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THE CHABLOTTE NEWS JANUARY 22, 1911 The Charlotte News Publiahva Aany *na Sunday l>7 THU IfWWir P17BT.ISHINO CO. W. C> Oow4» Vr«a. anA Oca. Her. 7*leplioa*si :«tr *n Bualn«M Offio* rob Oflo« 15** J. O. HATTON • 52 A. W. CALI>WEI-5i City A. W. BURCH AdvertlBinK Mgr. mrnsciirpTion ratm «%• ChmvXotim fT«wa. DftiXy and Sunday. Ob# rmr »5-5® W* **25 Thr«« *•?)' Oo« montH On* VMk ■unday Only. On« y««f M*®* Fix montUfl Tbr*« ThB Tlnt*»«D*mo«nit* 8«ml-W«®kiy. On* y«»r •'•25 PI* tnontha Thf*t mon^tis Aaaoi* Th« attentior. of tnfc puMie la r*- •p«ctfully Invlteil to tk« following'. In future. Obituary Notlcea, In Me- moHam Sketches. C*rrl» of Thanks, rommuntf^atlons e^oritislnir th« cause of a private enT*rprlBe or a political candidate and lik# .nstter, will be cb%rafed for (»t the rat'i of flve cents a line. There will be no deviation from this rule. SUNDAY MORNING, JAN. 22, 1911. EVENTS AT HOME. T‘tt» iti my easy chair brforo The flrr?-iiU-a ohrerful plar’ All UKxlorn comforts aro at 0l«'ctirc ll^hts and mii!’lf I'arr'^d; the tri- iin'piiR fh}\* treat men have wnnichf art' ;;;itliertHl In my cozy cot The noichbor chll- dr*'n p;itl'.c: ronrd. to hear mo dri^el and exi-Hind about tho p.uid iM Times pone by, which I appiand—I wonder V. h\ '.' I wondir why old men. ..:t‘ p’.ine view ilie present wiih a kirii.iM and talk of vau- ♦ ! du :1 ♦ u» 1 e ♦ lllW'^ ♦ I if'i ♦ 'hi:;k; ♦ wfie '; as though they ♦ •!h> s- ?,ood? be- ♦ l!i> (. ilcren listen while ♦ (I' nnes w lu-n evor\ - ♦ was well, wlien girls ♦ autreN, minus crowns. ♦ ♦ and r.M'n nor* s:iinis m nand- ♦ ♦ n'.-d"v ti'-. i'.nd life was one ♦ ♦ liinsj Miund of I'V. without a ♦ ^ soiTi’w lo .Miiii" . Aud in m> ♦ ♦ lit’.ir; im t ‘tii-oious that I'm ♦ ♦ sin ply nlkinj: throu^n my ♦ ♦ I'.al. I d bate like thunder lo ♦ ^ bj- svMiiii; bacli to the rimes ♦ ♦ lien I \v as young’ I’d hate to ♦ ♦ ir.ui li’. smoky liRht;?, and ♦ ♦ slrt'ii un ri(k8 of siraw at ♦ ♦ ;;!L;hT>j. and ro to bid a* ♦ ♦ o'l lork. becaupp no candles ♦ ♦ ai'f in stock, and ,co out doors ♦ ♦ I'l iTO' a drink, and tii.d the ♦ ♦ li- i>rr. iin flu- blink. We lived ♦ ^ lii^o iinisfs in ibose days, and ♦ ♦ Mi.ii'h to my own anuize. ♦ ♦ 1 bra.; ai'.d braK, in prose and ♦ ♦ rt'.ymis. a *>-u; tho good old ♦ ♦ \Liuishod t:mes: ♦ ♦ ♦ WAI.T MASON. ^ ♦ ♦ Pla' 'Hir rrlendship is sometime? Tliep -f-a i;?ed lor concealing an en- gBCl?n^■r,^ An. minded community should thmV: twice before it bonds fntnrr* generations. Wt ni- confidently expecting to he reE:a!‘-(i ft the Winston meeting: by listeiiin.’ i ) Dr. Pliiliii/'s ode to pie. Thr ’.iHva! [•-•'■i'ram provides sever al new drfadnautrhts, submarine and • Tther naval paraphanalia for the per- pettiation i f s\'. m.’ iicace. Let Brother Hobjjon express the ecstacy of the jUigots They are now claiming that the 8ftfet> pin is 2,h00 years old. Even then, ir is outclassed by the hairpin which v.as hf'!dinii up the universe Ion& before the necessity for fasten ing thin.c;.=: was felt. A million dollar.s in bonds for a new buildinp. A half million in bonds for state colleges. A million dollat.- in bonis for municipal im provements. . Verily we live in a day when the bonding industry flour ishes. Since Kditor Clark, of the Raleigh Times, has proven himself to be both a resourceful and rlcver sleuth in his hookworm Investigations, we name Ulm as a committee of (me to pass upon the color of hair effected by Editors Cowan and Witchartl. Let the report be made at the Winston meet ing. What streets will be improved? In what direction will sewer mains he extended? Which schoolhouses will ht Improved? And what will each of llie various and sundry "pressing needs” cost? In other words, exactly where will the million dollars go and who will handle it? The News is interested and wants more light on the proposition. Greenville will not get a new count of Its people by the government. This information Is contained in letters received by Mr. W. C. Cothran from Gongressmen Johnson and l.«€ver, to whom he wrote In behalf of the comnalttees from the board of trade and the city council asking that they consult with the head of the census buxeau in an effort to secure a new count of Greenville’s people.