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W.I1!;.I|I,WIB "“V- ,'*«! THE SEPTEMBER lO, I9lf ;,M ■se* IT- I Annual Exhibit Millinery and Women’s Wearing Apparel Begins Monday, Sept. 11th, at The Little^Long Co DAINTY AUTUMN NECKWEAR The autumn display of dainty Neckwear is far more beautiful than any that have preceded it. One marvels at the variety of styles, each one seemingly more beautiful than the one before. CHILDREN’S APPAREL Tempting, indeed, is the showing of new apparel for children. The stock, though not yet complete, is adequate for all immediate needs. Children’s Gingham and Percale Dresses. Two to Six Years 48 Cents to $1.00 Four to Fourteen Years $1.00 to $3.50 Special Features for This Week’s Selling—Some Wonderful Bargain-Giving in Linens and Hosiery CLEAN-UP SALE OF TABLE LINENS AND TOWELS In order to clean out all old stock we offer for Monday great re ductions in Damask Napkins and Towels. We have large Quantities of these goods in odd lots and some slightly soiled, but otherwise desirable. Damask by the Yard Six Pieces Linen Damask, sold at $1; Sale Price 89c Ten Pieces, Sold at 85c. Go at 73c Eight Pieces, Sold at $1.50; Go at $1.39 Seven Pieces, Sold at $1.25; Go at $1.12 NAPKINS BY THE DOZEN Fifteen Dozen 60c Napkins, Monday’s Price 48c Fifteen Dczen 88c Napkins, Monday’s Price 73c Twenty Dozen $1.50 Napkins, Monday’s Price $1.29 Ten Dozen $3 Napkins, Mondiy’s Price $2.28 Ten Dozen $3.50 Napkins, Monday’s Price $2.68 Ten Dozen $5 Napkins, Monday’s Price $3.98 SPECIAL SALE HAND BAGS Two Lots for Monday’s Selling One Lot $1.50 Bags, 79c One Lot $2.50 and $3.50 Bags, $1.98 I DEPA R TMENT S TORES , CHARL O TTE'^N. C. suit POBLICITy i)[ FOBMED of the ofBcers of rr -atious, newspaper a- 'Mna and Railroad ' > :' 12th, announced • •• Publicity league :^r 'he Back Home” an of campaign. Tf t.. the Greater Char- :i former citizens of this a ou: the price of land i '^rmure for themselves inquiries are com- trom i^very state west of r: river and .Vorthwest ’ #'^16 conimon to huii- > = a ?^ory of loss and lent to hundreds of ■'>0 sought cheap . to II :)ivP homes. Railroads in ' ;!rt n^’ht now solic- ■' m the South to em- : ; ia. 'i'he loacue to be ’ ■ ’ iinrlprtake to plac^ : i.-irTr in the hands of .!ii over this coun- •: M Kurnpp who have II,i" r>y Western and : doing this through now among them, lai f; a. method of getting ^hifi rtafe has ever been • n A hat is known as tlie movement. ' perated the "Back ^r.rnt will ;)ut the agri- '''‘■‘r advantages of the * tore those of the West “ ’^’^ugh the agency of ’ i rnple, both at home .\a-' (T.fl ■ 1 ai)d public compaign '' withdrawal of our • Wrsfern and Canadian 'fin aripeal to one of the ■ ral impulses of human ' fhrr.'fore, a fllank move- • r.,n'o=;f with the western M - man’ persons into this rt- f'.rtnrr ciMzens and oth- '•roiiK, r!ipir influence, have !Tv.'s*ie:.Ttp its advantages, fr.;- federating all the ‘^nizarions in the common ^rr o:lgration selected immlgra* ' ringing them into active cO' ■•^i'h the railroads. 11 a. m. "'^lled to order by President if'ter, of The Greater Char- - ^>lcome by Mr. W. C. ' ' of the Charlotte News, y Mr, H. B. V’arner, pres- Lexington Board of Trade, rnlniite talks by Mr. F. W. La- n Tnager of N. & W. R. R. ' Onino, of the Asheville an secretary of the ' ■ !' .l)er of ('ummerce. Hu i'h, scrrotary Fayette- I ^'er f f’ommorce. ' ter, i)reaident Xew* ' "T of (’ommorce. 3 p. m. •’V Hon. Lie* s. Overman. Address by Mr. W. D. Roberts, of Johnson City, Tennessee. Ten minute talks by Mr. Josephus Daniels, editor News-Observer. Mr. Harry P. Deaton, editor Moores* ville Enterprise. Mr. T. W. Chambliss, of Charlotte Observer, Organization. 5 p. m. Ride over the city. 7:45 to 8:30 p. m. Reception in Selwyn parlors. 