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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, APRIL 18, J 906. A Good Story Every Day by WHEN DELIA WAS SEVENTEEN By Gertie De S. Wentworth- James. , (r,v. ii;!it 1906 by Joseph B. Bowles.) -iit'atj 1906, by Joseph B. Bowles.) j', no use trying to keep a daily ij.-svv. because things don't happen "v'i-V day! but on birthdays something o!;;vs happens, so from today, June " 1 am going to keep a birthday diary. is now half-past ten; the sun is svi'Iii'- a!ltl 1 turned 17 just four and TiV hours ago according to what iiuJuua tells me! YeUHll! Ot i-ourse everybody at least, Lady Luu.Vr and Miss Cartwright and j". i't.;i -?ays that I am too young for my 1,'iiV io -" up ail(1 my skirts to go ;,-.vn. ami that I ought to wait until xr 'voar, when I come out and am ,!iv iiiiol: but mamma agrees with me ;.a only daughter (especially when V ha-n'i any father) can't help grow ytSr I;--, beiore her time; so I'm going l) :iv a year's informal fun at home lUii:ni like a woman, yet finishisg IVv l.-ons at the same time! "i u'.'.l Erica mamma had promised m yivo a garden party on my seven trt'urn birthday, so that people might ;ullU'i'staiid I was "out" in a quiet sort of way. I think it a pity, dear," said Erica iSouuhnes I almost wish that my (vim had made her home somewhere tA, i'i:t with us, when her people went p.vav. because she always argues out ia' pet theories!). "You see, if a girl er thing too early, she uses u'i all her best emotion before she i' :.t an age really to understand the luxury uf feeling." This morning as I lay in bed and vau lted His sun creeping through the blind till it reached my new white f:!Hk and dyed it gold, I thought about U,ve. and tried to make up my mind v. man i wuiuu iua.nj. i Ot' course, there is Dolf; but then he's going abroad for goodness only Knows how many years six, seven, It rha;!S. making me an old woman when he comes back; so, as I mean to iaiiMv early, he must be left out of ike (jiKsticn. Bertie Rogers isn't tall taoagh Archibald Wootton is too poor i at Iciisr I heard LadytLandor say his larhoi's financial affairs were in a wry precarious state"), and Guy Lorne vvtars such hideous clothes. I (think i; j a positive crime for any man, par i h-nlariy a husband, not to be well drtssed':.) Then, as all those are impossible, it leaves only Nigel Ross! And I cer tainly shouldn't mind Mr. Ross being let": as long as he was left to me! I never read over the description (in The World's Real Things) of "Roy Kithwick" without thinking of him. Sirange, heavy-lidded, magnetic eyes, blue and full of things that shuuld not be there: the mouth of a dreamer; the brow of a poet; the chin oi a voluptuary; and the chest of a Xorse king!" lie is just like that, only more so! And now it's my birthday. He has son: me a great bouquet of white flow ers; he is coming to the garden party this afternoon, and I am going to wear ray new white frock which touches the ground all the way! Isn't it all lovely, and isn't, the sun shining': 10:30 p. m.: My first grown-up birth day is over, and I am sitting before the glass trying to get my hair out of tangle ( I French-combed it to make the plait thicker), and thinking how strange everything is. The garden party was lovely, until Dclf got silly and asked me to show him the new pups in the stable. Of course I couldn't refuse, and I really felt rather excited when he suddenly grab er clasped my hand across lit tle fat Toto's back. ' D-do you know I'm g-g-going away tomorrow, Delia?" he said stutter ing." "Xo, I didn't know you were off so soon," I replied, languidly. "Well. I am. and and Delia, do you think you could er would care to to?'' "To see you off at the station, Dolf?" 