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CHARLOTTE DAlLY OBSERVER, JULY. 13l908. TtX P. A. Raleigh, Jnly lSowly The Ob server mutt have a wide circulation or els subscriber and buyers must nail U into many States, for letters fcave come to tli writer from at leant 'A dosen States in regard to cMtern JSorth Carolina, especially referring ta the stories of the trip which the writ er made last April through the North Carolina nauntf, etc, from ton to i Norfolk, Va. A gentleman "from New, England, one from the tniclil State and one from Irg tn y they are going to make the asm .-i - utti. ixtrr in the year. Then iooTthe "oaUHtOTjr liar brought lot of- letters, some containing kindly - . compliments anJ other wishing some 'special Information about some par ticular point. The Observer la evl- . 'dently closely read, as these lettif.s , 'l have but Jusf come again from the ooast which is so charming a place to visit In the summer and which always has a fascination quite beyond the telling. OlJ Beaufort. "Spotless Town," is es attractive as aver and I stick to the view that there '"" is not In North Carolina a more beau- tlful specatcle than is presented on a ' cummer day. by Ann street, a mile Jong, with its archway of elm foliage. " Its driveway like a strip or white rtb- ton, bordered on either side by beels of greenest grass. There) are cer tainly no finer" elms lu North Caro lina. A few of them at one corner vers damaged by a fire last winter w which burned a venerable builclln;. t'hswowner, an aged woman, losing her life therein. , At Beaufort one can ceo the largest , Oleander trees In the State anj Home of them althost. approach the dinieti atloaa Of those at Palm Beach and Miami tn Florida. One in the front yard In the home of Representative Lester Paris I am very sure has 10. blossoms and Is worth going mile to see. This one Is pink and there j axe more of the same kind and also - aeois very beautiful a hit on.- j Some of these days fig culture will . (at to be a great thing along our coast ' as two crops are produced each year; ta Juae and August. The earliest - figs ara generally the largest. Be.me flgs. Ilka the great blue ones, can he estsn akin and all wltlavut burning tha lips or the mouth. There ar eight, or nine kinds along the coast and there are per) ps forty varieties which hare not yet been Introduced lu Korth Carolina. They are eaten here fresh and preserved, but yet peo ple have not learned to dry them . - and put -ffirm up for sale, as they do lo California. Italy and southern . rrsjrvce, but this Industry will come long Jater. By the way, TTiTTe is a queer thing about the tlx. Toere I a bird In Italy whose food is the fig, this being- the becalW-o, which In mt prised by gourmand there, and In other countries. Our North Carolina - mocking-birds are verv fnd of figs and will eat great numbers of them ' unless frightened ay. The cat-bird the mocking-bird's cousin, also likes them very well Indeed. Mention has been mude of the fact that last year about this time a good deal of the beach In front of tne life saving station at Old Fort Macon, In front of Heaufort, gave way and was carried away by the rush of the tide there, which si-is in strong, the water being very deep near the land. Tne atation lias berl moved back to a cafe distance. Almost the same sort of thing has happened at the life saving station at Bald Head inland, at the mouth of the Cape Fear river. Ons of the surf men from that station was here to-day and told4ne It had been moved about half a mile from the point where It was when some twelve year ago governor JCllas Ourr ' and myself had the pleasure of din ing there, as the guests of the cap tain and crew, with us at that time be ing a number of visitors, Including the late lamented Thomas K. Hriiner, secretary of the Hoard of Agriculture. A lot of people have hked me what I thought about thi selection of Heaufort as u place f,,r the presenta tion et the sllv.