8:30 p. m. Ten minute talks by Mr. J. B. Sher rill, of the Concord Times. Mr. N. Buckner, secretary Asheville Chamber of Commerce. Mr. O. F. Crowson, editor of the Burlington N«ws. Mr. J. S. Kuykendall, secretary Win- ston Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Fred A. Olds, secretary Raleigh! Chamber of Commerce. | Mr. J. V. Cimms, of the Raleigh j Times. I Mr. O. F. Cooper, secretary Wilming-1 ton Chamber of Commerce. Mr. J. L. Williams, secretary New! Bern Chamber of Commerce. j Mr. Fred L. Hoffman, secretary Mor-1 ganton Chamber of Commerce. Student A'iso. In the Colleges Mr. Henry S. Johnson, the student secretary of the interstate committee of the Carolinas Y. M. C. A.'s, has be gun his fall visitation of the student associations in the colleges. Through | Mr. Johnson’s efforts nearly all of these associations had representatives at the student conference for training held at Montreat in June and the spec ial object of this trip is to get them to carry out the suggestions given at the conference for organized Christian effort. He will also work up fleiega- tions for the Bible study institutes to be held this fall. Two of these institutes will be held, one for South Carolina at Newberry College, October 26th to 29th, and one for North Carolina at Wake Forest College, November 2nd to 5th. Speakers of international reputation will be in attendance upon these insti tutes, In accordance with the deter mination of the association leaders to push evangelistic effort more vigorous ly than ever before special evangelis tic services will follow each of these institutes. Famous Chmtian Science Lecturer An event of high Import to Christian Scientists here, and hereabouts,, as well as of Interest to the public who enjoys the expressed thought of a man of intellectual power and culture, whether endorsing the thought or not, will be the lecture to be delivered here on October 24th, in the Academy of Music, by Judge Clifford T. Smith, of Boston. Judge Smith is a famous member of the Board of Lecturers of the Moth er Church, in Boston. He was also a j former reader in the church. He will j lecture on Christian Science. Those w^ho believe as he does will hear him | gladly. 1 PRES. COLLEGE READYFOR THE OPENING With a cellege building remodeled throughout at a cost of approximate ly 110,000, with a new, larger and stronger faculty and an aggressive and progressive new administration, the Presbyterian College for W’omen will formally open Tuesday mominsc for the first term in its new era. Already the improvements that have been made at the college and tiie greater things planned in the work of the institution have borne fruit in a way, for the friends of the college and its alumnae have been united as never before and the people of the city generally are enthusiastically in terested in it. President John L. Caldwell has spent the entire summer working ;n the interest of the college. He has made a number of important trips and has devoted a great deal of time to the direction of the work of over- hauling the imposing college build ing, so that when the students begin to arrive they will enter as it were a new and greater institution. Mrs. M. H. Russel, the lady principal, arriv ed in the city yesterday and will spend the first part of the week in seeing that everything is in readinesf for the girls when they arrive. The members of the faculty have al ready begun to arrive. Mrs. Minnie Wriston Smith, who spent a part of the summer at San Francisco study ing under Herr Heinemann and latei spent a short while at Lake Kanuga has returned to the city and is readj to take up her work as head of the voice branch of the school of music. Dr. and Mrs. Charles R. Fisher, of Gondon, the former the new head of the school of music, will arrive here Tuesday. The other members of the faculty will arrive Tuesday and Wed nesday, and Wednesday the dormi tories will be opened to the students, who are all expected to ‘arrive or that day. The formal exercises attending the opening of the college will be held in the college auditorium Thursday morn ing. President Caldwell will make '€'• short talk to the students and there will be present also Rev. D. A. A. McGeachy, pastor of the Second Pres byterian church; Rev. Dr. E. E. Bo- mar, pastor of Pritchard Memorial Baptist church, and Rev. Alva W. Plyler, pastor of Trinity Methodist church. All alumnae of the college and Its patrons and the people of the city generally are invited to attend the opening exercises. NAME DATE OF GOOD ROADS CONVENTION. New York, Sept. 9.