Newspapers / Fayetteville Observer [Weekly, 1880-1919] … / Feb. 14, 1907, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of Fayetteville Observer [Weekly, 1880-1919] (Fayetteville, 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
ME OBSERVER. FayMcvlll, N.C. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14,1907: f 4. HALE. Editor and Proprietor. E.J. HALE, Jr., Business Manager. STREET PAVING. Now that our people are about to enter seriously upon the pavuig of Fayettevllle, the method - to be em ployed for the physical part of the undertaking becomes matter tor thought .The Baltimore Manufactur ers' Record recently contained an ar ticle on "Street Paving in the South" .which deserves attention lu this con nection. It say 8: In the South, from Maryland around to Texas, the year 1906 has seen more permanent street Improvements undertaken than any prev!ou3 year. Its record baa been 188 miles, of per manent street pavements laid or con tracted for at an approximate cost of $7,100,000. In computing the mile age of pavements a 30-foot rjadway is taken as the standard. In yardage tills amounts to 3,286,000 square yards. Although this record more than doubles that of 1905, it looks as though It, In turn, will be increased nearly 100 per cent in 190". Not only are the larger cities contemplat ing extensive street improvements for this year, but the smaller cities, those of 8,000 population and le.s, will have from ope, to several miles of perma nent roadway to construct to replace th macadam, chert or clay on their leading business and residence streets. As much as any other on 3 thing, this Increased interest in paved streets bespeaks the prosper; ty of the South. In every State save one the movement to pave streets starts with the property owners, who are assess ed for the Improvement from one-fifth to the entire amount That property owners should feel the need of better thoroughfares so strongly as to peti tion for them at their own expense means nothing more than an increas ed bank account and an increased civic pride. And both are necessary tor the beautiful city. In selecting the material with which to pave their streets the choice of the Southern cities has included all the standard materials to some extent Brick and bitulithic, however, have been the more frequent selection. Sheet asphalt although laid in a num ber of the larger cities, has .shown a -much decreased yardage. 1 Asphalt blocks have been laid in two or three cities, rould bl;-'r- In some other clt'et and granite blocks, as usual, L-.e oen placed where the street was subject to heavy wholesale traffic, but comparatively few streets of this character have come up for improve ment the past year. The brick plant? mat nave iurmsnea vitnnea. ones ana blocks for Southern work have had ali tbey could do to supply the demand, and the bitulithic contractors have been forced to carry over to 1907 a large numberof contracts that they found themselves unable to execute in the rush that iit.. encountered. As regards price. uua blocks and grar. ite blocks have demanded tin highest figure. Bitulithic has range! from SJ to 82.75, according to the price of ma terials. BricS has sold, oa six-inch concrete foundation, from 81.80 to $2.25 a square yard, and on s id foun dation from 82 H cents to $1 T a yard. From such work, however, only very ordinary results hare been obiiined. Asphalt has been offered ii these States from $1.60 to 82-25. the average being considerably under ii. Five year guarantee has been the Mle. In the distribution of pa.-U j mate rials the bitulithic and afjuuit are found in the larger cities, together with some brick which In these muni cipalities has been placed In alley and cn side streets. For the best res idence streets and for the retail busi ness streets the least nois pave ments have been preferred. On such streets the bitulithic shovs a gain over asphalt ' In the medium sised clUej large amounts of brick have been u.sd, very little asphalt and an increasing amount of bitulithic. In the small municipalities, where permanent pare- -snenti hiTft hwi laid, hrirk and- lithle have been the materials Taken as whole. Southern cities, whether large or small, havi taken thought In the award of street-paving contracts, and have d em anted the best materials and the best constrnc- oECtoatlcaamenaTffiffercnt; of court o. in the Gulf States from con dition North or West., and the test oa materials Is much more severe on account of the protracted teat and continued moisture. And the South has learned that, in this matter as well as In others, the best Is In the end economical. , THE IDIOTIC LAW JACKLEQ IN THE SENATE. ., Norfolk Virginian Pilot) The extent of Mr, Beveridge's po litical and historical knowledge may be accurately judged by the extraor dinary statements contained In his re cent speech on the child-labor bill. He was brought to task and proved Is the wrong i by other Senators scores of timet, and capped the climax by de claring that "the Constitution of the United States was adopted, as Judge Marshall says, by a vote of the peo ple," Now where did the smatterer and chatterer from Indiana pick up this rich are rare bit of Apochryphal information? It Lu t scaped the at tention of all the early chroniclers, was not known by Jefferson or Hamil ton, la contradicted by all the official records; and Judge Marshall could not have lent his great name to such a statement for. the Tery conclusive re was jirivsaiid, 4iJteJbulh, to the making of the articles of the Vn la stid their ratification by the sev eral States, It is rather mortifying to find in a Senator a degree of Ignor ance