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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-26
ANDREW JACKsON's SPIRIT.

What will Mr. Cannon do? He was at
Oyster Bay last week comforting with Mr..
Roosevelt about financial legislation. Will
he back down at the behest of the Wall
Street crowd who are clamoring for fiat
money under their control? He ought to
have the stuff in him that nerved An
drew Jackson in the struggle against
Nicholas Biddle, for both were born In
the same State. Has he got it?
Andrew Jackson's greatest achievement
was to end the domination of Federal fin
ances by men who got rich out of the
monopoly of banking. There are men to-
day who belong to Jackson Clubs and
up for the men who wish to mo-
nopolize the banking privileges OF
America, just as Nicholas Biddle did
in Jackson's day. The hope of the
independent bankers as well as the
people is to prevent the threatened
monopoly in banking, by which one giant
bank in New York, with branches in
every State, will monopolize and CEN
tralize all business and banking. The
tendency is in that direction. The New
York financiers wish legislation that will
step by step eliminate the local banks and
substitute for them branches of the New
York parent institution. They wish also
to be allowed to issue elastic currency
try needs more primary money,
needs an elastic currency, but it wishes
no monopoly or Capitalization in the fin
ances of this country. 1t would not only
be a menace to existing banks and to
independence in the smaller centres, but
would come to be the most dangerous
element in politics. Nicholas Biddle,
through bank agents and bank favors,
sought to dominate the politics of the
country. Rockefeller or Morgan or some
modern financier, wearing the mantle
which Andrew jackson plucked from
Biddle's shoulders, would like to do the
same thing today. There would be less
hostility to such monopoly and centralli-
cation today than in Jackson's time. and
the only way to prevent the consumma-
ton OF this threatened centralized mono
poly Is by invoking the Andrew jackson
spirit.
1t would be all right to permit State
or national banks to issue money on State
bends and that would give all the addi-
tlcnal paper money now needed and would
be safe.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-26
THE NORTH CAROLINA SPIRIT

There was a bright side to that pitiful
story of how young North Carolina
couple-Gerald Jardens and his pretty
wife-stranded in New York without a
cent made compact to commit suicide,
and were found suffering from the eff
fects of the laudanum they had taken to
produce death. The bright side is one
that shows the true North Carolina spirit
that exists wherever a Tar-Heel lives. As
soon as the news that this young couple in
trouble were North Carolinians, a young
North Carolinian, Mr.. James Gordon Bat
tie, who has won fame in the metropolis,
came to their relief, secured medical
assistance helped to save their lives, and
sent them on with new faith in the
goodness of their fellow man. 1t is doubt
less true that there is a common tie that
binds men of any State, but there seems
to be a deeper appreciation of this kim
ship among North Carolinians No mat
ter how wide the gulf of wealth or social
position that separates them, the cry of
North Carolinian cannot go unheeded
by any native of this State whether he
lives In New York or in Manila. 1t is the
North Carolina spirit-the spirit of broth
erhood that binds in affection all the
sons of this good mother State.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-26
A NOBLE INSTITUTION.

Elsewhere we print an article on Ken
ansville and the James Sprunt Institute
from the pen of Mr.. j. o. Carr, ex-
legislator from Duphn, and now leading
member of the Wilmington bar. Mr.. Carr
has written more than one valuable his
torical story of Duplin county-an old
county rich in historical material In this
article he combines history with a sketch
of Duplin's foremost educational institu
ton, and makes most interesting and
readable story that will delight all Duplin
county and interest the whole State.
In a late letter, received since the ar
ticle was put in type, Mr.. Carr sends the
following note:
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-26

