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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-27

| to go from, if not best to remain IN.
Happily, history proves that not only
! those who have gone away have, as 4
rule, achieved success, but those who have
remained have done well; and in these
last days have discovered the resources of
wealth, from which others We're lured
away. So it has come to pass that the
stalwart states organized and built up
| largely by the sons of North Carolina, and
| forging far ahead Of her in social and
material development, are likely soon TO
be overtaken, if rot distanced in the
march of progress; and these SONS and
daughters as well as grandsons and grand
daughters are turning the point of vision
in the direction OF the old home to see
what all this means.
OF this wealth of manhood and We
manhood which has been contributed to
other States no section oi our
State has given more lavishly
than the central and Middle Western, or
Piedmont section In all the history of
the State this has been the prolific SEQ
ton, and the one most aggressive in the
important matters of educational and IN
dustrial progress. Here were the settle
ments of the Quakers and the Scotch
Irish, antipodes in many respects, yet both
representing those stern and sturdy char
acteristics of honesty and integrity of pur-
pose which make the very essentials OF
a secure and stable Commonwealth.
Alongside these were the German people,
fresh from the Fatherland. and inspired
by the wholesome theological teachings
of Luther and Zuingle and, withal, train
ed in the tenets of a hberty-lovlng, IN
dustrious and lawabiding citizenship. THIS
tnree-fold material has been wrought into
the fibre of the typical North Carolinlan
of today; and while we have suffered loss
by what we have given to other States,
we are proud to welcome them back to
the roof tree, not to witness a degener-
acy of the original stock, but to rejoice
with us in a review of the years which
have brought us, as we believe, to the
turning point in our history, whence we
shall enjoy an epoch of marvellous ad-
vancement and growth.
From the time of the temporary pro-
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HUMAN LINKS WHICH BIND
With FIowery Garands the Widely Scattered People
and the Nation Together.

widely separated are families and friends.
so closely allied are personal ties. and so
dnuse the kindred sentiment which may
lind It's object in every State that the
harmony, goodwill and safety of the ma
ton would be almost assured on the
strength of personal regard and esteem
alone.
But when below that fertile and bour-
teous soil there rests the massive sub
strata formed of the essence of Civilza-
ton, Liberty, Justice and Truth, into a
Free Republic; when below that strata
rests as the primeval foundation stone,
Christian Religion, then indeed, may the
human links which bind with fiowery gar
lands the widely scattered people and the
nation together, be regarded as a bless
ing which may more than counter bal
ance the Individual disappointment and
the encouragement which may come upon
some of those who, as they pass into
the sere and yellow leaf of life, sigh for
the scenes of early days and mourn for
VISIONS that have faded from the view
But no Tar Heel was made to mourn
AS the dream of the early Christian was
a pilgrimage to Rome, so has peen the
dream of the absent native North Caro-
Imam to make a pilgrimage once again
to his Old North State. They are every
where, these scattered natives are, and
the State reunion scheme for Greensboro
is one that can and should bring them
home again. Home again-anI home the
crystal castles that men do build in
dreams. At the North and at the South.
In the West and the Northwest and the
Southwest-wherever in the Western
world in
shops, at office desks, in counting rooms
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ness and professional men of Baltimore
and has the following officers:
Dr. Edwin Gee, President DR.. A. Mar
shall Elliott, Vice-President; John WILDER
jenkins, Secretary; D. H. Hamilton, Jr.,
Treasurer. Board of Governors Or.
Charles G. Hill, Rev. j. w. Willard, John
C. Davies, DR.. ]. R. Winslow. Charles G.
Joyner.
At it's last regular meeting, Dr. Charles
G. Hill, presiding, the North Carolina So
ciety of Baltimore, on motion of Mr..
Walter Grimes, seconded by DR.. Ryland
0. Sadler, adopted the following resolu-
ton:
Resolved, That this Society heartily
endorses the plan of holding at Green's
boro, n c., a reunion of natives of North
Carolina, who are now resident in other
States, and hereby pledge its cooperation
in that movement.
In accordance with this resolution the
secretar of the Society, Mr.. John WILDER
Jenkins, was appointed as its representa-
tive at the Greensboro reunion IN Octo-
Der, 18th and 18th, and was instructed
to bear the greetings Of the Baltimore
Society to the North Carolinians there as
sembled.
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At HOME AND ABROAD
Tar Heels Have Helped to
People All States in the
Union.

