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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-06-16

in the long past of human history there
keep our steady way until the summit is
has been but one ideal man. He came; He
startled the world; He disappeared. His
stay was just long enough to drop a few
seed principles into unwilling and barren
soil, but they took root, grew into for
est of stately trees, and now our social
order and progress thrive under their
grateful shade. Never has a man said
so little and accomplished so much Every
thought was a revelation; every word
shook the earth like the blasting of rocks
for the material of a new foundation.
The Christ stood at point which was a
halfway station between the animal man
of the past and the ideal man of the
future. Humanity began as rival to the
brute; it will end as the rival of angels.
BY slo wdegrees it has achieved an up
ward climb and every step has brought
it closer to heaven. The untold mil
lions who have fallen by the wayside will
continue the journey in another life.
Generations have been snuffed out like a
candle, only to be transferred to larger
opportunities and a better environment.
We also shall drop our earthly work to
con- ~ in The unreasonable eternity
toward which we are surely drifting.
without that eternity this life would be
grim disaster, but with it we use today,
if we are wise as a stepping stone to
an endless series of tomorrows.
The dignity and grandeur of the souls
possibilities are beyond the reach of the
imagination. Every age pushes us for
ward into a wider development. Every
experience, whether it is followed with
smile or tears, with leisure or struggle
is intended and is fitted to give us new
strength for the new outlook which it
yields. The divine consciousness is al
ways present that we can do more and
be more. A glowing ember from the altar
of God is the soul, and though it now
slumbers it will some time be famed into
a flame. The earth may for while
enchain our attention. for it is a fascinat-
ing novelty to be alive, as the traveller
toward the mountain top may rest salts
fed with the prospect which stretches be-
fore his wondering eyes but there is a.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-06-16
PAGE ON THE PREACHERS

of our people swallow everything he says
as if they were words of Holy Writ. Sup
pose the New York Sun or the Chicago
Inter Ocean had written this diatribe
against our Southern ministry. From
every section of the country hot lead
would have been poured into the offender.
Is it any better or more tolerable because
it comes from man born in North Car
DINA? Shall we meekly bow our heads
and allow the lash laid on our backs be-
cause the whip is in the hands of one Of
our own household? But the very paper
from which we copy this scurrillous
screed (the Charlotte Observer gives it
editorial endorsement, and has not word
to say in defense of the men who have
borne a glorious part in casting up the
highway for Southern progress. AS for
Mr.. Page. he knows better. He is obliged
to know better. for he is an intelligent
man, and comes of a family, some Of
whose members were devoted and dis
tinguished ministers. Have they "sup-
pressed thought and prevented GROWTH
Is their chief business the herding of wo-
men by the stagnant waters of theology?
We have no defense to make for the
preachers. They need none. Some things
are too clear to waste words about. This
is one of them. Everybody with any
sense knows that our preachers have
been our very foremost leaders in all
lines of thought, and they have stood like
Samsons in the way of the evil influence
the moral miasma, of schools in which
men like Mr.. Page are apt pupils. If this
man is an honor to his native State, may
the Lord deliver us from any others!
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BISHOP WILSON ON THE CHINESE

arts of war during the recent past. But
Bishop Wilson declared that Japan today
was no nearer accepting Christianity as
a nation than she was centuries ago She
has initiated the Western countries in
everything but their religion. The bishop
said that he believed the hand Of Provi-
dence has been in all the connections in
commerce and diplomacy and war that
have agitated China during the past so or
90 years years. He thought all this was
but the shaking down referred to in the
scriptures, and should be considered by
Christianity as only making ready for the
gospel and christendom should and must
measure up to the responsibility imposed
and the opportunity offered by the great
changes wrought by these things.
Bishop Wilson said he would not I'M
dertake to apologize fer or excuse the
outrages and wrongs inflicted upon China
during all these years by the Western
world China had been robbed aud nag
ged and harassed in a shameless way,
but the blame should not be laid at the
door of the missionaries. But for the
missionaries the outrages growing out OF
the recent Boxer uprisings would have
been much more narrowing and disastrous
than they were. Bishop Wilson believes
that the Chinese as a people are possess
ed of traits that are equal to, If not SUI
perior to those of any other people of the
world The peculiar characteristics of
the Anglo-Saxon race, which have been
boasted Of so long and SO insistently,
Bishop Wilson thinks have been exempli-
fed by the Chinese for many centuries,
inn hp tn
and adopt Christianity the Bishop believes
that the greatest manhood of the ages
will be developed in that empire
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-06-16
HANNIS TAYLOR ON CUBA.

