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The Greeley tribune., 1905-04-27
YE old SONGS
PROGRAM FOR UNIQUE CON-
CERT NOW COMPLETE
Proceeds to 60 to Charity Work
in and About City-List of
Singers who Will Take
Part in Program

The program for the old time con.
cert to be given for charity In the
First Presbyterian church ON the
evening of Friday, May 5 has now
been selected. Out of the great
number of titles suggested by read.
ers, those upon which the greatest
number seemed agreed were chosen.
Every number, including the Or
chestra selections are Of the kind
that will make the listener harken
back to the days when his mother
was singing him to sleep, and he
thought there could never be other
music so sweet. Many of those old
songs have been forgotten, but they
will be revived upon this occasion.
The chorus is now undergoing
regular rehearsals under the direc.
tion of Miss Phyllis Wolfe. Some
of the very best musical talent In
the city has been secured, for the
chorus as we'll as the solo parts.
Tickets have been placed on sale
at Horne's book store and at Clark &
Faulkner's drug store. Only enough
tickets will be sold to accommodate
the holders with seats in the church.
Although every cent of the proceeds,
will 60 to charity, it is expected that
the merits Of the program will be
attractive enough to make people
feel that they are enjoying unique
treat, rather than giving anything
to the poor. The money realized
from the concert will be turned over
to P. A. Tisdel, who will keep it to
use where the need is most urgent.
Following is the complete pro-
gram:
Orchestra-"Dixie Land"
Chorus -"Old Black Joe"
"Old Oaken Bucket
Solo-'Last Rose of Summer.
Ben Bolt j. Scott Thompson.
Chorus-"Old Kentucky Home"
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Quartet-'When You and l Were
Young, Maggie. :"
Quartet-"T Old Musician and
His Harp"
Solo-''Loch Lomond.
Coming Thro' the Rye Miss
Phyllis Wolfe.
Orchestra Star Spangled Ban
ner.''
Ladies Quartet-''Way Down Up
on the Suwannee River"
Chorus-'F Gently Sweet At
ton.
Solo Kathleen Mavourneen, "Rea
Ccuzens.
Chorus Nellie Gray"
Solo" Annie Laurie"
Last Night, Mrs. R. G. Strong.
Chorus Away
Good Night, Ladies'"
Orchestra Home Sweet Home. y
Several other old time favorites
will also be given in response to en-
cores.
Following are the names of those
for the most part composing the
chorus:
sopranos Mrs. Charles Clark, Mrs.
ID. j. March, Mrs. Can ION, Miss
Chappelow, Miss Iversen.
Altos-MisS Ethelwyn Fezer. Miss
Rugh, Miss Ruth Baker, Miss Bessie
Brown, Miss Richie and Miss Nc
Cara.
Tsnors-E Edwin Starkey, Bert Pier,
Clarence English.
Bass-C. E. Clark, f. G. Strong,
r. G. Putney, II. f. Meyers and Mr..
| GRAY.
The Greeley tribune., 1905-04-27
Season of 1905.

Brilliant, and the Jack Black
Eagle will stand at the. brick barn
in Lucerne, Monday and Tuesday of
each week commencing April } and
ending July l. At home the rest OF
the time, 5 miles west and miles
orth of Lucerne.
S. Titmus, Owner.
The Greeley tribune., 1905-04-27
Dogs.

Dog licenses due and unless such
licenses are paid by May |, 1905 all
such dogs will be killed.
Eugene Williams,
City Marshal.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04
AS TO ACREAGE REDUCTION.