-r rvlce to the, crull er North Carolina. It had certain merits, certainly t' one who loved nd senture like myoi If. for the getting out to the vesxi'l under ordinary nm lltb)D8 had suflh-n-nl nplce in It to stive it a d"iin,tt. .harni or ihuh t WOUld liaVH be, n ht-tler flotll the nnt of vb-w of the general public t" have the ceremony at Norfolk Th ITicers of the vensei d' Ktr. d It to bo fct .the latter plac e nnd they would tiave had a broad gHiigwav built for the um of the public in lhitlng the. sessel. Lieutenant Governor Wln fton certainly desired It to be at Nor folk, and otlil no very frankly. Hut whilo only a limited number of people saw the cruiser, a inu' b Ktnallcr one paw the gift and a smaller one still 'ltnesed the presentation of the Jut --er, jt the mnt ' mA.te of every thing. 1 see bur South Carolin.i friend are poking fun at Heaufort tiarbor. lt fhem wait two or thru years and thoy will sin another tune, for In that time the inland waterway 'I1I be compete and the bar at Heau fort will be deopened. It ha now nly twenty-two feet at high water, ut !t can be brought up to thirty fciid vessels drawing that mu-h ..n CO to the wharf of the Norfolk A Southern Railway. In fnct the water from the bar to thla wharf unci the , freight depot In t mot places at 1st thirty ftet In depth. The water lo xfront of Jieauf'irt town le much hallower, not over twelve feet or thereabouts, but It Is deep up n, w. gort rirer on the wen side of up town and It Is through this rhanriel the ships will go Into the Inland a terwiy, Beaufort muKt be rrcknned with n X great proposition lu a little while nd observant people realize t hi fart. The United States engineer corps dres and so dors the No rf or I A 8uth r Rallwsy. Tn bids for the ork upon the Inland wuterwnv. o far as Its southern end is ' concerned, is to be opened July 27th Over halt a million dollar , avall Ks for this work. The Observer printed the story of the waterway T11" th? mP very klt.dlr prenareci c 1(11. Mn Itrow-n r c a., ana a study of this man will show vnata remarkable cut-off tae canal I rjlt te tw even th. claes of ve.sois ! wowunne; the sound, while as Mwn i i.oe oat-side trip srojind rp Huttera. and that Inside by this remarkahM'T roate. the saving In d,lstanc wilt sn K? m,t i1 la theWday, people realUe what such a saving jaesns. - It means at least ten hours time, even for 1 set boats. Of ccoDrse Beaufort wUl be a fortl Bed harbor am! old port Vacon will be rased ana modern work of ron- The Navy Department and the War ITepartment recognise the Importance f the Inland waterway. The forts are new open to the gea rl publle. and yet strange to asy? re markably iew jop!e are aware o s J CST EXA CTLV RIGHT. -t ks a) 1T. Kiha's Mow lift wns tor srrre4 rears, and find them cwt . eetlr nret," eare Mr. A. A. Feltoe. of Jsrrtorf.i. J. y. New Life Fill relieve ''tx)Bt the Uset discomfort. Beet rem-e-tr for ie!rtlon. biUoosnees aiid oeooro. xvu. mi in erug suires. OLDS. this act. for a Wilmington man re marked to me that he had never seen Fort Caswell except from a distance and that few Wilmington people knew anything about It, as they did not think they -could visit U. He : said that not long ago a German training tihlp which came Into that port pass ed Fort Caswell, of course, and that on her deck a number of officers and cadets were seen making sketches. They continued to make these along the river. Uncle Sam's navy people do the same sort of thing when they travel abroad.' Te- back to the- -crulaex. Jfiorlli. Caroliita, it may be said that Captain Marshall and her other officers will be very glad to, gel -as many North Carolina sailors on board as pos)bfc and th- certainly want a North Carolina band. It would appear that there arc enough musicians in thla State w ho would like; to go around the world to make up a band for this vessel and any who desire to be globe' trotter, and have a mighty good home all the while, that is ta live In a sev- en-mllion-dollar house afloat, ehould write Capt. William A. Marshall or Lieutenant Commander Victor Blue, at the Norfolk navy yard, addressing: their letters to the C H. 8. North Carolina,. A we were looking over the. side of the great cruiser last Fri day one of the officers remarked, as he watched small boats very daringly unci cleverly sail by the natives, that there were, a mighty good lot of sea faring men along tne North Carolina coa.