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TPfP"^' DE^EM^EI^ 26, I9U Hoods Sarsaparilla Cures all humors, catarrh and rheumatism, relieves that tired feeling, restores the appetite, cur«s paleness, nervousness, builds up the whole system. G«t It today In usual liquid form or chocolated tablets called •arsatabs* COL WIHEBSON TO BE HEARD IT PRES. COLLEEE REV. DK. LHW ENTERS INTO REST --A Since the last Issue of the News, Rev. Dr. P. R- Law, the able editor of the Presbyterian Standard has pass ed. Dr. Law died suddenly Saturday night at the home of one of his daugh ters. In McColl, S. C. He left Charlotte the middle of last week for McColl to officiate at the marriage of his daughter, Miss Lida Law to Mr. Robt. Chapman. He was a great sufferer from asthma and bronchial trouble. The change of rooms and climate gave him fresh cold and brought on one of the paroxysms to which he was sub ject. He hadn’t the strength to sur vive it. The funeral took place Sunday aftei*- noon at McColl. Owing to the short Col. Henry Watterson, famous edi tor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, will deliver his address on notice the many friends whom the ven- ixext Saturday night In the Piesbjte • minister and editor had, in Ian College auditorium. It was impos- (;;harlotte were unable to attend. Bible to secure the auditorium for tne event, because the Southern Power bom in Martinsville, Company has already secured the use December 7. 1849. He attended of the building for a banqu^ to th®i^ Davidson College where he earned the employes on Saturday night. The degree of A. B., and where later the Academy of Music could not be secur- 0( ^as conferred upon Bd because a show was booked there him. After graduation at Davidson for that date. Rev. J. R. Caldwell, pres- jjq attended the Union Theological tdent of the Presbyterian College, seminary at Hampden-Sydney and hearing of the dllemna in which the began his long service by work in the aianagement of the Wtatterson event Orange county presbytery in 1877. He found itself, generously came for^rd ^ ^ag ordained August 28, 1877. From 1877 to 1885 he was evangelist and stated supply for Plttsboro, Haywood, Mount Vernon Springs In Chatham county, N. C. From 1885 to 1887 he was editor of a religious paper in Charlotte. From 1897 to 1889 he was pastor of a church in Lumberton and from 1891 to 1893 he was stated uup- uly at Lumber Bridge. Between 1901 and 1906 he supplied a number of churches of the Fayetteville presby- and offered tlie auditorium of the Pres byterian College, which wasmost grate fully acecpted. Colonel Watterson will, therefore, be heard at the Presbyterian ege on next Saturday night at 8 o’clock, Bpeaking in favor of the proposed arbi tration between France, England and the United States, the two former na tions having already ratified it. Everybody is invited to hear the ad dress and there is no kind of doubt tery and was one of those most in- that a record-breaking crowd will be In fluentlal In the affairs of the South- attendance to hear the distinguished journalist and peace advocate. Indies tre especially invited to the lecture. Mrs. Watterson will accompa ny Colonel Watterson to Charlotte and will share with her brilliant husband ♦he cordial reception that will be ac corded him. A committee of ladies will nave charge of arrangements to enter tain Mrs. Watterson and to make her stay In Charlotte pleasant. BRIEFS. ern Presby|erlan college. In 1907 h" w'sts made editor of The Presbyterian Standard and held, that position until his death. Dr. Yay was a Prestty terian through and through. He was of the strictest sect, a Calvinist. He was an ardent defender of the faith, a man whose great brain and big heart were conse crated to the cause of the Master. He knew but one head of the church— the Ijord, Jesus Christ. Him and Him only did he serve. He was of the or thodox school—every drop of blood In him was that of Scotch-Irlsh Presbyte rian ancestry, and none of his forbears lived up to tbe high standard of that