'Xo, no! I I don't think I could stand that, because I'm going for years, you know." "Yes, I know.' (Here I picked up one of the pups and kissed its pink nose.) "Well. Delia.if you you don't find any one else who seems to to to :;uit you, don't you see, perhaps oh! hang it all, dear, I love you awfully, and I want you to promise to marry me when I come back." "But you'll forget me after a month, Dolf," i said, leaning back against the dark stable dcor and smiling up at him. "I shall never, never foreet you or leave off loving you all my life," he answered, in a voice that sounded very real, although the "Duchess," in The World's Real Things says that "the most truthful man becomes a liar when he dabbles in love." Just as I was thinking how dark and strong Dolf looked, and wondering ex actly what I would do if he mentioned kiting me. I saw Nigel Ross turning round by the coachhouse I must go'." I cried, dropping Spot tles on his mother's back "I must go at once!" 'Oil! Delia, stav and hear mo. An swor me, darling!" "Don't be silly! I can't stay I don't want to hear,' I whispered. Scarcely knowing what I said, because of my lfar that Nigel (a man of twenty-four a half), would think that I wa3 ilirting with a boy of twenty! "I I'm sorry," I didn't mean to both r you. Good-by," was Dolf's only an swer, as he raisprl hia cfrnw hnt pud turned away. The next minute I was speakina: to igel, who also seemed quite nervous, it isn't much cf a triumph to ms" a boy began to stutter and stam mc", but when it's a man wun strange, heavy-lidded, magnetic eyes, and a chest of a Norse king" why, inat s quite another matter! I er i er was just looking round to see" th'T0. see the dogs?" I interrupted, n.iuing it would be tactful and wom anly to help him out. a Writer of Reputation - "Yes," he answered, looking right and left, as if he was afraid some one would come along and disturb us. "They are a new lot, aren't they?" "Of course they are," I said, nod ding toward the stables just as (oh! how I would have :ovea to shake my passee relative) Erica came along from the little door in the wall which leads from the grounds! "Oh! you are here?" she said, with a silly little giggle (like sixpence rat tling in a glass) that is so absurd in a woman of her age. "Oh,, yes, we are here!" I answered, in a tone that I am sure must have made her seem particularly foolish. Then we all waited without saying anything at all, and the very silence was enough to make Erica feel herself the inconvenient third. "Well er " she began, after a mo ment. Now, to do her justice, I conclude that she was going to say: "Well er I must be going;" but, as ill luck would have it, at that instant Bertie Rogers came racing round the corner to tell me that mamma wanted me to say good-by to some people who were leaving early. "Oh, yes, I'll come along now," I said, of course pretending to be aw fully delighted. "Erica will show you the puppies, Mr. Ross," I called out as we hurried off, Although it was a horrible pity to have a proposal of marriage interrupt ed like this, still, I daresay the "tan talisingness' of being Kept waiting will only make him all the keener at least, Nora says it will. After that nothing else particulaly exciting happened except that when Nigel (I am practicing calling him Nigel to myself, and I'm 'going to write "Delia Ross" in a minute, to see how it looks) said good-by, he held my ures one reads about, and said: "I shall come in tomorrow, Delia, and then We'll have a long talk. Good night, my birthday girl ! " His "birthday girl!" Wasn't that quite sweet? And tomorrow will soon be here, and tomorrow we will have the wonderful "long talk!" Oh, dear! I wonder what my. ring will be like! Of course I shall have diamonds, and I think a marquise, as half-hoops seem so old-fashioned somehow everyone's mother has a half-hoep. In a way I agree with Nora in wish ing that "Nigle" was dark. It takes so little to make a fair man look like a girl, while a dark one (take Dolf, for instance) always seems to to oh! I don't know. I wonder if I shall ever be really in love? Of course Nigel will be a good match, and as I am determined to marry while the "lilies and violets bloom," I couldn't find a nicer fiance (he dresses and dances so well, too) ; but, all the same, I shall never be in --love with him. ' " ; : ? ' '' That will be all the more fashiona ble, I suppose; and then perhaps after I'm married some one will come along who Oh, bother! there's a nock at the door it must be mamma or Erica; I'll finish when they've gone. 11:45 p. m. It was Erica. She has just left. I can't understand it. It is most extra ordinary the most extraordinary thing in