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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-04-24
OLNE:yV|LlE:
F'I'coatthped From rage NIne.

Persons who have made complaint Of
thefts have been surprised to find the ar
tlcles stolen from them had been return
ed, but not by the police During this
week three such cases have come to light
for one man lost "A diamond ring. another
n bicycle and third hen. Now these
have all been mysteriously returned and
nrany believe this is dueeto the fact that
the police are overworked and out or
goodness OF heart. have returned their
stealing.
However. the police find stolen articles
once In "A while, as was shown this morn
ing. when Michael Gordon was arrested
at his home So Julian street on a charge
OF stealing n mercham pipe from James
Mernick the Putnam street barber. and
Lieut.. Tyler had an idea that Gordon
knew something about the SIS ring that
had been stolen from John Farrell at 30
Hyatt street few days ago, ana in this
the lieutenant was right for Gordon ad-
mitted that he had, and patrolman was
sent 10 Gordons house, and Mrs Cor
don gave the patrolman the ring.
The patromen OF the station under or
dinary circumstances are as faithful and
as much interested in the work assigned
them as any squad in the city.
IN ITALIAN ROW.
Albert lmondi. an Italian, whose name
can be found at the state Institutions
was arrested at his home. 70 ILaxhurst
street, last evening, by Patrolman Hol-
land and Dooley and was charged with an
assault and drunkenness.
Mrs. Imondi works at Budlongs farm
and earns so week, and last evening
Mrs lmondi showed the police marks on
her throat which she says were made by
her husband
Imondi. when he heard that the police
were after him. said that he did not care
rap for all the police I'm the city and
would Kill the first one that laid hand
on him, but this dld not prevent Patrol
men Holland and Dooley from going after
him, and they landed him.
He was I'm bed at the time and had a
wicked looking knife in his possession,
and when requested 60 dress positively
refused 60 do So but the police gave him
ample time and when they found that he
would make no move TO put on his clothes
they yanked him out OF the room and
into the patrol wagon in a hurry, and the
only articles OF wearing apparel that
lmondi wore was pair OF drawers and
an undershirt
his clothes 20 the station and as Il was
Just trifie cold he put them on.
A MERRY PARTY.
There was merry party OF 80 at the
street. last evening. II was n "Carna-
white carnations and all but two bore
"A verse, two of each corresponding. the
white ones being for the ladies. when
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-04-24
GENERAL MENTION.

DR. Fishers team was stolen from the
front OF house on Linwood avenue, last
evening and was later picked up by
patrolman from the Burnett street stat
ION and returned to the doctor.
The police have been requested to To-
cate Annie Kastowsko. who left her home
on Florence street Sunday morning. TO
attend the L. church on Ridge street,
and has not been seen or heard from
since
John Kelly. boy who left his home
9 Appleton street a number OF days ago,
has returned He tells his parents that
he has been working on farm in So
Scituate,
Patrolman Dyer picked up a stray cow
in the square last evening. and later
found the owner, who lives on West EN-
change place.
on Tuesday evening Perseverance,
lodge. Knights OF Phythias will confer
q rank OF page upon one. and the rank
OF knight upon two candidates.
Another new ear for the panielson line
went through the square this morning
The funeral OF the little daughter OF
James and Nellie Wilson was held this
afternoon at 81 Pocasset avenue.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-04-24
-. ..s theatres
Continued from page -Four.

C'''''NANN ht'Ai f'SN A'NA'
own lips. a feature altogether new and
the heroine, a shop girl. who is unjustly
arrested on a trumped up charge by her
enemies while she is on her way TO her
home to the bedside OF her dying mother,
is enabled TO escape by another unusual
and not commonly seen expedient. The
play is one Of great interest and Is 10 be
given what It is claimed will prove the
best mounting ever seen at the Empire
theatre I'm a melodrama. one of the
scenes shows lawn fete at country
house and introduces an electric fountain
of real water on which vari-colored lights
play as we'll as a brook OF running water
shining with a silvery sheen in the moon
light and the light from the lanterns
on the stage.
The late Ernest Jarrod. who wrote the
Mickey Finn stories from which
Mickey Finn" coming at the Park thea
tire. was constructed was a compositor
on a paper at Rondout on the Hudson,
when he observed the character at the
cement mines at Rondout from which
Mickey is drawn. The "Cooney's Island"
of the stories was really lake. although
a very small one. near these mines I'm
the face of the cliff overlooking the Hud-
son.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-04-24
ARIOa CLUBS FINAL CON 'EnT.

