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91 O - a ' w f " ' S . Whitin flachine Wopks, Whitinavllle. JJ.ss. CARPg. " ' ' DSAWIBA, STOOLKKs, BIEU, FI1TWISQ, TWI3TKR8, QUIIXXBS, SVOOMS, STUART "W. CRAMBR, outbern Asont, 88 Soixttk Tryon St., Obarlotte T H GJffiO- B. PBODccHwoF SPFCIAI - - raiTe, r.ngme,Machlne. Shafting. Crank swt, Harness. Brick. TlTw ( Hi. ehaftlng, A,toMd'BeTroWrtS."-5i. MlV, " rS1' . ttooung Faint, Grady's Bcouree. Cotton Sliine. 'd W"""W' oa. 17 and 19 Sooth College St., CHARLOTTE, N. C. Phone ISO. your house if you wish it to be. No extra time, work or money needed Instead, about half as much time, work and money as you now 1 devote to keeping 01DDUS1 mr mmm. mT used for cleaning purposes is the secret of irm.T clean, neat house-keeping, of never being hur ried and worried. Sold everywhere. Made only by THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPAI St. Louis. New York. Boston. United States op America, West- f cdu TVDTDTrr no VrtDun . oat t-vt . ' In the Circuit Court, Fourth Circuit, Greensboro, Jan. 29th, 1897. "With the concurrence of the Circuit Judge, it is ordered that a Special Term of the United States Circuit Court be held at Charlotte, commencing on Mon day, the 26th day of April, 1897, for the trial of Civil cases, and the presence of all parties and witnesses will be re quired. (Signed) ROBERT P. DICK, U. S. Judge. A true copy, test: H. C. COWLES, Clerk. UP TO DATE la liua fuameleJ, steel clad and copper bath tubs, lavatories, boilers, closets, blckets, links and hydrants, and any thing in the plumbing line. The stop cocks are the celebrated Oleamer. They are not the cheapest, but are the best made. Pumps in different styles, with glass valve and brass cylinder, induc ing friction to a minimum, consequent ly lasts longer. Our work is uone tbor uugfrlj in every way. Each Job Is guar anteed (or 12 months. GYve ua a trtel We give satisfaction. Estimates free. A. R WILL MAN. Only One v .' . From Each County. The ITB3T person in each county in this cr sny of the borderlnsr States who makes application will receive a six moaths scholarship in either course for one half the regular rate. CHASLOTTK ial College, Y M O- A. BuiUtin. Charlotte, K. Writ for tnntsloc. FOE RENT. 5-Room House, corner Railroad and Eighth . . 7-Room House, East Fifth Street $10 $15 R. E. COCHRANE, Real Estate and Insurance. THE I). 1. TOMPKINS CO. CHARLOTTE, N. C. Electric Light Plants, Automatic Sprinklers, Steam Heating, Top Rolls Covered, Cotton Mill Repairs, Fire Protection. ICE. ICE. Standard lee and fad Conpioy POKE CRYSTAL IOK MADS FROM DISTILLED WATER Gommerc Oar ftctary b track oonnecUon tth aii tha railroads, which esable ci tc , load earj without exposing lea to.sun or air, that a voldrng heavy loss in leakage. l , lee shipped In any quantity from . sack to ear -toad, and loaded direct fross i the bath. K 8atHfactlco riven lo weight, qualjty, f etc. Standard Ice & Fnel Co.. i J HA GOOD. Maaanr. i At Bssnetfa, tn front of the City Hall, i JTrSi,Jateys(aksarkeBttorsJlwhooalI: - A "trial order" fro vry oaa, j U ssrtsln to rove a oastosaor won. I It yon eslrs a alo, swaot tD6er-loli, Bon yoar rdsrs to number Tblity-Oao, A on t ho west sJdo of Nortk Tryon swost, ' W asro ail potroas got too oooiesst of mots. Uyoo wsnta oboioo sloeoof yoswgsonag laoiO, - . --" Go. or sad svry day to Bennett1! staa4i " " H will end yoor ordsrs wHaont dMav. , or brcakiasf, slinaer. or t oloMOt day -, ' - - ' r rMon why yon ibooM ik ' - i ordsrs. to Leanest', i Kitson flachine Co., Ltoajatll, JVaas, OPEXEK8 WITH FEESKBS, BKEAKXRS, IRTnUIDUTI JJTD riSUHEB LAPPEK3. K1KSCHHKX OAKDIHO B&ATKBS. HISS OIL, CO.: PrTRM FI1U I IIRRMAMTC . mm , w HI bwviiivnniui Case. Ttn si,ti Bn r .i ST-i.Tr y .oi w. A ar- it half clean. Washing Powder. iNY, jj Philadelphia, jfi Sent Free! To a person .interested in humane matters, or who loves animals, we will send free, upon application, a copy of the "ALLIANCE," the organ of this Society. In addition to Its Intensely In teresting reading, it contains a list of .e valuable and unusual premiums r.ven by the paper. Address. THK NATIONAL HUMANE ALLIANCE, J-411 United Charities Building, New York. THE CHARLOTTE NATIONAL BANK, CAPITAL 5125,000. We are now ready for business at our new banking room No. 9 East Trade Street. We solicit your account and will promise the most courteous treat ment and every facility consistent with sound banking. DIRECTORS: T O. W. TI LXETT, J. W. HUNT, JNO.J USCOTT O. P. WADS WORTH JfOBEKTSON, O. VALARIL' K. J. BHK'Alir), B. D. HEATH, President W. H. T WITTY, Cashier. Merchant - Tailoring 1 keep the most reablq roods and make them to measure In the very beat manner by thoroughly skilled work men here in Charlotte. Price guaran teed to be as low as the same clasi of iroodi and work can be had elsewhere. J. S: PHILLIPS, MERCHANT TAILOR. S.-UTU TUT UN STREET si E. D. TESSIEB & BRO. Contractors and Builders and dealers in all kinds of MANTELS, TILES, GRATES, SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, MOULDINGS, etc. Send us your plans and let us bid on your interior work. We will give you best material and cheapest prices. Cor. College and Third 'Phone 8 O. JAS. E. AUTGHELL & GO. 132 AND 124 CHBSTtTDT ST., PHHJLDBXFHX SI AND 53 SUMKVB ST., SOSTOH. mm Y4RNS OF LI. KIND uk Best is Cheapest," For staple and fancy Groceries, we quote lowest prices for strictly cash. Our goods are the best offered, prices are right, and our system cannot be beaten. Your neighbor has found it so. Have you? Dealing with us will prove that one hundred cents will purchase one dollars worth of goods. We guar antee polite attention and a willingness to show the best kept stock In the city. Moore & Jones. T. L ELLIOTT. Monumental Works. Granite Monuments a specialty. Asm?. fos-Ijuw Fkbczs. 835 W Trade 8tret, Onarlntut. N. O THE HALF-HOSE ARE THE BEST IN THE MARKET. The nicest- fittin g, longest-wearing, most comfortable and cheapest in the end. They are the only half -hose knitted to the shape of the human foot. They can be obtained in Charlotte of mellon shelton. long-tate clothing co., the Carolina clothing co. TAKE NO OTHER, . WEAR NO OTHER. After Jaaaar Slat my offle wiM be - 7 -""-Room No. 9, . mm 2 13 C lUCO CITY. CM. iMwlVKMirkJixBAT r a lam est Cdost Hot ai. ways to k Appaaadod. 