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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-10

I years scarcely a man or woman OF large
wealth in Massachusetts or even in New
| England has failed to make some bene-
| faction to the land that gave them birth
and opportunity for wealth. Usually he
has provided for education or else for
charity These countless streams of
wealth perpetually flowing, have created
for New England a power through edu-
| cation that makes her the foremost spot
on the globe.
The great poet, as the browning excel
lence of the mighty Julius, makes men
ton that he constituted the people of
Rome his heirs
There is one North Carolnian who has
realized this great truth. it is the donor
of this building. Having used every OPP
portunity that North Carolina re-
sources furnish for the acquisition of
wealth he has in turn faithfully employed
that wealth for the Improvement of
North Carolina He knew that North
CarolinianS are the best friends to North
Carolina, that the State must rely upon
her own sons for progress and develop
ment.
Is not this University proof of this
fact? Not building, not an endow-
ment-with one exception and that In re-
ality attributable to a North Carolinlan-
has been given to this institution by any
but a son of North Carolina; and the
greatest progress made by the University
has been made under the presidency OF
her own sons Ito manor born
And it must be so in the future. This
University our State Colleges, our in
dustrial education our manufacturing de-
velopments, our growth along all lines
must be promoted by ourselves. we must
give ourselves to the State OF our olrth.
We must inscribe on our banner North
Carolina is sufficient for North CAROLYN
ians," and in letters of gold North Car
olinans, Duty to North Carolina; and
should we seek one man whose life and
character are an illustration of both mot
toes; should we seek a portrait to place
between these notices, should put
there the donor of this beautiful build
ing, the soldier, the citizen, the farmer,
the manufacturer the banker, the phi
lanthropist and above all that true North
Carolinian, Julian Shakespeare Carr.
THE STATES DUTY TO HERSELF.
A word in conclusion as to the duty of
the State TO foster this institution of
higher education.
| In the same article of the State Con-
stitution in which the Halifax Congress
of 1776 directed the establishment of
public schools, it also declared for the
| establishment of State University. 1t
has been well said This Congress with
wisdom unparalleled and faith approach
ing sublimity provided for the interest
| of it's unborn children. This mandate
has been substantially retained in every
constitution of the State from that time
to the present. These two mandates are
of equal and inseparable obligation, con-
| tidipg in the faith of the State thus
pledged to it the various gifts of this
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management in competition with the
world.
North Carolina has ceased to fight UNI
der the banner of other States. Her
golden leafed" tobacco is no longer
stamped as Virginia Bright She no
longer charges Cemetery Heights under
Virginia generals. We have learned not
to rely upon the foreign population but
to call upon our own people, the present
English stock on the continent. Not to
wait for outside capital to come to US
but to bring it to us in exchange for
our manufactured products. We invite
foreign capital to come and partake with
us in our prosperity and today the invi-
tation meets with ready response
This is the New North Carolina.
Foremost among those who have learn
ed this lesson and taught it to the State
is the donor of this beautiful building. A
native of this quiet village, North Caro-
linian of the purest strain, Tar Heel
Boy, Chapel Hill boy, a University boy,
who when battles were to be fought and
marches made and hunger borne, and pri-
vations endured, was a private in the
ranks with ragged sleeves. He has help
ed to build up this new North Carolina,
putting his own shoulders to every for
ward movement that has taken place in
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-10
THE NEWS AND OBSERVER SUNDAY MORNING. JUNE TO- 1900