There is a wide discrepancy between
the governments report and the report
of the Southern Cotton Association.
The government says the acreage re-
duction is eleven per cent; the Cotton
Association puts it at eighteen per
cent The New York Commercials
estimate is for a reduction of 1921 per
reduction at IL per cent Mr.. Rich
ard Cheatham, secretary of the South
ern Cotton Association, has written a
letter to Mr.. John Hyde, Government
Statistician, stating that the associa-
ton has been most ''painstaking and
conservative in its report" and in order
to verify it with the report of the gov
eminent, Mr.. Cheatham requests Mr..
Hyde to furnish "a copy of the de-
tailed sources from which your report
was made, and the manner of final
tabulation." So far no answer has
been sent by Mr.. Hyde.
This difference of seven per cent. in
the estimate is very wide and indicates
that somebody's method is wanting in
reliability and correctness. The price
of cotton necessarily depends upon the
report which the world accepts, and
il would seem to be in the interest of
the country for Mr.. Hyde and Mr..
Cheatham to compare notes, and let
the public know how far apart the
true estimate would be upon full data
The decreased acreage ought to help
the price of cotton. but the bad wealth
er conditions will help it more. In
Texas thousands. of acres of cotton
have been under water. and much
cotton has been destroyed. The asso-
citation has helped the farmers by agi-
tation and Organization, though it is
clear that the farmers did not follow
the wise advice to reduce acreage
twenty-five per cent. The heavy rains,
however, have destroyed so much of
the crop planted that the number Of
bales produced this year will be much
smaller than last year.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04
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PRESIDENT MOFFITT.

From the opening of its doors, Elon
College has had as its president the
practical and scholarly Rev. w. w.
Staley d. D., of Suffolk, Va. AT the
commencement last week, DR.. Staley
rendered his resignation and the trus-
tees elected Prof. E. l.. Moffittt as his
successor.
President Moffitt is a graduate of
the University of North Carolina. was
for a time editor of the Christian Sun,
and was later professor in Elon. He
is a successful man of affairs, stu
dent. a splendid teacher a man of
tact and sound judgment, and a man
whose energy is unbounded. He will
succeed in his high position and under
his leadership Elon College will con-
tinue its useful career, every year
witnessing increase in the number of
the students and a higher scholar
ship.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04
The Threshold.

(From the Southern Churchman)
Shadows so dim, so phantom-like nave
grown, near to the other land
| wait. loosed from mine own the gra-
cious guiding hand,
AS faint, l see through gathered mist
the straight and narrow way.
Doth eve so dark and chill lead on to
endless day?
Shall ] find shelter when the storm is
done.
The rocky steep is passed, the heights
of heaven won?
Triumphant songs well out upon the
night
The crown is thine, full on thy rap
tured sight
It's radiant splendors fall!
The cross the cross alone, for earth
ly sins pail.
Peace-past all understanding, stills
my sobbing breath,
The grave no victory hath, gone is the
sting of death!
For only withered leaves l bear to
Jesu sweet,
And wispS of stubble straw, for
sheaves of garnered wheat
! bring. Be merciful to me!
A broken heart. o Father wipe away
my tears:
A spirit contrite, keep me in the
eternal years
Forever close to Thee!
Henrietta Reid Mailer.
Raleigh, N. c.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04
MIR. CONES GENEROSITY.

The Watauga Democrat, which has
more than once spoken of generous
gifts by Mr.. Moses H. Cone to educa-
ton and the Appalachian Training
School at Boone, has the following:
Mr. Cone has donated $1,000 to-
wards the erection of public school
building in his district at Blowing
Rock. The money given by this great
philanthrophist for educational pur-
poses since he came to the county
would amount in the aggregate to
quite a sum. which is most highly APP
preciated by our people"
Good for Mr.. Cone. He has many
investments in cotton mills and land
but he has learned that it is the
part of wisdom and good citizenship
10 invest in immortal mind The
building of modern and well-equipped
school houses is the foundation upon
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04
FINALLY, BRETHREN" GIVE US
GOOD JURORS.

Tomorrow the commissioners in
be required to put in the jury box
the name of all good and lawful
men, who have the necessary legal
requirements to serve on a jury. This
is the most important duty that will
dcvolve upon the board OF commits
sioners during their entire terms of
office. Upon their action largely de-
ponds the administration of justice in
their county during the next two
years.
In some counties, notably Wake, the
tendency has been to leave off the
jury list men who ought to serve on
the jury. There are only about 1900
men on the jury list in Wake county,
and some of those whose names are
on the list are exempted by law There
are at least $500 good and lawful
men" in Wake county who are eligible
for jury duty, and their names ought
to be i'm the box. In their desire to
exclude men who do not possess
enough intelligence for jury duty
commissioners have sometimes made
too high a standard, and excluded
men who, though not well educated.
are better fitted for jury duty than
some others of better education.
There must be intelligence and good
character, but this does not mean that
a man must be a scholar or a saint.
The commissioners should not seek
to make the list large or small. They
should carry out the law, and put
every mans name in the box who
possesses the legal requirement.. They
should be as determined to exclude
law breakers, those in sympathy with
law breakers and unfit men as they
should be determined to put upon the
list every good and lawful man in
the county.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04
THE TEACHERS ASSEMBLY.