—Green ville Piedmont. » Oh, well ! Life Is full of disappoint ments. Let your 17,000 gather and form themselves Into a mutual conso lation society. At any rate, things might he worse. Think of Greens- . boio, N. O. UNSAVORY PLAYS. We hear that the “Nigger” has decided to curtail its Southern tour and return home. Egged by interest taken in the play, elsewhere, by reason of its dramatic strength, In other sections where the "prob lem" treated was not real and tan gible, the “Nigger” sauntered hope fully forth on a tour of the South. It’s managers are said to have been disappointed in the reception tender ed It. Baltimore barred “The Nigger.” Every Southern city should have done this, but In too many places the im portance of protecting society against contamination of this sort has not been appreciated by official dom. If Charlotte cared enough about the kind of amusement offered the children and women w'ho patronize theatres and vaudeville shows a great many such plays wold not be allowed. Occasionally we go to vau deville shows and hoar a class of obscene and coarse jokes which we w'ould blush to repeat in the parlor. Wo go to the theatre and listen to dirty tales such as those presented in “The Nigger,’’ and Thomas Dix on’s trashy plays, aud go home ashamed to discuss them about the fireside. But more stupid still, we raise a howl after they come, and then permit them to come again. There is nothing moro ennobling than a good show. Dozens of theJii come to the academy duiing the sea son which are regtilar sermons in themselves. And while this is true there is nothing more degrading than a bad show. The "Nigger” should go away off somewhere into the wilds and dis band. It should invite “The Sins of the Father" to accompany It. And having Qtiietly disbanded, the gifted troupe should join forces in the pro duction of something more decent. And the playwrights, too, should turn the guns of their genius awa> from the sewer a’.ul into the i^iro and free air above. The "problem’’ will never be solved by such means as "The Sins of the Father" or the "Nigger." The hair of the dog in this instance will not cure its bile. It is impossible to cleanse a dirty piece of china with a soiled rag. The Dixonesque panacea le^ds civilization backwards rather than upwards. There was a time when such cheap sensationali.^m as that offered by Thomas Dixon, and human uplifts of his ilk. would have been ill received by the public. After all popular taste goes in circles. Like the measles, reform waves sweep the land, and are fol lowed anon by a general lapse of popular conscience. We believe that on the whole the trend is upwards. There are fewer relapses. But at :imcs thobe who are concerned in wholesome eutertaiument for the rising generation have scant encour agement when they witness some of the popular plays or read some of the "season’s sellers." Public decency was taking a day otf when “Salome" had its run. and that any period should be reached when such sen- •su*l chaff as “Three Weeks" should i)o noticed speaks not well for pop ular taste in this day of twentieth century advancement. By way of defending his plays, Thomas Dixon bellow's forth: “Dare to meet facts face to face," and a lot of linlo human ninp.ies feel inat lo be real brave they mu&t see bis stuff. On the sanje principle i^ might all the demi mondes to be fair in its judgments, should bring forth from the toughest settlmeuts all (he dem mondes, to be marked as exhibit “A’.' in the work of problem solving. The same idiot who yells ^‘Face the issue,” if logical, would introduce society to all the cesspools and social quagmires, that honest judgment might thereby be reached. A great many people, however, whose machinery of thought is lodged in their own instead of another’s cranium, tire of such flim sy argument, from men who are en deavoring to smooth over their own efforts to corner the swag by brazen challenges to “reason.” These strive hard to shield women and children from glimpses of the .seamy side. The evil is there—all along the path of life, but is it necessary to run ex cursions to the haunts of vice in order to more fully convince society of the existences of things w’hich all recognize? What a pity that our w'omen and children must be offered as dramatic pabulum exceptional instances of depravity sugar-coated in with a stale little moral whose absurdity only adds another daub to the picture in the mind of’ intelligence. Why must men who really have talent, such as Tom Dixon, and the author of the "Nigger” ransack the back alleys, highways and hedges of Southern history for some particular ly glaring bit of degradation, to offer to the world as samples of the social problem? But so long aa the public will feast upon literary filth there will always be a few ready to pan der to the tan to if the remuneration, is sufficient. In Tom Dixon’s play