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,Y OHAHLOTTi: OBDBBI3H BEKCEMBER 22, 18CJ. IT WON HXB. 8he questioned him Iose, bat no secret dis- eiosea, . - As they sat In toe rloatnlesr tomtthar. Abo at fait past life, for the damsel proposed, ' With rare wisdom, to ascertain whether He had babiUor fault which la subsequent year , Bat eorge be was eUekand allayed ail Iter And doubt Tor tbe coming to-morrow - How, George, do you gambler The o.ues uun came low - - . - - :..-- -r r" And distinct, tbat he mis-nt understand: MJ8o, Ktbel, I don't; bat 1 ought to Jost now, -: for I'm holdlai besaUfot Hod " Twmi triumph of genius, It can't be de By mortal a bat rami Dossessed : She quietly gathered ber sleeves to one side v ant wutea away on nie crease. -Joskfb H. FAJtKX. WARNER MULER'S'DICTATION. HIS PABTT AGAINST LOCAL OPTTOH. "It Is Ineas&lateat With Good Oorara meat' That Utterance a Death Blow to - Kepabllcanlsm The JDemoeiatt Will Carry Hew York City Overwhelming ly " Correspondence of the Observer. Nkw York, Sept. 20. Well, the battle hu begun. The opening" gan was the speech of Mr. Warner "Miller before the Republican State convention at Sarato ga. He said: ""The Republican party cannot give the people local option; it Is inconsistent with good government." To this the convention agreed. Mr. Miller onee ran for Governor of this btate. He was beaten by David B. Hill. He is still a leader in his party, and the indications are tbat he will again be beaten by David B. Hill. The Indications are that the Democratic Btate convention, to be held next week at Syracuse, will, under Mr. Hill's lead ership, fire back, in answer to Warner Miller's gun, this solid shot: The ' Democrats can give to the people local option; it is consistent with good gov ernment." . If such a declaration is -.made, it will solidify the -Democratic party In this State, and will fill with dismay the Republican host in every city. Already, in anticipation of such a declaration, the' Republican leaders in New York city are saying nervously that they do not endorse Mr. Miller's statement, that they personally believe in local option, and that they will make their candidates from the city pledge themselves to work for iScal op tion in the next Legislature. But Mr, Fred Grant, police commissioner and Republican, lacking the wise silence of his father Ulysses, has said that if a Republican Legislature is elected, there win oe no relaxation of the oppressive blue laws; but that if a Democratic Legislature is elected many Republican members will help the Democrats re peal those laws and enact such laws as the majority of the people desire. In the face of this statement by a man of Mr. Grant's present prominence in his party it will be idle for Mr. T. C. Piatt's lieutenants in this city to try to get votes ior tneir candidates on the plea that thef favor home rule. WABNEB MTLLEB'S SPEECH. The little speech of Warner Miller, by the way, deserves notice by the whole country; it is so characteristically Re publican. "The Republicans cannot give to the people local option; it is in consistent with good government." In other words: The Republican party is all-wise. It knows what is best for us better than we know ourselves. It is not for us to choose how we shall keep the Sabbath; that belongs to the Re publican party, the high-moraVidea party. New oTk city is a wicked Democratic town and ought to be dis ciplined. It is incapable of governing itself; it ought to be governed by a Re publican Legislature at Albany, etc., etc. What riles the New Yorkers is the canting hypocrisy of this sort of talk. In what Republican city of the State is the excise law enforced as it is in New York city? In none. There is not a Republican, city in the State in which the law is enforced. In every single one of them the side doors are wide open all day Sunday, and the saloon keepers do business without molesta tion. The Republicans are in power; why don't they enforce the law all over the State? Because tbey are afraid to. New York city is Democratic anyway, and. so it will do no harm to play the saint there; but Brooklyn is very doubt ful and often goes Republican, so let the side doors swing there; and let them swing too in the Republican city of Rochester and the Republican city of Saratoga. New York city is the biggest city in the State and in the Union. Make a great show of virtue there and it will please the Republican farmers in New York State and in all the Stales. That is one of the ideas of the party of high moral ideas. THE DEMOCRATIC OPPORTUNITY. X hat the Democrats of this citv and WHAT PASSING STRAWS SHOW. CTJBKENCT BKFOR3C IS KXCKSSABrr. XXTBRABY KOTES this Btate will take advantage of thi golden opportunity is quite certain. heard a disgusted liquor-dealer say the other day; "Tammany will take the county by 70,000 majority." If the Democratic convention declares for local option, the Democratic party will "take the county" by at least 100,000 majority, and will most likely take the state, too. There are about nearly 50, 000 Germans in this city who will vote as a unit ior local option. This vote will be piled on to Tammany's. J. he experience of past elections shows that when a principle is con cerned, the people don't bother their heads much about who the majority of the candidates are. Let two or three good men be named and no note is taken of the rest of the ticket. In last year s tidal wave bar-tenders, eieht-dol lar-a-week clerks and other people, who were nominated with no thought of election, were chosen for office, the people not caring much who got In, so xammany got out. And so this year, so strone is the present sentiment in favor of the principle of home-rule for cities, and so deep the feeling that the Aiemocratic party alone may be trusted to provide home-rule for cities, that there is reason for the belief that whether the Syracuse convention is harmonious or not, and whether the body of the candidates is made up of good men or not, there will be another tidal wave which will pu-t the Republi cans out ana ue democrats in JJut or course victory will be much surer for the Democrats if the conven tion Is harmonious and if Tammany uu buuws a spirit oi lairness and gen erosity ana not a disposition to take the -whole cake. And therefore the worm newspaper Is again making pray ers to its dear sinner, David B. HiiL