l am ready with my answer, because the
founder of the Democratic party has ans
swered it for me. In his famous letter
of October "a 1928, in which he laid down
the foundations of the new American sys-
tenn for President Monroe, Jefferson was
careful to say at the very outset that
Cuba must be a part of it.
II desire to see them delivered from
the peril of an independent Cuban re-
public, a Utopian dream which should
have no place in the minds of practical
statesmen.
From a commercial point of view Gu
ba is simply great sugar plantation,
whose one great product can now find an
advantageous market only in the ports
of the United tates. The day Cuba is
admitted into our Union as a sovereign
State every piece of property in the island
will advance in value at least two-fold.
The ever-faithful island will then become
the richest spot in the New World That
consummation was the fond dream of
Jefferson"
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At the University of Virginia, when the
degree of LII. D., is conferred, the reci-
pient must be present to receive it in
person The degree conferred is a recog-
milton of literary work. In his address at
the University of Virginia a few days ago,
DR.. Hannis Taylor Ga native of Newbern,
North Carolina), speaking of the Cuban
question, said:
I'VE must not imagine for moment,
however, that our duty to that people has
been fully performed. The question in
volving the future destiny of the island
is now awaiting solution, and the answer
should be given by the American people
as d whole, regardless of party. Those of
us who worship at the shrine on Month
cello know where to go for light and
leading
by the decree of physical law Cuba
is a part of this continent; by the de-
cree of political law she must inevita-
bly, become part of the American sys-
tenn. If you ask me if !. as Democrat,
have the right to make that assertion
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sitive that he always requested her during
his courtship to "sit on the other side"
While she had, as she deposeth, the
strongest sympathy with the hypothetical
''sprained ankle she would never have
married him if she had supposed he had
a wooden leg. The marriage was on May
II. and then the theory of a sprained
ankle disappeared and the condition of a
wooden leg confronted her. 1t is impossi-
BILE not to sympathize with the sorrow of
a woman whose finest feelings in the mat
ter of the real and the artificial have been
thus cruelty triled with. Yet there is,
We fear. no procedant for granting her a
divorce, not even in the Dakotas.
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about double the plant, which now con-
tains about $500 spindles.
A new cotton mill company has been
organized at Lincolnton, n. c., to be
known as the Rudisill Manufacturing
Company, with about 1,5OO spindles. J.
NJ. Roberts of Shelby, is interested.
The oxford cotton mills Oxford, n.
c.. are almost finished and will soon
be ready to begin operations. The CAPT
tai stool, Of the company is $125O00. The
officers of the company are J. =. Han,
president; w. A. Erwin, Vlce-presldent,
and c. j. Cooper, treasurer.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-06-16