the revolting scenes portrayed wotjid not be dis cussed in the parlor. And when any voice of protest In decency's sweet name goes forth Brother Dixon Im mediately issues statements—(he keeps them on tap)— defending his medley of immorality, and taunting the ptxblic because It dare not “face tho issue.” The “Nigger” goes a little further in the direction of utter indecency. The first act—well played—pictures a lynching bee. It is realistic. It sends thrills chasing down thespine. The vision of a real lynching would do the same. Men feel the qualmy thrill when their eyes gaze upon any horrible sight—when they see men murdered or maimed. And one sentiment is about the same as the oth er. The moral to the first act is that the law is insufficient. Even the wo men in the play condone the lynch ing. The second act brings the ele vating picture of a negro jnan in love with a white woman. And to cap the climax the author causes his negro character to become the ex ponent of the moral issue involved in their Jove match. What slander to white w'omanhood of the South is couched in the open fact that the white woman in the play w'as willing to wed the negro, but he. Interpreter of the right, would not permit the sacrifice- The play leaves all with a nasty taste in the mouth; and a feeling of disgust in the mind. It is unreal, impossible, and portrays any thing but “the problem.” It pictures a situation of social equality which neither race desires. It presents the spectacle of a properly executed lynching with all the blood curd ling perquisites throw'n in. When hundreds of honest and sincere white men and w'omen ere endeavor ing to lead society away from the dark memories of mob violence, which ha ye been all too frequent, such plays as the “Nigger” and Tom Dixon’s trashy productions, come along to revive memories which civ ilization Is trying to |prget. They foster the spil'it of racial animosity. And when an individual or new's- paper protests against the brand of Dixonesque entertainment, and criti cises such nauseous novels as many that are circulated today, a lot of hair brained idiots cry “Fool reform er." To insist upon decency. To labor for more wholesome plays and novels is in the eyes of a great many evi dences of mollycoddleism. And it is because there are so many of this brand of critics that such trash finds a warm welcome. After all, these things rest with the people who patronize the shows and the bookstores. As we have said, there will always be “reformers*’ bent upon treating the public to filth, if the box office receipts smile upon ttieir reforms. Here's hoi)ing for the dissohition of ihe dissolute Standard Oil.—WMlming- ton Disi)atch. Hadn’t you as soon see it evapor ate?—Greenville Reflector. It can go to blazes for all we care. —Raleigh Times. Hold, friends I Treat this "infant industry’’ nor thus harshly. At least give it a chance to ooze away quietly. Some of the critics of the propo sition to build a home for old ladies of the Confederacy say that after a few' years they will all be dead, and the home will not be needed. In oth er words let them eke out a home less existence because, forsooth, the}”^ cannot live forever: Suppose every home builder argued thus. Greensboro is delighted over the pros- '."/ccts of a closer association wnth the Queen City. i From Other Sanctums f T His “Morals” Came High. “The Sins of the Father” company is visiting all the towns that are able to pay the price. Those who get the great moral lesson it teaches must pay for it!—Greensboro News. Evidence of Narrow Mind. When the new governor of South Carolina Avas making his inaugural ad dress and declaring Avith such ve hemence that he w'as opposed to tax money paid by white people going to educate negroes he was- serving notice on the rest of the world that the Pal metto state had a very narrow-mind ed man for governor.—Greensboro News. • ASSOCIATED CHARITIES. Burned out in Atlanta losing $1,- 000 worth of furniture, Just money enough to pay railroad fare to Char lotte, on their way to friends in Salls- busy, and begging to get money enough to go on was the story of a stout .young man and his wife in the Associated Charities office. That the man could not even make a guess at what the railroad fare was from Aclanta to Charlotte, and the absurd ity of a laboring man having $1,000 worth of furniture, gave Secretary My ers a good reason to charge the man with falsifying. He then, little by little acknowledged that he and his wife were going from city to city and living by telling such tales. They came from Alleghany county, where the father of the man had run them off because of their laziness. The man was ofliered w'ork by the Associated Charities but refused it and left the office to prey on that class of citizens who still tiiink it a virtue to encour age beggars. The man w'as told, however, that he could not beg in Charlotte and the police kept watch of the pair until they left the city. Shameless Salaries Paid I 18000 Railway Postal Clerks 1 Our second mother, habit, is also ^a good. mother.