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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-05

Presidents Address ut Dedication of a
University.

DECATUR, H., June 4.-President
Roosevelt this afternoon made the closing
address incident to the dedication of James
Milliken University, before 10000 persons.
The Presidents car was run TO the univer-
sity campus. He shook hands with James
Millken, who has given $4,000 to the uni
yersity, and during his speech said to the
schools benefactor:
Mr.. Milliken, l feel that as an American
it is proper for me to express to you and
TO those like you, obligations that good
Americans feel for what you and they have
done in the university and in other educa-
tional institutions throughout the land. |
am especially pleased that l am to take
part in the dedication of institution of
learning where so much OF the teaching is
TO be with direct view TO an industrial bet
terment of the country Ours is age
of specialization and the man who is to do
industrial work will find himself immeas-
urably better prepared for Ii if he can
have the proper kind of industrial train
ing"
President Roosevelt then spoke of the
benefits of such institutions to the Repub-
lie and of the duty of students TO use their
education in making good citizens.
At the Wabash Railroad station the
President addressed another crowd made
up largely of railroad and factory en-
ployes. He thanked the railroad men for
the way he had been cared for on his trip.
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Notable Utterances on Mob Law,
Stability Of the Republic and
Good Government.
VISIT TO LINCOLN'S TOMB
APPOINTMENT OF NEGRO GUARDS
URGED BY THE PRESIDENT.
Dedication of the New Arsenal mt the
Capital and the MiIIiken Uni
versity at Decatur.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, June 4.-President
day, during which time he dedicated the
new arsenal and armory erected at a cost
of $4,000, ground north of the State
house, costing $4,000 donated by citizens of
Springfield. and addressed the Lincoln-Mc-
Kinley Veteran Voters Association Of the
United States at the national Lincoln monu-
ment- The weather was cloudy and warm.
No rain fell. The Presidents special train
arrived on the Chicago & Alton at 1915
and was greeted with a presidential salute
of twenty-one guns by Battery A. of DAN
Vile, stationed at the Lincoln monument
From the railway station to the arsenal the
President was escorted through lines Of
cheering people by Governor Yates, state,
federal, county and city officials and a re-
ception committee. Governor Yates's mill
tary staff, Troops d, of Springfield. and G,
of Peoria. the First Cavalry and Fifth In
fantry of the Illinois National Guards. On
each side of Capitol avenue, between Sixth
street and the Statehouse. were massed five
thousand school children, who waved flags
as the procession passed.
AT the arsenal the military escort was
abandoned and carriages drove rapidly to
the national Lincoln monument, where the
President addressed the National Lincoln
Mckinley Veteran Voters Association.
who had assembled there for their annual
memorial exercises. The President said:
ut is a very great pleasure for me to see
you to-day-you, the veterans in a double
sense, you who represent the navy, the
Union and army and all else to which Amer
leans should, without regard to minor diff
ferences, be one in allegiance. Let me say
one word: 1t seems to me eminently fitting
that the guard around the tomb Of Lincoln
should be composed of colored soldiers. 1t
was my own good fortune at Santiago to
serve beside colored troops. man who is
good enough TO shed his blood for his coun-
try is good enough to be given a square
deal afterwards. More than that no man is
entitled to, and less than that no man shall
have"
The party drove back to the arsenal where
the dedication exercises took place and
where about ten thousand persons were as
sembled. Secretary of State Rose called the
assemblage to order and introduced Gov
ernor Yates chairman of the day. Gov
ernor Yates paid tribute to President Roose-
welt as soldier, police commissioner, Gov
ernor and President and introduced Senator
Cullom, who received great ovation. Sena-
tor Cullom alluded to President Roosevelt
as the present President and one whom he
did not know how many times he might be
hereafter President and proposed three
cheers for the President, which were given
standing.
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A Notable Speech.