creed more ably, more fully, more grandly than he. His brain challenged the admiration of his peers; his heart won the love of his associates; his daily life of sufTer- —Christmas of 1911 is history. —It’s all over for 12 months. —Nasty weather, as the Englishman would say. —Mr. Burton Smith returns to Richmond tonight. —Mr. Victor Latanner, former cir culation manager of the News, now of cheerfulness—for the former, Petersburg, Va., spent Christmas in i tlthough great, was not greater than the city. I the latter—; his close touch with the —Stationmaster Stovall at the South- Master his “good fight”— these are ern station states that the Christmas t)ut a few of the traits, of the attrlb- travel this year was the heaviest he tites of this great man. has seen In the forty years of his rail- As preacher, as editor, as man, he road life. i was a “Saul among his fellows.” He —Mr. Earnest Hood, of Winston- o«d Mr. Caldwell were ardent admir- Salem, formerly connected with tne ers of each other’s ability. Their pens local firm of Belk Bros., is spending were dipped in different ink, but the a part of the holidays here and witn , tracing of each was for the up-lift, the .Relatives at Matthews. betterment, the guiding aright of man- Oscar Hamilton of W’ilming- ^^nd. They were reared in the same ton ie spending a few days in the city, school, Inherited the same traditions. He is here to attend the Grier-Cross ^oth there was that element of wedding which is to take place tomor- strength that denoted their Scotch- row night at Robinson church. Iilsh blood. The public knew Dr. Law as minis ter and editor—and no writer in the state, not even Mr. Caldwell yielded a stronger pen—but it was the people who lived at the Central, with him. and in his office at the Standard, who knew the man, and they were the ones who The Christmas services at the suffered every mln- church of the Holy Comforter in Dil- nights were spent worth yesterday were particularly suffering as well as his days. He ••right and interesting. Rev. Francis always awake, aijd yet he would Osborne, the rector, conducted the ser- the morning and go to his vice, and his distinguished father, work ed write-^^ the writer recalls Rev. E. A. Osborne, preached the ser- mon. “ - - A Gold Watch For Populai Rectoi Gift to Rector. always cheerful. He murmured not. He fqaght, not only a “good fight in the After the services a committee from °Ja the congregation waited upon Mr. % ku t ir Francis psborne and presented him hi tn Shint? show^ ItMlf with a handsome (told watch, as a “ testimonial of affection and apprecla- “*• tenacious. He never gave tion. Entertainment. The-. Christmas entertainment by up. He was a great scholar, a learned, cultured, high toned Christian gentle man. His life, his example are a in beT.d'?om”Lrow nSf*? 7“,^! rihe“gre.TS wkl4 Wii be held tomorrow night at 7:30 at oWa to the church. ministry he so ably adorned; to ♦icon l^^cturp iinntr i ^ children and to all with whom hef of /I u auspices of the .was associated. Dur^ thi tv, f * ^ pulpit was th? f /lav - Statesville when he assisted at the claB8«u“ BPnara^pW nt funeral service of his friend and fellow , p ately, at their homea. craftsman-—Joseph Pearson Caldwell. Other days were vouchsafed to him— Just days enough to live to perform the marriage ceremony of his daughter. Miss Lida Law an)d Mr. Chapman. When he left the Central fdr McColl Mrs. Perkins said to him: “Dr. Law do you feel able to go?” “No,” he said, “but after the wed- Five Minutes SourncM, Gas, Heartburn and Stom ach Distress Will Disappear. ijistress after eatintr sourness srn.8 ... and heartburn can be quickly relieved ^ ^ by taking one or two MI-O-NA stom- The rest that belongeth unto the peo- ach tablets l ^ ® belongeth unto this good They are gn.rant.ed to banUh any 1“tW great m«.. ca»® of Indigestion, acute or chronic pno TnMniiRnw stomach ailment no matter what it Is niqht , ,.l A Chrlstma. social for the 'sunaay con?enleSt“be'*^M «°t«ruinment. r«com- —Mr. Joe Hunter, who baa been a nu mied