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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-22
Spirit of the Pres;
Tainted Money.


Saturday Evening Post.
The question whether religious and
educational institutions are justified IN
accepting tributes from the Rookie
Teller millions is unquestionably diff
cult and intricate. Vespasian said
that there is no bad odor to good
money; and the Church has held for
nearly two thousand years, that of it
self it disinfected all the lucre that
came it's way. Many of the noblest
and most beautiful foundations of the
Middle Ages, the sight of which so
mellows the eye of the traveller, and
the good offices of which have con-
tributed SO much to the advance of
civilization and culture, were built
with the proceeds of the treasons,
stratagems and sDoiIs of the bloodiest
of robber barons If we once admit
that the church or the university is
bound to consider the source of its
funds, where is its responsibility to
end? Is the Salvation Army girl who
receives contributions in a barroom
bound to make sure that the giVer is
a model of sober honesty? The only
difference between Standard Oil and
tens of thousands of other CONNER
cial enterprises, say those who APP
prove of the acceptance Of the money,
its operations have made it a special
mark for public indignation.
Yet, somehow, the ordinary mind
balkS at the idea of a university or a
church that knowingly makes itself,
and those whose minds and souls are
in it's charge, pensioners of ill-gotterA
gold. Casuistry is medieval art.
and in such matters liable to bring
dubious results. The citizen of to-
day may lack intellectual finesse. but
he has common sense and sound in
stincts, and these tell him that he who
touches pitch is defled.
1t is the duty of our teachers to
speak out in no uncertain voice against
the evils of the life about us. Can
they do so with authority and convic-
ton when they owe their life to them?
And if they can, will they? