Newspapers / The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, … / Nov. 29, 1908, edition 1 / Page 11
Part of The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
1. - CHAKLOTTE :i)AILY OBSERVER NOVEMBER 29, im Tk )tiv f'.- 1W .VT't. I ( f ale of Leather Furniture in tit ifijgaiaj Oak ; v V TV VT H ;ym Mali J .f' .0-:'- . ' ' NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY CHAIRS, ROCKERS, COUCHES, .SOFA BEDS, DAVENPORTS, TURKISH ROCKERS AND MISSION FUR NITURE AT LQWER PRICES . THAN YOU EVER SAW FOR HIGH GRADE FURNITURE. On December 1st we begin the most beautiful and exclusive Leather Guaranteed Leather Couches and Davenports ranging Furniture Sale ever held in this city. For months we have been preparing price from. .I..Y. .V .$27.00 to $100.00 our plans, scouring the markets for just the right things to take your eye. Now we have it. It is Genuine Leather Guaranteed Furniture. Every piece of our Guaranteed Leather Furniture is guaranteed not to crack or stick. . . . . . Never before were you offered such beautiful and comfortable designs. It is a bargain opportunity for you that you should not let pass by. Guaranteed Leather Furniture for every room m the house, and the prices mean money left in your pockets. Turkish Chairs and Rockers from $22.50 to $75.00 each Our display of all kinds of Holiday Furniture the largest and most exclusive ever shown. Our out-of-town friends -and customers can save money by placing orders with us. We will pay freight and guarantee safe delivery. fitreit Patent Reclining Morris Chairs. .$15.00 to $35.00 Velour and Imitatipn Leather. Morris. Chairs. k,,.. $6.50 to $15.00 Parker-Giardi C Furniture, Carpets, Rugs, Pianos! araner lo Largest Dealers In the State. i -' ft..; ; '.rt v I - V - .'1' ' ft''? 4 ECHOES FROM CLUBDOM ANNOUNCEMENTS. Th department of Htrtur will M entertain by Mr. C O. McMana- wy at her home on Sixth street Tueaday, December 1st at 11 o'clock. The literature of Prance In the alx teenth century la the subject, Mrs. B. t. Heath acting as chairman. The programme will be as follows; "Com ments Upon FrencH Literature," Mrs. B. D. Heath; "Rabelais Great Phl ' losopher, Great Artist, Great Author," Mrs. t. ;C Abbott; "John Caivto, a BlograobJcal Htoh.7,.Mra. .- I. . W. Faieon; "Clscuaeioo Hlatorloal JPoint era," led by Mrs. Lockwood Jones. GENERAL MEETING. . . , Thursday; December Id, at 4 o'clock lo Hanna Hall of the new " T. M. C. A. Building the club wilt , meet. Alter the ceneral club matters .. . and business hav been attended to the department of education will have charge of a programme bearing on their phase of work. The chairman, Mrs. I. W. Durham, bar been fortunate to secure Mr. E. R. Preston, eo well knora a a prohubie j ana charming speaker, to lectur on "Th Methods for Curtailing the Num ber of Jnvenile Offenders." : All . club :snembera will-bo r""f r rf" hear Mr. Preston and all teach rs. ' mothers or Interested tntUvldoau are Inrtted to attend this lecture aomuch anticipated, and so fittingly given in " this magnificent new building that is one part of the solution of the ques tion in hand. Tha lecture will be "followed by questions and open dW cusxlon , of - this topio so vital to the 1 welfare of all; the preservation of the , youth whose morals hav not" been depraved ' and th , reclaiming and saving to th cause of good clUsensnip and decency the child eo onfortunste 1 as to have started wrong. It remains to fee seen whither tha ladles will en- dorse the methods, so highly recom- mended by Rod Back' and -Solomon t for the bringing about of much need od 'reforms along theso lines or de "velop new methods of efficacy. v w . , - ti.f -;f -. Tnla weekeroted to ."tho-obserr-anc of the creat American holiday, Than kaglviBaV , has found clab women busy rather , as individual home- . ' Makers and Lady Bountiful than as devotees of club work, and club .cir- " clea la Charlotte have been accord lagly inactive,, as they -should bave . boon, Tor the pmapies oi giuajwom v em are to develop, sustain and opbulid tha homo life and. tho homo ties, mo tho family f east and Ingathering of children and xelatlves' have not been lndered by the presence of s eVom- en's club la tho Queen Oty.. As an " evidence of the earnestness of pur pose j aad pareness of incentivofor tho betterment of the household, the - department of household eoonomtco bar eollectod, - complied mnd had printed In the "Woman's .Club Cook Book" tho results' of much individual experience, and research. - It contains; many strictly Southera Wishes and the Southern way . of preparing . many vUnds tKat are only known to the Lady of tha Bandana, the rapidly - disappearing "black mammy" of the South. There are barbecued rabbit, snap beans, lima beans, opossum with sweet potatoes, quail-broiled on' the coals, and so on with dishes that teave their proper flavor, appet.'tiny- odors -d arPrance hen tlipj-cr-" the ; tion and Dixoa line f or tha t-outh-- era bora and bred. But they may an bo evolved frdm the accurate dlreo- tlons m ha cook