The Arion club will give its last conce
next Tuesday evening I'm Infantry ha
Rossinis "Stsbat Mater" Surrettes &c
Of st. Agnes and miscellaneous sele
tions will be given.
This In the third Offering Of the Ari.
club this season and will be the last reg
lar concert Of the season. Judging
he popularity OF preceding concerts n
closing Offering Will prove a record -brea
er I'm the sale OF seats. and those who WI
TIL the last minute are liable 20 meet wi
disappointment.
DIR. Jules Jordan will conduct the co
cert. and the club will be assisted
Nine. Charlotte Maconda. soprano. Mn
Josephine Jacoby. mezzo soprano. Mr.
Il. Johnson. tenor. Mr.. Julian Walk,
basso. and y full orchestra.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-04-24
A MERRY PARTY.

There was n merry party OF 80 al the
home OF Bessie Casey. 1H Roosevelt
street. last evening. II was n "Carna-
ton" party. There were . pink and 25
white carnations and all but two bore
a verse, two of each corresponding. the
white ones being for the ladies' When
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-04-24

ing proposed the opening OF Mukden and
Takushan as treaty ports
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-05-28
Not Enough Home-Grown Corn and
Wheat.
Wilmington Star.

Wilmington Star.
But even in good wheat years the
importation of wheat and corn by
our mills, right in the middle of the
best wheat and corn growing sections
of the State, is no unusual occurrence
for they do it every year, not to
speak OF the immense amount of
Northern -four, meal and corn i'm
ported by our merchants. The fact
is that this State, with its practically
unlimited capacity to produce all the
wheat and corn needed for home con
sumption and more, does not begin
to raise half enough. We do not
grow wheat enough to make the
bread we eat, nor corn enough to feed
the animals that pull the ploWs on
the farms
OF course this is Il senseless course
to pursue, for it makes bread higher
and scarcer, makes people seinferior
brands OF flour, and it stints the ra-
tions of the farm animals, which will
not be so we'll fed when their food
must be bought and paid for in cash
and therefore they are not as service
able as they would be ii generously
fed. But in addition to this it sends
annually large amount OF money
out OF the State, every dollar ofwhich
is needed at home and ought to be
kept at home to help our people in
stead OF sending it out to add to the
income of Western farmers and mill
ers and add to theirprosperity at our
cost.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-05-28
What is to be Done?
Charity and Children.

Charity and Children.
Laying aside all wrath and malice,
will some advocate Of the Booker
Washington theory of industrial ed
ucation for the negro tell us what is
to be the outcome of it all in our
Southern country? The Education
al Conference thinks Greek and Latin
and higher mathematics and like
studies should not engage the time
of the colored colleges, and this is
true, for it brings the negro into COM
petition with white men in profes-
sional life. But the Conference seems
to endorse Booker Washington's
plan OF training the colored youth in
the use of tools, and then bringing
them into direct and sharp competi-
tiOn with the trained white mechan-
les OF the South. II the negro ought
not to compete with one class, why
the other? The South is turning its
eyes more and more to industrial ed
ucation. but our Southern boys will
not work alongside colored boys at
the same trade The only avenue
that seems open to the negro is the
thorough preparation to handle farm
utensils and those of the kitchen, the
dining-room and the laundry They
certainly need never hope to enter
into competition with carpenters,
blacksmiths, machinists and masons.
We make these suggestions in all Sc
robustness and wish somebody would
give Us light.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-05-28
Compulsory Goodness Failure.