It prayea to mm before the famous "snaiv convention, but in vain. Will he heed its prayer now? His failure to heed be fore brought dire disaster on him, and so he may incline his ear to hear the words of wisdom now. For the : World gives good counsel now. Mr, Hill may have another term in the Senate If he does not follow that counsel, bat he can make bis election much surer by luuowtug it. let mm hold back .the nungry tiger at Syracuse; let him see to it that such candidates are nominat ed for State offices as the independent press and the anti-Tammany Demo cratic press approve. He can make or mar. Which will he do 7 -Brownchief. That sad the Bemoval of tha lO Par Ceat. : Tax am : State Bsaks ". Should be the Motto of Democracy la 1896 Oovermar Jarria' 2Tews aad Observes Letter Shew That Bee Scared Tha JTagrs Is Bteam lag Xodepwutaat, " To tbe Editor of the Observer: There have been a good many straws passing of late; as they i ndieate a steady current in our direction, a closer analy is should reveal the drift of opinion It wilt be remembered that the confer ence just: held in Washington was fiasco, the results of which qd to date Are nil. Now comes Congressman New- lands, of Nevada,' chairman of the ex ecutive committee of the national sil ver party, frankly confessing that, "if business continues to improve and it turns out that the improvement is per manent, the silver issue is dead." As if to confirm the business situation. tbe Iron Age reports tbe weekly cutout of iron furnaces in the United States to be greater than ever before, with stocks on nana diminishing at the same time; ana mat tne price of steel rails has ad vanced again, this time $4 tier ton. In this State the same instinct that causes rats to leave a sinking ship, has made known to Marion Butler the condition of things; hence his frantic efforts to get within the breastworks of Democ racy, before becoming utterly discred ited. If the letter of Hon. T. J. Jar vis. of the 9th inst., to the News and Ob server means anything, it meant that the Morgan ton speech was a mistake; tbat the maker of it is well scared, fearing toe consequences win mar his political fortunes. There are other would-be leaders and moulders of Dublic Beat! ment whose names will readily suggest themselves to the reader, whose roliti- . a - . . T cai eyes nave been so blinded with sil ver that they have let their weather eyes go to sleep. However the latter are again on duty, as is evidenced by the bi-metallic vision they are daily be ginning to see. No man of convictions has any use for bi-metallism: it is not. nas never been nor ever can be; but it serves the purpose of a curtain behind which small men in public life can change their clothes. When the national convention meets and the cur tain rises the little fellows will all be in me, ana meir raiment will De such as to make it appear that they had never left the fold. The free-for-all con ven tion called for September 25th, without giving the slightest cause for alarm, promises to anora the sound money men plenty of amusement; it is called against the advice and wise counsel of the conservative element among those favoring silver mono-metallism: instead of proving the opportunity of their lives to those who instigated it, it is likely to become the boomerang that win oDiueraie tnem. The waiting game being played by the Republican party, together with the iacK or an aggressive leader (for where, among them to-day, is there a states man of purpose and character, ready to contend for an undying principle, or, if tnere were, where, within their ore serves can such a principle be located?) has begun to have its effect on the colored race; at last they are asking themselves .if they are forever to be the tail of the Republican kite. Therefore, this is the time to show them substan tial reasons why, in Democracy, lies their salvation, and put forward for of fice only those candidates " whose per sonal characters are such as to com mand their confidence and respect, else they will find leaders among them selves, for they number many talkers who.like to use high sounding phrases ana Dig woras, Doth in and out of nlace. that neither the speaker nor hia hearers understand the meaning of. If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch; then the white man will have to extricate them and tav the cost of the experiment by additional la.vauon. n me uemocratic party se cures but a fragment of the negro vote. it win teach i'ODulists and back-sliders mat, with or4without their assistance, tne intelligent and progressive classes propose to continue to rule in Nortkr Carolina. kjuc mure siraw in conclusion and a pretty large one, which is the proposed oouu issue, ir, took an issue or bonds to convince the people that it was fool ishness gone to seed to borrow cold to Duy snver ounion, which, if coined, could not be forced into circulation: and which caused them to dm.nri from, and then compel, an unwilling Congress to repeal the purchasing clause or the bherman act. The last hond issue taught that the Secretarv of the Treasury ought to be authorize (as are the administration officials of other According to the New York ' ; Inde pendent, Jerome K. Jerome, author of "Three Men in a .Boat," etc, has brought suit against a railroad com pany for disturbing his peace in St. John's Wood. He claimed that abso- i lute quiet is necessary for mm In . his literary labors, and asked the jury for 1,200 damages. They awarded him i500. - ' " - ' Two L.ittle -Pilgrims' Progress" is the title of Mrs. Frances Hodgson Bur nett's new story to be published next month by the Scribnera. It is said the publishers have received 15.000 advance subscriptions to the book. ' - The story tells of two little children a boy and girL living on a Western farm with an aunt who ignores them They get possession of a "Pilgrim's Progress' whichthey read together.and which leads them to go in search of the -VMte-Uity-ef the Chicairo exhibition Tbe story is about as long as the author's "Little Lord Fanntleroy,'' and is sata to be a good piece of work. Mark Twain, according to the Ameri can Newsman, is able to stand some re verses. It says his royalties eo far be yond those gained by any other Ameri can writer. His royalties upon "Inno cents Abroad" reached $100,000 in less than two years. Upon the "The Gilded Age" they were $80,000, with $00,000 additional for the play dramatized from that story. "Tom Sawyer" yielded thousands of dollars, and the same is true of "Rourhing I;" and Life Upon the Mississippi." Yet with all his erains and he was a mil lionaire he has been reduced to bank ruptcy. The Boston Transcript says: In the beautifully picturesque town of Shir ley, Mass.. the members of the Unita- tarian Society have arranged to place in tneir church a tablet with the fol lowing inscription HI8t THE SWE1TR--T 8 IK G IK, OUVEB HOLDKN, Composrr of the tune Coronation. Born in Shirley, September 18, 1765. Died in Cbarlestown. tteotember 4. 