all the course of my experience. Erica came to tell me that she is en gaged to Nigle Ross, who proposed to her over her puppies! Whether he pro posed to her out of pique because he may have seen Dolf try to take my hand, I don't know; but I suppose no it must have been so, as there is no other possible explanation. If it had been Nora, who is only just 19, I might have understood it; but Erica Erica, who was 25 last birth day! She says she wonders that I hadn't guessed something of the sort. "Mr. Ross is only 24 and a half, isn't he? I answered. "Yes, dear; but" "Well, I hardly reckoned upon a case of disparity the wrong way round; but I hope you'll be very happy," was all I could say. - Erica only laughed. THE OTHE BY T. V. HAN SHEW. Will be the title of the story tomor row. Don't fail to read it. Have Courage, My BoyT To Say No You'r starting, my boy, on life's journey, Along the grand highway of life; You'll meet. with a thousand tempta tions, Each city with evil is rife. This world is a stage of excitement, There's danger wherever you go; But if you are tempted in weakness, Have courage, my boy, to say No! to courage i,nvbl.MyMr; When you the long journey begin; Your trust in a heavenly Father Will keep you unspotted from sin. Temptations will go on increasing, As streams from a rivulet flow; But if you'd be true to your manhood, Have courage, my boy, to say No! Be careful in choosing companions, Seek only the brave and the true; And stand by your friends when in trial, Ne'er changing the old for the new; And when by false friends you are tempted The taste of the wine cup to know, With firmness, with patience and Kina- ness, Have courage, my boy, to say No! The biggest horn does not always blow the loudest, It has caused more laughs and dried more tears, wined away disease and ririvpn awav more fears than any other medicine in the world. Ilollister's Rocky Mountain Tea, 35 cents. Tea or Tablets. R. H. Jordan & Co. 11 SCOTT'S EMULSION is more than a fat food. There is no animal fat that compares with it in nourishing and Building up the wasted, emaciated body. That is why chil dren and anaemic girls thrive and grow fat upon it. That is why persons with consumptive tenden cies gain flesh and strength enough to check the progress of the dis ease. SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pearl Street, New York. NATIONAL HYMNS. A Government May Propose, But The PPeople Adopt or Reject a Song of Author and Make it a "National Air." From the New York Sun. Secretary Bonaparte did well not "to commit himself to the project of of fering a prize for a new national air to be selected by a council of musicians from all parts of the country." He was wise to withhold even his in dorsement of the project of advertis ing for a national air, and perhaps of offering souvenirs as an inducement to competitors. The "Star Spangled Banner," which it is proposed to supersede, was com posed by a native of Secretary Bona parte's home State, Maryland. Very recently in the Albany Legislature a measure was seriously discussed mak ing it mandatory upon school authori ties in New York to insist that an the words of the "Star Spangled Banner" all the verses without curtailment) should be sung by the school children, with whom the "Star Spangled Ban-1 ner" is a favorite, made familiar by frequent repetition. National hymns, however, are not made popular by legislation, and songs responsive to the aspirations of a peo ple are not-fo be secured by advertise ment. A government proposes ; the peo ple adopts or rejects a song or anthem, and makes it a "national air." Under despotic Governments only, if ever, are such official selections accepted. "God Protect the Czar" is the national Rus sian, or rather the Russian Govern ment hymn: Haydn's "Hymn to the Kaiser" has similar, but not greater, vogue in Austria. "Das Deutche Vaterland" is official ly the recognized German air; "Die Watch am Rhein" is the popular one. For many years in France "Partant Pour ia Syrie" was the "national air;" "La Marseillaise" has been the people's favorite since it was first sung over a century ago at the beginning of the French Revolution. In Italy Garibaldi's hymn is the popular, but