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FT SIXTEEN PAGES. r 11 1 11 a SIXTEEN PAGES. Second Part Pages 9 to 16. 4. H2"M"i 4I"I"I"I"IIrI-'. Second Part Pages' 9 to 16. THE ONLY EVENING ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWSPAPER IN CHARLOTTE. W "S?VV" i 4 VOL. XXXV NO. 6241 CHARLOTTE, N C, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 19C6; PRICE: 3 CENTS nr8 ?r CHAMLO aientine Story I will make no mystery cf my seif, l.r.t will tell you at once that I am a Yak'iitine, only a comic one at that. Xover will I forget my feeling of . i! filiation when first I saw myself. The painful fact was revealed to me v. Iiea I caught sight of my face re :;e.' ted in one of the plate glass mir lers, which formed the side of the win ,i(.v in which I was placed by the own c; of the stationary shop, where I had V.ivn brought to be sold. I'ntil this revelation I had flattered t-clf into the belief that I was beau ii'nl, as beautiful as my companions viu were adorned with lovely pictures oi hearts, and of pretty little boys, vno seemed to shoot arrows from gold en bows. Under the pictures were lit ;K verses, all about love and doves ri!'! hearts and darts. I firmly believed that I was like flirin; picture then my dismay when I k v, myself, and for the first time re :!! .ed that I was comic. In fact, that :y face and form were that of a don Ke.' possessed of an unusually long pair of ears, while the words I would have h;ui to say had I been a speaking like i rss were these: "I see myself as ctlicrs see me." My first impulse under the sting of lii itification, wp.s to run away, and hide myself before any one had a c'.iaiice to buy me, for well I new how disagreeable the reception I must ex e?t from any one so unfortunate as to receive me. Very nervous for fear I should be purchased, I lay there trembling for several days, feeling my position most keenly. The childern who passed by laughed ;.t me, which was bad enough, but Thank heavens, no one seemed inclined to possess themselves of my ugliness. One day, when nearly all of my lovely companions had been sold, a Porutiful young lady stopped in front of my widow and, fixing her eyes upon me. exclaimed to her conpanion: "See, what a dear donkey! I shall buy him for little Bert. You know he talks always of those in the park. 1 am sure it will make him laugh to see this one." At first I was very miserable, but when she said, "laugh," I brightened v) : little. Could any one laugh with pleasure over me, who had no right to expect pnvthing except frowns and angry locks? However, she had said "Bert would be so pleased to see me." I was, there fore, not worried when I was taken from my place in the window and care fully folded to slip into an envelope. I heard her ask the man to send me to Master Albert Selah, 53 West 48th street, New York city. The next thing I remembered I was on my journey, and when I arived at my destination I was taken up-stairs by the maid She knocked softly at a door, which was opened a very little way by a lady, who had a gentle, sweet voice. This I knew', because I heard her say, "thank you, Jane." I longed to get out of my covering that I might see what sort of a place it was. I had come to. The lady said: "A letter for you, Bert! Shall I open it?" , "No," replied a weak little .voice. "Please let me, mammfl." So I was handed to Bert, and when, with his mother's help, my covering was removed, I found myself in a beautiful room, and felt that I was held tightly in the grasp of a dear lit tle boy, who, I knew, must be ill, be cause he lay in bed, though the sun was shining brightly through the win dow and the little hands, which held me, were hot and dry. But he laughed out loud when he saw me, and it made his mamma smile to hear him laugh. She was afraid it might make him more sick, though, for she said: "You must be quiet, darling." When she tried to take it away Bert said: "Oh, please let me keep him, he looks just like old Ned; don't take him, mamma." And so it happened that I spent days and many nights held tight in the boy's hot little hands. I don't remember that he ever looked at me again; he was too ill, I think, but he would not let me go, I could not tell how long I had been there, bitf I know that one morning the hot little hands became very cold, and loosened their hold on me. After that I was taken away, which made me very angry, for I thought he would soon waken and be so sorry to. find I was gone. They laid me on the7 bureau, and, af