—It was an nounced here today that the annual na tional good roads’ convention will be held In Washington in December. It is said Washington will continue to be the scene of these meetings until Fed eral aid for the constiuctlon of good roads becomes an accomplished fact. Cotton Mill Asso. Wotkers An important conference of the em ployed officers of Cotton Mill Y. M. C. A.’s and other persons interested in w^elfare work of this kind ■w^ill be held at the association building in Char lotte September 20 and 21. Tte conference will be held under the auspices of the industrial depart ment of the international committee' and the state committees of Virginia, Georgia and the Carolnas. Representa tives of those committees will be in at tendance. President Few, of Trinity College, Thomas F. Parker, of Greenville, and Charles R. Towson, of New York, will address the conference and the discus sions will be participated in by a large number of men actively identified with work of this kind. A number of the general secretaries of city associa tions will be in attendance because of their Interest in the discussion of extension work in mill villages by city associations. The sessions of the conference will be open to the public and a cordial in vitation is especially extended to all who are In any way Interested in work of this kind to attend and to take part in the discussions. Baptist Association Meets at Pinevilie The Mecklenburg and Cabarrus Baptist Association composed of 26 churches in these two counties, and with a membership of 4,065, reported in the minutes of last year, will hold its 26th annual sess-ion with the Pine- ville Baptist church on Wednesday next. The introductory sermon will be preached at 10 o’clock a. m. by Rev. S. N. W’atson, of Concord, with Rev. D. M. Austin, of Charlotte, as alternate. Hon. W. C. Dowd is moderator of this body and will call the session to order immediately following the ser mon. A large delegation Is expected to be present and also a number of the representatives of the boards and dif ferent departments of the work. Re ports will be made and discussed, em bracing the work of missions, state, home and foreign, and also of the or phanage at Thomasville, and education and Sunday schools. There are five churches in this body located in Char lotte. The ladies representing the various missionary societies in the churches will hold a most Interesting meeting during the session and make reports of their woik. A FIERCE NIQHT ALARM Is the hoarse, startling cough of a child, suddenly attacked by croup. Of ten it aroused Lewis Chamblin, of Man chester, O., (R. R. No. 2) for their four children were greatly subject to croup. “Sometimes in severe attacks,” he wrote, “we were afraid they would die, but since we proved what a cer tain remedy Dr. King’s New^ Discovery is, we have no fear. We rely on it for ci'oup and for coughs, colds or any thro.at or lung trouble.” So do thousands of others. So may you. Asthma, Hay Fever, LaGrippe, Whoop ing Cough, Hemorrhages fly before it. 50c and |1.00. Trial bottle free. Sold by W. L. Hand & Co. NO SWEARING IN THE ZONE. Taking the English “damn” as his subject. H. L. Mencken, in the Balti more Sun, sa.vs: ‘ Colonel Goethals’ recent prohibition of swearing in the Canal Zone en gages the public gazettes, east, west, north and south, and nine-tenths of them, of course, praise the Colonel in smug, affecting phrases. * * « “I here treat, of course, of swearing properly so-called—of that dignified and satisfying profanity which is neith er blaspremous nor obscene. The civ ilized American white man is always careful of such distinctions. The Spaniard, the Portugee, the Italian, and other such Latins seem unable to swear without blasphemy, and among the Chinese, I am informed, swear ing is hopelessly and revoltingly ob scene. But the great root words, the heart and lungs, the mercury and quinine of Angli-American swearing —to-wit, the words ‘dam’ and ‘hell’— have no hint or color of blasphemy in them, and are no more Indecent than the names of the elements. • ♦ ♦ “The proper function of swearing,” said the Marquise of Crewe lately, in the course of a political speech at Ti verton, England, ‘'is to sustain and comfort mankind in the minor ills of life. In the presence of anything like a great crisis it is superfluous and in