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10 2o;idii ♦ n ♦ Letters To Santa Claus ■r Charlotte, N. C., Dec. 18. Mv Dear Santa Claus: Am going to write because so many girls are writing letters to you. Hope you will not be too busy to read mine. 1 am a cripple and have been since my birth, but I am happy and do not think of my lameness. Won't you ■send me a pretty worli box, some nice l)ooks and plenty of nuts and candy. My ma says ask Santa to send her some of the good Louisiana syrup they call Velva. It makes such good pea nut brittle. ''R’ith love I am your friend, Mabel I3ro^n. Charlotte, N. C., Dec. 18. Dear Santa: Please bring me a big doll and a go- .art and a cook stove, candy, apples, and oranges. From your loving triondt I0I3. Jsiidcs* roll It in so that is aU, so good by from your little friend. Myrtle Hilton, Charlotte, N. C., Dec. 18. Dear Santa: I am a little boy 7 years old and my papa is dead and I want you to bring me a new suit t>f clothes and a little train and some candy and nuts and that is all, so good by, your little friend, Roy Hilton. Charlotte. N. C. Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a little doll and doll carriage and a lot of good things to eat; some oranges, apples, candy, ba nanas, raisins and nuts. I am a little girl 4 years old and I live on Route 4 Box 10. Charlotte, N. C. Please don’t forget me, dear Santa. Your lit- tie friend, Annie Ruth Smith. Charlotte, N. C., Dec, 18. Dev Santa Claus: I lim a little boy 3 years old. I want j'(ui to bring me a little street car Bnd a nice little drum and c-^^ly. nig ger toes and fruit. Your little friend, Harvey McCready. Dear Santa: Please bring me a little train and s little drum and candies, nuts and fruits. Your little friend. Paul Hubert McCready. Charlotte, N. C., Dec. 18. Dear Santa: T am a little girl 15 years old and I \%ant >x>u to bring me some candy and nuts, oranges and apples and a doll that will go to sleep and a go-cart to Dear Santa Claus: I w’ant you to bring me a little horn, a ball and a harp and a lot of nice things to eat. Your little friend, Edward Ew’irt Smith. R. 4 Box 10, Charlotte, N. C. Charlotte, N. C. Dear Santa Claus* Please bring me a doll and doll car riage and nuts of all kinds and candy, oranges and apples, and there is my little sister, I like- to have forgot, I believe to my soul she is the best of the lot; please bring her a doll and candy, nuts apples, oranges, little garnet and pearl ring. I am eisht years old and niy sister Pearl is six years old. Pearl Green and Garnet, ^ly address, Hoskins Mill, Chaiiotte. F OF eOVERNMFNT New York, Dec. 19.—Representative Oscar W. Underwood, of Alabama, chairman of the house committee on ways and means, was guest of honor at a dinner of members of the Cath olic Club here and as principal speak er he delivered an address declaring his opposition to movement toward a n^ore direct form of government. "If there are evils In our govern^ ment as It exists today,” he said, "it is not in its organic form. It Is due to the failure of those in office to honstly, fairly and Justly perform the duties imposed upon them.” He pointed to the failures of direct democracies and drew the contrast be tween them and the successes of a r-'j.resentative democracy responsive tv the will of the majority, but check- t'tl by the constitution from exercising a brutal force which might destroy the liberty and property rights oi’ the individual. The proposal to abandon In part this scheme of the revolutionary fathers, \^lth a tendency to place the power rf law-making ifi the hands of all the people, would place constitutional guar antees of individual liberty subservient to the will of the majority through po litical compulsion, he said. Those who urge a change, he argued, do not reflect that at times they may misjudge real public sentiment, that the representative who acts as the in- Btrument of the government Is at fault and not the basic principle of the gov ernment itself. "My experience as a legislator,” he continued, “leads me to believe that the congress of the United States will ultimately respond to the enlightened and matured sentiment of the people.” He pointed to insaacea wherein it had done so—In