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IliH:lr . v NEW BUILDINGS ERECTED. '(1) Chemical Laboratory . u(4) Y. M. C. A. Building ' (2) Almnni Hall (5) University library , (3) Bynum Gymnasium (6) Mary Ann Smith Building The Nine Days of The Dy Mrs. Lindsay tou should como to Bramlctta Juat to see my live stock. I havo 15 teny blddlfs, th six fipwet ones rather wobbly on thfir k-gx but oth.-rwise quite chipper, anil four quite small ptg. Personall, 1 profer the plifglcfi, though It dot-sn't nund well to nay o. I don't know why pithr. 1'iK arc far mor intellectual than c'al;ken. I can't think of a bet r example of misdirect ed energy than tho way an old hen will squawk and flutter and run in front of your hu;Ky, to the verse of heart failure before fhe get out of the way. Half the world ix on one fid ot th bugsry and th lh r half on the other for that chlrken to step In and betafe, but h doesn't step. One hun dred time out of a 100 he will tar madly along the strip of highway oc cupied by you And your vehicle. Catch a pig indulging in any uch lack-wit performance. Ht table habltH leave a food, bit to be deMred, for ho will at with hla feet In the trough, but that is Jtiat plain bad manner, not want of senao. After hi meal Is flnbhttd he gets hlmaelf a i-omfortable mud pud dle where he won't be disturbed by the pnaeer-by end turnp his attention to predicting changes of the, weather. The proverbial straws that show which way the wind blows are always In a pig" mouth. Th proverb doesn't y eo, but there arc some facts con nected with natural history which all thoughtful people are supposed to know, without being told, and this !h one of them. One of my little piggies has a brok unear. but that really wasn't my fault. The Philadelphia gin persuaded me to enter into a partnership with her nod have an educated plsr I to furnish tho pig and tsh the training Jt sounded Interesting, and we'd been cooped up In the house three days by the bod weather, so I hnd the prettiest pig. the i.ed up axid brought to the kitoheu. You never saw ch a commotion as his : advent reused among the colored pop ulation, but whon that was quieted the training process begun', phllly imtd . the way to train a pig was to teo-ch 1t to love you and tho way to teach it : to love you wan to feed it biscuit 80 wo cleaned out the pantry. We fed that fceMt till his evea stnoic out and he couldn't swallow, but istill he didn't . forbi to ewape aa when he first met u. ' Then Phllly aald even ilscnlt couldn't make pig love !. friend until, 1t . grew accustomed to them and It had to grow accustomed to , 80 w put a ptoik orr top of tho' plg box and gave the eook'a little daughter torn . pink ribbon to it on the pbuik to grtve ; tiirn time to grow accturtomed to W rjrroundinf-s and Ut reet and eat our lunclt w had peas for lunch and that started us to exchanging reminlc- eencea of all the foreign .eoumrlei we'd -eatoti peaa t, and the remlnie cence aide-tracked o on Italian art. It is an interesting eubject tut not a P'sscftui one, as iumy my my Mrni ration1 for BotlciH' iahk dartiaela la either ' termranre r " ahecr pretence. and I tell )ier.eb'.th:frt of yoVrng person' who l!kf Christy picture. Bha I n't -tr,d ,1 , Inow ,.li, JUn'Ubutat-ai- way upaeta her to be told she la. Bo I 1 ' i -4 V.- - - UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, FRANCIS R VENABLE President, Chapel HC Nor,th Carolina. NEXT TERM BEGINS SEPTEMBER, 9, 1907. Buildings Shown and Under Right Hand Pacter&on. tell her. By the time the last word was said on the subject, we'd forgotten our pig, so wo drove down to Salem to see the cpl-ndld historical collection in the Archive house there. All this time the small kitchen Cos ablanca was earning her pink ribbon sitting on the pig's box. She'd been told to alt there until we came hack, and she did, and when we remember ed that poor little pig ho hid one oar turned back Juat like the glrla turn their Panama hats back from their faces. That mado us feol eo bad that wo decided we'd wait a while and eat him plain dry so, and make no further attempt to educate him. That Intellect of your can think things out to finish while mine droops by the wayside and ehrlnka up llko Jonah's gourd so 1 wish you would come to the rescue and tell me why ao many people seem to take it as a personal affront that I don't settle down. I can't settle down. I haven't a sat tied disposition. I'm Jiift natur ally effervescent and all the churning In the world wouldn't turn cham pagne. Into buttermilk, though it might, eventually ruin the champaprne and tho hocrt of the matter that possibly my 'family may prefer champagne to butti rmllk, and not wish mo to t.et:l down, never seems to enter those good people's heads. Now