1844 To his dear memory this tablet Is placed by nis granaaaugnter. Then following this inscription, and underneath it, is engraven the leading verse of the hymn which inspired the tune: All hall the power of Jesus' name! Let angels prostrate fall ; Bring forth the royal diadem And crown him ixjrd of all. Ti.j. ... it is a matter somewhat to be com mented upon that, while Mr. Holden was a Baptist, such homage should be paid his memory by the Unitarians of bhirley. But it shows loyalty to the native born, overlapping all denomina tional differences. The National Library at Washington. it is stated, will cover three acres of ground, cost $6,000,000, and will afford space for' 4,000,000 volumes. This is twice the room afforded b? anv other library in the world, and is estimated to be sufficient accommodation for the books of the next 150 years. Dr. S. F. Smith, the author of our national hymn, "America," is old and not in the most affluent circumstances. Recently he was the recipient of a nice little pecuniary remembrance from some of his admirers, Andrew Carnegie always a promoter of good works contributing $400. The Bookman says: "It is rumored in literary circles that tbe author of the clever Satire published bv Roberts Bros., "The Curse of the Intellect." is Lady Gwendolen Cecil, the daughter of the Marquis of Salisbury. Lady Gwen dolen has written some clever tains. notably a ghost story which appeared in Blackwood's a few months asro." Mrs. Davis, author of "Under thp Man-Fig," a story mentioned in these columns some time aso, is the wife of ajor Davis, of the New Orleans Pica yune. "nver -upiic, wno writes most wholesome stories for bovs. is seventy three years of aj;e. lie is fond of tra vel. YEA, MORE THAN CONQUEROR OTCB rKIWCI P AXI TXKS aSD powers. " - Palrrtaw Iaatltate, Correspondent of the Observer. Whttsett, Sept. 20. Students con tinue to arrive daily and enter school. Fiye arrived yesterday, representing the counties of Vance, Guilford, Ala mance - and Durham, There were never before so many here this early in the session. . The German Reformed Church has recently secured a lot here, on which they propose to build a handsome church at once. - - A number of people from this place will attend the Atlanta Exposition. . The Newbern Journal says that oys ters are now coming Into that market- some very gooa ones. hrst-class nations), to issue short time obligations to bridge over seasons when customs receipts are light or other in come not forthcoming as fast as needed, but particularly to give him an oppor tunity, in an emergency, to negotiate ior a long lime loan, and not oblige him to accept the first and perhaps only offer of necessary funds. ' The bond issue now under considera tion points directly at the weak spot in our financial system, the fact that as long as greenbacks and Treasury notes are outstanding gold can be unceasing ly drawn irom the Treasury, and com merce kept in a panicky condition. The burden of furnishing gold for ex port should be transferred to the banks where it belongs; the people have it in their power to bring this about, and they will be confronted with new bond issues until they make up their minds to elect a Congress that will retire ev-. ery demand note of the government, and replace them with a currency in the hands of local banks, under the same supervision as are the national banks. Few will deny that there is some thing wrong with the currency and much as an increase of the national debt is to be regretted.it seems to be the only thing that will make the people give attention to this most important mat ter and insist that their representatives move in the right way to correct our vicious, currency system. In view of the above it is more than ever anna rent mat currency reform and removal of the 10 per cent, tax must be the motto of Democracy in "96. Lodis de La CROIX Oxford, N. C, Sept 19, 1895. joaqum aimer, the California poet, passes a great deal of his time in th wild canyon of Dry Ferns, which ner his mountain home. It is 1 play ground, so to speak, and often h spends a week there at a time. At night he lies down on a couch of bay tree Branches, with nothing but blanket for his covering. Why do some literary neonla in af fecting the oddity, lose sight of th ridiculous? Coventry Patmore is about to issue oook at the age cf seventy-two, and v ru Mane Hardie. a Danish ladv. has just entered the field as a story writer at the age of seventy Her first volume is caned "Yule Star." lhe London News' savs Miss Aline King, the popular novelist, who was wholly blind from the age of seven, be came a fearless horsewoman and would gallop over the hills and along the rough moorland paths that would have been impassable to any but the most a 1 . 1 - w -w r . uruucieui riuer. Miss King, who was educated at home, gained more or less pronciency m seven languages besides her own French. German. Tt.alisn Spanish, Larm, Greek and Hebrew. AH ner literary work was done with a tvne writer, and with its aid she could write as quickly as a person with sight ordi narny writes with a pen. All Miss King's wme nos taiten up with these literary laoors was occupied in teaching and in uueuoiuK idb woramgmen and lads in ner rather s parish, and by her own etiorts this blind girl established for tnem a reading room, cricket club, band ana oiner institutions. Samuel Minturn Peck will soon iisue a volume, "Khymes and Roses." Mr. feck is a Southerner, a native of Ala oama. tie won his recognition by bis a 3 1 a, i . w ungat - vers ae societe and tender love lyrics. tils verses sing themselves. ills volume, "Cap and Bells," has passed through five editions. They say FWfcrj uoes ho pay, ana it is true, as a ruie, out mr. peck s is an exception. The New York