hook. The subject matter la well classified. aDt auota- 4ions heading the numerous depart' menta. So far the only complaint hit been that It ia too entertaining. It is to - be had in cloth or heavy paper binding. . A majority of the Oooks have boon disposed of to club mem. bers for their own use or as gifts to friends, but a few remain that can bo , had by the public, for the small sum of SO cents a codv. It has been thought a book of this character was a public- need, and If its existence were well known it might prove a commercial asset of the club, though it was complied for home, needs and uses, the' recipes being furnished, by THE OF EDUCA- DEPARTMENT TION. This department met in the Car negie Library Friday afternoon, No vember 17th, with Mrs. L W. Durham presiding and Mrs. Essie Blankenahip as secretary. ', , A number of. women prominent as educators and. klnder gartners were present and added both light aad Interest to the discussion of tho subject, "Development of ' the Child from Three to SU Tears." v Mrs. H. D. Burkheimers paper. "The Relation of ths Klnderrarten to the Public School," showed thought aiong original unes. Much interest and enthusiasm was manifested In possible kindergartens for the mill children, who: enjoy of necessity so little of motherly care and associa tion bat that and kindergartens In the public schools v. was . considered unlikely realiUee for some time owing o aeed ofmoney to equip -er carry them tn.v , . . . i Theiome or proper are tor a child to-i enter . school was' also- discussed. Borne fixed the time as 7 or 8. The only possible plan Is to leave the mat ter i? maiviauai need and develops ttent r i It is Impossible to make a general rule, fo it Is. infinitely better to put a child under th care of even a mediocre teaoher at, a tender, age i"a 10 eava to mm the street and the unhindered Influence , of evJ assoola- V' tf-VO, TRACE OF PERRTMA1T. Tbreai ot soJcido geevns to Have Been jywa o by Olina, Baft ody- Is Bpestal tf,Tbe"ObseTveR, iV'i . High : Point. Kov. II. Notwith standing, the faci that rthe searph roes on or Isaac V Ferryman. . ' who avfferi6uerynmppsaferrfronvff home Tuesday after writlnr a sostal saying ' he ' lnteaded killing himself Thursday, aothlnr definite has yet 'df veloped and a visit to his house. in the' country ; to-day developed the fact that the honse was deserted and the family at t the 1)Ome,: of neighbors. Ferryman; also told hie neighbors to have his grave ready Jo-day and that he would be at the Tiver -Thursday1, thus lgoirylrig his intention or drown ing himself. His wife believed . her husband crazy and got out a warrant to keep him: from doinr himself . or family injury. . There is some, cen sure about the .derstT sheriff not. be ing active eoeern In U.e eeerch, . PerrymaR' Imagined every one ka-ainst b'.m and also sa'd - witches were ertr him.- tteports p-nlght are that the sheriff and a posse are mik- lnr dilignnt .eearoh. All is;Bs porrrt to the carrrlnr out' of the suicWa tbrp&t " FUT0M OF OUR FORESTS (Taper read 'at the "Forest 'Festi val" at Biltmore Thursday, .Novem ber Hth; by Mr, B. F. Keith, collector of customs at the port of Wllmlng- The future destiny of the South de pends upon the1 protection of its for ests. This being true, the question arises, how is it to be done. From Virginia to Teaas, we have a narrow strip on the Atlantlo Slope of lonr leaf, short leaf, and lob-lolly pine. The long leaf plnfe alone In this belt, r'ves to the South annually something like twenty .millions of dollars in the production of tar, pitch, end spirits of turpentine; besides the hundreds of medicinal purposes, .both for man and beasts, for which the .spirits of this long leaf pine is used, ana wnen its virtue ts fully appre ciated,' and Its true value considered. It may well be counted' the most val uable tree on the face of - the earth, as even' the straw has many useful purposes. - ' There ,are thousands of consump tives who are llvlnjr to-day by means of coming In contact with the product of this noted tree. The lifeless wood, timbers, etc.. of other trees, whose duration for usefulness is only for a year ortwo, can be made to with stand the weather, water and other exposures, almost Indefinitely, If con tinued application of the product of the long leaf pine Is given every few years. .These trees - should not be boxed,, ss It destroys their growth and .often causes them to blow down or Invite forest fires which burn and kill them, but instead the eup should be used, which can be done success fully for a number of years, and then the tree out, and - timber even then is the most durable of any timber tfeat we aav Like the old ox when he is worn out, he Is the most val uable.. Thei lonr pin i thrives best on poor sandy soil, -while the short leaf and lob-lolly pine do best in swamps, bottoms, etc and ts equally as valuable for, timber, ut not for spirits, pitch, etc . ; ... 