concerning the annals of his own country which" woa!d discredit a school-boy. Wonder If he knows how long after the 'Riming of the Consti tution, ard Ha adoption by the requi site number of State-"., Rhode Island remained outside the Union In exer cise of its prerogatives of Indepen dence and sovereignty. The Idea of the new school of Amer ican statecraft, to alter the character of our institutions and pervert the meaning of our fundamental laws ev ery time an annoying pimple, or an aggravating sore appears upon any portion of the body politic, Is to puer ile to be discussed with patience. Charles Lamb wrote that roast-pig be came known to the Chinese by the accidental burning down of a dwelling house in which a fat porker was con fined. When the conflagration was over, some enterprising Celestial pok ing among the smoking debris came upon the carcass of the Juvenile hog which had been done, to a turn In its juices. The fragrant .odor induced the discoverer to taste the meat and it proved so dainty a morsel that he call ed the neighbors in and thus estab lished the fondness of the nation for swine thus cooked. But the simple minded folk found indulgence in their newly acquired taste to be very cost ly; for it did not dawn upon them that there waa any other way of se curing it than that which had made them acquainted with "the delicacy. Therefore, for ages after, whenever the longing for roast-pig became irre ais, ..ble, a house was sacrificed. There is a moral here which Mr. Roosevelt and his satellites would do well to heed. WHAT THE COUNTRY HAS LOST BY DEFEATING BRYAN. The President, as we have often said, is such a loveable man In many ways that the people are blinded to his entire Incompetence as head of the republic He has no more Idea of the provisions of the Constitution than if he were a Hindu or Persian. Referring to Senrtor Fraxler's recent speech, the Richmond Times-Dispatch well says: Senator Faxier. of Tennessee, has thoroughly ridiled the doctrine of President Roosevelt that under the treaty th Japan the Federal govern- mert has the rirt to force the chil dren ' of Japanese pare its into the white schools of California in defiance of local regulations. In a recent speech he denied with emphasis that this government had ever undertaken by trefty to interfere with the con stitutional rita of California in this respect Quoting the lan gv age of the trerty, he said: "I challenge ary one to find in it a word guaranteeing to Japanese resi dents the right to enter the public schools of the State at all, njch less to enter them In defiance of State laws and regulations. The United States government cannot compel a 3t?.te to create p olic schools at all. They are crerture of State laws, maintained by State taxation, and sub ject only to State control." The trerty w th Japan, he said pro vided th? the .-panese most "con form trmse!ves to the laws, police and regr'ations of the country like native citliens." State laws might and often did provide for separation of the races , in schools. If a Mon golian were a c tixen of California he would be subject to such laws. Could It be coi .cided that Japanese aliens had acquired higher privileges than they woe'd have as citizens of the United States? The proposition is absurd on its face that Japanese children possess rights which the native children of other race3 do not possess. "If the Federal government," said Senator Frailer, "by treaty could rob a State of the right to control its own school system, the last stronghold of the local self-government would be de stroyed. If a treaty could force Mon golians Into the white schools of Cali fornia, a like treaty could force the negroes of Cuba, Santo Domingo, Hay ti and the Congo Into the -schools of Tennessee In defiance of the laws for the separation of the races." Mr. Frazier dwcit at length on the recent speech of Secretary Root, which he declared to be a threat 10 wipe out State lines and absorb all powers of the States into the Federal government He quoted the Presi dent's BUtemeuT""Thst-Mt-Boot wss the chief expositor of the policies of his administration, aid cited utter ance of the President In line with Secretary Root's. If sny change were needed in the American Constitution -a. way was provided for. Its amend ment and there was co necessity for executive and judicial usurps ti 00. It waa not neeeaaary. . to make the rights and powers of the States con form to a standard set sp by the Chief Executive alon". The constitu tional system, he declared, had been sufficient for every emergency. There was never a time when, there wss greater need to recall the words of Jefferson:; "Let as preserve the State govern ments In all their rights as the most competent administration of oar dem ocratic concerns and the surest bul wark against an ti republican tenden cies." When w overthrow that doctrine we will shake the foundations of the republic, Pine Salve Carbolizcd, acts like a poultice; highly antiseptic, extensive ly used for Eczema, for chapped hands and lips, cuts and burns. Sold by McKethan & Co. "I had tried everything; for my baby until Dr. Lyle recommended Caeca sweet I can truthfully say that It Is the best medicine I ever used tor ba bies." Nannie U Taylor, Bedford. Vs. Cascasweet is sold by Armfleld Greenwood. , jskkXIkiMHTcsn The old, original GKOVE'g Tastelea Chill Tom-Vm know what you are taking. It is iron and quinine in as tasteless form. No curs, no pay,- 60a ssaaflfiattlasssssnsasawS Les Greater Than Washington. Thomas E. Watson In Jeffersonlan. In Washington's character there was a curious Vein of hardness and exaction which made It Impossible