railroad rate legislation, pure food laws, campaign fund public ity, national quarantine, irrigation of the arid west and the buildings of the Isthmian canal. “The response may not-be rapid,” he said, “but it Is probably more per manent and there Is certainly not as much danger of enacting hasty, ill- considered or bad legislation. “Cannot a committee of the con gress, composed of representative men, initiate le^slatlon, within the limita tions of the constitution, guard against excesses and abuses, protect the rights of the minority, voice the wishes of the majority, as well or better than the partisan friends of a measure who In order that they may accomplish one result are tempted to reach so far that they leave a wake of destruction as to collateral matters the measure touches? “If there are evils in our govern ment as it exists today, it is not in Its organic form. It Is due to the failure of those In office to honestly, fairly and justly perform the duties im posed upon them. The remedy is plain and the way is clear. The peo ples hould drive from the places of power and responsibility the unfaith ful servant and elect those who will be faithful and true to the trust Im posed upon them. “You tell me the people cannot elect honest and faithful servants. I tell you that the masses of thre people are far better Judges of men than they are of measures, and are farmore like ly to select an honest man than an honesf; measure. "When you say that the voter cannot select a public official who will re flect the will of the people in his of fice and be faithful to the constitu tion of his country, I say you reflect on the very first principle of free gov ernment and misjudge the honesty and the intelligence of the American peo- ple. “Lejr ush elect honest men to public office, men who have the courage to stand for the true interest of the con stitution they represent regardless of wbat effect it may have on their per sonal fortunes. There then will be no demand for a change of the fundamen tal i^inciples of our government.” Vaudeville audiences are quick to insist that one good turn deserves an other. OIL IflSPFCTl BEFORE E COUOT Special to The News. Raleigh, N. C., Dec. 20.—There will be argued this w'eek before the su preme court of the United States the noted case of the Red Oil Company against the North Carolina state board of agriculture, in which the plaintiff j attacks the constitutionality of the North Carolina statute regulating the testing and the sale of illuminating oil in this state and imposing a tax of one-half cent per gallon on all oils. Judge R. W. Winston, of Aycock & Winston, counsel for the Red Oil Com- pany has gone to Washington to repre sent the oil company. Attorney Gener al T. W. Bickett is leading counsel for the state department of agriculture. In the trial below Judge H. C. Conner sustained the constitutionality of the North Carolina act and the w’ork of the oil division of the d.epartment of agriculture. A DREADFUL WOUND from a knife, gun, tin can, rusty nail, fireworks, or of any other nature, de- mandR_ prompt treatment with Buck- len’g Arnica Salve to prevent blood poison or gangrene, ita the quickest, surest healer for all such wounds as iilso for Burns', Boils, ores. Skin Erup- tii>n!^. Eczema, Chapped Hands, Corns or Piles. 2oc at W. L. Hand & Co. MRS. WILFRED ISAACS. Mrs. Wilfred Isaac*, formerly MIm Florence Kearney, fornneriy a Washington. telephone girl, and the •tepdaughter of a barber who was secretly married to Mr. Isaacs, a London banker, to whom she was Introduced by Sir Wilfred Egerton, son of Lord Ellsmere. When a woman begins to show her age she also begrlns to show her rage. A CHARMING WOMAN Is one who is lovely In face, form, mind and temper. But Its hard for a woman to be charming without health. A weak, sickly woman will be nervous and irritable. Constipation and kid- ney poisons show in pimples, blotches, skin eruptions and a wrecked complex ion. But Electric Bitters always prove a godsend to women who want health, beauty and friends. The regulate Stomach, Liver and Kidney, purify the blood; give strong nerves, bright eyes, pure breath, smooth, velvety skin, love ly complexian, and perfect health. Try them. 50c at W. L. Hand & Co.’s. Cuptd Asleep in Iredell County Special to The News. Statesville, N. C., Dec. 20.