-*-Auerbach. . , Editor The News: , Believing that you are alive to the best interest of all the people, no matter who they are, I wish to im pose upon your time long enough to lodge a complaint in the interest of all of the people, you as well as the rest. To begin with, I had just as well tell you that I belong to the important class of men known as the Railw^ay Postal Clerks, a body consisting of eighteen thousand (ISOOO) men. I en tered the service under Mr. Cleve land's last administration as a demo crat and am still one (w’hat is not An archist) and hope to die one that my children may never be ashamed of the father w'ho reared them. When I entered the service nearly ighteen years ago the salary was considered a very fair one, but as we have pro gressed as a nation our salary has not kept* pace with the march of oth ers. \\lien congress voted to increase their salaries 50 per cent, ours was raised only 10 per cent, the first in crease in over twenty-five years, and a year after theirs. We were thank ful of course for that much but have continued to ask the P. O. Department to give us another raise or to pay our expenses while we are on the road. And. by the way, w'e are the only classe of government einployes w'hose expenses are not paid w^hlle away from their homes on business of the government. The last session of the present congress recognized teh jus tice of our claim for expenses and the department asked us to submit our ex penses for one month and foimd it to be exceeding $1.00 but is scaled it dow'n to 75 cents and asked congress to appropriate the money to carry it out. but onl.v the pitiful sum of $250,- 000 was allotted for the IS.000 mon and we got only 9 cents a day of 24 hours. Whose treachery this w'as. was a. long time coming to light but w'e know now’ that it was the trick of our alert postmaster general to re duce the defficiency of the P. O. De partment. Now’ in his eagerness to give the country 1 cent postage, (and l)y the way, who is it that is asking for it?) he has increased our work and added the hardship of more expenses for the more we run the more expen ses there is attached. Therefore our petitions have l)een spurned and a ser pent instead of a fish and a rock in stead of bread has been given us. Now', sir, if w'e were permitted to go to congress as the constitution of our great country declares we would not bother you but make the fight our selves, but since there is an order is sued by the .great Theodore Roosevelt Avhen president, to the effect that w'oo- ever disregarded this order shall be dismissed summarily, without bin.g giv en a chance to explain, we prefer to appeal to a generous public and let them knovv w'hat is going on in a re publican form of government like ours. Now. sir, I am not permitted to give you this information without jeopardiz ing my j)o«ition and for that reason I do not vx’ish you to tell from w’hat source you have gleaned this informa tion. but help us out by putting our plight before your readers. I forgot Officers Elected For Coming Year The newly elected Board of direc tors of the Young Men’s Christian Association met at 5 o’clock Friday afternoon and organized for the coming year’s work. The following officers w'ere elected for the year: President, ‘Mr. Robert Glasgow'; vice- president, Mr. J. A. Durham; record ing secretary, Mr. .T. H. Ross; treas urer, Mr. F. C. Abbott. Treasurer building fund. Capt. A. G. Brenizer; general secretary, D. L. Probert. The officers elected have served for the past four years as named and some have held ofiace in the as sociation for many years. The annual report of the secretary show'ed advance in efficiecy along every line and the past year was the most successful in the entire thirty- five years of the association’s his tory. There will be no change in the other executive officers of the association. Mr. A. L. Faul will con tinue as physical director. Mr. A. C. Sheldon as boys’ w'ork director; Mr. ,T. D. McClelland, as assistant secretary, and 'Mr. E. R. Rnfty as of fice