New bern JOufnal-
Legislative enactment never has and
probably never will work morality into
human beings.
The contests made for prohibition,
total abstinence, have not made men
sober, nor cured the habit of drink, when
local prohibition has been secured.
Yet it cannot be said that drunkenness
is so great as it has been, and it can be
proven that sObriety commands today,
in this twentieth century a greater prem
ium than it has in any period of the
world history.
The demand of the twentieth century
for men morally mentally and physical
ly sound, thus equipped to meet the eXi-
gencies OF the day and hour, is prohibi-
tive and mandatory, and the man who
will dissipate, let the dissipation be of
such character as to weaken his mind or
body, means that such Il man cannot
run the race, cannot meet the test OF the
hour, is not wanted.
SObriety, and this covers more than
the drink habit, is not merely virtue,
but a human necessity.
For dissipation. whatever its character
means the disqualification of man, his re-
tirement from an active and thorough
pau III llt dulltS VI IIiC nun.
Man may dissipate but the period Of
dissipation is shortened each year, as the
greater drain upon his vitality to meet
the living, ever urgent and present daily
conditions, makes absolute sobriety the
prime essential, to enable man to be cap
able and fit to meet the tasks OF the
day.
When mans utmost powers and
strength are thus so constantly at their
tension, dissipation persisted in means
quick reegation to the rear, and the OBJ
| liviOn of the man who cannot conquer
! his weakness.
1t is the knowledge of this demand
upon mans being sober in order to be
able to keep up with the daily stride and
movement of the world which is power
+ ful factor in the cause of right and right
, full living.
And it is the impressive daily teaching
, of this kind of self restraint and self con-
! troll, which will build up morals, and de-
velOp goodness, which no law of compul-
! sion ever enacted can do.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-05-28
A Fraud.
Graanyille Reflector.

Greenville Reflector.
OF all the hoary, bewhiskered frauds
that pompously prance through official
life at Washington, that old delusion and
snare. civil service, as operated by a Re-
publican regime, is about the worst thing
on record The barnacled. worm eaten
old hulk is a nest of official thieves.
Places are bought and sold in the post
office department very much as pigs feet
in the market place. The merit system
is hollow mockery. Appointive posi-
tions carry licenses to plunder the pub
lie purse. Incompetents, degenerates,
political sharpers to whom honor is an
unknown quantity, stare at you from
behind grated windows. People with a
little money and no brains. who are not
capable of making a living by honest eff
fort, bid prices for government sine
cures.
Where is the self-righteous old humbug,
civil service? The echo answers not.
Civil service. indeed! Devil Serveous'
is the looter's motto.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-05-28
Bio and Little Towns.
Charity and Children.

charity and Children.
Some of our neighbors have been
discussing the advantages and dis
advantages of big cities, and the pre-
ponderance was against rather than
in favor OF these great congested
populations. We are fully conscious
that North Carolina is exceedingly
fortunate in the size of her cities. We
have none above 10000 and very
few with more than 10000 inhabi-
tants. 1t is fortunate that we have
no great overshadowing city that,
by it's very size and its consequent
influence, would drain the smaller
places and thus dwarf rather than
stimulate their growth. AS it is, our
larger towns are pretty much on a
level, and there is a wholesome rival
ry among them that benefits all and
discOurages none: and the smaller
places are on their mettle, looking
with longing eyes to the time when
they shall be somebody too. But
aside from this, and much more i'm
portant than the healthy growth of
our towns, every great city is q
stronghold of corruption. Not long
since gentleman just from New
Orleans was telling us of the un-
bridled power of the municipal boss
es who farmed out their heelers at SO
much a head. The decentralization
and the corrupt influences that
stream out from this great city poi
son the atmosphere of the whole State
of Louisiana. And the disorder and
anarchy of the lawless element in the
city are patters well known to the
world. What North Carolina needs
is more small thrifty towns built up
by the energy and pluck of their own
people. The local business of the
Southern Railway from Greensboro
to Charlotte is immense because OF
the splendid towns, with IA population
of from one to ten thousand, through
which it passes. The same is true oi
the line from Greensboro to Raleigh.
This is the ideal condition, and we
wish the whole State were as pros
porous as this Piedmont section. A
hundred towns with a population oI
a thousand each would mean much
more to the State than one town
with hundred thousand
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-05-28
The Hard Lines of the Merchant.
Iharlotte Observer.