not the offi cial,; national air. In American crowds or American audiences the stately music of "Hail Columbia" never causes the moving feet or the singing accompaniment of "Dixie." Popular preference determines, for mal legislation can prescribe, the ac ceptance as popular of any song or anthem. Even in England, where the conventions cf army and official life Britannia," the music of which was composed by Arne, has been generally replaced by "God Save are King," a composition of disputed authorship, The "Wearing of the Green," in Ire land, owed its popularity to no official recognition; indeed, for a consider able period it was legally interdicted in some Irish counties as an appeal to revolt and an incitement to disorder. A wiser and more tolerant view of its effective appeal to Irish emotions has been adopted since the Boer war. The "Star Spangled Banner" is prob ably secure in patriotic American fa vor if no more serious assault upon its popularity can be devised or suggested than an advertisement by the Govern ment authorities for a substitute, the selection of which could be determined upon "by a" council of musicians from all parts of the country." National airs are not sung by the people of a coun try because a Congress, a Parliament or a National Assembly so ordains or recommends. Musical councils cannot regulate public taste or preference in such a matter, and Secretary Bona parte was discreet in refusing to com mit himself to the furtherance of any plan to do away with the "Star Span gled Banner" as the recognized nation al air for most Americans. DANGER FROM THE PLAGUE There's grave danger from the plague of. Coughs and Colds that are so prevalent, unless you take Dr. . King's New Discovery for Consump tion, Coughs and Colds. Mrs. Geo Walls, of Forest City, Me., writes: "It's a Godsend for people living in cli mates where coughs and colds prevail. I find it quickly ends them. It pre vents Pneumonia, cures LaGrippe and eives wonderful relief in Asthma and Hay Fever and makes weak lungs strong enougn to wara on consump tion, Coughs and Colds. 50c and $1.00 Guaranteed by Woodall & Sheppard's drug store. Trial bottle free. We have added a large work room and several expert wood-workers and upholsterers to our equipment and are better prepared than ever before to give prompt and satisfactory service at reasonable cost to those who have furniture that needs to be repaired or upholstered. JOHNSON & DWYE UPHOLSTERING PARLORS, 1 18-20 W. 5th St. 'Phone S69. Upholstering and Repairing It is no worse to be one of the' biersrest bugs in a small potato hill than to be one of the smaller bugs in a big hill. : - He who has no faith in himself is destined to become a successful fail ure. A FACT ABOUT THE "BLUES" What is known as the "Blues" 5s seldom occasioned by actual exist ing external conditions, but in the great majority of cases by a dis ordered LIVER. THIS IS A FACT which may be demonstra ted by trying a course of They control and regulate the LIVER. They bring hope and bouyancy to the mind. They bring health and elastic ity to the body. TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE. BSnBrfMMtMHMMMMa YOliii NEW HON will probably cost you less money and give you en during comfort and satis faction if we do tne plumb ing and heating. Costs nothing for estimates, etc. 223 S. Tryon St. 0r Phone Is 309. Carolina Seating & Plumbing Company We Have a Good- In a lot on N. Brevard St., near 11th, 98x200 ft.; one in rear 85z200 feet, and one on 11th St. 05x100 ft. We offer the three with four houses renting for $23.00 per month tor $3250.. Terms can be arranged. If interested call or 'phone, Co Hunt Building Bell 'Phone. 302- ! A. W. PROW.'! Notary ubl'c. 243 Acres Four i.'iHes South oi Charlotte for sale on reasonable terms. Thlft land lies on C. C. & A. Railroad and lo suitable for factory sites. HUGH W. HARRIS, Atty. The O'DONAGUHUS Residence on East aenuo. RENT. house corner and Graham, PHONE 604 Y. Af. C. A. SUrt-OlNQ. 5 1-2. ACRE' FARM FOR SALE Fronting on Beattie's Ford Macadam Road, three miles from City, about fifteen acres in timber, forty young fruit trees, three room dwelling, a small barn. A good spring on place. Call at office for Prices. L Cochrane Insurance h , Real Estate TitfsPi f 4 FOR mi. i of Third 4 .J, 4-room i t B IS I Hid a 1Mb arcn h t i 4 4 i Too late to be using Heavy Carpets. The dust damages them almost as much as wear. Take them up and put down clean, cool We have some bargains in China and Japan s Mattings Fibre Carpets, you can wa?h them, beautiful pat terns and colors..... 