for nervousness, sleepleM-1 student at Whltsett Institute the past J1C3S, bad dreams, constipation, dlztl* ness and blllousnevs. session, la spending tha holldayB in the City with relatlrei and frlendi. An Uneasy Feeling ) SIMMONS HED Z LIVER REGULATOR (THE POWDBR FORM) It removes all unpurities or fermented lood, cleanBes tones the stomach and bowels and restores.' that fine feelins of exhilaration, ment^ activity and checrfiOness that belong only to perfect health. Sold b9 Dealer*. FHct, Largt Paetagm, $1.00. AAIM the reM M wUb fbc Rad Z on ^ lafecL H yew cannot tit h rcaUt u u. w* wiU Mad It by Mil Miyiid. SiouMM Urcr Repiluor It put u» aUo In UooJil fo» for tkOM who vnfn k. PrioSLoO^bottU. Uoklorili*a«dXUbeL w»> piw« J« H* ZEILIN A GO«a Proprtotovs* St« Lovla* MlsMmH • S. JH. KRESS & CO. Inventory Sale • Starts ^ WEDNESDAY ONE O’CLOCK Store Closed Wednesday Morning to complete arrangements for the one great sale of the year. >>.r All odds and ends, broken assortments of holiday goods,,toys, crockery, cbma, tinware, hardware, not ons _ HALF PAICE OR LESS 5c goods at. 10c goods at,. 25c goods at 1, 2, 3c _4,6,7c 12, 17c 5**I0""»25®»"ST0RE “WATCH KRESS WINDOWS” ♦ THE YEAf^^ FESTIVALS. OCl^i Miss WILSON'S GUESTS. Local Finn Loses $600 Diamond A ^hopper walked into the Garibal di, >Bnzns & Dixon jewelry store, with hundreds of other shoppers, and paid particular attention to a tray of very expensive diamonds. After look ing over the lot carefully he an nounced that he did not see anything Miss Sarah White Wilson Is to be that appealed to him, although he hostess to two of the most attractive did not say so until he had very mln- vlsltors of the holidays—Miss Mary^ utely examined the finest dlamont Louise Manning of Durham and Miss in the lot, worth about |500 and Jennie Lee Harris, of Atlanta. Miss weighing about two and a halC car- Mannlng is a daughter of Judge Man- ats. After thanking the clerk in very ning. She arrives this evening. Mls6 affable manner for his attention the Harris comes tom^row. j stranger walked out. ,,, until about an hour ^ Miss Elizabeth Withers has as her later, when 'an Inspection of the tray Mls& Bettle King, of Summer- was made, that it was discovered t^e ville, Ga. POSTPONED TO NEW YEAR’S. The Xmas entertainment at Chaim* er’s Memorial has been postponed from tomorrow night to New Year« night. The boys of the younger set are going to give a dance at the Selwyn hotel tonight beginniDg at 8:30 p. m. The chaperones will be: Mrs. B. D. Heath, Mrs. Heriot Clark son, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. McCllntock, All the jewelry stores In this and finest and most costly diamond was missing. In its place was an inferior fetone worth only about |25 or ^30. The authorities were notified at once about the theft and have been working on the case since. Nothing positive haa yet developed, but the proprietors liave facts and evidence that strongly point to the guilty par ty. Several detectives have been em ployed and the Jewelers’ Security Al liance, which is backed by the Pink erton agency, has also been notified Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Dowd, Mrs. Wm. W. Johnson. MR. AND MRS. HOLT HERE. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Holt, Jr., of Lexington, are part—and a very hap py part—of Dr. John L. Caldwell’s household this Christmas season. They will be here for several days. MISS BOWDEN ENTERTAINS. Last evening Miss Esther Bowden gave a 6 o’clock dinner at her love ly home on Poplar street. The parlor, reception hall and dining room were beautiful in the Christmas decora tions of holly, ferns and polnsetta The table was laid for six. The place cards were little red bells with rib bons running from them to the cen terpiece which was of holly and when cards were drawn nuts came popping out of the holly and in them were questions to be answered which caus ed much nlerrlment. Those present were: Misses Blanche Mlllersham, Esther Bowden, Dr. Bass, Mr. Ybder and Mr. and Mrs. N. T. Bowden. WITKGATE HALL