Bishop Alpheus w. Wilson, the greatest
Bishop of the Methodist church in Ameri
ca, lectured before the Womans Mission
airy Conference, which was in session at
Asheville last week. We take this ac-
count from the Asheville Citizen
Bishop Alpheus w. Wilson spoke on
conditions in the East at Central Method
list church last evening. In introducing
the speaker DR.. James Atkins, Sunday
school editor of the NJ. E. Church. South.
said that he considered Bishop Wilson
better qualified to give an accurate opin
ion of conditions in China than any man
in America.
Bishop Wilson's discussion of affairs in
the East was necessarily along general
lines. He dwelt but little on details He
declared that Pekin was today the point
upon which the eyes of the world we're
centered. Christianity and heathenism
were row engaged in a contest in China
which must issue in the overthrow of one
or the other of the two systems Chris
tianity must succeed there or declare its
own failure in submitting to defeat. Com
merce, diplomacy and war have offered
Christianity an opportunity in the East
that it must avail itself Of Bishop Will
son does not seem to agree with DR..
Young j. Allen, DR.. j. c. Kilgo and others
that the surest and speediest way to
evangelize China is through the railroad,
the telegraph and the factory. Japan now
stands on an equal footing with the
Christian countries under what is known
as the comfy of nations. Japan has
gained this distinction, never before en-
joyed by any nation, because of the mar
Vicious strides she has made in civiliza-
tion through commerce, science and the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-06-16
The Wooing of a Wooden Leg.

New grounds for divorce are being dis
covered every day. The latest ingenuity
of this kind is announced from Chicago,
where woman has petitioned for liberty
to love some other and better man on the
ground that the husband she now has is
incomplete in the matter of legs. She
AYERS that he wooed and won her young
affections by perfidously concealing the
fact that one of his legs was made of
wood According to her pathetic petition
the deceitful man told her that he ''only
had a sprained ankle, which was SO SEN
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-06-16
(Charitv and Chfldren.l }

CHARITY and Children.)
Senator McLaurin believes that eNpan-
sion, the gold standard, protective
tariff and shipping subsidies are the
policies that will make for Southern DC
velopment. The merit or the dement, of
this programme is Of less Importance than
the fact that it is radical departure, by
a man of character and influence, from
the solid" programme of these forty
''soIid" years; for war, poverty, illiteracy
epidemics and tornadoes have all done
less hurt to the South (be it said with
respect to all men of breadth and toler
ance) than the politicians and the preach
ers. For these have been the conserva-
tors of outworn opinions and creeds, and
they have suppressed intellectual indie
pendence 1t is they who are to blame
for THE loss to the nation of the old time
Southern force and character since the
war They have suppressed thought and
prevented growth-these unsecured col
onels who wear long hair and white ties
and frock coats. and these doctors of di-
vinity who herd good women by the most
stagnant waters OF theology. H.
Page.
This is the gentleman who has grown
so great that he pities the poor people
among whom he had the misfortune to
be born. We are amazed that Southern
man could fall so low as to write that
SANDER upon the best and bravest and
most enlightened class of men in all the
South-the preachers of the gospel But
we are still more amazed that so many
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-06-16
Some Sign Of Close Running.

american Wool and Cotton Reporter.)
The present depression in business
is having a sad effect on the drummers
for mill supplies. Not only are orders
being given in fractional quantities. but
the prices of everything are being
squeezed down so that a days travelling
hardly nets expenses. Where ring
travellers We're formerly ordered by the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-06-16
Cotton Mill Notes.

american Wool and Cotton Reporter)
A number of slubbing and rowing
frames are being installed in the Had
ley Peoples Manufacturing Company's
plant at Siler City, n. c..
The Statesville, IN. c. cotton mills
have completed arrangements for build
ing an addition to its plant. The COM
pany has awarded contracts for the
erection Of the necessary buildings and
will soon order the machinery. The adj
ditions will cost nearly 100000 and will
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-06-16

gross, they are now ordered by the
single package, and where grease was
ordered by the barrel, it is now pur-
chased by the pound Oil is used owe
and over again until the life is refined
out of it, and brooms are kept in use
until only stumps are left 1T is a sur
sign of close running and is in marked
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-06-16