8taf Omssauudtmcaof theObooter. Kn Rout Borne from Mexico, March Th last tetter dealt wttb some of the occaoo in and around Mexico City and some of tho events in which the editorial party participated. Little has beea or will be attempted in the nature of description of scenes or buildings. It may be said of the. City of Mexico as a whole that it la a city of palaces and hovels; of tax tori on nabobs and degraded .paupers. And yet there is more Indication here than at any other point ra the republic that was visited by this party, of what we in America call the middle class. Nowhere else was there any outward Indication whatev er of the existence of such a class. There were the rich and the poor these were alL The capital city, how ever, is becoming Americanised, and this accounts for the difference here and there. One cannot contemplate the splendid buildings, such, for instance, as Chapultepec and the national pal ace, the cathedrals, "whose spires touch heaven," the costly collections of art and sculpture, without one's thoughts turning to the wretched peons whose sweat and blood paid for them all; for it wants to be known that there is no tax on land In Mexico and that it is the poverty of the country which pays its taxes. Licensed beggars roam the streets, asking alms; the venders of fruits and everything else pay a tax for the privilege of doing business; the landlord's rent receipt has a Btamp, which Is paid for, of course, by the un happy tenant. The stamp of the gov ernment Is upon everything. Speaking of the wealth and the dis play thereof, it is a siarht to behold the parade of the aristocracy as it sweeps, every afternoon about dusk, in its ele gant equipages, around the Paseo de Reforms, the fashionable drive, through Ban KTancisco street, the principal thoroughfare, and return. No other city oa the continent of equal popula tion 300,000 to 400.000 could approach this exhibition. The carriages, victo rias, landaus and other styles of con veyance are ail American or Euro pean and are the handsomest that the daring of the manufacturer has at tempted. Beautiful horses prance in their mounted harness; liveried drivers sit in stately dignity upon the boxes. and In the equipages ride richly dress ed and bejewelled ladles, and elegantly dressed gentlemen, gloved and beav ered, and idly fingering their cigarettes, and occasionally bowing with stately grace to acquaintances of equal rank on the sidewalks. These are the Mexi cans of the pure strain. "Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart can wish." Meantime the peon with his burden upon his back, trudges along the same street. and the voices that cry "Centavo!" are never stilled. Speaking of the burden-bearers htese are two: the peon and the burro; and It may be fairly doubted which carries the heavier load. Drays and draymen are practically unknown in Mexico. If one wishes a Saratoga trunk transfer red from one point to another, a peon takes it on hie back and transfers it. If a householder wishes to move, peons are employed and they load his house hold gods and goods upon their backs and move him. Securing with a strap the article or articles to be transported, they pass this strap across their fore heads, and thus with the combined strength of head, neck and back, they carry loads under which an American norse would want to fall down. If the native has a rival In burden-bearing he finds it in the burro. This little ani mal corresponds exactly with the ass of holy Scripture. He Is of the size of a yearling calf and his strength is only equaled by his patience and docility. If you see a load of wood coming down the street a quarter of a mile away, you may be sure there is a burro under it. They walk away with a cart-load of sliver ore in bags, their long ears flapping backward and forward, and make way for nothing except the shrill whistle of the street car driver. The strangest load that any of them was seen carrying was a block of granite, perhaps four feet square and four inches thick, poised upon Its backbone and secured by ropes tied under it. But for the matter of that, a naUve was seen carrying a similar block upon his badathe block lashed around his body Dy ropes, ana me mevuaoie strap en circling his' forehasJ, The advantage mat tne native has over the hums- is that be can speak Spanish, smoke cig arettes and drink pulque. Otherwise the equality is undisturbed. If the na tive has a home it is shared equally by himself, his wife and children, his chickens, pig and goat. If he has no home, it makes no difference when he gets sleepy he drops down wherever he happens to be, draws his blanket over his head, and sleeps. Of the 12,000,000 of people of Mexico, these peons are estimated to constitute 9,000.000 to 10, 000,000. Many of them are pure Indians; the others are Indians and Spaniards of every degree of admixture. They are densely ignorant and superstitious and have no ambition save to exist. I take that back. They are not densely Ignorant. Every one of them knows every saints' day, and In every settle ment the most imposing building Is a cathedral, surmounted by a cross. The images and paintings In some of them, especially such as represent the Savior on the cross or represent the torture of the martyrs, are calculated to make the blood run cold. Reference was made awhile ago to the alacrity with which the impassive looking burros clear the track when they hear the whistle of the street car driver. It might have been said that the burros, whether seen slntrlv or in droves, are innocent of bridles or other appliances with which they may be guided. The driver walks beside or be hind them, or rides one, and controls them by speech, and every burro un derstands Spanish and governs himself accordingly. If the owner, or charge d' affaires, rides one of them and he al ways does unless its back is loaded and there is no room for him behind the load he Invariably sits on the small of its back, as if from a desire to make himself as heavy to it as possible, and it Is no unusual thing to see two men, either of whom Is as heavy as the oth er animal, sitting astride it, their feet barely avoiding the ground. But this Is an interjection, having nothing to do with the street car business. The mcr tive power of the cars are little mules. Sometimes there are two and some times four. Sometimes the two are hitched tandem and again abreast. But they are the only things in Mexico that ever get In a hurry. When the car gets behind, by reason of frequent stops or otherwise, and the driver de sires celerity of movement, he gives the word, the little mules tuck their heads between their forelegs, and move off in a dead run, as if going to a fire. The discrimination of the street car con ductors is not always to be applauded. For instance, my last night In the city I happened to get on a crowded car at the same time that it was boarded by an old lady, a little boy and a man who weighed 325 pounds, all Americans. The conductor contrived to make me under stand that he had slsed me up as the head of the family and insisted on col lecting four fares