4. Take the forests of Nortli Carolina as a waoiev comprising Its cypress, ash, , elm. tnpelo, sweet and red gum, poplar, oak, hickory, . bass-wood and hsflnlockv Broduclajr more than its proportion of the three, hundred spe cies in we noma ana wniuiuuni a great portion of the wealth of our State and Southland. ' It is estimated that three-fifths of the standing tim ber ef the united States is now in the South, and that one-half ; ef the labor employed-In the forests Of the as well as the roots, consequently makinr deserts out of our sandy soil. which if undisturbed by this worth less hog, would spontaneously pro dues young pines without special at tention. These hogs also eat the acorns in the bottoms and swamps. that, like the pine, would soon repro duce themselves and litter the ground with leaves, decayed limbs, etc., that would srlve protection to the toll against the heavy rains that would absorb, more or leas, and keep the ground porus, so the soli would ab sorb It, thus keeping the sun from taking it, as It does, which sheds the ram almost "equivalent to a board floor, and rushes the water. Into great problem may not appeal to the South, producing annually something like one : hundred aad seventy-five mrtlons ot dollar. - While the North and-West have almost depleted their supply. That, beinr true the mala source of this product, must . come from the South "In the future.' At the rapid rate at. which It is being cut the government report says, the sup ply will only last about : twenty-eight years lons-er, . Isnt it time for every thinking -person to -sit np- and ; -take notice of the merciless destruction of our forests' which Js destroying our sgncultnral as well as greatly affect log our manufacturer interests, j-3 The greatest enemies of our forests era the plney woods rooter, scrub cat tle, and the reckless lumberman. The plney woods' rooter Is a specie ef hog that has foer-lers. known as, rasor back or ntdle with iioth enOs sharp, and 'Is allowed to run at-large and whose 'chief business is to root , up the young pines, ,destro)ing the buJa, ditches Instead of beinr absorbed through the soil, then on to the rivu lets, creeks, rivers, and on to the ocean, overflowing and destroying millions, of dollars worth of agricul tural products, and carrylnr with, it the cream of the soil in too way oi phosphates and carbonates of lime which are the life of the soil, thus leavinr it poverty stricken, and to be replenished by artificial , fertilisers, and makinr it often unprofitable to the agriculturist, and causing the in nocent to suffer for the lack of states men In our Legislature, who should say to the owner of. the wicked, worthless hog, (which is only a breed er of disease among those that mean something to their owners) .that you have no right to let them ran at large, and destroy the wealth and prosperity of Our State, and also saylnr to the lumberman,, you shall not cut any Umber beioW a certain stse, and you must have skilled men to superintend the catting of said timber aad not destroy the younger growth, whether the land be yours or not, also saying to the naval store manufacturer, you must use the cup and not box the pine. If the thinking people who are tha guardians of the Bute and nation,, would rise up In their might an4 condemn by their votes, any of the lerislators who will pot protect our forest, which they can try giving us the stock law for our etate, and proper restriction over our lumber men and naval store operators in a tew years with our warm climate, where the tree has from seven to eight months to grow against four to five months In the North and West we will have an annual forest wealth; surpassed only by our cotton- crop. Then.' too, our agricultural and man ufaotarlnr Interests will be protected, owtnr to the fact that the Utter creat ed by the forest will absor? the rein and let It drain into the streams rrad aally. - thus glvinr the water courses the proper portion cf the rain., that falls, ano suppiyinr our waer pow and savinr to the agrtouHurlst on the course ot these streams, xne great toss, now almost, annually 'caused, from overflows, aad saving to the govern ment million of dollars now expend ed to dredging these rivers. besides giving to ether sections more -gradual rainfall, owing to the thick , forest that will soon grow bp, and the damp ness from the ground caoalng vapor to arise which will produce - Ooada and rain, thus restoring our seasons, Iraprovlnr our agricultural Interest, as well as replenishing our forests.. ' . If Japan, Germany, France, Bel-' glum and other Eastern and Euro pean countries have found It .'profit able to plant trees for timber, as well as protecting their agricultural in terest, will not our State Legislature help to replenish outs by giving us the stock law for the State at large and with proper restriction over the lumberman, there will be n necessity tor us in most sections t of. North Carolina to plant any trees,, as they will grow up and reproduce them selves, and we will soon have a forest every where, except where the land Is cultivated. Then pass strict laws to protect the forests J from fires, which . can be