A woman can never have much mind
and speak it, too.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-09-28

more things-the character of his
work and the diversity of his sub
jects. Most of his books are not such
as could be written off-hand. His Ills
tory of the Navy in the War OF 1872"
and his winning of the West"involved
a great deal of searching among
archives and old manuscripts in state
and national government offices. in
libraries and in private collections.
His subjects include naval history,
military history, frontier history, mu-
nicipal history, sport, biography, BIZ
ology, politics and book reviews.
Mr.. Roosevelt's style is that of a
plain man telling a straightforward
story. After reading his books you
are certain that he never paid any at
tention to his style, and the evidence
is, not that the style Is not good, but
that there is absolutely no straining
after effect. He issessentiaily a prac-
teal man, but he iswell endowed with
imagination, and this gives to his work
an occasional poetic touch that ap-
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-09-28

liked among the spoilsmen Of both
parties, but he held to the line of his
duty. He took the law al he found it,
lived true to his tn of office and made
the measure respected in many quar-.
tiers where it had been sneered at be-
fore.
Shakes Up the Police.
From Washington he passed to po-
lice commissionership in New York
city. His peculiar ability to work, and
work on right lines, gave the corrupt
police force such shaking up as it had
never had before. He was police COM
missioner in every sense of the word,
unbribable, unapproachable, fair to
the fair-minded, severe on the GRIM
inal. His books continued to sell in
increasing number, and the public
through the press, began to have a
broader view of him.
When the Spanish-American war
came he was assistant secretary of the
navy by the authority of President Nc
KinIey. He had much to do with the
organization of the navy for the con-
fict, and it has always been believed
that his influence largely contributed
to the sending of Admiral Dewey to
Hong-Kong, and thence to Manila
bay.
When war became q certainty Mr..
Roosevelt resigned his position in the
navy department, and with Gen. Leon
ard Wood organized the First volun-
teer cavalry, better known as the
rough riders. Gen. Wood was colonel
of this regiment and Mr.. Roosevelt
lieutenant colonel. The members of
the regiment came from the first FAM
lies in the east, from ranches in the
west, came from wherever good horse
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peals to the readers sympathies. He
has, too, a power of coming striking
phrases and of putting things in .
way that catches the attention. "The
strenuous life" is q phrase with o
meaning that could not be put again
in so few words. In q recent speech
he spoke of our war with Spain a.
merely q bit of the police work OF
the world" Once before he spoke Of
1t as "a bit of rough surgery"
These utterances reveal the man.
He has written much. The titles Of
some Of his best works are: Life Of
Thomas Benton" Life Of Goverueur
Norris" "Ranch Life and the Hunting
TRAIL" "The Winning Of the West"
History of New York City," "Essays
on Practical Politics." 1.-THE Wilder
ness Hunter" Hero Tales from Amer
lean History" "Naval War of 1872"
The First Lady OF the Land.
Mrs. Roosevelt is O handsome
woman, well educated, and thorough
ly familiar with the requirements Of
society. She is q warm admirer Of
Mrs. Grover Cleveland, especially as o
wife and mother, and warmly ap-
proves the declarations of the former
presidents wife that children belong
exclusively to the home and fireside,
and should never know they are OBJ
jects of public interest, especially
during a political campaign. She il
careful to screen her children in all
ways possible from photographers,
and likewise shuns publicity herself.
She declares children, if promiscu-
ously admired, become self-conscious,
vain and conceited, and lose their
traits of innocence and loneliness.
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desire to become member of the !eg-
islature. He fought the machine and
defeated it.
In 1854 he appeared before the ma
ton. His health troubled him and he
sought new life at Chimney Butte,
Dak., where he grazed cattle and led
the life of q cowboy. He became known
from Medora to Dickinson as the bold
est and bravest cattleman in the re-
gion. He did what the cowmen did.
He lived as they lived. He commanded
the respect even of the desperadoes.
His lungs expanded, his body devel-
oped and he gained reserve of health
that seems to have grown every year
since.
Turns to Literature.
He lost money on his cattle venture,
but he returned to New York strong
man physically, and he made the race
for mayor of that city. He was de-
feated. but ne laughed. He understood
that the corrupt elements of the city
would not tolerate him, but he waited.
Meanwhile he wrote books-books on
hunting, books on western life, books
on eastern cities. His style in liter
allure was vigorous and pleasing. His
books sold well and the magazines
made great demand for his writings.
The public liked his breeziness, his ev-
ident sincerity. his courage, and par
italy appreciated him even before he
became national civil service commits
sioner in 1889.
Once at Washington, he commenced
an enforcement of the law of the most
vigorous kind. He made himself dis
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-09-28