Central Holds the Record a he New Xork Central & Hudson ttiver uauroad Company has issued in circular form the summary of its re cent iast run to Buffalo, and therewith 0 m iaWs t ka .l J a - a. la t eral of the United States himself in j;" ow n2"" - v wrva a va BLVUi . A UC s 1 iai IS II VINDICATION FOB BOWLER? The Comptroller of the Treasury Has Par amount Power Under the Doekerv Is Washington, Sept. 20 The Depart ment or justice nas come to the conclu sion that the power of the Comptroller oi tne .Treasury, as given him un der the Dockerv re-organization bill, which went into effect Au gust 1st, 1894, is equal to, if not superior to, that of the Attorney Gen matters . ievolvii certain cases. In uw payment oi money it is para mount. These facts developed to-dav on inquiry at me Department of Jus tice. Yesterday an opinion was render ed by Acting Comptroller of the Treas ury Bowers on the power of the Secre tary ol Agriculture to expend certain money for the : distribution of the Farmers Bulletin issued by that De partment. The original inouirv in this ease was made by Secretary Morton to Attorney General Harmon under date of September 3rd, and Attorney Gener al uarmo&repuea that tbe query put by Secretary Morton came within tbe rule stated bv his rniecn (Attorney General Olney). rendered May Z2nd last, on an enquiry as to whether the Secretary of the Treasury was limited in the appropriation mAa to purchase newspapers. In answering this inquiry. Attorney General Ofnew said othe questions submitted "could have been properly asked of the Attor ney General prior to the passage of the Dockery re-organization bill, but now belonged to a class of questions involv ing the direct payment of money ont of the Treasury which should be referred to the Comptroller of the Treasnry. . rastest mile ever made bv a regular S . ftCh I a m " tram, seconas,, may to, IS33; the rastest long distance passenger . train. the Empire State Express, which make at miles an hour including stops, and the fastest long distance time e.er made by a passenger train. September I I, 1895, when a train weigh lass. 5G5.000 pounas rn u miles in 407 minutes. or 61 20-100 miles an hour Including slow-downs, but not including two stops oi two minutes eacn to change engines. Tbe train was 40,000. pounds heavier than the Em pi re . State - Express and about twice as heavy and long as tbe cngiign racing trains that established a record, now broken, last month between London and Aberdeen. : - '..Ban Seta a Hone en Sir. . --' St. Louts Dltpatch, rflb - . ; - Th Sun set fire to tha Kuiria r r H.. -Warner to-dav.'- eiiino in nnn damages, Oa tbe ton floor was a larro assembly ; room. The windows con tained a number nt . about six inches in diameter, with con- v surrace. xnese acted as so many -bull S eve" Sun glasses, and tha rv f the sun were brought to a focas on the Moor, setting it on ere. The Iavalld Hears n Iftaetes- Tell the Story Is Transcendent JXuale of How Neither Death, Hot Ofe, Nor Angels, Nor Pria - etpalltles. Nor Powers, Nor Thlaga Proa- -mt. Nor Tnlags to Cms, Nor Height, : Hot Depth, Nor Any Other Crea Shall TBm Able to Separate a Sonl fro no the Love ef God. - Written for the Observer. - ' The Invalid's first call, after months of seclusion, was upon The Veteran. It is a musical family, and always a pleas ant place to visit of an evening. Just then, ho we er, a greater attract ion than usual awaited tbe guests.. : A famous professor from . a distant citv was at the piano: selection after selection had been given, as the audi ence wished, when, as the congratnla' Hons poured upon aim, the master drew nearer to the instrument, declining suggestion ' With courteous gesture. touching tbe kevs meanwnue in a way to command attention and discourage words. There was no score oexore him and his eyes seemed fixed upon nothing near; the motif or tne piece was not at onee caught by any, nor.at the same moment by all. tr resentiy, however- we knew that it was a drama we list. ened to, and. as tbe scheme developed. we perceived tbat it was one of attack and defence. We became aware of the persistent recurrence of a single note. sweet, soft, high, but not loud, sound ing at no regular intervals, not chal lenging attention, claiming no regard, and mainly noticeable because the strength and clamor of the other tones failed to drown it. It was there; that wasalL and alone.and as the player, more and more absorbed, marshaled the forces before us we could bun mark how that little breath of music grew and swelled and rose amid what we now saw were combined efforts to stifle or destroy it. Only the solitary note spoke to us; the others assailed it from every side, but failed to daunt it. After each assault it came again with added force, fast growing into passion. and we understood what we wondered we had not known before, that the ut terances from the first had been to as sert its being and its individuality, nothing more; but as the wnisperings and onsets, the seductions and threaten- ings became plainer and stronger, as the charging chords clanged and crash ed and ranked themselves against it, it answered always with bolder accent and firmer tone: "res, it sang, 'I am here. and wholly unafraid, stronger than be fore," and, as a breath of hope blew across the strings, for the first time it met challenge with defiance. bo, while under flying hands the drama grew, the sweet, low voice took fuller power; hope broadened into faith, and charge was met with counter charge. All subtle whispers of softest sounds, tempted, skillful discords strove to confuse and drive it back. Yet, the one steady note kept pealing out; noth- ng now could still the tone wherein faith had become trust, and knowl edge of being had grown into pride of lie; no hint of doubt or regret had ever dulled its clear speech, and. or are we mistaken, does not a dominant note now and then ring out, with consciousness of conquest close behind? The struggle grows more intense; each time the Master's wonder-working touch left the key he loved, it sounded loftier cry; its dominance showed forth more and more, lone though it was, over the iarring and discordant umult of its foes. There can be no. more delay, the battle must be fought out; nor truce, nor treaty, nor surrender even, may be thought of; victory alone can. end the act where the rapt player, seeing neither