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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-27
EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN.

We publish in another column ilst
of appointments for educational speeches.
by many of the foremost men OF our
State. Nothing more significant has ap-
peared in this paper for many a day. II
means a great popular movement LOT
popular education; the Improvement o.
machinery for the Improvement Oh Che
people: the laying of indestructlDle loun-
dations for popular government. we
are, indeed, entering upon great era oil
human. power and human development,
and North Carolina is preparing to do
her work and enjoy her share by training
the minds of her children and equipplng
them for the future. All hail! the day
of the educators! All hail! for it means
greater and a grander North Carolina.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-27
Sermon 81 Words Long.

Houehton, Mich, July 20.-Twice re-
quested to make his sermon brief, Rev.
Henry Gillingham, pastor of the Atlantlc
Methodist Church, of Atlantic, village
near Houghton, preached one of the
shortest sermons, if not the shortest, on
record.
At the close of Sunday School one of
the church officers said to the minister:
"It is very warm. and I hope you will
make the sermon short tonight"
The pastor accepted the wish in good
humor. He went to the evening service
prepared to make a thirty minute dis
course. AS he entered the vestibule of
the church, however, he met another
prominent member of the congregation
who accosted him with:
VERY warm tonight! Hope you will
make it short!"
Mr.. Gillingham changed his mind
about the thirty-minute sermon. During
the opening exercises he prepared an
other which he thought would be suit
ably brief When he arose to announce
his text he remarked that he had twice
been asked to make his sermon short and
he would try to do so. If this should
seem too long he would stop next time
with the text. Then he delivered this
sermon:
Text. Luke; 1924: "And he cried and
said: Father Abraham, have mercy on
me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip
the tip of his finger in water and cool
my tongue, for l am tormented in this
fame"
''Three persons-Abraham, Dives, Laza-
rus. 1t was hot where Dives was. He
did not like it. He wanted to get out.
So do We. Let us pray!"
That was the whole sermon. 1t made
hit.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-27
SENATOR PLATT'S MAXIMS.

Every young man properly wishes to
succeed. Senator Plat, of New York,
has succeeded wonderfully in business
and in politics. What has brought him
success? Here are his maxims by which
he says his life has been governed:
'It is better to be wise than eloquent.
SIT is better to be kind than polite
''It is better to be useful than famous"
"Overconfidence is worse than cowar-
dice" 81
Never make a promise If you can
avoid it; but never fail to keep promise
when it is once made"
LET no man say that you have broken
your word to him."
Honesty is not only the best policy.
but it is the only policy that succeeds
in the long rum"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-27
A PIECE OF HYPOCRISY.

The attitude of the Republicans in
Congress with reference to Cuban reel
procity shows a page of hypocrlcy that
makes a dark page in that partys
record. Mr.. Mckinley and Mr.. Roose-
Welt promised reciprocity to CUBA as
measure of national honor and justice.
After much higgling the House passed
a bill giving a reduction of twenty per
cent on the duty on sugar brought mere
from Cuba. The Democrats, by the AID
of some Republicans, put in a provision
which denied any benefit to the sugar
trust. So amended the bill went to the
Senate, where it was put to sleep inc
Republican Senators would not give any
relief to the starving Cubans without
also giving the sugar trust big SCOOP
TO amend the House bill and give
bonus to the sugar trust would adVer-
tise too plainly that Republican leglsla-
tion was dictated by the sugar trust
And so they refused to give any aid to
Cuba.
It now turns out, according to Repub
lican "insurgent" congressman, that the
anti-sugar trust amendment was accept
ed in the House in order to secure the
defeat of the whole bill in the Senate.
The administration organs have been
telling us that Cuban reciprocity was
defeated because of the attitude of the
beet sugar Senators. Instead of this be-
ing true, administration Senators were
all the time conspiring to kill the bill,
while pretending to favor its passage.
Speaking of the matter, Senator Bruton,
a Republican beet sugar Senator, said:
"It is a discussion between Republic
cans, and not party question as against
the Democrats. I deny that the beet SUI
gar Senators were in the minority. If
any one says anything else he falsities.
II thirty-five Republican Senators had
come to1us and said: We are going to
pass that bill they could have done so.
They never came to us with such de-
claration. On the other hand, they came
and encouraged us to keep up the fight.
There are not fifteen Republican Sena-
tors out of the fifty-four who are in favor
of the present bill at heart. Beet sugar
is a Republican question by authority"
There is evidence, too, that the Rough
Rider President became acquainted with
the situation. While he did not play
double, he acquiesced in the defeat of
the measure instead of making a Rough
Rider charge to secure its passage. In
truth, Mr.. Roosevelt, while proclaiming
platitudes against the trusts and setting
wind mills in motion against them, has
waged no genuine war against them.
The way to war against the trusts is to
take away the tariff bonus they enjoy
and enforce the criminal statutes. He
opposes doing either. Senator Carmack
was not too severe when he said: 1.-THE
President is now engaged in a terrific
lingual, labial, and laryngial assault
upon the trusts And that's the size of
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-27
Among the Railroads.

