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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-26

mule, if the mule is his own, than to
sell himself to a master that has more
use for machines than for men. Bend
ing over a desk and adding up figures
that never end is a poor and very
low ambition for a man--it may do for
a being wearing the appearance of a
man. Many of these men, as Mr.
Clark observes, are gifted. They
would make their mark anywhere, but
having entered the moonless dungeons
with the multitudes that lean on the
for a living, they drown
the cries of ambition and drift on to
the dreary end. 1t is bad enough for
our boys to yield to the temptation of
the turpentine woods of Florida and
Georgia, or the wild and unsettled life
of the new States, but better that a
thousand times than a decision to
plunge into the darkness of depart
ment work at Washington where too
often he who enters may abandon
hope. The department clerk may make
a living but he cannot make life, and
however strong he may be he letters
himself to the earth. North Carolina
as a place for the development of all
that is noblest and best in "a man is
not to be mentioned in the same
breath with Washington.
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Carolina, simply because he refused to
eat with the Georgia negro commit
teeman at Mark Hanna's committee
BANQUET. We thought OF course, that
Teddy Roosevelt andS Marx Hanna
might be indignant at the judge, but
to think that white men OF prominence
in the Republican party would KICK
him out for his failure at soclal equali-
ity with the negro, is at least surpris-
ing.
Is it possible that white man must
eat with negroes to be in favor with
the Republican party in North caro-
lima? The Southern Lily White party
has been shaded by the negro under
Teddy's approval for some time but
we had no idea that political and So
cial equality would so soon be the
campaign slogan with North Carolina
Radicals. 1t begins to look this way
to us: that the white man South who
supports Teddy for President must, by
so doing, approve negro government
in the South and social equality at the
hearthstone.
Lily-white Radicals have gotten a
final blow from Teddy and only Few
very hungry pie-eaters Will support
him.
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81 Love Her Best of All"

She dropped this rosebud half an hour
ago,
While gliding through that witching
waltz of Strauss;
/ saved it from destruction dire, below
The ponderous feet of Phillips and
his spouse.
Tell me, sweet rose, before our petals
fall,
Does my love know I love her best of
all?
That chattering noodle Briggs, her
Another waltz. And, as | feared, again
vis-a-vis.
He's rich, though rather passe; and
it's plain
He loves her-that the very blind
could see
How graciously she listens to his
drawl!
All, can she know l love her best of
all?
I never told her how her winsome face
Comes to my thoughts unbid the
whole day through;
l never asked her If there is place
In her young heart where I'm re-
membered too,
Yet watching her l lean against the
wall,
And tell my soul l love her best OF ALL
Now halts the music for little space;
And, seated, see, she gathers daintily
Her gowns gay folds aside, to make a
place
A place for Briggs. BY jove, she
beckons me!
My queen, 1 come. Now, let what
may befall,
know she knows / love her best of
=
The soft, still dawn steals up the
whitening sky;
The lights are out, the music dumb
and dead,
Beneath the stars together, she and I,
An hour ago-what was it that we
said?
Strange gladness thrills my heart as 1
recall
Her whispered words: 81 love you best
of ALL
The Argonaut
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All Quiet Along the "Old Mullet'
Tonight.
(By B. B. Raiford.)

(By B. B. Raiford.)
All quiet along the "Old Mullet" to-
night,
Except now and then a deceiver
Is heard, as he counts. ties to and
ST think I will get a Receiver
But bark We! and listen, what is 1t
heard;
What news from the scene of the
battle?
The sentinel, Daniels, forever is near,
He's ousted the Receivership Vttle.
All quiet along the "Old Mullet to
No sound, save the noise of the
whistle,
Is heard out in the daylight
While Purnell has been showing his
bristle;
But bark We, comrades, what is IL
see?
Some one is uncorking the bottle
1t is Purnell and Meares, Cuyler ana
But Charles" still pulling the
throttle.
All quiet along the "Old Mullet" to-
night
The light from the engine is gleam-
ing
For Pritchard has spoken, and Dan
iels is free,
And his comrades are peacefully
dreaming;
But a lease is now on and no more
will we hear
With Aycock to do the foretelling,
And The N. and o. in front and
in rear
OF Cuyler and McBee, Purnelling.
Mt Olive, N. c., June Is, 1904.
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CAN NEVER GET MORE THAN THE
POUND OF FLESH.

