretty smooth quality for 15c and 18c -,v: 1 .H"i'i"i :"ii"iM:"! k J Yard-wMe Persian Batiste in Black only i?c y - , V ? v' Nice smooth quality of Long Cloth, full yard wide in short. ' ; for 10c 3 Yard Bleaching in Short Lengths 5c a - Nice Sheer quality Lawn in Short Lengths 5c a yjid JORDAN'S ON THE SQUARE EM 'Phone 7. WE NEVER CLOSE. NURSES' REGISTER. fill ABE UfU 00 Cor. Trade and CoISege Streets Stores Also Concord, C -22 - V ' .'V
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