—Cupid and the “match-makers” have evidently gone to sleep in Iredell and unless they get busy ther» are going to be same old maids and bachelors. Ac> cording to the records in the office of the county register of deeds, who is sues the matrimonial permits, mar riages are on the decrease in the county, despite the fa(it that the pop ulation of the county is on the in crease. Register Boyd has just made out his report of the marriages during the fiscal year ending the first Monday of this month and it is found that there were only 302, compared with 309 last year and much larger num bers in previous years. Had all the “sets” of license Issued served their purpose the record would have almost come up to that of the preceding year, but during the past 12 months three “sets” were returned unused. In one case the prospective groom admitted that the marriage had been called off on account of the interference of the bride-to-be’s parents, but in both other Instances the “groom that was to be” had the nerve to say that he had “gone back on her” at the last minute before the ceremony. Last year every license was returned properly signed by some person duly authorized to perform the marriage ceremony and the fact there were three failures this year is not encouraging. This year’s record doesn’t begin, to come up with that of the banner year, 1907, when there \iiiere 355 licenses issued and used, neither does it compare favor ably with the record of 1905—347. A glance at the first pages of the old marriage license book shows that the records of several years in the past almost come up to this year’s, there having been almost 300 of the happy events to the year almost a decade ago. or the licenses issued during the past year 81 were secured from the deputy register at Mooresville, a de crease af an even dozen compared with the preceding year, and the re mainder were secured from the regis ter here. About SQ per cent of the couples were negroes. While the ma jority of the grooms were between the ages of 20 and 25, the average being about 22, there were several 18-year- olds, some who reached the bach elor age and a few grandfathers, so to speak, there being one or two had adout lived their allotted thi’ee score and ten. The brides ranged in age from 15 years to past a half hundred summers, though most of ^hem were less than 21 years of age, the average being about 19. There were quite a number of people residing outside the county married within its bounds dur ing the year, but the number of Iredell people wedded elsewhei^ will more than likely tally with the number of outsiders married In Iredell. The high cost of living, of which we have heard so much and experi enced not a little during the past few years, may or may not have had some thing to do with the decrease in the number of couples deciding to unite their destinies, but there are many who will argue that this is one of the causes, if not the principal one, and there is ground for the argument. There are some who are cruel enough to say that the girls do the courting these days, and that next year, which is “leap year,” will be a busy one for the man who Issue the marriage con tracts. It is also predicted by some that there will be no danger of any of the “permits” being returned unused; that in every case the jumping of the broom stick will be a certainty because those of the fairer sex are given au thority in such matters during leap year. TONIGHT —AT- Liles-Nix Company’s SALE STARTS AT 7:30 P. M. HAND BAGS LOT NO. 1. Assorted Leather Hand-Bags, 75c, 89o and 98c values, on sale tonight for 48c each LOT NO. a This lot consists of all Leather, Vel vet and Suede Hand-Bags, values $1.00 to $1.50, in a variety of col ors and styles at 8 o’clock tonight, choice of lot 89c each RIBBONS LOT NO, 3 Consists of Velvet and all Leather fitted Bags, the usual $2.00 to $2.50 values, in tonight’s specials at just.... $1.48 About 50 pieces wide fancy Ribbons in Persian stripes and floral designi, the Usual 25c and 35c values hnt tonight’s specials at 15c yard Sillicus—“I told her she was my life.” Cynicus—“Well, you know how uncertain life is.” The man who is slow to wrath gen erally makes a fast friend. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER’S CASTO R I A Ohildren Ory FOR FLETCHER’S CASTO R I A CliilOiren Ory For FLETCHER’S CASTO R I A THE SELWYN HOTEL EUROPEAN Only fire-proof hotel in Char* k>tte; supplied entirely with wa ter from its own deep welL CAFE OJ?EN A\.l. NIGHT. Water analyzed Hly 0» 1911, by Director State Lnheratory of Hygiene anb pronounced pure. Pure Water tiom our Artesian Wellt 303 1-2 feet deep, for sale. 6c gallon at Hotel. 10c gallon In 5-salloa k>ta. iiellvered in Charlotte or at B. fi. Station. EDGAR B. MOORS, Proprietor. M. & W. Railway la IfiScci XI, 19U* Xt.SO am Lv. Ca«riotie So. ».«u pm, S.Ot jpm JbT. Wlnatoa 2.0» • pm. Lv. Mart’vlll* Ar. 11.40 am. •.Xa pm. At. Ko»no]M N*W Lv. ».lg an. AddlueaM traiita leav» Wlnstoa>Sa> Urn «. m. daiU. Conn«ow av itoauek* for th« Bast and Wmc. FuUmaa aleeparfl. Dinins ca^ik If jro« are oeiis(d«rln« taklns a trip to Callferatfi ar tk* 0»aat, nt •n* rarlabla Roena-'ttrto Vtea. xhe la» foriuation la yours for tb« askinc. wUb ens of our «omplet« Map Folders. W. & BBVlLiW M. F. BKAOO^ Oen. Pas... Act. Trav. Pass. Atgt. SOUTHERNRy “Premier Carrier of the South.” N. B.—The follJ>v.'?ns schsduls figures published only as information and are not guaranteed: 3:20 a. m.—No. 29. dallj^ Birming ham special for Atlanta and Birming ham. Pullman drawing room sleep ing cars, observation cars and day coaches to Birmingham. Dining car s©r vicc, 3:30 a. m.—No. 8, daily, local for Danville. Richmond and all interme diate points. 5:10 a. m.—No. 31, daily, the South ern’s Southeastern lilmited for Colum bia, Savannah, Aik^n, Augusta and Jacksonville. Pullman drawing room Bleeping cars for Aiken, Augusta and Jacksonville. Day coaches to Jack sonville. 'Dining car service. 6 a. m.—No. 44, daily, local for Washington, D. C. 6:40 a. m.—No. 25 dally, local train for Columbia and intermediate points. 7:15 a. m.—No. 39, local for Atlanta. 7:50 a. na.—No. 16, daily, except Sun day, local for Statesville and Taylors ville, connectfng at Mooresville for Winston-Salem. 10:05 a. m.—No. 37, daily. New York, Atlanta and New Orleans Limited. Pullman drawing room sleeping cars and observation cars New York to New Orleans, Atlanta and Macon. Din ing car service. Solid Pullman train. 10:15 a. m.—No. 36, United States fast mail, for Wilmington and points North. Pullman drawing room sleep ing cars. New Orleans and Birming ham to New York. Day coaches to Washington. Dining car service. 10:20 a. m.—No. 28, daily, for Wins ton-Salem, Roanoke and local points. 11.10 a. m.—No. 11, dally local for Atlanta and intermediate points. 2:65 p. m.—No. 46, daily, local for Greensboro and Intermediate points. 4:35 p. m.—No. 27, daily, local for Columbia and Intermediate points. 4:50 p. m.—No. 41, daily except Sun day, local for Seneca and intermediate points. C p. m.—No. 12, daily for Richmond and Norfolk, Handles Pullman cars, Charlotte to Richmond, Charlotte to New York and Salisbury to Norfolk. 6:30 p. m.—No. 24, daily, except Sun day, local for Mooresville, Statesville and Taylorsville. 7:30 p. m.—No. 38. daily. New York, Atlanta and New Orlejins. Limited for Washington and points North. Draw ing room sleeping cars, observation cars to New York. Dining car service. Solid Pullman train. 9:30 p. m.—No. 3[5. daily. United States fast mall, for Atlanta, Birming ham and New Orleans. Pullman draw ing room sleeping'cars New York to New Orleans and Birmingham. Day coaches Washington to New Orleans. Dining car service. 10:00 p. m.—No. 32, daily, the South ern Southeastern Limited, for Wash ington, New York and points North. Pullman drawing room sleeping cars for New York. Day coaches to Wash ington. Dining car service. 10:30 p. m.—No. 43, daily, for Atlan ta and points South. Handles Pullman sleeping car Raleigh to Atlanta. Day coaches Washington to Atlanta. 11:20 p. m.