name appears as editor and contrib
utor, like "The History of the Royal
Navy" and the book of which he and
Mr.. Henry Cabot Lodge are joint au-
thors, the total number of his books
is 81.
This would be remarkable in an
author whose sole occupation was
writing. 1t appears still more so in
n man to whom authorship is but an
incident, when we recall that he has
served three terms in the New York
legislature; that he was for five years
a member of the civil service commits
sion, and for three arduous years pres
ident of the board of police commits
sioners in New York city; that he has
been assistant secretary of the navy,
commander of regiment in the war
with Spain, governor of New York and
vice president of the United States.
Furthermore, to appreciate fully
the size of Mr.. Roosevelt's product as
an author We must bear in mind two
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-09-28

warrior is descendant through nine
generations from early Dutch settlers
of New York. Along this ancestral line
there have been infusions of Scotch,
Irish and acknowledgement blood. The
present Theodore Roosevelt is not the
first of his family to hold public office.
In successive generations its members
have been called to official duties in
city, state or nation. The father of the
president at various times held public
office in New York, and invariably re-
fused money compensation for his
services.
OF Delicate Health When q Lad.
Roosevelt was q pale and delicate
boy, the very opposite in health of
what he has since become. Plenty of
outdoor air and physical exercise soon
began to give him a good degree of
bodily vigor, and in his college years
he became skilled in boxing and
wrestling.
In Harvard university he held good
rank as a scholar, giving especial at
tention to natural history and gen.
eral historical subjects. After his
graduation from Harvard in 1850 he
continued his studies at Dresden and
then Travelled in Europe and the east.
Roosevelt Enters Politics.
In 1851 Roosevelt, % years of age,
began his active life in New York. And
with him activity was activity. His
father had instilled into his mind q
contempt for the man. who drifts
through an inactive life of comfortable
self-indulgence, achieving nothing.
He tried a plunge into New York
politics. In his city district was re-
publican machine combination that
showed no disposition to recognize his
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HIS CAREER IN OUTLINE.
A Brief Chronology OF Mr.. Roose-
velt's Life.

A Brief Chronology OF Mr.. R0ose-
velt's Life.
Born-New York, October 81, 1858.
Observation-Disclosures private school.
New York; and Harvard. Graduated
from Harvard, 1880.
His Favorite Studies There-History.
philosophy and government.
Elected to State Legislature-1ss3.
Defeated for Mayor of New York
1886.
Became Noted as New York Reform
Police Commissioner-1s95.
Served as President Harrison's APP
pointee on National Civil Service
Commission-1SS9-1s9
President Mckinley made him as
sistant secretary of navy, 1897.
Organized the rough riders and
fought at their head at San Juan.
Was elected governor of New York.
1898; plurality over Augustus Van
Wyck, $4,000.
Was elected vice president, 1900.
Took the oath of Office as president
of the United States September II.
1900.
Married Miss Edith Kermet Carow
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RoOsEvELT's CABINET.
Mckinley Councillors VIII Stand ~
the New President.

Mckinley Councillors VIII Stand ~
the New President.
1t is almost certain that the cab
met of President Mckinley win 30
the cabinet of President Roosevelt.
He not only requested them to re-
main, but stated to them that they
were his choice for the positions
which they were occupying. All Of
the members including Secretary
Hay complied Internationally. In
the event of Secretary Hays retire
ment (sooner or later) It is altogeth-
er probable that Secretary of War
Root win succeed to the state port
folio. This win make an opening for
at least one new man to take charge
of the war Office. No other changes
under present circumstances are eFsA
remotely likely. 40