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ALL TRAINS STOP AT CONCORD.
JOHN M. OOLESBY. City SMMa.
Concord, N. C, February 28, 1914.
AN UNFORTUNATE ERROR.
On Friday the editor of the Char
lotte Observer had a leading edi
torial, saying that lie had a
request from Congressman Robt. X.
Page saying that he had in prepara
tion a series of letters asainst the
return of Senator Overman, and ask-1
ing if the Observer would print theui.
The editor of the Observer promptly:
and sensibly said he would not. Xo
doubt all who know Congressman
Page were dumbfounded when they !
read the editorial referred to, as it ;
was unthinkable that he would do
such a thing. In this morning's Ob
server Editor Harris had the follow,
ing signed apology to Congressir.au
Page:
In the leading editorial in the Ob
server yesterday we were guilty of
an unaccountable confusion of the
names of Congressman Robert X.
Page with that of his brother, Mr.
Henry A. Page, ascribing to the hist !
a letter that was written by the lat-'
ter. Mr. Henry A. Page wrote to the
editor of the Observer that he has in
preparation a series of letters in,
which he would attempt to convince
individual Democrats that Senator
Overman ought not to be renoiuinat-j
1 JI
Lit
It
ed. With this letter before us we!crRfai nnt to smril his features that
proceeded to answer it as having been '
written by Congressman Page. W e do
not undertake to conceal the confus
ion this blunder has brought upon us.
It put the paper in as strange a posi
tion as the paper had placed Con
gressman Page. We were at the mo
ment a victim of a confusion of ideas.
We ask the forgiveness of the able
Representative from the seventh dis
trict of North Carolina for the misuse
of his name.
The following telegrams passed be
tween Mr. Page and Editor Harris on
Friday :
"Charlotte, N. C, Feb. 17.
"Hon. Robert X. Page, Washington,
D. C:
"Substitution of your name for
Henry A. in Observer editorial this
morning was bad blunder on my part.
Explanation and apology will be made
prompt 1 v. (Signed)
"WADE H. HARRIS."
"Washington, D. C, Feb. 27.
"Wade H. Harris, Editor Charlotte
Observer, Charlotte, N. C:
"Telegram received. Sueh blunder
ing seems to me inexcusable. No ex
planation or apology can possibly
make amends for the wrong done me.
(Signed.)
"ROBERT N. PAGE."
This was an unfortunate error, and
we are sure no one regrets it more
than Mr. Harris. He is tbe -last man
in the State, who would do Mr. Page
an injustice.
Senator Kenyon says the tango and
the 'general craze for dancing is re
sponsible for the lack of "pep" and
action In Congress, and incidentally
why many good bills are kept so long
, in eommittee pigeon holes. If the
tango is responsible for such legisla
tion as the tariff and currency bills,
which Congress recently gave us, then
it would not be a bad idea for, the
"tango craze" to be extended to other
lines of endeavor.
Mr. W. G. Borches, financial agent
of the North Carolina Anti-Saloon
League," is in Concord representing
that organization in the efforts to aid
" in securing national prohibition. . A
great movement is now on foot ex
tending throughout the ' country to
prohibit tha manufacture and sale of
i intoxicating liquors within the bor
ders of the nation. It's coming and
' no power can prevent it.
PARAGRAPHS.
A horse serum has been found tb
possess healing qualities; it now re
mains to push the homeopathie doc
trine to the point .where the blood of
r. nmle is good for the kick.
a a a ,
(!eoi" fi Washinc-ton's pistols have
been roI.1 for i l,0u(), whereas his med
c!;r t limir ht only $375. Why
': ') i ' .1 V. .-xi iaiination in favor
I r c v v. onst
f New
York
it i
KOVXXETT TO OUST
lE?U2LXCA2r CETXTS.!
PTaauiamt Aaksd to rrmUk Us
Hamas af Irary ChW. '
Waahingtun, Feb. 20. BepreacntA
tiva Uooda-ia atartcd A snoircinent to
day to oast Bepubliran chiefs from
ihVe when he introdiKed a resolution
talltg apon th Prreidvnt to furuUH
the houae with the names- vf each and
every chief employed in Washington
and other rlerki hoe salaries arc
12,000 per year or over. Tha reao
lutioa also directs the President to
furuish data showing whether these
men sre under t'je civil service and',
if so, to state whether they were ap
pointed through a competitive exami
nation or blanketed into the service
by an executive order.