from me eels centa voa, six cents each. I protested, but he made me to know that he was on to my curves and did not Dropose to be beat, and I finally gave up a quarter. the conductor forgetting to give me a centavo in change. Cbe fat man en Joyed the controversy, as only fat men can enioy the embarrassments of other people, and afterwards banded me the 18 cents which had been the subject of dispute. Tne street cars themselves are as modern to are to be found in any American city. And now I am about to come to the point at which this paragraph was aimed in the be ginning, which Is that the Mexican driver's whistle la a better Institution for. the purpose far which it is intend ed than the American motorman'a belL The whistle la not a whistle, after alL bat a horn, like unto the Christmas born of the American small boy, and Its sound la more distinctive than that of the bell, and hence more striking;. J. P. C W. M. Repine, editor Tiskllwa, m., "Chief." says; "Wo won't keep house wUhoet Dr. King's New Discovery for OeiiwupUon. Coughs and Colds. Ex perimented with many others, tat newer got the true remedy until we nsed Dr. King's - New Discover j. No other remedy can take its place in oar home, as in it we have at certain and sure care for coughs, colds, whooping coogh. etc" It la idle to experiment with other remedies; even if they are oA.en rw aa just as good as. Dr. ""c- -" T" -rraThew are : not ' ..,-r y has a tWBaNBnHfttaiGU;IN Wt ilwih-ttBW flw I ! With the Ass ef Hetyattrls4eread CM Watt MwglWw TmI That Omn UaOit l(llM-VtMM( ImU vmtMMmmm -WMmot the steeet mrp Thy I tfi nf lt fm HIhiImIss 17 TTTT v:: "kV T.T"3 liLu. IIXI'I i.l ft Um JLUX 1 I mJ EHACTJED v BT IHX XEGUZATtTXaV A Bate of Pernors! fcaws-Whe School Laws The Xadastrial Pevelosaasat Aet Chartered Brock -; Observer Boreaa, Park flotel, Vf'U .- ' , "ftaleigh. March 13. At the session of the LegTslature just ended the following Wire the principal acta ratified! . To appropriate S38,S00 of Btaie i board of education fund to stimulate Itcal taxation for schools in rttrai districts; to restore to the State -control, of the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad; to give deputy clerks of court powv to probate deeds and conveyances; to al low express matter to be carrie I on Sunday trains; to promote the oyster Industry, the fellow servant act, mak ing railways reliable for employes, in juries; to annul the charter of the At lantic North Carolina Railroad; to extend time for the settlement j of the State debt; to provide for additional county commissioners; to makechanges in the seventh and eighth congressional districts; to prescribe style of barbed wire fences along hedge ways; to forbid State banks having under $100,000 cap ital, from lending over one-tenth of their capital to one person or corpora tion; also to make stockholders liable; to allow tramps and vagrants to be sent to the roads; to pay special venire in capital cases (does not apply to all counties): to prevent minors from entering bar and billiard rooms and bowling alleys; to prevent .vdrking of female convicts on public roads or on chain gangs; to prohibit use of "fillers" in commercial fertilisers i revenue and machine acts; the omnlbUs" liquor bill, prohibition near some 300 churches; to purchase Moore's Creek ,battle ground, also portrait of Vance; to pro tect coal miners and provide for in spection of mines by State labor com mission; to allow county commissron ers to elect and pay salary of superin tendent of health; appropriating J5.000 additional to University; (12,500 to State Normal and Industrial College; $4,000 more to colored Normal 'Schools; $5,000 to Agricultural and Mechanical College at Raleigh, and same amount to the one at Greensboro. To regulate procuring of bodies for dissection. To create a short form of agricultural leln. To locate the line between North Caro lina and Tennessee. To fix the time for holding courts in the fifth, sixth, seventh districts. To increase and reg ulate revenue. To increase the power of the railroad commission. To ex empt all fraternal benevolent associa tions from tax. To provide for new building at the deaf-mute school at Morganton ; for school for white blind at Raleigh, and for negro deaf-mutes and blind at Raleigh. To provide for the maintenance of hospitals for the insane. To give new charters to the hospitals for the insane, and to take control of them and of the penitentiary out of the hands of the Democrats. To protect school entertainments from rowdies. To appropriate $5,00 for the colored teachers' training school. To require officers and directors of all banks, railroads, etc., chartered by the Legislature, to take an official oath. To create a separate board of trustees for the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Raleigh. To prevent the in troduction of the San Jose fruit scale and other fruit and crop pests. To provide for an exhibit at the Tennessee centennial. To allow sheriffs to collect arrears of taxes. To allow the State Treasurer to pay1 out appropriations quarterly or semi-annually. To require railroad companies to redeem, unsold mileage tickets. To appropriate $50,000 for the general fund to encourage lo cal schools. To fix fire insurance rates on farm risks (not to exceed those in Virginia). To furnish 250 convicts and surveyors to the Winston-Salem South bound Railroad. To allow the State convicts to be worked on the public roads between July 15 and March 1. For bidding adulteration of spirits of tur pentine with kerosene oil. To make an itemized statement of account properly verified evidence of its correctness. To give $1,000 additional to the negro or phan asylum at Oxford. To give $5,000 to the Elizabeth City colored Normal and Industrial School. To amend the election law, abolishing State super visors. To require all county com missioners to meet on the first Monday In June and revise the jury lists. To give the Governor's council power to make contracts for the State printing. To fix the pay of registers of deeds for recording election returns. To make embezzlement of funds by guardians or administrators embezzlement. To ex empt undertakers who are funeral di rectors from jury duty. To prevent public drunkenness. To fix the time for qualification of Justices of the peace. To reduce fees on crop lien 5 registra tion. To make land grants valid, even when not registered in new y created counties. To repeal the asslfrnment act of 1895. To prevent "overhead" fire in surance; that is writing of policies in "."nuni not licensed in the State ny agents here. ' School Laws. To incorporate Hyaff academy. To establish graded schools at Monroe. To incorporate Mt. Moriah Academy. To amend school law