Underneath the South Dakota suit
and the A. & N. C. Railroad agitation
for a Receivership was a scheme that
had millions in it, for the men who
were the inspirers of both these at
tempts to do the State of North
Carolina. One of these days the de-
tailed history of the two transactions
from their inception will be printed.
In it's audacity and magnitude it will
be found to be fit companion of
Littlefield's gigantic games of grab
and graft.
The basis for a re-opening of the
State debt settlement was, first, the
South Dakota suit, and, second, the A.
& N. c. r. r. receivership. The pro-
gram was well arranged, needing only
a Legislature that could be caJoled,
bought, or fooled to follow up the
South Dakota suit and the A. & N. c.
r. r. receivership. The Democratic
State convention at Greensboro last
week, following up the action of the
Granville County Convention, where
Judge Graham's resolution blazed the
way, blocked the game of the men
who have been dreaming of the big
money they would realize on the old
repudiated bonds they have been keep
ing in their strong boxes all these
years. The Democratic State Conven-
ton took notice of the conspiracy upon
the State Treasury and gave it solar
plexus blow by passing the following
resolution:
AFTER long and careful deliberation
and conference with many of its cred1-
tors, the State of North Carolina adj
justed it's debt upon a basis so fair and
honorable as to win the approval OF
the financial world and to secure rati-
fication by nearly every creditor of
the State. During the present year
attempts have been made to re-
open the question settled at that time
by the States wiseSt and best
men. The Democratic party OF 1904
approves the settlement made in 1879
and will forever oppose any and all
attempts from any quarter to set aside
the settlement then made. 1t Will
abide the mandates of the courts but
it will not consent to reopen the set
Element that was alike creditable to
the State and fair to the holders OF
it's securities
Those bondholders and their allies,
who have been looking for a rich feast
are forever estopped from getting a
single penny beyond the sum offered
in 1879 as long as the Democrats are
In power.
The looters cannot loot unless they
can get a Republican Legislature, or
get men elected who will bolt the
Democratic platform. They can do
neither.
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Spirit of the Press.
Sad But Beautiful Thought.

Col. r. B. Creecy in Economist.
When John Adams, the second
President of the United States, was
ninety-two years old, Daniel Web
Ster, then a young man just rising to
distinction, passed through Quincy.
Mass, the residence of Mr.. Adams
and called to see him.
Entering the room where Mr.
Adams was, feeble and tremulous
from age, he said: 81 hope you are
getting along tolerably well, Mt.
Adams" To which the old man re.
piled:
"Quite the contrary, sir. 1 am a
poor tenant, occupying house much
shattered by time, and from all / can
discover, my landlord does not intend
to make any repairs"
In our reading we have never seen
a more beautiful or touching senti-
ment.
A poor tenant! of a frail tenement,
poor in infirmity, having sounded
all the depths and shoals of honor
and experienced their vanity, rich in
lifes prides, rich in the trophies OF
ambition that had proved to be
empty bubbles, and turned out at last
from the old dilapidated house he
had occupied SO long and loved so
well, to go, he knew not where"
We have known no more touching
commentary upon the vanity of nu-
man aspirations and the emptiness of
earthly ambitions.
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The PRAYER of Life.

Lead me. o God, in life's brave early
day,
While skies are clear and all the
world is gay;
So many hurtful blooms my vision
greet
SO many paths diverge to lure my
feet
Far from the peaceful, sinless road
astray!
And when the morning can no longer
stay, a.
And songs are mute, and noontide's
fervent ray
Upon the weary track must fierce
ly beat,
Lead me, God!
Nor leave me when the eventide shall
lay
Upon life's happy fields it's vapors
gray
Clasp then my hand in thine more
close and sweet
Than thou hast ever held it; and,
while fleet
The night is falling, down the I'M
known way
Lead me, O God!
Henry Jerome Stockard
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IT'S FRIENDS WILL RALLY TO TT.