key nor hearer, with lirtea race and inward-looking eyes sends his swift fingers along the board and his thought works out the fitting lose. Fierce jangling bursts of hostile ound, met with the steady, persistent nd increasing answer of the solitary note, beat after beat, break upon the ears: ioy is. added to trust now: the tone, liquid and sweet beyond com pare, is informed with such urgent eenness of rapture as to be almost an- uish. The key, touched oftener and oftener, rings triumphant at the' close. All other sounds fade and die, as with one piercing shout of victory, the tone we have followed through passion, borne alone to sovereignity none other dare claim, soars to the highest and is gone gone we are ready to believe, to something kindred above, which, be yond mortal sight or ken, waited for and took it home. The Invalid. nre to yoa. to administer the physical rebuke! " No, your heart Is peculiarly tender toward that boy, and yet for his WB ,0tt n08 teach him that cer tain things must not be done. You are severe, you are relentless; but there is norther way tK; iw. Wmi He may L i a jrant, and hi eyes may Saab:, with- anger because you oppose 4 ba' has your fove depart- edfeYonJd you not make great sacri fices for him? Does not your mother heart years for the loye which he re fuses to give! Yes, yon love while yoo punish, and though yoa dare not remit any measure of the punishment, the love seems to grow more intense. Love and grief are intermingled. In a word, you punish in order to reform, and the punishment is solely for the child's sake. . . --:-.- -tr. Is not this true - with regard to our Heavenly Father? You do to Him the most grievous wrong when yoa think of Him as a being who can under any cir cumstances nate you., ir yoa are tbe worst sinner in the world; if justice chases you from one hiding place to another because of your crimes; if vour old friends all curse you; if your child ren turn their backs upon you and shudder at the recollection of your in famous deeds; If there is no spot on tbe broad earth where yoa can find a rest ing place still, as truly as the stars shine above yoa at night and the sun by j j i . , . . . . . . uajr, aou nenner me one nor tne oiner is paled by your guilt, so trnlv does God Almighty pity you wish a pity that is latnomiess ana boundless, and so truly do the angels band together to draw you back into tbe paths of person al parity and rectitude. Doubt - everything else, but never doubt that you are being punished as you know you deserve to be, and you mast reap tbe consequences of your mis deeds, as you know you ought to; but if you see tbat yoa have blundered, and if your punishment leads to such serious thinking that you would make your fu ture different from your , past, you will find tbe everlasting arm of God under neath you and you will hear the voices of angels singing a welcome back to your bette. self. Poor fellow! You have been in hell, and everybody in heaven has been sorry for you. God has never for a moment hated you, and your own hands made the hell in which you lived. Your undoing was your own doing, not His. Your soul has been dark, but vour own nanas arew down the window cur tains and shutout the light. You have been your own executioner. If you see all this at some critical juncture in your experience, and if you recognize tbe fact that you have made losing investment of yourself, and if you determine even at the eleventh hour to become a man. there can be no such rejoicing on earth as there will be n heaven. (Jod s pity will be dissipated and His approval will take its place. The dear ones who have watched your downward path will extend their hands to help you climb, and there will come into your soul such a peace and satis faction as will dull the memory of the old and dreary days. God sorrows with tne sorrowing; He pities the erring; He loves from eternity to eternity. NYE ON Sp,VANTS. THE GREAT DOMESTIC PROBLEM IN - THE NORTH AND SOUTH. Thi Heads Hint to lagresa. and He Tell the Sad Tale T the Mlaalag Storerc Key ea the. Bsanr Baron's Swat In tha f OooTTlriit. 1S03. br Edgar W. Kre-1 A kind friend vrritea from Cleveland to ask about the servant problem in tbe south and to inquire how it compares with conditions north : and in the old world. There are things to be said both pro and con. The good servants south are ery faithful and ' deferential, and two ox them will do as much as one in tne north and tradition shall retain the key to the storeroom. Mr tot wife is now keeping house far me. and so the ton cue of scandal is on a temporary vacation. She rarely goes away without me, for the loves to ! J csfeTiunmV that I osea tcr&se beTSre 1 became a better man. It was wrarred in flannel, so as to make no noise, for i in tbe old' times I did a srnnrl deal of night work and hated to disturb sick, persona and young children while en- gaged in my tasks ; also well people and middle aged policemen who were asleep. I got this under the sash of the store room and pried it up. ' I was just in serting myself softly, and in the mean time grateful Mor the kindly shelter of ! the sight, when I felt a sting across mr pereon irom witnout and heard the baron exclaim : Hal Yoa try to roo mine front, vim skellyvaggerl Besser jtra pin owska- gannin !" And he bit me once more for the cigars with the long four-in-hand whip. . , ; It seems that he bad wearied of thn cffics or Tplhie Loan and ' & Savings Bank, Chaklottk,N. C, ? ' Aug. 6th, 1895, ( . The phenomenal success of thii Bank as a depository for the "Sav ings of the thrifty and as a Bank of Loan," being now a well act knowledged and duly appreciated fact, as testified by the sixteen hundred (1,600) depositors, and the era t.if vine ra.l&nrA nhpiftf af iha d do li as welLi-pEtomanid large octavo volume of press notices, as close of business on Monday, the demand that the housekeeper jihad feared be woold, and had strolled 1 5th inst bein uuuov j mm.mo a pipe, s DO in A DAT OF DEAD CALM. Many Important Articles in the New Con stitution Ready to Be Reported from Committees. WHY ARK WK PUNISHED? New York HeraJd. ' hflre J jor la t Ire presence of t lie nneels of (tk! over one finnr Unit rt'jentetli Luke, xv, li. What do we mean God punishes men? ishmeht" is in some conspicuous in the when we say that The word "pun respects the most theology of the past, and it occupies a very serious prominence the th -o)ogy of the present. When reading the sermons preached in olden days punishment is so much more frequently met with than love, that we have inherited eertain ideas of God, which mak? it rather difficult to speak of Him as our Father. The ter rors af the Lord, as interpreted by the spiritual teachers of mankind, have in- irouucea an element or iear into re ligion which has almost become a con tronmg motive, ana yet everyone or us knows that what we do through love is exceedingly better than what we do through fear. It is even safe to say that a religion of fear is a very low sort of religion, from which the uplifting and upholding influences which-Christ brought into the world, are entirely ab sent. If we- understand the .Master, He wished us to love God in much the way in which a child loves its mother, and to nave the same confidence in Him that a child has in the "protecting pres ence oi us ratner. 