for Littleton. To incorporate Hodges' school, in Davie. To have graded schools at Hickory. To allow graduates of Asheville Female Normal School to teach in public schools without exam ination. To incorporate Hominy Valley Institute. To incorporate trustees of St. Mary's School at RaleigH. graded schools at Wilmington, special tax in Wake Forest township, Whitsett Insti tute, graded schools at Chapel Hill. To allow Raleigh township to vote on $50,000 school bonds. To amend the charter of Kittrell Colored Normal School, graded school at Hayes ville, de fining duties of local boards of colored normal schools. To incorporate Eliza beth Female College at Charlotte. Industrial Development Laws. To amend .the charter of the Wadesboro cotton mill. To allow Cashie & Chowan Railroad to hold 100,000 acres of land. Amending the charter of the Roanoke Navigation and Water Power Compa ny. Incorporating the James Baker Lumber Company. To allow Charlotte to issue $250,000 water works bonds. To let the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad straighten Its tracks. To incorporate the North Carolina- Land and Timber Company. To allow Monroe to issue water works bonds. To allow Concord to vote on improvement bonds. To al low Durham to issue improvement bonds and buy water works. To allow Gastonia to vote $25,900 for a court house. To Incorporate the Willlams Fltzhugh Lumber Company. To In corporate Asheville Electiict Company. To incorporate the Falls of Yadkin Power Company. To incorDorate the Atlantic Development Company. Koao Tax Laws. For Alamance, Wil kes, Macon, Madison. Rockingham, Tancey, Greene, Wilson, Wayne, Ral eigh road district Increased, Caldwell, Charlotte township, Chatham, Hert ford, Sanford township (Moore county). White Oak township (Bladen county), Guilford, Haywood. Jackson. Nash. Cherokee, Washington. Union, Tyrrell, Sampson. Banks Chartered. Savings of Person. Bank of Pitt county. Bank of Littleton, Bank of Maxton, Cabarrus Savings, Bank of Greenville, Levi Bank of Ruth erford, Bank of Kinston, Tar River Bank of Rocky Mount, Commercial of McDowell, Bank of Brevard. Bank of Randolph, Chatham, Moore and Harnett (at Sanford), Mutual Aid and Banking Company of Newbern, American Trust and Savings. Stock Laws. To turn stock loose three months in the year in Halifax county. Railroad Charters Repealed. Oolds boro & Morehead. Fishery Laws. To make the license $2,500 for foreigners who use seines in the sands. To prohibit the use of cer tain nets In Albemarle sound and its tributaries. To prohibit the use of dutch or pound nets in Neuse river. Towns -Incorporated. Roanoke Rap- Ids, Oak Ridge, Red mo n, Dudley, Whit- tier. Wlnterville, Farmers', Colletts-, ville, Hamlet, Robbinsville, Isivette. Hardin Cotton Mills, Star, Brhigewater. Tillery, William. City and Town Charters Amended. Aahville, Elizabeth City," Southern Pines, . Spring Hope. Clyde, Poliocks- Insurance Companies Chartered. Farmers', Mutual, exempted from tax; incorporating the Underwriters of Goldsboro, Commonwealth, Newbern Mutual, fire. Insurance Charters Amended. Caroli na Mutual, fire; Southern Stock Mutual. -Railroads. Tar River A Carolina; Wtnston-Saiem Southbound, Snow Hill; Duplin de Wayne; Stone Mountain, Moore County & Western; Pinehurst electric; Asheville A Biltmore Street Railway; Chathem Traction Company; Taxanny Company; Carolina, Chimney Rock dc Tennessee; Carolina Southern Railway and Lumber Company; Lum ber River; Harnett Central; . Railway charters amended, etc. Fay. etteville V Albemarle; Marten bed Snrings. Lnmberton dV Lumber River; Cape Fear A Northern; Moore County dc Western; Wilmington dc Powells vOle; Wilmington Newbern 4fc Norfolk; Cosbie dc Chowan; Atienua onn Carolina; North Carolina Jt Western. :: Town charters repealed. Teachey"a. West Asheville, Baffin. -'-. i Courts. To give the judge, of the western criminal circuit civil jurisdlc "iir have it f- A F0LIC3 I ILL FCH EIT7 YOPX . esasjsejBMsaasjab - - -: t- '-' v.o"f 6EEAT X-KAB FAIXS TJFOH THAT CITT. k lVopessd. Iw,- by Black WIJQ Assets goUessas for the Metropolis- dodged By Hid Boosed, Bis AssBlstmeats Womld so eg a Bad Kind A Bad State efifdn sa Bow Terh reUeo drd The Pore iftsnlsiSllssa TiolafcUHU of the Hslsss taw It ts to Be Bstended to the Caabs-The Balay Pay Oak and the CoU QassUoay OorrasBondenca Ofthe Observe. i New Tors, March iJ-Charlottes re cent anxiety- so happily ended) over the fate: Of the police; commission bill m the LtgiMatkre oufcht to make its people sythpathlie with Kew Yorkers just now. . For the Legislature of New York Is now threatening to enact a law which will take -the control of the police force of this city out of the hands of its eitisens and vest It : In the Gov ernor of the State, tt, is proposed to have the Governor of the State instead of the mayor of the icity name the board i of police commissioners. The anxiety of New Yorkers may be better imagined when it is remembered that Mr. Black is Governor. He has not been Governor three months yet, but in that time he has shown that he is about the unnttest i Governor.' New York ever had, though he was elected Governor by the largest vote any can didate for that office ever got. He has shown his unfitness by his appoint ments to office. That la what makes us anxious. The' Lord deliver us from the sort of police commissioners that he would appoint. f THE MAYOR'S DILEMMA. The proposition to take the power of appointment from the mayor and vest it in the Governor, is caused by the per petual squabbles In the present police board which the mayor did appoint There are four rneh on the board, two Republicans and two Democrats. They are paired In animosity, but not on par ty lines; a Democrat and a Republican being against a Democrat and a Re publican. When important questions come before the board there is a tie vote and a war of words. Public opin ion as to the board , is divided, some people taking one side and some the other. There is a clamor in the may or's ears to remove two of the commis sioners, but which two? The poor man can't decide. Whichever two he re moves the wrath of half the town will smite him, Besides, : he can't remove them. Under the law he can only sug gest their removal add prefer charges against them. If the charges are not sustained, fbe commissioners keep their places, if they do not choose to resign. If he could kick out the whole four and appoint a single commissioner, having the police department single-headed, that would please everybody, but the law will not permit that and no Re publican Legislature is likely to make a law that will. That would be the sort of home rule In the police department that New York wants, but Republican Legislatures don't exist for