Apropos of the great reunion of non
resident native North Carolinians which
will be held at Greensboro October 18th
and 18th. 1t is interesting to examine sta
tstics as 20 how many native North
C&rolinians are now living abroad. How
many are there who can claim the priv
lege of coming back to the Old North
State as to their old home, visiting the
scenes of other days and claiming the
heritage of sons and daughters of the
Old North State. There name is Legion.
The grand army of Napoleon at Austen
litZ combined with the still larger army
of the allies opposed to him, would not
be half so large. Should the vast army Of
dispersed abroad all come back at once
there are no ten cities in the State that
could accommodate them. No not twenty
towns and cities.
According to the United States Census
OF 1900, the number of native North Caro-
linians living in other States is three times
as large as the entire standing army of
the national government More than all
the troops furnished by North Carolina
to the Confederate service, and three
times as great as the combined popua
ton of Asheville, Charlotte Durham,
Greensboro, Raleigh and Wilmington. The
census of 1900 shows that there are 326,037
native North Carolinians living IN other
States and territories of the Union, be-
sides fifty-fve in Alaska nine in Hawaii
and 1859 scattered in the military and
naval service of the United States Gov
eminent making a grand total Of 327,-
670 This does not include those resid-
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and in all manner of occupations can be
found the native North Carolina, and
most everywhere he has made himself
a useful member of society. Among the
greatest men of the nation-those high
III counsels of affairs of State-and in vast
commercial enterprises they are to be
found, honored by admiring constituencies
and worth their millions in gold. From
the pulpits their voices are heard reach
ing out across the world, and in edi-
tors chairs IN the great cities at the
North sit some of the brainiest men
and tar is on their heels. With the edu
cational institutions throughout the coun
try there are North Carolinians honored
and not without deserving fame-While an
army of them in different vocations will
answer to roll-call at the State reunion,
to be held at Greensboro.
In all manner of ways they left us.
Twas nearly forty years ago when the
vanquished returned with dropping head
and saddened heart to the home
stead shattered and ruined, to
meet the haggard wife ond starry
ing children-the hopes of his life
blasted and with only the consolation
that he had tried to do what God and
his conscience told aim was right. and
he had failed. Behind him were sorrow
full memories, before him but the faintest
CLEAN of hope. So he packed the few
household treasures which were lett.
gathered around him the young wife and
children and started-God knew where and
God knew why. And in that new home
mayhaps across what was then the desert
waste on to the shores of the calm Pa
cific he settled, or stopped, and he pros
pered because in him was the nerve and
the splendid daring and rugged honesty
of his fearless fprbears who rebelled
against the tyranny and insolence of a
King and first presented to the world
| that immortal document-the Mecklen-
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and rich, to remain upon their ancestral
domains and take the blessings or mis-
fortunes which fate brings to them, with
thankful or unthankful hearts--as the
case may be-but with q certain degree
OF contentment which familiarity and
affection for personal surroundings always
give.
But Americans who are deficient IN
nothing so much as in patience, rival the
young birds of the forest in their eager
ness to try their wings and fly away
from their parental nest. In a family
of children there is always at least one
whom nothing can keep within bounds.
AS soon as the tiny feet can walk, the
wandering boy, or girl, maybe, INDUCES
in the forbidden luxury, so dear to chill
dren, of running away. Threats, punish
ment, promises, caresses, have no lnfiu-
ence upon the mind of the future travel
err As soon as door or gate is left open
the errant youngster disappears, to the
terror and CONSERVATION of the fond moth
er and to the discomfort of a sympathiz-
ing neighborhood.
And this disposition is not one which
is outgrown. On the contrary it in
creases with advancing years, and the
boy who explores all the cellars and gar
rets, the brooks and meadows, the hills
and valleys of his childhood's vincinity
may become a Marco Polo or a Henry
Stanley in his ripper years. The same spirit
which leads him when child to scale the
hill which his youthful eyes magnify into
a mountain will carry him in later life
to the summit of the Nevada de SoratO
or across the backbone of the world-the
giant Himalayan range.
And for the reason of this restless and
resistless spirit the young American can
not be made to believe that one place in
his great country is as good as another,
and that the advantage of residing at and
growing up in his native town or city is
a valuable element in the career of
worthy man; but he looks wishfully
abroad until he fancies he has discovered
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The nations strength lies IN the unity
OF her every section, and her industrial
progress is due in a great measure to the
labors of men who cast aside every per-
sonal consideration and bend their efforts
in the direction of universal peace, and in
that careful elaboration in the guiding
and protecting of our educational, COM
mercial and financial interests, in which
North Carolina has arisen to sheSe her
portion of the burden Of her responsibility.
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er States portion ara, negroes, but they
are considerably in he minority
North Carolina has not received in re-
turn as she has given. It's emigration
has greatly exceeded its immigration. In
return for these 1927 $40 gone away, she
has received from other States and ter
ritories only $685.. With the single ex-
cepton of South Carolina the balance is
on the wing side of the ledger. From that
state we have received 81 ,513 as against
29,521 furnished them. From VIRGINIA,
however. in return for over $4,000 we have
only 25,619. Texas gives back only $50
for our %, 065, Kansas 131 for our 1870.
Others are in about the same proportion,
though New York and Pennsylvania are
away above the average in hberality,
sending us LAO and 1859 respectively.
The total foreign born population in
North Carolina, or those born outside of
the Jurisdiction of the United States is
4 492. New Yorks foreign born popula-
ton is nearly two millions. We are
nearly all North Carolinians in North
Carolina, and perhaps after all have the
purest stock of any State in the Union.
Ninety-fve and four-tenths per cent Of
our white and ninety-flve and six-tenths
of our negro population or ninety-five
and fve-tenths of our entire population
were born in North Carolina. This is the
highest percentage of any State in the
Union.
Although a great army has migrated
to other parts, a goodly number has re-
NAMED at home. And those who have
will be glad to see those who
will come back. But if all of our broth
ers and sisters dispersed abroad should
come back at any time and bring their
children with them it would require sew
eral fatted calves to welcome the wan
derers. P. ID. GOLD, JR.
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FIRST FOR A FOREIGNER.
baskerville Citizen.)