University have been made Let us hope]
the time has passed when there can be
a question as to whether any legislature
will appropriate funds sufficient to main
tain this noble institution The burden
upon the shoulders of the president of
its University every two years to lobby
for the appropriation, to maintain the in
stitution should be lifted; it is discredita
ble to the State, humilating to the indi-
yidual and perpetual restraint, even a
menace to the full free development of
the educational life of the University.
vision of the future rises before me
in which l see all parties in the State
united to make this University a great
center of learning and a blessing to the
neople of North Carolina. l hope to see
the day when a parliament composed or
the heads of all the educational insttu-
tions in the State will meet in annual
conference upon the well being of this
head of the States educational system.
Where no sect or creed will contend, no
iealously or rivalry find place, neither
riches nor poverty be regarded but all
work together for the good of our beloved |
commonwealth
now surrender into your hands, sir, !
University of North Carolina, this build |
ing. designed as dormitory for the youth |
for the State-a gift of love from Julian
SHAKESPEARE Carr to his Alma mater It's
architecture is suggestive of high ana
holy aspirations. Within its walls let
us hope. there will be vigils of the night
dedicated to noble endeavor and lofty
purposes. Secure from the storms that
may rage without its numerous inmates,
as year succeeds year and generation sue
ceeds generation will perpetuate the mem
cries of this day and the name of their
benefactOr.
I must believe when he comes to draw
the drapery of his couch about him and
Law himself down to take his last sleep
among visions of what good he has done
for his fellow man will arise the form OF |
a beautiful building, graceful in its pro-
portions, inviting in its arrangements,
built of granite to defy the effacing finger
of corroding time, surrounded by giant
trees of primeval growth; and he will
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les of land in the State of Tennessee,
part of which was awarded to them for
their services in the Revolution
But this old university, the Alma Mater
of so many great and good, and some
rich men, and of so many sons who have
dearly loved her, waited for over a cen
fury, one hundred and five years after
her first matriculate was enrolled, for
one of her sons who loved her enough,
and was at the same time financially able,
to bestow upon her such a gift as she
receives this day-a handsome building
complete in all its parts, worthy of the
munifcence of one whose liberality is
proverbial, throughout the borders OF the
State. and worthy of the university, her
self, whose prospects for increased use
fulness were never greater than today.
The want OF dormitory building like
this has long been felt and if the Uni
versity would properly care for the STU
dents entrusted to ;ler tutelage, it seems
to be an absolute necessity. by this gen.
erous act Of General Carr accommodations
superior to those in the best of the 9TH
err buildings are provided for eiShty-four
young men, at convenient distance from
recitation rooms, laboratories library,
prayer hall and play grounds Every sue
ceeding generation of youths, for ages
to come will have cause, when they enter
it's doors and see THE Carr Building
inscribed upon its walls, to remember
him who did so much for them. What
ever additional honors his numerous
friends and his State may have in store
for him, none can afford him greater
satisfaction than the consciousness that
in building this mansion for his younger
brethren, and his and their descendants,
he has written his name in large and
indelible letters on one of the brightest
pages in the history of the University.
In the name and on behalf of the trus-
tees of this institution, and for its stu
dents now and in the decades and centu-
riCs to follow, we receive this magniti-
cent gift, yon building. May the sight of
it, and the memory of it, inspire other
loving sons to do like part by their old
mother.
The development of manufactures in
North Carolina will make rich men OF
many of our alumni, at no distant time,
and We would fain hope that, as is the
case with Harvard, Yale, Columbia and
other great institutions in the North and
West. the sons of this University will,
within few decades, pour into her lap,
of their abundance, hundreds of thou
sands of dollars for the erection of build
ings and the endowment of professor
ships. fellowshipS and scholarships
In the meanwhile all her sons and al
her friends are profoundly thankful tC
General J. S. Carr for this manifestation
of his devotion and they should all unite
in the prayer that Heavens best bless
ings may ever BE- nth him.
General Carr and wife, with his stall
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his State in the past quarter of centu-
ry He has taught still greater lesson
to- wit, North Carolinians duty to North
Carolina, lesson not fully learned as
yet.
There has been in the past steady
stream of latent energy flowing out of
North Carolina. The loss of the State
in intellectual force, energy, money, in
this rest is simply incalculable. While
inviting foreigners to North Carolina,
North Carolinians have ever thought
that distinction, wealth and honor for
themselves lay in other states. They
gone abroad to seek the applause of 9TH
er people, never better and rarely so
good as their own people at home. They
applauded philanthropy of rich men in
other States who have built up great Uni
versities like Harvard, Cornell, Johns
Hopkins. University of Chicago and the
Leland Sanford. They have applauded
the founders of hospitals, public libraries,
and like institutions in other States.
They have considered it great honor, a
duty and a privilege to be philanthropic
and benefactor in other States, put Tor
North Carolina, they have thought she
mad nOLnlUR III olOlC IOl SiSAH ~ my
have concluded that they have no duty
to perform for her.
Let us hope this day inaugurates the
change.
The men of Massachusetts early learn
ed the lessons that their fortunes could
be made in Massachusetts and when they
were made they devoted those fortunes
to the upbuilding of Massachusetts, her
schools, colleges, universities, public Ii
braries, Institutes of technology, manual
training schools, health resorts, summer
resorts manufacturing plants, public and
private enterprises of all kinds. Even II
they moved out of Massachusetts and
made wealth elsewhere they sent back
wealth to their native land to help the
boys and girls of another generation
Harvard University has been founded en-
dowed, and supported by men OF Massa-
chusetts and New England. They have
not considered it an equal honor to give
benefaction elsewhere. They have es-
teemed fair Harvard" above all inStitu-
lions on earth. For nearly two hundred
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-10
The Carr Building University Presented by Col S. Carr

