The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-16
Laden With Honey the
Bees Return.
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led in some mysterious way to a cot
tage called The Pines where Mr. Hale
and his Wife, such an unselfish, low
ing and lOvable, helpful loyal wife
who had inherited her full share of
her fathers unequaled abilities and
her mothers extraordinary beauty, and
had nurtured and purified her own
sweet heart-where they, 1 say, had
around them a lovely family of four
girls and a baby boy, arranged along
at intervals of four years, whether 1t
was to see the chief or the baby boy
but that is another story, the same
old story, only this [ am glad and i'm
PEELED to say, / never read or hear &
cheap gibe at the mother-ln- Law that
my gorge doesn't rise in indignant pro-
test. Certainly if others were like
mine, even a little like. this untrue
and unseemly jest could not be-
What say you? Did Thackaray, or
Dickens, or Goldsmith or Oliver Wen
dell Holmes ever write anything so
delicious in it's delicacX as that?
The recollections furnished by my
genial ana~cherished friend, George
c. Jordan, now of Washington, ID. c..
were of great interest to me and his
other friends who know of the strug-
giles he had as manager and lessee OF
the old Raleigh News before it was
consolidated with the Observer. The
manner in which he financed" the
News in its troub!ous days excited the
admiration OF the town. The waters
were deep and the tide was against
him, but he was a good swimmer
1.-THE torrent roared and he did
buffet it
With lusty sinews; throwing it aside
And stemming it with heart OF
controversy
Often at shutdown it was thought he
had been engulfed and gone under,
but at sunrise he would come up
smiling and the News. full of press
dispatches and bright gossip of the
day before, would salute it's patrons
without sign of dismay or NAL de
mer.
If Russia gets into trouble that her
great financier Count White can't pull
her through, or if any of the South
American Republics wants a Minister
of Finance, | commend the one in
need to the good offices of my friend
Jordan who is as bright, snappy and
resourceful as he was tWenty-three
years ago.
That is choice bit of history that
George gives about Henry Grady hes
itating at the forks of the road in
Greensboro Is to whether he should
COlllo 10 ISdlelSll WINNER he naO start
ed, to take charge ofthe News or go
to the New York Herald. That was
just after the brilliant Georgian and
Rom Aston (of North Carolina stock)
had blown in about $4,000 on found
ing and running the Atlanta Herald
under high pressure and brilliant
speed until it's boiler burst and a
wreck ensued. Henry Grady, in his
inimitable way, told me the story of
that venture out of which he came
on his "uppers." Deciding to take
the train going to New York, he didn't
come to Raleigh. He became the
staff correspondent of the New York
Herald and later became editor of the
Atlanta Constitution and made Gov.
errors and United States Senators and
an undying reputation for himself.
1t is interesting to conjecture what
would have been the outcome If
Henry Grady had taken the right
hand ROAD to Raleigh.
Can't YOU put the historical con-
tents of Sundays News and Observer
into SOM permanent form-less
eVanercent and more convenient to
preserve and refer to than a 1853 col
umn newspaper? If so, do so and it
will be an invaluable addition to ones
library. r. ~. GRAY.