The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-19
STORIES BY oGDEN's PARTY.
Attended Installation Of President Al
dcrnGAn At Charlottesville.
New York Times.)

New York Times.)
Robert c. Ogden and the party
which he took to Charlottesville, Va,
to attend the Inauguration Of DIR. Ed
win A. Alderman as the first president
of the University of Virginia, arrived
in New York yesterday afternoon. DR.
Lyman Abbott and President James
M. Taylor, Of Vassar College, also
shared Mr. Ogden's hospitality on the
trip northWard,
Every one was enthusiastic over the
gifts to the University, which, with
the $4,000 promised by Andrew car
negie on condition that similar
amount be added bring the total 10
S731,000. This includes, among 9TH
ers, the following donations: Mrs.
Thomas Nelson Page, $4,000; estate of
Charles Broadway Rouss, $4,000;
Elihu Root, $1,000; George Foster
Peabody, 10000; Joseph Bryan, $40
600; Francis Bartlett, $4,000; Samuel
Spencer, $4,000; estate of James e.
Carter $4,000, and John ID. Rookie
Teller, 100000.
1t was the feeling of the company
that Mr.. Rockefeller's donation had
been received in a proper spirit of
thankfulness, and that President Al
derman properly expressed it when he
said at the banquet in his honor held
last Thursday evening:
They are as good dollars as ever
were seen.
DR. Wallace Butterick started the
STORYTELLING shortly after leaving Bal
timore, choosing one appropriate to
the subject of gifts to Institutions of
learning and churches. He said that
there was an old colored minister who
had grown weary of leak in the
church roof just above the pulpit. On
a rainy Sunday morning he announced
with due sOlemnity:
"Brederen and Sisters: You see me
point to dat leak. Wal, der amt goin
to be no more preachin' OBJ der Cos
pels heah until you done frescoed dat
an abscess.'
Rev. DR. Arthur b. Kinsolving said
that in the days before the war his
father had a slave who experienced
religion, and, as the negroes consult
ed their master about their form of
faith just as they did about other
matters, the slave had told his mas
ter that he thought he had better be
a Presbyterian. He joined the church
and in few months came again to his
master to complain that the religion
was too "dolorous" He had decided
to be a Methodist, he said. A little
later he returned to his master, and
said that there were too many choir
meetings to suit him. He was going
to be a Baptist,
But why a Baptist?" asked his
master.
because it's dip and done wifi"
DR.. William Jay Scheffelin told the
story of Remus, who had heard his
employer talking with a neighboring
colonel about the, wonderful X-ray,
and how one could see into the
stomach by its use or even through a
board Later in the day Remus, who
had been oppressed with thought,
came to his employer to ask:
"Massa. does dis heah X-ray ma
chine show just Wants in der
stomach"
YES"
would it show if der were chicken
in der?"
Yes. Remus, it certainly would"
Would it show whose chicken ii
were?'
DR.. Charles. Baskerville told of a
relative of his in the old days before
the war who was fond of gaudy
clothes. One Sunday when he thought
himself unusually we'll dressed, he
asked his negro boy how he looked.
The story, DIR. Baskerville said, was to
illustrate how careful the colored peo-
pie were of the feelings of the whites.
The overdressed man asked the ques-
ton twice, and got the following an
swer:
"Massa, you look des like lion.
two lions
But, you fool. you never saw a
lion
Deed I did, Massa, up in the
barn"
But there are no lions there, only
the two jackasses"
Eyes, Massa."
So the stories flew, fast until Mr.
Ogden's guests said goodbye to him in
Jersey City.