The Money God.
If J. p. Morgan likes that sort of
ching, the worshipful praise of his as
sociates and dependents must fill him
with joy
Henry P. Davison told the Pwjo com
mittee reverentially that “J. P. Mor
gan and Co. could not do wrong if it
was possible for them to do as they
wanted to.” George W. Perkins burn
ed this incense: “If J. P. Morjjan
should make a bond issue from the
Desert of Sahara it would be subscrib
ed to, probably. ’ ’ Referring to the con
centration of credit in the home of J.
P. Morgan and Co , George F. Baker
graciously remarked that “if it got
into bad hands it would be very bad;
in good hands I do not say that it
would do any harm.”
Those who would analyze the Mor
gan rower will fathom the minds
of men who so freely testify to their
adoration. Wiih a good Bull-Moose
choirmaster. Wall street could be made
to sing “Onward, Christian Soldiers!”
almost any day new.—N. Y. World.
To Drive The Insuifrabie
Turk Out.
The Balkan allies opened fire on j
Adrianople Simday night at seven {
o’clock. Immediately after the order!
there was a flash and after which j
a constant roar of the heavy siege
guns. It is now said it will be the
purpose of the allies to drive the Turks
out of Europe. This job with all its
attendant sacrificea should not have
been left to the little Balkan States.
Osman Nigama Pasha savs when you
drive the Turks to despair he will fight
like a wild animal. That statement
will frighten no one now. The Turk is
a cold blooded fanatic, and he is a mad
murderer all the time, but he is having
a Jittie more regard for his worthless
self than he did when the doctrine of
Mahometanism waa first preached in
Europe and Asia.
Left To Fight It Out.
Joseph J. Ettor, having finished his
work of getting the waiters’ strike
under way in New York, has gone to
Chicago to starte a waiters strike there.
When Boston or Philadelphia or San
Francisco needs his services, no doubt
he will take the first train to the scene
and lend his aid to the cause with equal
zeal and energy.
This must be an agreeable and
congenial occupation for Ettor and the
rest of the I. W. W\ leaders. To set
a strike in motion, to spur discontented
waiters or workmen on to action, to
have all the fun of the tumult and
shouting, the rhetoric and red fire and
waving banners, and then to hark
away to pastures new—this must be
the very cream of strike leadership.
But what of the rank and file who
left behind to bear the brunt of the
fight? What of the waiters who see
their small savings dwindle, their jobs
lost, or why, even if successful, gain
their point at the cost of great indivi
dual suffering? They are not indulging
in Pullman cars and trips across the
country. Theirs is the seamy side of
a “direct-action” industrial war and
not so pleasing to contemplate.
In ordinary warfare gen3rals stay by
their forces and see the campaign out.
The I. W. W. leaders have improved
on these methods. Their idea seems to
be that their obligations end with the
successful inauguration of the fight.
It is left to the men in the ranks to
carry on the campaign with what for
tune they may,—New York World.
N. C. Encourages The
Carrying of Concealed
Weapons.
A bill has been intropuced in the Ohio
1 egislature making the carrying of a
concealed weapon a felony punishable
by imprisonment of not less than one
or more than five years. This is pretty
drastic legislation, but none too severe.
The habitual pistol to:er is a constant
menace to the public peace and safety
and has no proper place at large.—Va,
Pilot.
Nortrh Carolina in order to make the
law profitable to the lawyers she
would license her pawn brokers to sell
all the pistols posible to the
irresponsable class.
Represenative Page wants the of
fice of County Treasurer abolished.
His idea is that the work should be
done by a local bank or trust company.
He got a favorable report on such a
bill for Moore County. This is an idea
that is likely to spread, for the trend
of the times is for expert auditing in
public financial affairs. —Charlotte
Observe.
Useful Accompllshmentt.
Every woman wants a cozy comer
nil her own—^be that corner bumbl«
or handsome.