secretary, and Mrs. Laura Fau- cett as matron. In other w'ords, the entire organization will remain as it was last year with out change. to say that under the new ruling of Mr. Hitchcock, we are being sent from our homes here in North Carolina to W'est Virginia and Ohio at the loss of our lay-off periods which we have for rest and study with no extra compen sation. Le^ie say right here that we are requir^ to stand from two to eight examinations each year on the post offices, how they are reached In from two to six states, and the stan dard is 95 per cent to pass. You will agree with me that this na tion of ours ^ is greatly interested in an efficient mail service but with such treatment can’t you see what will hap pen w^hen the men of experience and the knowledge to run the service qi’.it, and I understand that 300 have resigned since the first of the year. Does not this directly appeal to you as well as every man, w'oman and child in the land? You cannot blame us for looking for better vocations, and the best men of the service are the ones quitting, so you can see what is coming if a check is not put on this man’s ambition and be made to know that he can’t climb into the president’s chair by w'recking the P. O. de]>art- ment nor i)ull the present administra tion out of the hole they are in, and allow' them to patch the holes in their old ship and start her out to fool the people again. Help us to frustrate his ))urposes with all of your great pow'ers and we will see that your paper reach es its subscribers on time if the old car will stay on the track and life lasts. You scarcely ever see a word in the papers for or against the boys who ride that others may read. W'ho have made the mail service what it is. It would be well to remind the people that w'e are those who bear their mes sages of business and love from city to city, in season and out of season, trusting to an all-wise Creator to pro tect us when the crashes come and the grinding w'recks follow'. No longer than the 26th of December I handled mail covered with blood of the vic tims of the N. & W. wreck in West Virginia that happened the 24th of December. Pardon me for w'riting: such a long letter, btu!; I haven’t told half the story yet that should be told, but we are telling it through the medium of a new'spaper called the Harpoon pub lished at Denver, Colo. We are going to send you a copy of it for a. year each month. Please do us the kind ness to glance at it occasionally and show your appreciation by a word of cheer and encouragement and what ever comments you can make in our favor, I remain. Yours. P. S. If Mr. Hitchcock is really in earnest about his retrenchment ideas w'hy does he not cut down the sala ries of the high priced postmasters throughouf the country and install an old postal clerk in his stead at a sal ary of $1200.00 or $1500.00 and save the difference. He would have a man who would be an expert in sending mail and therefore better qualified than political henchmen w'ho are re quired to pay a part of their salary in to the campaign funds to help carry the day for the “fire-eaters.” Popular Speaker this Afternoon More Of Nat Goodwin’s. Twubles New' York, .Tan. 21.—Nat C. Good win today abandoned his contest of the rights of his current wife, know'n as Edna Goodrich, to share and share alike in tne revenue from the $1,700,- 000 securities which he made over to her w'hile he w'as still the husband of Maxine Elliott. etaoin shrdlu shrdlu cmfwyp This W'as the announcement was by. Herman P. Roth, counsel for Edna Goodrich Goodwin, after a long con ference today with representatives, of the husband. “In the present action,” said Mr. Rolh, “the matter of the trust fimd w'hereby Mr. Goodw'in set aside $1,- 700,000, the income of which was to be shared by himself and Miss Good rich, his prospective w'ife, during their fives, will not be involved at all. It has been settled.” “Was it,” he w'as asked, “settled be cause trust funds are so hard to break, or because this money was stage nione.y?” “The trust deed was an ironclad agreement and Mr. Goodwin could not break it.” “Does this leave Mr. Goodwin strip ped to his foolish hide—did he make over everything as Chanler did to Cav- alieri?” ■‘Mr. Goodwin,” was the answer, “is still a rich man. This action which means Monday morning privately, be fore a refree, is a simple action for divorce.” It W'as elesewhere explained that the $1,700,000 in securities still yield ed about $30,000 income yearly, w'hich would be shared by Miss Goodrich and Mr. Goodw'in equally. It was chiefly