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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-23
TEXT, SERMON, APPLICATION
AND EXPLORATION.

Referring to the fall of Dewey, q Char
lotte man says:
Il knew him when he was more inter.
ested IN Y. M. c. A. work and the Metno-
dist church than in anything else He
would do to tie to then. But his real
downfall is to be dated from the time he
quit the Y. M. C. A. Che also withdrew
from the church them and learned to
dance and play poker.
ANY man who learns to be 'one of the
boys after he is twenty five years old will
bear watching. The world places faith in
the worst sort of a dissipated man who
reforms, but nobody can afford to have
confidence in man who has been good
through his youth and deliberately learns
the ways of naughtiness after he is the
full measure of man and the head of a
family. Dewey's embezzlement, or degen-
Grafton in a financial way, practically be-
gan about the time he learned to waltz .
There is the text, sermon and applica-
ton That New Bern man understands
human nature to the core. The general
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-23
Was Roosevelt Angry.

Newport Cor Philadelphia Press)
There was rumor here that President
Roosevelt is greatly incensed because his
daughter Alice, danced the cotIlllon at
Mrs. Astor's ball with Mr.. Harry Lehr
II was impossible to verify the rumor
here, and several of those VINO were at
the ball. when asked about the rumor,
said that they did not believe there was
anything in it.
Since Mr.. Lehr has been in society he
has danced with every debutante and
woman who ever entered the exclusive
set and the majority of them have count.
ed it an honor to dance with him.
Miss Roosevelt, according to a we'll
known cottager who was present at the
ball. greatly enjoyed leading the cotillion
with Mr.. Lehr, and thought he was
decidedly interesting partner, but, never
theless, there is the rumor, and people are
asking, Us it SOP
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-23
AMERICAN IDEA OF FAMILIES.
Hartford Times.

Hartford Times
But there is reason to doubt the efficacy
of this glorification of large families as .
popularity breeder. We do not think that
Mr.. Roosevelt has pleased many American
women by his talk which has been pub
lshed concerning race suicide" We are
inclined to think that Mr.. Roosevelt is
not so much of a hero in the eyes of the
women of the country as he is in the eyes
of many young men.
The mother of four or five children, who
finds all her resources. mental and physl-
cal, heavily taxed by the care of raising
them, cannot find anything to admire in
the admonition that she ought to have
been the mother of II or more. 1t does
not follow because woman has been the
mother of Is or 20 children that she has
been able to do her duty to them or that
the world is better off because of her
fecundity
Napoleon Bonaparte could demand large
families of his French adorers. He had
good reason for telling the French women
OF his day that they must produce many
children. He needed them In his business
ON the battlefield
No father and mother ought to have
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-23

hear of young man leaving the old
State The field here is white to the
harvest. Avenues to usefulness are open
ing on every side. Piedmont North Caro-
lima offers the finest field in the world
to boy who has pluck and energy. The
thing for us to do, boys, is to throw off
our coats and go to work for ourselves
and for the State. Turn deaf ear to the
croakers. A croaker never yet helped a
human soul. Turn your face toward the
morning for at is day-break everywhere"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-23
EX-NEGRO SOLDIER ON THE RACE
PROBLEM.

HIIObkIN.
Marshville Home.
A few Sundays ago we noticed that
there was general drift of the colored
population southwark from Marshville.
We did not understand what it all meant
until we saw John Evans, colored, who is
an ex-soldier that fought, bled and died"
for his country in the Spanish American
war, the same fellow that got hold of the
wrong almanac when he reported the
date his first cotton blossom appeared.
John said the object of this colored gath
ering was "children's day" at Flint
Ridge There being about 40 speakers
present the audience was entertained with
IL constant flow of oratory mostly from
the young darkies. John listened at them
tell how the young race is "gwine up so
fas' you just can't stop us John also
heard some of them say that the older
negroes didn't have any sense, nohow.
Finally they called on John, the ex-
soldier, who proceeded to tell them that
the old darkeys may not have much
sense but they hav huff sense to keep da
heads out of ropes" When the ex-soldier
said this some of the old gray-headed
darkeys shouted and said amen We
didn't press John for his opinion of the
race problem, but he gave us an idea of
what he thought of it. He thinks Till
man made a shrewd scheme to have the
negroes of South Carolina killed few
years ago by having them deputized as
, dispensary constables to search white
peoples houses for whiskey Soldier
John said he ''read about whar a niger
went to white mans house and showed
de white man his papers. De white man
read EN- and then looked at the niger
and told him that he saw on that paper
where it said he could go in his house but
it didn't says he could come out" "Dat
would been huff fer me- said John,
''but dat fool Niger was brung out O. dat
house dead as a mackerel"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-23

