The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-05
Views and Interviews.

| Man : Burden. GJUSlISHIuen are dTSu
| ing over the import of the poem. Some
declare that it is a justification of the
course of Mr.. Chamberlain towards the
| Beers while others contend that it IS
protest against the government 5
| South African policy and an appeal to
the people to put Chamberlain down.
| The following verses of this poem have
been cabed to this country under copy
right in advance of its publication in
| McClure's Magazine:
| ''Howso' great their clamor, whatsoe'er
| their claim,
! Suffer not the old King under any
name.
| Here is naught Impoverished is naught
to learn,
| 1t is written what shall fall, if the
King return.
Cruel in the shadow, crafty in the
sun,
Far beyond his borders shall his teach
ing run,
Sloyen, sullen, savage, secret, uncon-
trolled--
Laying ON a new land evil of The old
Here is naught unproycn-here is moth
ing hid;
| Step for step and word for word-so the
| old Kings did.
| Step for step and word for word, who
is ruled may read.
| Suffer not the old King for we know
the breed,
| All the right they promise, all the
wrong they bring
Stewards Of the judgment. suffer not
this King"
Now. the question is, Who is the "oId
King? Is it President Kruger? Some
Of the leading English newspapers say
so. Yet Kruger is not king at all, nor
is he cruel, crafty, or savage and is not
| sullen or uncontrolled Nor have we
ever heard that he is "sloven" Then
! too, it would seem to be impossible to
speak Of Kings" if Kruger were in
| tended.
Who then is the 'old King to whom
kipling refers? Is it not George III?
This celebrated monarch was crafty, ar
| bltrary, sullen, secret, and no doubt tslO-
ven.' Lcoll him up in the histories. BY
laying on a new land evil of the old he
lost to England her American colonies
He was but a strong type of his kind
so that it is perfectly logical for the
poet to shift from singular to plural in
his designation. From this it would seem
that kipling is calling upon his coun-
trymen TO check the plot against the
Beers and to save England from being
again arrayed on the side of tyranny
and injustice. At least let us hope so.
BY reason of the Transvaal trouble.
which has caused a great demand for
mules and horses in England, the prices
of both have gone up said horse deaf
er yesterday. .sAnd this to me is the
surest Indication that England means
business, and there's going to be war in
South Africa. The representatives of
the British Government are now in
this country buying NUDES for use in
the prospective war against the Beers Of
South Africa. / notice from the papers
that Major Scobel and his staff viii IA
a few days enter the Texas market to
purchase supplies for the British Gov
eminent. He has been i'm Virginia. Geor.
gia, Mississippi and is now in louisiana
I've had a regular epidemic OF in
spection out my way said Mr. viii
Allen, superintendent of the County
Home and Workhouse. Zone day / had
the grand jury. The next i was visited
by the Board of Charities and the third
day came the Board of Health. None
of them, though, I'm glad to say, made
any adverse criticism of my manage
ment."
If cotton goes to 10 cents, as it now
looks like it will" remarked Col A. {.
Davis, of Goldsboro, at the depot, ''the
raising of tobacco in Eastern North Car
DINA will be a thing Of the past. The
people in that section like cotton farm
ing better than they do tobacco raising.
They take to it as naturally as a duck
does to water"
Rockingham has seven cotton mills
now, or will have that number in the
near future, Mr.. Claudius Dockery tells
me. Six are i'm operation, while the
machinery is being put into the seventh.
1t is Pee Dee factory No. ?. Pee Dee
No. / is run by water, but Pee Dee No.
will operate by steam.
Eve are going to have a big Fair this
year" Secretary Pogne spoke conf
IDENTIFY 'Tlsknow what I'm talking about,
he added, land you'd agree with me If
you could see the correspondence.
There's an immense crowd coming. And
we have never had such an exhibit be-
fore, or the grounds and buildings so
well arranged
Col. W. ]. Hicks, superintendent of
| the Oxford Orphanage, was in the city
the other day.
Our institution is exactly full now"
he said. Eve have room for 220 chill
rem and we have 220. Two of them came
in this week. We are getting along nice
ly, too. The Masons are feeling better
about their institution than they did
some time ago and contributions have
been coming in more literally than for
merly."
1.-The erection of the Methodist Or
! phanage here will relieve your institu-
ton somewhat of its crowded condition
wni it not?"
mo. You may start half dozen
more and it wouldn't help us You
would find plenty of orphans to fill them
There are about 5000 orphans in the
| State, and only about 1000 of them are
in asylums or Orphans homes"
elbow many oTphanages i'm the Slater