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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-26

and progress of the old commonwealth.
No people were ever noble who did not
believe in themselves, who did not honor
their brave men, who did not love the
land that gave them birth. The truest
North Carolina spirit is asserting itself
when writings defame her." and is de-
handing that, with all development and
growth, the leaders must not despise the
convictions and the faith that have made
this a State of stalwart men and faithful
omen. This North Carolina spirit will
tolerate no suppression of free speech, and
it will not be silent when license is
called liberty, incendiarism is termed
breadth, and materialsm undermines the
moral and political and religious welfare
and hope of the State.
These are the six things for which the
News and Observer is most thankful this
glad Thanksgiving Day. 1t hopes to live
long to battle for the same principles 1t
has stood for in the past. 1t hopes to
do so with more ability and more success
than in the past.
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The Thompson 0rphanage.

The Episcopalians of the diocese Oh
North Carolina, the Eastern DIOCESE anu
the Missionary Jurisdiction Oh <Asne' nv
comprising the Episcopal cnurch in INC
State, care for their orphaned chlioreil
at the Thompson Orphanage III Ine ouV-
skirts of the city of Charlotte blshop
Joseph BIount Cheshire is ex-offclo chair-
man of the Board of Trustees. me ln Us,
tuition is incorporated and owns ANU my
acres of land, WITH the necessary pulluI nss
valued at something like $4o'ooo Vi P'V'
600.
The ornbanape was started under the
rectorship of B. S. Bronson, the preoeceS-
sor of Bishop Cheshire as Rector VI ~
Peters church, Charlotte. bes,ue' i'
land, it is accommodating an emu NY -
fund, and has just realized from ies"O'
of Bishop Lyman the residue OF sonleViiins :
over $4,000, this being the proeeeuS u
lands in western North Carolllla' MN
were devised to be sold and the he' pro-
ceeds after paying debts ana luneioi ~,
penses, to be divided equally Detmeei 60 e
orphanage and the Church Oh Cho
Shepherd in Raleigh.
About sixty-five orphans are no" oes
cared for, under the direction OF inc eupe
intendent, Rev. Walter J. Smith, ass,s,eu
by the matron. Miss Capehart.
rem are not only taught the usual 49, f.,
branches of education, but some u
are employed in farming opera.lon9 nor
other industrial pursuits. the Nie'sei
of Hope, a paper edited by tne 80
tendent and printed at the oipN'ie
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The Friends 0rphanage.

The Friends Orphanage was established
in 1892, eleven years ago, and is located
on a farm about one and half miles
south of High Point. 1t is under the man
agement of the North Carolina Yearly
Meeting. A special committee has charge
of the orphanage, with a superintendent
and matron in the Home.
The children are taught to do such
work as will be useful to them in after
life. The boys work a part Of the time
or the farm and are in school a part
of their time. The religious and moral
training of the children is looked after
very closely.
The Home is provided for by the Yearly
Meeting and voluntary contributions by
individuals. There are now about twenty
children in the institution. Whenever
suitable homes can be found the orphans
are placed IN them.
This Home is doing a notable work to1
orphaned little ones, and is one of the
landmarks established in that f1ourlshlng
portion of North Carolina by the Friends
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A Thanksgiving Feast.

We two are the last, my daughter!
To set the table for two
Whence we had plates for twenty,
Is lonesome thing to do.
But my boys and girls are scattered
To the east and west atar,
And one dearer than even the children
Has passed through the gates ajar.
I'm wanting my BARNS for thanksgiving!
l thought last night as l lay
Awake in my bed and watching
For the breaking of the day,
How my heart would leap in gladness
Ii a letter should come this morn
To say that they could not leave US
To keep the feast forlorn.
Samuel, my son, in Dakota,
Is a rich man, so l hear,
Save the wanting of him near;
And he'll never let want approach us,
While Jack in San Francisco,
And Edward over the sea,
And only little Jessie
Is biding at home with me
Oh! the happy time for a mother
Is when her BARNS are small
And into the nursery beds at night
She tucks her darlings all
When the wee ones are about Their,
With gleeful noise and cry,
And she bushes the tumult with a smile
Her brood beneath her eye.
But a mother must bear her burden
When her babes are bearded men;
On change or in the army,
Or scratching with a pen;
In some bankers dusty Office
AS Martin is, no doubt
mother must bear her burden
And learn to do without.
know the scripture teaching,
To halt and help the blind,
And the homesick and the desolate
| At the festal hour in mind.
| Or the fat and sweet a portion
| I'll send to the poor mans door,
But I'm wearying for my children
To sit at my board once more.
| I tell you, Jessie, my darling,
| This living for money and peif,
1t takes the heart from life, dear,
| 1t robs a man Of himself.
This old bleak hillside hamlet,
| That sends It's boys away,
Has right to claim them back, dear,
On this Thanksgiving Day.
Shame on my foolish frettings!
Here are letters, perfect sheaf!
| Open them quickly, dearest;
| All, me! IT'S beyond belief.
BY ship and by train they are hasting
Rushing along on the way,
Tell the neighbors that all my children
Will ho hera THANKSGIVING Day.
MARGARET SANGSTER.
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Spirit of the Press.
THOUGH NOT ALL ARE ALWAYS
GRADUATES, NORTH CAROLYN
IANS CAN DETECT A SHAM. !

