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CHARLOTTE DAILY OBSERVER SEPTEMBER 7, 1CC3.. BY COI FRED A OLDS. Falyrayro. Bept 1. tf"ate is certain ly most kind to me. A I went up Into the mountains 4 fellow passenger was cUata Geologist Joseph Hyde Pratt, and coming down to-day 1 met - at Blltmort,! station Prof. Collier Cobb; of the State University, who Is a real globe-trotter by the way. For a month he had been doing his usual August stunt teaching geology at the farm- era school of forestry In the heart of Blltmore forfst. He had gone there direct from Arcachon, on the rencn coast, where he had been with a sclcn 'tlflc pay headed by Professor Davis, v making studies of sand dunes and the best methods of controlling them. He h.m for Tears made studies of the dunes - on the North Carolina coast, where at INags Head and at Hatteras they are , ' 99 feet in height. At Arcacnun inrj are ISO feet high. There the French government has checked them by pine ulantins. using a tree which has wide spread or roots, ana wc" '"u" "V in ana is aiso uwu iui In North Carolina these dunes go on with their work of destruction, cov- erlng farms and forests and affecting' the waters also. At Arcachon the bay used to be very shallow ana vaiue-1 less, but now, since ine reclamation work, the bay is used for oyster planting and yields a handsome rev enue. A few minutes before Professor Cobb was met 1 had made som! notes on the value of the great floods of last week as an object lesson as to the need of the Appalachian forest re serve and ot forest conservation gen- eraliy. Froessur Cobb said I was en- tlrely Hint, in JK mis Mate nan over 70 per cent, of Its area In for est. Now there Is a Utile over 50 per cent, It Is the farmers in the moun- ' tain region who are bitterly fighting the forest reserve plan. This Is utter- ' ly selfish on their part They look no ri. than Tnptr . , u n i-.rn i npv ire : net aware that what benefits all ben efits mem. WORK OK THE FLOODS. ' As we ran down In the lower levels and along the valley of the Catawba river we saw what destruction the re cent floods have wrought and saw what lack of conservation of wood lands and careless cultivation and handling of soils will do and are do ing. Property and life are lost be cause of the Ignorance, carelessness and selfishness of soma people. Mr. Cobb went to Europe early In May. for years he has studied sand dunes, here and In other parts of the world, except In the desert of Sahara, where he goes on his next trip. He found that France plants on these shifting sands the tree known the maritime pine. In IS years these are tapped, not boxed, for VAaln U'hen imiv fn, n. a UlAffmnh poles they are Impregnated with blue atone or copperas. The corylitlons at Orcachar are every like those In the dun section of the North Carolina coast. ' In the past five years Mr. Cobb has lectured at the Blltmore forest school. Not one hundred men In North Caro line know that In this State there Is the finest technical forest school In the United States. Extremely few men from the Houth go there. As yet these have not risen to the helxht of the situation. Oermans are the best and most thorough students. Massachusetts rank next. Yet the South Is the section which of all others most needs this particular branch of instruction and knowledge. This school was oponed 10 years asro and on Thanksgiving Day It CAle- . brates Its 10th anniversary. .Dr. Clifford Howe, for several years botanist at this Blltmore school, goes to the University of Toronto, In Cen ada, to lecture on forest botany. The work at this Blltmore school goes on the year round. Th number of students Is limited to 25. There are always many on the watting list. Waiting to enter. After the course there Is finished. Dr. Schenck, the hesd of the school, takes the. class to Europe for 3 months' study alone the same line. Italy und Spain have TlO woodland, England only 3 per cent, of Its area. France 20 and Ger many Zt per cent. I'ut In Italy there Is great care In protecting the land with cover crops and In terraclnar. etc. In England, of course, there is also great care of lands. France and Ger many have made studies of these mat ters for a great many years. In Europe the effort Is towards recon struction: In North Carolina with one or two exceptions it Is towards dv- tractlon. : Mr." Cobb lectures at the Rlltmore fhool on a-eolosy in Its relation to forestry. For example, on certain sandstone formations Is srrown the best furniture timber, and the same pedes, grown on such rocks as Bre vard schists, produces the type of ak and hickory. required by manufacturers of vehicles, thn latter i not taking: the hlah pollh. however. Of the same woods grown on th flrxt named formations. Th are think" to know. How many furniture and vehicle-makers know them? ' OF EDUCATIONAL VALUE. ' Don't you think this "rt of a School of high valu-v set In the midst of the large! hardwood forest In the United State? This Is George Van derbllf Pisgah fort with Its 150,000 acres. The writer spent ten days there In August. 