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2 THE CHABLOTTE NEWS, JANUARY I, 1911 $163,000,000 For PhU- anthropy In Year 1910 In spite of the much talk about the concentration of wealth in the hands of the f^w, it would seem that there Is little danger of such a condition menacing America so long as Its people are filled with philan thropic purposes. The year just end ed rereals tho fact that $163,197,- 125.62 has actually been given back to the people, not by enforced tax ation or governmental regulation, but voluntarily and presumably hap pily, with no purpose on the part of the possessors of wealth beyond a desire to relievo and uplift the condition of those less fortunate than themselves. Of this total, 976,- 006,478 was contributed to education, $30,475,797.97 to religion, and $56,- 714,849.65 to general charities. This was the year, too, when the Avorld was stirred to hope that the fortune of John D. Rockefeller, In lt3 entirety or In great part, will ul timately be devoted to the common good. On March 22, a bill was in troduced into the United States sen ate by Senator Oallinger, of New Hampshire, for the incorporation of the Rockefeller foundation undei the laws of the District of Columbia. The object of the foundation, as stated at the time, is "to promote the well being and advance the civilization of the peoples of the United States and its territories and possessions and of foreign lands in the acquisi tion and dissemination of knowledge in the prevention of suffering and in the promotion of any and all the elements of human progn \ " The incorporators named were John D. itockefeller. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Frederick T. Gates, Starr J. Murphy and Charles O. Heydt. Mr. Rockefel ler's endowment of his less com prehensive benefaction, the general education board, was $50,000,000 and his gifts during thep ast twenty years, according to his chief almo ner, Frederick T. Gates, have ex ceeded $150,000,000. How much will ultimately be invested In the Rock efeller foundation, provided it is au thorized by congress, is a matter of ronJecTure But if it should transpire that Mr. Rockefeller intends thus to dispose of the greater part of his fortune, the year 1911 will outdis tance In the amount of its phllan- throT)|c (5ifts nny previous years by millions on millions. If one looks beneath the uninvit ing aspect of the cold figi.rcs and fh^ bewildering statistics associated ■vifh the giftH to pnilanihropy there is seen a psychology which makes tor optimism. Tho heart and mind • re thr’lled with the revelation, sfnne the civil war less than fifty pn»"3 n^o. s’atlsticR prove that more han one billion dollars has been riven to our edncational, philanthrop ic and religious instltutiona, Ameri- rx's men and women do not build for themselves great mausoleums !'^ did the kings and queiAls of old. 'hrreby sacrificing human life and 1. ling vnst sums of money whinh fc'rever after was unproductive. In- ^tcad they give of their possessions, both during their lifetime and after their death, that the people may help themselves to higher and nobler lives. The compilation of the benefactions for the year I'.'IO should be read the i known benefactions.. People famil-1 iar with the methods of many of our \ (onsplcuoua givers admit that the amounts given would multiply this total by two were many donors not actuated by modesty and religion, literally refusing to let “their right hand know what their left hand doeth." For instance, Miss Helen Gould, who la known throughout the world for the large and varied char acter of her charitable gifts, is cred ited with the small amount of $12,- 000. If she permitted her beneficenec to become public no doubt she would rank among the “million clau,” but she and her co-workers refuse to give any Information to the press upon this subject. Another similar case w^lll help to substantiate the truth of the state ment that the known benefactions are not. by any means, the only ones. The magnitude of the charities of the late Hugh Inman—Georgia s wealthiest man—was revealed only when his papers were examined af ter his death last November. Mr. Inman; left a specific bequest of $10u.000 for charitable uses, but his private papers disclosed the infor mation that he had given In the last few years over $1,000,000 for simi lar work. Yet, Mr. Inman's name was never listed among the world’s fivers. A BaquMt of $10,000,000. The leader In the year's bequest by will was Isaao C. Wyman, of Salem, Mass., whose great fortune of $10,000,000 waa left to Princeton