Wadesboro Messenger and Intelligencer.
In recent years brood Of fiedglings
have been incubated from some of the
schools of North Carolina who conceive
that their mission on earth is to belittle
and ridicule their native State. These
fellows probably think that in calling at
tention to the real or supposed short
comings of others they thereby prove
themselves to be possessed of superior
intelligence, but if they only knew the es7
timation in which they are held by per-
sons whose opinions are worth anything
they would probably crawl IN hole and
pull the hole in after them.
One of the charges these smart Alexis
delight to bring against the State is that
people are not allowed to think here.
This simply means if the ''wart painters
had sense enough to see it, that North
Carolinians, while not all college grad
yates, are yet possessors OF SUFFICIENT IN
telligence to detect sham when they
meet it in the road. and therefore are not
to be carried off their feet by every wind
that blows, even if the breeze Is raised by
the sophomore eloquence of dozen or
so swelled heads just out of school
Another thing that causes the "wart
painters pain is the fact, as they claim,
that North Carohnians are in sthe habit
of Dragging on themselves too much, 1t
is true that at times public speakers and
writers remind us of our past honorable
history, but we do not recall that to do
this has. heretofore been considered a
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At Nazareth.

The Roman Catholic Orphanage al
Nazareth some two miles west of Raj
eigh, was established about four years age
in a very small way, with four boys to
care for. 1t has made notable increase
from year to year until now there are
about forty-fiv boys under charge OF
Father Thos. F. Price. the superintendent
Father Irwin, Father O'Brien and the
Sisters of Mercy.
Besides the orphanage building there
are two substantial, modern brick build
ings, recently completed the Church OF
the Holy Name of Jesus and the priest
house.
There is an excellent printing establish
ment at the orphanage, where Truth,
the Catholic paper, and 'The Orphan
Boy" are published. "Truth" is edited
by Father Price, and the boys fold and
mail it. and also help about the work OF
typesetting and printing, which is mostly
done by Patrick Cosgrove. who used to
be a pupil of the orphanage. In addition
to helping in the printing establishment
the bows also work in the laundry at the
place, do some general housework, and
help to raise in the garden sufficient
vegetables for the table.
The pupils are taught typewriting
stenography, drawing, music, elocution
rhetoric, literature and mathematics. be
sides something of farming and other in
dustrial pursuits.
In addition to the church ands priest
house, colored school house was also also
completed about year and half ago.
Another school room will be ready in few
days. The orphanage owns some 800 acres
of land surrounding it. and altogether the
plant is very valuable one. The work
done is admirable, and it is very worthy
charity. 1t is not necessary for an orphan
boy to be of Catholic parentage IN order
to be admitted to this orphanage.
1t is supported largely by voluntary
contributions, and Thanksgiving dona
lions of money, clothing or food will be
gratefully received
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Odd Fellows Orphan Home.

The Odd Fellows Orphan Home was
opened in 1892 by the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows of the State. 1t is located
at Goldsboro, and has about twenty acres
of ground, upon which are buildings cost
ing about SIS, 900 The Home Is IN charge
of Superintendent T. F. Brinson.
It is supported wholly by the Odd Eel
lows of the State. and only children OF
Odd Fellows are cared for. The manage
ment does not solicit any outside contrl-
button whatever. The maintaining funds
are derived from a small assessment upon
every Odd Fellow in North Carolina, and
the institution is an honor to the order.
The entire value of the property is esti-
mated at $25. 600.
There are now about fifty boys and
girls in the Home. under the watchful eye
Of Superintendent Brinson. These pupils
attend the Goldsboro graded schools by
special arrangement. At the Home they
are taught farming, music and general
homework. There is never any sickness
of any consequence among the children,
and there has been only one death since
the institution opened, and IN that case
the child was Frustrated with pneumonia
when it arrived at the Home. There has
not been a single death from illness con-
tracted at the place.
The moral tone at this institution is
splendid At recent revival meeting
thirty-one out of the fifty pupils Joined
the church.
At the last meeting of the Grand Lodge
of Odd Fellows it was decided to open
very soon Home for the care of aged
and infirm Odd Fellows and their wives,
and now each wear q certain sum Is set
apart for this purpose, and it is expected
that work on the buildings will be COM
menced within two years.
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NOTICE OF SALE.
J. FL. FLEMING,
Commissioner.

Under and by virtue of Judgment OF
the Superior Court of Wake County rem
dered at October Term. 1868. the under
signed will expose to public sale on the
premises to the highest bidder, on
MONDAY, THE 21sT DAY OF DECEM-
Der, 1908.
at - o'clock NJ, that certain lot or parcel
of land in the City of Raleigh situate at
the Northeast corner of the intersection
of Wilmington and Edenton Streets,
fronting $50 feet more or less on Whining
ton Street and 1O5 feet. more or less. on
Edenton Street, and known as the Skin
ner residence" The lot will be offered for
sale first in two separate lots, and lmme-
diately thereafter as one lot
Terms of Sale: CASH. Inquiry may be
made of either of the undersigned for
particulars.
Although the sale is for cash, the pur-
chaser can have Indulgence as to the
greater part of the purchase money.
c. M. BUSBEE,
f. H. BUSBEE.
Commissioners.
November IA. 1908. IDS
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NOTICE OF SALE.

BY authority of the last will and tesla
ment of Jefferson Smith, late OF wake
County, N. c., I will, on Monday, the
14th day of December, 1903, at II o'cocK
NJ, at the Court House door OF Wake
County, Raleigh, N. c., sell to the hlgn.
est bidder for cash, that certain tract u
land being part of the home piace =.
the said jefferson Smith, which begins at
an old stump on the road, corner OF same,
thence NJ 10 E. 1880 chains to pine o. q
said road, J. S. Johns corner; tnenoe -
So degrees E. IS chains to maple ~
branch, ]. S. Johns corner; tnence
S4K degrees E. chains 10
stump, r. Pennys corner in J. .onns
line; thence S. 21h degrees w. 70 chains " "
a stake. r, Penny's corner: tnence D. %
degrees E.. 11.76 chains to seahe' ~
Penny's corner: thence N. 212 degrees f.
q. liz chains to a stake, r. Penny 5 corner
in J S. Johns line: thence >. ooA oe-
grees e, 1857 chains to STONE Z.
Smiths corner in J. s. johns hne'
thence 8. 2b degrees w. 1874 cnains TO
q rod oalx on the branch; thence up the
r,oonders of said branch 1886 chains to
,,oY,1or charles Johnson's corner; thence
6 DEGREES w. 1890 chains to small
nine and stone, D. T. Bryan's corner;
tbanca N. s51k degrees w. 14.79 chains to
the colored school property; thence N. 2
degrees w. 317 chains to stake; thence
N 85h degrees w. 3.17 chains to stake
in same line: thence N. 2 degrees w.
1613 chains to dogwood, same corner;
thence N. 551s degrees w. 29.5O ch9ins
to the beginning, containing 40 LIS acres
D. H. BRYAN AAA.a
Executor J. Sn
Garner, N. C.
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NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF CO
PARTNERSHIP