-t. They begin when they are buys, little fellows of b or 6 years, and their boats are to them the ejulv alcnta of the doIU their sisteia have. Yet these people, who may be spok- ! en of truly as fearless, nave a very proper fear of the water I p-counuy people will go out on mill ponds and tne miseraoie coats tney nave in sue h places, and the first thing one nuuns inerv la a vafjsige hiicj sonir- j j ooay is arowneu. t-eopie along in" coast never take such a chance a this slid an a result more people are drowned up-country than on the sea shore, it takes a tenderfoot some little time to understand these thliij. It will be remembered that Captain Marshall. 'of the North Carolina, ex pressed to me last April his adml latioii for North Carolinians a.s sail ors and as shots. lie thinks they can do anytalng with the guns, great and small, and they certainly make a good record In ths navy. The same eye which can see a squirrel at the lop nf a high tree and van take ac curate aim along a rifle barrel Is the eye the navy wants and It hobts good fer a twelve-Inch gun Just as it docs for a 3 2 -calibre rifle. I Casual mention has been made of 1 the watersoouts seen last Thursday, i while on tho very lively trip from More-head City to. the North Carolina. No uiiiount of aviuiilntam-e with wa terspouts removes the uncanny feel ing they produce. The cloud droops low over the sea and slowly It drops a funnel, which hans, blue-back and liiperlng, to a point -ay half-way be tween ccloiid and sea, then suddenly ir exert ita force and up conic the watc r to niy t it. There is a smother of mjt at the base, which looks al most lik,. smoke or like a c loudy pillar by which me large part of the water c yclone" tn-nliroiided.v-' l' this hollow tube, which revolves with great rapbU Ity, its It slowly iidvunc i s, enorinou guantitlcH of water are sucked mid thci roar can be heard a considerable distance. out of seven people on the little boat In which wa were, which danced like a shell on tho waves, only three had ever before seen a waterspout. One tenderfoot remarked that he hoped It would come ! near, but ihi writer said he trusted not, at least until, we got within miia or me (juns of the North Carolina, so that the lalrer could fire Into tiie waterspout and cause It to break. These things have wrecked many a vcc or .lorn- great damage and about a year ago ene of them came In from th,. seu, across the snind, struck trie marsh In front of Heau fort and then ended In ;t torrent of water which smashed in the mof H nl one end of a. wan-houso mi the water front un'l scared a lot of peopbi half to eb:ith The firm one I ever saw .line t an end on the beach on the not half itn Imnoxiieir .r wtit..i-i..,.i I "uwi nui- oi roil .Macon, nut it wm ics Hie ,,ne I observed lit wee k i hle-f Jnstie e i Urk was i.rofoumllv iini.i -ess- e,i I., this wate rspout, n. n'rst he li.-i.i e-v. r s.-. n, unci said It Kuve a wciii- eie-riin example- of the power u a '.l.iiii-. Kium what we could esti mate it must have" lifted the nin. r and necessarily hunclrends, perhaps t ln.iiiiiiiis of tons of It, some 500 or Sleei feet Into tin- air. I remember in Tca. three- jcars iiro eomfng ibioiuh ;i wrecked town, where not ti ins as fetahelinK and w here all thelwlun Curator Drlmley went there he people alive were In the- eluiioeiuts or ! found the whale wns onlv ir, f,.(.t inner ce-..ne- jilts, and li..re timbers .-;. .n.i.rii nine him driven into the ground several f.-c-t. It seems M-ry hard te understand wlrel-sK telegraphy. To me It is on of tie- oiost mysteritius things In the world ordinary electricity is strange enough, whether we taken it in tho dynciniK- or more modern form; the ststtr. the frm In which Hnjnmln Prnkiin tackled It. or the voltaic, which ha.s now- almost gone out of fftsmnn. Ienjr use nf the wires has made them seem somewhat tame to tbe orellnnry observer, but when one looks st the lofty mas't of a wireless station h nd ,., the secmlnir taeiffU of wires which form what Is teehnl- i callv known as the "Harp," hoar the ! e rac klini? sounds, very Ilk o t'tose J in i.li! u.v a rapid-fire nun. say ti at- . 1 1 "K or a. Colt, as a message Is ent. j the thins; Is positively fearsome, say j what mi., will, and then too t h great flashes of liKht urn by no me-ans can- ! hut quite the. contrary. ! I remember one- benK ,m ton of a ! very high tower and watching lni Snd fencnng i a wireless message then g'-itig to a point nearby and seeliiit on.