while Job can't hold a candle to me when It cornea to patience, even I am growing weary oi the never ending, always beginning "I hope you will stay at home now" "off again are you how you do go!" In my humble opinion i,i' not the number of days a woman stays at hom. that count. It's how kind and sympathetic and chirpy she la on tho days ahe la there. I often feel inclined to refer a great many peoplo to the story of Mary nd Martha. Now this alary worm haa turned and she foe Is better, and the very next person I Meet will nay "You don't know how much I enjoyed that cievef piece of youra in Sunday's Observer, I wlwh you'd write oftener, but I know you won't. I'm sure you're getting ready for another trip. My! how you do run (.round! Aren't you ever going to set tle down?" And I smile pleasantly and say, "No. I'm afraid not," to her, and to myself I ay. "Full many a shaft most carefully' sent Never find msrk tha tfrcher meant" TMs -is a womlerful talo. but It la uoee-fiwary to tell wonderful tales when one talks of Jaybirds, because they are such wonderful creature that ordlna ry tnifung fun to convey any Idea of their astonishing performance. Last summer I waa ovr in Tenneeaee at my brothers' atock farm. ; Tb oak grove uround the house le haven of refuge for alt aorta and condition of bird end particularly nq for Jayblrfli, while feeding them w in of my principal amusements. The btggeat jay, (and ho was o very big. that ,1 am afrcja aay Just how big he was. but "turkey' 1 on tho tip of my tongue) wa1 named "grandfather," y 5Vhott bread w thrown en tho lawn not bird dared touch a crumb until Grandfather- hed-wterr-a!l tie cmrtd hold and retired to hio favorlt ock to P 1 r. r - v 4 r k , c Construction Were Designed by FRANK P. MILBURN & COMPANY, ARCHITECTS, OF WASHINGTON, D. C meditate upon the selfishness of the world. Then the ether birds ecrambled and fought for what waa left. When leaving- I was talking to my brother about Coming over for the Christmas hoii'days, and looking up saw grandfather llBtenlng, so of course, being a very polite person, I at once included him In tho Invita tion, saying "And be sure to bring grandfather and the children with you." Now that JiiBt shows how care ful you should bo about Inviting peo ple on the apur of the moment. Of course I thought no more of grand father. Well, Christmas came and with it my brother. I had boon showing him how much the trees had grown since he had visited me before, when nil at once he began to laugh, "trak. who's como to spend the holidays with you." he said. I did look and my as tonished gaze fell upon grandfather end the children. Well, I never was bo completely overcome, but I pulled my self together and fed them as usual and made them a welcomo aa I could, considering my speechless astonish ment at their appearance. It was the some old two and six; grandfather fill ed hlmseif chock-a-block, nd the children cnt down on the hedge, until he had finished eating. That went on for r month or more; they fought the mocking birds and were very noisy and fusH.v, but as they had come on my invitation. I couldn't drive them away. However there are Hrn'.ta even to my good manners. One day I read In a bird hook aJout JayH. It said they were, cruel, destructive, thievish everything that was bad, and nothing that was good. That In addition to n.ther evil practices, they killed the young of other, birds. You can (maglne the state of mind I was in then. Kill my little blue birds and baby catblrda end teensy mo1tlng birds that I loved r.a If they wire members ot my fam ily! Roused to desperation by the pros pective er lam try, I ran down the road to min-t my family and .pour Into his sympathetic ears the tule of Impending' grief. "I wish every bluejay would dla appeflr and never como back again," I a.iid. "Sciuawk," sounded defiantly overhead ib grandafther new away from the telephone pole, where he had been listening to every word I'd saJd. From that day to this there has never been a bluejay at Bramlett. Nowspapers at OyBter Bay are re queated not to copy. No one hai een the black cat for threo days, and I'm sfrald the mock ing bird has. killed her. Now the yard la full of mocking birds, but thl ape cral onw l known a "that bird." At Intervals during the day you hear sharp staccato note and somebody ay "Coma on that bird' lighting th cat again," o ha la, not only flghtlrg but trotting tha beat of tha fight Really -tr amount to positive persecution on the bird', part The poor cat ha ateo her breeikfttat and to wretched out in the un purring antf washing her face, not thinking of any thing in particular, juat at peace with all the world. Tha that bird pl her and perches on top of the Uttlt hm- iock and aw In as and makes deroira