the purpose of pleasing New York. Quite the con trary. A DEMORALIZED FORCE. These dissensions in the police board have, it is alleged, demoralized the whole police force by creating among the policemen that contempt for their superiors which all men feel for per sons who jaw a great deal and do noth ing. One of the police magistrates di rectly charges in a letter Dublished In the newspapers that the present police force, the "reform" force, Is getting to be just as full of sin as the one Inves tigated and found guilty by the re markable Lexow. This magistrate says that he cannot, except rarely, convict on a policeman s testimony a saloon keeper for violation of the Raines law. The reason he gives, or rather inti mates, is that the policemen won't tes tify right. His intention when he ar rests the saloon-keeper may be to tes tify right, but on the way from the sa loon to the court the character of the saloon-keeper's offence assumes a new and entirely dissimilar appearance to that It had at first, so that by the time the court room is reached the prisoner Is to the policeman's mtnd exculpated and he therefore gives his testimony in such a manner that the man is dis charged and goes on his way rejoicing. From which it is plain that the sus picion lurks in this magistrate's mind that it is possible to "fix" a reform po liceman, nay. worse, that reform po licemen are almost habitually "fixed." GETTING AROUND THE DRINK LAW. It is said that the police board laughs at this magistrate's allegations or in sinuations as silly. But while he himself says he has no proof to offer, and neither has anybody else except perhaps the policemen themselves and the saloon-keepers, I have no dou&t that a large proportion of the citizens, probably a large majority believes them.. It is popularly supposed that the "reform" police may be and are bribed by the same people who used to bribe the Tammany police. And why not? The "reform" police are in the main the same men as: the Tammany I police, for the Lexow Investigation force worth mentioning. People "nav to believe either that the police didn't Bee the violations of the liquor laws or that they profit by them. They choose to believe the latter. But it can't be proved, and it never has been proved. Two things are certain, how ever. One is the Raines law is violat ed; and the other Is the citizens don't care If it is. Popular opinion In this town is against the enforcement of any law which will keep anybody whowants it from getting a drink any time he wants it. That is a simple fact, and the Republican 'farmers In the Legislature In trying to obliterate that fact are but ting their heads agalnat a stone wall, and laying up wrath for their party against the daj- of election. RAINES LAW REACHING OUT. But the Republican farmers are mighty hardheaded, thickheaded, pud-din'-headed. Instead Of relieving the galling yoke of the Raines law, they now propose to extend its provisions to clubs and make every club, from the Union League and the Manhattan down, pay a liquor license of $800 a year. This is to check the remarkable multiplication of clubs since the Raines law was enacted. ; Thousands of clubs are now where once there were hundreds. It does not require any initiation fee or yearly dues to be a member of a large and ' growing club, composed of all sorts and conditions of men, from the elite to the Bowery toughs. All you have to do Is to buy a glass of beer. The "meetings" of these clubs are usu ally on Sundays and are held over, or next room to, a saloon. The name of the club and the place of meeting are sometimes posted at the street en trance and sometimes not. Some men belong to so many clubs that they cant remember their names. These days everybody la a "clubman." Why this state of things? Simply because clubs pay no liquor license. You can imagine the awful howl that will be raised if a tax of $800 a year is imposed on clubs. Some howls are being howl ed already at the bare threat of It, the loudest being from people who belong to really sure-enough clubs. Speaking of these the Times asks fiercely, "By what system of espionage or intru sion will this prohibition of liquor drinking be enforced T" It will be a sad Sunday when, to escape the "es pionage" and "Intrusion" of the police, Chauncey M. Depew, for instance, has to dodge behind a screen while slaking his thirst at his Club. RAINY DAY CLUB AND THE COL OR question: The Rainy Day Club, after disposing to its own satisfaction of the question of the proper dress for street wear on rainy days, has now turned its atten tion to the proper color for a school marm's gown. One would suppose at least, a man would that the color of her eyea was far more important, the color of her; gown being quite Im material by comparison. But not so, according to the Rainy Day Club. The club does not even mention eyes. But if you are a school-marm don't wear a red dress. That's what the Jersey member says, forgetting perhaps that there was once a; garment called a "Jer sey" which when red often warmed to its wearer some fond masculine heart. The doctor member of the club also says to school-marms, "Don't wear red." She says that she herself wore red when she taught school and her scholars never have forgiven her. She wore a red dress embellished with red ribbons and the 'Sight of her infuriated the children as if they were wild bulls. Neither will it dp for a teacher to wear white, for that, saysi the Jersey mem ber, makes the children inane and dull. Can it be that the Jersey member has a chalky complextonJ ANT COLOR SO IT ISN'T YELLOW. This progressive and scientific wo man's club fat Of the opinion, further, that no woman ought to give a yellow luncheon and Wear a yellow gown at the same unless she wants her guests to converse on tin healthful tonics enich as the yellow1 journals whose patron saint is the j Tyetlow kid" delight in, namely, murders, suicides and divorcee. j j i . . D. T. D. -4- The jrsrfolk. W - The estimate gross earnings of the Norfolk & Western Railway for the n. ' ot ' a r ' increased $18,6 week is&, were $220, U year THUS TXS AXCXH'9 BETOBT. BeeeW ex: the bav W the Bow York ; Banks Pasaj ftaasad ataee aaas-dBUgfcsst ' Topoatta la Tkn TeaTscgsiaitiaHsms in Pestdod Bevtval tn BsstneasY New York. March IX. The New Toft Financier aayas thia week: Tne total cash reserve of tha New York banks, according to their statements of March 13, were $17,00.000- Of this amount, ten banks out f the aixty-flve Institu tions associated with tha dealing house, hold $?.00.90, or nearly one. naif of all the feaah in tha banks. The loans of tha New York banks are now $505,12,500, a record surpassed only in 1895. and the deposits are $67$.33,00, which is