adequate.” An accurate statement of the whole philosophy of swearing. It would be absurd for a man to say “damn” on having his leg cut off, or on being found guilty of murder, or on discovering a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing his infant—but In all the lesser mergencles of existence a few harsh, sforzando words dis charge the lightnings of irritation, and hence relieve the mind. Haj’ fever. If swearing had never been Invented, would be as fatal a malady as hydro- I phobia. As It is there is a “damn,” or ^ at ieast a “darn” for every sneeze—a I “damn” that is cheap, ever-ready and ^ certainly ameliorative—and so the pa- tient survives, to the joy of his loved ones and creditors. “It was Mark Twain, I believe, who first showed the direct connection be tween the poise and efficiency of the English and the satisfying sonoroas- ness of their national cuss-words. A Latin, thumping his thumb with a hammer, resorts at once to hair-rais ing blasphemy, and as a result he gets no relief. His oaths are too complica ted, too cacophonous, too earnest. In stead of soothing him', they disgust him. In consequence, the Latin is a nervous, irritable, emotional fellow, and unfit for work requiring a calm, persistence, cool courage and a capac ity for overcoming a multitude of small obstacles. The French, tackling the Panama canal, failed miserably. If Colonel Goethals’ order were actu ally enforcable we Americans would fai Itoo—but every sane man knows that it is essentially unenforcable, and every honest man is glad of it. “The English ‘damn’ is the corner stone of the British empire. It ex plains the great success of the Eng lish as colonizers, their infinite capac ity for handling the lower races. The institution of slavery made swearing an important art in Colonial America, and it has been cherished and nurtur ed ever since. Hence our sky-scrapers, our trans-continental railroads. Our great steel plants, our enormous com merce and prosperity. Engineers es timate that it takes 475,000 ‘damns’ to lay a mile of track, and 250 a mile a day to operate trains over that track. How biany steamboats would run If mates were forbidden to swear? How many newspapers would come out if the foremen of their composing rooms were denaturized and dlsendamned? How would wars be fought, how would orchestras rehearse, how would bricks be laid, how would policemen police, how would plumbers plub, how would the great problems of state-craft be solved if • • • “The subject of swearing is too vast for treatment in a single article. It h«^s too many facts, its roots and ten drils fclnk too d^ep into psychology and sociology, ethics and -anatomy, logic and philosophy. On a later day let u sretum to it, confining our study, in prudence, to some minor subde- partment, some constituent cell of It. For example, the psychic differences between English swearing and German swearing, the use of profanity by emi nent men. or the scientific basis fOT the doctrine that swearing is offensive to ladies.” Lost and Foun d A young man took his sweetheart to a ball. She wore her party dress. As they began a dance he noticed wha€ he thought was a raveling sticking out of her sleeve. He tugged at it. It came easily, and during the remainder of the dance, having started to wind up that raveling, he kept at it. It wasn’t until the end of the dance that he had finished winding. Next morning the girl said to her mother; “Maw, an awful funny thing happen ed last night. You know I went to that dance. Well, when I got homej and got ready for bed I found my, union suit had disappeared.” * Our policies are not the flimsy kind but are FLAWLESS. They are capa ble of any amount of “wear and tear.” Therefore not many customers are LOST; on the contrary many a» FOUND, daily. ^ C. N. G Butt & Go & INSURANCE HEADQUARTEM. f 21 East Fourt.> St. Charlotte, N. C. Phone 425. Hackney Bros. Co. Plumbing, Steam and Hot Water Heating ■•St See Our Complete Line of Handsome T Bath Tubs, Lavatories, Sinks Laundry Tubs ^ 6 and 8 W. 5th St. » , -1 4-\ \ \ \ \ Also Complete Stock of Pumps Gasoline Engines, Terra Cotta, Flue Pipe and Lining CHARLOTTE, N. G ’Phones; 312 and 1047.
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