Every woman who does not have tlid
home longing is abnormal. Hom« Ifl
made up of little things.
One of the largest of th«06 littl*
things is the ability to cook whol«>
pome food.
Sewing and music are next A wom-
^n might be as homely as can b«, but
If she can cook a good dinne/, maJc« »
Iress, and let her moods slip out of
her finger tips on a piano, tbat worn*
will have a chance for a truly bap>
py home a thousand per cenl better
than her beautiful neighbor who can*
not make even an apron, and wbo
Dooks badly for her family.
So I say to mothers, whether 70a
(lave money or not, teach your daog^
^rs all the useful and neeesMr/
things in life, so that they will make
|ood, homelike wives on4 motbertb
Rousseau'a Etiquette of Love.
Before Rousseau, love was a highly
refined form of social intercourse, a
species of gallantry conducted with
•elf-restralnt, and all the formalities of
special etiquette; any extravaganoy,
whether in feeling, in speech, or In
nction, was banished. But when Saint-
Freux, oppressed by his high-strung
passions, came to the rock at Meilliere
to pour forth in solitude the flood of
tils sentimental tears, all the witty re*
Bnements of eighteenth century gal
lantry, for good or for evil, were final
ly swept away; extravagancy was free
to lay down the law in love. It waa
Rousseau who enabled Mirabeau, In
His first letter to Julio Danvers (whom
tie had never seen), to declare, “I, also,
&m a lover, have emptied the cup of
lensibility to the dregs, and could
jive a thousand lives for what I love.”
(t was Rousseau who laid down a new
etiquette of lovo which every petty
poet and novelist still adheres to.—
Atlantic Monthly.
The Opportunity.
"Here’t a new s«ct started that
latet it core ills by t«e laying
li ot hands.**
wish it would give dfemonstra-
tea OB the amall boy."
An Anti-Trust Law ‘Wlth
Teeth.”
There is now pending in the Wis
consin Assembly a bill designed to
protect the retailer and the consumer
against discriminatory tacties on the
part ot trusts and other monopolistic
concerns. It defines unfair discrimi
nation as any attempt by a corpora
tion, partnership, firm or individual to
sell the same products lower in one
community than in another for the
purpose of driving a competitor out of
business. Allowonce, however, is
made for the ‘‘difference, if any, in
the grade or quality, and in the cost
of transportation from the point of
production.” The penalty for violation
is fixed at a fine of from $100 to $5,000,
or imprisonment in the county jail not
to exceed one year, or both fine and
imprisonment. Provision is also made
for revoking permission to do business
in the State of any concern convicted
of violating the law.
This proposed statute comes under
the category of anti-trust laws “with
teeth,” and is of a kind which oucht
to be in force and effect in every State
of the Union. The practice of invad
ing the territory of a competitor, sell
ing goods for less than he can make
or buy them until the competitor has
been driven out of busineps, and then
putting prices back to the old level
and above, has long since become so
common with trusts and monopolies
as to be notorious. The States havF
the power to put effective end to such
methods and so protect their respec
tive citizenships against exactions and
extortion at the hands of monopolies
and combinations ir restraint of trade.
This has been conclusively shown by
Texas, Missouri, Mississippi, Il'Inois
and other Commonwealths, All that is
necessary is to exercise that power,—
Va, Pilot.
Kindness Did It.
Unshackled and under the control
of a single unarmed gaard tho, twenty
five convicts labored a busy month to
build a model brick highway just com
pleted near the southern boandry of
Columbus Ohio.
Overjoyed to breathe the open air
and pioud of the trusi resposed in |
them, the men worked without hint of ■
mutiny or attempt to escape, although j
often widely separated. I
Each day an auto bus, driven by con |
victs, backed up to the prison entrance]
for its load of laughing, energetic
“highwaymen” Each night it carried
them back, tired but uncomplaining,
to the shadow of the gray walls.