his indisposition to dispute a contract he had made with a woman, it w'as said, W'hich led to this elimination of Book Review THE LADY OF THE SPUR. % ♦ (By David Potter. Published by Lippin- Cott & Co. Price $1.50. The story of the adventurers of a supposed outlaw' is here told in most interesting fashion. The hero of the tale makes his appearance in a little town, to find himself advertised as a dangerous thief. Just as he is planning to seek refuge in' a far distant hunt ing lodge, in company with a faithful Indian ally, he is honored by a visit from a mysterious lady, heavily veiled, whom he dubs "The Lady of the Spur.” She w'arns him to leave at once. The visit W'as occasioned by his casual as sumption of the name of an old friend—a friend long dead, but who W'as heir to a valuable fortune. Instead of barkening to the coimsel offered he suddenly decides to play the role of his dead friend, and takes charge of the ancestral estate. His experiences there after are exciting in the ex treme. Force to battle single handed with a gang of conspirators. lead ou by relatives of his dead fiiend, he manages to come out of ■id elation of his alleged -'r'li cover to cover. ‘ “ - ’i" * If? /rj r. 7^ Bucanee. (By Frederick S. Isham \ Blobbs-Merrill Co., Indi;:i sale at Stone & Bar^ili^^^^.^■ i' The Social Bucaneer ip ti.^ book you don’t want to put the last page is read, ir \ quality that every worUi'' fiction must possess it and from start to finish, j- titious, spun from an mj'th, it at times hold almost to a degree nf I'r.-j.i Chat field Bruce, the i -i in the book, handsome. er and absolutely impo:i!'' most prodigal in' his iiliua^ devotions passing rhrcnt;' nels of the women's 01111?-- ble purposes. With them ■ and an entrancing one 21 ' thought him a poseu;-. a di :,.; . most just gave it up a> .v,-, , case, one that thev di.i' stand. Tv^•o mysterious thofis 'v ■ > taken place. The diya],p'r;, 'a i,. Morrow' emeralds w;u. th* t ' "py. •■■’nari ' a he; S;in-£ :inur — numerous u encounters successfully. But the suell "■J- of the mysterious "Lady of the Spur" ioo'in hnmK f ’ ■ t)(tp in bonds from the li:i of Air. Samuel Page. l’,i Tiv . -^ Jpur' IS not easily removed. At each enoouu ter with her he became more in love, and her apparent hatred for him is equally stimulated. The consiiirators are finally vaunted up in an exciting battle, and the father of the ‘ Lady oC the Spur" turns out to be the nrinie mover. His suicide, and the apprehen sion of the })lotters paves the way for the union of the two, but just at the time w'hen the vows W'ere about to be spoken, the revelation of his supposed criminally is made, and, in most sen sational manner his innocence is i)rov- en. The story ends with two hearts joined as all good stories should end. * * 4: 4 ^ THE HERITAGE OF THE DESERT. (By Robert Hitchins. Publishers. Har per Bros., New York. Price $1.50..) Here is a story of desert life without thf* usual dryness. It one in which a jo\ oils oasis is discovered in each chapter. The author in this story has outstripped his other excellent efforts, aijd it is impossible to follow’ the trail of tJie story—at times through w'eird valleys— and not be deeply interested. Picked up in half dead condition, the hero of the tSle finds himself among strudy Mormons. Thereafter, becoming a part and parcel of the tribe, in every thing save acceptance of their creeds, he fights with them the battles they must face against marauders and crooks, who abound in that section. His love for the dark-eyed half-breed girl is a passion altogether beautiful to read about, and the strength of her love is beautiful. Their long experience over the parching desert—their excit ing experiences with outlaws, and» their final union in spite of almost insurmountable obstacles from a story replete with every feature of interest and adventure. The love of the author for horses is infectious, and the reader unconsciously admires, with him. the beautiful “Silver Mane” and other members of the animal kingdom. The “Heritage of the Desert” is w'orth while. * ^ c * MAX. lutely c(mfounding in t> bleness. Hurrying along iwtii ■ w'e come to the i'ecoi'ti m try place of the Goldber-s rants for soci;i stafis berg wears the famous : . an importation, and at a f Mr, Chatfield Brace, nf there; also 3.1iss queen of gentleness, iirar.', n ty. of the inmost inner '^ii.-ic , and culture, and betw;'n Chatfield there has alroaii'. relationship that is pcn.n; deeper and stronger tic;-- ’li'S pw sie Burke is there, the n;,.,-'.. Samuel Page, who is in I'u-m viM, Bruce, and who is trying to tw, out. the my.stery of the di:a!