We learn that the stockholders of the
new company formed for the purpose or
operating an electric railway line be-
tween Winston and High Point Will
hold another meeting at an early date,
at which time arrangements for the pro-
posed line will be completed 1t is rum
ored that some of the same stockhold~
ers will form another company, which
will operate line between Greensboro
and Concord. Winston Salem capitalists
will probably be connected with this
company also.-Winston Sentinel.
The Sanford Express says that there
is talk of extending the Raleigh and
Western Road to Asheboro. 1t now runs
from Colon to Cumnock and large force
of hands is now at work on Western
extension.
William Moncure, formerly Superin-
tendent of the Second Division of the
Seaboard Air Line, with headquarters In
Raleigh, has been appointed Division En-
gineer in charge of the construction of
the extension now being built through
the Manatee country below Tampa, Fla.
Mr.. Moncure is an experienced engineer,
and is we'll known by railroad men all
over the South and stands among the
best.
Mr.. N. D. Maher, General Superin-
tendent of the Seaboard, who has been
quite i'll, is now able to attend to his
duties. He made an official visit to
Atlanta last week.
Charles T. Williams, who was Chief
Clerk to the General Superintendent of
the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf, has
been appointed Chief Clerk to the Di-
vision Superintendent since the CONSOLE
dalton of that road with the Rock Is
land system. Mr.. Williams was former
ly with the operating department of the
Seaboard Air Line at Jacksonville, and
has large number of friends in this
teritory.-Atlanta Constitutions MIR.
Williams is a Raleigh boy. His first
business experience was in the business
office of the State Chronicle then pub
lished by the present editor of the News
and Observer. He is deserving of every
promotion he receives.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-27
Church Vaudeville.
(springfeld Republican,

We are getting on well in the ANAL
gamation of worship and amusement
and it is not in the churches OF least
dogma that the advance is made 1t
was in a Baptist church in Lexington
avenue, New York city, during the Of
fertory-beg pardon. the collection-Miss
I,ouise Truax whist1ed Schumann's
sTrauemerei" and being encored, after
the benediction she whistled 1.-THE Mock
ing Bird" Miss Traux is 10 years old
and has a register of three octaves, and
is destined for a stage career, no doubt.
O, Roger Williams, where is thy ghost?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-27
TIE WAY TO HARMONY.

One of the ablest men in North Caro-
lima, who holds a high public position
and is a leader in the best sense of that
term, in private letter, says:
Il have just read your editorial on
'The Way to Democratic Harmony, and
simply desire to say: Good! Good"
"The Democratic politicians-some of
them-may not agree with you, but the
Democratic people of the State will with
heart and SOUL"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-27

them on the free list That is one sure
method of hitting the trusts and it is
coming to be tremendously popular
proposition"
There is no disagreement among Dem
ocrats upon the necessity of making an
antitrust campaign and taking away
from the trusts the bonus given them by
the protective tariff. SIN that sign we
conquer"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-27
JEFFERSON MEMORIAL ASSOCIA.
TON.

