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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-29

The papers for the past week have
been full of the accounts of Unitarian
Club banquet in New York at which TWO
negroes were guests. That didn't cause
much comment in itself, but the fact
that two members of the Southern and
General Education Board-Mr-, VIM. H.
Baldwin and Mr.. Walter H. Page-are
said to have been present has opened
the door for a vigorous attack upon the
work of these boards.
AS to Mr. Baldwin. he is a Northern
man by birth and it may be he did not
know any better. AS to Mr.. Page, who
was born in North Carolina and ought to
have known better we have been hoping
he would prove an alibi. or say he did
not know the negroes were present at
the table. But, we fear that he was
present and that, instead of being
ashamed of it. he will not admit the Of
it.
We have observed that when Southern
men go North one of two things hap
pens: l. They cherish the traditions and
civilization of the South sacredly, and,
while not asking others to share their
loyalty to it's faith and creed, they make
it their lares and perates, or 2. They be-
gin to criticize the faith of the South, be-
come skeptics in religion, mugwumps in
politics, and seem to think they are never
getting broad until they trample under
foot every tradition and sentiment of the
South
Mr. Roosevelt had a right to dine Book
er Washington and Mr.. Baldwin had
right to dine with the negroes in New
York-bad as such taste is and reprehen-
sible as Southern people Justly regard 1t
but Mr. Page had no right to Initiate
their example. They are Northern born
men and had different instruction i'll
their youth. Mr.. Page was brought up
to believe in complete and thorough sep
aratlOQ OF the races. IL IL DS u uo bhdS
he sat down to dinner with the negroes.
it can be explained only on the theory
that he has been hypnotized by Roosevelt
and Booker Washington. No other ex-
planatiCn would excuse Southern born
man. We have observed, with genuine
regret, Mr.. Pages successive steps to-
ward complete departure from Southern
sentiment. When a Southern man and
free trader lapses into Republicanism and
supports the apostle of protection, h.
has lost his anchor. Since Mr.. Page
made light of the preachers and the good
women who hold fast to the old land
marks and became disciple of Mckinley
and Roosevelt in politics, and Lyman At
bolt in religion, we have feared this last
step. There is a very narrow margin
between voting with and voting for ne
groes and eating with them. The only
safety-the only hope of good govern
ment, peace and concord in the South,
as well as the very mud sill of Southern
civilization, is in complete social and
educational-aye and political, too-sep
aration of the races
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-29
LAW AND human PROGRESS.

We publish elsewhere to-day the ad-
dress on Law and Human Progress,
recently delivered by Chief Justice Wal
ter Clark. of North Carolina, before the
Kansas State Bar Association. The ad-
dress will be read with interest and
as well as by the lawyer. Only a few
days ago the Dean of the Law Faculty
of Belgium wrote to Judge Clark fol
copy of the address. He had read q
synopsis of the address in Paris jour
nal, translated from some Kansas paper
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-29

Those who think that Mr.. Cleveland
is not working for the Democratic nomi-
nation in 1904 do not know how he runs
a literary bureau. He is now ascertain
ing how deep the water is. He will find
il as chilly as the Arctic ocean and then
he will declare he never dreamed Of
running. That's the Cleveland way.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-29
Spirit of the Press.

IlACILI1E4IN I, IIlOtIINT1oioI ' L DtIIl i :
Rockingham Headlight.
Sundays Legislative Edition of this
excellent, progressive daily, reflects
great credit upon the management. 1t
will be highly appreciated by the peo-
pie, and as we'll by the county weeklies,
which will file it for future reference.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-29
NEWSPAPER FAME.