Mr. Goodwin's resolution which
was referrel to the commission ou
civil nervine, uf which lie i chairman,
read as follows:
"Resolved, That the President of
the United States is aereby requested
to furnish to the house of representa
tives for its use, provided he does not
consider it ineo.nMitible with the
public interests, the following infor
mation: The name of each bureau
chief, chief clerk, appointed clerk,
chief of division and all other olti-
cials and clerks,
mn mvwl in nnv 01
the departments of the government
1
within the District of Columbia,
whose salaries are $2,000 or more per
annum, classified by departments; to
gether with their official state resi
dences, the state to which the a
pointment of each of them is credit
ed, and the date of appointment !o
present position. Also it uiuler til''
appointed !
civil service, whether
through a competitive examination
or bv executive order.
Muffled Knocks.
When a nan is going to marry a
girl she knows it six months before
he makes up his mind about it.
When a man's .memory goes back
,in him. i: is abo-.it the dollar he owes
you. a-.d never the dollar you owe
hiir..
Job ixasincd l.o wa up against it.
But ie tever s '.e'. t e railroad for
$10,000 and had to wait fifteen
years tu get a verdiit of ten cents.
Everv man likes to have you run in
i ,'r.t I,,,"' ti.,, tollim. :
him how to run his business.
Considering the t'.nt that you can
always start a new religion, it is
funnv ,i,at a it 0f
men are con
living. ,,nt,.,i tn work f,,r a
If a woman loves a man.
it tie
a
Mnl. i;!-n ,,l.i. .,,. ..t- ,i unoilnn
fop doesn't make
Qut a m.m can't see
built that way.
it ;s funnv that
""C " V "
anv
.litYnt-onpo !
a wutiian who is
man wlio is so
,e llses a satetv razor when he
shaves will think nothing of foolin?
around with a married woman.
Lieutenant Becker Again in Tombs.
New York, Feb. 2(i. After a trip
from Gssining. during which he talk
ed with and lovingly i-are.-sed his
wife, Charles He-ker, the former
I police lieutenant of the Xew Yolk
( police department, was bulged in the
Tombs tonight. He was placed in
,a cell throe doors from the out he
occupied before lie was taken to
Sing Sing for the part he is alleged
to have played in the murder of Her
man Rosenthal, the gambler.
Mrs. Becker arrived at Sing Sing
early in the afternoon with a bundle
of her husband s clothing. W hen
Becker's attorney, Joseph A. Shay,
and two deputy sheriffs arrived with
an order authorizing the release of
Becker from the death house, the
former policeman and his wife were .
sitting in the warden's office. Once!
the warden and the guards turned
their backs.
"That's the first time I have kiss-
ed mv wife in 10
months," said
Beker, afterwards.
Pennsylvania Socialists
their State Convention in
port next month.
will hold
Williams-
0!i
Is the Housewife's
Greatest Help.
"1X7HAT so tempting to the
V V laggard appetite as a
light, flaky,fruit short cake or
a delicate hot biscuit?
Royal makes the perfect
short cake, biscuit and muffin,
and improves the flavor and
healthfulness of all risen flour
foods. It renders the biscuit, hot
bread and short cake more di
gestible and nutritious, at the
same time making them more
attractive and appetizing.
Royal Bakh Powder is in
dispensable for the preparation
z the year, rem J cf izzlzzt
A w v J .
KAimU. CKATTtX" -A
Kf BJAjor Wfua rule prohibit
A oara at third baaa fro tonrhia;
or holding a bM runner rounding
tba third it at ion.
Tbera is talk of forming a hi
baseball laagu. with A cirrtni madt
up of Paeblo, Crippla Creek Colora
do Spring, Fort Collins, and Qr
ley. Colo-, and Cheyenne, Wyv
Tha new Erie team ia tha Canad
ian learue will be piloted by Ueorge
1L Smith, who was formerly a big
league rateher And later manager of
the Buffalo team..
The National Association of Pro-
feasiooAl Baseball Clubs hai ustain
ed tha objections of President
O'Rourk. of tba Eastern Assoeiatiou
against the aetion of the New York
: New Jersey league in changing its
name, to the Eastern league.
i A Boston scribe scribbles, ' Would
n't ft be a great joke if the two Bos
ton teams fought it out for the
world's championship !"' It sure
would.
Just as he was about to leave Al
lentown to report to the Buffalo club
Third Baseman Frank O'Ronrke was
pinched for wife desertion. Curses
on 'em.
Manager George Stalling! he;
L. . . ...
,1 i'pr I ha vmmfl hailmTnn i a
brother of Pitcher " Lefty " Tyler of
the Braves.