The next great event in North Car
DINA is the session of the Teachers
Assembly, which will be held in
Greensboro. The outlook is that it
will be the best gathering of teach
ers ever held in the State. The pro-
gram published elsewhere shows that.
in addition to the North Carolina
leaders of education, some of the most
eminent educators in America will be
present to speak and take part in the
conferences.
Greensboro will give a warm well
come to all and its progressive citi-
zens will make the teachers and other
educators feel at home.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04
REPRESENTATIVE BOU-
TELL.

There was a time when the senior
Senator from Ohio waved the bloody
shirt. He was then called Fire
Alarm Foraker" With a broader hori-
zon and growth in national leader
ship, nobody now recalls the days
when he was ADVANTAGEOUS in his
abuse of Mr.. Cleveland for suggest
ing the return of the Confederate bat
tie flags. He has learned to forget
sectionalism in his speeches and to
see the futility of bloody shirt poll
tics. In a singularly able address at
ing the race problem, he praised the
negroes for the progress they have
made, and said:
"a last remnant of sectional diff
ferences yet remains with respect TO
the race problem, but that has bsen
finally dealt with, so far as national
legislation Is concerned.
Time, patience, patriotism and the
education of experience may be neces-
sary to practically, and in reality, Sc
cure to the black man, everywhere, all
his legal rights and privileges, but his
mental and moral growth give the
highest assurance that he will event
ually vindicate the craftsmanship that
made him a freedman and a citizen of
the Republic: while his loyalty and
hcroism as shown in every war in
which we have allowed him to partici-
pate will win for him a triumph over
all the prejudices that stand between
him and the door Of hope
That declaration would seem to be
in line with the statement of Congress
man Boutell at Chapel Hill when he
said:
Il wish to say to you soberly and
deliberately that there is no more
prospect that any influential men of
the North in or out of Congress, will
seriously consider, much less act, to
reduce the representation of the
Southern States in Congress on ac-
count of your wise and salutary suf-
frage laws, then there is of reducing
the representation of the State of Illi-
nois in Congress-.
Mr.. Foraker's commanding position
as the ablest Republican in the SEN
ate and the probable Republican nomi-
nee for President in 1908, give author
ity to his idea that the race problem
has been Finally dealt with 80 far as
legislation is concerned" Cou-
pied with that of the scholarly Illinois
member Of the House, it gives encour-
agement to all who have looked to see
an end to sectional legislation.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04
NOTHING Is IMPOSSIBLE.

Nothing can withstand the force OF
a righteous public sentiment.
For a quarter of a century the city
of Philadelphia has been i'm the con-
troll of a political machine that has
been invincible.i Time after time eff
forts were made to defeat it and give
the city good government, but the re-
formers always failed, and finally gave
up in despair, saying: There is no
use to fight"
But there is no machine so strong
that the honest masses are not strong
err, if they will assert themselves The
bosses determined upon giving a long
time contract for lighting the city to
a company that the machine favored.
Press and people denounced the out
ell chamber to prevent it. but the ma
chine" was creased and the franchise
steal was voted. 1t looked like the
popular uprising would utterly fail, but
the people were in no mood to be
trified with. They appealed to the
mayor who is personally an honest
man, but who was elected by the ma
chine and had been doing in the MAIN
what he was expected by it to do. He
rose to the occasion and declared he
would veto the franchise. The ma
chine had voted enough to pass the bill
over his veto. Lawyers were employ.
ed to get out an injunction, and press
and people joined hands with the
mayor to prevent the contamination of
the steal. The whole world knows
that they succeeded The victory in
Philadelphia proves that grafters can
be defeated anywhere and everywhere
if the press and the people are agrees
sivc and determined, for Philadelphia
has the worst ring in America. Let
men never again say, cts no use"
but fight rottenness and graft. They
can and will win if they fight!
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04

which to begin the Improvement of
public schools. Children are not at
tracted by ugly and uncomfortable
school houses. An attractive and mod
ern- school building, next to a teacher
who knows how to draw out the child,
is the best way to induce regular at
tendance. We are not surprised that
in Watauga. 1t is appreciated by the
whole State as well, for such deeds
stimulate other men of means to give
toward better school buildings in their
home districts.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04
Spirit of the Press.
only The Guilty Suffer.