- of those vacuum lights in n long tube, in which there was mer- . ury; .that remarkable light whhh tncli.. i sr.i. i.. inu i k ic .t. win" nrw virus, noi nrrtrioiore pnoio them to be rbotographed at niht g. bUt "f "Uc fon, non'- Thl tak w,' " 'n daylight The expert of tn' wireless station told me It would b" t,ut tt mxtl' while befors globes and rrbons and that sort of thing could dor"' "y with and that street wmild soon be produced In this ror rm between the end of two wires Jik a ball of fir.e..:Tala seems 4o Jja the next step forward. North Carolina has a number of wire'it-ss station, these being at Eliz abeth city. Hatteras. Beaufort. Wil mington and some other points, th only commercial on being that at Hatteras. which Is on the Itorest sys tem, " the othe9 beirs; th Marconi. It te said the Hatterss station catches nor meesagee than sny of them and th'a is probable, owing to Its advanced position. Hstt-rat -being the outpost of oar coast. . However, Hatteras will be-tninlmtsed so far as dangers are .fODeernea br the jnland waterway Iresdy allude t to., for Its greatest edsnger la te the t miller type of vrs e, the big; fellows standing away out while the little cnes tiref.. to I coast as near at way be alone the aP thtu cftsn styinf time Uj one sense, but losinjf It; In a much more material one. No other . way -.of meeting the dangers of Hatteras has been - devised which will stand tne test" ,''.,,.:;.: .- . -.- ;; .. -r ' Some of the local Republl Ana here are Immensely broud of the fact that they hare, . upon -the front of - the headquarters, in big letters, the words "Young; Men a Republican Club," ana one of .them said with an air of great pride, this week, thaj It had been many a long year since on the princi pal street In Raleigh a Republican sign had appeared. - As a matter f fact the name was the 'device of Charles I Sykea, a yo6ng lawyer here, now of Selraa. but who will re turn to Raleigh in the autumn, and he la the man who originated the club, the master-spirit of which la Postmaster Willis Briggs. To ten tfiT-truth the club name is - mls - nomer, for there . are not so many young men In It, a number of them being veterans of a good many cam paigns. Of course the United States orflclaln manifest a more or less fath erly Interest In the organization and an effort Is being made to scatter these clubs and the Republican prop aganda all over the State. Not a C , 1 . . . 1,. MW enough to say tb at h Is party car. ry. Nor.th SfroU? ?.. tp. Republican has been found who 1 who is not willing to admit that the Democrats w'tll win by something like 10,000 or 15,000 majority, most of them confining; their claims to state ments that they propose to do a great deal In ,the Legislature. Some of the Republican leaders thought as late as ten days ago that Greensboro would be the place for their convention and one of them salii that they had come to 1o6k upon that place as headquarters, but Char- t lotte entertained the Democratic State i convention so splendidly that It won ' out again. j j wa m)rry Q of tn(, j 1ei4th of Capt Joh1 wilkes. the oldest Iul Kraduate f the Naval Academy . , J,,,rn,pr nf the j n,.Mvnf of fhe alumni .ssnristlon T had met him here and at other places and always found him a very entertaining man. His father, Com- mojore Wilkes, conducted personally one of the most important exploring expeditions ever sent out by the Unit ed Mates Navy Department and at this late day the number of volumes printed wit be found to contain very Instructive reacjlng. I happen to know thai Captain Wilkes was held in very high regard by officers of the navy and army. Very few people know that the State itself has the biggest farm in North Carolina, bigger even than Mr. Vaoclerbllt's many times bigger, in fact. It lies along the Koanoke riv er and there are practically two farms In one. In the old days, before the war, there were over a thousand slaves on these farms, and with great labor t) let- h.i,l retired a u hrenkwafer Hgalnst the Hoartoke river, which Is always treacherous and subject to enormous overflows, a barrier-dyke of rfteat height and many miles in length. This stood for many years Hnd upon it there- are very large trees, yet In a mighty flood net many ve-srs. ago part of It was cut away and the wate r poured through one of the rie-hi-st belts of the vast farm. The 'h'tate boughf. this farm for something over ISO. 000 and has paid for it. Tho land Immediately along the rlvi-r is In large part