New York Press.
Your great man shines before the
populace in vain-without TIE newspaper
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-29

Some newspapers, already hostile. have
used the break of Mr.. Baldwin and
Mr.. Page as an excuse to renew their
warfare against the educational work
in the South, which the Southern and
General Education Boards are seeking
to second and promote The Southern
people, who are glad to have the CO.
operation of all who are interested in
the accomplishment of the great work,
have not and will not abate one jot or
title of their convictions as to the
methods and plans of their educational
policy. The two boards that are helping
have not sought in any way to change
the policy which any Southern State has
adopted They have desired to cooper
ate in the plans that have been approved,
desire to change the views of Southern
educators or Southern youths. Most of
these men are animated by patriotic
desire to help where help is needed and
to lend a hand in fastening the abolition
of the curse of illiteracy. Instead of re-
ceiving them in the spirit of criticism
and suspicion, they have been received
as co-workers in the accomplishment of
the hardest task to which any people
have addressed themselves since the
French people began to rebuild their
fortunes after the war with Germany
The South did not ask aims. 1t did not
solicit the cooperation of these excel
lent gentlemen who are giving their time
and money to advance universal educa-
ton in the South. God fol bid, But just
as it received the liberal gifts of Mr.
Peabody, which have been of great help,
progressive Southern men have welcom-
ed the cooperation of Mr.. Ogden and
Mr. Buttrick and their associates.
1t is absurd TO say that, because two
members of these board, as individuals
and not as members of these boards, at
tended a banquet in New York to which
two negroes were invited, the purpose
of the Southern and General Education
Boards is to dominate Southern senti-
ment and control the educational policy
of the South. The Southern Governors
State Superintendent of Schools, college
presidents and professors, teachers, edi-
tors and others, who are sincerely in
terested in lettering the public schools
of the South. are TO be trusted to be
true to the Southern ideals. While they
make education of Southern youth para
mount among Southern problems, they
would prefer ignorance to education
based upon loss of self respect or the
abandonment of the Southern view of
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-29
GOLD FEVER IN MOORE COUNTY.

Castolia, N. c., March 81.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-27
WHAT MAKES FOR HAPPINESS.
Pleasure Can BE Bought, bat Enjoy.
ment In q Different Article.
Harper's Weekly.

Harper's Weekly.
We are used to feel-to put it. crudely-
that folks who have health and money
ought to be happy. And so they should
that contributes to cheerfulness of spirit;
and TO have health of course means 10
feel well. and that is long step toward
to look to find persons with health to
squander and more money than they know
how to spend making strenuous efforts TO
attain happiness and merely achieving i'm
paired health? IL you have health and
money you can usually buy pleasure, but
enjoyment is a different article; and even
when you have got enjoyment happiness
may still elude you. Pleasure pals and
sometimes demoralizes; enjoyment easily
yields to WEAKNESS; but you don't get tired
of being happy, and you may be ever so
tired and be happy still.
Happiness is state ~ satisfaction. One
reason why it is so elusive may be because
We human creatures are a complication of
body. mind and spirit, and require for our
complete satisfaction q particularly nice
adjustment of blessings and of comfort. IL
we indulge the body too much the other
two partners become mutinous; IL we over
cultivate the mind the body may break
down, and IL we bestow all our attention
on mind and body, the spirit. ignored takes
a sure vengeance on US for our neglect IL
is difficult to measure and direct our
Efforts as TO appease all the demands OF
our triplicate natures that the simpler
way is to regard happiness by-product
give over all direct attempts to acquire a
constant supply OF IL and simply accept
however much of IL may come while we go
about our business with such intelligence
as we can. We can usually keep our bodies
in fair repair II we are not too lazy or too
self-indulgent; If have to earn our 1iv-
ings our minds, and bodies, too, find occu-
patton that is usually wholesome; and the
discipline OF work done, as it usually is, for
others as well as for ourselves. helps TO
satisfy the exactions of the spirit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-27
The Financier this week says:

The Ffnancier this week says:
One notable feature of the official state
last week was the reduction of 5.O0S,lOO in
loans, making the decrease in this item for
the fortnight $9.535o00. This was largely the
result of liquidation consequent on the de-
cline in the stock market though, as noted
in the previous week, the reduction I'm loans
then was principally caused by operations
incident to the pending merger or the Ma
tional Bank of Commerce and of the West
National Bank of the United States.
The cash reserve last week decreased $685.
GOO net, which amount is considerably in
excess of that estimated upon the basis or
the traceable movements of money, this
estimate indicating a gain Of $lll,600.
, The loss OF cash was was sniefy Saosed py tne
ury transfers to New Orleans and direct
movements of the cotton ports. these trans
1ers amounting for the week to $1,000 $4,000:
points caused principally by the return OF
funds which had been Withdrawn for the
Labor day holiday use, nearly offset the
shipments to other parts of the country
and it is noteworthy that the movement
to the grain sections was quite small. re-
fiecting the tardy distribution of these
which sum is greater by s.. 49o, 400 than that
called for by the reduction in loans and
the loss of cash; therefore, the statement
quired reserve was decreased s2.Os4.275.
through the decrease In deposits, and de-
Quoting thereform the net loss OF cash
leaves 81, 10000 dS tue luCTtdSe III SURPLUS
reserve, which now is $l4, SIS, 800. Calcu-
lated upon the basis of deposits, less those
of SIS, 932, 500 public funds. the surplus is
S24, 800, 500 The circulation was increased
$3l0, 600 last week, making sl,S15, 100 since
Sept. II, inclusive. Loans are I'm excess
OF deposits by SIS. 702 500, the largest since
July IL. The daily average of clearings
during the week was sl76000.00o. against
$40 600, 600 in the previous week. Com
pared with year ago, the surplus reserve
against all deposits is $l0.O00,000 greater,
Then, however, there was a concurrent
drain of money TO the interior for crop pur-
poses and into the subtreasury the re-
suit of fiscal operations.
AS noted, this seasons movement of the
grain crops is late and consequently the
demand for money therefor is small. Even
if there should be an important increase
i'm this demand in the near future, the effect
upon the bank reserves probably would
not be serious, for these are now at an
unusually high level for the season, and,
moreover, through the operation OF relief
measures which have been fnaugurated by
Secretary Shaw, the treasury drain will be
minimized and the Withdrawals of balances
by country banks will most likely be mod
crate. Comparisons of changes i'm the item
of loans show that with the exception OF
the two banks above named, which are
upon the eve of merger and which reduced
their loans S3.100O00. the decreases I'm this
item were quite uniform. The cash changes
show a net loss by seven banks of 81, 600,-
600: three of these institutions indicate a
reduction of A,500,OOo
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-27
THE LETHAL HATPIy.
Ii May BE Necessary Soon to Designate
Ii as a Deadly Weapon.

New L Ork Times.
AS things are going, the time is not FAR
distant when Ii will be necessary TO enact
q law designating the hat pin as a deadly
weapon, and making its possession a mis-
demeanor, II not a crime This means a
change e in the fashion of hats, especially
the variety known as picture hats, which
Will be greatly TO the advantage of femi-
nine humanity. An observant person can
not have failed TO notice how many young
women have acquired a nervous (which of
the head. popularity designated as the
florooora nod, which is becoming a habit
and will with difficulty be abandoned by
those who acquire 1t. The explanation for
TO do with the balancing of the hat which
has an oscillatory movement like a siege
gun on its trunnions. ana probably CORE
spends with the staggering steps of the
Jugsler who accompishes the difficult but
unhappiiy not impossible feat of balancing
a feather on the Tip of his nose. When the
nat pin mas TO go as measure Of public
safety our women folk will probably re-
turn to the excellent custom of our mothers
and grandmotherS. OF holding their hon
nets" in place by ribbons securely tied
under the chin. This would be no misfor-
tune. In their day our mothers and grand
mothers looked as pretty and attracted as
large measure of admiring attention as
do young women OF the present and it is
quite safe TO say that. so far as their head
gear was concerned. they were great deal
more comfortable.
The trouble with the hat pin is that il *
dangerously available and convenient as a
lethal weapon. ana females having use for
lethal weapons have acquired a fatal facil-
ity in its use for purposes offensive and de-
fensive. "A few evenings since a couple of
cOlored women. armed with hat pins. over
hauled, captured and looted a ferry collec-
tor with his pockets bulging with subsidiary
coinage, subdued him as effectualiy as a
pair of swashbuckling cut purses of old
could have done with their trenchant ran
icrs. Not long ago young woman made
IL uncomfortable for policemen by per-
forating him with hat pin. A like incl
dent happened at the meeting in Boston at
which Booker Washington essayed to
speak Frequently the hat pin figures in
the police courts as deadly weapon hav-
ing been put to effective service as such.
II Is long, 1.-THE, elastic, sharply pointed
and keenly penetrating. Any one may with
good reason be afraid of IT.. and women who
would prefer not TO be ciassed as danger
Gus on slight proyoeation would do we'll 10
discard II as quickly as possible.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-27