^—No. 30. daily, Birming ham Special for Washington and New York. Pullman drawing room sleeping cars, observation cars to New York. Day coaches to Washington, Dining car service. All New York trains of Southern Railway will arrive and depart from the magnificent Manhattan terminal of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Seventh and Eighth avenues. .Thirty-first to Thirty- third streets, and will be composed of modern electric lighted, steel construct ed Pullman cars. R. H. DeBUTTS. T. P. A.. Charlotte, N. C. R. L. VERNON. D. P. A.. Charlotte,' N. C. H. F. CARY, G. P. A., ] The man who is his own best friend may also be his own worst enemy. Auto Tires REPAIRED^ VULCANIZED . RECOVKREO Inner Tubes Vu*^lzed* We guarantee they will never leak where we Tulcanize tiiem. First puncture ........ 60 centa. Second puncture 25 oenta. Third puncture 25 centa. All sizes s.ew tires carried In stoclL Relay Mfg Co 8S1 and 233 & Tryon 8L Hand-Painted China. Adds to the beauty of any Dining Room. Pickard’s Is by far thp most artistic ime on the market. We have just opened a fun assortmemnt of the newest shapes and designs which we are dis- playing in our cases. Will be glad to show anyone interested. Garabaldi, Bruns &. Dixon JEWELERS AND SILVERSMITHS S. H. HARDWICK. P, Washington. D. C. . T. Mgr., Washington, D. C. B. H. COAPMAN. V. P. & G. Mgr. Washington, D. C S. A. L Ry. SCHEDULE ' JAMES KER, Jr., T. P .A.. Selwyn Hotel. J. B. WYLIE, T. A., Selwyn Hotel, Charlotte, N. C. Trains Iicave Charlott^»S:flectlTe Not. 26, l»ll. NO. 40—5:00 a. m.. through train for Wilmington with parlor car attach ed. Conneicts at Hamlet with No. 33 for Portsmouth and Norfolk. No. 6G for Raleigh, Washington, Balti more, Philadelphia and New York. Dining car service and vestibule coaches to Washington. Pullman Bleeping cars to Jersey City. NO. 48-—7:30 a. m. for Monroe, con necting to all points south. NO. 133—10.10 a. m.—Ijocal for Lln- colnton, Shelby and Rutherford- ton. NO. 47—4:45 p. m.—For Llncolnten, Shelby, Rutherfordton and points West. NO. 44—5 p. m.-—For Wilmington and all local stations. NO. 132^7:25 m.—Handles local sleeper to Portsmouth, Norfolk; connects at Monroe, with No. 41 for Atlanta and Southwest with through sleeper to Birmingham: at Mojiroe with No. 32, . fast train with sleeper to Portsmouth and Norfolk and Jersey City. Connects at Hamlet with • No. 34, with through vestibule coaches to Wash ington. Dining' car Richmond to New York; Pullman sleepers to New York. Traias Arrive at Charlotte* NO. 133—10.10 A. M. from the East> NO. 45—12.10 P. M. from the East. No. 46—9:55 A. M. from the West! and all loctil stations. \ NO. 132—7.05 P. M. from the West. NO. 49—7.25 P. M. from the East. NO. -89—10.50 P, M. from the East. C. B. RYAN. 3. P. A., , . Portsmouth, Va. JAMES KER. T. P. A.. Charlotte^ N C H. S.-LEARD. D. P. A.. ' Raleigh, N. C. i DONT WAIT Come, Come Today Every room in the home can be completely Furnished from Our Mammoth Stock, at Prices That Will More Than Please, When You Consider the Quality. We buy from the most rep utable factories in the country and stand behind every piece we sell. If not as represent ed, your money back The Library Is your Library complete; maybe you need a new Table, an odd Rocker, a nice Rug or some other piece for this room. .Remember we have it. The Bed Room How about this room.? Big showing of Brass and Iron Beds, at remarka bly Low Prices. Chiffoniers and Dressers; Bed Room Rugs—either odd or to match. The DiDing Room Extension Tables and Burets, Chairs, all to matcli. Here you can get any piece, or the entire suit, at a cost so reasonable that you will be much sur prised. I The Kitchen CABINETS, witli every convenience—made of the best material—ranging m pr.ce from $12.50 to- $35.00. RANGES--The famous Miller; every one uaranteed with as strong a guarantee as the factory and ourselves can rn^e. We carry Gas Ranges also, and Our Prices Are Right. LINOLEUM All grades and a, full selection of patterns. FURNITURE CO In All ]ji£ con sat! «B Col am Stc Th ce i By Ass ' Washi: Issue is merce c( court in TOinniiss Loday. The is wbat poi continen fipight I J’iiciflc jngdiate (ntns-cor ])oints t( lire mat er a St te pi ting vision o i; ate co: b;, Oldi' f.hould }j eific cca loneyT, v was divi The e tluce rat ties and ar.tiiig ri'.ts plu ecast t( nmts. ( p. c.ppli '■arriers raerce c carried. States s In its commisi fvvaste fore une tain a s; PreH-sly coast ci' T W m m 2i J
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