done by a small tax levy, and let there be one fire over seer In each school district, giving htm the power in case of fire to sum mon every male citizen from sixteen to fifty-five years of age, to help to protect same, whenever their services are required. First having fire. list a reasonable distance apart, where there is no main road that would be suf ficient to answer the purpose. This masses, but they will feel sooner than any one else this sinful destruc tion and -waste of one of our greatest future resources. For that reason it behooves every North Carolinian to appeal to our present legislators to rive ns statutory stock law, and if they are statesmen worthy to repre sent the great State of North Caro line, thgy will protect the future and Its unborn generations, rather than listen to the, clamor of a few who may not want to be restricted In slaughtering the forests, snd those who have the plney woods rooter and scrub cattle which they want to rua at large, destroying annually- mors, than they would bring if they were put upon the market, besides being distributors of disease, such as chol era, Texas fever, etc., which make It almost Impossible for the progressive element In this State to raise stock profitably. Cant we ail stand together and form one solid body, plead lnr the Just cause before the Legislature in January, for the protection of - our forests which means more than most statesmen can conceive. If so, be gin now the movement we are advo cating by writing your representative to rive us a 8tat stock law and our national forest reserve, that the na tion, especially , North Carolina, is looking to with so much favor, will be solved to a treat extent by begln ninr It at home. . - BAEWAY MAIL SERVICE The address which follows: directed to the business men of the country by President; J. T. Canfleld, of the Railway Mall Association, is taken from The. Railway Postofflce, and fa published by request. '' The railway mail service of the United States ts organised with gen eral hedaouarters at Washington. D. C-, aad divisional headquarters in eleven prlKlpaL cIMee of the country, vis-, at Boston, Masa.; New Tork, W. T.; Atlanta, Ga.; Washington, D. C: Cincinnati, O.j Chlcaro, 111.; BU Louis, Mo.; San Francisco. Cat: Cleveland, O.s St. Paul. Minn, and Fort Worth, Tex , v -. r- . - '.',.. v ' - - - r worrre rmrvTK ;, i. ." There are -about 11,000 clerk and officers, 14,000 asslrned to duty in railway mall ears snd 1,004 as trans fer clerks, office clerks add la super visory capacities. ; The -eccnpatioa to Included in the civil service, and to enter' it la net wary to pass aa ex amination re-qulrinr at least an aca demic education-, there Is also a strict physical examination, and the stand ard In this Is higher than that re ouired to enter our army or. navy. When the appointment Is received -a clerk 1 riven a schema-of distribu tion et all the postofaees- In seme State, meaning that - he is to learn sad remember - tha location ' of each poetofBee, be U on a railroad or stare route, and at regular Intervals he is called for examination on that State until he la able to rive exactly such location of all offices. Then he Is riven another State to learn, and this process is continued until he acquires perfect knowledge of the location of from 3,000 to 16.000 Dostofflces in dif ferent States, the knowledge ot num ber of offices varying on account of location or his run or line of raiiroaa upon which his assignment places him. He has to know, also, the railroad time-tables or schedules of the States he distributes mail for; and as these are constantly changing-. ' it is neces sary to be eternally vigilant. There are frequent changes in his schemes of distribution whfoh he receives weekly, new postofflces established, others discontinued and still others have changes of supply, requiring the unlearning of things once learned a,s wen as constant acquisition of new iniormanon. EFFICIENCY. It takes about four years of this sort of study accompanied by steady work In the postal car to make a rood clerk out of the recruit; and then one has to always keep up the rrind so, long as no remains in the service; there Is never any eessatlon of eith er study or work. On all the heavier lines we are granted regulSr lay-off periods for recuperation and study: but our 'time belongs wholly to the government and we are liable fpr call for extra duty at any time. Now about the efficiency of the service. Ninety per cent, of the mall matter originating In this country end a very large amount (millions of pieces) from foreign countries is handled in railway mail cars by railway postal clerks with one error to each 1,000 pieces handled 11,000 specido acts with one error, and many of these errors mean but a few minutes, cr poasiDiy. no delay to the letter or paper. Our examinations show an average cf nearly Ik per cent, cor rect all over the country, and In soma divisions they, have not been below that figure in the last fifteen years; and we are examined on upwards f I, 000 postofflces