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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-25
VESTS HIGH ESTIMATE
GREATEST STATESMAN THE
WORLD HAS KNOWN.
CONFIDENCE " POPULAR GOVERNMENT
An Eloquent and Glowing EuIogy Of The Man
Who Saved the Republic from Being
an Imitation Of Monarchy fom
Which We had Separated.

The best speech ever made on Jeffer-
son was delivered by Senator George
G.. Vest. of Missouri. himself a great
Democrat after the type of Jefferson.
1t was delivered before the jefferson
Club. of st. Louis. Mo-, October 3lst,
1880. ON the occasion of unveiling a bust
in bronze of Thomas Jefferson, the
work of Benjamin H'arney, ESD,
member of the club. 1t was as fol-
lows:
Gentlemen of the Jefferson Club
have discharged with pleasure the
duty which your kindness assigned me,
and we now look upon the bust of him
whose genius and prophetic foresigt
gave to our country the soil upon which
this great city stands.
Thomas jefferson wrote his own
epiraph Amongst his papers, after
death. was found a rough sketch in ink
of an obelisk to be made in granite.
eight feet i'll height with the inscrp-
ton:
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1t is Il significant epitaph, and worthy
of him who wrote il. jefferson had been
member of the Virginia House of
BurgesSes and of the Continental Con
gress, Governor of Virginia, Minister to
France, Secretary of State. Nice-PreSl-
dent and President of the United States.
but none of these h0nors nor titles are
upon the stone which marked his grave.
True to his convictions, shown by every
public and private act, the sworn enemy
of parade sham and ostentation, the
stern old Democrat wanted, living or
dead. none of the tnSel and trappingS
of heradic pomp or titular glory. He
named for himself his passports to inn
mortality--the rights of man, religious
liberty, and universal education.
jefferson was charged by the enemies
who pusued him during life, and assail-
ed his memory after death, with being
communist who appealed to the ignor-
ant and the poor against the educated
and wealthy. He was by birth, lineage
education and association. an ariStocrat
He had in his veins the blue blood of
the Randolphs who. as Jefferson tells uS
in his autobiography. trace their pedi
gree far back in England and Scotland.
to which let every one ascribe the faith
and merit he chooses" Besides, he was
born land and slave owner. educated
ut the College Of William and Mary, an
institution established and endowed by
royalty. and when a student in the old
town of williamsburg, the first capital
of Virginia, was the favorite protege of
Francis FauQuier, the royal governor.
ut whose table he was a constant guest.
Passionately devoted to music, sculp-
ture and painting, an accomplished
Greek Latin and French scholar. whilst
in the higher mathematics philosophy
and sciences. he was without an equal
amongst public men. Jefferson was ma
turally drawn by such tastes and pur-
suits away from the people. as they were
then contemptuouSly called. and to the
privileged classes who claimed by in
heritance monopoly of wealth. educa
tion and culture.
From Monticello, Jefferson went forth
to make untiring and relentless war
upon tyranny and oppression in every
shape For nearly fifty years his form
lowered in the front of every battle for
civil and religious liberty, and there was
not one single moment in which he ceas-
ed to struggle for human rights. 1t is
almost impossible after so many years.
and under circumstances SO changed. To
realize the appalling difficulties which
confronted the advocates of civil and re-
ligious freedom in the last century. and
especially in Virginia.
New Virginia was then but the gross
caricature of old England. The Rakehel-
lv cavaliers who fought under Prince
Rupert We're reproduced in an exagger-
ated form i'll the young planters of the
province. To primogeniture. entail and
the union of Church and State. had been
added the curse ofAfrican slavery: and
to raise tobacco. clear more land and
buy more slaves. all to be at last squan,
dered in riotous living. seemed To be the
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the sea. lin daily contact. Under the
Constitution the North and the South
were fellow shareholders and no man
had ever been or could then be elected
President OF the United States who was
even free soiler.
In other words, Northern States. which
owing to climate and pursuit. had found
slavery unproftable, had wisely shifted
the White Mans burden upon the
South where the slave labor could pro-
duce the raw material to great profit
With the proceeds of such sales of slaves
they builded cities, manufactures. and
developed many industries. which the
South greatly preferred should be kept
out of her borders. from fear of labor
agitations.
The men of the North addressed them
selves chiefly to their business pursuits
and generally such legislation as they
proposed was practical in its character.
Southern men and prominent Northern
men who made their homes among them,
devoted great part of their time to
pur.ic affairs. and the management of
their large estates and independent indi-
vidual life qualified them as rulers They
familiariZed themselves by study and
practice with the governments of the
world. Their idea Of the proper govern
ment of their country was that is the
best government which governs least:
that honor was dearer than life itself and
patriotism than gold" Rome,
especially in the days of the Cambilli,
Cincinnati, Fabii and the elder Scipios.
and whose dictators came from the hon
est labor of the plough-shares and the
selfdenial of the farm. commanded their
admiration. The consequence was South
ern councils dictated and dominated the
politics Of this country, even up to the
time of our Civil War.
And notwithstanding the impatience of
the younger and ADLER statesmen of the
North. they We're unable to escape from
this domination. until too conscious Of
their Overwhelming strength, the South
by its party and personal dissensions and
mpatience for needful concessions
made possible the election of
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banner. But time fails me even to mem
ton what has been accomplished IN
science, in letters. i'll material resources,
during the half century since Webster $
address. Suffice it, great wisdom, great
