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THE CHA&LOTTE NEWS, JANUARY U.' 1911 a “Package Nerer lold in bulk)' ■ ^ J' '/ NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY Fresh m every climate: Hot or cold, wet or diy. A^pt^ to ev^ condition: Kich or poor, sick or well. Smted to^^eveiy color: White,^ black, red, yellow. Used Wever/ age: Childhood, youth, manhood, old age. fill times: Breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper* And in all places: At work or play, by day or night. Uneeda Biscuit ■ng to Be the First ■ 'i ni:ike ui;)iiey. A .. r.f-li? off that ho ' 1.‘.' iiri'.riitH. He 1>! I. iii.il M.i'ii lae other . .. V I iIk lu uinl ; i'i’ariit( i*. It i.i sev- ^ . V ;i.. in a court, or ;• V'. looked into a : i ■ ill. r.nd i:ib\cdly,” \ Ih' is lam- ! Iv . ana ht*ro he- shocks the warf once • > .vl' :ilia:u l.incolu ii‘ w;»s ji coar^ie '^'orios. r:.\ kind of a hit ' i b.' >!iort and *a.n- d. "There nius,t I \i :il. concealed to . ■ . . r-i b ' c )neealed, ^ nt • ; a: lies th' point ■ t tlliilf.. 1 llTvt .. , 1 ':iii They t :i.ir.k is the ■ al, hut ^irst I'll • 1 !iie mory. An tried to herj^cli w:'h !i.- ^ v ’. i iilni down 1 adtled this: . . down and • t 1 laan con'idain- ■i.ry; yon ve kept ,f ()! hea\in.’ i livil 01 a liKure In ’)i;h T blir.d bridle, !• - d iiie son." ' ' I unt''-^. at the risk .■ V, I , t, that 1 tlidn’t. .u.- * 'vhoni I told it. k • \ laincd the point. -I’ ‘blind bridles" , . (its in :ho Mis- •d ’ V irreverent son rid man for trying . ■ d‘ I-:.: in the golden . . ; vy every old ” " \r “b’-v.dors,” as •: 1 -A any yo'mc:^ters ' • off hts coll ii> alike before the :■ "i*h an open ; . t> H.ietimoH geo- w!r, ('lark himself I ''..at a.s niy bost story.” ■ U is my most I a., lor stole It, after ’ ” ‘ i-ars, and told It In .(1 linRlly put It In his ; f mine named Jordon V >n The story of raj' »“• ! ! osod I liad made - ’ >!d It one night be- >tit, of our country, •■■.at had the old man [Whose son cut him down on the front j seat. The old man broke down and {cried and tliat rather Epoilc-d the I point for Jordon. ! "Voi-, stories are sectional in their points lots of times.” Clark admitted. ■ In tile fiomh tlie point usually turns on the darky, and he generally gets the worst of it. A good s»ory illustra- tini? this, and a good platform or stump story, Is that of Gen. Mahone, a litile man aboi’t as big as Tom Thumb, who used to be a character. One of Charrp Clark's Popular Stories. “A big darky dreamed that he died nnd arrived in Heaven’s gates, but St. Peter wouldn’t let him in because ho was not on horseback. Coming jadiy down The trail he met Gen. Mahone and told him of the sitnarirn. 'I'here >'as no admission above except for mounted mon. " ‘Get down on al' fours,” directed Gen. Mahone, promptly, ‘and I’ll ride you in.’ Well, the darkey got down on all fours and Gen. Mahone rode l;ini up to tlie uate. “‘Whose there?’ demanded St. Pet er. ictures 33 1-3% Discount ' rsOAY AND THURS- AY, JAN. 1M2TH. ire In our Ptore will b« \ ’ 1 off of th regular 'r.iiv at half price. Big • Hf lert From. Must r»- "I: before taking inven- Robinson’s Book Store '• ‘Gen. }Jahor',f*.’ “‘Are }o:i on liorseback?’ “ -I '’.Ul.’ , •‘ ‘Very well. Just bitch your horse outside and come in. ” The stories of the blind bridle and of >r€n. .Mahcne and the Dick Good man doii story are the three which Champ Clark selected to tell me dur ing his interviev.’. Clam .stood on a steamship dock with an English friend who was brag ging about the wit and intelligence of ihe Rritish nev.sboy. Clark stuck up for the American nev.&je as without a poor. “Try one ou^.’’ Clark insisted. “Me boy,” bogan the Britisher to the vounRStev’ he had called over, “can i you tell me the time of day by your j not?e this morning?” “Ask your own nose,” retorted the kid. “Mine ain’t ruunln.” Clark says the baffled Britisher reached nervously for his handker chief and didn’t recover for some min utes. That story is usually coupled with talk on Declaration of Independ ence themes. (’lark is a force on the floor few care to facc. ^le made the statement in a tariff debate once that the Dlngley lav.' had failed to produce the prom ised reveni.e. Gros-venor and Serono Payne jumped to their feet. Of Gros- venor Clark promptly demanded to know whether there would be a river and harbor bill permitted during the session, and of Payne the chances for a public buildings bill, both very deli cate propositions then with the repub lican leaders. The tw'o old gladiators sat down quietly and Clark continued his tariff attack. Champ Clark has his very serious side, and in serious mood he discuss ed for me the problems as Issues the house democrats face. “The