Some one rises to remark that the flrst
American girl to marry foreigner olu
not consider a title indispensable. she
not only carried him no ducats for tne
honor of bearing his "entitlements, oul
her entire trouseau would hardly have SUI
feed for one costume of society belle at
either a dance or a bathing resort.
Yet many Virginians have just cause
TO be proud that they are descended from
this couple-Pocahontas and John Role.
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PURPOSE OF THE REUNION.
By Charles D. McIver, Chairman of Board of Managers


Called
s o What purposes
organization life
generous
greatly promoting
notin
AS conceive it, the serious purposes Reunion
To opportunity
to andcem o
To
giving
To advertise
daughters resident
national
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Baltimore Society
at the Reunion

The Baltimore North Carolina Society
is composed of many of the leading bust
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-10

and Wilson Enos. her husband, with
Mr. Bell as the financial hacker of the
company. From the beginning the or
ganization was beset with trouble.
though the company and the plays pre-
scented were excellent. In discussing the
matter last night Mr.. Bell said:
I feel that I am practically forced
out Of the field now, but we shall retire
as gracefully as we can. We have done
our best. and apparently have Won
many friends. What my plans for the
future are 1 cannot now say. 1 have
the greatest faith in a stock company
for Kansas City
There was a large advance sale for
Resurrection" at the Century next
week. and Mr.. Bell stated last night
that the money for all these tickets
would be refunded at the box office If
any of the patrons should fail to secure
their refund by Saturday night they
may call at the office of ". L. Bell at
Twelfth street and Broadway
Though Mr.. Bell refuses to discuss
his plans for the future, it is not inn
probable that he will be a. theatrical
manager in Kansas city in the future
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MAY STOP BEEF MERGEF
Packers Wondering About
National Securities Decision.