annually, also upon the postsT laws and rerulathma . PERSONAL RISK. There is some hazard connected with the service. During- the last fiscal year there beinr one out of every eighteen killed or Injured. Congress makes some provision tor this, however. In that the family ot a clerk killed while on duty receives II, 000; and a clerk injured while on duty, where his own carelessness is not responsible, receives his regular salary during continuation of Injury up to one year. - This hazard, how ever, ts Incidental to the occupation, and Is not considered la the accept ance or filtlnr of a position In the service. Bur we are constantly ask-1 mr for rooa cars ana appliances in order to reduce the mortality to as low a point as possible. Our depart ment otnciaia are continually insist lnr upon stroor cars, and with some success; bat many railroads are Uov la furnishing the best equipment, notwithstanding- they receive in annual rental and mall pay about' $4,000 for eaca ear. , ; . ; V ' TOUrV COierECTWN.v .First-class poster Pyt 7 per sent, of tha postal revenues of this country; consequently, the business men who pay most of this should be laterested In the railway mall service which hanndles 00 per eenc of their mau; nut as a matter of fact they are not -interested, which is shown by the lack of Information they ex hibit In the subject. It Is oar ob ject te get them interested; because they are mainly ear employers: -that Is,, they pay the larger part of, our ealeriea thou fa having little or toth-i lnr directly ts do with our work. Its order or Its compenaatlea. . ; . WHERE WH'MEsTr.';:! v There should be a strenr. bond of Interest between us; so that We may understand each, other better, th.it you may recognise tho splendid serv ice we are giving and will continue to provide you with, and that yon wt.'t Insist on the sfflciency of that service being maintained. Railway postal clerks are divided Into nine classes with annual salaries ranginr from 1100 to $l,40w and the averaro salary Is at present $1,112. We are re quired to pay out of this our ex penses on the road, which, economize as we may, amount to about $140 an nually, leavinr net salary around $1,000. We maintain that . this amount Is less, much less, than we earn, and we have been trying- for some time to have . Congress make us an allowance for expenses while on duty. .2a all other departments cf the rovernmcnt and elsewhere In our own department, expenses while away V from domicile or headquarters, are paid clerks and officers, and the prtn- : ; -ciple s universally recognised in the . business world. We seem to be the A; only exception snd we ask to have .- Y It remedied. We ask for actual ex- i penses rather than a raise In salary. ; because there is so much difference In -expenses ef clerks on different lines "l i end In different parts of the country ' - that each an allowance will equalise ; v sauries and rive every one a "square deal." i -a- t . i .' ..- .!,. -..!. . Our department, the head, of which ' - Is the Seoond Assistant Fpstmaster s General, recognising the Jaetlce ot this -claim, made recommendations to Con- f gross last winter alonr these lines . 4 and the Senate placed an Item In the , '-'-"' postofflce appropriation bill providing ... for the expeneek of railway postal - - , clerks, but it failed ultimately ef en- f ' aetment aad we are askinr that It be-'-" al towed the coming; session of Con-' ' tress. Business men. individually, and '- . through their stronr : commercial ; bodies, can help jis; we ask yew to. . . Ton are interested In having the beet ; :'. railway malt service possible, and we f will try to give It to you: but yea realise that sfflciency roes with square - - dealing, so help us to make our-kt,,f a comfortable one that we may eheery? fully and radly rive yon the beet f have, realising- our efforts are recox ' -alsed and appreciated. . J. T. CANFIELD, PresMemV C -; i Railway Mall Association.- i-' Syracuse, New Tork. . c;v Reidsvftle OUsens in Favor ef Gvmtf " , i se Bystcmw ' - i . ' Special to Te Observer. Rttdeville, Not. is. ClUaeas of the ; town' met. la mass meetlnt at ; the x ; town halt hut .night to discuss ? the question of a sewerage system ' for ., RoidsvlUe. Oty Engineer Bandy,' of -, Oreeasboro, was present and address- : ed the aaeetlnr, explaining every de- ' tall of sewerage and - saylnr ; that ReldevlDe was badly ia need of a system. Several 'reotlemea made short talks fsvorlng an election ..for bonds for this needed' Improvement, and reeoIuOoas were- onanlmou..'v pseud $aat tt WM the sense of the meeUnr that petitions fee eircu!a'; 1 among tbe citisess of the town - si g-na fares early as practicable, r r. mission was obtained, from the t Legialaturs for the privilege of v Ing ponds ror wiis purpose, ji vllle Is the largest town In tv without sewerage, but ft now , certain that by next s-immt -feet wi'J be rem tw.
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Nov. 29, 1908, edition 1
11
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75