see the ingenious youth OF the land go IN
and out of its doors, and when the dark
ness of the day invites to contemplation
and study within bright lights will appear,
and a halo will overshadOw the building
and the vision will last forever.
The building was formally accepted for
the University by Mr.. r. H. Battle, sec
rotary and treasurer of the Board of Trus
tees, who said:
Being Secretary and Treasurer, and for
many years trustee of the University,
have been selected by the President, to
formally receive the Carr Building, on be-
half of the curators of the institution. 1t
is not considered in polite society as quite
the proper thing, for a recipient of a gift
to inquire as to or discuss it's cost, but
it so happens that. from my official posi-
ton, / chance to know the actual cost
of the handsome present, now made to
the University, better than does the
donor himself, or his representative Col.
Burgwyn, who has in such eloquent terms
made the presentation. In strict conf
dence ito so no further" I tell you
what it cost.
,
to draw drafts with painful rapidity
on Gen. j. S. Carr, and to give checks
to the architects and builders, and for the
heating plant (Which, by the way, is said
to be of the most improved kind; and
cost paid by General Carr and by him
alone, was $1S841.20
Surely, in money value, this is prince
ly gift.
OF the twelve substantial buildings
erected for the nse of the University, on
these beautiful grounds, including the
Alumni Building, not yet complete. this is
the fourth, so entirely the gift of single
individuals that have been designated
by the names of the benefactors, respect
lively. The three preceding this are Per
son Hall" formerly better known as the
"Old Chapel" and now as Chemistry
Hall" Gerard Hail." generally called
the new chapel" and Smith Hail. y
better known in my day as the Bali
Room but now as the Library" The
donors of the funds with which these
buildings were mostly erected. were all
Revolutionary heroes and therefore too
old for this institution, venerable as we
consider it, to have been their Alma
Mater But they were patriots as we'll as
heroes, and loved their State, and they
saw no better way to advance her inter-
ests, and contribute to her glory and
lasting welfare, than in fostering this seat
of learning. Here, they foresaw many
of her Governors, Legislators and Judges,
her Senators and Representatives in the
National Congress, and her sons of all
callings and business were to be educated
and trained, as they hoped, and we firm
ly believe, for all time to come. Two of
these benefactors, Thomas Person and
Benjamin Smith, made their donation in
their life time, while Charles Gerrard's
was by his will. Person gave money
Smith and Gerard, each gave large bod
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-10
CARR BUILDING PRESENTED
A Handsome Gift WorthiIy Presented and
Received on Commencement Day
at Chapel Hill.