1!. The place Is the best in the country for such Studies. And this brings up the fact that at Asheville there are certain scribblers who find It worth their poor while to belittle George Van-' derbilt. who with the sole exception of Providence has done most for Asheville and the ri-glon round about ' A few days ago I 'ode throujth the Blltmore estate, devoting a whole af ternoon to this, and looked at butld . Ingsand grounds In Asheville snd its auburbs. This enables me to sav that ; Oeorge has done a number of really '. great things, each .an object -, lesson, and each educational. .-First, his forest is the finest snd larg , -st In the country. He has Illustrated the proper methods of tree plantina. has shown the finest way to plan and build highways and the best and most attractive uses or shrubbery. He ha shown also the right way to build houses, and In the pebble-dash houses, which he Introduced tn this Ktate, set' the pattern for Asheville. Riltmore village Is model, from end to end. ' Nothing In the State approaches It In point of taste, comfort and cleanli ness. The : whole village Is cleaned twice day. - Mr. Vanderbtlt Is the largest taxpayer ln the mate. Jle pays taxes in six coonties. His found ing of the school - of forestry wsa nobly planned and nobly carried out His dairy, piggery and general farm work have been invaluable. He is a modest man, bookish, fond of nature, and has expended $7,690,000 at least ln this mate. His wlfs has done an other line of work. 8 he has encourag ed the mountain women and girls to revive the old home Industries whlca many years ero marked this moun tain region. The modern had forgot- ten how to make the dies. Mrs. Van derbilt bought the best old fabrics to be had and put these In the. hands of a lady friend who Is a most accom Dlished chemist- She . analysed the dyes used In these old articles of use and discovered what they were.. Then Mrs. Vanderbilt gathered the women and told them what to do, put them to work and arranged for a market for ell the articles turned out, and this at prices higher than the old ones, i-'l.t- is a modest womn and she likes friends and friendships. She has felt most keenly the slurs now and then cast upon her husband, and when aha left Blltmore House, in July, aia so in tears, because of a published detrac tion of her husband. This part of this article Is therefore a reply to such detractors and their line of work and I am happy In beine able to write it, and to pay a passing- tribute to a man and woman who most BUrcly deserve well of 'North Carolina. OLD ' MUD CUT." It is odd how object lessons are of ten fitted to our (uses. As Professor Cobb and I were talking about forest sonscrvatlon we passed "Mud CuV wnlch 4hlrty y&Tt a(fo wa, tne moBt ulkf,d of lace ja tne State. it was l9SUei ,n fact brought about a ca, ge,ion 0r the Legislature and tnB gale of tne western North Car- ollna Railway 'to the Richmond & Dunville, now the Southern. Mud Cut slid and slid and along came Major Bomar, of the Houthern, a son-in-law of Major James W. Wilson, the chief engineer of this western rond, and evolved a plan which was simple, yet effective. He piped water from the mountain side above and literally by the hydraulic process washed down all the earth and stop oed the land-slip. Then trees were put out and the slope thus forested has never j?lven any more trou ble. The Idea of In this way pro tecting the high embankments or fills and much other land near the tracks In the mountain division has been fully carried out and the use was largely of the honey locust and he black locust. These have gripped the earth and are now in many cases stout trees. There are no longer bare nils. AH are guarded by green ery. This western North Carolina rail way is In Its mountain division a grant piece of engineering and Major Wilson was Its master-spirit. Ills location was the one chosen. He has made good use of the geological conditions. lie could not get . any place for the line than that at Mud Cut, and the latter simply had to be mastered. Mr. Cobb was delighted to hear that I had been in the Cherokee -Indian country so recently. He referred particularly to that remarkable In dian Sequoia, or George Green, who made the Cherokee alphabet. It was In his honor that the greatest tree In all rhe world, the Big tree of California, was given the name Se quoia. By the way the Cherokee nation gave a 1400 annual pension to the family of this great Indian, after his death, and it is the first and onty case on record in the United States where a literary pension has been given. Mr. Cobb gave me a good picture of tfequola. This Is a copy of a painting of him made by George Cutlln, the most famous of all paint ers r Indians. Hequola was born in North Carolina, but the portrait of him was made In the far-away Indian Territory