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hospital sight visitob 6TRAXCB lHWSAM OP A- PATIENT J 1" J.U .I -TI1-T-J Striking A School.-? StatlstlcaThe Old - Mm Mid Babe Meet oil the Street Memories AwnUtened ojr Song Vkdssltude of Bojalty-The Light Of ClvixtiU IX. -: , Written for1 Th Observer. fh Religious Herald of a recent date i an Interesting article on the Attendance at the college In Virginia, from a denominational standpoint, 'f Tailing the State School and six de H1 nomlnational schools, the figures are at follows: With a membership In Vir ginia of 150(000. the Methodists have 8 Btudents at college with a member . ghip of 131,000, the Baptists have CIS, 'VwUh a membership of 35,000, the Pres- byterlana have 610, with a membership ; f 2B.000, the Episcopalians have 6t. - JUssuming.that the KpPuopaiUns nre tolng only their duty In the matter t '' education and support of detiomma 'i tional schools, tne other Churches ure '"falling Car short of their duty. Tuc Presbyterians should have, nut 610 students at college, but two-fifths t more than the Episcopalians, or Ms), the BaptifT.s should have, nm students at college, but Ave and ne - fourth times as many as the l.plwu palians, or 3,601; the Methodists should have, not 638 students at col lege, but Just six times us many as s'-the Episcopalians, or i.vut. V Outside the matter or school attendance by denominations. it would surprise nnd shock the mlvo cates of both common school mid lilgh- er education to have placed before - them the manifest neglect of most "' Southern communities In lite matiei ' They are doing much better than they were fifteen years ago, because the are financially far better off; but the ptrcentage of white school-going chil dren Is not near what il should be. Here and there a district, or a nelgli borhood, or a town measures up to lt full responsibility, but these are cx- ' ceptlons. 'Comparisons are odious, but I believe that Cluiklon, on the Carolina Central Kallroiid, Is the ban ner town of North Carolina in Its ' warm advocacy of the cause of educa tion. Sending the children to school ' stands as Its peoples paramount duty, coming onlv next to their church ob ligations; and It does not stop with the public school even if It entails pecun- . lary cramping and scrimping they put their boys and girls through the col lege and seminary. This Is high prulse for a small country town, but I know whereof I write and I am setting down only the truth. Children are to me a study of mani fold Interest, from the time they are able to "move themselves aright. " and be rolled along the streets by their nurses in prelty preambulators, till they are far along In knee-breeches and short drus(-n. On one of the few mild, sunny days recently 1 came across a lovely, un burn haired mite, drawn by a nurso ill its carriage alohg Hav street, resting in a down nest r wrans. Vtloaks, laee, hood. etc. "Whose baby is this?" 1 asked, for, though 1 am ' acquainted with most of Fayette vllle's population up to five years tit age, It has a way of Increasing, and this was a stranger In me. "This Is Mrs. C. M. Hughes' baby." suld the nurse, showing her white teeth with an air of pride. There we stood con fronting each ol her I trying to read the mystery of the true inwardness" of Its being through those limpid blue orbs; the wee thing calmly surveying me with the air or a critic-yes the air of a critic. You needn't tell me that, with the Intelligence showing In those eyes, and the expression on that rosebud' mouth, that baby was not thinking about me In no cnmpllmcn "tary terms. I do sar thai those thoughts were couched In elegant poly- ' viable Kngllsh. but I do say that away down In the Inner consciousness of this little newcomer some thinking was going on. and the gist of it was about like this: "Wlm Is this dis reputable, grlrlerl, wrinkled up blear eyed old party, uli dares to stop my carriage on Uic highway and bombard my nurse with nuesllons right over my head as to my parentage anil up 'bringitig? And yet lie seems a good rmtured old soul, and has evidently 1 fallen in loe with me at lirst sight " And here four tiny pink lingers tight ened around the thumb of my extend ed hand, and II reiunei h gentle force to part us as I went on my way, I did not klHM inv charming Utile ac quaintance, though I wauled to Ad ults should never kiss Infants on the mouth. Especially should nol men who Wear moustaches, chew and smoke to bacco and lake a whisk' t.idilv when they feel like it, kiss the lips of a babe. There arc hygienic reasons against It --germs, blnrllle, etc. That" Is a sentimental side to every man's life and II Is the motet beau tiful side If one would only cultivate It a little. I have a desk In The Fayelle vllle Observer building on Oreen street and down on the floor below a hen named Ktcaarl. about Yi or 14 years old. with a very attractive f u e feeds the press with papers which II inexor ably demands wheii It gfcts up Memo. As soon as the m.n lilncrv starts lo clattering and rambling, the hoy be gins to sing "lllue lilnlr-.' in a line, youthful soprano, as true ,i 1 he com pass. Slid as clear as a hell The little press-feeder does not know or care how much I, sluing at the desk above, am moved by the serenade or what a memory It evokes 1 1- 1 1 v I rTHTB heard a oung rm.tli.-i. in a room adjoining mine, slug lui bahes to sleep with the melody. Hut this is not the first time have heard "Mine Bells." tHonie time ago I had the good for tune to be able to befriend a young Woman in trouble, who was waiting to take a northbound train at the pas enger station In ( !recnsloi ... She had n Infant in In r arms, and hail been Visiting her mother In South Carolina, whence she was going In haste to her home In Virginia having received newn that her husband hud been killed hv : vMenre, The Infant was fretful, and the distressed young mother walked with -It up and i.in the platform. 'Hluc He!l:V In a soft low yon were a kid ! and do vn"r ' coming af I out of th I "Who's I for the i I from I hi 1 Hut I my room. I lay, ' looking lastly from IJJIlt ' LW - Ht7 I'D " '' w wp.-stt-o he had reached it: tot foe was a dwarf, pot mora than 1 to 4 feet high, thick set, wearing a Quaker coat with square-cut tails, a utriped wslacoat. very Ugh ttrousrs and long pointed shoes, and he had a red muffler around his neck. He had close-cropped gray hair and a heavy pray moustache, the shiftiest, most unfathomable eyes I ever looked Into, while the sneering, cynical expression of his mouth was diabolic. (Between you and me reader, I am afraid It was the devil who came to me in my dream.) "Well " he said In a sort of a doml- . nrAi'ihfr nrt nf HHV. I Well'" I replied, Inquiringly. i "Didn't expect lo see me. I guess? ' "I wasn't thinking anything about, ; vim." I said; "how did you get in.' j lie chuckled, and pointed downward ! with his finger. I -Now that you are In." I very natu i rally asked. "What do you want.' "Want " he retorted, wit.i a good 'deal of heat In his manner, as he gave :a vicious tug at his muffler. 'Want? : I come us a friend. Do you remember Hobson .'" , , j Itlchmond Pearson " 1 queried '"The fel ow that the girls have been ! kissing all over (he country?" "Richmond nothing! exclulmei my visitor, disdainfully; "poll know the ! 1-I..liu,.r. I ri-.e(in Vo.l SIX ike him out of 'Lnveirs Cniled Stales Speaker' when Oct a move on you, i; in" now, for they, are . ....on" and he was a flash. - ' I called, alarmed at such Information if i suspected it to be. broad awake: the night niirun lo i iw. corridor was saving, 'I am coming." lo a patient In the ad joining room, and the electric light was black out. . Kven royalty has Its lips and downs, and history records that crowned heads have in their time known what It w.'is lo be out -at-t he-elbows, like any ordinary soldier of fortune. Bonaparte, who seemed about to chew up all -,u-rope unlll they confined him to a rock in the ocean, used to Jest wilh a com panion In I'aila about Ihe straits ! which they were put to ge a dinner. Napoleon 111. who. until he too sorely pressed the mighty Hlsrnark about the succession to the throne of Spain, was jthe arbiter of Kurope. was only a score of years before a penniless ad venturer in New York and Philadelph ia. Hernadotte, who became King of 1 Sweden us Charles XIV, rose from the j ranks In the French army. ! Christian IX of Denmark, who has ijusl passed away, aged nearly 88 years. : ruled over a kingdom which, mighty i is were Its people- in the Middle Ages ! had become one of the smallest and 'weakest of the civilized nations of the I modern wnild. Yet Christian IX was jthe most august of all the earth's sov 'erelgna- not from his Intellectual pow -I er. or his achievements, or the stirring : events of his reign, but from his uni que and splendid position which gave ! him a prestige enjoyed by no other monarch; the fat her-ln- law of roya-tty Ln.l "the grandfather of Kurope." One sou la King Oeorge of Oreece: one daughter is Alexandra, queen consoi-f of Kngland; another daughter Is Dag mar. dowager empress of Russia; one grandson is Nicholas II of Uus;:1, and another grandson Is Haakon VII of Norwa v. Mm Christian IX. like many ordinary soldiers or fortune, owed his august po.Hlllon lo his wife. He was a poor prince, without estate, son of the Duke of Sohleswlg llolsteln, an oiTicer in the army and he was doubtless very glad to get his scant pay. When 2i years old he married his cousin Louise, daughter of Klector William of Hesse Casscl. a collateral branch of the house of Oldenburg of which Ferdinand VII. who was the King of Denmark, was the head. After Christ Inn and Ivnilse had been married ten years, the lend ing powers of Kurope. who are always getting uneasy a-bout something, be thought thein that Ferdinand whs not immortal, and that when he died the line of Oldenburg would become extinct So. by the treaty or London, they guaranteed the accession to Prime I'hrixliuii In right or hla wire, which treaty was ratified by the Danish Diet. 'and he ascended the throne on the death or Ferdinand VII In IKd.l. II Is pleasant to know how Christ i Ian IX wore thai "uneasy" thing, a crown. When he became King he was j of middle age, 4.r. years old -long past Ithe exuberance nnd ambitions ot youth, 'and during Ills long reign or 4:1 years, j which was peaceful, except for the war in IH04 with Austria and Prussia jo.r S. hleswlg llolsteln. his sole care ! seemed to be the welfare of his sub ijpets, more ns , ii father than a ruler, j stimulating agriculture and commerce and doing all In power lo promote railway const ruct Ion throughout the kingdom. The Springfield Republican says: "He was a very democratic king; he walked i through the streets of Copenhagen, or 'si i oiled about his country homes or i hunted In his preserves. without i thought nt a guard; he exacted no I homage. I.ii t greeted with absolute slm I plli H v those who greeted him and he ; had friends In all grades. He was not an Intellectual power, anil yet he Iliad a fiii,ilu shrewd sense which ; helped him over difficulties, such as will come to the most unobtrusive i,r king; His strength lay In charade.. ;hiih would have heen the same uny iwh.'ie A man more upright. more cha . it u hie. mote loyal, better bred, and more g.-nily i-dinnied was not In Ku- lope," i The New V ok Tribune Ihus pro j uoiiiii his ipltupli: "At peace with the vol id. 1 1, h in the loyal love of his j-. iibje.iv uiih ids realm prosperous. . ai d his. throne and dynasty as secure jas mi. h tilings can 'be In this world, be lony Meed the inevitable with com j poMit e and he has leD a memory whl. h j miKlit be envied l.y millions of his Mess ravore. fellow -men." ! Ills oldest M.n, wlm succeeds him ::n j Fredrick VII is said to bo Hs demo cratc it s his father was. and Is much ! beloved by the iMnlsh people, J. H. M. 4 AAA TtanuunHi Corespondent of The, Observer. - Rutherford tort. 4 Feb. 1.The ; caus of Oallert va. Morrow, which ha been in progress amce Monday morning, re sulted in a verdict to-day by the Jury pi vlng the ' plaintiff - 2J)00 v damage. The argument by counsel ' wa con cluded last night and Judge Alien charged the Jury this morning., after which they took the caaevs remaining out only about an hour, returning the j verdict as stated aDove. , . I A CARD. . i This I to certify that all druggists are I authorized to refund your money if I I'V.lev's Honev and Tar fails to cure r&ur eoiiRli or cold. It stops the cough, heals 'Me Iuhjh and prevents serious resuiu I fi-i m u cold. Cures la grippe cough ana ' prevents pneumonia and consumption. 1 Contains no opiates. The genuine Is in a i - ellow package. Refuse substitutes. R. i H. Jordan & Co. OmaJiaw Examiner. v f. -An-Irishman , and gwedt" were caught red-handed in the act of cattle testing out west, and ihe usual court of Judge Lynch had arrived at the us ual verdict. Whereupon the court ad journed to the bridge acrass the Nio brara and prepared to execute its un animous sentence. The Swede was given the honor of being thrown off the brldge-wlth a rope around his neck-r first. But Jy some mistake the knot untied Just as the Swedo hit the water and he swam to the bank and hit the trail. When they started to Put the noose around the Irishman's necV he said to the master of ceremonies: "Now look here me bye, I want yez to -be a dom sight more careful wld that rope than ye was on the Swede I can't swim a stroke," , i ILife Insurance Co. of Virginia Established 1871 f PREMIUM! INCOME. rio88$i2Z04aoo r889-S5l.54Z00 fl893-$546.l5Tffi l894 $5SI,794r laas-sssi.sso.se1 1896-$712(95l.92 .897- $752.2747 1699-$ 937,900.79 1900-$ 1,0872.02 l90h$M5,662,87 1902-$K55a2m5 1903-$ 1,510293,80 1904-Sl,68l054e36 1905-$L86a86847 NINETEEN YEARS GROWTH Annual Statement For The Year Ending December 31. 1905 ASSETS Real Estate. Book Value $ 82,264 99 Mortgage Loans on Heal KHlate 1,, 133, 354 03 Iohiih on Collateral .. 113,095 68 Loans on Company's Policies 35,695 75 Bonds and Htocki, Book Value 573,862 94 Cash In Banks and Of fices '. . 116.344 46 Hilts Iteceivahle .... 350 24 Intercut and Kents Due ami Accrued 23.801 44 Market Value of Ileal Kutate. Bonds and Slocks, over Hook Val ue 43.250 96 Net I'ncollecied and De ferred E'remlums and Premium Notes .. .. 