University, from which institution he was graduated in 1848. Mr. Wy. man did not lurround his gift with any throttling restrictions, but stipu lated that the money was to be used as the trustees direct, “to maintain, develop or assist In any way that will increase the power and useful ness of the university.” This sum placet Princeton near the front of American universities In point of wealth. Andrew Carnegie leads among the living givers with the sum total c! $20,616,000, counting his $16,000,000 peace gift at Its market value of $11,600,000. Hit largest gift of $3,- 600,000 w«s made to the Carnegie Technology Schoola in Pittsburg. Tnis was the manner in which Pitts burg's philanthropist celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday aimiversary, he prerioufly having given $20,000,000 to found the same institute, includ ing a library, museum and concert hall. Of Mr. Camecie’a 1910 philanthro pies $8,000,000 was distributed among ten cltiee (including Pltt;^ burg) for the benefit of their public school teachers, who are relieved from want in their old age by prop er pensioning. Colleges throughout America (but lik most cases the smaller and poorer ones) benefitted by another million while libraries and general charities received the remainder. Mr. Carnegie has returned to the people through his philan thropies approximately $200,000,000. The United States Steel Corpora tion dedicated $8,000,000 to the es tablishment of a fund with which its superannuated and disabled employes might be pensioned. This fund has been consolidated with the $4,000,000 fund created by Andrew Carnegie when he sold his holding in the Car negie Steel Company to the United States Steel Corporation. The new fund, therefore, will amount to $12,- 000,000 and will be known as “The United States Steel and Carnegie Pension Fund.” John D. Rockefeller has made a remarkable record in the field of giving in the last twenty years. Pre vious to this time, he was only known as the world’s greatest money maker, seemingly dominated by the desire to accumulate wealth. Those whoge opinion may be trusted say that Rockefeller has already return ed to the people a sura approximat ing $135,000,000. The University of Chicago claimed his first great gift, enabling it to take rank among the world’s great institutions of learning. Since then his Institute - for Medical Research has absorbed his greatest interest. Mr. Rockefeller’s donations for the past year amount to $15,132,000, This includes his $10,000,000 gift to Chi cago University. His largest original gift of the year was $3,820,000. go ing toward the endowment of the Rockefeller Hospital for Medical Re search in New York city. Mr. Rock efeller also contributed $540,000 to the Young Men’s Christian Associa tion’s World Wide Expansion Move ment; $500,000 to the Harrirnan Hu/- son River State Park; $1G2,000 to Dr. Aked’s Fifth Avenue Baptist church. New York city; $125,000 to William Jewell College at Liberty, Missouri; $100,000 to the Young Men’s Christian Association building. Cleveland. Ohio; $50,000 to the Blue Ridge Reservation near Asheville, N. C., for a national playground, and $35,000 to the Young Men’s Christian Association at Tarrytown, New York. Gave His Fortune, to Die Poor. David Rankin, Jr., of St. Louis, Mis souri, is a conspicuous giver of the year In order that he might die poor Mr. Rankin has given his fortune of $3,- 000,000 to the support of the Rankin School of Mechanical Trades.' Few peo ple, even in St. Louis, know Mr. Ran kin personally. He avoids publicity of every nature and is never in the lime light. He is a bachelor, born in Ire land seventy-five years ago, and he amassed his fortune in real estate and stock deals. He is an advocate of the simple life and makes his home unpre tentiously over a grocery store. J. Pierpont Morgan is credited with giving ?2,500.000 to various institu tions. although his gifts, if fully kn; wn, would undoubtedly reach a far greater sum. Mr. Morgan was one of the larg est contributors to the Harrirnan Pali sades Park fund and the city of Hart ford. Connecticut, was enriched by a $250,OOU menioiia’ building as a trib ute to his father. Junius Spencer Mor gan, Mr. Morgan was a donor to tho amount of $100,000 to th» Pi*testant Church Unity fund and of a similar amount to Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. His other denefactions were a collection of Indian costumes, weapons and utensils (valued at $80,- OUO) to the Museum of National His tory. New York; $50,000 to the Univer sity of the South, and the l>alance