the COW had died. Mr.. Stronach had not
heard the last report, and when the wo-
man next came into his store, he said
pleasantly: How is the new COW coming
on?' She replied "Mr. Stronach, when
make a good trade, say nothing. When
makes bad trade, L do not say a
word" Raleigh spectators are apt to do a
little quiet Dragging when they make a
pile, but when they get on the wrong side
of the market they do not say word"
About this time they are as silent as the
little boy when the cat got his tongue.
The craze for getting something for
nothing seems to have afflicted all classes.
1t Is seen particularly in the cities where
stock gambling prevails. 1t is said that
public men, business men, manufacturers
and even some preachers in the good
State of North Carolina engage in stock
gambling. 1t may be more reputable than
shooting craps" it may be more gespecta-
bic than poker; it may be less demon
alizing than the Skin games" by which
country darkies are feeced by city negro
dudes-but it is gambling plain, old
fashioned, demoralizing destructive gamb-
ling.
Stock gambling is ten fold more demon
ahzing than the common cards and Skin
games" that attract the more ignorant
IL utterly demoralizes young men and
has been responsible for the failure of
more business men in North Carolina
than any other one thing. Eight business
men out of ten, who had built up bust
ness of large proportions, who go TO the
wall with big liabilities have failed be-
cause of stock gambling, usually called
futures" 1t is bad enough when men
are so crazy to get something for nothing
| that they get the stock gambling mania,
but that is not the worst phase of It
The craze attacks the young men employ
ed in their offices and stores. They see
their employer respected and IGNORED
and prosperous man-make $1,000 byebet-
ting on the price of cotton, corn, wheat or
some stock They are filled with the de
sire to get rich quick, and they bet their
| little savings on the stock market II
| they win at first, they plunge deeper, and
where one succeeds fifty lose all the
money they have accumulated. But that
is the least of the evils. These young
men have been ruined. In eight cases
out of ten they have lost relish for the
slow and plodding methods OF honest trade
and business. They despise a six per cent
Investment. Their whole idea of life is
to get rich quick, to bet on the markets,
and as soon as they get few dollars they
Put it UP again. Feverish excitement and
the gambling mania control their lives,
and they soon become unfit for the occu-
patton in which they would have succeed
ed but for the gambling fever that has
taken possession of them.
Business men should reflect upon the
| farreaching and demoralizing effect OF
their example upon young men who look
UP to them.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-26
A MORNING TONIC.
(Theodore l.. Cuyler. J

The Bible is the only plumb line to build
by. and it must be used constantly. All
the snowy ornamentation that man can
put on his edifice amounts to nothing, IT
his walls are not perpendicular. Some
times we see a flimsy structure whose
bullying walls are shored up by props and
skids to keep them from tumbling into
the street. | am afraid that there are
thousands of regulations in trade, IN
politics, in social life and even IN church
life, that are shored up by various devices.
No Christian can defy Gods memorable
law of grayitation. 1t Is a mere question
of time how soon every character will
fall in" if it is not based on the rock,
and built according to Jesus Chrlsts
plumb line 1t may go down in this world
it is sure to go down in the next. Let
everyone, therefore take heed how he OF
she buildeth: for the last great day will
test the work, of what sort it is.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-26
THE STOCK GAMBLING MANIA

Ihe News and Observers estimate that
North Carolina lost a quarter of a million
dollars IN the slump in stocks seems to
be under the mark. One Greensboro man
lost S9,957. One Winston man is short
Szo'ooo. Thousands of young chaps about
town are out hundreds. In Raleigh the
SPECTATORS are not saying marry word +"
they are somewhat like an old woman
That Mr.. A. b. Stronach tells about. One
day she was in his store and remarked in
cldentally that she had bought cow The
report was that she was greatly pleased
at her bargain, but later report came
that within few days after the purchase
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-26
SpiritOf the Press.
THE CRISIS OF "A CENTURY.

THE CRISIS OF "A CENTURY.
N. c.. Christian Advocate.
The time is short and we appeal earn
estly to all the friends of the institution.
both IN and out of town, to come to the
rescue. We are in sight of the end. and
we cannot allow anything to even cast
the shadow OF defeat in the way Let
any friend who may not have been ap-
preached sit down and write Mrs. Lucy
A Cumngglm at once, stating the amount
OF pledge However small the amount
may be, the same will help and will be
appreciated. This is the time for all
Methodlsm in North Carolina to awake
out of sleep. 1t is, as the editor of the
Advocate sees it, the crisis of a century
and we have the prospect of infinite gain
as the reward of prompt and faithful re-
spouse to the call, or of irreparable loss,
II we fail. We have never, for a moment,
entertained the thought of failure in this
movement. We have greater faith in the
Methodists of the State than to believe
that they will stand by in Indifference and
look complacently upon such a catas-
trophe as the permanent closing of the
educational institution WINCH more than
all others, is connected with our very
life. In the matter of location, equipment
and every point of advantage to be con-
sldered, there is nothing to be said against
the movement. We have here as nearly
ar ideal In all these respects as could be
wished, and if we can not make the insti-
tuition succeed, we can make nothing
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-26
IMPORTANCE OF A COMMA.
Wilmington Messenger.