tory remark concerning her personal appearance, I don't understand hi langug. but j I am ur that I his meaning, for th cat : ret nervou, and finally turn her back on him and pretends to go to sleepall but her toll, that beat the ground In an agi tated r)fHf,'Theii--1i " bird tet more and mora insulting in hi re (7) marks and files down right In front of the cat, but she doesn't make ,the slightest attempt to catoh him. So far from It ahe gets up and runs into the kitchen, pursued by that bird, soreech lng and Jeering at her to the moet in solently triumphant fashion. Than he flies back to his pot hemlock, where ha serenades us during our breakfast, Kinging as if he were too good for this world and heaven were his home. He's the only bird I ever saw who could whip a cat, and the oddest part of it Is his war song. You never bear it ex cept whem he is lambasting the poor beast. Do you remember Kipling's de scription o ftho guutteral war song of the "fighting Ohurkas?" This mocking bird alwways makes me think of that. He's the bird who gets in front of my window at 4 g. m. and practices all his songs. Now it doesn't matter how fond you are Of music, at that hour of the day you want to sleep. But he sings and sings and sings. He Imitates the wren,-whlppoorvt Ms and bob-whites separately; then he mixes the sounds all up in' his throat and Imitates them all together. That pleases him so much that he Imitates the young rooster who's Just learning to crow. I don't think that's a bit nice of him because the young rooster is do ing th very best he. knows how and everybody has to learn how to do things some time or Other, and people ought to encourage awkward begin ners, not make fun of them. If I weren't so desperately sleepy I'd poke my head out of the window and tell him that I remember when he was young and gawky, and Ignorant, too, and made a spectacle of hlmaelf try ing to catch grasshoppers. They were his first grasshoppers, and he didn't know anything about their Jumping habits, so when a grasshopper came in Bight the bird would fly to the ground, and of nourse by the time he got there "the cupboard was bare." His expres sion of blank astonishment .was too funny. He would look at the ground and shake his head and then look up at his perch in the tree, and then ex amine the ground again. -, I have never yet been able to find a yellow warbler s nest. I've never heard them sing either, so I can't see why they snould be called warblers, unless It Is on the proverbial prlnclr pie that a bird that can sing and won't sing should be -made to elng, That's a silly proverb, irn't it? They are odd birds any way,. They never fly they flutter Ilk a butterfly, ana being small and yellow and black. it is often necessary to look twice to see if you are admiring big butterflies or little warblers. I'm charmed to give them nest and feeding room because they are so pretty, but they are too shy to be Interesting-, They seem to stay together in flock.' Once I dls turbed about a dozen of them on a sunflower In full bloom. They were all yeiiow ana black together, ? and ; coudn't distinguish the birds from the flower until startled by my coming tney an fluttered away at once, I was mor startled than they, for my flrat thought was that the sunflowers were flying away and while all nature 1 to me an ever-changing miracle, that was most too miraculous ta be agreeable. I don't know if Patsy really 1 the prettiest thing In town or I only think she is. She's carrot-colored with cream mane and tall, and every man who sees her says, "My, your horse has a mean eye. You'd better look aut for herr and, (the workings of a man' mind being absolutely Incomprehensi ble,!"" oe ori'hls way thinking he's made himself agreeable, rats eye i! '4 NEW BUILDINGS UNDER CONSTRUCTION, (Not Shown in View): President's Residence (8) Infirmary Building (9) Biological . Laboratory aren't mean. They are carrot-colored to match the rest of her, with a lot of white. They look' Just like eggs fried on one side, but that' no reason why slighting remarks should be made concerning: them. I've driven her since she was 3 years old and she's the gentlest creature I've ever had. Real ly gentle, I mean. Of course some times she feels her oats, and rolls back her eyes until only the whites are visible, lays her ears right flat and cake-walks to town on two feot, but she doesn't mean any harm and doesn't do any. Once when I was driving her she was hit In the head by an automobile, and after it passed hy she trotted on as If it were all In the day's work. She didn't try to Jump or run or do a thing. I don t think I've ever been so badly frightened. The automobile looked as big as a mountain. When It turned the corner, It was going so fast it