ter awhile, I heard some one say: "He is dead," and another person answer ed: "Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." Then they crossed his hands upon his breast and placed white rose buds in the one which had held me so long. After cuite a while had passed his mother came for me, and took me away. While her hot tears fell upon my face, she said : "Dear Valentine, I shall keep you al-' ways, for you are the last thing which j made him smile." j Then she put me away in a beautiful ; box, which smelled of violets, and i here I have lived ever since. I am not' lonely, for I have three companions aj torn picture book a white rose bud, ! i and a curl of golden hair, and then, be- ! sides these, Bert's mamma comes often ; to talk to us of her little dead boy, and when I feel her tears fall on my ugly face, the thought comes to me of my beautiful brothers and sisters, and I wonder if they have ever felt a tear or had the joy of knowing the love' of a true and faithful heart. Charleston (S. C.) Sunday News. A GREAT PROBLEM. 1 GIANT COMBINATION DEAD. Sale of San Francisco Lumber Co. Pacific Pine Co. Passes Out of Ex istence. By Associated Press. San Francisco, Feb. 9. The sale of the stock of the San Francisco Lumber Company to the Bellingham Bay Lum ber Company for $250,000 following the pasing out of existence on January 1 of the Pacific Pine Lumber Company marks the death of a giant combina tion which for IS years past has ab solutely dominated the lumber busi ness of the Western coast of America. The death of the trust will have lit tle effect on the lumber industry. For some years it has been a trust in name only. Although nominally the business will' now be conducted on a basis of competition, as a matter of fact the different concerns will fix their sched ules of rates after consultation. vitality of the "race, and endangers the mental, moral and physical vigor of the future." Economically considered, it shows that there is nothing more wasteful. There is ne; policy more wasteful than the policy that wastes life. "The prevailing wages of 90 Der cent, of the children against . whose j premature employment we protest, will j fasten a mill stone of poverty upon them which will exclude them as pur chasers from the markets of the world. And the prosperity of a nation depends upon its ability to purchase gods." It is not only bad ethics, but it is the worst possible business policy, to sac rifice both the producing and the pur chasing power of the future to im mediate profits. It is to be hoped that the effects of the Georgia oppon ents of Child Labor will be successful, not in a few years," but a few months. A Warning to the South Against Child Labor. (From the Atlantic Journal.) Owen P... Love joy, assistant secre tary of the National Child Labor Com mittee, speaking at New Orleans, be fore the Home Mission Institute of the Methodist Episcopal Church said that "During the past year, directly or in directly, through the work of this Committee, improved legislation was secured in twelve States all in the North and West, among them being New York, Pennsylvania, Massachu setts, Rhode Island, and Vermont." There is plenty of work for the Na tional Committee ' to do yet, both in North and South, before all parts of the country are freed from this dis grace of Child Labor, which is in no wise a sectional one. And those inter ested in the various States, should co-operate with the National Commit tee. So many of the Northern writers have approached conditions in the South in a "holier than thou" spirit, that the manner in which the National secretary approaches the subject in his speech must strike Southern read ers as refreshingly fair and candid. "All of the industrial States of the North," he says, "have developed a system on injurious Child Labor which has had to be broken or is in process of being restricted. Now it surely can not be thought an impertinenco i.l Some one says that corn, juice will from the volume of our experience, make a man's voice husky. we venture to plead with the good sometimes nappens that when people of the South to pause before type is set it hatches out trouble. you have permitted to grow to its full Any man whose will power is all Raleigh Dflsperi saof. DELIRIOUS MOTHER'S CHIME Kills New-born Babe ami Seriously Wounds Another Child. Pitsburg;, Pa., Feb. 10. In a state of delirium last night Mrs. Tt. W. Kavel, of Alleghany, killed her new-born babe and so seriously cut her three-year-old