ability and great moderation is neceS-
Sary TO prevent our Over-c0ntldence as
Suming greater responsibilities than any
one nation can Surmount. Yet in view
o. the past, who can forecast the future
of such nation as ours. when command
ing the admiration and support of all
sections:
Claiming aS we do as our just need
that ours are the plans of fair delight
full peace" and that men should be sr-
perior to wealth, we Should see to it that
the great resources OF Our country 90 not
fall int0 too few hands.
Our safety has hitherto been in the
fact that we have had no hereditary
rights or privileged classes. but greed and
mans ingenuity are ever seeking to null
lify It's wise provision of our organic
law.
1t would seem as if in our brief his
tory we have had war enough; but so
long as they who make the quaTrelS
are not the men who fight" and with
brave. IelflcSS. ifdlflotlc monte peoplt 10
hold in control. should we not pause and
consider deeply before we yield to the
temptation of seeking glory in war?
The great peace congress NOW Ill SeS-
sion at The Hague is in itself II protest
of Christianity and civilization against
war. 1t is wise and practical to look ut
its awful cost before we hasten to it. 1t
has occurred to me, therefore, that Il few
very red blood-staned figures may in
struct us all. if we look at them right,
and may help to curb too ambitious
national martial spirit.
Do you know how many American
soldiers served in the seven years war
for independence? There were. accord
ing to the highest authority. that of the
distinguished Adjutant General of the
Army. from whose well-dgeStcd article
draw my figures. two hundred
dred and fifty thousand. How many@of
and fifty thousand. How many
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President Lincoln by the votes
Of Northern States alone. And
though in his inaugural address he dis
claimed any intention Of interfering with
the institution Of slavery, our great Civil
Wa: followed lGs imaue lration wit} it,
nG ii foid hardsllips and great sacrifices.
Yet Il ehnd Il frowning pro aence' f'i.
lowed progress and blessings.
Ian the centennial celebration OF the
birthday Of George Washington which
birthday of George Washin Ston
which took place in the city
Of Washington in 1882 Mr..
cd upon the occasion, in part said: I'VE
are at the point of a century from the
birthday Of Washington. ana what cen
tnry it has been. During its course the
human mind has seemed to progress with
a sort Of geometrc velocity, accomplish
ing more than had been done in five or
ten centuries preceding. y
century rom the birth of Washington.
has changed the world
And yet in standing upon. as ii were,
the dawn of the twentieth century. we
have seen more than all the past had
accomplished. We have seen this count
ry press. triumphantly through the great
N1NIl w ar, tllt iiaEii'i HhtS Oh WIlOSt Jat-
ties, the fortituLe cAli;b ted. the hard
ships endured. the achievements accom
plished, have eHcitcC tho admiration and
C@.rTIEded the reSpn t of the 'iliZeti
world. We have seen the slave, which
was the occasion hut not the cause Of
the war; set free. We have seen at the
close Of that cruel. Unrelenting struggle
all portions of the country drawn nearer
together without one hostile shot fired
after the surrender of the South We
have seen this nation since engaged in
a foreign war, AMI a. the guns of our
great naval commander were fired in
Manila Bay. they "r-echoed at Santiago.
and the fleets Of great European power
was swept from the mighty ocean: We
have seen the grim and the wrinklcd
veterans who wore the blue and gray,
volunteering and fighting side by side
mt I'll Caney. with the sole emulation rs
TO who should go farthest and be fore
most III striking the foe of our common
country: We have seen the Union and
Confederate soldiers decorating the
graves of their wliiom foes: We have
seen the m0ngrel tribes Of the Sandwich
Islands gathered. without the firing of
Il gun, beneath the folds of our starry
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Of lA these were lost: The rec
ords said twelve thousand.
In our war OF 1872 for sailors rights
four hundred and seventy-one thousand
men were on the muster rolls. and fifty
five hundred of them never answered the
r0Il-cali when the veterans Of those who
years were mustered out.
In the Mexican War, our first war OF
aggression, the death-roll reached five
thousand ont Of a total of one hundred
and sixteen thousand men.
In the Spanish war two hundred and
seyenty-fye thousand men were Under
arms ready to serve our common country.
Three Thousand of these sleep the sleep
Of heroes:
In the great struggle of the century,
the struggle between giants, there were
all told two million three hundred and
twenty-five thousand men in the Federal
army. OF this mighty host one hundred
and ten thousand were lost in action, and
two hundred thousand died of
disease. In the Confederate ar
my there were six hundred and
fifty thousand men. and Of
these one hundred and twenty-five
thousand persisted in battle, twenty
seven thousand died in prison. and two
hundred thousand were made prisoners
Of war. and were not exchanged.
These figures speak far more eloquent.
" than can mere words the cruel and
Uurelenting nature of the struggle.
North Carolina was the last of the
States to join the Confederacy, and only
gave her consent to do so when the
hour for neutrality mad passed. When
by proclamation Mr.. Lincoln called ON
her for troops TO coerce those allied to
her by blood, by association and kindred
institutions she no longer heSitatel rs
to her duty, but promptly joined her
Southern sisters, for war could no longer
he ayerted. and She sought not to escape
her due responsibility. In view of all
the facts, who can now truthfitlly say
she chose unwisely? At all events. hav
ing joined her fortune with her South
ern sisters, she with II fidelity and stead
fastness worthy Of all praise, stood true
TO her profession until the very end. The
first blood shed in the war was that OF
a North Carolinian, and the fast charge
made Mt AppomattoX was by North
Carolinians, and in, that devoted band
We're sons Of Granville county.
On the return of the Confederate to
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JNO. ID. THORNE
HE CONCU Rl.ED.
(Harlem I.ife.l