Notice is hereby given that the copart-
nership firm of Bilfinger-Page Construc-
ton Company, composed of c. w Bilfn-
ger, c. f. Hallock, j. E. Kapoy, w. C.
Douglass, II. A. Page, d. r. Page, has
been dissolved by mutual consent. Ali
persons indebted to said copartnership
will make payment to Frank Page, Bis
coe, N. c., who is alone authorized as
agent of said copartnership to receive and
receipt for money or other things of value
due said copartnership. ALI accounts
against said firm may be presented to said
Frank Page, Agent, who will pay the
same. c. w. Bilfinger, ]. E. Hanoy, c.
F. Hallock, w. c. Douglass, H. A. Page,
j. r. Page, Frank Page, composing the
firm This November 26th, 1903.
11-26-1w-4wks.
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HOMES OF ORPHANED CHILDREN
What is Being Done by Presbyterians, Eplscopalians
Catholics, Friends and Odd Fellows.

serves to teach the boys something OF the
trade of printing.
The orphanage is largely supported by
voluntary contributions and the earnings
of guilds and societies of ladies in different
parishes of the State. In the Episcopal
churches of this city and other parts of the
diocese of North Carolina the offerings on
Thanksgiving day are appropriated to this
orphanage.
While the institution is poor, its work
has steadily increased, and about twice as
many orphans are now cared for as were
sheltered ten years ago.
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WAITING FOR HIS TRANSLATION.

WAITING FOR HIS TRANSLATION.
Charleston News and Courier.
The News and Courier has not so far
discussed the Bassett business, because
it has been waiting for his translation, and
would do nothing to stay his departure
from the South. We really do
thinks that the negro is equal to the
white man or not, nor whether he regards
Booker Washington as the greatest man
the South has produced in the last hun
dred years or not. ALI that we ask Is
that he shall not be accepted as a repre-
sentative Of the cleanest and best and
highest Southern sentiment, and that
while he is at perfect liberty to teach
the doctrine of race elevation, race equali-
ty, and miscegenation, he shall not be per-
mitted to teach his views in any Southern
institution, unless that institution be a
college, or a university, or a school set
apart particularly for the education of
negroes. ON objection is made to Book
er washington because he is trying to
make the negro equal with the white man
by bringing him up to the white man's
level, and is teaching this method Of
elevating the negro in a negro school,
but objection is made, and ought to be
made, to the teaching of race equality
by professor in white mans college.
That is all. Prof. Bassett is welcome TO
his views upon this subject. We trust
that his success in his new field of labor
will be equal to the disappointment his
friends have felt in his racial detection.
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May Go to Baltimore.
Wilson News.)

We are called upon to say that in all
probability another son of North Carolina
will lend the wealth of his opulent mind
to enrich the literary vaults OF another
State, for the rare and brilliant attain
ments and splendid intellectual endow-
ments of the really gifted J. J. Douglas,
the eloquent pastor of the Baptist church
in this place, have been recognized by a
large and wealthy church in Baltimore,
and the probability is he will leave us for
that more enlarged and extensive field of
labor.
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CHIEF CONCERN OF THIS AGE IS
CONCERN FOR MAN.

To the Editor: 1 feel thankful above
all things, that I live in time perVaded
by divinely critical spirit. I rejoice that
immemorial prescription and the deliver
ances of ancient leaders carry with them
the authority of whatever good sense
they may contain, and no more. l rejoice
in the conviction that the chief concern
OF this age is a concern for man. ! re-
joice that Christianity itself IS coming to
us with such fresh interpretations as to
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-26

disarm old forms of unbelief l rejoice in
the passion for civic righteousness now
abroad in the land. All hail to the new
education, to the tender pity of awakened
brotherhood voiced in socialism, to the
thronging activities sacred and secular
which prophesy the redemption of man
from the ascendency of the animal to the
sovereignty of the flial spirit-all hail,
JOSEPH H. FOY, D. D., LII. D.
st. Louis, Mo-, November "a.
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State Chairman Rollins does not seem
to be getting any plums. The President
has turned down his recommendation OF
R. H. Mcneil for a $4,000 job IN the
Post Office Department, and will appoint
Mrs. Shipp as postmaster at Lincolnton,
though Mr.. Rollins insists upon the re-
tention of Postmaster Barclay. Son-ln-
law Rollins should call upon father-in-
law Jeter for the loan of his rabbit loot
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American soldiers, returning from the
Philippines, are asking the courts of
Kansas to annul their marriages with
Filipeno women, celebrated during their
stay in Our Eastern Colonies. Lieut.. Bur-
bank has brought the first sut. He
wants TO marry Miss Stone. The War
Department threatened to disIaiss him
from the service if he married her be-
cause he has a Filipeno wife. The father
of Miss Stone is the attorney OF Lieut..
Burbank in his divorce proceedings. The
Filipeno wife will be kicked overheard
without redress, The whole Phi ippines
business has brought thit country trouble
and nothing but trouble.
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A MORNING TONIC,
(Channing.)