President Roosevelt received a hearty
ovation on being introduced. He spoke
twenty-five minutes. He said:
Senator Cullom, Governor Yates, and
you, my Fellow-Americans; Men and
Women of the Great State of Illinois-It
chance OF speaking to you to-day, and
above all to speak to you here in Lincoln's
home, after having driven out to see
Lncoln's tomb and driven out in COM
pany with the man who accompanied the
body of the great martyred President on it's
last journey to its last resting place-your
senior senator, Senator Cullom. TAp-
plause.1 have met in Illinois many men
who knew Lincoln personally, and at every
place that have stopped 1 have seen men
who fought in the army when Lincoln
pay our tribute to the greatness that is
achieved. all Of us now looking back over
Lincoln-sad. kindly, patient, Lincoln-as
1t looms above his contemporaries, as 1t
will loom ever larger through the centuries
to come GApplause.l 1t is good thing
for us by speech to pay homage to the
memory of Abraham Lincoln. but 1t is an
infinitely better thing for us in our lives
to pay homage to his memory in the only
way in which that homage can be effec-
lively paddy seeing to 1t that this Re-
publics life. social and political, civic and
industrial. is shaped now In accordance
with the ideals which Lincoln preached and
which all his life long he practiced [Cheers
and applause.
THE greatness of our forefathers must
serve not as an excuse to us for falling to
do our duty in return, but a spur to
make us feel that we are doubly recreant
-recreant to them as well as recreant to
ourselves-if we fail to rise level with the
standard they set. To the men of Lincolhs
generation the supreme gift was given to
be true to themselves in great national
crisis. Theirs was not the life of ease,
the life Of comfort. For their good fortune
they were given duty hard to perform
but supremacy well worth performing.
envy no man life Of ease, and feel little
but contempt for him If his only ideal is to
lead a life of ease. We should reserve
our feeling of admiration for the men who
have difficult work to do, but work emin-
emily worth doing, and who do 1t well.
GApplause.]
1.-The problems that face us as Nation
to-day are the problems which Lincoln and
the men of his generation had to face
Different methods must be devised for solv-
ing them, but the spirit in which We ap-
proach them must be the same as the
spirit with which Lincoln and his fellows
| in council, his followers in war, approached
their problems, or else this Nation will
fail. 1t will not fail. 1t will succeed, be-
cause we still have in us the spirit of the
men of 1861. (Applause.] Here We are as
a nation with a domain and population
such as no other republic in the history of
the world has even approached. For veal
or for woe we are a great power, a great
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-05
MORE RAIN TODAY.
To-Morrow, However, May BE Fair
and Warmer Throughout Indiana.
day and Saturday:

day and Saturday:
Indiana-Showers on Friday. Saturday
warmer and probably fair; light east winds.
Ohio-Partly cloudy on Friday; probably
showers in south and west portion. Satur-
day fair; light to fresh east winds.
Illinois-Showers on Friday. Saturday
partly cloudy; showers in central and south
portions; light east winds
Lower Mchigan-Fair on Friday and Sat-
urday; light east winds.
Kentucky-Showers on Friday. Saturday
fair and warmer.
North Dakota-Fair and cooler on Friday
and Saturday.
wisconsin-Fair on Friday. Saturday fair
and cooler in west portion; light east winds,
becoming variable.
Minnesota-Fair on Friday. Saturday fair
and cooler in west and south portions; light
east winds. becoming variable.
South Dakota-Fair on Friday. Saturday
fair and cooler.
Nebraska-Partly cloudy on Friday; show
ers In south portion. Saturday fair.
Iowa-Partly CLOUDY on Friday and Sat-
urday; probably showers in southern por-
ton.
Kansas-Showers on Friday. Saturday
probably fair in west, showers in east por-
ton.
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81 Province Have No Food.
WASHINGTON, June 4--Secretary Hay
has received a cable from Consul Mcwade.
at Canton. which says: Governor Wong
telegraphs me that over a million natives
in Kwang-Si are starving. and earnestly
appeals for help from American charity
All relief distribution through the hands OF
American and British missionaries"
Sir Shentung LANG Cheng. the Chinese
minister, called at the State Department
to-day, and was placed In possession of
such adyices as the officials had respecting
the distress in Kwang-Si. The minister APP
peared to be bewildered, and was unable
to suggest any measure OF relief for his SUI
fering countrymen. The State Department.
although not anxious to embark In whole
sale charitable enterprises, viii undertake
TO do what IL can In forwarding relief meas
ures. and without further reference to the
minister here will itself transmit directly
to Mr.. McWade, the consul general at Can
ton. any funds which the charitably inclined
people of America may choose to contribute.
Mr. McWade has already stated that he can
China TO distribute the money 10 the best
use the American and British missions In
advantage.
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DANVILLE, ILL.,, June 4.-President
Roosevelt delivered the last scheduled
speech of his long trip to-day at Danville,
the home of Congressman Cannon. Not
withstanding the inclement weather he was
greeted by large crowd. The stay at DAN
Vile was only twenty minutes, and at $40
whence it will go direct to Washington.
The President this evening was the guest
at dinner of the members of his party. The
meal was served In the dining car Gilsey,
the guests besides the President being Sec
rotary of Agriculture Wilson, Secretary
Loeb, Senators Beverage and Fairbanks,
of Indiana, Surgeon General Rixey and AS
siStant Secretary Barnes.
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justice which shone In every deed and every
act OF Abraham Lincoln. [Cheers and APP
plause.J
At the conclusion of the speech lunch
con was served at the executive mansion 80
the presidential party and chairmen of vari-
Gus local committees, after which he re-
ceived the local reception committee and
Hamilton Club. OF Chicago. which had come
down in a body. AT the conclusion of the
reception the Presidents party was es-
corted by troops TO the Wabash station,
where, at o'clock this afternoon, he left
for Decatur.
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Lincoln Sayings.
Curtis's Biography.