highe than has been touched since October, 1894. This will serve to show the atronfe basis underlying what now seWna like a decided revival in business. The statement of the week is favorable ln nearly evrr Item, The expansion in loans of $3,855,700 18 due mainly to the borrowing by importers, who are taking goods out of bond in anticipation of higher tariff duties. Philadelphia reports the same activity in this regard! rates for Inenejr there having advanced slightly- oh the strength of th demand. The banks of New York lostf over $1,600,000 last week to the interiorj The inquiry for small bills Is becoming larger every day, which Is of itself an Indication of broad ening trade, but it Is also true that New York has offered an excellent market for interior bojrrowers. A lfctter to the paper from Kansas City says that some of the best paper there has been going to New York at low rates; that contin ued favorable " off have drawn con siderable business from that point. Such transactions probably account for the high figures of New York city bank loans. There are Indications, however, that the remarkable ease In money will not continue indefinitely. Funds un doubtedly are In better demand, and a further reduction In the reserves of the New York banks Is not at all improba ble. The contraction this week is $2,- 693,375. The loss Of $2,385,200 In cash Js accounted for by the neavy Treasury transactions and the interior move ment. Deposits increased J1.Z3Z.70O, ana circulation contracted $194,900. This re duction, which has been going on since October, has resulted up to the present time in a shrinkage of nearly five mil lions in bank: notes taken out by the New York 'banks. The movement has orobablv reached its culmination, al though the continued high prices main tained on government bonds make the profit on circulation smaller than ever. Mar. 13. 7. Mar. 14, DB- Mar. 1, "9S. Loans, $.W5Jt2-)00 $466,538,900 548.W4,WJU specie. avm.ioo 60.i45,ioo 67,57&0 legai car 11Z.2SS.9nO 30,0UOO 7.4H.800 518.489,500 12,295.500 147.222,000 129.0."4.125 17.547.875 Net den'ts. 5783.'00 99,i 09 500 ClrMation, 18511,300 I4,tt4,800 Total re've, 197,537.000 143.901.800 Reserve i44.8ia.4ou jzs,oi.uu Ex of res ve. ss.xwa.mu xi.jw.iwu BRIEFS OF GEKEBAl NATCHK For the 140 places In the new Library of Congress (one-half of them laborers) 17,000 applications nave Deen niea. Secretary Sherman has appointed William B. Galtre, of Marietta, O,, as his confidential clerk at a salary of $1,200 per year. A bill has been introduced In the New York Legislature to authorize an ap propriation of $100,000 by the city of New York to establish a colony for ha bitual drunkards. -r For the Observer. CHARITY. The narrow :ailey was bleak. Anu the narrow alley was cold. When a sad-eyed man sat tolling o And cursing his lack of gold. Day after day it was bleak, Day after day it was cold. Day after day he sat toiling. And cursing his lack of gold. One day a woman went by. He knew not from court or cot: A look and word were all he felt Tf he noticed her gown,' he forgot. The alley seemed to grbw light And sunshine banished the cold, With a happy will he toiled away. And he forgot his lack of gold. LEGILA BROWN. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Cotton Extremely Doll No Speculative Feeling Whatever The General Situa tion Unchanged. Special By Private Wire to Harrison Watts. New York. March 13. Cotton was ex tremely dull to-day. total sales of all options being only 27,000 bales. There was no speculative feeling wnatever. The slight improvement in prices was Influenced by Liverpool responding a little more than had been expected to our rally of late yesterday, spot cotton advancing l-32d. and futures 3-64d. Outside of wet weather in the South and overflows of the Mississippi river In the Gulfj States, delaying farm work, the general situation was unchanged. Trade was dull at Providence and Fall JLBJyer, and outsiders continued to hold aloof rrer-aay n itii all the ports durTfig-TfieVmmB wee will aDDroxlmate 70,000 Mnnflv'R i verwinta at New point to 4,000 to 4,500 bales, and Hons ton to 1,000 bales. E. B CUTHBERT & CO. Wheat Developed Unexpected Strength, Notwithstanding the Continued lower IJverpool Markets. Chicago, March 13. Wheat developed unexpected strength to-day, notwith standing continued lower Liverpool markets, and closed firm at c. net ad vance from May and lc. for July option. Liverpool's decline of 14 to in futures was especially discouraging, but it was offset by the publication of the Illinois State Agricultural Bureau's report, stating that many heavy injury reports has been coming In from the winter heat section, killing the plant equivalent to 59 per cent, of the acreage last fall, when 1.479,000 acres was sown. The blizzard In the Northwest kept the receipts down to 109 cars, and this, to gether with the Argentine shipments for the week, aggregating only 216,000 bushels, offset the Influence of the light cash and export demand and the light clearancesj The shorts became ner vous and covered a large portion of their interest, and this buying, togeth er with some purchases by traders, who unloaded on the break yesterday, ab sorbed ail the offerings and accelerated the Improvement. We look for a good, active traders' market next week, with sham and frequent fluctuations In pri ces. The visible supply on MondayH will decrease about one million bushels E. B. CUTHBERT & CO. Active Speculation on the Stock Excbang The YanderbUts the Leaders. By Southern Associated Pres.. New York. March 13.-Speculatlon at the stock exchange to-day was more active and the market broader than for a long time past. The sales i)or the two hours amounted to 110,864 shares and the business was unusually well dis tributed. A feature of the trading was the increased demand for outside ac count. The Vanderbilts were again the leaders of speculation and it was stated that a powerful syndicate was at work in these stocks. "Omaha common was the most active stock on the list, figur ing for 12,400 shares In the total trans actions. The price rose to 61, the highest point ever attained.; Big Four. New York Central, Lake Shore and Canada Southern were in sharp demand at a higher range. The talk about an early retirement of the high interest bearing bonds of the New York Central strengthened the stoclf. Among the Grangers St. Paul was notably firm and rose to 78. Manhattan felt the influ ence of covering short contracts and sold as high as 85. In the Industrials Rubber Was pressed for sale, the com mon falling from 18 to 16 and the per ferred from 68 to 65. The decline was due to rumors from Boston! of troubles tn the trade. Chicago Gas, Leather and American Spirits ruled