daughter Margaret with a penknife that her life is despared of. ' Mrs. Kavel is in a critical condition, suffering with pneumonia. Her recovery is doubtful. Pointed Paragraphs. From the Chicago News. L Special Correspondence. i mean, at all that there is so vast an Raleish "Nr, n TVh c ti- wo ' amount of drinking or dunkedness in two years ago January thatthe twenty-j igh. The act is that a very large three bar rooms that ad for many JC11L UJ- vears furnisher! thft whisV m -th0 'drunk here , but carried away for State Capital were closed and thedis- "he con.sumPtion,' , j j. j A. . The nolice cours h vcuotti uiieueu its uuuis uncier ine REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. From the New York Press. A man seldom eevr has less sense than his children think he has. Half the fun of having a good time in making people think you are having a better. A woman can wear low shoes and keep her feet warm if she has on a hat that makes her friends jealous. The devil doesn't worry about the churches so much as he would if he wasn't sure of the rows in. the choir. A woman would have a much larger bank balance if she wern't afraid the bank would play a trick on her and use it. . development this institution of wrong which has so caused and afflicted the North. This is a national problem and the National Child Labor Committee has undertaken to arouse the interest of right thinking people in all parts of the country." Mr. Lovejoy shows that America has today "the largest army of child wage earners maintained by any civilized country. During the. twenty years pre ceding 1900, while the population of the country increased fifty per cent., the number of boys between the ages of 10 and 15 years employed in the manufacturing establishments, in creased one hundred per cent., and the number of girls increased one hun dred and fifty per cent. Mr. Lovejoy does not treat the sub ject from the sentimental standpoint primarily. "Our problem is no longer chiefly a problem of pity," he says. "It is the proolem of race develop ment. It is the problem how to rescue the generation from an industrial ten dency which saps, arop by drop, the in his wife's name is to be pitied No, Alonzo, a man isn't necessarily simple because he lives the simple life. ' fiYHE'-S New Discovery. Best Cure For CATARRH, RHEUMATISM, INDIGESTION, NERVOUSNESS, KIDNEY, LIVER AND BL000 DISEASES. 1.00. Quick Relief. Mm Best for all ACHES and PAINS-Prico 2Ge. PAYNE'S MEDICATED SOAP 10c. DRUGGISTS. SOLD BY W. L. Hand & Co auspices of the city and county gov ernment and some " comparison of the business done, the criminal statistics and the figures make "mighty inter esting reading." Of course it could never be ascer tained what the sales of liquor by the twenty-three . saloons aggregated, but it is a matter of record that the sa loons yiel.ed ' a revenue of $8,000 to the city and something like the same amount to the county in licens tax whereas the dispensary paid in net profits to the city and county $28,000 each during 1904 and $26,181.83 to the city and $36,113.64 to the county dur ing 1905,the reason for the dfference in the amounts to the city and county last year being -dup' to an act of the 1905 legislature, changing the law so that instead of an equal division be tween city and county the county would get six-tenths and the city four- tenths of the net profits. The above figures it will be noted represent merely the net profits of the business as conducted by tae city and county as against that license tax paid by the saloon keepers. The gross sales of the dispensary really assume imminse proportions $178,000 for 1904 and $214,000 for 1905. As to the use to which the city and the county are putting their profits from the dispensary the county com missioners are dividing theirs equ ally between the public schools and the the public road work. And the applies her share to general purposes, a - considerable amount for street im provement. A floating debt of over $15,000 has been paid off since the! dispensary opened and there has been: some reduction in the tax rate, which' the avowed purpose of the city gov ernment to still further reduce the tax rate from $1.10 on the hundred dollars valuation to $1. on the hundred for the next year. Since the establishment of the Raleigh dispensary all saloons in Johnston' and Nash, Durham and other counties have been abolished and people now come here from these and other neighboring counties for their supply of whiskey. So the. im mense sales of the dispensary do not The police cours here do not snow- any very striking change as to drunk edness and criminality due to drink and dispensary. mfwyp mwyp under the operation of open saloons and dispensary. For instance the records for the two years prior to the establishment of the dispensary show tnat for 1902 there were 1,401 arrests by the police. 