to the French flood sufferers, a tubercu losis hospital at Aix-Les-Bains, a chap el for St. George’s church. New York City, and the New York Zoological society. A rather unusual giver is the anony mous New Yorker who contributed $2,- 500,000 to the “Economic and General Foundation fund.” This bequest met with much oppositioii and ridicule in the state legislature, although the bill Incorporating it, was finally passed. The millionaire sponsor of the bill states that his fortune amounted to $5,000,000. and as he has but one son to inherit this he thinks the sum is far too large for the young man’s good, so he took this method of applying half of his wealth for general state chari ties. The object of the corporation is “to receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply the principal and Income thereof to economic, altruistic, artistic, scientific and educational pur poses.” By the will of Thomas Murdock, a wholesale grocer of Chicago, who died December 25,1909, his estate of $2,500,- 000 Is left to the Presbyterian Hospital of Chicago, the American Sunday School Union. Philadelphia, and the Young Men’s Christian Association of Chicago. Charles Francis 'W’^right, of Brook line, Massachusetts, who died Septem ber 27, 1909, left the bulk of his es tate of $2,100,000 to be divided between the New England Peabody Home for Crippled Children, of Boston, and the Free Hospital for Women, of Brook line. Mr. W^right’s will provides that a fund of $70,000 be set aside for the care of his horses and dogs, and $25.- 000 to be distributed among his house hold servants. The Leader Among the Women Givers. The leader among the women givers of the year Is not one whose namo is projninent in the philanthropic world. She Is Mrs. Amanda W. Reid, of Port land, Oregon, who donated $2,000,000, to her sati>^ -^ty, to establish a col lege to be known as the Reid Institute. Henry Curtiss Elliott, a mine owner, who was killed by a snowsllde in Alas ka, January 4, left his fortune of $2,- 000,000 for a home for friendless chil dren in Chicago. Thos Forsythe, of Boston, In his benefaction, departed somewhat from established custom. He Is the first man to recognize the importance of chil dren’s teeth being properly cared for. He thinks (and his opinion Is substan tiated by dentists) that much of the poor scholarship and delinquency among children—to say nothing of their physical welfare—Is the result of Imperfectly-cared-for tefeth. With this in view, Mr. Forsythe stipulates that the teeth of Boston children shall be looked after by the “Forsythe Den tal Infirmary,” at which every child from birth up to sixteen years of age may receive free dental service. Tho will of Henry Dexter of New York City, who died July 11, disposed of $1,500,000 to various Institutions. Among them the Salvation Army re ceives, after the death of Clarissa Treadwell Dexter, $250,000; the Mid night Mission, New York City, $200,- 000; Young Men’s Chfistian Associa tion, New York City, $100,000; the Home for Old Men and Aged Couples, $100,000; the American Bible Society, $100,000, and the remainder will be di vided among a score of New York city churches and charities. Mrs. Mary Hunt Loomis, promi nent in Chicago, for half a century, left her estate of $1,250,000 to the Loomis Institute of Windsor, Connecti cut. which was founded by the family of Mrs. Loomis’s husband. Mrs. Russel Sage is continuing her work of returning to the people seven ty million dollars accumulated by her husband by the strictest economy. Mrs. Sage’s gifts for the j’ear total $1,170,- 200, the largest amount, $650,000 be ing given to Yale for the purchase of the Hill-house property on Prospect street. New Haven. This gift is the second largest ever made to Yale, the only one exceeding it being the million- dollar donation of John D. Rockefeller three years ago. In Mrs. Sago's trip through the Southern and Pacific states last winter, hospitals and other institutions were enriched by her bounty to the extent of $200,000. Mrs. Sage gave $150,000 to Vassar in No vember. Princeton received $150,000 to enlarge a dormitory previously giv en by Mrs. Sage and the Harriman Pal isades Park, the Audubon Society, schools for domestic arts, the women suffrage cause and the Federation of Women Clubs were substantially re membered hy this most sympathetic of women. It is doubtful if there ex ists in New York today any worthy charity in which Mrs. Sage does not play some active part. A Park Given to The People. Closely following Mrs. Sage in the magnitude of her philanthropy is Mrs. Mary