That is a very serious charge the Tar
-boro Southerner makes against the Raj
eigh News and Observer. We did not
know that Brother Daniels had taken tc
burning women, whether for witchcraft
or any other crime We hope it is not
true. We also hope it rs not true that
the News and Observer has taken to hav
ing fits. The Southerner says:
"A white woman known as Maude
Jones or Stella Jones, is reported to
have been burned to death by the
News and Observer, by falling over in
a fit into the fire"
The omission of the little insignificant
comma often plays havoc with the sense
of a written sentence.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-26
WHAT DOES THE BOSTON MAN
MEAN?
Christian Sun.

CnflSC1dn sun
In a recent editorial in the Boston Her
aid the writer assigns several causes for
the dearth in candidates for the ministry
among men of high rank in college, and
among them is the paralysis of faith en-
gendered by the revolution which in the
past century has seemed to throw pros
trate to the ground the temples and
shrines in which for ages had tabernacled
the hottest sanctities of the soul of man. .:
We sit in our sanctum yet and wonder
what all that means. We lad not heard
of any particular paralysis of faith or a
great tearing down of temples and shrines
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-26
[ h c. P i n c S
HENRY JERMOE sToCKARD.

HENRY
AS some vast militant array, the pines,
In dense brigade and thin far-sCouting band,
Fling wide across the desolated land
Their solemn, stately mountaineering lines
BY Crumbling halls where the poison-ivy twines
At broken cabins, sentry-like they stand;-
In trenches once by tiger spirits manned;
Ger slave and MASTER meath the forgetfuI vines
They Symbolic the great renascent South
By tempest planted in the rocky veins
Of ruined fields, on hills scanned by the rains
They strike down through the deart their fbres KEEN
And titled by the frost, and nourished by the
drOuth,
Mantle the waste i'm an eternal green! Ok
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-26
a FINE SHOWING.

The Wilmington Chamber of Commerce
a virle and useful institution that is one
of the best organizations in the South
has issued little pamphlet giving the
names of leading merchants who viii
furnish round trip ticket to any custom
er who goes to Wilmington and buy;
81 900 worth of goods.
Last year. according to this publication
Wilmington did a business of more thar
$4,000. OO0--a showing far in excess Of
that of any other city in the South in
proportion to population. That's a fine
showing for North Carolina metropolis.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-26
WOULD BE STARTLING.
Grenville Reflector.

GrenvlIIe Reflector.
The Newton Enterprise suggests that
as Governor Aycock is barred from seek
ing a denomination it would be a grace
full act for those who went into office
with him 20 get out with him and not
stand for denomination. Yes, it would
be very graceful-also very startling and
very unnatural.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-26

X "Since the preparation of the above ;:
!. article, DR.. James w. Blount, one of \
< the founders of the James Sprunt In \
X stitute, and Mrs. Amelia Farrior, 4
< wife of Mr.. Henry Farrior, both =
i faithful friends and patrons of the X
\ Institute and residents of Kenans- =
X vile, have been called to their re- =
X ward in better world. The example \
< set by their unselfish lives gives 4
\ Christian courage to the people of !
X Kenansville to press on with the =
X work of education and love already \
\ begun, and in this it may be well as =
4 sumed that they will neither falter \
I nor hesitate in performing the duty :
< which they have received as sacred =
< heritage from such worthy and con Z
K secrated hands,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-26
FOR 1 GO ON FOREVER.

Richmond News-Leader.
New York milllonaires are organizing
what is to be the most exclusive club in
the country and have decided to call it
the Brook Club" which suggests the
watering of stocks by which a good many
milhonaires have been able to become
such.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-26
:. 4

This brief and beautiful tribute to this
revered physician and noble woman will
be their best eulogy and noblest epitaph.
They will live in the grateful remem-
brance of those who will be educated in
part through their unselfish lives.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-26

When a man is lynched by hundreds of
men for a heinous crime. some people
wonder why there is no conviction of the
men who are, according to Justice Brewer,
"murderers" The answer is found in
Burke's famous expression: Il do not
know the method of drawing up an IN
dlctment against whole people" And
We have no man today who is wiser than
Burke.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-26
DON'T BELIEVE 1T; DIDN'T ACT LIKE
NORTH CAROLINA FOLKS.
Wilmington Messenger.