From beginning to end, non one was
reported lor discipline, although sev
eral of them were life-term men and
two were convicted murderers.
iSIERY AT RAWLS
One of the largest storks of
hosiery in the state carried by
RAWLS of Durham, N. C.
HOSIFRY AT 10c;
Ladies hose in black and tans.
Mens sox, black and with white
feet.
Infants sox.
HOSIERY AT 15c
Infants hose in black, white and
colors, 15c or 2 pairs 25c,
Ladies hosiery in black, white,
tan, blue and pink.
Boys and girls school stockings
15c. Sizes in misses hose up to
eights are 2 for 25c.
Infants sox in black, white, tan
and plai'i tops, 15c, or 2 pairs 25c.
Mens sox in blacks and colors,
also with white white.
HOSIERY AT 25c;
Ladies silk and silk lisle in blacks
and colors.
Infants silk sox and hos3 in
blacks, whites.
Ladies and childrens Cadet hose
wiih linen toe and heel.
Mens silk sox and silk, lisle, also
the Cadet^brands.
HOSIERY AT 50c
Ladies silk hose in blacks, white
tans etc,
Ladies finest imported lisles.
Mens silk sox in blacks and colors,
“HOLEPROOF” HOSIERY;
Ladies Holeproofs in blacks, six
pairs in box guaranteed six months
at $2 and $3 box.
Mens holeproof Sox, six pairs
in box, guaranteed six months at
$1 50 and §3 box.
“PHOENIX” SILK HOSE;
Ladies Phoenix silk stockings,
four pairs in box guaranteed ^hree
months at $3 and $4.
Mens Phoenix silk sox, four pairs
in box, guaranteed three months
for $2 box.
DURHAM, N. G
SHE COULD NOT REMEMBER
Absent-Minded Woman’s Peculiar Rea
son for Wanting to Bo Rung Up
on the ’Phone.
RETOLVED
That we ark 's ti l i-'
HAMf^ERliVC AWAV AT
reducing ouPi ^rocK>
WE AI^'E Sr/LL /1AKIMC THE
S'PARKS FLV OUrOFOUR.
PRICES^ „ A
BUSTER BRpJ^M
7^
V
The time has arrived when we wish to clean house
quickly of all remaining winter merchandise. The very-
low prices on all of our regular lines of goods, possessing
style and quality, will now speak for themselves. Come,
see our good goods and low prices; you will buy and
buy lots.
Holmes-W arren Co.
Mebane, N, C.
I
Sawmill Demoralized By
Bees.
(From the Sanford Express.)
Mr. Harry Ward, who went to a
sawmill near Moncure Saturday on
business tells The Express of an un
usual occurance that took place there
one day last week. A log from a very
large pine was hauled to the mill to be
turned into lumber. When it was
sawed open a large hollow place was
found in the log and in this hollow was
a swarm of bees spending the winter.
Absent-minded persons sorely try
the patience of girls In tho New
Rochelle telephone office. Not long
ago a woman confessed herself sub
ject to ejitrome forgetfulness and re
quested the day operator on her ex
change to ring her up every morning
at 9 o’clock. A week later she said;
“Centra], what was it I wanted you
to call me for at 9 o’clock?"
“I don’t know,” said the girl. “You
didn’t tell me. You just asked me to
call at 9 o’clock."
“Tc-./ bad,” said tho woman. “1
know there was something I wanted
to do every morning at 9 o’clock, but
I can’t for the life of me think what
It was.”
The 9 o’clock calls continued, how
ever, and several days later the wom
an took central into her confidence
again.
“I have found out why I wanted to
be called,” she said. “A friend had
given, me a canary and I wanted to
make sure of remembering to feed it.
The poor little thing Is nearly starved.
Hereafter when you ring won’t you
Just say. Feed the bird,’ and I’ll go
straight and do it?”
Central promised, and the neglected
canary Is now a plump and contented
bird.—New York Times.