W. Harriman, widow of Edward H. Harriman. Mrs. Harriman gave $100,000 to Yale in December. Her first gift is an unique, but truly splendid one. By it 10,000 acres of beautiful mountain woodland overlooking the Hudson are secure to the people for a V onderful park. In addition to the land (the value of which is not given in figures). Mrs. Harriman contributed $1,000,000 to purchase additional neces sary property. Her next benefaction T\as the paying off of the mortgage of .S113.000 upon the Boy’s Club of New York City, the favorite charity of her husband, and one to which he gave much of his time as well as money. The village of Turner, New York, where the Harriman estate is located, received $31,000 from Mrs. Harriman for the building of a new railroad sta tion and for general town betterment. The stipulation which accompanied this gift was that the name, 'rurner should be changed to Harriman, a con dition which aroused a great deal of discussion, but which was finally de cided in accordance with Mrs. Harri- man’s wishes. John A Kasson. who died in W'ash- ington. D. C., in 7vla>', left $1,000 000 to maintain the Protestant Episcopal cathdral now being built in the Dis trict of Columbia. The fund is to be known as the Kasson Endowment Fund, and an interesting phase of the gift is that Mr. Kasson emphatically desires that no portion is to be spent for mere ceremony or formal rites. Frank B. Cotton, of Brookline, Mass achusetts. bequeathed his estate amounting to $1,000,000 to erect and snpi>ort a trade school for girls and women, and Martin A. Reyerson, presi dent of the board of trustees of the University of Chicago, gave a similar amount to that institution for a phys ical laboratory. Thomas F. Ryan set aside $1,000,000 for the purchase of the sculptured mas terpieces of Robin, which are -to be presented to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and Mrs. Flora L. Dotger, widow of Andrew W. Dotgcr of East Orange, N. .L, left her million- dollar estate to the Tuskegee Institute. A man who withholds his name of fered to one of the country’s big life insurance companies 90 acres of land •(the value of w'hich is not given) and $1,000,000 in cash for the iiiitablishrnent of a sanitarium for the treatment of all employees of the company who may be afflicted with tuberculosis. Horace B. Silliman, the textile manu facturer of Chocoes. N. Y.. bequeath ed his entire estate of $1,000,000 to beneficent purposes. One-half goes to William R. Moody, son of the late Dwight Moody, the evangelist, to aid in gonducting his religious Institution at Northfield, Mass., and the other half is divided among colleges, missions, Presbyterian churches and Young Men’s Christian Associations, in sums from $6,000 to $13,000 each. This splendid list of mllllon-dollar benefactions is completed by Mrs. Har riet Coles, of New York city, widow of the late John B. Coles. The bulk of her estate reverts to the Female Guardian Society of New York city, and the Presbyterian Hospital of the same city receives $75,000 to found a bed in perpetuity. Two BIq Estates to Charity. The two largest givers in the class just below the $1,000,000 mark were Mrs. Mary A. Mason of Pittsfield, Mass., and Miss Martha R. Hunt, who died In Somerville. Mass., Hard' 15. Mrs. Mason wMUh her $3-50^05 ^»ate to Great Barrington, Mass.r directing that 8750,000 be used to build a hos pital and the remainder to be devoted to various other charities of that place, including the building of a library, A remarkable feature of Mrs. Hunt’s will which disposes of $800,000, Is that al though Miss Hunt was an Invalid, by her careful Investment and remarkable business ability she was able to quad ruple the estate which was left her by her father. Miss Hunt, like Mrs. Mason, distributed her wealth among churches, hospitals, homes for aged people, homes for incurables, insane asylums and societies for the preven tion of cruelty to children and animals. Mrs. Hunt left $60,000 to various char ities. ’ The founder of the Western Union Telegraph Co., Belden McAlpIne, be queathed $800,000 to various charities, among them the Rochester Home for the Friendless, the Rochester Orphan Asylum, the Association for the Relief of Reepectable Aged and Indigent Fe males of the City of New York, and the New York Society for the Relief of Ruptured and Crippled Children. The late Professor Goldwin Smith made Cornell University iiis benefici ary to the extent of $6S9,000. The gift was made unconditionallj^ Professor Smith saying, “I do this to show my affection for the university, in the foun