Greensboro Female College will be
rebuilt and will be open for students
this fall. 1t has done a work so great
that it's influence can never die. There
is great need that it's beneficent opera
tons should be continued and en-
larged. The patriotic women and
men eve put the women first because
they lead) who resolved on the morn
ing after the fire to rebuild Greensboro
Female College, met with a hearty re-
Spouse not only from the Methodists
of the State but from many others as
well. Work has begun on the new
building. At the meeting of the board
of trustees held in Greensboro last
week a report was made by the secre
tary showing the financial status of
the institution and the progress made
in securing it's bonded indebtedness,
all of which were encouraging and
gratifying. After a full discussion by
the trustees, the following resolution
was adopted
Resolved, That it is the sense of
this board that the movement to re-
build Greensboro Female College be
pushed with renewed vigor; that the
building committee be authorized and
directed to place orders for material
at once, and the work of construction
begin as soon as the remaining $10,-
600 of the 100000 to be raised is sub
scribed in order to insure the opening
of the college at the fall term.
end: That the board endorse the
resolutions adopted at the recent
meeting of the Alumnae Association of
Greensboro Female College; and that
We hereby pledge to the alumnae our
heartiest sympathy and cooperation
in the laudable efforts to rebuild and
re-eStablish this time-honored institu-
ton of learning; and that we earnestly
appeal not only to the alumnae but
also to all the friends of Greensboro
Female College at once to make liberal
contribution for the rebuilding of the
college to insure the reopening at the
fall session"
There is need of money to rebuild.
There is no investment that North
Carolinians can make in immortal
mind that will pay a larger dividend
than to invest it in helping to rebuild
this old and useful institution for
the education of women.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-26
STANDING BY CORPORATE
RIGHTS.

Ever since the first order putting
of a receiver the majority stockhold-
ers of corporations have been seek
ing to find out their rights. AS
result they have found that they are
not properly safeguarded, if private
stakeholder wishes to give trouble
and can get a judge to grant his
plea.
Minority stockholders have sacred
rights which must be safeguarded, but
they have no right to destroy cor.
poration because of some Interior
purpose. We have lately seen that
q minority stakeholder who baSJ
gained for stock i'm order to get an
associate put i'm charge of the prop
erty, could by owning few hundred
dollars worth of stock get in posi-
ton to wreck property worth two
million dollars. \
The Democratic State convention
took cognizance of this matter AID
passed the following wise resolution:
Corporations being creatures of
the law should be under control of
the sovereign and amenable to the
law. But being useful and necessary
incidents of business, all their rights
should be guarded and protected by
the law. Like other citizens they
should be protected from wrong and
oppression. Especially should they
be protected from suits in form to
procure. receiverships designed to
wreck the properties and transfer
them from their rightful owners to
the possession and control of financial
Adventures.
1--WE call upon Congress tc enac,,
laws clearly defining the powers of
Federal judges in the appointment of
receivers and TO protect corporations
against improper and illegal appoint
ments."
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Vanderbilt. The Church and The
Devil.

George Vanderbilt was reading in
the smoking room of his home at
Biltmore, North Carolina, recently,
when looking UP from his paper, he
saw a seedy looking individual stand
ing down on the carriageway head
thrown back, eyes dilated and mouth
wide open, seemingly amazed at the
imposing sight before him.
After watching him for some time
Mr.. Vanderbilt became annoyed, ana
looking out of the window, said; MY
man, don't you know this is private
property? Why are you standing
there staring at my house? Do you
take it for a church?
His unwelcome visitor, after look
ing him over as carefully as he could
at the distance, replied: Wall 1
thought as how it might be a church
till / saw the devil poke his head
out'n the window. Woman Home
Companion.
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Buried Talent.