recitation and prayer. Though it's endow-
ment was confiscated and aliens occupied
it's professional chairs, they could not
destroy it's life. Este perpetual was
breathed upon it as it was launched on
the educational sea in 1895, and we repeat
in this year of 1900 the same invocation
the University will live forever.
THE NEW NORTH CAROLINA.
This gift arrests our imagination and
makes us pause to enquire what does it
signify. There was a time when we
sought elsewhere than in North Carolina
for men of progressive ideas. The first
president of this institution was North
ern man. Today our sister States look
to us when they want a president for
their University. One of the great ma
tional parties of the empire State of the
Union selects it's candidate for Governor
from the alumni of the University, and
not satisfied calls upon the State to fur
nish the Mayor of the second largest city
in the world And a youth reared under
the shadow of the University be-
comes the head of the largest indus
trial combination known to the commercial
world and even the great luminary Of the
heavens calls upon us to furnish site
where observation upon mis- phenomena
NAV best be studied. We have in the
past waited upon foreign capital to build
our factories, develop our mines, manu-
facture our raw material into the finished
product But we have found that the
gods help those who help themselves and
today if factory is to be built we have
the men in North Carolina with the CAPT
tai to build it, skilled laborers in North
Carolina to operate it and brains in
North Carolina adequate to its successful
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-10
WHOLESOME ADVICE.
For People Whose Stomachs are Weak
and Digestion Poor. "A

For People Whose Stomachs are Weak
and Digestion Poor ~
DR.. Harlandson, whose opinion in dis
eases is worthy of attention, says when
a man or woman comes to me complaining
of Indigestion, loss of appetite, sour stom-
ach, belching, sour watery- rising, head
aches, sleeIlessness, lack of ambition and
a general run down nervous condition
l advise them to take after each meal
one or two of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets,
allowing the tablet to dissolve in the
mouth and thus mingle with the food
eaten. The result is that the food is
speedily digested before it has time to
sour and ferment These tablets will
digest the food anyway whether the
stomach wants to or not, because they
contain harmless digestive principles
vegetable essences, pepsin and Golden
Seal which supply just what the weak
stomach lacks.
/ have advised the tablets with great
success, both in curing indigestion and
to build up the tissues, increasing flesh
in thin nervous patients, whose real trou-
BILE was dyspepsia and as soon as the
stomach was put to rights, they did not
know what sickness was.
a fifty cent package of Stuart's Dys-
persia Tablets can be bought at naRy
drug store, and as they are not a Sc
cret patent medicine, they can be used
as often as desired with full assurance
that they contain nothing harmful in
the slightest degree on the contrary.
anyone whose stomach is at all deranged
will find great benefit from the use of
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets. They will
cure any form of stomach weakness or
disease except cancer of the stomach.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-10

a SLIGHT ATTACK of cramps may
bring on Diarrhoea. which is, in many
cases, followed by Inflammation of the
stomach and other dangerous complaints.
All such disorders are dangerous and
should in their infancy be treated with
the best known remedy. The merits of
PAIN-KILLER are known and it is recog-
nized as the standard specific for cramps,
diarrhoea, etc. Avoid substitutes, there
is but one Pain-Killer, Perry Davis.
Price 25c. and SOC.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-10

Probably the hardest problems OF the
average mans existence is getting his
own consent to crawl out of bed in the
morning.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-10
HON. JULIAN S. CARR,
Who Donated the Handsome Carr Building at the University

wart sons, who are loyal University men,
were present at the exercises attendant
upon the gift and reception of the Carr
Building. j. ID.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-10

The truly great hero is the one who
acts and let's other people do the talking.
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The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1900-03-03
Act No. AZ S. b. No. By MIR. Cage
JOINT RESOLUTION.