Curtis's Biography.
His greatest fault was his inability to sup
press his sympathies. He once said. IF
have one vice. IL is not being able 10 say
mo-. And / consider IL a vice. Thank God
for not making me a woman. / presume IL
He had He would have made me just as
ugly as l am. and nobody would ever have
tempted me"
On another occasion he said. Some OF our
generals complain that l impair discipline
and encourage characterization in the army
by my pardons and respites: but IL rests me
after a hard days work II | can find some
good cause for saving a mans life; and
go 10 bed happy as / think how joyous the
signing of my name viii make him and his
family and his friends
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Local Observation. ON Thursday.

Bar. Tn. R.H. Wind. Weather. Pre-.
a m. 900 ga 80 South. Cloudy. 600
z p m. .30.16 66 "a S'east. Cloudy. G.1O
Maximum temperature. p: minimum
temperature, S.
Comparative statement of mean temper.
AZURE and total precipitation on June 8.
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Yesterdays Temperatures,

:. T. BLYTHE, Section Director.
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nation. We cannot escape playing the
part of a great nation. We can play 1t I'll
or well: but play IL we must small ma
ton can play a small part. not a great ma
ton. Upon the success of the experiment
OF free government conducted in spirit
OF orderly liberty here on this continent
ton. but depends the future of free gov
eminent in the entire world (Applause.]
1t behooves us not only TO exult In our
privileges. but soberly TO realize our respon-
ell
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CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE)
only in the most general way; the authori-
ties he left to his partner, Mr.. Smith; for
himself he reserved the apparently pleas
ing task of scoring Logsdon and some 9TH
ers who figured appeared but slightly
val lad
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-01
Ate a 15-pound Poss um.
(Wilkesboro Chronicle.)

(Wilkesboro Chronicle.)
An accommodating magistrate of the
county was recently asked TO go several
miles at night to say over the marriage
ceremony for two couples. He went on
condition that they would furnish 'possum
tor supper. That cUi4o7 they knew
squire and hau ti-~a ! baked fifteen
FOUNDER up brown and had taters to go
with it-that's the very thing they ex-
pected to persuade him with. Well,
when the ceremony was over they sat
down to supper, at least the Squire did,
Tor 1T Is the country custom to let the
big ones" eat first. 1t was an exciting
time, kinder like it used to be with us lit
ue fellows when the preacher came and
we watched through the crack to see If
ne would leave a single piece OF chicken.
That 'possum and taters and Squire took
up together, and when the Squire got up
and went home the postum did the same
thing, and he wasn't carrying it IN his
pocket either. There had to be another
supper prepared for the other folks.
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He darts with the lightnings speed
Into the West.
GEORGE II. MURPHY.
Washington, d. c., Oct. 16.
An Uncle Remus Rhy me,