'X hat is to say, tne relation between us and Hims always paternal on His side and can never be otherwise, and should be filial on our side. No matter what vour spiritual condition may be, whether you are given to works of charity or deeds of darkness. He is forever tbe same, for In the one case he rejoices with you in your goodness, and in the other He pities yoa In yoar badness. If, like tbe prodigal. living on husks which tbe swine do eat, you thoughtfully come to the conclusion that your life is a mis take, and conclude to face the stars and walk that way, you can be absolutely sure mat uoa nas been sorry for vou daring every hour of dissiDation. and will take you into the warm embrace of tits sympaxny and love when vou feel the need of holier living. len may turn irom yon, ont uoa never. And yet punishment is a frightful fact in every man s life. The world is almost sinking under its weight. Not a soul lives that does not bear some burden of that kind. There is more ailing than langhter on the blanet and regrets sharp as the s tin? of a hornet abundantly prove that our way is not , Uod's way, : and ; that God's sovereignty is asserting itself. There is no happiness except in obedience. not even a scintilla, and just so long as we are wilful and selfish, so long we m ust take the ecj sequences, i : ut wnat purpose does this DUBisb- ment sabserve? - Take a familiar illus tration and perhaps we shall find en lighten ment. Yon are a parent, but your child has gone wrong. That child is bone cf your bone, made in your image. You rocked its cradle and held it to your bosom- Bat the little one has developed evil tendencies. .You cannot pprove of them; on the other hand. you frown upon them. " Your attitude toward the child and your attitude to ward wbat he does are two very differ ent things. r x oa may punish, but not with wrath, for your eyes are filled with tears- What is your object in the pun ishment? Do . you hate the .child and would yoa crush it because it has fallen into bad ways? Is it any pleas- Columbia, S. C, Sept. 20. There was another dead calm in the constitutional convention to-day. The convention was put in a position to-day where it can take up on Monday morning some of lhe most vitally important matters t will have before it. The committees on the legislative and executive depart ments, on amendments to the constitu tion, on finance and taxation and on municipal corporations and police regu lations submitted their reports on all the matters referred to them under their several heads in the shape of articles to the constitution. The pro visions presented in the several articles reported have been agreed to by the committees on which are some of the most prominent men on both sides in the convention. In the article on the legislative de partment it is provided that members of the House of Representatives shall be elected every fourth year instead of second as now; that the new county, Saluda, shall have two representatives; that Charleston county shall have as all other counties now have only one Sen. i or instead of two; that sessions of the Legislature shall be held annually; that the per diem of members shall be only $3; thai the homestead not to exceed $1,000 shall be preserved; that no pub lic lands be deeded to corporations or individuals; that the right of dower shall be abolished; that no special laws shall be enacted where a general Jaw will cover the case; that no charters shall be granted by special acts, etc. In the article on the executive de partment there are provisions that the term of ofliceof the executive shall be for two years; that a board of pardons shall be established, etc. A minority report presents a section giving the Governor power to remove State officers for embezzlement of pub lic funds. The article on finance and taxation provides for a capitation tax on domes tic animals; and that there shall be a constitutional two mill tax for the com mon school funds; that the State can not become a stockholder in any cor poration. The article oiwnunicipal corporations and police regulations limits the power of cities to increase their indebtedness; provides for municipal' chain gangs; that cities can exempt from taxation for five years manufacturing enter prises with $10,000 capital or more, and then there is this section raising the State constitutional clouds from-over the dispensary system: "Section 14. In the exercise of police j power the General Assembly shall have tne right to prohibit the manufacture and sale and retail of intoxicating liq uors or beverages within the State; the General Assembly may license persons or corporations to manufacture and sell and retail intoxicating liquors or beverages within the State- under such rules and restrictions as it deems proper; or the General Assembly may prohibit the manufacture ancLsale and retail of intoxicating liquors and bev erages within the State, and may au- horize and empower State and county officers, both or either, to buy and re tail within the State liquors and bev erages in sueh packages and quantities, under such- rules and regulations as it deems expedient." One article provides against prize fighting and women are given the right to vote in special municipal elections for the purpose of bonding tbe munici pality or raising revenue on an equality with men, the qualification for all being $300 worth of assessed property. JNeitber Senators Tillman and Irby nor President Evans were on the floor to-day.. All three were absent from the city, as were a good many delegates. Congressman Talbert presided. ' ; An effort was made to take a recess until Monday, when member after member asked for leave of absence. The ob jection ws raised that a legislative day wouia be tost, and tne important re ports presented, could sot be taken op. as they bad to lie on the desks for 2 i hours prior to consideration. In order to keep a quorum the con vention passed a resolution to grant leave of absence to no member save for sickness.