after the great partially en forced emigration of the Cherokees from their North Carolina reserva tions. The writer has from time to time, in descriptions of the North Carolina coast, spoken of the strange houses of brushwood, or stakesgraas, thatch roofed, which are often seen along the "banks." In Tho National Geogra phical Magazine Mr. Cobb illustrates and describes theso coast dwellings, along the coast from the Virginia lln." to lower Florida. In 1797 Jesse Cobb entered the L'nlverslty of North Carolina as a student and the following year Joel buttle entered It. In a fortnight William ISattle Cobb, the direct des cendant of both these, will enter. He Is the oldrst son of Professor Cobb. H Is the fifth In descent on either side. AN ATTRACTIVE HOME. At Asheville I had a talk of an hour with Foster A. Bondley, Esq., a very abl lawyer, close student and ardent collector along several lines of things which bear upon North Carolina; a most modest man who has built him self a striklnRly attractive home, a novelty in its construction being Its preparation for housing his collec tions. His collection work began In 1872. and In the way of North Caro lina books and pamphlets he has now some 2,500. His collection of arche "logical objects numbers nearly 1, 000. It Is rich In objects taken from the mounds of the Cherokee Indians and Includes an admirably cut Imago, ten Inches long, which was found In Graham county, and which weighs about four pounds. It represents a whip-poor-will. Mr. Somlley's collec tion of th ess of birds Is certainly unmatched In North Carolina. It contains all those of North Carolina birds, snd It was made by the late Mr. Carnes. who lost his life whllf on a hunting trip. It Includes a pedal collection of western North. Carolina 'g?s. Mr. Hondley's colla tion of North Carolina gems and minerals Is exceedingly fine. Most of the 2r,0 gems are cut and set In very .ffectlve style. There Is some typo of nil the gems. H also collects coins, notably those made hy Rech tW at Rutherfordton. William Karl Hadden has the largest collection of these coins. He pay great prices for some of them. The United fitatrs al lowed Rpehtler to make these coins to prevent loss In shipping and handling bullion. They were realty never given government official sanction In tho wy of declaring them to be. a dollar and so on. and so were really only valued as bullion, though they con tain more gold than standard coins. They ere now worth a premium. For example the $1 brings from $J.S0 to IIS. and the 11 SO piece, which Is the rarest, fetches H far higher figure. Mr. gondley gave me a leaflet con taining a list of the birds found In Buncombe county and It names 204. I was nulte surprised to see a very large white gull, a coast bird, on the French broad river, a little below the railway brldse. This leaflet nays these birds have been there In the past, and strange to say cormorants also. The play of light and shade In the mountains Is wonrterfal. I-Jke the ocean, the mountains are never ex act! the ssrne. i was one afternoon In the studio of Brock, the paotogra nher, at Asheville, when happening to look out of window there was Blltmore Honse, The setting, sun smote fairly on Its vast western side and really It did not appear to be over a mile away. It seemed almost at near as Victoria Inst, yet It was a good T miles off. THE BINGHAM KCHOOU . While at Asheville X Visited ths noted Bingham Military' School and Was shewn over 'the place. Discipline is -strict. Col. Robert .Bingham re turned this week from Europe. ' his daughter with him. gome of the de vices at this model school are admir able and novel. In the mess hall there is ocr a door a sort of clock-face, very large as to figures. At each meal the one hand of this is set at a differ ent (figure. At each of the many tables sits an officer and some privates. Each seat - Is numbered and no changing of seats is permitted during the ses sion. The boy at each" ...table whose number is shown on the dial is re quired to help himself, first. .This gives the small boy an even chance. 1 never saw" anything quite, so clever.' and it is said two other schools have adopt ed this plan.- ';.;;-; - , .,. . I paid a little visit to J..E. Bam boush. an old friend, whoso home is one of the most beautiful In Asheville, which is a city of attractive homes. He has recently opened -J an , iron mirve in about 8 miles of Asheville. The ore Is said to be good. Mr. Bum bough has an entirely white deer; the only one I ever saw.' It is a .stag with fine antiors, ana ?s very.targe. , BUNCOMBE CQUNTT; HOME. Part of an afternoon was devoted to a visit to. the county home, , five miles from Asheville. It is quite safe to say that the buildings are the, finest In lh fitatat for tMu. nuroOBS. Thev are of brick, steam heated, and amply supplied . throughout with running water from a spring hign up tne mountainside. They cost 15,0000. The grounds are. made beautiful