abandnncel, that which Is higher find safer being In cultivation. It 1h proposed to plant pecan trees elmig the lower banks and this ought to be done on a great scale. " The character rt the soil Is a flood deal like that of the Texas bottoms, where these trees grow wild and where they produce extremely profitable crops of Mull wrtrCh tw.im II ( a 11 a K..uht.l Thero ere now ov.r 4110 convict, on this Hoanoke river farm and they have over 1,200 acres of cotton to look aftrr, even more of corn, not to speak of peanuts and all sorts of oth--' er crops. There are big warehouses i for storing crops, though the cotton Is usually taken to Norfolk and ware housed there, anel everything is done, on a scale equaling that of the vast Texas anil Louisiana farms of the present day and of the before-the-war p' tiod. Tersems w ho wish to make u study of farming on a large jiralc will find a visit there- profitable. This Is the largest convict farm in the I 'nlled States, except the one nt JSu g:er!ane1. 111 Texas, whic h was referred m m vnur c-orreHDoiicicnt three vesrx In The Observer Texas line Ave times t..s many convicts North '"Una, mid there the number In- ' iereuse. because counties do not take ' tbcin. while the number .if State con- ! villi rails on year i.y year. The last whale caM'tire el In North fan. Una, the one taken at Reau fort, I't-ene.J a distinc t disappointment. Its 1 le njrth bud beenreported te he over 50 feet and the Stake Muse um official, therefore, .wanted the skeleton, but -belnK much. smaller than .the iO-footer the State has bad In the museum for a nuiiile r of years, so that nothing was ' d.iiv with It. Strange to say, the men v ho took the Vhaln got very Utile out of it. Two weeJts before they killed It 1 they hal a very exciting adve nture off . i-'aje l,nokout. sbout ten miles from w he-re this kill was madiv.Ttiey struck a whale and the harpoon held. Tbls. vc hale was a "big fellow and he took the-ni right out to ea. They were In su.-h clone quarters, the sea being very lieavy. that they had to cut loosa and lost him. together with much line. A few months ago, not far from the lightship, a school of whales was seen beiiillnit- Miuth. Curator Hrlmley was knockad out lil intende.J trip along the North Ciiolliia coast by the slekness of his companion. Secretary Gilbert I'esrson, of the Htate Audubon Society. They wenl to the lake ot "Ortoh" farm, near tho mouth of ths Csti Fear river. .,m ?n mil.. h.in urnin.inn ,:,k.. n. .tud r.r h. rnv.rv f'h various kinds of herons whIMi have tur two renturlea tncirlalid thora ! Thl,v foun(1 ,eva U?, ,"!V! ? , ,lnf h iOM of 5U" ven different kinds of appy family fashion. r poses was to discover at Orton Is a very remarkable place. A few peeople from the North know It: those, who have been gusts at this wonderful old estate of the late Mr. Wurchlson, of Wilmington, and New York City. It really Is not a lake but a pond, though the dam Is only a few feet In length. The wster Is as black as Ink. of great depth snd Is full of every sort ef llfesu Borne of ths alligators, which are extremely abundant, are of great else. Mr. Brim ley has Cor several years m anted to kill some of xhe largest, but baa had no success, those he secured being small speclments, relatively speaking. To kill these he used a ma user, This Was a captured gun, presented him by the writer, which he bas Terr adroitly mads Into a carb)ne, and a wonderful weapon It is. Using soft nose ballets, ths head of an alligator Is simply an nihilated. Three he killed were struck In the bead, and be never saw such wounds produced before. The sickness of Secretarp Pearson prersnted the trip t the bird "rook eries,", from a point some fiftjr nllse northeast of Beaufort, to ons oft Capt Hatteras. Reports wbkh ceme In from the wardens there are all good. There have been no big storm and the birds have iaersaiea very greatly this ssa- teon, thla applying- .to f gulls, terns. nearwatera, a welt aa tj heron, cranes, cgrvta, etc The colony at lt ged Lump, which the writer saw la April, lias flourished exceedingly. The killing ot all these classes oc birds has been absolutely etopped along thla roast end so complaints bare come In. There used to be very large colonies along the ;sea-f ace of the "banks," as te immensely long and narrow string of land, : often absolutely