tnaflOIte observer.
The Richmond Leader recent
l.y called upon the ladies conducting
the Confederate bazaar in that city
not to prolong the life of the enter
prise beyond the appointed time, for
the reason that it was playing havoc
with the business of the merchants,
since it ran without expense and sold
goods and articles which were given
it. The Charleston News and Courier
which lives in the smoke of the battles
OF 1861 to 60, reprimands the Rich
mond paper and appeals to the sen
timent involved in the case. The
NeWs-Leader was doubtless advert
ent to this, and yet chose to take the
practical side of the question. Tn
doubtedly the merchants of every
community suffer many things at
the hands of many physicians. A
number of years ago, on the last day
OF session of Congress, when public
building bills and all sorts of bills
making appropriations were being
rushed through the House like
grist through a mill, Sunset Cox hop
ped on top Of his desk and exclaimed:
Syracuse, Oshkosh and Kalamazoo
have their friends; every town and
city, every creek, river and harbor
has its friend; but where in the name
OF Gods the friend of the Treasury?'
The merchant is everybody's friend,
not to say everybody's meat. No
body starts out with q subscription
list, or Oh any sort of a begging en-
terprise, but calls on a merchant first.
The fact that a man ''keeps store
seems to convey to the average mind
the idea that he is '1ousy with
money" But where is the friend OF
the merchant? All solicitors tax
him; all Legislatures double tax on
him; all book agents buzz him: all
deadbeats expect credit from him,
and it has remained for the Rich
| mOnd NeWS-Leader to lift it's voice in
his behalf and to suggest that he has
a few small rights and deserves to be
| protected in them.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-05-28
TIE Man Who Lacks Ballast.
Norfolk Eir2iniau-Pilot.

Norfolk yir2inian-Pilot.
The shores Of time are strewn with
the wrecks of men who have ''turned
turtle" They lacked ballast and
were tOp-heavy.
What IL tremendous amount OF
ability is wasted in this old world of
ours. Did you ever stop to reflect
how many OF the men you know have
failed because they lacked ballast
how many of the men you know are
failing for the same reason?
OF course by a failure we do not
here mean that the man dies IL pau
per, Il sOt, or a criminal. We mean
that any man is q failure who does
not realize to Il reasonable degree
the measure OF success that would
square with his abilities. just in
proportion as he falls short of that
work he is failure.
He may be total alfailure or he may
be partial failure, but in nine cases
out OF ten. if lie fails he does so be
cause he lacks balli,st-he lacks that
essential element that gives stability
and steadiness to the personality.
What is the best ballast Il man
may have? Beyond doubt IL sane
and wholesome belief in the teach
ings of the Christian religion and an
acceptance OF the obligations and
duties to his Maker, to himself and
to his fellow man that such a belief
imposes.
When all is said, there is nothing
else that can take the place of this
belief-nothing that can exercise that
steadying influence that comes of the
acceptance as a finality of the funda-
mentals OF Christianity.
There is, after all, nothing else
that is final and satisfying Men
may drive themselves ever SO fiercely
toward the goal OF earthly ambition
but to each OF them there must come
IL time when he says to himself
Wherefore?' and again "Where-
fore?" Ii mere materialistic success
is the end--the accumulation OF
worldly goods, the attainment of
power. the pettiness Of social success,
the assurance that one shall live his
brief while, as a name-then is the
end Dead Sea apples. For, it is Il
fact that success has never been an
end that of itself satisfied. And no
man, whose aim is merely these
things of a day can steer Il steady
AID safe and satisfying course.
| The problem OF the church is, today,
to convince the man who is WObblino
and zig-zagging along toward par
tial or total failure, that what he
needs is ballast. and that that bal
last may be found in the acceptance
of the splendid fundamentals con
tanned in the teachings OF Jesus
| Christ.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-05-28
CONCERT TOUR
OF Children From the Oxford Orphan
Asylum.