A few weeks ago this paper said that
Edgecombe and Halifax counties had been
singularly free from lynchings and the
crime that calls it forth. The ink was
hardly dry on the paragraph before the
crime was committed in Edgecombe and
the brute captured and now we have
case of rape and lynching IN Halifax. No
section seems safe.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-23

A Bishop Co-adjutor is to be elected for
the Eastern North Carolina diocese. The
beloved Bishop Watson is in poor health
and his associate will discharge all the
duties except the appointing of examining
chaplains and the right to preside at Do
cesar Councils The associate bishop Will
be elected at Goldsboro, October 18th.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-23
WHAT Is THE REMEDY FOR THE
TRUST EVIL?

Whenever Chief Justice Clark speaks he
says something worth thinking about. He
follows no beaten track. He is not afraid
of being a pioneer in thought, and is no
more afraid of going into new paths than
were our pioneer ancestors. Whether you
agree with him or not he is sure to I'D
vance ideas that are not commonplace
In his address to the Virginia lawyers,
Judge Clark has given much food for
thought on the most momentous problem
today before the American people. He
shows that trusts are merely the new
names for the agencies that have robbed
the many that have cursed hu-
mainly since the earliest days when the
Pharaohs made the ancestors of Egypt
tian fellahs build the great pyramids for
their glorification.
How can the extortions of the trusts be
stopped? What are the remedies for the
evils that threaten American industrial IN
dependence? All fair-minded and un-
bribed men and newspapers are honestly
seeking the remedy, most of them feeling
that they are cropping in the dark but
resolved to find it and to apply it. Only
cravens and boot-licks throw up their
hands and say, "There is no remedy. 1t is
the natural evolution of business If it is
the natural evolution of business, then civ
ilization is failure and craftsmanship is
impotent. If it is natural and proper
for few men to sit in offices in New
York or London and enrich themselves
beyond the dream of Croesus by impover-
ishing every tobacco grower in North
Oarolina-if that is natural, then states
manship should be equal to calling into
being some cataclysm of nature to end
the natural" robbery.
The trusts can be tanned if the men
elected to office by the people owe their
allegiance to the people instead of the
trusts The trouble is that the national
administration has as it's chief legal Of
ficer, who must inaugurate prosecutions,
the lifelong attorney of the steel trust.
He makes a pyrotechnic display against a
contemplated railroad trust, but takes no
steps against the steel trust which he
helped to create. The people can stop the
trust domination if they will require only
free men to erect and enforce the laws.
1t is not easy to do this, for the trusts
most effective instruments are men who
pose in public as trust busters and owe
their election to trust money. But the
sleeping lion will be aroused and the
American people will yet be delivered
from their present slavery to the men
whose dishonest dollars now dominate
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-23

more children than they can care for,
educate and make good citizens of. This
is understood by intelligent and reputable
people, and it may be called the American
idea. 1t is the character which IS borne
by the children you bring forth and not
the number of them which ought to be
the main consideration. There is nothing
glorious in fatherhood or motherhood If
the children are degenerates, or If they are
left to be cared for by strangers.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-23

Those people who are laughing at Prof.
Langley should remember that he laughs
best who laughs last The flying machine
is sure to come and men will go to Europe
in them before another decade has passed.
Prof Langley is pioneer in new pas
senger transportation that may make US
independent of the railroad trust and the
steamship trust
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-23
WANTED: FEWER MAGISTRATES.