Miss Vassar: Don't Won think Misses
Springglove is charming poetesgs?
Uncle Solomon: Oh. yes. very sweet
p9ctess. and her cousin, Miss Chalmers
is Il charming paintreSS, and her Aunt
Lucrece is an excellent sculptreSs. and
her mother used to be an excellent
dishwashcrcss.
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a physician practices on his own pa
tients: an amateur musician practices
on the patience of others.
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No man is to be praised for giving
away the things he's unable to use.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-19
Minor Matters in Court.

Judge Baker is hearing the evidence
against Martin Dixon, charged with having
committed a burglary in a saloon at Thir-
teenth and Arbor streets.
Albert Smith, who has been on trial in the
criminal court for borrowing Thomas Ca
sey's horse and neglecting to return 1t, de-
cided to withdraw his plea of not guilty
and plead guilty. He was rewarded for the
accommodation by the privilege of spending
the next twelve months in the penitantiary.
Judge Baxter entered the final decree
Thursday in the estates of Henry Pundt and
Emily G. Hespeler, both of which have been
more or less in controversy in the probate
court during the last two years. Both es-
tates are hopelessly insolvent and it was de-
cided that it is unnecessary to longer defer
a settlement.
Ed ]. Barry has been appointed special ad-
ministrator of the estate of Honora Barry,
who left considerable property in North
Omaha. Some of the property is involved
in the recent Inflammation proceedings of
the Omaha Bridge and Terminal company
and the appointment of an administrator be-
came a necessity.
Thu Pacific Express company has filed a
notice that it will call up the argument on
it's motion to make the petition OF the
plaintiff more definite in the damage suit
pany by William F.. Bechel. who was ar
rested and prosecuted for alleged embeazre-
ment at the instance of the express COM
pany and was acquitted. He then sued the
express company for $40,0 900 damages.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-19
CUBAN LEADERS CALM DOWN
Havana Papers Realize the Unfor-
tunate Results to the People of
Their Inccndinry Words.