Who is that North Carolina woman
Mrs. Painter, said to have been connected
with the Norfolk and Western train
wreckers whose purpose was to murder all
the passengers so as to make a clean haul
OF all valuables on the train?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-26
THE ELUSIVE RACE PROBLEM
SOLUTION.

Every month for thirty years some
body has come up smiling with guaran-
teed plan for solving the race problem
When the war was over, the plan adopted
was to give the untutored negro the bal
lot Then it was to give him social re-
cognition. Then it was to give him Fed
eral offices. Then he was promised forty
acres and mule. Then it was to deport
him to Liberia or some other country
where negroes could govern negroes.
Then the Kansas fever would solve it.
Then it was universal education. Then it
was to divide the race up about equally
in every State in the Union. And last
it is to give them all what we call an
industrial education, the solution propos
ed by Booker Washington. So far it has
secured a big endowment for Tuskeegee
and given hope to many, but the un-
solved problem is in fact no nearer solu-
ton than when the negro sung in 1865:
-
- praise ana LdHhS VIC 4%OId nC
To set his people free,
ole Massa tink it day o doom,
And we oh jubilee.
There have been so many fake solutions
and so many fakirs, who have failed at
everything else. have been cock-sure that
thew could solve it, that the people are
getting suspicious of any man who comes
forward saying he can solve the problem.
Popular sentiment on the subject is well
expressed in Frank Stanton's latest poem
which is as follows:
ssSss.a.ss@ss- - /
THE RACE PROBLEM FIEND.
He studied de big race problem
Fun de maWnin' ter de nlght,
En- he hollered Halleluyer!
l got it a-gwine right"
But ever mo- dat problem walked
LAX ghost in black and white!
III.
En- it follered close benin him,
En- it doomed up big ahead,
En- it lit de fiamin torches
En- lighted him ter bed!
En- he preached it's fun'ral sermon,
But it never would stay dead
III.
En- he finally acknowledged
1t had laid him DIES ez fiat
Ez de roll er a big rock crusher'
Or lick from a baseball bat!
En- he headed fer dc asylum
Whar de lunatics is at!
Geronimo has joined the Methodist
church Fearing that he may fall from
grace tho government will keep a few
troops at hand near Inc RESERVATION lo'
nacasoar;l,, for use but as a guarantee OF
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-26

Geronimo has joined the Methodist
church Fearing. that he may fall from
grace tho government will keep a few
troops at hand near the reservation moi
nacessor;l,, for use but as guarantee of
good faith.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-26
DESTROYS IT'S EVERY ARGUMENT.

DESTROYS ITS EVERY ARGUMENT.
Wadesboro Messenger and Intelligencer.
According to the Biblical Recorder, or
gan of the Baptist church in North Caro-
lima, Trinity College could not exist but
for the donations it receives from the
Dukes, and in the same connection 1T
makes the startling statement that Wake
Forest College has been enabled to keep
it's head above water by an extraordinary
income of $4,000 year from $4,000 stock
in the Standard Oil Trust"
The Recorder has long been strenuous
spponeLt OF STATE aid to higher education,
and has printed many reasons why the
appropriations to the University, the
State Normal and the A. and M. College
should be discontinued, but when it ad-
mits that the two leading UNCONVENTIONAL
colleges of the State are dependent for
their existence upon the bounty Of two Of
the greediest and most powerful trusts
in the world it destroys every argument
that can be made against State aid. Nay,
verify, the great masses of the common
people of North Carolina are not yet
ready to completely surrender the higher
education of their sons and daughters to
colleges that are under such heavy OBJ
legations to the bosses Of the Standard Oil
and Tobacco Trusts.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-26

succeed. The facts is it is pnerile to be
stressing difficulties and talking OF fail
ure.
The 'Methodists of North Carolina can
do anything they want to do and moth
ing easier than to make Greensboro Fee
male College a great success as an edu-
cational institution. Let them rally and
rally now, and let the $25, 100000 be raised
by the 9Th of August. Help those wo-
men," who, with noble and unselfish zeal
have set themselves to the task Of saving
their Alma Mater.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-26
Nash Increases 5000, 674 rs.
Nashville Graphic.)