for him- to have friends. Admirers he could have, and did have men who would have died to win his smtlo, men who would have gone to death at hia orders as the bridegroom rushes to the arms of his bride but I really do not think that George Wash ington ever had a friend. To me he seemed to stand out in almost pa thetic loneliness, condemned thereto by his own Ideas of dignity, formality and rigid propriety; when be reject ed the toll which his old companion In arms. General Stone, had paid In crossing the Potomac at ML Vernon, he revealed the curious trait to which I allude. When he wrote to his man ager during the war, not to sell his wheat tor Continental Currency, but to exact gold and silver, he exhibited the trait to which I refer. He would higgle and haggle In a horse-trade, endeavoring to beat down the; price in such a way that this well-known trait of his became a subject about which Light-horse Harry Lee used to make jocular reference at Washington's own table thereby calling forth peals of laughter from Mrs. Martha Wash ington and a dry remark from George, "Lee, you are a funny, fellow" the reader will understand what I mean. When I see George Washington quietly buying up, for a mere song, the landscript of the soldiers who had followed him through the Revolu tionary War, and who were then without money, almost without cloth ing and food thereby trading on the necessities of his own companions In amis and amassing that enormous amount of real estate which made him a millionaire in his day you will understand what I mean by the differ ence between Washington and Robert E. Lee. In the character of Lee there was none of those hard, exacting, money seeking traits that were the compan ions in the make-up of Washington, After the war was over. General Lee declined, without hesitation, each and every proposition' which looked to the exploitation of his name and reputa tion for commercial purposes. Vainly did Insurance companies offer him 850.000 per year for the use of his name; vainly did English admirers of fer to lend him any amount of money that he needed. With grand simplic ity he said, "They are offering me everything except that which I want; namely, a chance to make an honest living for my wife and children. And so he turned his back upon glit tering temptations to take his way Into the modest school-room at Lex ington. There the latter years of his life were spent In trying to make good men of the boys of the South. Tear before last I happened to be U that portion of Virginia, and could not resist the Impulse to visit the scenes of the last labors of our hero. Very reverently I looked upon him where he sleeps In marble in the midst of the silentcfaurch, not far from where his daily ork was done. The room which was his own office as presi dent of the College, is also shown to the visitor. Everything, so they told me. Js just as he left it. The ver furniture of the room speaks of thefeimplicity of the soldier. Not single article Is there that was not necessary to his work. The paper upon which he was writing, the last day that he was at his post of duty, lies upon the table just as he left it He was making ont a report on the standing of one of the boys in the College, and. somehow, I got the im pression that the Great Soldier was making the report just as favorable as he could to the boy. If a life like Lee's is not sn Inspira tion to higher, nobler Ideals, then all our conceptions of how the world must be elevated are utterly false and misleading. When Marlborough died, I doubt if there was a tear shed in the whole world. When Wellington was borne to bis tomb, it was a grand pageant- sublime, historic but there wasn't a sob in all the realm of Great Britain. Martial strains and thrilling requiems thrilled ten thousand souls; orators with tongues of fire spoke his praise; poets, in lines that will live forever heralded his fame but nobody wept How was It with Lee? I distinctly remember the day in 1870, when we children, in the High school building In trie town Of Thomson, looked up in astonishment to see our beloved school-teacher shaken with a pas3lon of sobs, crying like a child. He had just been glancing over the morning paper. As soon as he could command his voice, he said, "General Lee Is dead!" end he dismissed the school. To my mind, a heartfelt tribute like this Is more precious than any lines the poets can write, or any eulogies the orators can pronounce. Monu ments may perpetuate his fame but nothing that can be said In prose or rhyme, nothing that can be done with the chisel or brush, can ever tell the future ages how the South ern people loved Robert E. Lee. NORTHERN MILL8 FAVORED. Complaint has been- filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission by the EnterprlaeSIbley snd Graniietille Manufacturing Companies, the Monroe Cotton Mill and the Riverside Mills, of Georgia snd South Carolina, cor porations engaged in the manufacture and sale of cotton, against a large number of Southern.,, Western and transcontinental railroads, alleging that they charge for the shipment of cotton goods and cotton waste from points In Georgia and South Carolina to Pacific Coast, terminals a greater amount than for similar shipments over a longer distance from New York and New England points. The Enterprise, Monroe snd Granite- viUe companies, which also are en gaged In shipping - cotton goods to China and Japan, in another complaint against the same railroad companies and against the Great Northern anl the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Companies, allege that in the shipment of snch goods from Georgia and south Carolina points to Pacific Coast ter minals a greater charge Is made than from Maine, New Hampshire and Mas sachusetts points, a much longer dis tance. Dad's Little liver Pills thoroughly dean the system; good (or lazy livers makes clear complexions, bright eyes and happy thought. Sold by ale Keshan & Co. It's a pleasure to tell about a Cough Cure like Dr.' Shoop's. For years Dr. 8 hoop hit fought against the ase of Opium, Chloroform, or other unsafe In gredients commonly found In Cough remedies. Dr. Shoop, It seems, has wel comed the Pure Food snd Drug Law recently enacted, for be has worked along similar lines many years. - For nearly 20 years Dr. Shoop's Cough Core containers have had a warning printed on them against Opium and other narcotic poisons. He has thus protected their children by simply in sisting on having Dr. Shoop's Cough Cure. Bold by B. E. 8ed berry's Son. It is one of the most wonderful Imies for developing the figure, making bright eyes, red lips snd rosy cheeks, ever of fered to the American rri, Hollitte'rs Rocky Mountain lea. lea or Tablets. 85c Ask your druggist LEE ON THE OFFENSIVE. The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot has an admirable article on General Lee powers as a great soldier. If be had hot been constantly hampered by the mistaken policy of the Richmond gov ernment It Is altogether probable that he would Jiave won victory for the South. Says the Virginian: - None but a feat soldier, endowed with that grade of talent and temper ament so rarely combined In one per son, could have forged the thunder bolt whlc drove McClellans host from Its entrenched position to cower beneath the protecting ' guns of the Navy on James river. To. leave them there, Richmond uncovered,, transfer his own army to the Rappahannock, crush Pope at Second Manassas and drive his legions Into tho defenses at Washington, was an aggressive ex ploit wnicn lor boldness of concept tloh, accurate allowance for moral In- nuences, ana vigorous execution, was never surpassed. At Charlottesville Lee turned upon Hooker in savage at tack, demolished his right flank, ex pelled his center from heavy fortifi cations, captured h's guns and mate rial, coerced his withdrawal from the field, and then marched back and routed Sedgwick massed upon his rear, with ail his forces at his dis posal less than one-half in number of those concentrated against him. These campaigns, crowned 'with brilliant victory, in which all the sci ence of the schools was drafted to support apparent audacity of design, forms the basis of Lee's as '.gnment to the list of names "that we not born to die." Wary and resour sfal in de fence he was; but the crt n of prev eminence accorded him bj Von Molt- ke, Woolseley, Roberts iendeison, Oyama, was won on the f aids where he forced the fighting and as the as sailant Some day the story may be written In completeness of the different views entertained by the gove -nment at Richmond and by General Lee as to the military policy of the Confederacy. It wil lthen appear that his desire wss constant for concentration and offen sive operatlrns, and how often his broad conceptions were thwarted In deference to alleged political consid erations and to the tenacity with which the government clung to ter ritory not of strategic Importance. WHERE THE TROUBLE IS. A contemporary says with point: Consul-General George E. Anderson who has been making a study of Bra- xliian trade in cotton fabrics, calls at tention, in a recent government re port, to the fact that the United States is sending few cotton goods to that country. Mr. Anderson writes that the one-time trade of the United States with Brazil In certain kinds of cotton fabrics has practically disap peared, our cotton-cloth exports to that countr-, with its population of 17,000,000, having aggregated In value only 8745,962 during the fiscal year 1905 and 8590.007 during the fiscal year 1906. While some fabrics of Aniencia manufacture, like overall materials, still have, says Consul An derson, a name in Brazilian markets, despite time and competition, the bulk of the cotton goods Imported is furnished by Great Britain. This deflection of the cotton goods trade of Brazil from- the United States to Great Britain Mr. Anderson thinks is due u tariff conditions In the purchasing country. Under exist ing Brazilian customs classifications. he points out a difference in the weight of a thread or in the number of threads may subject the fabric to a higher rate of duty. English com petitors, he says, have given this clas sification careful and thorough study, with the result that they manufacture their goods intended for the Brazilian trade with a special view to having it admitted under the minimum rate of duty. In this way they are enabled to undersell American manufactures and have succeeded In building up and holding a special trade. All that Is needed. In Mr. Anderson's opinion, to revive Amer ican cotton goods trade with Bra zil is a "general bettering of, jariff conditions" in that country. In thinking that bettering of tariff conditions Is the one thine needed Mr. Anderson Is unquestionably cor rect, but the conditions needing to be improved are not all on the Brazilian end. The principal reason for the failure of American trade not only with Brazil but with of ler South American nations in cotton goods-and many other lines to develo more rap- miy lies in our tariff pc Tcywhlcht virtually, debars from the isrkets of this country the products 3f the na tions whose trade we ask. It Is safe to say that the bulk of he cotton goods trade goes to Great Iritaln not because of the "general t trtff condi