Roxboro Courier
In discussing the reduction of the mum.
Der of magistrates the News and Observer
saws: I'm some towns it is said that each
of the lawyers who practice in the mag
istrates' court has magistrate of his
own" That is a true bill and pity it is
It's true, for oftentimes this alone is re-
sponsible for that miscarriage of justice.
Fewer justices of the peace, with more
careful selection would largely tend to de-
crease the number of petty cases we now
have in our courts AS it Is, there are
so many magistrates in each county that
it does not pay enough for man who is
capable or qualified to be bothered with it,
whereas if the number was sufficiently re.
duced the consideration would induce the
proper persons to accept. Now, don't mis-
understand, we did not say there Were
none at present who were qualifed-for
there are some men in Person today who
are fully qualified, and are acting from
patriotism alone-but they are few and far
between.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-23

The cotton bagging trust wShld never
have been ''busted" if the cotton farmers
had not refused to use jute bagging. The
war for American independence would not
have been successfully inaugurated If the
people of Wilmington and Boston hadn't
forcbly thrown tea overheard and set the
example of refusing to drink tea.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-23
A MORNING TONIC,
(Seneca.)

We all of us complain of the shortness
of time and yet have much more than
we know what to do with. Our lives are
spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing
nothing that we ought to do; we are al
always complaining our days are few, and
acting as though there would be no end
of them.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-23

''The town runs the dispensary The bar
rooms run the town. In these two para
whole question in a nutshell. Shut DIP
the bar-rooms and the towns will have
better men in office and better city gov
eminent in Raleigh, and In every other
town and city. The bar-room influence in
politics is only less injurious than the bar
room influence in the home. Shut them up!
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-23
THEY LOVE TO BE HUMBUGGED.
Maxton Scottish Chief


Under the fancy prices paid for tobacco
last year, the farmers of this section were
induced to plant somewhat extensively Of
the weed, and now after much toll and ex-
pense on their part, they are confronted
by death knell prices-by the Republican
trust, and will have to pack UP their pro-
duction in their barns and await the plea
sure of ne money lord, or cut it down
and plough it under at their own discre-
ton. Put the Republican boss trust and
high tariff on plows, trace chains, shovels,
hoes and farming implements generally,
and we never could see why a farmer could
vote the Republican ticket.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-23

In his address before the Virginia law
yers yesterday, in pointing out how to
fight the whiskey trust, Judge Clark said
the establishment of dispensaries was one
way to aim blow at the whiskey trust.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-23
SCRIPTURE MIGHT MAKE US GET OUT
AND RESTORE AMERICA TO THE
INDIANS

Charlotte News.
"And hath determined the times before
appointed and the bounds of their habita.
tion,' is what the Scripture says, speak
ing of the liability to quote Scripture ac-
curately.' And the trouble about the ar
gument is that we white folks wouldn't
have any right to the lands of the Amer
lean Indian.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-23
ALL THING THEY ARE ''FITTEN."
Maxton Scottish Chief.

An oil .ddarkey who used to sell hominy
in the Richmond market, was once asked
by a facetious customer: ''How she would
like to go to Congress- Tin those days our
national legislative halls were spotted)
Her reply was: I'D lax it eff was fit
ten and in hat reply she was rebuke
to many aspirants for office. Many want
the office and so few seem to realize that
they are not ftten.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-23
Among the Railroads.

The work of double-tracking the Rich
mond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Rail
way from this city to Washington is being
pushed with all possible speed. The tracks
from this city to Ashland have been COM
pleted and are in actice use daily. and
a stretch of twenty miles this side of
Ruther Glen is about ready for rails, and
the work of laying the rails will begin Ia
short time. 1t will cost 100000 =
Richmond News.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-23

Sampson county thinks it is some
huckleberries" and with Duplin has
thought it is the only pebble on the beach.
Now comes the Star claiming that Clevc-
land and Rutherford are also ''some
huckleberries. One merchant has bought
5000 worth and one man and his chill
dren went out on the mountain and got
SIS worth of huckleberries in one day.
North Carolina is a great old State-from
Bat Cave to Dismal, and no mistake.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-23
Advice 1890.
(From Life.l

81 cannot stand the heat" he said:
""Twill kill me l much fear"
"Oh! try to live" the maiden cried,
You're SO much cooler here
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-23

The new passenger car for the Atlan-
tic and Western Railroad arrived Monday.
The engine is on the way. The road has
been completed from Sanford to Jonesboro,
distance of two miles, and tickets with
the names of these two stations on their
faces have been printed. 1t is learned
that freight cars will arrive shortly and
that the road will be put in operation
in time to catch its share of the fall
freight The road will eventually be ex-
tended to Ellington. Sanford Express
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-23

Lyle Jones went to Tallulah Falls and re
turned the latter part of last week and re-
ports work progressing finely on the rail-
road grade. He was informed that grad
ing would commence at Robun Gap last
Saturday morning Press.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-23