Mr.. Rabbit run fur-Mr Rabbit run fas',
kaze dey scuzen'd him er givin' de gals
some sass.
Wild der fingers in der years, dey stomped
der feet,
Wild, "Des lis'n at dat! Is you ever hear
de beat?'
Yit all in de worl' dat Brer Rabbit say,
Wuz "Howdy, my homes! Whichaway-
WhichaWay
Youer gettin' too Of fer ter be so gay
l b'lieve in my soul youer turnin' gray"
Mr.. Owl, he seed big star shoot,
An he blow his horn wild a toot-toot-
foot!
Mr.. Fox come along wild han ter his
year.
An de gals, dey holler, 'Brer Fox. run
here"
Mr.. Fox, he grin an show his tush--
please come an make Brer Rabbit hush;
We want dom nothin' but dancin on
de grass,
An here he come wild his mouf full er
sass
Mr.. Owl, he seed a n'er star shoot,
An he make his horn go toottoot-toot!
Mr. Fox scratch hisse'f behind de year,
Wild a 'Tut-tut-tut, What dis | hear
An de gals dey say, You hears de trufe"
An den Mr.. Fox, wild wif-waff wooff
Try ter swaller Brer Rabbit, but he swal-
er'd de ar:
He snapped he did but he never totch a
bar
An mighty good reason-Brer Rabbit
want dar,
One star, two stars, three stars shoot,
An Of Mr.. Owl blow foot foot foot!
Mr.. Rabbit, fun behine de MULLEN stalk,
Holer, Ladies all, Tine gwine ter take
walk:
wuz maxim fun, but I'm sorry | spoke.
Fer all say want nothin but joke ?
La, Brer Rabbit! an whyn't you tell us
Kaze we likes you better dan de yuther
fellers"
Nh. Rabbit he laugh an wiggle his
smellers,
An de hoss-apple falls long TO it
mellers,"
Two stars, three stars, four stars Shoot
Mr. Owl, he laugh, an toot-toot-toot!
Mr.. Rabbit, he say, "Youer in yo' prime
I'd "a toll you dat, but you amt gi' me
time"
Miss Meadows, she say, Don't lost you
chance,
Les go ter my house an all have a Dance
Mr.. Rabbit, he laugh an shake his head.
What mo- kin you say when all is said?
IN de one OATS gray-Brer Fox is red
kin be my own frien' when he is fled.
I'm gwine fer ter ct some calamus root,
An lis'en to de Whipperwill a-playin' on
his flute
Mr.. Whipperwill-he won't stay still
Mr.. Whipperwill, a-playin' on his flute.'
Joel Chandler Harris, in Saturday Even
ing Post.
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A Good Man Gone.