-, of her uncle’s bonds. S^’ Bamfcrd is present, with iiis f'lin.'J servant Caglinani. a sleiuh of so rarer as to be almos-: uiK-rinrv s. .Archibald met Miss WoMi ,>vf.r ' Italy and is over in .'nif r;.o her. He has enlisted, heino n f-'fut'n himself, to.gether wiih bis in the search for the uiv-h..!,,,),'.-i.jl.- of the emeralds and bonds, an,] a warning note has lieen sent tn Goldbergs that the pearls will night taken by the same partv th.- took the emeralds and hoiKis, h? . on guard either to oatoh t!u> wh,,,. thief, or perhaps take them fc- b'lr- self. ' ‘ In the meantim.e. let it he ?aid Mr. Chatfield Bruce for severnl \ea;, had lived in China and ',vhilo',.vpr there had been able to perfovni vices for the Nine-Timos-\ino order, such that tliey stood forever ready to render him anw sorvioe jw- sible in return. He was (horoiichfr afflicted w’ith the branch thpre in .\,v; York City, and most especially ami specifically with one Ting. Suffice it to say, after a sfno. of thrilling experiences that sniofk "i the best detective story line, ‘L- pearls are in the hands of that 'xor,- derfully ehisive Chatfield. Chatfield fills a long sinndin? f-i- gagement. undertaken at tlie foiiri!?.- BY THURSTON. Published by Harder (tion.ef Miss Wood, to pla y tiie leaiii Bros., New "fork. role in tbpir. nTnnteiiT’ •uivfni'ir Happy-for-a-Thousand-Years.” Her lover is the beggar prince ‘'who mbs the rich to give to the poor," anti when he is finally led off to thpexeci- tioner. she faithfullv '•chansred her The Rev. Mr. Harris Mallinckrodt, rector of St. Peter's Episcopal church, w ill be the speaker at the meeting for men at the Young Men’s Christian As sociation this afternoon at 5j o’clock. Mr. Mallinckrodt is one of the most pleasing and popular speakers in the city and his address especially to men _ at the Young Men’s Christian Asso- trust fund from the divorce pro- ciation will doubtless be heard by a ceedings. large number. One of his friends added lightly: The meeting is for all men and not. Goodwin made a good w'in in get- alone for members of the assocition. • ting Miss Goodrich, and Miss Good- Strangers spending the day in the ®^ty i-jch, to sj'nonymize her name also, have a special invitation to attend niade good on riches.” this poi^ular Sunday afternoon service ^ time he wanted to marry Miss for men. The meeting will be held at ■ Qoodrich, it is related, Mr. Goodwin, Hanna Hall, Y. C. A. building. j having wived already one w'ho had I been acclaimed one of the most beau- ShippersSigningDuke^TvVth^st hlw’fhe'omnt: ! expressed i na book written by a New The work of getting the signature York woman that ten years was a trial of the shippers of the city to the con- marriage, and after that then some, tract that will insure the interurban He had married profusely—one woman car line, progressed rapidly yesterday, each decade since 1878. afternoon. Judging by the rapidity. The last time he thought he would with which the blanks are being called never marry again, but maintains Jie for at the Greater Charlotte Club there is no prophet. Ik every reason to believe that the j required signatures will have been se cured by Monday afternoon at 5 o’clf>ck. j 'I'he report of the committees that ] have in charge the work of getting up j the remainder of the subscriptions and ' Rev. Dr. Law, who is a member of the shippers’ signatures were busy, the board o ftrustees of the Pythian Pythian Trustees Meet this Week from an early hour yesterday. Teetotalers Take a Drop. Orphanage, at Clayton, and Mr. E. A. McCausland, grand chancellor of this domain, will go to Clayton this week to attend a meeting of the trustees. This is the orphanage in which Dr. The aviators are all temperate _ men, despite the fact that they are Law is peculiarly Interested, and for charged with taking a drop too much which he recently sel^ted a large sometimes.—Constitutipn. part of the Bros., New "fork. role in their-amateur performance 0? Herein is portrayed a tale of dual I “San Tankys; The Begp:ar-Prinro." personality, which, if somewhat simi-'^ii^i ^liss Wood took the pji'-r of Mifs lar to other stories in general outline, is none the less enga.giiig. Costumed as a Russian youth "Max,” the heroine of the story—mad with a passion for' art—essays to find in Paris the stimu- lus for the attainment of ambition.! state” at the same time, anti liero wo The man in the play enters during i bave the germ from which grows our the “first act”—meets her on the train iw'ith a different endine. while she is making the first appear-j w'anderlust overromes Chaf- ance in the cold w'oiid on her ow'n ’’C^turns to h!s nid fipM hook. Posing thereafter through | activities there in China, ^ here, many chapters as the protector andi°^ course. Miss Wood finds him nffpr guardian of the frail voungster, acon-j^’ years. She knows him now wi'h geniality of nature finally stirs’ a mu-i''’ Perfect understandin.