dation of which I had' the honor of taking part; to pay -respect to the memory of Ezra Cornell, and to show my attachment as an Englishman to the union of the two branches of our race on this continent with each other and with their common mother.” By the will of Mathias Hollonback Arnot, of Elmira, X. Y., that '’il.v' bene fited to the amount of 5035,000. Mr. Ar not left his beai:tifui home, with his art gallery, to the city, with an addi tional endowment fund which makes the gift valued at $600,000. The Ar not Ogden Hospital, which w'as large ly supported by Mr. Arnot’s generosity during his lifetime, received $35,000. Arthur l^wisohn of New York City gave $630,000 to the following institu tions; Columbia University School of Mines, $250,000; Mount Sinai Hospit al, $130,000 for a pathological labora tory, and the Hebrew Sheltering School for Girls, $125,000. Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, who has given $6,000,000 to the University of Cali fornia and has largely endowed five kindergartens and a m.anuel training school in San Francisco, several simi lar Institntions in Washington, a,nd given considera1)Ie sums to the Ameri can University at Washington, present ed a further $500,000 to the University of California for an anthropological museum. Henry Phipns added to his other gen erous contributions to medical research another $500,000 given to the Univer sity of Pennsylvania, the money to be used in a carapaigu against tuberculo sis. George W. Patten, tho millionaire grain operator, who cfied September 8. left a fortune which it is expected, will be used in aid of the anti-tubercu losis campaign. Two weeks before Mr. Patten’s death he created a fund of 3500,000. to be known as the Agnes and Louise Patten Fund, for the en- down.'ent of the Evanston Hospital As sociation. Of Darius Ogden Mills’ fortune $oOO,- 000 went to charitable purposes. The Museum of Art, the Museum of Na tural History, the Home for Incurables, and the Botanical Gardens, all of New York city received $100,000 each. The National Red CroF.s and St. Luke’s Hospital, San Francisco, also received benefactions. The gift to the hospital was not stipulated in Mr. .Mills’ v/ill, but his children, knowing his wishes in the matter se.t aside $50,000 from their share for this charity. John Everett Smith, a wealthy prin ter of Norwood, Massachusetts, made Tufts College the legatee of his half million dollar estate, and James Scott of Detroit, willed a similar sum to his native city, directing that the amount be used to erect a fountain upon Belle Isle which should be a life- sized statue of himself and bear his name. Many $1C0,0C0 and Over Gifts. There is quite a lengthy list of giv- efs between the $100,000 and $500,000 class, among them being the late Ar thur Hill, regent of the University of Michigan, who left $420,000; C. W. Post, of Battle Creek, Michigan, $400,- 000 for a home for widows and or phans; Mrs. Hoke_. Russell, of Provi dence, R. I., $380,000 to various Rhode Island charities; Thomas L. Addis of New Haven, Contiecticut, left his prop erty, valued at $376,000, to New Eng land hospitals and orphan asylums, an anonymous New' Yorker gave $350,000 to Columbia University for a school of philosophy; James A^Patten of Chi cago, parted with $325,000 for a chair in the Northwestern Medical School for the study of tuberculosis; Mrs. R. C. Dun, widow of the founder of the Dun commercial agency, left her col-' lection of paintings, valued at $250,- 000, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and $25,000 to orphan asylums, and Alexander Smith Cochran, of Yon kers bequeathed $250,000 for a tuber culosis hospital. Alfred G. Vanderbilt gave $250,000 to Yale University for an endowment fund (Mr. Vanderbilt’s family has giv en $3,000,000 to this institution), Mr. Julian Champlain of Brookline, Mass achusetts, gave $250,000 to Boston churches and charities; Henry Ciay Frick gave the old Third Presbj'terian church of Pittsburg (an edifice built nounce a final order in the cases, ilylto the Salvation Arm.y, a gift esti mated to be v/orth $250,0()0. Mrs. Mary Brinkerhoff, of New Yc7X City and Hanstings-on-Hudson, remein- bered New York City i5iarfties to the extent a iuarter of a million dol lars. The children of the late Samuel Mather, of Cleveland, O., gave a like amount to the V.'estern Reserve Uni versity, and HoT'^rd Melville Hanna $250,000 to the same institution. Adol phus BuBCh of St. Louis gave a simi lar amonat to the Germanic Museum at Harvard University; John W. Gates, the financier, contributed $250,000 