71,048 56 (Sross Assets $2,391,778 05 Deduct Assets not Ad- mllled 300 24 Total Admitted Assets . . 2,391, 177 HI LIABIMTIES. Reserve. Actuaries 4 per cent, and American 8 per cent.. Including Special Reserve .. ..$1,892,635 00 Death Losses Reported, but not due 21,802 06 Premiums Paid In Ad vance 37,889 90 All other Llahilitles .. 3,794 00 Total .$1,956,120 96 Surplus to Pollcjr-Hold- rt-h 9 435,35ft 85 Total ..$2,891,477 81 Statement of Operations During 1906 a tlross Income $1,966,900.75 Increiise In tlross Income $ 201,998.57 Inerense In Assets $ 445,347.89 Insurance In rVirce ..$49,021,276.00 Increase In Insurance In Force $5,386,340.00 Total Number of Policies In Force 404,408 Ineresse In Number of Policies In Force 37,535 Deuth Claims, etc., PAID to Policy Holders $ 698,645.20 Total Payments to Policy-Holders Since Organization $ 6,6 5 5,8 6 8.7 6 J. G. WALKER, President. T. WM. PEJMBERTON, W. L. T. ROGERSON First Vice-President. Secretary. JOSEPH ABRAHAM, SupL, 207 S. Tryon St., CHARLOTTE crooning tana. - fix or eight hour ef the train on wtn. li ' tng were derailed ami ' an accident on the ro.nl was rescued unhurt, hut llllMnf iihu-fM ..r iRiwirMiice Is rrspom! fur inniiy n l.llMle, . I.ler. fuur cars she as truvel t ui tied over lo The mother the hhe was killed and she ent on to tu-r desolate ' home a childless widow. The re.nlers ; Of The Observer can well nailer s. n rid ' 'at to me "liltie Bells" is iicnirn- ful melodv. Except for lie handsome 'ii: isIjihik vdttion I Itave not written ar.ytln.' fo.- The Sundfy Charlotte Observer In , lonf tim not because 1 have nut had the Inclination to do so, or have had .nothing to write about, but because I have ben In rtched health, though veri at that. I have been nrexsed vHb Other work. But of late I might forbear writing to The Kunday 'har- . loll Obrvr from superstiilou. if I -ere lren that way. I dm in tlia Mlghamith Hospital last months and at first I was pretty bad . fT. but as 1 grew bettar Dr. High amlth told ma that I might writ ly ing in bed propped up, but that I must not get op or stand on my (eat That afternoon I lay altetehing tit my mind an artlcta that I Intended for publt cstlonj and that night I had a dream mt vlrld that tor '- while ' f ouid tiardiy believe it fa b a draarn. f rtoka I dreamed away in the night to find ta aieetrle light abtas (which ! against , U rule) aud man jm MUS CLE AND SCIENCE That's a dandy combination for do ing things and doing them right. Just Hie right mixture of these Ingred ients is at your service for electrical work. Our muscle Is a thoroughly organli ed and equipped force of men, our science Is bused on study and success ful experience in Installing electrical yetems, We're mdjf. SMITH MFRS CO. Y. M C A. Building P uiiman Shocl ii The $3.50 and $4.00 That's All 'foreman & 1 (jfier nfii wilier Trade tni -' O.W. '. V y;r , :,' O f-A .7J ," -4 fit ME''S':R'S Success inAdvcf Using, was supseto follow ' hiring the highest-priced liar, you wuld; find and giving him full swinge Toy it takes our best to get people to believe , the truth---for instance : The increase of a our shipments for January ovr the same month of last year was Ninety Thousand, - One Hundred ; and , Ninety-Four DoDars ($90,194.00) so, you see we start Nineteen Six at a pace that promises TO INCREASE OUR SALES A MILLION A YEAR We don't believe this has ever been equalled by any house in the South, nor anywhere, in fact, by a shoe house with only sixteen sales men. In seeking some causes, that have made pos sible this rather unique contribution to the in dustrial record of the year, we would say : The great prosperity of our section Folks have" found it economy to buy only good shoes, and, speaking generally, people have come to know that in a RED SEAL LINE there are no others. In July last we had faith in ihe surety of a higher level of values, and loaded our factories with leather. We divided the result of this foresight liber ally with our customers, keeping our Shoes at selling prices. We own to-day in our warehouse at At lanta the largest ready-to-ship stock of shoes in the South. During February we will sell these at from 5 to 15 cents a pair below what Will be the ruling prices for next season. Forehanded merchants will make money by remembering this. Salesmen with samples by appointment. Last, but far from least, ninety-five per cent, of our orders go complete in one ship ment. Correspondence solicited. J. K. Shoe Orr Co., R E D SEAL . .. i i S H OES : a nrrt a Tunr a Mail orders shipped same: aay;recaveaa z ' The 1 sizes you want. when you want them. , :---r . . " - . . W. s i.s 'i-n ,..r: fat, .Am.ii v, - f , ,', 4 t i
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