tions" In the former country, hut be cause English .markets ate. opes to Brazilian products. When a nation sells there It also lays, snd as ; long as our tariff poiev makes , it more ' sdvantasnous for Braiil and other South American nations Jto" dispose of their surplus prod ecu In t xropeaa markets than In ours, so long win the balk: of the trade of those countries go to trans Atlantis nations. To expect other wise would be to expect the laws of trad as well as all human experience to reverse themselves. . Stilt They Come. Mr. Robert B- Rlnard, of Cope, Mich igan, has bought the Wheeler place. on the Murchlsoa road, - beyond the Mile branch, from Dr. O. B. Patter son, and win make this his home for the tatnra. : r r People are coming this way, and a good class of people, too. Going to Florida, Mr. M. C. Campbell and his son, Mr. M. Campbell, were In the city yes terday on -their wy to DeFunltk Springs, Florida. . These gentlemen are well known here and havs many friends who win be sorry to learn of theff1 -depaf tuiebvt' wish 1 for tiiem much success In their new country. A HAR0 ROAd TO TRAVEL. . A man's lite Is full of crosses' and temptations," He comes Into this world without his consent and leaves it 'against his will, and the trip be tween the two Is exceedingly rocky. The rule of contraries is one of the Important features of the trip. - When he Is little the big girls kiss him and when he la grown the little girls kiss him. It he is poon he is a bad man ager, it he la rich Be is dishonest If he needs credit he can't get It, It he Is prospering every one wants' to do him a favor. " If he Is In politics It Is all for pie, It be is out of politics yoi can't place him and he Is no good to his country. If be doesn't give liber ally he Is stingy. If h doe It In for show. It he Is actively religious he Is a hypocrite, It he takes little Interest In religion he Is a "hardened dinner. If he shows affection he is a "soft" specimen, If he seems to tare for no one be is cold-blooded. . If he dies young there was a great future be fore him, if he lives to be old he missed his calling. Charlotee Hum mer. ------- - -; Approaching Marriag of Miss Robe son and Mr. Webb. . Correspondence of Observer. Duke'N. C.. Feb. 12. The friends of Miss Louise Cross Robeson and Mr. Thomas H. Webb will be Interest ed In their approaching " marriage which Is to take place February 19, 1907, at the home of Mr. Edward Smith in Harnett county, at eight thirty o'clock In the evening. Miss Robeson is the attractive and charm ing neioe of Mr, Edward Smith and has lived with him from early child hood. Her gentleness and easy, graceful manners have added greatly toward making Mr. Smith's home, "Lebanon" one ot the most noted for Its whole-souled ante-bellum hospital ity In the Cape Fear section. Mr. Webb moved to Harnett county from Durham some years ago and is mana ger of the Erwin Cotton Mills Com pany's extensive property in Harnett county. The wedding will be very quietly celebrated with only the' immo diate families of the con trac tire par ties and a few. intimate friends. MONT VIEW. February 5. 1907. Correspondence Observer. Mr. Editor: A sudden drop in the thermometer of 45 degrees reminds us that grim winter has not releasd his hold on us yet though we have been having some summer weather. The trees this morning are bent to the. ground with sleet Winter is here in good earnest Wa once thought that if we ever changed our location we would go North, but we. are of exactly the-op posite opinion now and would go South. We can stand the heat better than we can the cold. If we get hot we can hunt a shady place and cool off and be comfortable, duc, 11 we get com we have to hunt a warm place and. that many times is not near by. But it takes all the sea sons to make the year in our climate and so we will have to be content We haven t had time to write and but lit tle to post ourselves on the news of the day, but from what we can learn DV rIAnrinff nvnr thA 'tion,i.ltnxM" th. situation between Japan and the Unit ed btates is assuming rather ?. seri ous aspect Why should Japan seek a cause for war with the United States. Perhaps she wants the PhillDoine Isl ands, it doubtless would be a wise thing in this government to sell them to her If bo rr they are too far from the United Siies to ever be governed easily, but we hope war may be avert ed. Give us peace, peace all the time, what a blessing peace is to any people or country. We havnt any local news specially. The Manchester cotton mill has been sold to Mr. W. O. Robertson. We understand that he is going to manu facture coarse yarns. The Croatan Company have added some important Improvements to their property purchased of Mr. Ed. Johnston, the English millionaire They have repainted the lodge, built a new residence for the keener, ca pacious barns, outhouses, dog kennels. etc Mr. John S. Clark has nut la a saw mill and Is prepared to make lutnb-r. Mr. L A. Murchlson Is repairing the old saw and grist mill site and doubt less win put In machinery ot some kind. ' The Brownsville, Texas, affair has consumed the bigger part of this ses sion of Congress. It must have been made of good material or it would have been worn out before now We are tired sod sick of the same old hash and our appetite 'calls for a change. . . 8almagundi's views On lesislatinz sobriety into' the people as expressed in his article In the Observer of Jan uary 31st Is rood common sense. The prohibition laws have done more to demoralize the county than any iaws the legislature passed In 1915, and the 2-rallon wine and cider law Is a dis grace to any legislative bodr. Whv should not the farmer be allowed to xn his wine and cider the.saateris any other produce of his farm without being hampered by any law. There to no just reason but simply the wish to cater to a few prohibition cranks.