HOSPITALITY. A post-Xtnas social event, will be a dinner dance—a la Newport—this evening by Mr. and Mrs. S. W, Cra mer, ta their beautiful home, With- gate Hall, In compliment to their daughter, Miss Katherine Cramer^ and son. Cadet S. W. Cramer, Jr., aUd their housep arty, which consists ot: Misses Mary and Corrine Falls, of Memphis, Tenn.; Kathleen Murphy and Dorothy Berry, of Smith College, and Cadets William Rosevear, Wil liam Crane, John McMahon and Al fred Johnston, of the United States Military Academy, West Point. SOCIAL TONIGHT. There will be a social tonight at the First Baptist church to which all adult members of the Sunday school are urged to be present. The gather ing will be in the primary room of the church, and there will be many things to enjoy of a social and musi cal nature. The hour la 8:80. MR. AND MRS. LONDON ENTERTAIN^ The WMnesday Afternoon Bridge Club haa an annual Xmaa evening. The hoflta this year were Mr. atid Mrs. H. A. London, jr.. and the game was last night, Biuchre was played. rMs. J. E. Kavanaugh won the highest score. There was a grab bag which contained Xmas souvenirs. The guests were: Mr. aad Mrs. John M. Scotty Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Dodsworth, of Was- ton. Md., Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Lid- delli Mr. «nd Mrs. R. M. Miller, Ma. and Mrs. John R. VanNess, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ohatham, Mr. aad Mrs. Rob* ert C. Mowe, Mr. ind Mn. RaliA Van. Landingham, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Mur- rill. Major and Mrs. J. C. Hemphill. Mr. « ndMrs. Armand DeRossett Myers, Mr. and Mrs. C. Or Codding- ton, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. London, jr., Mrs MlnilSi WrlSton Smith, Mrs. Slm- mon« B. Jones, Mrs. W. B. Ryder, Mrs. J. Bl Kavanaugh, Mrs.- H. 3, inowler. Mrs. Maefiaret Kelly Aber nathy. Miss lizzie Lajerence, Mr. adjoining states have been notified to keep a sharp lookout auso. With these agencies at work, it is almost certain that if the valuable stone is offered for sale anywhere the thief will be apprehended. fJegro Murderer Caught. Cairo, 111., Dec. 26.—Lewis and iFrank Ramsey, white, brothers, were shot and killed near Fulton, Ky., last night, by Resul Barfield, a~ negro who was lat^r captured by the sheriff. The sheriff took the negro Into the woods when he learned that a niob was forming. Later he caught a train for Paducah, where Barfield was put in the McCrackenTJill. She is 110 Yejars Oli But Had Btg Christmas Springfield, Mo., Dec. 26.—Greeting cheerfully the neighbors who came to wish her well, Mrs. Lucy Wagoner, who claims to be MO years old, and who lives just across the line in Taney county, Arkansas, said she speht as “Merry a Christmas as any one In the state.” ' “Granny” Wagoner, S,s she Is called, lives alone In a Iqg cabin and makes her own living by working la the cot ton fields and doing odd jobs. She says she was bom in Tennessee In 1801 and that slie has eight great great grand children besides numerous other descendants. Quickest, Surest Cough Remedy Ever Used Steps Even Whooping Cough Quickly. A Family Supply for 50c. Money Refunded If It Falls. If some one in your family has an obsti* Date, deep-seated cough;—even whooping cough-^Which haa yielded slowly to treat ment. bay a 50cent bottle of .Pinex and watch that cough vanish. If it fails, money back promptly, and without argument. A S6^nt bottle of Pipex, t^en mixed with home-mads sugar syrup, makes a full f)int—a family supply—of the most effect- ve cough remedy tiiat money can buy, at a saving of $2. Gives instant relief and will usually wipe eut a bad cough la 24 hours or less. Easily prepared in five minutes—directions in package. Pinex Cough Syrup haft a pleasant taste —children take it willingly. It stimulates the appetite and is slightly laxative— both good feStures. Splendid for croup, hoarseness, throat tickle, incipient lung troubles, and a prompt, successful reis- edy for whooping cough. nex is a soraal and highly eon cen tra com^und ot Norway White Pine extract, and is rich in guaiaci^ SAd other elements wbi^ are so healmg to the membranes. , Sim«\l« mix it with snnr syrup er strained hobey, In a plnfi bottle, and it is ready for ufte. Used in inow homes in the t7. 