firm. The last named was bought on reports of an early adjustment with the outside dis tilleries. Western Union i was less prominent, the demand from the shorts having abated. The weekly bank statement bad little influence. . The statement reflects the recent heavy withdrawals of goods from bond and the more active Inquiry for time money. Surplus reserve was reduced $2,693,375 and the: banks now hold $52,790,550. Speculation closed firm in tone. Net changes show gains of 2 per cent. Nickel Plate second preferred leading. Bonds were active, and strong. The sales footed up $1,273,000. Treasury balances: Coin, $131,130,941; currency, $64,751,386. j Ataiet Day in the Dry Gd. sbrnet. New York. March 11 Business In the dry goods market was quiet to-day. The general tone has not undergone any material change during tha week In either the cotton or woolen goods divis ion. I! f CITY PaODGCX (Corrected Daily by Oea. 8. Hall, Croeeries, 4.1 and Produce Dealer.! . . " - Z brigs sUced i " - extia " ,m.. ... Peaches j . n peeled halves, bright. ' ' f- a f peoed brig nt. y . rPbevrles dried..., J LL S. CTT A TVT7ICH r202 and ... , : kmmm. 1NVUO.UUBI HWUQ Ceiling or Wall Fans. It is a pleasure to Pr0 1 1 1 11 HL US Hides dry p s ... " green " " i Wool wash - Bacon hog rouno per pounu h&m .... . .-4... .. HH3 .. oar - aiaes ; " nhniild.r. Oats pounds per bashelj 86 75 50Q55 reaa ciay.. Meal-bolted 44 pounds per bushel u k l.uJ AM M mixeo m Msiiiti dm bukfll.... I3045 Oniona-eslee-W bushel, JSl Tallow docks i- H en ner brad ; Ifflriern:::::::::;::::::::: S SSLear:::::::::::::::::: mi Butt erboiii yiu w.. .L IW NEW YOBK OOTTOS FUTUBKP. New York, March 13. Cotton steady.lUd ma n Diana x; aiuujmi Futures a met, steady, eat S7.ffl0 halea. Lowest Closing niKuts. Uarch. 97 S 96 S 05iU7 April.. 7 01 May 7 06 June 7 09 J"iy; 1 August., M September ' October 78 November 8 78 December S 83 January February e 99 7 02 7 07 7 11 7 1J 88 79 6 77 81 6 S87 00 7 0203 7 07-l.OH r niz r i3i3 6788 ?50? 7778 81M8 6 866S LIVEBPOOL OOTTOH MARKET. Liverpool. March IX 1; P m.-MlddUng 3 31-39. Futures Closed firm. March March and April April and May May and June.. June and July July and August A a trust and September ..... September and October, i . O tober and November.. November and December. December and January..'.. January and February,. . . a as s 58 9 5 V 5350 S 6&59 3 5 1Mb 3 5051 3 447 3 45 8 3 45 a BALTIMORE PRODUCE MABKBT. BALTiMonn, March 13 FLODB Dull, do family 4 W4 60; winter wheat patents 4 gi4 85; spring wheat patents 4 &4 50: serins wheat 4 10&4 Jtt ; , . WHEAT Firmer. No. red spot and March :1Ay m: tfamer0n?a dn red .. Southern by sample 88S0; do ncKN-Firmer. Mixed soot and March rrxJ7Ki April S7H37Mi May Z7W&27 : Steamer mixed SSfciassji; Boutoern white S63t27; yellow 88H&g7. ; NEW YORK MONEY MARKET. New York, March 13 The weekly state ment of the associated banks shows the fol lowing chnBes: a .maw Reserve decrease. MKMi? Loans increase. - 'MKi'iJx Specie increase .SrUS Legal tenders decrease Tiii-an Deposits increase '.S'fivi Circulation decrease... ;-; 194.WJ0 The banks now hold $58,790,550 in excess of the legal requirements. NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET. New York, March 13 .-rtOTJ aDall, weak. Winter wheat, low grades, X aoa35 do fair to fancy 3 254 60; do patents 4 60( OmMln nessota clear 3 50d4 50; patents 4 104 86j low extras 203 30. (Southern flour dull, steady; common to fair extra 3 30&3 60; good to choice 3 004 00. WHEAT. Spot market dull, firmer. F. O B. 83; ungraded; red 884. Options closed arm at H to K ceute advance. No. red March SOlii April May 79; July 77. COBN Spots dull, Ira. No. t WW ele vator; 3B 30 afloat. Options Closed doll and firm at to I cent advance March H; May 30; JulylSM. , ' , OATS. Spots dull. arm. Options firmer, dull. March ... i May SIX. Spot .No. t No. 2 white 23V4: mixed Western 81$4. LARD Stronger. Western steam 4 4S city 4 10; May 4 55. Refined firm; continent 4 76; S. A. 4 75; compound 4H4X. PORK. Stronger. New mess 8 759 S5. COTTON SEED OIL Quiet, easy. Crude B&30! yellow prune $3K. OOFFEE Closed steady, quiet at s to 15 down. March ou; April s ou nay b 00 k dull, weak, no, J . STTOA ft -RaTrv-JUt". . srrn. raw renning 1 13-ia. Refined activeirSnjOp; a 4 i-iC4H; fjwjinrd A cut loaf anW-eT?tnea 6 0W granulated 4. i CHICAGO PRODtJCK MARKET. Opening Closing WHEAT March , 7m May 72 July 70?1 CORN March 23 May July .-. K OAT8 March T 1 May VWQH July 18X MESS PORK- March May.. 8 55 July 8 67 LARD March May 5 July ... 3S RIBB March ' May 4 60 July 4 O.H . 72 73VH 70X 24 25M 18H 17i 8 60 8 72 4 25 4 35 4 83 4 05 CLOSJNQ BTOCK8. American Cotton Oil 12 do preferred 56 American Sugar Refined 110S do preferred . . 105 American Tobacco.... 78J4 do preferred 107 Atchison HX Baltimore A Ohio 15 Canadian Pacific S3X Chesapeak AOhlo..... 17X Chicago A Alton 166 Chicago. Burlington St Quincy 77 Chicago Oas - 77 Delaware, Lack A Western 156 Distilling and Cattle Feeding Erie..... 14 do preferred ,. 33 General Electric r. 34 Illinois Central 82 Lake Erie A Western, 36 do preferred. 67 r -1.- cKnH Louisville ANMhviiie!""r;."."ir.'.".'.'."; 49 Louisville A New Albany Manhattan Consolidated. Memphis A Charleston i Michigan Central -. Missouri Pacific , Mobile A Ohio. Nashville, Chattanooga A St Louis Nnlted States Cordage do preferred. , New Jersey Central.). Dew, York Central. . J New York A New England Norfolk A Western nreferred 88 15 as 20 20 67 94 94 37 26tt Northern Pacific , 13 do preferred 37 Northwestern lOtHC do nreferred 14 Pacific Mali , .' 26 Reading 25 Rock Island eg St. Paul i.. T7 do preferred 137 Silver Certificates. 63 tt Tennessee Coal and Iron 28 do preferred , .. 80 Texas Pacific. Si Union Pacific , Wabash - ... S do, preferred 16 a Western Union.....'. a 84 Wheeling A Lake Sria. , 1 do, preferred 5 Alabama Class A., 164 Alabama Class B. 04 Alabama Class O. S Louisiana fa 4 07 North Carolina 684 102 North Carolina r a. i 122 Teiwesaee New Settlement ra , W Virginia 6" s, deferred...., .... 5 Virginia Trust Receipts, stamped S VtrftnU Funding t..77!?ZW....... 2 United States 4'a, registered. Ill United States 4's, coupons ... .. 113 United States Tb-.j , as Southern Railway f"s. -90 Southern Railway, common t .... a do, preferred 28 Sooth Carolina 4' jos United States new fa registered 1 United States sew 4'a, eoupoa.. 123 OBAKLOTTB COTTON MAKKSZ. (These figures represent prices paid to waaona.1 Strict good mlddllntv. Sood fllddllng....!............. - U TOO nine mioaiiiLg ....................... "Middling. i... ' ...... . a linges. .. .,."..- ..,....... STvCtMi Stains ..j. ........ 4 ........ . ' . aaeifc The market was Ira. P . J. NAVAL STORES. - . i - . Wilmington, March -Bosla firm; strained 1 good strained 1 sa. Spirits tureen tins .. .... machine ....! Irregular ..... Tar Bra at 1 a. Crude turpentine quiets bard 1 0i toil i 80; virgin nothing doing. NORFOLK COTTON. Norfolk. March 18. Cotton firm. IfioaHna 204 South TiTontreet, Charl;j Q W e are dealers (wholesale arid i Electrical Su Why don't on give us an ordel i t Electric Ventilat; so that you may be cool dur! If takes time to fill an orde buildi??. i J Park Hotel. - - , lgh. March 15. ! ha completed a propria tlons made - rl Koanital S55.450. i GROCERIES $40,000; Institution for . Blind $23,000; Institu- $34,500: state Normal College $12,500; Univer- titate line between Tennes- . rth Carolina $300; white Ag ? and Mechanical i College Sored Agricultural and - Me ollego $5,000; Colored Normal , "vO; f colored 8tate ' normal I!!t111!li!!llllll!i tra physlclana for Col- and Blind Institution Conntrv merchant ion. $600; portrait lotte, and those from! urchase - of Moore's that matter, are earn visit our place of W! School at Elisabeth f - - College street 0ook; regular Populists are In and let us name yteeding disgust regarding teas flours and all Ana and bolters, and any , by a grocery mer Jtt forces with tha Dem t vo 4 desire the latter party to ' mmtma, IUHA.W taiui 1 aha ' da said' to be true,' and that vwin be great change' in State. The Populiata adT Inhn D Dllif-i" ? JUIIII Ui llUOOw R. H i . ' i - t i V card in Successors to Mayer & Bobs. aieraL What a pleasure ilj is to have f ' . VDra! Nice, Clean, White Laundry I; taVen vonr bath vL- feel a hundred per cent, better if youri" -.3 Afwm m,n1 VAT. I ESnUVUIfl U lUWMJ mmmr mmm j vua linens showing the appearance of clean liness and beauty. We take special care of all garments entrusted to Our keeping and guarantee to return them ;to yon in the best condition poeaiDie. CHARLOTTE STAM f LAUNDRY, F. D: LETHCO Mgr. T- DeWitt TalmagB sayslj.. Of all the centuries, this Is tha best century. Of all the years, this is the best year. 1 Of all the days, this is the best day. 1 Charlotte People! Agree ! With the Dr. In the above and would add that of all the cities. Chariot. Is the best city (Mr. Henry tQ the contrary notwith standing), and of all the places to buy fine Stationery; STONE A BARBINGEB'8 la the place. AH tne laxest snapm auu im STONE & BARRIN6ER. Book, Stationery and Ait Store, 22 South Tryon Street. exposition; -in The ladles having in charge this com ing event, are displaying' wonderful business tact. It would be well for some men to pattern aflter their vim and en thuslasm. The success of thia enter prise is assured. They never fall In anything, if they! are banded together, as they are In this case, f The people will come for hundreds of miles away to see this exhibit which in many re spects will be equal to the World's Fair. Another drawing card that la attracting every free American cltlsea within tne borders of North knd South Carolina la the display at Our building covering fnore apace than any other house in the country, and giving us three commodious store rooms to spread our value, an, preae an array of grandeur not usually fow, in a cltv of 106.000 inhabitants. lavfli mg I department stored Is a step beyond any thing ever undertaken In this country. Our business has grown to such pro portions we were; forced ta keep pace with It. In one store will be found tha most magnificent line of drees goods, embracing smooth, round gingham, worth 4c.. going ft 2c; towels, worth 4c, sold at 2c; 5c j calico atfSe.; fancy piques, valued at Oc., shoving them out at 7c; French organdiesj worth 36c, our price, 25c. ; 75i. storm serges at 48c ; $1.25 silks at 75c. i 98c silk at 63c; $1 shirt waist for 60c, and 400. etamine at 30c. This la only! a' brief sketch of the thousands of other articles. Our next store Is filled uj) with clothing and hats. My, to seel those $7 (and $8 suits that other houses are bragging about being cheap. i - We Are Selling tha Jama Right Along for $5 Our gift is in ntoney. j ! "See." Boys' pants, 5c. ! boys suits, 25c; men's panto, 25c; men's suits, $1.48 and up. Hats, why, we have more than any three concerns In j Charlotte. Think of men's hats for Uc and up to the beat brands; from I5c to 75c below any other dealer Boys' caps, c Third store room la stocked with shoes end gents' furnishing. Talk ; about your gents' and ladles' - hand-sewed i shoes that you have been paying from $3 to $5 for and see ourj $1.50 ladies' shoes, all styles, toes, etc. Men'a hand-sewed, all widths, only $3j How much can. yon save. If thia don't knock : the socks off of anything In this country you must be color blind Gents .furnishing: One hundred dosen scarfs. Just In, worth 60c, only 26c; socks, 2c; : shirt, 10c; Harris' wire buckle suspender, sc.; good laundried shirt, i 25c, and the very beat brands from 26c. to 60c cheaper than any one. If these prices . and : goods don't attract then you are a fit subject lor tne lunatic) asylum. ( uet in tne tidal into prosperity by stepping .1 ! Sto e ' On Earth. - t i . 15-io 21 E Trade St. , . Cli2rl8tt8r - - 1!- H.C. - SPRING IS COMING. And yon will want to clean tin. mint your norise and le-arranire thinrs in gen eral. We are well stocked wita the test paints made. Oils, brushes, etc. See ii- - : I M wave 01 v BROS Cheapest ua before yon make your purchase. S. L. ALEXANDER f: CO ''Corner CaurcS a- " -"- i S 1J tenrO thaw. t 1 I f i Bituminous (sot and we claim ou economical gradet very hard, there J (fine coal) such bt sumer. . . . - 1 Sole agen Mountain. J We also b thracite, Ef our city on , (opposite cit be seen and Try-our dt stove wood. . eja- i FOB Charlotta. ..X Only three montx 200 students tn all 5 and tuition $37.50 per cludea light and beat tha regular brar" atruction in AK i -and BOOK-KHEP ; DEPAETMFN" ' Prof. O. P. McC. v. Instruction from, t'l.i tar, according to y avallable teacbera J . Address , J. MR. TTN- or MISS V 4 ; Insaraneb Representing BOY AXi . INSCRAKC mSURANCE CJOMPA- GEORGIA VoiIU, , . STATE,' r And otheo Soli 5 E. NYd CHAELOTTE, Over 400 Stearns v. other) used in the p nental Road Race of nla to New York. 1 race of any kind' held tory. Yet oar com' that we have the I made, 1 say that it is than road. Stearns, Waverly, II " cycles. :'-- Friends of the- f aomething Interest i Portnor iHHiniiniiiiiiniii!!!::;::: There are f member v.I.. Portner's si JBeetyoiL-wi. R. Pert:? ; Charlotto, 2 C. Vzlz We i:-: 0 a I 41ATE:: Contracts ont prompt attei t: work execute 1 j building or cor want to use tL. write to us fi r 1 J V f Fu: Have V: :r store 1 1 jim t. y Iroen .,. , hu f - . 1 Presbyteri K.raaonr sacs j - nn . r. ct gross .... ; bies u naiet. 1
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