-. Let the present legislature show lu good sense ny removing the twolen tt.w. Wine and cider has always been on the free Hst from time tmmembaf. In oar opinion the legislature has just as much right to place restric tions on the saieof the farms, corn, cotton, and potatoes. Much of this section ot country Is like that around Southern Pines, not suited to anything but vlnyarda and orchards and like that would soon be a prosperous set tlement were It not for the laws. 81, don't worry about the Scotch man. He Is la good hands.. lie could not here east his lot among more clever people. Our hospitality Is bounded only by our ability. ! Best wishes for the Observer and Rs readers. Local Briefs. -- Mr. J. C Murchlson, well known and pleasantly remembered here as paymaster of the old Cape Fear and Tad kin Valley Railway, and who, two years ago, was superintendent' of di vision of the Atlantic Coast Line at Rocky Mount, has been made super intendent of division, as we see by a circular letter from General Ander son, with headquarters at Wilming ton, the Atlantic and Yadkin branch being In bis division. Mr. George B. McClellaa becomes superintendent at Rocky Mount, and .two more popular men In that position could not be pre sented to our people. When the cold winds dry and crack the skin got DeWltt's WltcS. Hszel' Salve, Sold by Armfleld ft Tlreen- WOOd. ; nnnjBij 11 M wimmmmmmmn mil SALMAGUNDI'S COMMENTS, Edltof of the Observer:. We are still wearing bur think ing cap. Do . we really believe In a demosratio government as a nation, bo we endorse princi ples of a republican form ot . gov ernment? This Ib an important ques tion, and it behooves the citizens of these ' several States of the United States to be cautious how they pro ceed to make laws by which they are to be governed. Out In a Western State a few days ago, at an army re cruiting station, Colonel Edwin F. Gleun ordered Sergeant Lynch to as semble all Catholics In the organiza tion and march them to tha Sunday School room. Lych led them to door of the church, but himself did not en ter, declaring that he was a free Amur lean citizen and that religion cannot be forced on anyone. There is a pen alty fixed for violating or disobedience ot all laws. Lynch Is under arrest. Is It wise, is it right to hamper ihe con science ot any man by physical force. Now, the question of compulsory edu cation 1b being agltuted In the sitting legislature of North CaroUua, being urged by school teachers and various educators who have axes to grind, but we would advise, our law makers to go slow with that measure. Find out what the parents ot the children de Sire.' Some of them are poor and par tir.lly illiterate, but they are free American citizens and a large major ity of them have common sense, while a majority of teachers and famous ed ucators are wanting in that particular essential. Aesop s Fable made the ex perienced rat to say cau tion, I am sure, if the parent ot safe ty." When compulsory education 1b the law In North Carolina or in any other state, democracy and republi can institutions has gota black eye. And their citizens can no longer claim to be free Americans. Readers, it you are going to let the school teachers and the book-stuffed Idiots shape the laws of this country, the famines of North China and the bread riots ot old Spain are not a thousand years fromour doors. Solomon calls attention to the fact that the wisdom of a poor man saved a city, after the strateg,em of the learned was a fail ure. True, he says the poor man was not remembered, but the fact that he saved the city remained. . We know these cranks are in the lobbies besele- ing the law makers, but the legislator does not belong to them, he is the representative of the whole Deonle and his duty is to give equal rights to alii and special privileges to none. He must be careful, painstaking. He is the trusted servant the watch-dog 01 tne pudiic treasury, the guardian of the people's liberties. Ob! what a re sponsibility rests upon him. We hope that every member of that august Doay may oe enabled to carry that burden in such a way that his services will be appreciated by every mother's son and daughter in the Old North Stete and that no act of theirs will ever bring the blush of shame to the cheek of any member of that body of law givers of the date and tenor of A. D. 1907. See California in the clutches of the Federal government It is alleged that the Btate having ex pressly provided that every school in a district must be open to all children of school age, resident within the said district but now they want to kick the Jap out Too late. Time and opportu nity does not go backward. War may result but adherence to the ancient adage, a stitch In time saves nine, is much better than thoughtless decla rations. Law making is a serious business and much importance should be attached to it Haamon construct ed a gallows for theexecution of Mop decai, the Jew, but himself was hang ed thereon. All history is food for thought and if we pay no heed to it the recorder should be estopped, it Is a useless expense. Perhaps we have said enough for this time, the digestive organs of many readers are weak and we will desist for this time lest we overload them. Best wishes to the 'good old Ob server and its helps everywhere. SALMAGUNDI. Cameron, N. C, Feb. 9, 1907. Sampton Correspondent in the West. Editor Observer: Please allow me a line In the dear old Observer