L took pains TO retain the same position
ana though the murmur ran along almost
nalf an act IL did not interfere with nv
hearing the play with my good ear.
Then great light broke me. and
said, Here is where ] get even with my
VIE. The sisters garrulity was. l am
sorry TO say. a weakness in the family. for
my wife had IL, and in a degree intensified
by the fact that she was married too and
could practise on me. 4 dislike TO say A.
difference arose between US and my wife
started in i turned my dull ear toward
her and looked calmly over the landscape.
My calmness worried her. After talking
away for ten minutes she suddenly said:
John, did you hear what I saidy .
Il turned languidly and said: Dear, were
you speaking?'"
She looked at me a minute. shook her
head and subsidized. Since then have been
practically immune from nagging. IL she
catch that, you know my ear Is bad. Then
she sits down and groaDs.
The other day my wife's brother came TO
visit us from Philadelphia He is a doctor
and has made ear trouble speciality. Nv
wife referred to my dull ear. He said he
could cure, IL In a day. Much eurp ID
when gave him a warning look, he a
~ shifted the conversation. took him
to the stable after dinner and had a
TO heart talk with him.
Entirely apart from its matrimonial
vantages this dull ear works splendidll
obtaining sleep for me- All do Is to b
my good ear In the pillow and sleep a
out In wilderness. There IS a womar
the next fiat who plays the plano. Unt
got the dull ear i was her victim. n
sQualling infants who used to excite n
rage now seem little cherubs to me, andy
indeed. my whole nature has been changed
for the better by what some mistaken peo-
pie would call an affection
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-27

exchanges. There is good reason To believe
that definite policy has already been de-
termined upon and that recent operations
nave been predicated on a knowledge OK the
facts A report which is current and finds
belief is that interests identified with the
management have been accommodating
stages of the slump, the superstition being
that the investment is for account OF the
corporation itself. 1t is within the legal au-
thority of the corporation to buy an its Sc
curitieS or trade in them, and IL is not out
side OF possibility that from S25,OooOo0 TO $oo-
WvuU or the common stock Will De can
celed in the near future. The amount may
be smaller, but that something OF this sort
is under way is very generally believed In
banking circles. There now 5000 steel
stockholders, about equally divided between
the common and the preferred. This is III
addition 10 the $1,000 employees who were
taken into partnership in pursuance of the
plan carried into effect some months ago.
At current prices the employees have pa
per loss OF about Sl4 share in their invest
ments.
The heavy selling OF iron and steel stocks
during the last two weeks for account OF
Pittsburg banks has given rise TO reports
that there is To be further liquidation for
account Of banking interests in other interi-
or cities. Stock brokerage houses and New
York banks found it comparatively easy
during the last six months To unload stock
collateral on the banks of the middle West
and West. and they have done quite gen.
orally. There is no way of determining the
extent to which outside banks have gone in
the practice of lending their money direct
upon securities dealt in on the New York
Stock Exchange, but it is of common belief
here that great masses of securities are
thus held. The banks of Philadelphia have
been going through an experience similar
to that suffered by the Pittsburg institu-
tons. That community, however, has thus
far escaped without serious impairment of
resources or credit of its banks, although it
IS we'll known that dozen or more of the
leading capitalists of the Quaker City lost
enormously. One fortune Is understood TO
have shrunk $50, 900 to s40,000,000. Every
city west of the Alleghenies of any consid-
cradle banking importance has in its loans
more or less stock bought by clients and
transferred from New York to home insti-
tutions. Should further extended liQuida-
ton set in the selling in these quarters will
be an added element of weakness in the
market. This phase of the situation is caus-
Ing uneasiness among New York bankers
acquainted with the facts and alive to the
possibilities. 1t is unlikely that many specu-
lative accounts In the New York stock mar
ket are backed by the small country banks,
although there is an absence of definite in
formation on this point.
w. G. NICHOLAS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-27

Medical Press and Circular.