- K a 'rui" tual love, and W'hen the revelation Happy-for-a-Tl;nusa’ '’« Year= as ■ ■ 11- - , . -T.,, .. . ... j.v,. .V..,. '’f uummences- to end, ot course in de-:' feat. The fretfulness of a passion for i art is'portrayed ably—the author dis-! plays a deep appreciation of the finer and better impulses wiilch hedge about the nature of genius, and the story is told In such a fashion as to elicit in terest throughout. * * ♦ THE WILD OLIVE—Harper Bros. Publishers. Price $1.50. In the opinion of the writer, a more engaging story has not made its ap pearance during recent years. The tale of an outlaw', unjustly pronounced so, his struggles to make for himself a name untainted by the stain of crime, the subtle influence of a wo man for whom he thought he merely held a feeling of appreciatidn—these and other influences conspire to add to the tale a dash and a sparkle w’hich grips the attention of the reader. The girl in the story is one of the strang- Social Hour Boys* Departmnt The social hour Fridav nisht boys’ department of the Yoiinq Christian Association proved to I'iPtte most popular of the series yet hel'l. An even one hundred bov? were on hand to see Prof. Fool Til. Fa«’ his trope of mystifyers tro throua tlieir performance of what woii.f! to be impossible stunt?. 'Prof. Fool ;M. Eas> . in tti Mr. J. B. Ivey, full.'- Hvof] name and his repiifafl'in. full hour he kejit his a>'di( hundred boys .guessinc v- Many of the stunts wei’o !' those who had seen n.ari: W'ork, this cou))led with J V I manner in which he ; powerful m jj-icks brought many a m personalitjs tmique in her conceptions j of law and justice, fashionable in her M^'lvev ?ive a power to restrain her own passions, . ' fresh as the real “Wild Olive” shel^ ^^® ^ draws close admiration from the start. The hero is the victim of conditions W'hich he cannot explain aw'ay. Charg ed W'ith a murder which he did not commit, incarcerated, then freed by his former pals, he makes a dash for liberty, and just when about to be cap tured, is delivered in strange manner, by the “Wild Olive.” With no other motive than to thw'art the law, w'hich had dealt unkindly with her blood, she stores the refugee in her studio for several weeks. Then the parting —her advice to flee to South America —a last kiss—and the story ushers in a new scene. His rapid rise to promi nence, a new girl in the case and his fancied love for her. and later the rev elation of his alleged croime, the dis- sillusioning ol! the fancied love, and an ending in which his name is clear ed of crime by the services of the “Wild Olive,” and last of all, the real revelation of where his heart lies! Ihe story, complex in outlines, fraught with excitement, filled with conflicting emotions of right and w rong, ends in such a w'ay as to please It is a splendid story, w'ell told. * * * “THE LADY OF THE LAKE,” Pub lished by Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indi anapolis and Illustrated by How ard Christy Is undoubtedly one of the most ele gant pieces of work turned out. Beau tifully bound and printed, replete with handsome sketches, and gorgeously de- iitne sure of an even larger :'u greeted him last night. Dr. McGeachy to Make Addressis 08?'' i;rr'h Rev. Dr, A, A. McGe--^ ^ the Second Presbyteriaii address the meetiufr i" Young Men's Christiai; this evening at 5 o'clooK Dr. McGeachy is a U':'’ and Is sure to have an dress for boys. Every boy in the ci'.' - age is not only welcome ■ be present. , ■ The musical program. ■' be a pleasing feature; “ ■ ‘ ,e:J and w'ill contain sik-i ■ which will be announced n ■ ■ ■PS'? Signs of Early ■ f-O’ '■**' Signs of an early spi ’-n ,j: land. The Baltimore ^ 2 the Mint Juley Assoc'a' flourishing condition. ^ The final clearance . -j- garments at PriU'h' ■ Miii- morning at 0:30 0 cUh'.. day’s ad in News. .. .-res-' Goodness does not cor. ness, but greatness in Athenaeus. i-: 10 m i- 1 ut, t- B f(' 1 .'il'P 1 B’ -.pv minute’ j .-’.V n ‘0 1 K If iiiaziriar.s j K :; h,- ;,iea5inf 1 err’' 1 H| -fMirn 1 H 1
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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