HAVANA, May 1S.-Cuban emotion has
taken a swift turn TOWARD moderation. All
the political groups and the fifteen daily
newspapers of Havana realized today that a
cessation of wild talk was desirable. Even
the acrobatic members of the late military
assembly went about soothing their excited
followers.
The meetings of the National league last
night, though largely attended, were orderly,
all the speakers advising calm reflection be-
fore any movement is begun, lest violent
incidents might be precipitated by rashness.
General Carlos Roloff in the course of an
interview today said:
Nothing serious viii result from the
wild words Of youth, and older men realize
that it would be impossible to maintain war
against the Americans. It is thoroughly
practicable to return to work. To oppose
the United States would mean deliberate
suicide. For one. | have no doubt of the
sincerity of the American promises and the
present is a time for sincere efforts on the
part of all and not for the qualification of
the petty ambitions of individuals"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-19
DISCREPANCIES In HIS NAME
Vaolav KOutsky's Heirs Bring Suit to Quiet
Title to Property.
VARIOUS DIFFERENCES ARE EXPLAINED
Confusion is Caused by Promiscuous
Use OF bohemian, Polish and Ger
man ~criyatio Not Corre-
spending TO Name in VIII.

The heirs of Vaclav Koutsky, who died
early in 1891 leaving his family a consider
able inheritance of real estate in and around
South Omaha, have applied to the district
court to quiet the title to the property and
dispose of a confusion that has arisen from
the promiscuous use Of Bohemian, Polish
and German derivations of a proper name.
The parties to the suit are Join. Joseph,
Frank and James Koutsky, all sons of the
deceased. 1t is represented that when their
father died he left a will in which all his
property was bequeathed to his wife, Bar
bara. Subsequently Mrs. Koutsky died and
the property descended to the sons, by whom
1t was decided to Frank Hines. Now the
register of deeds has refused to file the
transfer on account of discrepancies in the
name of the original owner appearing in the
various document offered for record.
The trouble arises from the fact that the
will was made in the name of Wenzel
Koucki, who Is apparently a very different
person from Vaclav koutsky. II is ex-
planned that there is no English substitute
for Vaclav. The German name Wenzel is
it's equivalent, and Wenzel is translated into
English as James. Subsequently the elder
Koutsky was frequently known as Wenzel
or James, and 1t is asserted that this name
was Inadvertently used in the will. The
difference in the last name Is explained by
the statement that the Polish termination
was used instead of the Bohemian. AS the
original will was admitted to probate with
one form of the name, 1t becomes necessary
to have the variation %reconciled by the
courts, in order to effectually clear the title
to the property.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-19
MURRAY BOOKED FOR A BOUT
Local PuEiIist IL to Meet Billy STAFF
ford Mt Dubuque Next
Week,

Paul Murray. the clever local colored
boxer, is to take a twenty-round journey
with one Billy Stafford at Dubuque next
Thursday. He has received a telegram that
a purse Of $3.50 has been put UP for the
fight, winner to get all. Murray has posted
the forfeit and is prepared to take down con-
siderably more money than the purse, as he
will be backed for several hundred dollars.
He will leave for Dubuque in a day or two
and will take George Shaw as a second.
Murray is in tiptop shape and is confident
that he will gain the decision in the battle.
He will go into it with more than a desire
to win the money. Stafford is not a well
known boxer outside of Iowa, but, measured
by his own estimation, he is well up in the
bunch. He has been stating that he whipped
Murray once before and that the colored
boy will be a choice bit of tapioca for him
again. Inasmuch as Murray never boxed
with Stafford, the former is not at all
pleased with the latter's four-fushing and
is determined to take him dow a few pegs.
The bout will be at catch weights.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-19
NEIL THOMPSON is MISSING
lie is Gazette Sergeant In the Ameri-
Gun Volunteers, n salvation
Organization.