barren, be tween the sounds and the sea, s Is known In North Carolina. Two at least of these colonies have been re-estab lished.; In 187C I saw at one of these places so great number of birds that I thers must bava-beerw-at, the -AeraL least, a quarter of a million. The real destruction of these began about MM or 1892, when the New York dealers in feathers - made - the contracts for ' the wholesale killing of all plumage biros. This went on for several yearsv un til the destruction was thought te be complete, and then the bird vendors sought other fields. I had the pleasure of spending a week at Asnevllle and find that up in that -section and to the northward-and southward of it more attention than ever has been paid to re-stocklng the streams of trous. This has pro gressed wonderfully In Mr. George Vanderbilt's great forest reserve, known as "Piah Forest," and first described by the writer In Forest snd Stream in August, 18M. There are about 225,000 acres In this preserve, and there are nine streams, which have been well Oiled With trout Ashevllle's water supply is remarkable and certainly nothing In the 'South touches it In point ot purity and cold ness,) and Indeed few places In the world have anything rnich equals It. The water Is brought In a large main f rom a point on the side of Black mountain, is me, a-y xnai rsgiun , being as wild and absolutely ! primitive as can be Imagined. From l the stream which famishes this sup ply and which has been restocked with trout, many of the latter have been taken and placed In the fountain' basin, a very large one, In the public sej.ua re at Asheville, and there they have grown and MuiwUhed exceeding ly. They are now a foot or more In length. All are salmo fontinalls. Up in the Llnville river section where there Is another notable pre serve, fostered by the Murchlsons, MacKaes and other wealthy Wilming ton people, trout have been again made a feature of tha Very beautiful streams. Many fish have been secured from the United Htates Ash commis sion this season and It Is safe to say that at no time before have more been placed In various streams and ponds In North Carolina. The season has been extremely fa vorable for partridges so far, and these birds seerh to be everywhere, their cheerful notes being heard by the writer every time ho goes afield, any where from the mihurbs of Raleigh outward. The grain crop In the State this year ta the largest and best In many a year, and (following the wheat and oats great quantities of peas have boen and will b- planted. The return of bird life to the woods nfid to the well-shaded towns like italrlgh Is very charming. In one af ternoon a party of observant boys and myself saw thirty-three kinds of birds, from the Capitol Building here to a iioint three miles In the country, it Is rather odd to see surh birds sa the Hlow-hammer, national wood-pecker. rod bird and and blue Jay right In the city, but here they are, perfeotly at horiw and on a principal street two kinds of red birds were seen the other 'lay, while squirrels dashed ac ross the roadway to get away from a swift street car. The song-bfrds are all over the city. A few days ago a cuckoo, or "rain crow." as this bird Is always termed here, was seen In a pecan tree, near a dwelling In the city, and after he hael given his mther moufnful cry once or twice, he flew away to anoth er nearby tree, this being one of his s attacked by habits. (Suddenly he wa half a dozen Kngllsh sparroas, but. , . .,, !, , . .. . . ,.,!,... .t"f buttles betweon tne king snake ana seemed to pay no special attention to , .... . .... , . fcn. them. They left him and went after a national wonrl-pe-i k -r who was drum. '"'"K 'y " a telephone pole, out ht" h(,d Into th- bunch. In a very i-tvs" jmiinii, in u -.