The papers for the past ten days
have been as interesting as one OF
Mary Johnston's novels, though II
must be confessed that contemptu-
Gus tone runs through the news they
have brought.
In an article of great interest IN the
Saturday Evening Post of week or
two ago, Champ Clark tells or the
talent that lies buried in the depart
ments of the government at Washing
ton and strongly advises young nren
to take warning and not be lured into
obscurity by the false glare or lie at
the Capitol We wish every young
man in the State would read the artl-
Gle and ponder it we'll. We have some
bright fellows from North Carolina IN
the different departments who are
capable of being somebody but VINO
are buried in those great bulldlngs DIS
effectually as if they had never llVeo
at all. Some day when old age over
takes them they will find themselves
incapable of doing their work ana
utterly unfit for anything else. Mr..
Clark SAYS the list of incapables is
constantly growing longer and CON
gressmen are puzzled as to what they
shall do with these worn out clerks,
who, with not a dollar laid up, are en-
tirely dependent upon others. Iney
have become mere machines having
had no occasion to develop their man
hood and no stimulus to noble
achievement, or larger and richer
life than they are living. The only
thing that beckons a department clerk
on is the uncertain prospect or little
more pay which, when it comes, is
swallowed up in the charging ex-
penses of a position higher up. 1t
We're better that boy should pillow
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Glenn and The Other Candidates.
Charlotte News.


We have felt that Glenn deserved
the honor for his own qualities and
for the service he has rendered his
party in times of good and of evil re-
port. Party service alone is no reason
for exaltation to high ONCE. But
faithful party service plus the quail
fications for the office sought will al
ways be regarded by fair minded men.
There is no doubt that Glenn had serV-
ed his party WELL
For the defeated candidates we
have only respect and regard. Major
Stedman is one of the finest figures
in our public life today and it is with
no little regret that we think of the
disappointment of his comrades, the
brave men who wore the gray, at his
defeat. 1t was no lack of love for the
Confederate soldiers that caused 1t.
Colonel Davidson is another veteran
who deserves all that his friends have
said of him. Turner is clean.
straightforward, honest gentleman, To
whom the temperance forces owe
much for the advance of their cause.
We wish them all mighty WELL We
wish they all could have been elected.
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One Consistent Man.
Monroe Enquirer.


"Why don't you score Governor Ay-
cock for granting SO doggone many
pardons? You never say one word
against the granting of pardons to
almost every convict who applies for a
pardon" That was the question put
to us and the criticism made by citi-
zen some time ago. The answer to
that question is easy. We have not
had the nerve, or whatever you may
call it, to refuse to sign any petition
which has been presented to US asking
for a pardon of convicted person. We
are not going to criticise the Governor
for granting pardons until we can get
up nerve enough to say no to the wo-
man who asks us to sign a petition
asking for the pardon of her son, or to
hand back unsigned the paper son
presents asking for the pardon of a
father or that father presents ask
ing for the pardon of a son. If folks
would quit signing petitions for par
dons probably the Governor would
quit granting them.
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"A Flannel-Mouth Gas-Bag."
Lexington Dispatch

LGAlISlOIl DlSpdlCLl.
1t is funny to see a f1annel-mouthed
gas-bag of a fellow get up and beat
the air and split his voice and swear
that he is as much opposed to the
communicating influence Of still house
as any man that ever walked beneath
the pure blue sky. But he does not
like the Watts law: it is not quite
right. He says it discriminates against
the country and gives the town the
still house, which heretofore was in
the country. This old rotten argu-
ment has long since been exploded.
The country people are saying already
that it is a discrimination in their ia
vor to take the still away from them
and put it on some one else. In this
the country people show nothing but
good sense and good horse sense at
that. The time for5fooling the coun-
try people is past. They do it in Rus
STA, but it has passed in North Caro-
lima.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-26

Apropos of the Hawthorne Centen-
airy July 4th) the July Century will
have what is considered an exceeding
ly satisfactory portrait of this great
American author, from a photograph
by Brady; a poem, THE Eyes of
Hawthorne" by Edith M. Thomas;
and a brief essay, "The Centenary of
Hawthorne" by Theodore Z. Mum
ger, author of ION the Threshold"
Essays for the Day." etc. DR.. Mum
ger ranks Hawthorne at the head of
that group whose work makes up the
real literature of this country, and
believes him 'at home and abroad
the most highly esteemed American
author" aes4sM
In this country he is named only
with Emerson says DR.. Munger.
"* To illustrate their relative po-
sitions, we might say that Emerson
stands for all the other plays of
Shakespeare, but Hawthorne for
Hamlet alone
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-26
The Bishop Case.
Statesville Landmark.