George Stovall, manager of the
Kansas City Federal League team,
snvs he has a bunch of ball tossers
that will prove one of the strongest
in the new league.
George Hogreiver, who taught Jake
'kley '10W bold 08' n ",e 'a'e
UO VTA lUOf U V 11 tpjF'llllV'i
an umpire in the Wisconsin-Illinois
league. -
Two veteran gardners, Harry Wol
ter and Birdie Cree, will be missed
from the New York Yankees' lineup
this season. Wolter goes to Los An
geles and Cree has been released to
Baltimore.
Joe Evers, brother of John, lias re
fused to sign with the Terre Kaute
Central League Club. Joe doesn't ex
pect as large a salary as his famous
In other, but at the same time he
can't see the Terre Haute figures.
On Friday, the thirteenth of Feb
ruary, Manager Hugh Duffy, of the
Portland, New England
league team.
signed his thirteenth plaver. And
DiitTy was supposed to know all abouu-
baseball.
Pitcher Tesreau, the (iiants' spit
ter, has pitched nil winter for ihc
Snn r'e? tcam 'n California. VI
i.letl doesn t snow class this season
,, Ml If 1 T IT
-uouraw w ui oe inclined 10 euss .ien,
San Diego nnd winter baseball.
In Four Words.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"I doubt th' constitutionality of
put tin an extra tax on bachelors,"
said I'ncle Si Hedges as he whittled
a notch in the store counter. "Mar
riage ain't a legal necessity. If a
man doesn't marTy it may be his
fault an' it may be her fault. 'Tain't
right to fine th' man for being in a
condition which he can't help meb
by." "Guess you're right. Si," said
Ebenezer Tank from the cracker
box. "but. right or wrong, there's
one thing more powerful than laws
or rights or constitutions. It over
rides 'em all. It backs 'em off th'
earth. It sets 'em up an' bowls 'em
over. It's th' tyrants excuse an'
th' eonq'ror's plea."
"Hold on there, Eb'nezer," cried
Uncle Si. "What you takin' Hbout?
What is it that's more powerful than
laws an' constitutions!"
'I'll give it to you in four words,'.
replied Ebenezer.
e need th'
money." -
A .Michigan paper says: "The
gills of today are the wives of to-
; morrow,
and the mothers of the day
Isn't that rather speedy t
i after."
Senutor Oliver of Pennsylvania
wide prohibition plank in the State
Republican pjatform. x
nrsizixwouL
Proud beauUes yoa arnat diadaia
The lowly of the earth.
Just think, but fur the crawling worm
M'bat woald your rlotlias be worth T
Dame Faahioa has devrred that silk
This spring shall be the tiling, , .
A ad this ia where the wee silk worms
' Kw hava their little fling.
Both night and day they toil away
To cloth you for the bair,
And for the street in silk complete
They never rest at aU.
And even as the silk worms slave
8o also Bene mea do
Both night and day they toil away
For silken robes for you.
Proud beauties do not then disdain
The lowly of the earth,
For worms and even husbands, too
AH have their little worth.
Drugs Mora Deadly in taa Upper
World Than ia tba Lower.
Albany, N. Y Feb. 23. A plea for
the relief of drug victims today was
made by Dr. Charles A. Towns of
New York before a legislstiv hear
here on bills designed to 'restrict
the sale of habit-forming drugs, es
pecially cocaine and its derivatives.
"The drug problem in the under
world is one for the police to cope
with." Doctor Towns said, "but
drugs have worked greater havoc In
the 'upper world' than in the under
world and here there havoc has been
wrought upon men and women who
are really wortli while, whom it is
the duty of the medical profession
the drug trade and everybody who
lays tba slightest claim to decent hu
manity, to conserve."
A feature of the proposed laws is
a provision designed to treat those
who obtain drugs in violation of the
law as victims of disease and not as
criminals. This provision would giv
a magistate authority to commit
habitual users of drugs to hospital
or sanitariums instead of to prison.
Forest Notes.
The forest of Florida contaius 175
different kinds of wood.
There are seven spruces in the
United States. Four are confined to
the west, two to the east, while one,
a white spruce, lias a continent wide
distribution.
Sawmill waMc of Douglass fir, of
which an enorn ciis quantity is found
in the western forests, is being used
to make paper pulp by ft mill at
Marshfield. Ore.
In proportion to its weight, Cali
fornia redwood is the strongest coni
fer so far tested nt the United States
forest products laboratory. This
strength is due to its long wood fibers.