Qaynor And The Press
Mayor Gaynor says the nt*wspapers
of that city are nasty things, this be
ing a view which he has frequently ad
vanced with variations. Some such
idea as this has occured to us from
time to time, but not for the reasons
assigned bv Mr. Gaynor. The May«.r
was singularlp slow in doing anything
about the Becker case, and the news
papers, which subjected the city of
ficials to what at times seemed violent
criticism, found plenty of justification
in subsequent events. The Mayor,
mainly as the direct result of his own
a swarm 01 oees spending the winter. 1 . - .. , i. • u i
a 0^0 « obstinency, it seems, has got in bad on
As the weather was warm the bees be- , a • » j n
. . - la number of occasions. And generally
SUREST TEST OF OLD AQE
Don’t Look at Your Face for the Signa
I of Time’s March'—Watch
the Heart.
^ The dear little old lady was Juat
as cross as she could be!
All because the old-faahioned con
ductor had said: “Be careful. Watch
out, grandma. Don’t get off the car
till It stops.”
It was probably the first time that
from the lips of a stranger came the
verdict that the world had begun to
look upon her as an old lady.
She must have known that her
shoulders were a bit stooped—but old?
No, not just In the prime'of life, and
the very Idea of that man calling outJ
‘Watch out, grandma!"
But after all, what matters what the
conductor said? There is a rumor of
inner consciousness that should tell
one If one is growing old.
“Don’t look at your face to see If
age Is creeping on. Watch the heart.
Beware of allowing care to make
crows’ feet there.
Oliver Wendell Holmes summed up
the philosophy of life when he said:
‘T am seventy years young today.”
Every birthday should see one’s heart
Founger. The only way te keep from
growing old is to keep growing young.
The only time to begin growing younff
Is before one begins to grow old.
There are mental attitudes and limp*
ing worse than those of a faltering
foot. There are ashes and palm
caused by selfishness and narrowness
much worse than those of rheumatism.
Begin this moment to grow young.
A Winter Sunset
(By Helen M. Richardson)
Low hanging clouds of gray, sun'ess j
and cold, j
With not a hir-.t of azure or of gold— !
Gaunt, leaflet's trees, tneir branches 1
wide outspread, j
With ermine robes bedecked and pano-;
idled. i
Far in the west the sky dips to the light
Crimson and gold allure the eager sight.
Then clouds ru^h in and curtam it from
view, '
And all the heavens take on a somber !
hue.
A line of black athwart the darkening i
sk.y I
Marks where wild geese in tired squad- j
rons fly;
While moaning winds send forth a |
requiem low j
For flowers buried deep beneath the
snow. 1
ARING OUT SALC
came active and made it so hot for
the men working at the mill that they
had to hunt more comfortable quarters.
After the bees had scattered the mill
people were rewarded for their loss of
time by finding the hollow full of honey
THE CHARLOTTE DMLY OBSRE
YER.
he has tried to take it out on the press
j of the metropolis, a device which has
not worked.
It strikes us as a remarkable circum
stance that the Mayoa of a great
Americin city should have no friend
among the newspaper people. Does
such a sit’iation exist anywhe»’e else?
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Daily $6.00 Per Year
Daily and Sunday 8.00 Per Year
Sunday, only 2.00 Per Year
THE SEMI-WEEKLY OBSERVER
Tuesday and Friday $1.00 Per Year
Bird’s Nest In Mail Box.
Probably a bird’s nest lu a rural
mall box is a rare thing. If It has ever
happened before, but out in Oswe-
gatchle a small bird has taken posses
sion of a mall box and has already
I built her nest and laid three eggs and
! It looks as though she would complete
Iher work of hatching and rearing her
The Charlotte Daily Observer, is-1 young,
sued Daily and Sunday is the leading | The particular box picked out by
newspaper between Washington, D C.
and the Atlanta, Ga, It gives all the
news of Morth Carolina besides the
complete Associated Press Service,
The Semi-Weekly Observer issued mall and v/111 sit on her nest as uncon-
on Tuesday and Friday for $1.00 perjcemed as can be. The mall box has
year gives the readers a full rep3rt of \ been fixed so that It will not close en-
the week’s news. The leading Semi- \ tirely so that the bird may complete
Weekly of the State,
ders to
A Delicate Point.