35c to 65c per yard laid 30-Inch Fibre Rugs...... ,...:$1.25 36-Inch Fibre Rugs $1 .75 30-Inch Matting , $1.25 36-Inch Matting , $1.75 Remnants of Linoleum One-Half Price. Therefore, as a matter of precaution and to insure your health you should buy one that is clean of itself, and one that can be kept clean. These are the kind we keep, supplied in a va riety of styles and prices. Don't wait until the season is over, but buy NOW from h 1 ' OOQQOQOGCOQOGOOOOQOOOQOQO lousiness and Pleasure Vehicles Our Stock of Vehicles for the Spring Trade are in, and they are without a doubt the best selected styles ever shown in Charlotte. We sell or? Easy Terms. J W. Wadwort&fs Sons' Co Leading, Reliable Makes Easy Terms. ueen City Cycle Co Special Bargains for Easter 1906 CM. CARSON, Real Estate and Insurance Store and Dwelling with 3 tenment houses in rear, corner S. Brevard and Hill street, rents pr. year 270.00. Price .. .. $2500.00 Six-room two-story dwelling. Lot 38xl9S, 509 E. 7th. Barn and garden and city water. Rents S1S0.00. Price ... .$2100.00 Six-room cottase, 5139 7th, lot 48x198, rents $144.00. Garden. ,iecnnrt Price ?i650.00' Five-room cottage, corner 11th and Caldwell, on car line. Rents 1120.00. prjce ' .?1300.00 Six-room cottage, 909 N. Church, 50x145, City Water, barn, rents for SI 50 00. Price ?1'00.U0 These prices wiil cnly be good one week until April 20th. Phone 1235 t HI erfect is as much a necessity as food and drink. But there are many that are not per fect and do more harm than good by becoming a breeding place of disease germs. iterator urniture Co. Icycles C. M. CARSON $65.00 PROFESSIONAL CARDS TEETH EXTRACTED WITH OUT PAIN SAFE METHOD. NO BAD AFTER EFFECTS. DR. ZICKLER Dentist 27 SOUTH TRYON STREET. -t Jas. Delaney, Henry S. Bogan, DeLaney & Boggan Attys. and Counselors at Law. Office Cor. Trade and College Sts., Charlotte, N. C. Offic Phone 1230 Residence Phone 1100 Dr. Chas. L. Alexander DENTIST, 203 South Tryon Street, Char lotte, N. C. Office 'phone 109. Residence 'phone SS4. W. M. ROBEY DENTIST Trust Building, Hours 9 to 12, 1:30 to 5. I. W. JAMISON DENTIST, No. 8, S. Tryon Street. Bojh 'phones, C2C. Residence 'phone Bell 1521. DR. H. F. RAY OSTEOPATH Graduate Southern School of Osteopathy. Office Suite 3, Hunt Building. 'Phone 830, Residence 101 North Poplar Street. 'Phone 871. J. M. McMICHAEL ARCHITECT Rooms 505-506 Trust Building, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Wheeler, Runge & Dickey Architects Charlotte, N. C Second Floor 4C's Building. i R. N. Hunter. S. Vaughan. HUNTER & VAUGHAN Contractors and Builders. 'Phone 840 8 West 5th St. Charlotte, North Carolina. Prompt Attention to Repair Norfolk & Western RY Schedule la Effect Dee. S, 1905. Through Train Dally, Chariot anf Roanoke, Va. - North Bound. LiV. Charlotte, So. Ry 11:00 a.nt Lv. Winston, N. & W. By . . 2:50 p.m. LiV. Martinsville 5:00 p.m. Lv. Rocky Mount 6:25 p.m. Ar. Roanoke 7:25 p.i South Bound. Lv. Roanoke 9:20 a.tfc L.v. Rocky Mount 10:26 a.rt. Lv. Martinsville 11:45 a. ml Ar. Winston . 2:00 p.m. Ar.-Charlotte 6:00 p.m Through coach Charlotte and Roa noke. Connects at Roanoke, via Shenandoah Valley Route for Natural Bridge, Lu ray, Hagerstown and all points In Pennsylvania and New York. Pullman sleeper, Roanoke to Philadelphia. Additional train leaves Winston-Salem 7:30 a. m. daily, except Sunday, for Southwest Virginia and Shenandoah Valley points. W. B. BEVIL, Gen. Pass. Agt, Roanoke, Va, M. F. BRAGG. Trav. Pass. Agent. House 4Vooten Have Removed Their Real Estate Office TO Room 6 4 C's Bldg. I Farm Tools Plows, Disc Harrows, Cultiva tors, Grain Drills, Gasolene En gines and all kinds of agricul tural implements at lowest prices at my immense store house, cor. Stonewall and Col lege streets. , C. A. BLACK gj m t .t !
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