The use OF the corset Is 10 transmit the
pressure OF the skirt bands to the hips and
the ribs, and 20 TO protect from their pres-
cure the organs In the region OF the waist.
bands are fastened round the waist corsefs
should be worn. They should be sitter
than usually made IL they are effectively TO
protect the soft middle portion OF the body
from the pressure OF the waistband. The
front should be quite straight. and the
waist measurement should be az least a.
large as the wearers waist, measured over
article consists in employing IL as q means
OF COMPRISING that which IL was meant
to protect from COMPRISING. namely, the
right direction. in the straight. stiff front
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-27
THE LIGHTNING BUG.
In Some Quarters He IL Called a
Weather Prognosticator.
New Orleans Times-Democrat.

New Orleans Times-Democrat.
The disappearance Of the firefies at the
city parks at this season OF the year is one
ter" said a young man who has the poetic
temperament. land IL Is a condition al
ways commented upon by the persons who
patronizs the parks OF the city. During
the summer there are millions OF these
bright. whirring insects to be seen i'm the
public parks. on private lawns. on the
outskirts OF the city, and at other places
ties OF nature are found to AFFORD these lit
tie creatures a hiding place in the case OF
storm. They are too delicate to stand the
Is brewing these winged insects begin drop
ping TO the earth where they can slip into
little cuddy holes which protect them. In
rural sections, before weather reports were
so widely scattered over the country. these
little bits OF winged phosphorescence were
the weather prophets OF the country folk.
and even now there are many persons
among the older members who look upon
the downward flight OF firefies as a sure
sign or rain. and though the weather man
may promise a bright. clear day they will
NOT need what he says on the point. Fire
Eies are very sensitive To atmospheric
changes They have to be. they are SO
fragile, and so easily DESTROYED So when
me winds begin 10 shift; when the air be-
clouds close out the glory OF the stars. and
when the situation grows damp aud the
winds are little sharp. the freely knows
tnat ne doesn't want TO happen to him. so
he az once scuttles for the grass where he
can crawl on the underside OF a leaf and
protect himself from the storm. some
times they will hide on the dry side of logs
or stumps. or they will slip behind the bark
os trees They know when the weather is
going TO change. and they RARELY err I'm
their representations. But these bits of
fire that add so much TO the beauty of
the foliage and the verdure OF the summer
season are about 10 leave for a while. They
will seek refuge I'm the bark OF trees and
In other places OF protection during the
cold spell. and will not come out again until
spring comes Grooming and futtering In
With its balmy breaths anS rare radiant
garlandings.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-27
DEAFNESS A BOON TO HIM.
Man with One Had Ear Escapes a
Host of Annoyances.
New York Press.

New York Press.
Brown had been troubled with DUH
kalf-deaf ear for nearly a year. as a re-
suit of taking "A swim when over heated.
A friend met him and said:
why do you not have your ear attended
TOP
Never on your life" said Brown. II
would not part with that ear for a good
deal. IL il one of the most splendid reliefs
sent by kind nature. l only wish had IL
years ago II had my way would open
an Office and hang out sign. Ears duled
while you wait.
How strange" said his friend. because
1 remember you were growing when you
first got It,
Yes, you are right l did," said Brown
But that is because 1 did not know OF the
blessings in store for me. The first revela-
tion 1 got OF the advantage OF a dull ear
was when my wife asked me to take her
talkative sister TO the theater. To keep
track OF that woman's words you would
have to buy monographs by the wholesale
She never stopped talking from the time
she sat down 10 dinner until we started for
the theater. The strain was becoming more
than could bear when. In shifting our po-
sitious In walking. got my dull ear toward
her. After that all could hear was a SUBJ
dued and softened murmur like the purling
Of . brook. When We reached the theater