The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-11-10
DIR. JENKINS FAREWELL
TO THE ANANIAS CLUB.
A Touching Tribute to Members When Dr.
jenkins Withdraws and is Succeeded
by DR.. Olds as President

jenkins Withdraws and is Succeeded
by Dr.. Olds as President
! The Ananias' Club met yesterday, the
| immediate object of the meeting being
the delivery of the farewell address of
| the honored President of the order, DR..
John Wilbur jenkins.
| Incidentally DR.. Jenkins rendered his
resignation as president of the club, and
| DIR. Frederick Ananias Olds was elected
| to succeed him. Dr.. Pinkney Ennis was
! a close competitor for the Presidential
| honor, but DR.. Olds was given the po-
sition of trust in recognition of valiant
and faithful service
| The mirthful proceedings took much
| time. The election of members resulted
| in the comforting of degrees upon Mr.
r. NJ Philips and Mr.. E. A Womble, who
| were admitted to the mysteries of the
| Ananias.
| The farewell address of President John
| Wilbur Jenkins was spread upon the
minutes and several thousand copies or
| dered printed. DR.. Jenkins said among
other things:
| "If / keep out of Jail for any great
| length of time. or am fortunae enough
| to be pardoned, hope to come to see you
| and borrow your pencils and umbrellas,
and take up your time.
!, ITO persons in our profession, where
| the days are hours of leisure and the
! nights are dreams Of peace. a profession
/ in which dividends come to us in the
/ golden streams of wealth, and we have
! thrust upon us political reward in the
| shape Of offices for politicians We have
spent years in making, the principal
| thing we must guard against is not to be
puffed up and proud in prosperity, and
not to look down upon the bankers and
manufacturers and office holders, who
! may be deserving in spite of their i'll
luck and poverty. l want to plead with
| you to be kind to them and do not re-
| buff them.
| 1.-The Peg the Rag, the Bone and
! the Hank of Hair are all dear to me.
shall not soon forget General Martin,
| Dr.. Valise Briggs and DR.. Tobacco Pence.
I shall picture in memory DR.. Eldridge
editing the story Of the burning of the
| Washington Monument, and Dr. Britton
chasing the hot story of how Miss Sallie
| Jones has gone to Smithville.' Count
! Wombellos touching devotion to the
| dramatic profession, and his never fail
ing attendance upon the services at the
| Academy of Music shall not be forgotten.
| The loving fellowship and Damon and
| Pythias devotion of Mr.. Josephus Dan
iels and Mr.. r. NJ. Furman will long re-
main precious possession. The high
| tributes paid each other by the Post and
| the News and Observer are in the scrap
book Of my recollection. While the
Biblical Recorder is not in the secular
field, as the organ OF the State Fair
it has done the people great service,
and l think this should be men
toned. as we'll as it's unfailing defense
of the State University. The non-par-
tisan attitude of DR.. Rivers newspaper,
the Causasian. also deserves common
dation. But we must deplore the sensa-
tional yellow journalism that has crept
into this field in the shape Of these thrill
ling sheets, the Agricultural Department
Bulletin and the monthly Weather Re-
port. Let us hope that DR.. Bruner and
Dr. Won Hermann will tone them down
q little in the future and make them a
little less sensational. / want to call
the attention of Colonel Olds to a GER
tain lack of professional courtesy that l
am sure he will remedy. when / merely
mention that he has been guilty at times
of placing items in the Charlotte OBJ
server that have not before been print
ed in the Raleigh papers. Such news is
not official, and such practices are to be
condemned
Il hope that DR.. Pinckney Ennis will
soon tell of his long chase after the
Ten Tribes of Israel and find the best
tribe he displaced some time ago. l
here and now resent the report that
Dr. Clarence II. Poe's advocacy of a
State Reformatory for Young Criminals
was in no sense an application for adj
mission to that institution, as he
has always managed to escape convic-
ton, being more fortunate than myself
Dr. Whitaker's assertion that the Post
has the smallest daily circulation in
North Carolina is an excess of modesty,
and DR.. Fulghums earnest effort to keep
down advertising rates are in the in
terest of the community. DR.. Iveys
long battle for the retention of the name
of 'Ananias' as applied to this club, and
his ultimate success are causes of con-
graduation.
II cannot close this little farewell ad-
dress without expressing the hope that
in the years to come when compulsory
Carolina, and dogs are taxed for the
benefit Of the schools that the Justly
celebrated maxims of Dr. Branson. as set
forth in his Almanac, may adorn the
walls of every school room in the land,
and lead the children Of the coming gen
Grafton into the paths of patriotism and
truth