- spread, and they troubled him no mtire ine thing hs observed here since birds have come to again make Bal- clgh their home, this being that the ! t-.. -ici. .... ... t n . ... Kol ilgerent. They tiave been taught a good lesson by such knights of the nlr as the moc king-bird, the klng-blid or b- martin and the wood-peckers, for none of these trifle with them at all. No braver" "bird f fifes-than the mocking - bird, of which we have only one kind here, what Is known ss the "French" mocklng-blrd not coming far up country, but being plentiful near The coast. By the way, have any or- server readers ever ODserrea inesn "French" mocking-birds dancing on the grass?" "A score of years ago, wbeirj In camp near Wilmington, 1. used to see them do this, and It was very amusing Indeed. (Sometimes several would be engaged and It looked rather like an old-fashioned square dance. In that section lhey have the chuck-witis-wldow as well as the ordinary whip-poor-will, but tn thla part of ths Htate we have only the latter bird. The museum people have killed the great raven, which was brought from CATAWBA- SPRINGS This welt established resort Is now-open and offer to those seeking: rest and comfort Inducements not found tlsewber. ' Wi claim to give the best fare of any resort In the 8tate. The water at Catawba 8prlns Is unsurpassed for kidney, bladder -shd stomach troubles. , It Is a coot, quiet comfortable place, situated I Billet from Hickory. N. C, and require only 0 minutes' drive. , A better orchestra would be hard to find. This Is a destrabls place for both yoong and ple,2and once hsr yooj win be loath to egve Csttwbtf Springs is reached by Southern Railway; also C h N. W. - For other lnXotmation apply to H .'..--' -. 4 V r : Catawba aprtnea Hotel Co Hickory, X. C :-. ; Trinity Park School . . ' A First -Class preparatory ScbooL Certificates Of Qraduatoa accepted for entrance to leaitng Bouth- -trn Colleges, . ' r" -- ...; Best equipped Preparatory School In the Bouth. ' " " ' f Faculty of ten officers and teachers. Campus of seventy-five acre. -Library entalntng thirty thousand volumes. Well-equipped gym nsslum. 11 lxh standards and modern method of Instruction. - Fre quent lectures by prominent lecturers. Expanses sxceedlngly moder ate, geven years of phenomenal success.-- s , . '". Fer catalocu and ether Information, address . . , M. XORTU, Headmaster, ; v ' . Par ham, W. C, . - . ' , - " . ' SACO AMD Pickers . Y- " Revolving " Flat Carils Biilway Heads -ind '- Drawing - ., - r f. :. I " Frames A. H. the Fmokv mountains In this State, near the Tennessee line, and he has been mounted. He was an Immense bird and very friendly. No crow could be a bigger thief than he and a favor ite trick was to snatch a handkerchief out' of the pocket. If one's back was turned, and hide things very adroitly, go back to his peroh and look as in npcent as Mary's little lamb. He had a great way of crying or croaking when he saw other birds moving about or' even saw their shadows la the court yard where he lived. In the publlo park here are some I ,.. f om..ti.i i wUd geea an(j lheM bring to 'mind a very good story which tnlne host Asa Evans, of the Hotel Tranquil, on Roa noke Island, tells. This Is that he had eight domestloaed w-lld 'geese, which lived around his place and had been used several seasons. At first their lngs were trimmed, but later they were not, and so two seasons ago, when the spring migration began, a great flock of wild geese passed over head, the dtgnesticated ones gave a honk or two, then suddenly rose and Joined the bunch and away all went. Mr. Evans thought he had said good bye to his very useful pets and that he would have to buy and train new ones, but when the cold weather came nor only did h; t-usty and well-behaved birds come, bock, but they brought a large number of their friends. who proceeded to settle down with them and make the Island their home, spending the winter In the little lake and bays, here and taere, coming out freely on the land, enjoying life gen erally atid honking when anytalng in the goose linn was passing. Mr. Evans Is a Arm believer la the fact that geese have a language and that his partic ular birds iiiformed the' others that It. a noke- isiund was exactly the right place to stop at. A friend of mine tn a county south nf here lius told me a verv Interest ids j ory A bWa h(1(j ft ne8t ,n a j,oW tre0 not fr from the bank of a little stream, and recently happening to pass by he saw a snake, coiled entire ly around the nest, doubling the size of the latter, the reptile looking like he formed part of the nest, the head l being pulled well back and hidden ! among the leaves. Bird -tbver" that he' Is. he shot the snake. He found four, eggs in the nest and Judged that the : reptile must have laid bis plan to get' one of the birds, tn preference to the : eggs. Up nt the Btats Museum there Is a ( very large specimen of the king snake, 1 It Is half gentle, hut will sometimes bite, thojjgh. of course, nothing comes of any wound it makes. Its powers of constriction are certainly great. The negroes have a great deal of re- gat d for :he king snake and they tell In their quaint fashion (that is the old ' ',,0, do' for t,ie rounsTer ones do not snake will Kitp another anake in such a way .