and I will tell your readers that this country is covered In snow and about 5 degrees below zero. So you will see we are not having summer time here. Since your correspondent left the Old North State a little more than two weeks ago we have seen a good portion of the finest farm lands in the West The Armour racung uompany bos a branch house at this place. They kill about 1800 or 2,000 sheep per day and from 800 to 1,000 beeves, and hogs In proportion. There seems to be plenty of stock to supply the de mand, although tbey claim a large shortage In the beef and sheep sales on account ot the cold weather here. Probably some of the readers of the Observer would like to know what kind of a place this Is, and for their benefit I will say that Omaha haj about 113.000 people and is a fairly good place. There are a number of very fine buildings and upon the whole It Is a "hustler." WIU write again, wishing yon all much success, as ever, A. C. P. Wedding Bells. Lewis-Blackbnrn Invitations are out which read asfolhnrsT ' MrsrIfannah E. Blackburn requests the honor ot yonr presence at the marriage of her daughter NelUe , ,. ' -'.''.' " to ".'"' ' -y Mr. Preston F. Lewis on Wednesday afternoon, February 20, nineteen hundred and seven r-"'" at four O'clock, ' "at her residence, ' ' ' '"' 114 Rnssel street, Fsyetterllle, North Carolina. ad yarn will Gemlacaad - Origlaai Rogers Knives, Forks, Spoons, etc TkM an I, I . ft trttflnf Oalcra. Por aVw rata. ;n -iy-ly addrtn Utt nakws tttrCRJUTtONH IM.Vtg CO Bfrtttw, C.JZL. I Ask For P I ROGERS if H'tfyoswaai j Hake' I tlhirrut N Inrf I That Wen, J il , ifct, I .-, .A ta".? f . -. T-tiilMcaiii8oi" Ml 3 LETTER FROM SCOTCH LASSIE. Vestry. Miss., January 81, 1907. Dear Observer: Although but a short time bus elapsed slnoe writing the sketch of which this Is a continuation, we have already forgotten what we didn't say In the first edition as well as milch that we did say. But we did not men tion St. Roch's Bhrlne and cemetery, which is very curious and quaint It is In a faraway corner of the city and here one forgets the noise and bustle ot Canal, street and recalls deeds and customs of medieval times, particulary when one cornea to the Saint's Bhrlne, a tiny, vine-covered Gothic chapel, whose altar Is sur mounted by a figure ot St Roch and bis faithful dog. In the cemetery are the fourteen Stations ot the Cross. De vout Catholics make pilgrimages to this shrine and pray for St Roch's intercession In obtaining all kinds ot favors. To carry out the affair with proper ceremony, one must buy a wax taper at the gate, place it lighted, at the toot ot the altar, make their wish, repeat the litany, deposit an alms and then go to each of the fourteen differ ent Stations of the Cross. Naturally all this rlgamarole would - engender earnestness and faith, or the opposite. As there were quite a number of burn ing tapers In the shrine, we presume that the holiday spirit fostered sev eral earnest deslreB. Audubon Park Is beautiful and its conservatory of palms and dozens of other tropical plants is well worth Beelng. There are two distinct varie ties ot coffee trees, rubber trees, melon trees, spice trees, etc., besides acres ot maidenhair ferns, of every known variety In the very perfection of beau ty. The Chenille plant with its red, velvet-like blooms, was especially at tractive. On Thursday, the 27th of December, the party of four was reduced to one, and that one was the writer. So that morning we took a car for the Sol diers' Home, which Is twenty minutes' ride from Canal street. In the grounds of this beautiful home, we struck up with a lady whose appearance was much more euphonious than her name, which was Mrs. Scrogglns, of Memphis.- She was getting up an article on the Louisiana Soldiers' Home for Mr. John Dick Howe, of the Century. The veterans, as usual, vied with each other in showing us every courtesy and quite a party of them made a tour of the buildings and grounds with us. The place seems to be complete in every detail. They have a commis sary with a quartermaster, drug store, carpenter shop and machine shop, while chickens, cats, dogs and "Jim," the veteran horse, twenty-three years of age, gives a pleasant air of do mesticity 'to the premises. A wealthy soda-water manufacturer, of New Orleans, gtrVe the splendid bath rooms, while the King's Daugh ters and Sunshlners have each contrib uted a lovely paved walk in the grounds. When we reached the kitchen on our tour of inspection, we found quite a number of Daughters from the city and then learned that it was the day for a Christmas tree and other festivi ties. We were soon introduced to Mrs. aught State President of the Louisi ana Division, U. D. C, who took charge of us and made the day a de lightful one for the two visitors from Carolina, for Mrs. Scrogglns was a tt,i!ive South Carolinian. We were invited to stay for dinner and gladly availed ourselves of the privilege of lining with the heroes 'of Hays' Bri gade. By the way, when these vet erans discovered that your corres pondent was from North Carolina, those of them who had followed Hays crowded around me saying, "Oh! we know allabout North Carolina at Cold Harbor, Spottsylvania Court House, the Wilderness, Gettysburg, Peters burg, and everywhere else where there was hard fighting!" After dinner the exercises incident to the Christmas tree were held In the library, a handsome donation recently made by Robert E. Lee Chapter, of New Orleans. A fine programme of music, recitations, speeches by sever si of "the boyB," an exceedingly happy little talk by Mr. Green, Commander of the 8tate Association of Sons of Veterans, and the presentation of the "Life and Letters of Dr. Palmer," the soldiers' friend and for nearly six SCHOOL BOOKS! We have both NEW and 8ECOND-HAND8 school books SLATES, CRAYON, PENCILS. ; EVERYTHING NEEDED IN THE SCHOOL ROOM THE : NEW ; BOOK ! STOPt? REPORT OF THE TH E BANK OF cr AT FAYETTEVILLE, K. C; AT JANUARY . Resources. Loans and discounts...... .I52K K7i i Overdrafts secured and un secured -s S.8737n Stocks and bonds......... Z2.250.00 Burglar proof vault........ ' g.000.00 Banking house ........... snnnftn All other real estate own- ed -s r i r rm i . . : iltKf Demand loans K97A. Due from banks and bank ers 7lI7nai Cash Items 11 scats Gold coin t'nnnnn 8Ilver coin, Including all ' miner win currencv ; 1 1 7 National bank notes and other TJ. S. notes. . . 18,533.00 1 UULl ....... ' ... I Stat, of Nwk j . I ' fll.04D.HU 1 v r .T v " vouniy 01 Cumberland, as: , - Subscribed and Am An k.fA nv.H w wuuni mo, this 1st day ot February. A. Ig. 1907, . n. HiUHTOWTSR, Notary Public. ty years pastor of the First Presbyte rian church ot New Orlt'uns by the board of directors, was followed by the distribution of gifts. - The trees were given by a Union veturan resid ing In the city; the gifts, of course, were furnished by the Daughters. Bach veteran received a pipe, a package ot smoking tobacco, package ot chewing tobacco, a knife and a muffler, candy, nuts and raisins, while those in the infirmary received additional gittg of thick, warm articles of apparel. At the conclusion of these exerclses..we asked a gentleman, who was a direc tor, to call tor the "Rebel Yell; he did bo and it was given with a will. Then there happened something which, was not down on the programme. Three visiting ladles, Mrs. Grace, from California; Mrs. Scrogglns? from Ten nessee, and this, one, from North Caro lina, were marched up on the stage and Introduced to the assemblage. Some blessed old veteran Jumped to his feet and proposed "three cheers for the Tar Heels" and they sounded louder than they did at first. We found two veterans there from North Carolina, W. T. Thlmblsh and Ransom B. Reeves, both natives "of Wake county and both having rela tives now .living in Raleigh. They are both well and happy and wished their friends and relatives In the Old North State to know that they were in the unmn aKaIma ami Tint fmm I1AS I1U1UO UV1U UIWl.O . uw ..wu. mv cesslty. " - -; - This was the pleasantest day of the trip and gave juBt the "personal innnk" rtviA nlnrnVB lllroa trk ViOVA LUUUU mat uuq ainMJD w uh w of a place one visits. It was much more congenial than talking through the tiny, square of screen wire In the broad front doors ot the Ursullne Con vent to a cloistered Sister, whose face we might not see; and it was much more palatable than the concoctions just for the fun of the thing though we tried to eat In the Japanese Cafe, the fun was at our own expense, in a double sense. SCOTCH LASSIE. THE NEW COUNTY. Fayettevllle, N. C, Feb. 9, 1907. To the Editor; It would seem to be but right and proper that our people should be In formed as to matters of legislation re lating to our county and the conduct of our affairs. There are now before the legislature several Important mat ters relating to the county of which the writer and most of our citizens know practically nothing. I write this, and expect to supplement It by a personal letter to our Representa tive asking that mere light be given us immediately on these matters. First. What is the new county movement now favored by our Senator from Cumberland; what are bounds for this proposed county; what por tion of Cumberland will it embrace; will it start from Little River and run in a straight line to Rockfish, taking in the good and bad land embraced or is it only to take In the better lands and leave the poorer and more remote sections to us;, and what effect will It have on political conditions In our county; and what effect will it have on our Senatorial district, our county being now one ot the districts and en titled alone to one Senator? Second. 'What Is the separate school bill proposed by Dr. McNeill for "Croatans and Creoles"? We un derstand the Croatan part and can see no objection to one or two separate schools for them, If recommended by our county superintendent- When it comes to "Creoles" we would be pleas ed to have further light It would seem to be a costly and dangerous innovation to set up separate schools for any other than distinct and well established racial lines, as now pro vided in our State laws. I wish" to be further Informed rela tive' to the above as well as to any other Important legislation propose for our county. CUMBERLAND. Coming Nearer Home. Mr. Duncan Murchlson, who has held the position ot train dispatcher with the Atlantic Coast Line at Tam pa, Fla., for some time, has resigned that position, and taken a similar po sition a with the Southern Railroad at Columbia, 8. C. ' CONDITION OF - FAYETTEVIIil F THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS 26TH, 190T, Liabilities.' -Capital stock ..........,..$100,000.00 Surplus fuad. ., , , 60,000.00 Undivided profits, less cur- i' rent expenses and taxes paid ...... ............. 6.884.63 Notes and bills redis- - counted . . .'. . 70,950.00 Deposlti subject to check."." 418.074.96 Demand certificates of de- - P?811 5.864.21 Cashier's checks outatand- ln 78210 Tnlal ( . . . ... " 1711,545.80 in. nuUHKH. raahlaf Correst-attest: W.F.BLOUNT, H. W. LILLY, S.lf. BTRANOST" Directors.
Fayetteville Observer [Weekly, 1880-1919] (Fayetteville, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Feb. 14, 1907, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75