Chicago, April 1O.-The Tribune today
says:
The National Packing company, re-
Gently Incorporated in New Jersey has
acquired from Secretary of State Rose
a license to transact business in Hill
nois. Its New Jersey capital is $4,000
600 while in Illinois it has q capital
stock of s., 600 000
The company secured its Illinois
license just before the ruling of the fed
eral court at St Paul yesterday was
known. What the outcome will be now
no lawyer processes to be able to pre-
dict, but it is assumed that the anti
merger decision will have direct bear
ing on this preliminary beef merger as
well as on the greater one in contem-
plation.
The National Packing company is to
assume charge of and operate through
out the country all the competitive
plants acquired by the packers. These
are the Omaha Packing company, the
G. H. Hammond company. the Ham
mond Packing company, the Hutchiu-
son Packing company, the Anglo
American Packing company, the United
Dressed Beef company, and the Fowler
Packing company.
The president of the new company is
J. P Lyman and the secretary and
treasurer B. D. Standish.
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PULL OUT OF THE HOLE.
Washburn Students Hope to Free
Athletic Association of Debt.

A play with the parts taken by college
boys and girls is to be given at the
Crawford opera house on Friday, April
H. with a matinee on the Saturday
afternoon following. The dramatic club
of Washburn has selected Goldsmith's
"She Stops to Conquer for their win
ters work, and with the intention to
putting it on the one of the down town
opera houses has worked hard to get
it into shape. There is a remarka BILE
amount of dramatic ability af1oat at
Washburn, judging from the manner in
which the students have adapted them
selves to their parts. A good deal of
money has been raised among the col
1ege people to float the enterprise and
expense for costuming is not being
spared.
of those to take parts in the cast all
but three or four have had some little
experience. Prof Q. b Towne has
charge of the direction in the play and
has been working with the cast since
Christmas. The cast is Sir Charles
NARROW. Frank Leach; Young NARROW,
Frank Richie; Mr. Hardcastle Ralph
Tuttie; George Hastings, John Van de
Mark: Tony Lumpkin, Guy Wallace
Delay; Diggory, Eden Tice; Roger,
Thomas Bowman; Dick, Hal Hotchkiss;
Stingo, Frank Leach; Slang. Hal Hotch-
kiss; Muggins, Thomas Bowman;
Jeremy, Eden Tice; Mrs. Hardcastle,
Miss Ro Hotchkiss; Miss Hardcastle,
Miss Amabel Tice; Miss Neville Miss
Edna Morrow.
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UNIONS IN STRUGGLE.
Situation in New York Is Not
Improving.

New York, April 10.-The struggle be-
tween the warning unions of carpent-
ers was resumed today the fourth day
of the strike Renewed efforts on the
part of the Amalgamated union to IN
stall its members in the places left va
can't by the striking members of the
brotherhood We're encouraged by the
announcement that q second firm of
contractors had consented to employ
them instead of brotherhood men. The
Amalgamated men are coming in from
the outlying districts and are being put
to work in the big Office buildings in
process of erection.
Officials of the Brotherhood of Civic
Federation express a hope that Presi-
dent Gomoers of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor who is coming to New
York. will adjust the differences of the
organizations both of which are af1lia-
ted with the federation.
President Gompers and Vice Presi-
dent Duncan of the Federation of Labor
arrived here today. Mr.. Gonpers SAID:
We are going to see if we can not
settle the difficulties. I have good hopes
that we may do so at once"
William Fife, business agent of the
Amalgamated. said he did not think Mr..
Gompers would be successful
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WE'RE GUESTS OF HONOR.
Miles, Campbell and sigsbee at Bal
timore Banquet.

Baltimore, April 10.-Genera1 Nelson
A Miles. Frank L Campbell, assistant
secretary of the interior, and Captain
Charles D. Sigsbee of the blown up
Maine. were guests of honor last night
at the thirty eighth annual banquet of
the Union Veteran association of this
city. General Miles delivered a patriotic
address on Our Country" Captain
Sigsbee, in his address on The Navy,
gave a description of the evolution of
the American navy. He characterized
the American battleship as the greatest
effort of American ingenuity. Hon.
Frank l. Campbell eulogized The
President of the United States" Cen
eraI Samuel S. Burdette responded to
1.-THE Dav We Celebrate" One HUNDRED
and. fifty covers were laid at the Euta "
house for the affair.
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NATION RETURNS.
Talks About Her Home for
Drunkard's Wives.