A chapter of children, twelve girls
and four boys, from the Oxford Or
phan Asylum will enter upon a con-
cert tour through the Eastern part
of North Carolina between the first
and middle of May and through the
West about the last of July, with an
interval of month between the two
trips.
The children give their delightful
concerts in many of our towns, us
ually at the Invitation and under the
auspices of the local Masonic lodges.
The program they render is always
free from impurities, vet filed with
humor, attractive, entertaining, help
full. The concerts are of unusual ex-
cellence and would merit and receive
the patronage of our people even if
they were not given in the interest of
this work of greatest Importance,
The bright, well trained boys and
girls themselves are a striking object
lesson to our people of the character
OF the work being done in this and
other orphanages in the State. No
one can see and hear children like
these and think of what they would
probably have been had they not
been blessed by the protection, care
and training of such an institution,
without feeling glad of an opportun-
ity to aid in its support.
The amount realized from these
tours grows larger each year and is
of material valve in the maintenance
OF the Oxford Orphan Asylum which
is now caring for two hundred and
fifty homeless children and which has
since it's establishment thirty years
ago, conferred it's benefits upon about
2,2OO boys and girls. Our people are
ready to help any worthy cause, but
none is more deserving of their sup
port, none appeals to them more
strongly than the cause of the orphan
child.
We can unite with the members of
the Masonic Order to make the chill
dren's visits to our various towns
this year even more pleasant and
profitable than heretofore. Let us
help to give them large audiences
wherever they go. If possible attend
the concert. 1t will warm your heart
1t will prove a blessing to you. You
will do good by your presence and
encouragement. You will aid the
orphan cause.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-05-28
CIeyeiand's Popularity.


concord INES
Gen. W. p. Roberts. ex-State Audi
tor. tells the Raleigh News and OBJ
server that seven out of ten people i'll
Gates county favor Cleveland's nom
nation for President. We have been
much surprised during the past ten
days to find that Just such state OF
affairs exists in Cabarras. We have
talked to many of our best country
citizens on the matter and every man
we have approached is unhesitating-
ly and earnestly in favor of Mr..
Cleveland snomination for the fourth
time. As far as this writer is con
cerned he knows OF nothing that
could happen which would give him
more genuine pleasure. for he believes
that if Mr. Cleveland We're renomi-
mated no power on earth could pre-
vent his triumphant election. And
this is "a conSummation devoutly y to
be wished
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-05-28
Robbed the Grave.

\ startling incident is narrated by John
Oliver OF Philadelphia, as follows: Il was in
an awful condition. Nv skin was almost
yellow, eyes sunkcn, tongue coated pain con-
tinualy in back and sides, no appetite, grow
ing weaker day by day Then was advised
to use Electric Bitters; to my great Joy, the
first bottle made decided Improvement. |
continued their use for three weeks, and am
now a well man. | know they robbed the
grave of another victim No one should fail
to try them. Only 80 cents. guaranteed, at
Dorseys Drug Store.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-05-28
A Great Sensation.

There was a big sensation in Leesville, Ind,
when W. II. Brown of that place, who was
expected to die, had his life saved by DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consumption He
writes: Il endured insufferable agonies from
Asthma, but your New Discovery gave me
immediate relief and soon thereafter effected
a complete cure" Similar cases ofConsump-
ton, Pneumonia, Bronchitis and Grip are
numerous. It's the peerless remedy for all
throat and lung troubles. Price soc. and
S1OO Guaranteed by Dorsey's Drug Store.
Trial bottles free.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-05-28
No grander heroes ever died
No sterner battied to the last.

Mr.. Joseph Pominvlle, OF Saltwater, MINI.
after having spent over 81 900 with the best
doctors for stomach trouble without relief.
was advised by his druggist, Mr.. Alex Richard,
to try bottle of Chamberlain Stomach ard
Liver Tablets He did so, and is well man
today. Ii troubled with indigestion, bad taste
in the mouth, lack of appetite or eonstipa-
ton, give these tablets trial, and you are
certain to be more than pleased with the re-
suit For sale for 25c per box at Parker 2
Two Drug Stores
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-05-28
HENDERSON. n. c., THURSDAY, MAY 2S 1903.
THE DARK BEFORE DAWN.
Edith NJ. Thomas, in Scribners Magazine

Oh, mystery Of the morning gloam,
OF haunted air, of wndIess hush.
Oh. wonder OF the deepening dome
Afar, still far, the mornings flush!
My spirit hears, among the spheres,
The round earths ever quickening rush,
A single leaf, on yonder tree,
The planets rush hath felt, hath heard:
And soon. all branches Whispering be-
That whisper wakes the nested bird
The song OF thrush. before the blush
r. OF Dawn, the dreaming world hath stirred,
The old moon withers in the East
The winds Of space may drive her fart
In Heaven s chancel waits the priest
Dawn's pontiff priest the morning star,
And yonder 10! Il shafted glow
The gates Of Day-spring fall aiar,