The Philippine bureau of forestry
reports that American and European
lumbermen are trying to secure large
and regular shipments of Philipine
woods., mainlv for cabinet making.
Experiments with various chemi
cal extinguishers for fighting nation
al forest fires have not been very
successful. , The unlimited supply or
evvcren in the open, forest officers
sav, tends to neutralize the effect of
the chemicals.
Unsafe to Laagh at Others.
Kansas City Star.
Dr. A. R. Taylor, a foremost West
ern educator and for many years
president of the Kansas State Nor
mal School in Emporia, tells this
storv : "As I was walking down
town one day just a few steps ahead
of me was A find old gentleman in
silk hat and broadcloth who had
most absurd -poster pinned on his
back, contrasting oddly wrth his dig
nified heuring. Just then around the
corner came a young fellow with ffn
even more ridiculous poster pinned to
his back. Being ignorant of his own
decoration, the youngster immediate
ly began laughing at the older man,
"So I fell to moralizing, deducing
something like this: "Could we but
sec ourselves -as others see us, we
would often change the theme of our
discourse. ""Then as.I Stepped .in
to a butcher shop the proprietor call
ed out to me: "Why what's this
the boys have been pinning on your
back!" - '
Usefulness of Beauty. ,
Charles Force Deems. 1 ,
There has always been among men
ft measuring of the useful against the
beautiful, as though, theywere an
tagonistic, aa though the useful were
not the beautiful in everyday work
ing dress, and as though the beauti
ful' were not the useful in perfumed
garments of glory." And so they have
strictly begrudged the time and mon
ey and space necessary for the ex
istencc of the beautiful, as if that
were so much abstracted from the
heritage of humanity. '' Really, and
in God's sight, nothing is more use
ful than tbe beautiful. . He will not
exist without it. He turns His holy
eyes nowhere that beauty is not. In
those very material things which seem
loathsome to us He perceives, and to
the miscropie eyes poetry, He reveals
glorious beauties., i;; V
1 As to Kissing. 2 :;'"r
Sacramento Bee, : . r. V :
A Sacramento woman has been giv
en a divorce because her husband re
fused to kiss her. - ,
Any man who declined to kiss a
Sacramento womnn must be an ancho
rite, indeed Else would he remem
ber Sir Philip Sidney's apostrophe
to the chaste snlute: ., v " '
O kissl which dost those ruddy gems
. impart, . . .
; Or . gms, or fruits, of new-found
.'. - paradic : -Breathing
all ljlis and sweetening to
the heart ; ..
Teaching du i.b lipst a noble exor
. rise.
Strange, isn't
brought ton t!'
t'lntina and
' . otn New 7,(
"ir doors fm
Unit meat enn bo
1 miles, from Ar
' .., ts, 1 ' r
PAR
Loads of Express coming in each day with
all the Latest and Newest things fresh
from Fifth Avenue and Broadway.. It will
pay you from now on to drop in. Let us
show you. Nothing gives us more pleasure.
One of bur buyers R. K. Black, for the
Ready - to - Wear Department has just
returned. He has spent: two weeks in
New York selecting his stock from all the
most Up-to-Date Ready-to?Wear Manufac-
turers
Our Pussy Willow Dresses are dreams
; '.' . -v. ' ..t-'' v . -
Don't forget we give you . Style, Quality
and, best of all, THE PRICE
Come Often , 'Get the Habit
PARKS-BELR: COMPANY.
FAMILY AVOIDS
SERIOUS SICKNESS
By Beinf Constantly Supplied WUh
Tneiford't Black-DnngbL
McDuff. Va.-
I suffered for several
f r im a
Sears," says Mrs. J. IS. Whittaker, ol
lis place, "with sick headache.- and
itomacn uoume.
Ten years aco a frhmd told me to tn
Thedlord's Black-Draught, which I did,
and I found it to be the best family medU
cine for young and old. .
I keen Blaek-Draueht on band an the
time now, and when my children feel a
little bad, they ask me for a dose, and it
noes tnem more good wan any medicine
they ever tried.
We never have a long spell of sick
ness in our family, since we commenced
using Black-Draught." '
Thedford's Black-Draught Is purely
vegetable, and has been found to regu
late weak stomachs, aidjigestion, re
lieve indigestion, colic, wind, nausea,
headache, sick stomachy--, and similar
symptoms. ' ,
It has been In constant use for mora
than 70 years, and has benefited more
than a mulion people. .
Your druggist sells and recommends
Black-Draught. Price only 25c Get a
BacWage to-day.. - H.COI
HOTEL
CONTINENTAL
1st Street and Broadway
NEW YORK.