To the Editor:-Granvilie county los.
one Of her very best citizens on the eth
OF October, 1908, by the death of M.
Woodson Duncan, of Tally-Ho township
He lived to the ripe old age of go. Lowell.
and honored by all who knew him. III.
life was made beautiful by the refining
and elevating power of the gospel He
was an earnest Christian, and a useful
member and deacon of rally-Ho Baptist
church.
Hundreds of lives have been impressed
for good, by his holy living, and his wise
council. He was a lifelong student OF
the Bible. He loved it devotediy.
He was laid TO rest between his loving
wife, and charming young daughter ,w',c
had passed on before him, and were rea dy
to welcome him to his heavenly home. The
funeral services were largely attended
and conducted by his pastor.
j. A. STRADLEI.
Oxford ~ c., Oct 81
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lator he resisted the sweeping enactmen:
o. prosecuting laws.
In the career of discovery, his pers.
Yerance was never baihed by losses He
joined in the risks OF Gibert's expe:i
ton; contributed 10 the discoveries OF
Davis in the northwest: and ..nseIf per
sonally explored the 'Insuiar regions anG
broken world' OF Guiana The sincerity
of his belief in the wealth of the latt r
country has been unreasonably Questioned
II Elizabeth had hoped ior a hypcrborean
Peru in the arctic seas OF America, why
might not Raleigh not expect to find the
city OF gold on the banks OF the OronocJ:
HIS lavish efforts III colonizing the soli
of our republic, his sagacity which en-
joined a settlement within the Chesapeake
bay, the publications OF Harriet and HaE-
lupt which he countenanced. if folloWrt.
by losses TO himself dfused over Eng
land knowledge OF America, a. wei
as an interest IN ITS destinies, and sowed
the seeds, of which the fruits were
ripen during his life time, though not
for him.
Raleigh had suffered from palsy be-
fore his last expedition. He returned bro
ken hearted by the defeat of his hopes,
by the decay of his health. and by the
death OF his oldest son. What shall be
said of King James who would open to
an aged paralytlc no other hope OF lib
erty but through success in the discovery
of mines in Guiana? What shall be said
of a monarch who could at that time UNI
der u sentence which was originally u;
just and which had slumbcred for fifteen
years order the execution of the de-
crepid man, whose genius and valor show
brilliantly through the ravages of physi-
cal decay. and whose English heart, with
in palsied frame, still beat with an
undying love for his country?
THE judgments of the tribunals of the
Old World are often reversed at the bar
of public opinion in the new. The family
of the chief author of early colonization
in the United States was reduced to beg
gary by the government of England, and
he himself was beheaded. After lapse
o. narly two centuries, the State OF .;orJn
Carolina, by a solemn act of legislation,
revived in its capital The City OF Raj
eieh, and thus expressed its confidence In
the integrity, and a grateful respect for
the memory of the extraordinary man,
who united in himself as many kinds OF
glory as were ever combined in an in
dividual, and whose name is ndissolubiy
connected with the early period of Amer
lean history
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-01
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
Monument Association to
Meet Here Nov. II.
The Historian Bsn.rof.'s Estimate Of The Great
Solder, S a.eimar, c uri.r
and OseGver.

On Wednesday. November 18th, there
will be held in this city meeting or
the Sir Walter Raleigh Monument Asso-
oiate. to consider arrangements for the
erection of the monument on Nash
Square in this city, to commemorate the
famous soldier, courtier, scholar and DIS
coverer, after whom our city is named
The following is the historian Bancroft's
estimate of Sir Walter Raleigh:
THE name OF Raleigh stands highcsl
among the statesmen or England who adj
vanced the colonization OF the United
States. and his fame belongs 10 AmerI-
can history. No Englishman OF his age
possessed so various or 50 extraordinary
qualities. Courage which was neve
daunted, mild self possession and fertii-
ity of invention, insured HIM glory in ms
profession OF, arms: and his services IN
the conquest of Cadiz, or the capture
of Fayal, were alone sufficient to es.
tablish his fame as gallant and SUE
cessful commander. In every danger, his
life was distinguished by valor, and his
death was ennobled by true magnanl'
nifty.
He was not only admirable in active
life as q soldier he was accomplished
a. scholar. No statesman in retire
ment ever expressed the charms CT traE-
quill leisure more beautifully than Raj
eigh, and it was not entirely with the
language of grateful friendship that Spen-
Ger described his sweet verse as sprlnk-
led with nectar" and rivalling the mel
odies of 1.-THE summers nightingale"
When an unjust verdict. contrary to prob
ability and the evidence, against law ahi
against equity on a charge which seems
To have been a pure invention. left him
To ianguish for years IN prison. with the
sem ence of death suspended over his
head. his active genius plunged into the
depths of erudition: and he who had
been Il soldier. courtier and a seaman
now became the elaborate author of a
learned History OF the World.
His career rs a statesman was honor
able to the pupil of Coligny and the
ootemporary of L'Hopital. I'M his public
POLICY he was thoroughly an English Pc
triot; jealous of the honor. the prosper
ity ard the advancement of his country;
the inexorable antagonist of the preter
sons of Spain. In parliament. he dc
Tended the freedom of domestic industry
When by the operation Of unequal laws
taxation was burden upon industry ratn
er than wealth he argued for q change:
himself possessed of lucrative monopoly.
he gave his voice for the repeal of all
monopolies; and, while he pertinaciously
used his influence with his sovereign Ia
mitigate the severity of the judgments
against the non-conformists, as legls-