with flowers, and the whole equipment cost 150,000. Tho design of the buildings, which have slate roofs. Is very pleas. lng. The superintendent's house is so built that after you have walked up a terrace the way to the main building leads through it I was told by an Asheville man that the extremely rich people from the North do not go to Asheville now nearly so much as they did a few years ago, but the bulk of the winter visitors are of what some people are pleased to term "the middle class." The very rich change fashions quick ly, climate, etc., being mere inci dentals so far as they are concerned. The "middle-class" people may not have so much money but they are good, stayers. In the summer Ashe vlllo and all these mountains are full of people from the far' South. It Is said In spite of the hard times that there have been 100,000 suchUn tho North Carolina mountain region. In the most remote places they are found, at farm houses and at tiny Inns. Borne live ln tents and rough It, really the best life of all. FRUIT CROP ENORMOUS. The fruit crop is simply enormous In the mountains. A day or two ago I ate Delaware, Niagara, Em pire State and Concord grapes ln the Cherokee Nation which were delight ful. There are the big red Indian peach, one never ' seen down country,, and half a dosen other kinds of peaches, while the trees were literally "red, green or brown with the thick-hanging apples. People down country don't know what apples are. The trees simply cannot hold up the heavy crop of 'fruit, so much of It falls; yet there Is an abundance. I have referred to the very heavy apple crop ln the west this year. Professor Htevens, of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, tells me that this year the rot is prevalent throughout the State.' It often 'does damage amounting to' S3 or 14 a tree. He tells me that all Hie way from Clayton, Johnston county, to Marlon he saw numerous instances of this disease, In Which the fruit rots while on the . tree. This disease can be almost entirely prevented, at a cost of about 20 cents a tree per annum, thus netting several thousand per cent, on the money invested in spraying. Professor Stevens will in form apple growers of the proper method of spraying materials to be used, etc. I arrived this afternoon at Lenoir and drove over to "Palmyra," the beautiful home of Commissioner of Agriculture Samuel T. Patterson. The place is in the marvelously at tractive valley of the upper Yadkin river, 20 miles from Blowing Rock, the source of this stream, and it was more than three-quarters of a century bro most felicitously named "The Happy Valley." It Is one of the very few places in the State where "be fore the war" taste, culture and hospitality continue to flower. DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN FUND The Observer will print each day the blank from below for the con venience of those who may desire to subscribe to the Democratic cam paign fund. Cut the blank out and forward It to this office with the :.. N. C, 1$08. Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, N. 0. Gentlemen: Enclosed you will find $ ., as a contribution to the Bryan-Kern campaign fund. Please credit mc with this amount in . your re mittance to the national Democratic treasurer, Gov. C. N. Haskell. Yours truly, (Signed) Presbyterian College for Women CHARLOTTE, N. 0. The 51st session of thir. 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. rSDEB NEW MANAGEMENT ' ' THE SBLVJYN .. EtROrEAIC AND AMERICAN . s" European, 11.80 per day. and up. American, 11.00 per day and pp. , Cafo pen day and night. - . .' Prices reasonable. ' The) Most Modern and Lam-tan. Hotel Jn tho Carolina. ' - ISO tXKOAXT BOOMS, 7 PRIVATE BATHS. , Located tn the heart of Charlotte,' convenient to railroad station, . street cars and the business and shopping- centra. Caters to high class commercial and 'tourist trade. Tsble do note dinners to I:t0. Muslo every evening f. -10 EDGAR B. MOORE -' - - . i V . . Proprietor. POPULARITY GROWING PEOPLE I." N DA UN TED BT RAIN Came In Great Numbers to Talk to Colonel - Dillingham's Rcpreoewta . tires and to Give tho Wonderful - Plant J nice ' Remedies a Trial Tho Popalaiity of This Wonderful - Medicine, as Indicated by the bale, Kxcecds That -of - Any . Remedy ' Ever Offered tho Peoplo of This ' Section Demand Due to Positive - Evidence of Merit Shown by Cases of Long Standing- Illness Cured In Charlotte, -' -,. ":-"-'.",?