couldn't stop, and all I could do was to sit still and wonder where It would hit Poor Fatsy s head got such a blow that in voluntarily I turned mine to look on the other side of the street, for hers, and was surprised not to And it. After we'd gone a little ways, and I realized that I was still alive, I grot out to look at her and found that she had a long- cut ih her neck not a dangerous one, but enough to make most horses pret ty fractious. When I saw that I Just leaned up against her and wept I think It hurt me more than it did her. I waa afraid she would never pass an other machine, but she does, though she doesn't like them. She's never given me trouble but once. There is a furniture factory be tween Qurjiouse and town, and it was re-painted, very much to its improve ment, I thought But Patsy didn't. I don't know what color she wanted It painted, green probably, to remind her of nice grassy meadows, but however that might be, she wouldn't pass it. When she came to where she could get a full view, she Just put all four feet down -with a sickening - thud and budge she wouldn't. I coaxed and petted and argued, I even got down and showed her the whip to let her see what could happen if I got real mad, he only sniffed at me. She didn't like the way that factory was painted and I might as well realize, It first as last, ana l aid realize it too.. For week I had to go - all sorts of ' round about ways to town. One day, after I'd given up in despair, sne put out down the hill as hard - as she could go, went past that factory like a bird, and I've had no trouble with her since. Our old barn needs re-paintng, but if we get the wrong color, and she wouldn't -go In It, there we'd be. If too great a risk. -. ... .;". .vi-v'i:.-- 'Messenger la different. ' He's the most serious minded beast Tve ever even. If he' going to a place, his one Idea is to get there in the shortest possible time. Patsy's is to have a good time on the way. At first he wouldn't stand still long enough for you to get in the buggy. It wa a long running; Jump or stay at home,' so of course I took the long running Jump, Being a Presbyterian I can take chances that It wouldn't do for you to take. The Messenger would five one good look around and light out, and you would hang on. He didn't mind the color of the factory at all, j but McDowell' clothing store lgn gave him a brain storm that made me reflect that possi bly even a Presbyterian can take one chance too-many., But the clothln sign wa nothing compared with run ning water. Have you ever heard be fore of an animal that was afraid of running water? That he i Kentt'ckyk bred doesn't seem reason enough. lie wasn't afraid of street can or the reck 0 1 ! ' 'Tin crusher, or sensible boog-a-boos that frighten other horses not at all. Now, however, while he lacks a good deal of having the sheeplike qualities that I prefer in a horse, he has quiet ed down mightily. He stands still long enough to cat the bunch of grass that r always give him when starting on our evenlnu drive, and while that oc cupies his mind I can settle myself peacefully Jn the buggy. Don t you think he has a pretty name 7, 1 be stowed that upon him for the sake of old times. I have my grandfather's diary of a trip to Kentucky In 1835. He wrote so much of a horse named Messenger that this colt waa given the name, because he had the same qual ities of swiftness and endurance. I don't have as much to say about 1 -Is upbringing, as I do about Patsy's, be cause I own her In fee simple, while I have only a reversionary Interest In Messenger, and I think he objects to own that Of course he will corns If I call him, but Patsy will call me, and that makes a . lot of difference, you know. He's an unusual color. He looks as If he had been originally a deep wine, but had been left out of doors on a cold December night, and hoar frost had settled down all over him. He sheds first real dark, then light then mingled. But 1 11 never be able to drive him. I can't tell why either. He's very good tempered, and for his ago three years he's remarkably gentle, but he's quick and so powerful some way that I never even hold the reins if I can get out of it Can't you get more pure delight out of horses than any other earthly pos session. If I had to choose between a roof over my head and a horse to drive. I'm afraid the roof would go first That Isn't as poor a choice as It sounds, because you could take the horse and drive to somebody else's roof. In winter that is; and in sum mer I'd rather look at the moon and stars than any roof that ever was made. - .'