745 being for drunkeness and kindred of fenses and during 1903 there were' 1420 arrests with 539 of them for drunkenness, both years being during the saloon period. Then for the past two years under the dispensary there were during 1904 1516 arress, of1 which 446 were for. drunkenness and and during the ten months of the pres ent fiscal year 997 arrests of which 570 were for drunkenness. It is notic able that during, the whole- year of 1903, the last' of the saloon period, there were 539 arrests for drunken ness as compared with 570 arrests for drunkenness during the past ? ten months of the present fiscal yearunder the dispensary. "William J Martin. LIVES IN DANGER. Attempts Made Daily at Lives of 'Offi cials and Police Arms Being Im ported. By Associated Press.' St. Petersburg, Feb. 9. Three em ployees of the Putiloff works belonging to the "party of active struggle against revolution and anarchy," the so-called "Black Hundred," were killed 'yester day by revolutionary workmen. The Terrorists' campaign has been vigorously prosecuted in the provinces recently. From two to ten attempts cn the lives of officials and the police are .reported daily. Arms in large . quantities have been houses at Reval and other Baltic ports and forwarded to Moscow and other places in the interior. A woman makes a rival happy by envying her. ' , Some monkeys have long tails and r-ome others smoke cigarettes. Never hit a man when he is down unless all his friends are down. Some of our greatest joys spring: from sorrows we have almost forgot ten. . .. Although Our List Has Been Somewhat Demoralized By a Number of Recent Sales, We Still Offer a Number of mm mimm real ESTME We Mention a Few of Them Below: DESIRABLE HOME PROPERTIES. One of the most beautiful home in Dilworth is listed with us for sale because of change of business location of owner. It contains about 12 large rooms, has every modern conven ience, is beautifully decorated and is a most desirable home. Call for particulars. A similar home in different location, is also offered on favor able terms to a prompt buyer. A Tryon Street Home, one of the best on the street, can also he had just now at a price wnich is much below the value of the plot and the cost of the building. An old Homestead on Trade Street is also with us for sale. Very substantially built and with a beautiful lot about 90x249, with fine old trees and shrubbery. ;" .. We also offer That Handsome New Home just at the turn of the car line at Piedmont, with a lot fronting about 200 feet on Central Avenue and nearly the same on Seventh Street. Both streets are macadmized and all city conveniences are at your service. Price and terms favorable. . . , . ' On North Myers Streetwe offer a property comprising lot about 100x200, and ten-rooms house, at a price which shall sell it at once, for with a little remodeling and painting you would have a home worth $1,500 more than it cost you. . ' , Another Suburban Home which we offer at $3,850, should find a quick purchaser for it is not only well built for a home, but is well rented as an investment-. The Dewiller Heme at Piedmont, is a very . cozy home for someone and has a lot about 100x150, near to car line and with very, pretty outlook. Will shade the price $200 a quick sale, because of removal of owner to another city. - . ' Wo offer also some Piedmont Cottages on very easy, terms, through the building and Loan, so that you can buy a home with rent money if you so desire, price $1,750 to $2,500. We offer many other desirable' properties .m many locations about the city and suburbs, and our office, our files and our ex perience are at your servic at any time. - 4 'Everything in Real Estate" SPECIAL INVESTMENT OFFERING. A block of 16 lots at Villa Heights, at one of the highest points on t the property, and a number of lots fronting macadam highway, are offered for quick sale at a bargain price. ATiotheTblock of 16 lots on Providence Road, just 'over the city lie, are offered at less than one-ialf the price of, lots on Elizabeth, just one block away. Easy access to Elizabeth car line. Favorable terms. Ten