Monroe Journal.
The only thing that anybody has
been abe to find wrong about the
Union county law is that it catches
the guilty, and this hurts the feelings
of lots of folks We would like for
some one to point out a case in which
this law has worked a hardship on
anybody who hadn't already broken
the law or was fixing to do so as
quickly as possible. Under this law
an officer cannot search without a
warrant given on the oath of a credit
able party that he believes or has rea-
son to believe that the accused is
keeping liquor FOR sale Any other
honorable man could keep a barrel of
liquor i'm his house in Monroe and
never be molested. But in this bust
ness, as in everything else, there are
a great many silversmiths who cry out
lest their business be molested.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04
--------------------
A NEW YORK OPINION.

A New Yorker, who recently spent
nine days in Virginia and North Caro-
lima, writing to the South Side On. "
Observer. says: There are many inter
esting and thriving local papers in
Virginia and North Carolina. / came
to regard the Raleigh News and OBJ
server as the best paper in the latter
State. in proportion to the population
and business interests of the home
city. On such a comparison as that
do not think ii Is surpassed any
where"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04
OK Cart Schedules.


Duplin Journal.
One of our prominent truckers has
recently gotten returns for about lOo
boxes of garden peas with statement
instead of check for about $500 to
pay for freight from his commission
houses. Notwithstanding the fact that
these neas were late in reaching mar
ket and damaged thereby, the freight
must come and the trucker forwarded
his check to payfreight. He has been
a victim of ox-cart schedules for 10
years and a martyr to bad transporta-
ton just as long, yet the railroad
company has never yet offered to re-
lease him from freight rates when
their own slow schedules brought him
in debt to them and such are the class
of truckers that they love to do bust
ness with
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04

I'm Germany their intellectual
emancipation is comparatively new;
| people have little idea how new il is,
| because 1t has become so big and
strong and virile i'm so short time.
| They have discovered that a humble
| carpenter thinks, that he has a brain
| that works necessarily, faster than his
| hands, and that instead of scholarly and
dusty forms of university stamp, the
good man has ideas, real live, avail
able ideas. and they put him on plat
form and get the crowd around him.
not because they think he is a supe-
rior, but because he has ideas God
bless him.
Education was a false god tire
some wooden idol that Phillips under
stood as thoroughly as ne had esti-
mated the political system to be a
misguided element of graft
But to the young writer who is
moved to yield to the influence of
David Graham Phillips, let me say, at
no time does he confuse merely per-
sonal feeling of justice with the strict
intentions of his calling as novelist.
Il have no mission. no purpose, no
cult, | am Just a novelist, telling as ac-
urateIy as | can what | see, and trying
to hold my job with my readers, ne
said quietly in this relation.
What a man feels deeply, | suppose,
he handles reverently, and~any clever
man can choose his way along the
brilliant paths of epigram and culture
like the very great mind that wrote
The Importance of Being Earnest or
along the highway of life in its hours
of labor, and work, and legitimized
larceny that makes up what is
known as the social SCENE in the
midst of what we are pushed about
more or less seriously as The Plum
Tree tells us.
The author of this novel is going
to keep on writing them; nothing can
blur his instinct of unvarnished truth,
and no psychologist quicksaDds can
lure his cautious talents to their doom.
/ told him about a trust magnate,
who was reported TO be i'll, an account
of the adverse criticism he had
aroused.
mo doubt it's quite true l shouldn't
be surprised if he died, said Phil
lips, with an omnibus quiet; but,
then, it's an unjust world. One man
acquires S30,000.000 without doing the
world any good. and another man
writes a story that entertains and per-
haps enlightens. and he does not get
as much. / consider the man who has
written the story deserves $30,000,OO0
if he could only get it. OF course, it's
an unjust world. It's great pity TO
think of a lot of fellows locked UP for
in Sing Sing, for instance.
can quite see that, given conditions
and circumstances, almost any man
might be in the same position. /
might have been one myself. And
there you are; the poor people who
get that $30,000.000, instead |
of being thankful for what they have
escaped, are jealous and cruel to the |
man who has got it. And they don't
really know how he got it; they are
only guessing, and he won't tell them |
his private business, and there is no |
reason why he should" and the re-
frain of these lines came back to me: !
You may talk and you may dribble,
You may laugh and you may bubble,
may drink or even scribble,
But:
For Gods sake use your brainsi
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04
Highest of Praise.