. ";; Really after a strenuous day with my birds and beasts It Is sweet beyond word when dusk comes on to sit out on the open iporch and watch the fire flies. One may begin with very pro saic thoughts of them, how they alone have solved one of the world's great problemsthat of light without heat, but prose has nothing , to do with the night, an these ihought vanish ; be fore it ever returning mystery and wonder, that no nnrte mind can com prebend for solve.; And 1 1 think our earthly Anight must e but vague foreshadowing of the night of death with its -wonder and mystery, Its peace and rest that shall fit us for the dawn of the new day the day that shall never be followed by night. And as the bits of living- light fit hither and thith er, as If they were keeping time to a song that they alone hear, I almost think I catch the refrain, "Let your . MRS. UJJDSAY PATTERSON. tight so shine, so shine; Let your light so hlne. - LONO LIVE TUB KING' t the popular cry .throughout" European countries: whfls ta America, the cry of the present day 1 "Long live Dr. King's New Discovery, King of Throat and Lung Remedies!" of which Mr Jul! 3tder Paine, Truro, Mass., . . sayt, "It never fails ' . to give ' immediate rltf and . to qulcMy cure a cough or eold." Mr. Palne's. opinion is hAMui, br a majority of - the lnhabi tent of this country, Nsw Dlscevery cnfM waak hints and sore throats after n other remedies have failed: and for 'rmiirh d oW lt' th frwvii rwmedy, Rurntta nr an qruggiiis.' ouc, ana U Trla bottle free. , , PICIfIC AT DENVER. The. Sunday School Children Make Merry With Singing and Spueaklng An Address by Mr, W. C. Folms tcr. Special to The Observer. Denver. Julv . Notwithstanrtlnr tha fact trmt both Hickory and Llncolnton drew away some of our people, Denver did herself proud In her annual Sunday School . picnic Thursday, Early In the . morning the roads leading to ' Rock: Springs oamp ground were thronged with vehicles, and by 10 cjrlock th large campus' was auve witn gay piemcKers. The Denver and Bethel Sunday Schools combined to compose the choir, and throughout the day rendered choice mus ic. There wera given by theae schools also several very commendable recita tions and readings. "Thomas Jefferson's Death,"-by. Miss aiaflys jriowara: "in- Swablan Land," by Miss Alda Kill Ian: "Tha Value ef Sunday School Training,'' by Miss Eertha, Modltn, and "How to Choose Good Books," by Miss Mary Bo- After the rendition of thl programme,. Mr. W. C. Feimster, of Newton, wa In troduced and made availing speech, ins noon recess waa mn mnum iiwrj n.v.ih . ujeTtA mhnrt aaalnn vAM' held. Addresses at this session were mad by Rev. W. O. Rudlsill, of Maiden, And Dr. J. H. Weaver, of Lenoir. At o'clock. in the afternoon tne exercise came m . a ctose, all feeling that the day had been it ttiot'tViA Tiatirtn'a Mrth hftn been fittingly celebrated. Randlcman'9 Largest Celebration. Special to The Observer. ' T?.ndiemfiin. July 6. The Fourth of Tniii" ww observed at Ranaieman Dy the largest celebration in her history. , Under -the direction or a. special com mie. headed bv Col. W. L Boone ns Chairman and Mr. S. Bryamit (aa chlet marshal, a large and epeeteueulatr par ade was organized ana rormea tip rne -artt,hiwrt T?iiwn.v station at 8 o'clock. The . parade was composed ot tne i. O, O. SV Bind the jr. o. u. a. w. lodg-ea' In full regalia and 18 -Indus-trSal -floBlta, representing- the various manuflatatunlngr and mercantile Inter eats of the . city, mawsiged by 30 mounted . mairshals. Immediately up- nn the arrflval oi jn mormng iraan, ; the p'roceesion moved off from the station tha-ough the principal atroeta, escorting the speaker ox tne oay. prof. Ohifum E. Brewer, .oi wake ttvaf' Mr Penrln Bugbee. of "Ral-" eigm and Cap-Bain F.. P, Hobgood, of Greensboro, no rcn grama exana m Mf t h 'TtnatnfftaA. -where a Id.rre "V . w,,, . , ; SJ V, f..Wftr.- V . " heafr the addressee. . - . s- At 4 p. m. bl game of 'baseball was played between Troy atnid Randleimiam tw artora ws Trtov 7. Rlaiadleman ' The day wound up by a faroe com edy by the R&ndlenran Textile Band at the auditorium. - ' There were fully 6.000 people in. TMtndiAman and all nronounced the '. occasion one of enjoyment and pleas- New School Building at Roxboro to Cost 920,000. " Special to ir.e ucaerver. Roxboro, July .-At a meeting of the board of aldermen yesterday It waa decided to proceed, at one with tho building of-the new stihool build ings for (Which bond to the amount ot 110,000 were voted ert a recent election. .... i' v, , The board ratal) architects for the new buJTdlng Meat. Hook & Rog ers, of Charlotte, tho' ame firm hav ing planned the bank and offic build ing erected her eevtmal yearns ago. The new school building la to have n' auditorium -with eatlnr capacity ?f 600, r aihlvh wlll b1 used .jjx-itiid choot. and aWo by .tha citizen aa a public hall,
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