to the University of the Methodist church and George G. and William S. Mason, of Evanston, 111., a like amount to Yale for a laboratory of niechanlcal engib- eering. Some Out of the Ordinary Small Gifts. Among the smaller gifts (although it seems like ingratitude to refer to gifts varying from $5,000 to $200,000, in such terms) certain ones are con spicuous on account of some oddity in connection with them. Among these S. E. King of Ottawa, Kan., sets aside $200,000 for the education of young men. stipulating that they do not study for the ministry. William K. Vanderbilt astounded the French by changing the course of a public road that ran by his bams at Poissy. Automobiles were thus diverted from the thoroughfare iised by the Frencli people and their horse-drawn vehicles, and the expense to Mr. Vanderbilt was $200,000. Joseph Hull, regarded as a miser, who lived the life of a hermit for a number of years in Cheshire. Connec ticut. surprised all his neighbors by leaving $100,000 to the Baptist Associa tion of Connecticut; Neils Poulson gave' $100,000 to the American-Scan- dinavian Society to further education al intercourse between the nations; Charles Botsfor left $100,000 to ena,ble any Christian young man in Idaho or North Dakota to obtain a ffee college education, provided he agrees to ab stain as long as he lives from intoxi cating liquors, tobacco or other narcot ics; Hamilton Carhart, a Detroit manu facturer, made a gift of $100,000 to the new home for aged and disabled rail road employes at Highland Park, 111., Mr. Carhart says that railroad men helped him to make his fortune and he wanted to show his appreciation In this manner. Colonel Thomas H. Swope, who was sensationally murder ed in Kansas City, during 1910, willed $100,000 to various Kansas City char ities. Harriet A. Brown, one of Boston’s noted dressmaker?, ic-i $75,000 to be used to aid the working girls of the Hub; J. Ogden Armour $70,000 to the Armour Institute of Technology for its class in aviation, while Greenleaf K. Sheridan left $55,000 to be distrib uted among his employes in his cot ton firm. Ernest Simmons dispensed $50,000 among his employes, saying that as he had had a prosperous year! he wa» ed all his helpers to share in i his ? :cess. Mrs. Mary P. Hough stipu- j lateu that out of her estate of $35,000, ] S1,000 should be given to her husband, Charles J. Hough, and the remaining $34,000 to charities. Other Gifts Reported Later. Mr. J. C. Trees, of Pittsburg, gave $500,000 to the Western University of Pitsburg, Pa., for a stadium and gym nasium. Mr. Trees was graduated from this institution in 1893 and declares that ho owes his wealth to football and wishes thus to show his apprecia tion to his University. Miss Anna Melazina Spring, of New Yoi'k City, who Is the last surviving grandchild of Ebenezer Denny, the first Mayor of Pittsburg, presented a twenty-five acre park surrounding the old Denny mansion of that place, to be used for club houses where the boys and girls of Pittsburg may be given patriotic education. The value of this gift is estimated at $500,000. A gift of .$500,000 to Dartmouth Col lege from Edward Tuck of the class of 1862 makes a total of more than $1,- 000,000 given by Mr. Tuck to this in stitution in the last ten years. New York City completed its subscription of $500,000 apportioned to it for the $2,000,000 endowment fund of the American Red Cross Society. Mrs. Emma Flower Taylor, daughter of the late Roswell P. Flower, once governor cf New York, erected at Wateriov.m, N. Y.. a library valued at half a million dollars and a narish house worth $60.- 000. ]Mrs. C. P. Huntington presented to the Hispanic Society of America Vel asquez's famous portrait of the Duke of Olivares, which was purchased by her a vear ago for the sum of $400,000. James K. Polk Taylor, a former slave, soventy-one years old. and his wife gave four hundred and eighty acres of land near Colorado Springs to the Charles Summer Tuberclosis Associa tion as a sitfe for a sanitarium for ne groes. The value of this gift is over 8300,000. Through a gift of $250,000 by Mrs. A. D. Juilliard of New York City the West Side Young Men’s Christian Association of New York will erect new dormitories. The gifts to Columbia University during the year amounted to $2,357,- 979. The national coimcil of the Con gregational church collected for for eign missions, $1,225,000. ■rhe Woman’s Auxiliary of the Pro testant Episcopal church collected for foreign, missionary work $242,000. 