A meeting has been called to be held
in Taylorsville, on Monday, the 18th day
of September, to consider the question of
building an electric car line from Wilkes
boro to Taylorsville and on to Hickory
and Newton. The citizens of Hickory
Newton, Statesville, Wilkesboro, Taylors-
vile and the different sections of the
counties are cordially and earnestly IN
vited and urged to be on hand.-Taylors-
vile Scout.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-23

The new SO-pound rail being laid be-
tween Asheville and Spartanburg has bee1
put down as far as Melrose, towards Ashe-
ville-Asheville Gazette. Why wasn't 1T
put down before twenty-seven lives were
sacrificed?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-23

P. S.-There was not wreck on the
Southern last nigh as far as the returns
show-Greensboro Record.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1903-05-19
Srauerfleiher


ifpar5e Srauerfleiber 6iiItere
Shatten Inn iif an perfen i6iene1.
Sic fano Iaes 10 biibi6 uno elegant,
oaB lie germ Den gansen @inter in
Oaoenport perlebt bGtte. 9osu
pllroe tie aber ni6t ouigeforbert unb
tebrte na6 Bottom 5uriid, nofbem
lie ben WeibnaGtsbraten nit Wrs>
Narfbam in Slnep seeeiien batte.
Die gaI5e Samilie mar bort berIam.
melt bel einem froben MabI. Genst
Tlimpton ierpierte. @nop aber liek
lids nift nebmen, binter Cities
Stubl 81 iteben; 1ie meinte, Die
Wtl,tter Tonne lanten, tpenn irgeno
etpas feble.
IS NOR Elm eliidlider Gag, elm
ihoner @orbote Der frieoliten Belt,
Die ben tpieoerpereinten @atten be,
1hieoen mar.
@oden unb 1onate idtpan6en
balm. Die Sabresseiten nedielter.
als Die @interitiirme ibre Sloteu
auf oas Saus IN Der Brairie tparien,
periammelte iid Die Samilie pieber:
oieieS Mal i'm Sauie oes Soupcr.
neurs in Davenport.
Sort bate ii6 elm neuer Nm.
fommling eingeiteut, elm fleines,
aartes, liebes @eien, bas pGbrenh
oes Mables rubie IN ieilter @ieae
i6lief unb ielbit, nadbem Der Soal
slan5eno erleudtet mar, ii6 muIter.
baft benabm. &c lag itiQ in ces
Guters grmen, bis bes jungen 2ebens
iu%iftigiter Woment nabte, mo ser
Ciener Der Stride es aufnabm in Die
8abl Der 9inoer @ottes.
SIM Gnoenfen on bie eeliebte
Sobte. Die Nun tpobl gtbeloa fir
pilroig gebalten bate, Dor allen
@noeren bes tbeuern 9ruoers Gr.
Wablte 81 iein, taufte Der 8rieiter Die
a&ine auf ben Hamen SO r e.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1903-05-19
Gin @eridlucnS-~

Star goaroer Gin ,etnen barten
Spargel beiBeno): r0ieier @Grtuer
muB Der refine geri6penber iein."
2anblabp: r@ieio?"
goaroer: oSdtte er ben Gpareel
rod cine @ohe tpafien laIien.
fonnte er i'm als Selesrapbenitanas
perfauft baben."
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1903-05-19
Smcierlei Iatientcu.

Or. Grimmig gum Stubenten):
limb nun merfen sic iid, oaB Die
Nenidbeit fir ben Irst aus nur apei
alaiien beitebt."
Stubent: Limo sic pGren?"
ar8t: r0ie Irmen, Die err furirt,
uno Die Geiden, Ole er ~bpftorirt."
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1903-05-19
5eigten ii6 Spuren bon SbrGnen an