8. and'Cfhada than anr other ooufh remedy. Pinex has oft^ been Imitated, but sever successfully, for nothing else will produce the same results. The genuine is guaranteed to ^ve s^olute satisfaction or money refunded. Certificate of antee is wrapped In each package Yon» druggist has Pine* orjtrill «rit for vm S4Tm.!“ “ ^ 35.^ flys The Yule-log is a remnant of the Juul, when the ^candanaviaAs used to kindle huge fires in the honor of their god Thor. J In somep arts of old England, bringing in the Tule-log was the prin cipal ceremony of Christmas eve, and was welcomed with song and sport. Part of the log was carefully pre served to light the Yule-log of the succeeding year. It was believed that a piece of the log In the souse was a security against fire; and If a squint ing person entered the room while it WS.S burning, all sorts of Ill-luck would come to the family. A Yule-candlb of enormous size was lighted, which burned on the tabl0 at supper, and in the buttery of St. John’s Collie, Oxibrd, an ancient candle-socket of stone still remains. It was thought that nothing added more to the cheer of the company that plenty of warmth and light, and both^were particularly welcome to the peasiants who were entertained with a dinner at the landlord’s house, it was the old English custom for ^he serfs to |>rlng a load of wood with them, and their dinner was to last the length ^of time that it took “to burn away a wet wheel” on the open fire in the hall, "In which the meal took place. As this “wet wheel" (which was simply a tree section of green wood) was supplied by the ten ants, and their dinner of good things was to last during its burning, we niay be sure that each year the “wheel” was cut thicket and thicker till It became a log. Burning the ^Yule-log In England in later times was an important cere mony. The log was draw^n by servants into the hall where each member ot the family, sitting down in turn on the 16g, sang a Yule-song, and ^irank a cup of spiced ale. The log was then cast on the fire with prayers for the safetr ol the house and the happiness of its inmates until ne:ft Yule-tide. Then'came a riotous tlnie when the spirit of misrule reigned. Pleasures werep rovided for all, Yule-cakes, barrels of ale, dancing, singing, romp ing, laughing, kissing under the mis tletoe, more eating and drinking; then gathering arou^id the blazing log to tell legendary tales till the bells of midnight gave warning that it was time to disperse. In all they' ear there is no day which fills the heart of the world with such joy and tenderness as Christmas. It is the time when the fire of generous impulse burns high, and whatever «may be said of the danger of Christmas giving being de generated into mere commercial give- and-take, it is still a pure pleasure to thousands who love children and pity the poor in thes plrlt of Him In honor of whose birth the day is cele brated. During the centuries since Christ mas first came to be observed in the Church, the festival has had many severe,* trials being condemned and flouted by some, made occasion ot gross and sacriligious riotings and unbridled revelry by others, and at times studiously ignored by those not in sympathy with Its urholders. Thee ustoms of Christmas, aside from toose directly bearing upon the birth of Christ, are, like so many of our festive rites, adapted from the pagans, who could not have been ex pected to leave their established hab its and change to new ones on be coming Christians, or if they were ex pected to, did not, but had such 4 powerful influence on those who con verted them, th^t the festivals'of all subsequent years have reflected^'thelr temper. The adaptation of pagan to Christian customs is particularly true of Christmas, as many of the an cient Christmas practices were taken from