3CD Roomi , 3C0 Batii
$1.60, $100, 2.60 and $3.00
Each With Prime Bath
Five minutes' walk to forty
, theatras, Penn. and New Cen-
tral Stationa.
:t Most convenient location in
- New York .
Wall Equipped Reading . and
Writing Rooms. -
C r"7
t. . . . j
c :rr.j .::
Known to good h
nioBt twenty j s.
1 r i!-
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lar dinner of 1 i
iullies, wi;ii w,,. , tas I
famous. 11
A COc liine.benn is a r
feature. The Cafe ronli
a!-o t fv a 2 .o anl t
'tin 1 CIu') I ' '.
;u'ar
vaid
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F0K SALE.
120 acres land 3 miles north of the
court house, good dwelling, barn an J
out buildings, soma timber., - $25.00
per acre.
305 acres of land on both aides of
China Grove and Organ Church pub
lie road from three to four miles
east of Kannapolis, Landis and China
Grove, two story 12 room dwelling,
, two doub,e barn two tenant dwel-
I! 1 ..a L..!ll! a . -
lings, several out buildings, quarter
mile to good school, 2 and 3 miles to
churches, 75 acres in cultivation, 30
acres meadow, 175 acres in fine vir
gin pine and oak timber, 40 arres
pasture wired in, good orchard. The
land lies well and produces line t
ton and grain. ; '
66 acres-two and half miles out
of Concord .fronting on ' two publie
roads, good dwelling, double . barn
and several out buildings. - The cul
tivated land is red and lies well. 5
acres bottom and plenty of Umber
for use. ' ,i
JNO. K. PATTERSON,' ;
: , , Real Eatate Agent.
EVERY
MODERN
SANITARY
IDE A
a found iapractiul
(rai -fa ibt
Jtandara" Bath-
. E. B. Grady Plumbing .
tSSMrtaUDkaSt. CamrJ. N. Cat.
r. EilPROVEO SCBXOTJLB '
Effective Sunday, January 11, 101b,
at 12:01 a. m. the Norfolk Southern
Railroad will make the. following
changes in schedules between Raleiga
and Charlotte and Fayetteville, N. C.
In addition to train No. 31, schedul
ed to leave Raleigh at 7:30 a. m.
a new train to be known as No. 33
will leave Raleigh at 8:S5 p. m. ar
riving in Charlotte at 6 :10 a. m. , .
Returning train No. 30 leaves
Charlotte at 6:'-3 a. m. trriviing in
Raleigh it 2;2D p. tn. Train No. 32
U avfs Charlotte at 8:10 p. m. arriving
in Klorh At 6:03 a.i m. affording
il.iuli'a t!,.'.:y except Sunday service
Lt ween these two points,
at 4 t p. m. arriving jn Fayetteville
at 7:") p. m.
.T.:im,'--t tT-in No. 34 will leave
F'-r villa i t 7:25 a. m., rriv' - jin
I,..'. ' .b at 10:50 a. m. Train Ko. 30
w, l leave I'aj-et'cville at 4:tD p. m. I
sr. '.viV.T T.Ji-'S at 7:00 p. m. T: -e
t 1 i n t) ui f "l d.i-'y a;l
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CABARRUS
SAVINGS
BANK!
Capital v
surplus an
PROFITS, :
$100,000.10-
$75,000J:
We respectfully salieit
. accounts ef
i J
Corporations ;
.Firms
- ; Individuals
We want your business be ft
Large or SmalL
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H. I. WOODHOUSE, Indent
J, W. CANNON. V-Presideat 1 1
C. W. SWINK, Cashier. . . !!
W. H. GIBSON, Asst. Cashier.
e))KeHC)Ce))KA)Ktr .
I Dry Cleaning I
1
I have accented tha aiMn
for Ben Von, the iamous
French dry -cleaners of Char
lotte. 'Phone me your orders.
I will send work to Charlotte
' and it will be cleaned and re
turned promptly. Our press
ing is of the highest order. ,
CITY PRESSEJO CLUB.
I D. B. Fowlkeo I
Prop
TAYLOR B. CLINE "i
, - t, FARM FOR SALE.
181 acres on west side of
Big Cold Water Creek, about
one and one-half miles east
of court house, two five-room
.. dwellings, good barn and out
. buildings, good orchard, two
good wells of water, one gool
spring, 3,500 cords wood, 3D
acres of bottom. Price $7,f 3.
. This is a bargain for somen"
who desires a good farm r r
(he city. . -
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