democratic party has no bas’ic differences since silver,” he said, ^^nd that eeems to be settled. The efCects of the ’OG s})lit continued to harass and irritate and divide dGmocrats until the house democrats got together in M^^ch 1911, V. Ithout a man missing, and the getting together of the hou&e d^o- crats had a most wholesome effect on the democrats of the w’holo country, as evidenced by the result in Novem ber. I don’t mean that there are not still democratic differences, but they are such as can be ef»-slly reconcil ed In one way or another. The dem ocrats are more thoroughly united today than at any time smce the polls closed in 1896. ‘•Consequently the situation i» not a question of a getting together, but of staying together of the democrats, and I believe every democratic jne™- ber of the house will work faithftiily and honestly to make a record that will satisfy the country and the party. I have got acquainted with about half the democratic members of the house. They &r» a very superior class of men to come In on a landslide There doesn’t appear to be a crank or low grade man among them. “The republicans, on the otter hand, are wors© split up now tlian we in 1896. They are split up over both measures and men. There Is a halluci* nfttlon to the public mind that repub licans always get together. This is not true. They split In ’72. and the result was a democratic congress in ’74, another In '76, and the election of Bauuel J. TlWen president. They split again in ’82 and in ’S4 swept the country, electing a prei^-ldent and con gress. As this present one is the worst s; lit they ever had they’ll be longer in recovering. “The houof wiU pr.ss a tarifT bill, or biils-,” he said Avitli emphasis v. iieu that topic vv’as touched on. “In my I judgment it will be bills. It is absolute- lutely ridiculous for President Taft, senator Cummins or r.ny other repub lican to claim that they have origi nated tho idea of a revision by sche dules. WJicn Judge William L. Spring er, of Illinois, was chairman of the ways and means committee of the 0 iid congress that was his way of re- ' vising ihe tariff. The house passed sev-1 eral of the sn-called ‘popgun’ bills but i the £-enato refused to pass them. We ! swept the country In the following' election. History repeats itself. | “I bliould say the imlicy of the | house democrais in this larifi’ revision i •' iil be to cut out the monstrosities { and ijijustices from the tariff lav; as j Tuii-kiy \\e can. The tariff should j be revised to give a maximum amount : of revenue with the least burden- .;ouio tax TiosKlble. Duties must be lev- i?d for revenue purposes, of course, and the tariff for revenue man does not, qi;arrt:l with the incidental protec- 1 tlon tiiat may give up to a certain ^ i'joint. I: is when the Btandpatter rais-, j os the duJes i-o high that the reve-j I !iue decreases ti\at we get “high | ! protection’ and suffer from a prohibl-! jlivc tariff and heavy taxes on food and ■ : file common necessiiites of life. The j j (i!?mocratic effort, 1 should say, would; I be to return to normal tariff condi-j ! lions..” ! Cha’np Clark laughed at the sug-i gcstion Jiat he is not over cordial to | uialthe suggestion of stripping the; “V oaker of the power to appoint com-1 miciees. j ‘ The speaker of the new house,” he i said, “will have all the influence to 1 ^ uich he is entitled In looking after his j own business. 1 didn’t have commit-1 lee assignments to help me keep the ■ minority side in order during the last | session.” (Cannon deprived Clary of this privilege, which Williams and j Richardson had enjoyed.) “I really} mink that a speaker or a minority lead- { er is in a ]ucky position without these .ippointments to make. He isr saved a lot of enemies, at least. ‘‘A democratic caucus will be held in January to select members of the ways and means committee. If the republi cans want to select their members they can. That caucus w'ill probably deter mine the other details or organization, about which there are various mild differences of opinion. “Most of the trouble over the house rules and the speaker’s power grew out of their abuse and the usurpation Of authority by a few. The two radical changes made, the enlarging of the rules committee, its election by the house and barring the speaker from it, and the rule to prevent the smothering of bills in committee, ha,ve insured us against further abuses of the same sor against further abus-e of the same sort. I believe. If not, other precau tions will be taken, in many events there will be no confusion in the new democratic housa over the organiza tion or rules.” You can’t escape Champ Clark with out carrying away with you some press agent