-is to ,"ull (h joints apart. It will not always do to trust, the bite o( harmless snakes, however for ii bout i.mi years ago Curator Brlmley r t ilt, n by a bllwksnBke, a pet. and the result was that he nearly lost hla life and It seemed for a long time that he must lose an arm. Perhaps the con-1 dltlon of his blood was bad or. there may have been something In the mouth of ths snake which caused bloodpolsoning. People In the eastern counties of this State, where snakes are extraor dlnsrlly plentiful. Insist that the worst, or as they say the "meanest" ef all the serpentt t the one that they call the "swamp Hon" or black moccasin. They say that he will dash at people who enter the thick swamps or poco sons, notably along ra August . and September, and deer hunters who are then abroad keep a. close watch on this serpent.' HI bite le regarded as' fatal unless something la done quick ly. Pajung mention bag been made, of tie: fad th?l the t-tate Museum Is now Illustrating the rests of birds. This special work is tiope by Mr. Thomas Addloks. He will by th end of another season, perhaps, hars at least SO birds thus Illustrated. , . V PETTcE MACHINE SHOPS is .'" - e- .',1'.'' ' ' """TV VASHBURN, r Southern hecni : . CHARLOTTE, KOBTO CLOLPsA Y Y ! rfc- Y mZABtffl COlltGE AND CONSERVATORY . Of MUSIC cJiARixyrra, ir. a A High Grade College ft . Women, Beautiful suburban loca tion, ! acres campus vsrloeklng the city; fine buildings:, university edu cated, experienced teach ers. X B. Degree Course on level with the best col leges Cor men; slectlv degree courses. Specialties, Muaie, Art and Expression Schools. Aim: To provide bread And liberal culture fer. young woman. Illustrated catalogue sent tree en application. COA. B, KJKO, President. Capital Stock $30,000.00 SPECUL SUMMER SESSION BIO REDUCTION to all who enter before July 15th, U08. A liberal discount on either a single or combined course. Positions guaranteed, backed by written contract Write for handsome catalogue. It Is free. Address KING'S BCSINKfcS COLLEGE, Cliarlotte, N. C, or Ralelgb, N. C. N Presbyterian College for Women CHARLOTTE, N. 0. Tho 51st session of this old and well established school will begin September 3d, 1908. Without making loud claims we .point to the work of. one-half century. For catalogue address REV. J. E. BRIDGES, President FACE s - .1 M-a,. UiiikeUiiMMeWr TRINITY COLLEGE Four Departments -Collegtste, Graduate, Engineering and taw. Large library faellltiea r WeUequlppsd laboratorlsa tn, ..all- depert-. ments of Science. Gymnasium furnished with best apparatus. Ex penses very moderate., 'Aid for worthy students. Toung men wishing' to study Law should Investigate the superior advantages offered by ths Department of Law at Trinity Collsgs. For catalogue and further Information, address D. W. NEWBOM, Registrar, - ;. --r : Durham, K. C; - ' ---.---- . , tHTDER KEW MAJfAGEMETTt THE SELWYN ' v ETTROPEAJf kKD AMERICAIT. Kuronean. tLi Pr day and up. American, ii.OO Pr day and erst, M Cafe opea Jay and night ' ." '' " Price reasonable. - ' The Most Modern and Invariant Hotel In the Carolines. . tg ELEGANT ROOMS. j 7i .PRIVATE BATHS.. . Located tn the heart of Charlotte, onesnlent to railroad station, street cars and the business and shopping centra.). Cater to high class commercial and tsarlet trade. Table do bete dlnnsr to Sit. Musio every vnlng :! te t:t. - - " ' v f . . L . EDGAR B. MOORB i- ; - - - - aVoprtetoa,. WARM .DAYS AND TIRESOME NIGHTS make the traveling man glad to get TrBere - good things to eat, comfortable beds and genial ho.spitaUty are to be foundAll this ' is awaiting yon at - MOTEL- CLE& e'ssc a fitef Beyoad tb Clubbing. j .; Intermedi4ti- ' Spinning Framea ' Cp'oolej Y YT and - , ' Seels - 5 7 INSTITUTE - aim fcUeh erf Af. EspreMMC. r, iiu- ouiinm lwlH?f Jws ? and Earopeaa. - SUtiota, Ctwiaanowe jr. a.
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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