lots on Tenth Street, high, dry location overlooking the city, are. also offered at a quick sale price if taken together. x . ; - The Kirshbaum Property,on Seventh Street Extension, comprising about 40 desirable lots, can still be bought as a whole if you act quickly enough, but will be offered at retail at an early date if not promptly taken as it is. This fine property has about 400 ft. frontage on macadam road road, with water and sewer mains already laid, and has fine grove of stately pines and large number and variety, of fruit trees of sev eral years' growth, as well as a variety of roses and ornamental shrubbery.) It is one of the most suitable1 locations about Charlotte for a large suburban home or there is money in it as an investment proposition if you cut it up. The Oliver Residence, on South Tryon Street, is another trade which you should look after soon for large transactions recently made in that vicinity are attracting much attention to properties in this neighbor hood. ' ' " ' The lot extends from Tryon to Church Street, nearly 400 ft., and by moving the residence to Church Street you would have a good renting proposition there and a very valuable building site on Tryon St. We expect to sell this socn. A fine Busfnefs Lot,-99x198 ft., on second block from the Square, is just the location for large wholesale or machinery businery.. Price will interest you. The Wolff Farm, of 300 acres, just below Dilworth, is one of the. very best, large properties now on our list. It has a double frontage of nearly a mile on one of the best macadam roads, and close to the city.' We will sell it as a whole or we will sell it in tracts of 20 to 70 acres; giving each tract a good frontage on the macadamized highway. We will take pleasure in showing you the property at any time that suits your convenience. '- " ' , That Water Power Proposition, with 400 acres of land, located onAsheville and Spartanburg Avenues, at the highest point on the road between Cincinnati and Jacksonville, is a fine opportunity for some manu:r factureer who is, looking for a location where he can control plenty cf labor! . . , ' Two other acreage tracts close to cHy, of 75 to 200 acres, both good tracts. ' . , ' , That handsome new store on North Tryon Street, in the Anderson Building, is now ready for inspection, also that large store in the Durham Biulding, South Tryon Street. - y v CHOICE BUI LDING SITES. ; . That Lot in The Grove,. opposite the - Heath residence, at the, ban building lot onw on the line is, we believe, the finest subur ages. It is about 67x300 feet market, which has the city advant the finest suburban homes in in size and surrounded by a group of ten minutes' run to the Squa in Charlotte, and the location is" but 'a.' terest you if looking for a.chre, on the car line. The price will in-' We offer also a Fine Coroice home site, overlooking the Park and butner Lot on Seventh Street, 167x165 ft., has water and sewerage privi one block from car line. Tihs lot also Two more Fine Corner Lieges, and is a beautiful home site. . Avenue, are still offered on ots, 66x150 ft, tfronting on Central Your choice of thirty-sevfavorable terms. Brevard'.' property, on Sevenen fine lots, from the "Spring and Piedmont Park. These lots th Street Extension, Just opposite mized road and have waterare 50x200 in size, fronting on macad- cessions to the first few buy'and sewer privileges. ' Special con ing at once. ers who will start their house b.iuld- About one-half of the Pie '"V other half at prices which ardmont lots are sold. We offer the suburb which has equal adve low in comparison -with any other to house biulders ; antages and on very favorable terms We have several Elizabe ''-V, and avenues at interesting pth lots also on some of the best streets At Dilworth also we ha verices. vard and East Boulevard, ,at '- lots on Park Avenue, Kingston, Boule- That fine lot; about 50vlprices as low as the lowest. Elizabeth Avenue, is a fine 180, next to the A. R. P. Church, on home or for investment. It ot for some one who would build for beth and Piediiont car lines.has the advantage of both the Eliza- A Railroad Site, close up town, 50x145 ft., is another good pur chase for business site or investment, and if rumor of large de velopment close by prove true, there will be large increase in . value soon. .. t . . ' Fine Corner Lot, 75x1440 South Myers Street. C-fi Phone 238, Trust Building W W W i - - '- r- -a
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