5eigten iid Spuren bon SbrGnen auf
SSulius' @rief.
~&arl muB es gleib piiien!" rief
lie, ii6 erbebeno. sd balte es
ntht aus bis gum giien."
Gin ihriaer Con aus benz Sorn,
has ~getpobnli6 Die 2eute gum Giien
rief, ihou iiber bic 9rairie, = nidt
BLOB einmal, ionoern INNER tpieoer.
oils nare unsepobnIides seibeben.
&arl Marfbam eribraf, Inn 10 mebr,
als er an Der Sonne iab, baB es nod
niht Wittag mar, uno elite benz
Sallie su.
9tc Wutter fam linn NIT benz
grief enteeeen unb rief beinabe
othemlos: u3arl, I e lit %sefommen!
9 Il tit franf BEL Sulius, = uno er
lit 10 frob!"
Sic iagte ntdt, tper gefommen lei;
Garl ober neritanb es iofort unb Ias
NIT feudten Iusen Den grief.
sd fiirdte, man min Tie in Ser
obaeidmadten @eiie nit itednabel.
topfgroben Siueu furteren", iaete
Mrs. Warfbam. yWelinba lit bas
10 getp0bnt. Weine aniidt lit, man
iolte ibr elm 8lGsden guten fran55.
iiifen @ranntpein eeben. Stun, es
tit pohl am better, tpenn id ieIbit
bingebe."
gntidloIien padte lie cine fleine
Teiietai6e unb fubr NIT Dem nGditen
8uge nod Davenport.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1903-05-19

bettet mar, elite bic S%ausbdlterin in
Die 8ibliotbef uno itrieb einige
3eilen.
"9rinae ,bas auf's Saleerap9en,
Bureau"
SIN Sorteilen los Sannab:
nWtrs. @en5eslaus Worf
ham, Slnep. 9itte, fommen
Sic; es lit cine frembe 4rante
bier.
Gleonore 8 obior."
Cine babe Stunoe ipdter erbielt
Meltnoa oas Seleeramm, bas iie
10 ifnea, aIs Der giienbabn5ue Der.
mo6te, nod 0apenport brodte.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1903-11-27
Just Laugh.

AS the pen is sometimes mighticr
than the sword, so the laugh is on oc-
casion as powerful rs in cloquence the
spoken word.
There are many different kinds of
conversational accomplishments" re-
marked man well up in the ways Of
the world, "and have paid due atten-
tion to the cultivation of such rs lie
within my range. Great is language
great, inueed-and beautiful withal.
Next to my limited ability with words,
however, rank my faculty Of using
the smile or the laugh, as the case may
be.
81 don't mean pleasantly and mirth,
as domestic social graces, but as defen-
sive business artillery. or course a
mans first impulse when another mis-
guided man makes a palpable move to
do him up or asks some unreasonable
and preposterous business favor is to
enter on wordy opposition, strenuous
naturally and perhaps violent. This, l
have learned, is waste of nervous force
and allows argument on the part of the
unfriendly man who is trying to make
the touch. The stronger weapon Is to
laugh-just laugh. Utter not a word,
no matter how much the other may
say, but Just keep on laughing. I've
routed many deep laid, dishonest
schemes with good, hearty laugh. Try
it."-Detroit Free Press.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1903-11-27
An English Election Experience.

An Englishman relates the following
election experience: 81 was taking part
In canvassing constituency without
n representative. l was announced
as n speaker at mass meeting held
In n large field within shadow distance
OF famous cathedral. One Of the
other orators delivered the most i'm
pressive speech have ever heard. He
spoke Of the struggle of the poor, how
they had to bear their burden. He
made me almost cry by his cloquence.
He talked about his own little home,
which he only just managed to keep
together by the sweat of his brow
Who is her / asked. 'Wcll,' replied
my friend, the candidate, he is known
in his own town as "Popshop Dick"
because he is a prosperous pawn
broker,'"
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1903-11-27
!. Kings, and Handicrafts.

George I'LL, when not engaged in, per-
forming the operations which had so
much to do in gaining for him the
popular nickname of Farmer George"
amused himself at one period Of his
long life with the making Of buttons
and attained a very respectable degree
Of skill in the manufacture of the diff
ferent varieties then most in fashion.
George w.; his son and successor,
affected another sort Of unkingly dis
traction for idle hours and particularly
prided himself on the perfection with
which he could "cut OUT a pair of
breeches. Outside the glorified ranks
of the fashionable outfitters of the day,
the Stultzes, the Meyers, the Schweit-
zers and Dandrons, only Beau Brum-
mel was thought to be his rival ut the
shears. but for elegance and accuracy
and style the king considered himself
the Beau's undoubted superior. The
unfortunate Louis NJ. was an expert
locksmith, with general turn for
mechanics, and spent whole days in his
ferge, as did one of his predecessors
on the throne of France. Louis XIII.