- r - Marvelous Beealta. From a letter written by Her. 3. Gander- men, ol IHmonaale, Mich, we are permitted to make this extract: "I bare no hesita tion in reeommendlng Dr. King's New Dis covery, as the results were almost marvel ous tn the ease of my wile. While I was pastor of the Baptist ceureb atKIves' Junction she was brought down with nnea- nwiua nmusg gnppv. xerriDie par oxysms of couching would last hours with little interrupt loo. and tCseemed si if aha eould not earrrve them, a friend recom mended Dr. King's New Discovery ; it was qaiea in its wo ana niguy saueiactory in results." Trial bottles free at the drnari stores of Burwell at Dona's and Jordan a I eeott. ' -- i - AFTER THE BOOSTER. share the joys of a trip with me, and if I conduct myself the rest of the summer as I have so far she is going to take me to Europe next year with her egg money, (She is quite an agriculturist, and I had all I could do to keep her from planting the whole farm last year to hominy. I wanted to plant it to fish balls and hops, so that when we didn't care to attend a ball we could have a hop. ) Bnt once she went away for a day, and the train was so late that she wired me she could not come home, but would remain in the hands of her friends. She telegraphed me where the key to the storeroom was concealed, but the tele graph operator did not get it clearly, and eo I took the children down into the watermelon patch for tea. We had just wiped off onr chins and started for the bouse when a carriage drove up to the door with outriders, a coachman 7 feet high and footman. Sev eral people alighted and were shown in. Tbey were people whom I met in Hei delberg when I was there accomplishing myself 25 years ago. They were people of title and great wealth, and in their own country thougbt nothing ox going to mill with a tallyho. They also left a little wine in their glasses at dinner, which I had been taught to regard in Laramie as a great sin when there are so many poor people in the world who can only have wine every 80 days. These wealthy friends bad gathered from what I said while at Heidelberg that I had money to burn, as the Ger mans have it, and as many people on the continent think that tbe American keeps a corncrib full of gold and a hay loft full of currency for a rainy day. I made a good impression, though, as heaven is my judge, I little wotted that they would ever accept my invitation to visit me and then come when the storeroom key was concealed and the cook gone to attend a reunion of her children at Ashe villa I got the baron to look at the cyclo pedia while I went out and got heart disease chasing the swift footed rooster. The ladies I told to enjoy the view awhile and to make themselves perfect ly free with our delightful climate. I also brought out some drawn work, which I was doing at odd times, and permitted them to revel in it while I excused myself and left one of the little boys to amuse them with his innocent ways, though ho secretly, and, in fact, openly, wanted "to go and help paw overtake that old clay bank rooster. ' ' I bate a rooster that shows no speed whatever till everybody has left the place and empty guests arrive from Heidel berg. Oh, how hot the weather seemed, even here where a mean temperature is very unusual 1 Just as the golden sun bade goodby to tbe grim front of Pifcgah I chased old Mand S, the first white settler on Hoo per's creek, into a joint of stovepipe and wrung bis neck with a wild, wild joy. I wrang it long after his guilty soul had crossed tbe county line and gone to Salisbury, where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. . His blood was on my white flannel pantlets, though I bad them rolled up. In my ungovernable rage I overstepped myself and cut off his bill, which gave him a whimsical look, like that of member of tbe legislature whose claim for mileage has been overlooked as well as hie pass. I had told my guests that I would have to be excused a moment for ves pers, and I don't know what they thought if they beard some of my state ments as I stood there red handed in the presence of death. Just then old Mand S revived at tbe sight of blood and bounded eight fee into the air with a kind of hoarse croak and shot the contents of his carotid ar tery over my pretty new blazer. I had to go up stairs the back way and change every stitch of my raiment, and had just returned to the parlor-in a nice hot cardigan jacket and low cut lecturing vest when the cook returned and asked me for the key of the store room. I excused myself, and giving my guests a large scrapbook containing com plimentary press notices which I knew would interest thenr I went on a weary search lor the key. Night, with somber wing, was now gathering over the beautiful valley, and xar away up the river I could shear the hound pup's honest bark. The key was not where any one could ever find it. t was the intention perhaps. " Hunger began to stalk abroad. Burn ing feathers stole across the senses with their odd Arabian fragrance. We could not even get the salt for cooking with out entre and carte blanche to the stare room. Oat In the courtyard I could see the tall figure of the tallyho. - It seemed a mockery. I thought of my guests por ing over: the soar smelling encomiums of tbe presss , - " . I was desperate, for I had eaten noth ing for nine boors hot a slice of water melon. I knew where there was an In got of birthday cake my own birthday eafce.