-: a v :;.;. Saturday night was extremely dis appointing to the hundreds of- Char lotte people- who made preparation to turn out and attend the entertain ment and lecture Of CoL Frank A. Dillingham and his fine company of artist at Fourth and Poplar streets. Th Inclement weather kept the crowd away from tho regular evening programme, but there was a steady stream of visitors to the headquarters at W . U Hand A Co.' throughout tho day and In the evening. Since the Introduction of the "Plant Juice" medicines, twenty days ago, and the news of soma of Its wonderful cures has spread about the city and vicinity, tho applications for treat ment and ' supplies of the medicine have exceeded all expectations of the ' promoters. A number of citi zens of Charlotte who had used the remedies called on Colonel Dilling ham Saturday and gave voluntary testimonials of Its great curative powers. . - "Plant Juice" Is compounded Into four different forma under tho super vision of the Dillingham proprietor ship, and represent the following remedies and uses: "Dillingham's Plant Juice" Is the original discovery which has created so much attention wherever' intro duced. .It is an unfailing remedy 'for catarrh,' Indigestion, dyspepsia, con stipation, iheumatlsm, kidney and bladder troubles, scrofula and so called blood diseases, chills, fevers, diseases common to women, and will remove Worms and all disease germs. Its Introduction ln every com munity .has been followed by some of the . most remarkable cures, and the . thousands of voluntary testi monials, now In the hands of the dis pensers is tho strongest endorsement the - medicine 1 could receive. The simplest methods only are required In following the treatment, and the most gratifying results are always obtained. It has been truly said of "Plant Juice" that when once Introduced into any section of the country It never dies out. . Its sale Is constantly Increasing, and at the present time has assumed such proportions as to Justify the assertion that it has never been equaled by any other remedv. The testimony of thousands is proof ui us mcru. "Dillingham's Plant Juice Lini ment" is Justly styled the rreateat pain medicine on earth, and already nunomi or our people are prepared to testify to the truth of this as sertion. It is an unfailing remedy for rheumatism, sore throat, pleurisy, pneumonia, croup, toothache, faint ing, headache, stiff Joints, cuts, burns, chilblains, heartburn, lumbago, spinal affection, sprains, cramps In the stomach, bruises, dysentery, bruised or twisted limbs, the result of falls or other accidents, and. In fact. Is unfailing In Its curative effects in all cases requiring prompt and effective relief. Since Its introduction in this city1 the proprietor has personally ap plied it to a number of persons, with the most satisfactory results, while in. other cases where used the re sults have been universally gratifying. It Is equally efficacious with animals, and can' be used with perfect safety anywhere when the directions are carefully followed. "Plant Juice Healing Salve" Is an other of the splendid preparations. It 1s especially valuable In cases of old sores, burns and painful injuries where a safe and healing preparation Is needed. "Plant Juice Soap" n another favorite Dillingham seller. It Is manufactured from qulllal hark, cocoa oil and amole. and is one of the most valuable toilet soaps manu factured. It is especially good for bmbvimk purposes, ana is halving a tremendous sale wherever Introduced, taking the place of the standard brands of shaving soap which have neen in use ror year. Another Important feature that ac counts for the popular favor of these name of the contributor and the amount subscribed. The subscription will bo acknowledged In the columns of this paper and the amount forwarded promptly to National Treasurer Haskell. The fund stands now at $101. SACO A!C mm.: MACHINE SHOPS . COTTpN M AtjHINEKS? .' :- Pickers " Bcvolvin VV Flat Cards' ' Railway Heads and- ;J Drawing" -v Frames Am l4m VJAQHBURN, ten remedies la the reasonable prices at which they are sold: Plant Juice $1.06,. Plant Juice Linlmenf J5c, Plant Juice Healing Salvo iSc, Plant Juice Soap 10c, and guaranteed as represented. Persona desiring any of these reme dies can be accommodated' at the headquarters of Colonel Dillingham, Fourth and Poplar In the evening or at' drug store of w. I Hand A Co. during tho day. Each evening the usual attractive programme will take place, and the public Is Invited to come out and enjoy lv The Deposit-Guarantee Plan, Petersburg Index-Appeal. , Without professing expert knowl edge of banking and finance, the plan seems to us to be practicable and well established In common sense. Mr. Bryan does not claim to bo the author of the plan, or that it la original with the Democratic party, or that It Is even novel. But. we think, ho will have no difficulty In convincing the average depositor that it give him ample security, and that these will be- no more occasion for runs by de positors on national banks after the passage of such a law by Congress. On the contrary, the law will operate so successfully that all State and private banks will have to adopt the plan or. go out of business for lack of depositors. VIRGINIA COLLEGE For YOUNG LADIES, Roanoke, Va. Opns8pt. M.llut. OMOi Ue lMdlu ttubools fjr Young Lad las In tbeftouth. Medsnbulldlnt, Ounpus of tan sons. 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