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In tablet form at 25 and 50c. a pack age. Get a bottle today. Booklet free if you write to Bobbitt Ohemical Co., Baltimore, Md. Trial bottle tablets 25c by mail. QUEEN VICTORIA OF SPAIN Queen Victoria of Spain with her two young .5ons, the Prince of Austria and the Infante Don Jaime. The Queen was formerly Princess Ena of Battenburg. and from the time of her marriage to King Alfonso in May 1906, she has encouraged the height of refinement in the Spanish capital. Although some of her notions have not met widespread approval, her two sons are the pets and the pride of Spain, first because the succession to the throne appears to be amply pro vided for, and, second, because the masses appreciate the children them- c?vles. The Queen has insisted\on taking persona! charge cf the up'djringing of her children; and seldom Ic^es them in the caf*e of even the roji'al nurse. She has shovvn herseif to be ^ most af fectionate iTiOther, and devotes more lime and attention to the rearing of her babes than many women in pri vate life. On the occasion of her recent visit to relatives in England she planned to take the children with her. An unexpected difficulty, i'.owever, was encountered in the law, which forbids the absence of all the royal children from the country at one time. What are you going to write a thanks to your friends on for T your Xmas gifts, etc? T We highly recommend to you v our 4 “QUEEN CHARLOTTE” 4 Fabric Finish ^ WRITING PAPER Sold by the Pound at 35 Cents. Envelopes to match 15c a package, or two packages for 25c. This is truly the most i>opu- lar pound paper we have ever sold. A good, clean linen finish. T Pure white. T Stone Sl Bamnger I Compaoy 22 South Tryon Street. CHARLOTTE, N. 0. ♦ Chronic Diseases of Men and Women If you are suffering from any dis ease and have not been able to got relief, see Dr. Mobs at once- and have a thorough examlnaLion, The doctor has the confidence oi the people by being on the square and honest with the public. No decspticn, no false promises. If you are afilicted with Blood Poison, Nervous, Decline. Ca tarrh of Head, Throat or Lungs, or any stomach and Liver Trouble, Piles, Rheumatism, Femaio Diseases of long standing, or any cnronic disease of any nature, I ext*,*nd a cordial in vitation to call and consult me free of charge. Those who know me and know my office know I am an enthu siast over my work, and while I have to have pay for my work as a mat ter of course, my charges are what 1 and the patient thing proper, not based on seeing how much I can scare and squeeze out of some poor unfortunate piece of humanity. If you will appreciate honest business meth ods and conscientious service, I shall be plsased to see you at my office. A personal visit is preferred, but the fact that you are out of town and cannot call need not deprive you of my services. If you cannot call, write for particulars, mode ot treatment, prices and terms. Letters and office calls are free and confidential. DR. WM. H. MOSS. Specialist. Rooms 3 and 4 Davidson Building, East Trade St.. Charlotte, N. C. Hours: 9 a. m. to 8 p. m. Sundays 9 to 1. Office ’Phone 737. Residence 'Phone 74 EDUCATE FOR BUSINES:^ Our graduates are alv.'ays in demand. Spring term begins January 3. Special Rates Until January 10. For new Catalogue, JournaL and SpeciaL Rates, write (InoOTporated.) Charlotte, N. C. and Start the New Year Right by getting a Monitor Radiator and having a warm home. It’s five ra diating flues give more heat radiation for the amount of fuel consumed than any other stove on earth. Park Avenue Home FOR SALE New 8-room house, well built, with hard wood floors and all modem conveniences^ Basement is large enough to he used as a garage. Lot 50x200. r'lwce LOW—TERIVI« EASY 9 Chaildttc Consolidated Conslrucdoa Company Raleigh, N, C J. N. McCausland & Company Stove Dealers and Roofing Contractors. 221 8. Tryon Street. NORFOLK & WESTERN. 8chedc«e in liftfmi Miy lyia 11 am. Lv. Charlotte So. R/. 5.50 pm. 2.40 pm, Lv. Winston N&W 2.10 pm. 444 pm Lv Mart’ville M&W Ar 11.40 am 7.00 pm. At. Roanoke MwW Lv. 9.15 am Additional trains leave-Winston-Sa lem 7.10 a. m. daily except Sunday. Connects at Roanoke for the East and West Pullman sleepers. Dicing cars. !£ you are thinking of taking a trip YOU want quatatlous, cheapest fs.res, reliable and conect information, as to routes, train schedules. Vie most com- fortablev and quickest way. "Write and the information is yours for the ask ing, with one ot our completet May Folders. W. B. BEVIL, M. ■?. BRAGG, Gen. Pass. Agt. Trav. 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