God be thanked for good books. They
are the voices of the distant and the
dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual
life of the past ages. In the best booLs
great men talk to us, give us their most
precious thoughts. and pour their souls
into ours.
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crime. Indeed, we have always heard
that an individual or people who do not
have pretty good opinion of themselves
need. not expect others to think much Of
them.
But after all it is waste of good white
paper to answer the calumnies of these
fellows. The most of them are young
sters yet. and those who have any sense
will see things in different light when
they are little more experienced. AS
for those who have no sense, it does not
matter anyway.
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The more that is known of Judge Par
ker. the more he is to be admired. He
refused deadhead railroad tickets upon his
trip to Atlanta, insisting upon paying 1or
his ticket. Don't tell Roosevelt. He never
pays as long as the railroad will pay the
freight.
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What we Have to
Be Thankful For.

FOR PRIVILEGE OF LIVING IN OLD
NORTH STATE.
To the Editor: For the privilege of
living in the grand Old North State.
J. H. CLEWELL,
President Salem Female College.
Salem Academy and College, Nov. 20.
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They say that Senators Morgan and Car
mack are persona non grata at the White
House. If they'd black up and get a letter
from Booker or Bassett perhaps they
could get in-Rhamkatte Rooster.
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LAND FOR SALE.

On Monday, December the 18th, 1908, l
will sell by auction for cash on the premi-
ses, the valuable tract of land belonging to,
the estates of the late J. A. and Mary Hon
eycutt, deceased, situated in Barton's Greek
Township, Wake County, about ten miles
north of Raleigh, adjoining the lands of E.
S. Dunn, J. w. Reddish, Mrs. Walter Hud-
son and others, containing about 400 acres.
This land will be sold in three lots, two
of which lots will contains 100 acres each
and the third lot 200 acres.
Each division contains a dwelling and
out houses on it, also valuable woodland
and tenable land, and is well watered with
springs, wells and brooks, and Fall Creek
runs through the land.
The 200 acre tract contains the residence
Of the late j. A. and Mary Honeycutt,
FIVE room house, plastered and painted, with
all necessary out houses and is pleasantly
situated on a public road. The 200 acre
tract will also be offered for sale in 1OO
acre tracts and if the sum bid in the sep
arate tracts is more than the amount bid
on the 200 acre tract, the larger sum bid
will be recommended for confirmation.
This sale is made for partition under a
decree of Superior Court of Wake County
In case of It. L. Honeycutt et ais e1. parte.
A plot and description of the Land can be
seen in my Office, 25 Pullen Building, Raj
eigh, N. c.. after the 10th OF November,
A'0'' J. 81. FLEMING,
Commissioner.
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THE WAY TO SHOW 1T.

In sermon Sunday in the Catholic
church, Father Griffin said that at the
theatre on the previous night, so he had
been informed, men and women
had been moved to tears because OF the
imaginary woes of the orphans
on the stage, while some of these same
"weepers'' passed by real needy or
phans without being moved to give as
much as the price of a theatre ticket to
their support and education. That was
the most effective presentation of our
duty to the orphans that has been made
this year.
There are nine orphanages in North
Carolina-two of them IN Raleigh. NO
North Carolinian ought to be so wanting
in his duty to these children as to sit down
to a good dinner without first sending
money or something else that will give
cheer and gladness to the hearts of some
orphans today.
Frank L. Stanton, the poet of the heart,
breaches the best sermon in two short
verses that will be heard in any pulpit to-
day. We commend it to every reader of
this paper:
Wen de lil' chillun cry
Ez de col win wailin by,
Does you clothe um-does you feed UNI
tell me dat?
Eff you don't, yo' chance is slim
Wen vo,, roach de SIGHT OF. Him
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Birds Not Scared.
(Tarboro SouthernerO

About two-third of the male population
of the town will hunt the partridge
| Thanksgiving Day. This, however, does
not necessarily mean any great slaughter
of the birds.
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One expert says Mr.. Roosevelt has a to-
bacco heart and another that he has CT
gar head. And the tobacco trust controls
both head and heart.