stuff advertising Missouri, his district or Pike county. Recently a Washington paper printed an innocent paragraph giving a man named Brink ley credit for the longest beard in the world. Clark promptly hurled this chal lenge at the paper: “I have two valued friends living In the same towmship of Pike county. Mo.,” he wrote, “whose beards put Mr. Brinkley and the prophet Aaron to shame. Mr. Valentine Taylor of Spen- cerburg. Mo., has whiskers eleven feet six inches in length, and Judge Elijah Gates of Curryville has a beard nine feet and six inches long. Mi&souri is feet and six inches long. Missouri, in beards as in other things, leads the world.” Clark let me escape with an apple, beautiful to see and bigger than the I biggest grapefruit. “The delicious,” they call it in Missouri, and Clark told how some old boy brought that fruit in his saddlebags from Kentucky to Mis souri in 1835, founding the Stark Nur sery, which is turning them out yet. 'i nen Clark caller me back and offered apatent corncob pipe, with a tale of how the largest corncob pipe factory in the world, in his district, of course, doubles the vadlue of the com crop to the Missouri farmer. “Be sure and get the names right,” he insisted. “1 want any «,ds 1 get for my folks in the city papers to be ben eficial and accurate. The delicious-, ap ple and the ‘Missouri Meerschaum’ are the names. Don’t forget.” 2 rain Shed Burned At Chattanooga By Associated Press. Chattanooga, Tenn., Jan. 10.—The train shed of the Nashville, Chatta nooga & St. Louis depot w'as destroyed by fire and with it a whole train of passenger coaches and two Pullman sleepers, in a spectacular blaze which started at 3:30 o’clock this morning. The blaze was first observed coming from the mail car of train Number 6, which Avas made up ready to leave for Nashville at 5 o’clock. With almost incredible swiftness the blaze leaped from car to car and before a locomo- I tivG could be brought to pull them out ithe coaches ignited the entire roof of the shed, r.efcrc the fire department could reach the scene the train was practically dstroyed and the shed was a seething mass of flames. Two sleepers w^ere under the shed, one of which came in on the Atlanta train and one on the Nashille train, were also totally destroyed. There were several persons in these two cars and they made a hurried exit from the sleepers in time to prevent anything more serious than a few slight burns, which were the portion of some of the s'lcvv'er ones. At one time there w^as grave fear that the union depot and the freight station next to it also w'ould burn, and the firemen devoted their time to sav ing these playing streams of water on the two buildings and keeping them wet. "The General,” the prize historic en gine oi tiie Nashville, Chattanooga & St. U)uis Railroad was saved from the flames. The lire in the union station destroy ed about one-half oi the shed, two Pullmans, mail and baggage cars. Three daj' coaches were entirely or partially burned. The total loss is es timated at about $65,000. The fire broke out in the mail car and is supposed to have been due to the explosion of the gas tank. In their effort© to escape some of the passengers lest much baggage, and several were injured, but none danger ously. All of those injured received burns about the hands, face and back. F. E. Beggs, residence unknown, was most seriously injured. He was carried to a hospital. He escaped from the car without any clothes^ and was seveiely burned. He lost $100 and val uable jewelry. Others injured were: Nat Cohen, NeAv York: C. R. French, Chicago; Herman Eshborn. New York; H. Pollok, Cleveland, Ohio; W. C. Houselman, Chicago; B. C. Bork, Jack sonville, Fla.; D. C. Bogkins, Knox ville. All of the mail in the mail car w^as saved. The old “general,” an engine of the Western and Atlantic railroad, w.|iich has stood under the shed of the Un ion depot for years a s a relic of war times, escapc . damage from the fire by effiicent work of firemen. This is the old engine stolen at Big Shanty, near Marietta, Ga., by Andrews raid ers during the Civil war, and made a run through Georgia. Man is a Failure When he has no confidence In him self nor his fellow men. When he values success more than character and self-respect. When he does not try to make his work a little better each day. When he becomes so absorbed in his work that he cannot say that life is greater than work. When he lets a day go by without making some one happier and more comfortable. When he tries to rule others by bul- Ijing instead of by example. When he values wealth above health, sell-respect, and the good opin ion of others. 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