For the poor woman, who has suf-
fered infinitely more than the worth
less husband, to whom she is loyal and
wevoted, we have only pity, not blame
for her effort. But there is more in
this than pity. The dead mans wife
and children are to be considered if
it is a matter of pity. But the mat
ter of right and justice, the rights of
society, are to be considered; and
Bishop should not escape until he has
served the last hour of the beggarly
sentence imposed upon him-a sem
tence that was trayesty on Justice, as
was the verdict that preceded it.
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"a Day With Hudson Maxim !,

Following the plan which ST. Mich
olas has carried out for several
months, the July issue will have an
instructive article designed to pre-
sent valuable facts in a way enter
tanning to both young and old. "a
Day with Hudson Maxim is the title
of Joseph II. Adams sketch, which
will tell many Interesting details of
the great inventors life and work.
Hudson MaXims residence is in
Brooklyn, where a visitor finds him
as much at home among his high eX-
pIosives as his cook is in her kitchen.
Mr.. Adams tells, among other things,
of being invited to lunch on Welsh
rarebit cooked in a chatting dish over
a lamp filled With-not alcohol but
nitroglycerin.
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stroy it's independence and to deprive
it's stockholders of the returns to
which they are entitled under all the
ordinary rules of business and finance.
Mr.. Williams indicates very clearly in
the interview printed today that he
will not submit to this. He will have
the public behind him unanimously
If an attempt is made to capture the
system by the methods above indica-
ted, it will be resisted by all the pow
er and means the mass of the stock
holders can command and by all the
weight and force of public sentiment.
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LILY WHITE AND COAL BLACK.

Some sugar planters in Louisiana,
who wanted to tax everybody to give
them a bounty, decided some years
ago to join the Republican party. They
said they wouldn't associate with the
negro, and so they organized Lilly
White" Republican party. In the
Chicago convention last week both of
the factions of the party had contest
ing delegations. The convention seat
ed both sets of delegates, putting a
Lily White beside Coal Black. They
didn't mind the negro in Chicago but
they wish to pose against social
equality at home.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-26

Most men who are elected to Con-
gress do not regard it as an affiiction.
In fact they are very happy to go. The
Wilmington Stars headline man seems
to think that being sent to Congress is
awful, for over the telegram announc-
ing Ed. Pou's nomination, he wrote:
There are plenty of folks who would
be happy to receive such a sentence.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-26
FATE?

One prays for life; Love holds her
hand
The boat to take her nears the
land;
White lilies float; her sense reel
IT'S Death himself stands at the
wheel;
One prays for death, through waves
of doubt
That beat her drifting bark about,
The ship that to her help is led
Is freighted down with love instead.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-26
Republicans Circulating Campaign
Documents.
Chatham Record.

Chatham Record.
Chairman Rollins, of the Republi-
can State executive committee, has had
printed in circular form and distri-
buted as a campaign document an
editorial from the Wilmington MesSen-
ger of June 1st, entitled whittier Are
We Drifting" The editorial condemns
Mr.. Daniels for criticising Judge Pur-
nell and upholds the latter in his ar
bitrary and illegal attempt to punish
Mr.. Daniels.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-26

The Democratic State Convention
did not take to the Samson idea that
long hair makes for strength. The
first three nominations went to men
who have very little hair "on the top
of their heads, the place where the
wool ought to grow" Glenn, Winston
and Grimes are strong because of in
ternaI gray matter and not from out
side flowing locks.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-26

The Democratic party has heard and
needed the command of Moses: THAT
they go forward" The convention
took no step backward, gloried in its
record which the Radical convention
criticized, and makes it's appeal to
Progress, Intelligence and Virtue. If
there were any who wished the party
to repudiate it's record, they see that
they were wrong. The Democracy is
militant and unafraid.