After an eight years residence in the city
and a thorough acquaintance with every
part OF 1t Gazette Sergeant Neil Thompson
Of the American Volunteers has suddenly
disappeared. No trace Of him has been
found since Tuesday morning, when he was
last seen on California street, and the Off
GERS Of the Volunteers fear that something
has happened to him.
Thompson has been connected with the
Volunteers ever since the organization found
a home in this city, two and a half years
ago. He has acted as sergeant and de-
voted his time to the sale OF the Gazette,
the official organ of the Volunteers. He
has sold the paper in the stores and from
house to house during that time, forming
a wide acquaintance and making scores of
friends who will not believe i'll of him.
At the time he left his home, which is the
headquarters of the officers, 600 North Four
teenth street, he had about s.
of money belonging to the Or
ganization and 1875 Gazettes. He
was attired in a blue uniform, blue cap, with
emblems on 1t and on the breast of the
blouse. A gray sergeant's chevron was on
the left sleeve of his blouse and a small
flag on each side Of the cluse fitting collar.
He was about 40 years of age.
Captain +. E.. Henderson Of the Volun-
teers says that Thompson was a man of eX-
cellent habits. 1t was his custom to carry
about $40 with him for the purpose of max
ing change. As the sale of papers took
him into the toughest places in the city
it is feared that he may have been robbed
or something more serious may have hap
pened to him. He has no relatives in this
country, his one sister living in Denmark.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-19
CALLS IN The HIGHBINDERS
Slave Dealers Association Puts AZ
Price on the Heads of Men
Who Oppose Them.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 1S.-The Call says
the Bow Wah Tong, or, in English, the
Chinese Slave Dealers association, has called
upon a Highlander association to rid the
Chinese community of three men. A price
has been set on the heads of three men,
bers of the Chinese Society for English Edu-
cation because it is believed that they are
responsible for the organization of a vigil
lance society among the white people who
wish to put a stop to the iniquities Of China
town. On the head Of Ong Foon Is 81 900,
Chin Jim is rated at $500 and Chin Ruey at
the same figure. The Slave Dealers asso-
citation is composed of something more than
100 Chinese, who represent an ownership in
more then $50 slave dens and about 400
human chattels.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-19
REPAIRING WOODEN WALKS
Board of Public Works Serves No
tees Upon Property
owners

Thousands of notices are being served By
the Board of Public Works upon property
owners to Immediately repair defective
wooden sidewalks lying before their prop
erty. During the past few weeks a thor
ough canvass has been made by sidewalk
inspectors and all cases of defective walks
have been reported. From these reports the
notices to repair have been issued.
1t Is not the purpose of the Board of
Public Works to see If these notices are
being obeyed. The property owners will be
given a reasonable length of time in which
to make the repairs and then by public ad-
vertisement they will be notified that the
city will at once make such repairs.
The repair gang will go at work in a
systematic manner. 1t will be directed to
go up one street and down another and
repair all defective walks that are not in
good condition. An inspector of the Board
OF Public Works will accompany the gang
to see that no work is done where proper
notice has not been previously served.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-19
FIGHT FOR THE COAST TRADE
Local Hardware Men Assert Railroad
Rates Are Unfair
to Them.

"a FRANCISCO, May 1S.-The fight be-
tween the Pacific coast hardware jobbers and
those from the middle west for the posses
sion of the trade of the states on the Pa
cific coast will be fought in earnest before
the freight officials of the Northern Pacific
and the Great Northern reads at a meeting
to be held in st. Paul on May %. Four
delegates from this city, representing the
Pacific Coast Hardware and Metal associa-
ton, will attend the conference. They will
have the active cooperation of delegations
from Portland, Seattle, Tacoma and Spo-
kane, in the effort to secure a change or
a~brogation Of the schedule adopted by the
northern roads on May 1. 1t is asserted
that the new differentials between rates for
carloads and smaller shipments give an
unfair advantage to those cities of the mid
die west to the detriment of the coast job
bers.