the Roman feast of Saturn. Christmas as it no wexists con tains elements of the old time cus toms, which are modified atid refined There is fervor in church ‘sdrvice without fanaticism; there Is great hospitality, yet the poor aren ot for* gotten, and withal, In this semi-relig ious, semi-festive season are gaieties reunion of friends, giving of presents, and an exchange of compliilaents. The modem thought on the celebration of this eveiit seems to tend toward healthy condition of love toward, and confidence in, our brother men; and while we hold'the religious idea, we may sing and dance without fearing that the eartJj/ will open and, swallow us up, but may be sure that whatever obje^ionable features there are now will dl6 but naturally under the in fluence of reason and progress and a greater infusion of the Christ spir it. \ A student of Queen’s College, Ox ford. is said to have been walking in Sholbver Forest, studymg Aristotle, when a Boar rushed out at him. but with great presence of mind he crammed the book down the beast’s throat and choked It. Of course, poor student could not waste a good Aristotle by losing it in the neck ot a boar, so the head was cut off and the book recover^. But a good bdar’s head could not be wasted any more than a classic tome, so It was taken to the college and ^as roasted and eaten. This is said to have been the origin of the dish In the colleise.*-^ From the Year’s Festivals. Helen Philbrook Patten. Entertamment 4t Bbeneur Church A Christmas entertainment is to be held at Ebenecer on Thursday night The invitation to the News, and therefore to the public is as follows: 0B|/ Om ^BROMO S^UININ£,** that is L»i5Bve Btctbo OarM*GoMlnOiieik«y, 2 Days Everyone ,s cordially i„vi,„r present at our entertainn,er ieW at Ebenezer, oo the”''''*' four. anti have of December, 28th. Come self, laugh with your friends a jolly good time. ‘‘Doors open 7 p. m. “No admission fee.” On _ fcojc. U. C* 7. to Cikbrati Chtistnm To^morrm A CTeat big event for tomorrow is the U. 0. T. social session and ban- .quet. The former will be held by the council tomorrow afternoon at o’cloclf . All councllmen ahe expected to be there, and all visiting U. C. T. are invited. ^ Banquet. The banquet will be held tomorrow night at the Siglwyn at 8 o’clock. Pres ident Clarence Keuster is to be toast master. Toasts will be given by Con gressman Webb* Mayor'Bland, Maj. 3. C. Hemphill. The receptloq, committee oonststs of all Officers and tbelr wiVjB*. TW* }n» eludes all past councllmen who have served through the chairs of tils couay cll. — This store is merchandising “on the minute.” We are opening up ■ today adyance shipments of new g-pring Ginghams, Embroideri Laces, Kid Gloves, etc.' KErTSi We will make a “clean sweep” of our Blanket stock and at $1.48, j $2>48 and $3.48 you will find values never offered in Charlotte before || 4 on blankets. 1LILES-NIX CO ! Charlotte’s Authority on Women’s Wear 17 and 19 West Trade Street Phones 776-777 Forbes Udd^^jL Mr. Frank Law- ^ Gtood pay. renca. i N. Pine. 2^2t luitef Nd *Aer txttmmt niluinid. s. Typewriters For Rent I have on hand at all times the largest stock to select from of all maJces of typewriters of any dealer in the city (make a personal investiga tion and see), including Remingtons, Olivers, Underwood, L. C. Smiths, Smith Premiers and other makes. Each rental typewriter is kept properl) oiled and cleaned, and supplied with new ribbon. Those I rent look li!i new, and write like new ones. My rate is $3 per month, delivered any where In the city, and I allow 2 months’ rent to apply on the purchase of ANY typewriter you buy from me ANY TIME IN THE FUTURE. When you want to rent any kind of a typewriter, telephone me 243. J0NE8—'The Typewriter Man—Biggest Dealer in Carolinas. Office 225 North Tryon Street. Come! and take a look at oui GAME WINDOW and then gel ready for a good hunt during the holidays. ^ dlstfloHe Hardware Conip®*'y •^You will see the “Big Key” at our front door.
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