No name is so intimately connected
with everything that made this Repub-
lie as that Of jefferson, except the name
of Washington. At the national capital
no suitable memorial of the greatest
thinker and wisest statesman has been
erected, though every wise statute for
half a century bears him impress.
On the occasion of the one hundredth
and fifty-ninth birthday anniversary,
Thomas jefferson Memorial Association
of the United States was organized in
Washington city, of which Mr.. Andrew
A. Lipscomb, of Virginia, was chosen
president and w. S. Mexican, of New
Jersey, was made secretary. Referring
to the plans of the Association it's incor-
porators say:
zone important question discussed at
the initial meeting of the Association
was that of raising money to erect the
proposed memorial 1t was unanimous
ly agreed that the Association would de-
pend absolutely upon the people, whom
Jefferson loved SO well, for willing and
liberal response when asked to contrib
ute as best they could; that the memoir
ial should be a tribute of the masses, of
the young and old, and that no appeal
should be made to Congress for dol
lar, as has been too frequently the case
in the matter of the erection Of memorials
to others. 1t was further understood and
agreed that the Association should be
nom partisan-members of all political
parties to be appealed to alike.
"Just what form this proposed memoir
ial to the author of the Declaration of
Independence will take and the probable
cost cannot yet be determined. But this
will in large degree depend upon how
prompt and liberal the people are when
formally called upon to contribute. Sug-
gestions in this matter will be accept
able and receive due consideration.
This can be depended upon: The
tribute will be both in design and cost
fully in keeping with the magnificent
character of the man and of the import
ance of the document he wrote, declaring
to the world in unmistakable tones
THAT all men are created equal; that
they are endowed by their Creator with
certain inalienable rights; that among
of happiness; that to secure these rights
governments are instituted among men,
deriving their just powers from the con-
sent of the governed
The general affairs of the Association
will be conducted by a Board of Gov
errors, composed of one from each of the
thirteen original States, one from the
District of Columbia, and one represent
ing the territories. The following con-
stitute the Board of Governors:
Connecticut: Samuel L. Bronson, New
Haven.
Delaware: L. Irving Handy, Whining
ton.
Georgia: Clark Howell. Jr., Atlanta
Maryland: Edwin Warfield, Balti-
more.
Massachusetts,: Josiah Quincy, Bos-
ton.
New Hampshire: Horace S. Cum
mings, Washington, d. C.
New Jersey: Philip p. Baker, Vine
land.
North Carolina: Josephus Daniels
Raleigh.
New York: Edwin NJ. Shepard, Brook
Ign.
Pennsylvania: John w. Wannamaker
Philadelphia.
Rhode Island:
South Carolina: F. w. Wagner, Char
lesion.
Virginia: Andrew A. Lipscomb
Washington, d. c.
District of Columbia: Edward j. Stell
wagon, washington, ID. c.
Territories: Mark A. Smith, Arizona
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-27
A MORNING TONIC.

"Thou must be true myself.
If thou the truth wouldst teach;
Thy soul must overflow, If thou
Another's soul wouldst reach;
1t needs the overflow of hearts
To give the life full speech.
Think truly, and thy thoughts
Shall the worlds famine feed;
Speak truly, and each word Of thine
Shall be fruitful seed;
Live truly, and thy life shall be
A great and noble creed"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-27

Swearing at or to or over telephone
has been deemed by some people to be
excusable. Judge Sidener, of st. Louis,
has fined man for swearing into tel
ephone. He says: Profanity has no
sufficient provocation. 1t is always ag-
gressive, never protective, and is there
fore never excusable by the plea Of self
defense" This Judge would not prob
ably ioin the new Cussing party.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-27

The Democrats have not elected a
President since the War Between the
States, unless in the preceding two years
they had elected a majority of the House.
That is why the Democrats will try so
hard to carry the House. North Carolina
will give a gain of two.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-27

Tom and Jeter both spoke in Haywood
last week. They forgot to tell the voters
that Jeter. Jim and Spencer voted that
no Filipino should have a right to vote
little bit until he has paid SIS poll tax
But they ranted about the 81 poll tax
imposed in North Carolina.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-27
CONVENTION DATES.

First district, Congressional, July 30th,
Plymouth.
Sixth District, Congressional, Fayette-
vile, August Goth.
Eighth District, Confessional. Wilkes
boro, July 30th.
Tenth District. Congressional, Hen
Jacksonville, August 7th.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-27

The Asheville Gazette calls him "Col."
Baylus Cade. That sounds better than
Decayed Baylus, but it will not coin any
more votes.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-27

Roosevelt wants to kill the trusts by
ing drowned in corn liquor would be to
a Rhamkatte moonshiner.-
Rooster.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-27

Jeter, Jim, Tom and Baylus, passed
resolutions denouncing Simmons and
other demagogues." That was a severe
denunciation they administered to them
selves.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-27

Somebody asked what county claimed
TMr. Cassada. who was appointed clerk
by Judge Adams. What an unnecessary
question! Madison, of course.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-27

Mr.. N. d. Maher, General Superin-
tendent of the Seaboard, who has been
quite i'll, is now able to attend to his
duties. He made an official visit to
Atlanta last week.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-03-21
RAILROAD NOTES.