- It was not a large piece, bat bad wonderful specific gravity for such a lit tle thing. It was made for me three years ago en my twenty-second birthday, the 29th rf February. -- Ijiteft to give me strength. JTberi the dusk be had discovered me with my muffled James forcibly opening the win dow and had swatted ihe with a great swat and then called for help. . When I told him the whole truth, which was one of the cleverest things I ever did, tears ran down' his gigantic cheeks and hnng on his riotous red mus tache like dew on the whiskers' of a Numidian lion. He sent out to the coach and cot a hamper full of nice caviare sandwiches and frosted cake and sardines and cara mels and pickled herring and assorted cake and kippered herring and German pancakes, with gravy, and pickled pig's feet and jell cake and cold trine and lady fingers, and bologna sausages from Bologne, and crugel food and bottled beer and sponge cake and sauerkraut and bride cake and jerked walrus and cookies and choice family mackerel and Jayer cake and liverwurst and maple sirup, and everything that heart could wish. While we were eating these my wife returned, and polling up a corner of the tablecloth where I sat took but the key to the storeroom. Then we had some hot victuals and coffee and sat an real late. Since that I never go to bed at night without knowing where the key to the storeroom is, and often in my slumbers the attentive passerby may hear me ask ing in my troubled dreams where it is. But it is a custom to which I am not accustomed, and to prescribe so much floor and sugar each morning for the .8274,128.02. We are now desirous through 'The Press" to acquaint the pulA lio that nnder our charter we are authorized, and now solicit to be come the Depository of 'Wills, 'f To act as Administrators and Executors of Estates . To become Guardian for trust' funds, To buy and sell Bonds and; Stocks and to negotiate loans for. others, . - -. , v . : i To rent safety boxes, etc., etc. I Respectfully, ' S. WITTKOWSKY, Pres't. A. BRADY, Cashier. : v 50 DESIRABLE FOR SALE. LOTS! pis . Suitoble for manufactur ing plants or dwellings: sit uted on Eleventh, Twelfth, P Graham, Pine and Poplar I streets. All accessible to I tracks of Southern Railway I and Carolina Central Rail-1 road.- Terms Part cash, bid- i ance on time to suit pur- j chaser. PlRP iN.QItRANr.F t ,. ii w w a s a a E. Nye Hutchison, Agent. . ICE. ICE. "i STANDiRD ICE & HJEL COMPANY. PURE CRYSTAL ICE MADE FROM DISTILLED WATER. AT THE STOREROOM WIKD0W. family and then hide the key is not agreeable to me, for I was reared in the most .lavish manner as a child. The latchstring hung out all the time. We did not even take it in at night, and X have seen 80 uncut mince pies on the shelves at a time with nothing to pro tect them bnt a copy of the New York Tribune weekly edition. Cider flowed like water in those days, and during every mouth tbat had an R in it yon could get salt pork anywhere, while the wealthy had it the year round. (We had it the year round. ) I suppose that it would be hard to find an older family than what ourn was. Our coat of arms was so old that all of the lining and one sleeve had gone. But we had no trouble with our servants, hiring all tbe time I was at home we made no change in servants. We never had a cross word with one. These advantages are known only to those who have no servants. Our factory has track connection with all the railroads, which enables us to load cars without exposing ioe to sun or air, thus avoiding heavy. loss In leakage. ice snippea in any Quantity from I sack to car-load, and loaded direct from the bath. Satisfaction given in weight, quality. etc. .. . Standard Ice & Fuel Co., A. J. IIAGOOD, Manager. The Excelsior Boot, Greater Depths. He And did he tell you he saved me from a watery grave? She He said he saved you from a worse place than that. Life. Merchants Coffee eo. DALTIMOREjAD. to -a o u fed o h mm m :Qed Easily, QidckJy(-.PcrmBentiy Restore. Nervoaanea. aeMmy, and all tbe train y mwm xrota aanv errors or utter ezoeawa. th result at , overwork, stckaeaa. worry. mui. ami strengtn. dareW opmeniM tone given ta : ij r cry organ ana portion, i of the body. Simple, nat Ural methods. immeaJU For ladies, is made of the finest bril liant kid, hand-sewed, extension edge, patent tip, new opera toe, long and narrow, suited for dress or serviceable wear. Notwithstanding the high price of leather, this boot is the finest and best ever sold for tbe price,' S3. 75. Widths. B, O, J, E and P. . ; Sizes 2 to 5. ;. . By mail or express 20c extra. GrlLRE ATH & CO Just arrived, an assortment of genuine Granite Iron Ware. ICE CREAM FREEZERS : . v" A2TO " '. WATER COOLERS at cost to close them out. I A beautiful array of . Fine Grates, Tile Hearths and Facings. -.71,1-.?. J."N. McCAUSLAND & CO., Slate and Tin Roofine ' Contractors AN EXQUISITE LINE OF Silver - Noveltaes BeltBuckles, Belt Pins, Shirt Waist Sets, and everything worn in ' : Jewelry. ' Gome and see -the pretty Diamonds I have displayed. JNO. FAliRIOK. S. ft College for Women, . COLUMBIA, 8. O. - ? ata lmnm,wfwit Failure inrooatihla. 2.000 nfmnm Timor. : rsrdanattoft and proof mailed (sealed) treat ERIE UEDICAL CO.. Buffalo. I1.T. Richard A; BIytfae, COTTON WARPS AND YARNS, No 114 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. No. 4's to 200's Single and Double. Warps Furnished In Chains and Reams, in Q rev and Colors. Cotton. Woolen and Worsted Yarn in Skeins, r v Session opens September 18th with unsurpassed advantages offered in Lit-' erary, Mosio and Art Departments. The reputation of our Musio Department un precedented. Reeular rates for board and . tuition $200 a scholastic year. Board, tuition, musio and practice 1275 a year..; All the advantages of the State University at Columbia, with special courses therein open to our students at the College for Women. For informs tion or catalogue address the president, XvKV. WML K. ATTPHBOW. D. U. NORTH CAROLINA College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. T. L. ELLIOTT, If nniimnninl . llnnlm l MVMWCll dl - I U iUi St JHry'3 School Ior Girls, Granite Monoments a specialty. 235 W. Trade Street. Charlotte. N. O. The next seston of tbls College will bexln September (th.- Examination at county seats nrt Saturday la August. Young men Centring a technical education at n -unusually low eost wlU do well to apply for catalogue to - A. Q. HOUADiT, Pres., Raleigh. N. C. Balalgn, M.O. Advent term nf tha irmv.irmirth School Tear will begin Hept. 10, 1895. Special at- . tentlon paid to Pbynlcal Culture and Hy giene. Address the Rector, . Kv. B. 8XKDKS, D. V.
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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