“They are a happy Sewlckley couple,
rhey haven’t been married very long,
tn fact, the honeymoon hae barely
n^aned. An elderly friend met the
bridegroom down town yesterday and
ilapped him on the back.
“Well, happy as a lark, I supposeT”
“Oh, yes.”
“How’s the cooking?”
“I have one trouble there. It’s Just
;hls, my wife has been preparing angel
tood every day for dinner.”
“You must be getting tired of it.”
“I am. Yet I feel a heiltanay about
laying anything. How soon after the
honeymoon would It be proper to ask
tor beefsteak and onions?”
Behin 1 the stable doors safe housed
and warm.
The cattle fear no sting of winter
stcrm;
Chewing their cuds they dream of
meadows green
When Spring again shall miracle the
scene.
Then suddenly the stars leap to their
place
And one by one the heavens with
radienca grace—
iJafe guarded by their care, at God’s
behest,
All nature slumbers now in quiet rest.
m
FOR 30 DAYS
to make room for new
goods. A lot of skree-
mer oxford shoes re-
gular pri^e $4 now go-
ingfor $2.50. A lot of
ladies high cut shoes
and oxfords, former
price $2.50 now goino-
at $1. A great re
duction in the price of
all clothing to make
room for spring goods
Receiving clothes and
spring shoes daily,
prices right, come and
look before vou biiv.
Your friend,
G. G. SMITH
Had One Resemblance.
Ono night, in a Texas town, John
McCullough’s company was playing
“Ingomar,” and young Sothern was to
be the leader of the barbarian army.
During the day he and his compan-
lons-ln-arms ransacked the town for
fur coverings in which to appear on
the stage. They secured some skins
irhlch had been Imperfectly cured. In
ihe scene w'here the barbarians
rushed on McCullough the tragedian
ftood aghast and almost forgot his
lines. When the curtain fell he turned
to the fur-covered battalion and said:
*Boys, you don’t look like a barbarian
irmy, but I’m d d if you don’t
unell like one.”
I the bird Is one that is in use dally and
;the mall carried never misses a stop
I at this box. Mrs. Bird seems to enjoy
jthe Idea to have the mail carrier lift
jthe cover of the box and deposit the
Address all or | task of rearing her young. It is
The Obssrver Company
Charlotte, N. L.
not known what kind of a bird this is,
I but it Is thought that It is a phebe,
j being brown of color and about the
; size of a sparrow and laying sky-blue
jeggs.—^Watertown Correspondent NevJ
I London Day.
WE HAVE IT
A nice line of trunks, suit cases, and hand
bags. Hats, Shoes and a general line of
gents^ furnishing. NICE NEW STOCK
PRICES RIGHT
EBANe,N£.
WEWANT
to see the samples dis
played at OUR STORF
Wednesday and Thurs
day February 5th, and Gti:
1913. Be sure to call.
Yours to please,
H. E. Wilkinson Co
THE STORE OF OUAT.IT^V
JMebane, JN, C.
indi.a Not a Nation.
There is no Indian nation, and tht
nations of India differ, not only in In
terests, history and tradition, but they
differ In regard to race feeling, apd
1 there Is strong hatred and jealousy be
tween parts of India still. There la
nothing that keeps the peace in India
but British rule.
I Vtluabl* Lace Handkerchiefs-
)' Solkmalds In Switzerland
landkerchiefs of lace that readily .
lor |6 apiece—some. Indeed, for
iiauoh SB $50 each.
No Doubt Afk)Ut It,
|/ And every good husband, no doul5ti
y sure that he is married to one of tho
Wenty world’s greatest women.