At the meeting of the stockholders
of the Penn. r. r. yesterday the
appropriation for pensions was in
creased from $3.50, 900 to $500, 900. And
it was announced that all obstacles
having been removed the work Of
tunneling the North River would now
be started
The annual reports Of the Central
r. r., of N. J. gives gross receipts
at ST, 1S9, SS4, against 81, 1853 S4s for
1900. The dividends paid to stock.
holders for 1901 amounted to $l,570,
516, and the surplus is ST, 652, 967. The
gross surplus, So. 1923. 1888, is equal
to ID per cent. of the stock.
A new headlight is soon to be given
trial ON the Lackawanna railroad
between Washington and Scranton.
That section Of the road has been
selected on account of the mountains.
1t is an exceedingly powerful head
light which not only perfectly illum-
mates the track with an intensely
brilliant shaft Of light for distance
Of mile, but it also embraces the
striking and novel features of a per.
pendicular beam of light reaching
over 700 feet high, which can be seer
ten miles away.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-03-21
Great Success Of the Prudential.

The career of The Prudential Insur-
ance Company of America has been a
marvellous. one in many respects. 1t is
the youngest amongst the large
American life companies, but it has
advanced with such rapid strides
that it is now one of the leading COM
panies IN the extent of its operations
and in the amount of surplus it has
on hand over and above its liabilities,
thus justifying the we'll known phrase
that it has the strength of Gibral-
ter. =
During the past year The Pruden-
tial wrote more new business than it
ever did before in any one year, and
more than was eyer written by any
other company of the same age
Great increases are also shown in the
other branches of the business. It's
assets are now over $48. 600, 600. and
it's policies in force are nearly four
and ,ne-half millions
| What so large an increase means,
not only TO the management, but also
to the policy holders, and even to
the nation at large. will be apparent
from the fact that life insurance is
now becoming the leading form of in
vestment for rich and poor. For the
rich man, life insurance is a great
convenience; 1t increases his credit it
secures him against adventurous
speculation, For the poor man, it is
necessity; the life insurance policy
is often the only asset viii ii men
leave behind them at death. Write to
the Home Office of The Company,
Newark, N. j., for information con-
corning its policies, which furnish
guaranteed protection to the family
as we'll as dividends to the policy
holder.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-03-21
SPORTS AND PAsTIMEs.

Isaac B. Potter who made the League
Of American WheeImen success
when its president and whose place in
the position has not been filed since
his defeat, has accepted the position
of chief consul of the American Motor
League. The League is to be CON
graduated npon securing the services
OF SO capable q person and one SO
familiar with matters relative to
league Legislation. as Mr. Potter.
There is reason to believe that the
Constitution will De placed in COM
mission the coming season. The five
New York Yacht Club members who
built the yacht are not satisfied that
she is inferior to the Columbia, either
in speed or weather qualities, but,
on the contrary, hope in good time to
demonstrate that she is the best of the
cutters for cup defense ever turned
out by the Herreshoffs.
The schedule for Cresceus the great
trotter follows; Aug. 81, indianapolis
Aug. SS, Dayton, Ohio; Sept. A, AL
bany, b. r.; Sept. II, Syracuse, N. Y.
Sept. 20, Philadelphia; Oct. and 9,
open; Oct. l6, Memphis, Tenn,
Oct 30, Birmingham, Ala. Oct. 80,
Atlanta, Ga. Nov. 6, Montgomery,
Ala. Nov.1S, Mobile, Ala. Nov. ~,
Havana, Cuba. At all these places
Cresceus will be paced by the runner,
Mike the Tramp. Thus far, Mr.. Ket.
cham has been absolutely unable tc
secure race.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-03-21
COMMUNICATED.