Act No. A. S. B. No. By MIR. Cage.
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution
of the State of Louisiana relative to
.ratifying and carrying into effect
special tax levied in the City OF New
Orleans for certain public improvements,
and to establish therein public systems
of sewerage and water, the issuance of
bonds therefor and the providing ways
and means to pay the principal and in
terest of said bonds.
Section L. Be it resolved by the General
Assembly of the State of Louisiana, Two
thirds of all the members elected to each
House concurring: That the following
be submitted to the electors of the State at
the next general election for representatives
IN the legislature, to be holden on the Tues
day next following the third Monday in
April A. d. 1900, to- wit:
Article I. ssThe special tax for public inn
provements, voted by the property taxpayers
of the City of New Orleans on June 6, 1899,
and levied by the City Council, by Ordin-
hereby ratified, and its validity shall never
be questioned. The special act adopted by
the legislature at the Special Session held
on August 8, 1899, constituting the Sewer
age and Water Board of the City of New
Orleans, authorizing the City of New Or
leans to issue bonds, and providing the
means pay the principal and interest
thereof, and for other purposes cognate to
hereby ratified and approved, specially in
Guiding the therein reserved legislative right
| to amend the same; and all provisions of
| the present Constitution in conflict with the
| provisions of said act, and with this amend
| ment, to that extent and for that Pur-
pose only repealed.''
| Section 2. Be it further resolved, etc.,
That on the official ballots, to be used al
said election, shall be placed the words
! ssFor the City of New Orleans Public I'm
| provement Amendment;'' and the words
:sAgainst the City of New Orleans Public
| Improvement Amendment and each elect
Or shall indicate, provided in the genera
election laws of the State which of the pro
position, s'for'' or s.against'' he votes for.
! S. P. HENRY,
| Speaker of the House of Representatives.
| r. H. SNYDER,
Lieutenant Governor and President of tn
| Senate.
Approved August IS, 1899.
MURPHY J. FOSTER,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy:
i John T. MICHEL,
Secretary of State.
Feb. SLOW.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1900-03-03
/ he question Of terrifying the Nj

he question Of terrifying the Nj
caragua canal, when built, is burn
ing one Of the day. Here is what
Admiral Dewey has to say on the
subject: Qualifications Why, of
course not. AS l understand 1t,
the canal is to be and should be a
neutralized commercial pathway be
tween the two great oceans. 10
fortify it would simply resul, in
making it battle-ground in case Of
war. Forlific ations' would be enor-
mously expensive and ought not to
be erected Our fleets will be suffi
cient guarantee of the neutrality
and safety Of the canal in time Of
war-as well as in peace.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1900-03-03
81. 80 Versus $4,000.

Mess. Wooten & Co. Prong,
North Carolina, say: One Of our
customers, prominent man in
this community, suffered with liver
complaint. He consulted several
physicians but they failed to benefit
him. We prevailed upon him to
try the Ramon Pills and Pellets.
He soon bought more and is nov a
we'll and hearty man, and has
gained in flesh. He says the pills
saved his life an d the six boxes cost
him only $50, while his trip to
New York to consult the doctors,
cost him $4,000. Sold by La
fayette Drug Co.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1900-03-03
=, VOLUME nm.

This number of The Gazette Is
the first Of the eighth volume. In
entering upon the eighth year of its
existence this paper has no reason
to complain of the past or to des-
pair of the future.
We do not claim any great
achievements, but believe we have
kept up tn the progress of the
town. Thar is as much as any
newspaper can be reasonably ex-
pected to do. We may not have
attained to that high standard Of
journalistic perfection which some
of our hypercritical friends have es-
| tablished for US, but we think we car
lay the flattering JUNCTION to oul
soul that we have travelled along the
pathway of progress with the rest 81
the community.
Although The Gazette is only
seven years old it has had occss ior
to lend its efforts toward the inau
guration of several enterprise:
whose contamination has place.
Lafayette among the more pro
gressive towns of the State.
| With the patronage of the public
The Gazette will endeavor to i'm
prove with age. 1t will always b.
our aim to give the people of thi
parish as good paper as our reve
nues will permit.