Especial to News and Observer
Durham, ~ c., June 3.-The fol-
lowing letter from Americas great
musical critic show the high grade of
work being done by the Southern Con-
servatory of Music. The finale of the
Sonata and the TIE Deum are both of
a quality that undoubtedly merits the
recognition implied by diploma OF
degree" The good impression con-
veyed by the former Sonata move
ments was more than confirmed by
these. You are surely making no mis-
take in comforting the degree for the
compositions submitted contain the
very qualities that an institute of
learning should recognize-qualities
that prove faithful study and knowl-
edge acquired. That the music is not
strikingly original has nothing to do
with the case. Unusual natural en-
dowment can lay us just claim to re
ward Besides, with real knowledge
to grow from, a certain degree of orig
inality is likely to develop. l congrat-
ulate the young lady and you"
It's a pretty safe plan to judge a
man bV the people he doesn't keen
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04

Japan owes much to Russian graft
but more to Russian love of the
ardent. 1t has been established that
on the retreat from Mukden many OF
the Russian commanders were
"maudlin and irresponsible. When
the news comes from their naval de-
feat the same thing will probably
be heard On the other hand, 7he
japanese troops are models of temper
ance. Sober soldiers will always win
over drunken ones.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04

There is a world of wisdom in DR..
Taylor's "The Advantages of the Small
College" on the second page of to-
days paper. 1t will ever be true that
1.-THE best college in the world is log
with Mark Hopkins sitting at one end
and the student at the other" Per-
-sonal contact with the professors, who
have an interest in the future of the
pupil, is worth as much to the young
man as the course of instruction.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04
There Is Plenty of Law.

Statesville Landmark.
The Davie Record says there Is no
law to reach the vampires-the men
who work their children in cotton
mills and live i'm idleness and vice off
the proceeds of their labor. There
is The vagrancy act passed by the
last Legislature was a clause specifical-
ly covering the case of an able-bodied
man who lives in idleness off the labor
of children under s years of age. The
law is ample.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04
The Dire Calamity.

IIdIhIUII IsAJItSo'
The News and Observer published
i'm it's Sunday edition highly interest
ing article from the pen of Attorney
j. O. Carr, representative of the Truck
ers' Association, concerning the car
famine There are several interesting
illustrations. The article is too long
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04
OUR FIRST CENTURY. by George
Cary EggIeston. Price S1.2O. Pub
fishers: A. S. Barnes & Company.

Mr.. Eggleston gives to history the
charm of a story and delights the
reader because he has sympathetic in
sight He uses the familiar facts OF
the first century of American history.
What the colonists of jamestown and
Plymouth wore and ate, what their
education and modes of thought were
how they worked and how they
amused themselves are among the
subjects, which will delight and in
struct the youthful reader. 1T will be
welcomed by many who have not time
for exhaustive histories. 1t is pro-
fusely illustrated.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04
For GODS sake use your brainsl
THE LIFE WORTH LIVING-A Per-
sonaI "Reminiscences by Thomas Dix
on, Jr. Illustrated with photographs
BY the author Publishers: Double

DAY. rage N 10, Now IoIh'
This beautiful little book is a. per-
sonal story of the life that Mr.. Dixon
leads on his beautiful home in Tide
water. Virginia. with pictures of the
colonial mansion in which he lives.
pictures of his children in the outdoor
life that is possible, pictures of dogs,
cattle, cool drives, sailing boats, the
surf-every beautiful thing that makes
his home truly ideal to one who loves
nature. He contrasts il with his home
in New York where he was shut up
in a narrow brownstone house without
grove or yard or anything that was IN
touch with the earth or the sea. The
life worth living" is the outdoor life,
hunting. fishing, farming, reading
free and happy in home away from
the hurry and hustle of the crowded
city. The book is distinctly and pure
ly personal. enriched by personal eX-
periences and Dixonian epigrams