Like March wind Carrie Nation
swept through Topeka today. She is
gone to Kansas City but viii return
end will start from here next Tuesday
for another lecture tour. She dOesn't
yet know where her tour will take her
but expects to learn soon from her man
ager. Rev. Mr.. Mary of lola, who is also
secretary of the Prohibition state cen
tral committee
Carrie Nation is just back from a trip
IN the west. She has bought a $4,000
house at 1901 Kansas avenue to put
drunkards' wives in and is now looking
for some suitable occupants for it. WO-
men to be eligible must have husbands
or sons who become very drunk and act
mean about the house. She proposes to
have her charges do work outside to pay
their way. but they can depend upon
having shelter and substantial assist
ance from her whenever they need it.
Mrs. Nation expects to release all her
personal claim upon the property and
states in a rather indefinite way that
she will incorporate it,
) When get more money" said Mrs.
Nation this morning, Il intend to buy
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a nice big house out in the residence
part Of town somewhere for my drunk
ards wives. Just now I want people
to contribute furniture for my house,
because there isn't anything In it. Any
body is welcome there right now if they
want to come. but it will be nicer after
it gets fixed up. L paid $1,000 for my
Kansas City house It's a nice one out
on Central avenue in Kansas City, Kas.,
and has two acres of ground arount il
I've been offered $4,000 for it already,
but I won't sell. I have not gotten pos
session of it yet but it's all paid for
I had such a nice time out in Cali
fornia and in Salt Lake City, too. All
those stories about my being put out
of the tabernacle were big neWSpaper
lies, not a word of truth in them. In
stead of putting me out of the taber-
nacle Joseph Smith took me by the arm
and led me out on the stage. He gave
me nice complimentary notice to the
audience, I tell you
we had an enthusiastic meeting in
Colorado Springs the other night
Here's a copy of a paper telling about
it. 1 want you to read it. I got S137 50
out of the meeting.
The meeting to which Mrs Nation re-
ferred took place Wednesday night in
the Temple theatef She stirred up the
animals" somewhat by uncOmplimen-
tary references to President Roosevelt
and the Republican party but she was
picture on the front page of one of the
Springs papers.
Mrs. Nation is her CHEEKY old self,
just as ever. Although herself careless
of dress she wears a very becoming
long coat of black which bears indica-
tons of newness and prosperity. She
is still selling hatchets and cleared
considerable money upon them in Cali
fornia where she has been the greater
part of her two months absence from
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-10
LATEST CHINESE TROUBLE.
French Troups Pouring Into the
Southern Provinces.

Victoria, B. c., April 10-A new crisis
has threatened the Chinese government
as a result of the continued successes
in south China for, according to mail
advices received here the French are
pouring troops into Kwangsi from
Assam. It seems that the governor of
Kwangsi, Wang Chi Hun, requested the
French officers in Assam to send troops
to his assistance and although the
PelCn government has countermanded
the request the French have gone into
the south China province and it is
feared that the European powers viii,
like Russia in the north. seize the ter
ritory into which her troops have gone.
News is received from Toxic that the
Japanese government has completed an
arrangement with Great Britain to have
an interchange of officers attached to
either country's armies. Several Brit
ish officers are to go to Japan to join
the mikado's army. and later japanese
officers win go to Great Britain
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CENTURY TO CLOSE.
Struggle for Kansas City Theater Is at
an End.

Kansas City. April 10-At the close of
the presentation of Resurrection at
the Century theater last night. W L
Bell. manager of the playhouse. an
nounced that the stock company would
close tomorrow night. This means that
the Century stock company win be dis
banded for there is no other amuse-
ment hall obtainable in which suitable
productions might be given Several Of
the players, Miss Minnette Barrett,
Luke CONFESS and James Fulton, are to
join the new stock company at the
Auditorium theater. under the direction
Of O. D. Woodward
The stock company at the Century
theater gave its first production shortly
after the Christmas holidays. It was
organized by Miss Gertrude Berkeley