Morristown. N. j., March 20. 0s.
Editor Morris County Chronicle,
Dear Sir:
May I ask You to add to your kind
ness in publishing last weeks An
nouncement" relative to the Young
Mems Christian Associations En-
dowment Fund.-" by permitting us
to add two or three explanatory para
graphs.
| The Fund at present is slender
one amounting to three hundred and
seventy-two dollars. To raise the
amount to five hundred dollars the
Ladies Auxiliary have in contem-
plation an entertainment to be given
after Easter, That they will meet
with success there will be few to
question.
But. entirely aside from, and indie
pendent of that coming effort, is the
movement to secure, by the first Of
May next, the conditional gift of one
thousand dollars, which is only to be
had il the Association, through its
committee. obtains, by that time, valid
pledges to the amount Of another one
thousand dollars.
Success in the double movement
of the Auxiliary and of the Commit
tee will mean for the Association its
first assured annual income Of one
hundred dollars, sum which will
be expended for the benefit, in the
best sense, of young men.
Towards the necessary ten hundred
dollars solicited by the Committee
for the Association, we have valid
pledges. amounting to three hundred
and twenty-five dollars.
This leaves six hundred and seventy
five dollars to be secured in the COM
ing five weeks.
After twenty eight years Of patient,
faithful, effort for young men, the
Association comes confidently before
the community, asking that the En-
dowment Fund receive this modest
impetus. May we not hope that the
mails will promptly bring us the
|needed sum?
For the Morristown Young Mems
Christian Association Endowment
Fund COMMITTEES.
Frederick Wooster Owen,
March 9lst, 1909. Chairman.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-03-21
[. Savored Of a Blizzard.

With all the signs right from the
north and snow flying in fine crystals
whirled about by d seventy-mile gale,
the indications were first-class on Wed
nesday afternoon for genuine western
blizzard. The high winds unroofed a
number Of houses about town, blew
down several large trees and caused q
general feeling of anxiety concerning
fires. The wind abated toward daylight
on Thursday morning and there was
little snow much to the relief of every.
body.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-03-21
BASEBALL PROSPECTS.
Excellent Schedule for the Morris
town School Team, Completed.


The base ball season of 1902 will
soon be in full blast although the
failure Of the Legislature to make an
appropriation for a first class team at
the New Jersey State Hospital will
somewhat dampen the ardor Of the
fans who have enjoyed good ball
during the past five summers at the
nominal expense of stage or cab hire
1t is probable that a team will be
organized among the attendants and
employees together with two or three
of last years players who are still
working at the institution.
The Morristown School, alway S
prompt in arranging schedule Of
any kind, will open the season Satur-
day, April 49, Up to the present
time, it is almost impossible to judge
the strength Of the team as little out
door practice has been done. The
schedule follows:
Sat. Apr. 12-St. George Shall, M town
Tues, Apr. l5-Trinty School, M town
Thurs. Apr. IT. Xavier Prep, I'M town
Sat Apr. 49, Dewitt Clinton High,
We'd, Apr. Wilson Lyon, M'town
Sat, Apr. &C. Rutgers Prep, = N. Br'ls
Wed. Apr. 30 -NewarkAc., Orange oval
Sat May Horace Mann, New York
We'd, May Trinity, Col. Oval
Sat, May To- Polly Prep" M'town
Wed. !, May 14-Newark Acad. M town
Sat- May17--R Rutgers Prep, = M'town
We'd, May 21-MontcIairMil Ac., M't'r
Sat, May 81 Horace Mann, M'town
Fri, May BON S. Alumni. Mt'own
We'd June 4-Montclair High, Mt'own
Sat- June7 Westerleigh COL, Inst,
M'town
Saturday games at home begin at 2. 45
m.
Other Home games at pm.
The managers of the Field Club are
busy arranging schedule which
will be published as soon as complete
ed The toam does not intend to enter
the League this summer owing to the
disastrous result of last season when
not game was captured by the local
nine.
At meeting of the High School
players held yesterday afternoon a
constitution was adopted and the
officers are to be elected next week.
The nine is booking games as fast
as possible which will be played on
Randolph's Field.
The Academy team has been sup
piled with new suits, pearl gray, in
color and will open the season in a
few weeks. FL. Q. Bates, Jr., prom
Using young player, recently Of the
Hill School, has been elected captain
and will do the twirling for the team.
With the first spell Of warm weather
and everything ready, the players
will timber up for the seasons work.