NASHVILLE Graphlc.)
The tax assessors and list takers this
year have been very vigilant in attending
the duties of their office and they have
been greatly assisted by the taxpayers
who have shown little, if any, inclination
to evade giving in a full report of their
taxables. In all the townships property
owners have listed their lands at a high
er figure, and as result the total walua-
ton of real estate alone this year is ST.
040, rs, as against ST. 73O, $4,000 last year,
on an increase of 5000, 674.75.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-26

More than physical culture is required
to make a man strong minded.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-26

A woman isn't necessarily dream b,
cause she happens to be contrary.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-26

It's no credit to a man 10 be eooa "a
the point Of n gun.
a tourist without money il "a tfamp
ana tramp with money Is tourist
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1903-12-03

So Ammunition III plenty
TENNESSEE NEWS.

A Baptist church has organized
at Rural Vale Monroe county,
Tramps at Memphis were given
Thanksgiving spread at police
headquarters,
Lester Carol, wanted in Meigs
county on charge Of murder, was
arrested at Los Angeles.
Elmer Jennings, a youth at Mil,
lington, fatally shot his friend,
Walter, Brewer, whom he believed
was a robber,
The Manhatten Lumber Com,
pany, of New South Memphis, with
$4,000 capital stock, has filed ar
ticles Of incorporation,
The Medina Herald has been
purchased by Dir Adkisson and E
Ridgeway who will continue it
publication at Medina
Taylor Cowan, whose relatives il
Cooke county believed dead, re
turned from a ten years stay in In
dian Territory and Kansas
Burglars entered the Office of tn,
Garrison Valley mills at Wartrac,
and blew the safe open with dyna
mite, but secured nothing but dis
appointment.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1903-12-03

J.J Dykes was in Chattanooga
Friday
Dir. Raulston and family are visit
ing on Battle Creek.
Mrs. Cawthorn, of Tracy City, Is
visiting relatives here.
Dr. J. A. Walker returned from
Bledsoe county Thursday.
Ed billiard of Dunlap, spent
Thanksgiving with home folks.
Mr.. Pennington, of Pratt City,
Ala, visited friends here Thanksgiy.
ing.
Will Smith, Of Chattanooga, visit
ed his parents at Sulphur Springs
this week.
j. Q. Ketner spent Thursday with
his parents near Victoria, taking
Thanksgiving.
Rev 5. r. Angel conducted d
Thanksgiving services at Loouey'i
Creek Thursday.
Ernest Walker spent Thanksgiy-
ing at South Pittsburg with hi
brother, j. L. Walker
Last week was the coolest weathe
we have had for years in November
The thermometer registered 10 de
grees above zero Wednesday of las
week.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1903-12-03
PlKEVILLE,

Special to the News.
Mr.. L. s. Pope spent few days this
week in Chattanooga on legal business,
Miss Dossie Moore, of Jasper, is Wis
iting her sister, Mrs A. S, O'Neal.
Eddy Renegar left Thursday to visit
his parents until after the holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. A. Pope were here
Saturday and Sunday the guests of rela-
tives
Miss Ollie, Myers, who has large
music class at Bridgeport, spent Thanks
giving with her parents.
Spence Deakins has returned from
Virginia.
Grover Seitz, who has been in ST.
Louis for the past two months, has re-
turned home
Mr.. and Mrs. s. L. Stephens and fam
lily spent this week at Melvine visiting
relatives of Mrs. Stephens.
On Wednesday evening, Nov. %, the
Emersonian society gave Its first public
program consisting Of music, recitata'
tions and and debate, was rendered.
The audience was large and apprecia'
tive one.
The Thanksgiving service was held
at the Southern Methodist church, Rev
Douglas, of Dunlap, occupying the pull
pit
Announcements have been received
in the city of the marriage Of Horace
Harwell and Miss Nell Mercer, Of Nc
Minnville. The bride, as a former re
sident of this place, was a very popula
young lady and Mr.. Harwoll is to b
congratulated on winning so fair
bride.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. A. Brown entertain
ed with an at-home on Thursday even
ing complimentary to Miss Lula An
thony, OF Tullahoma.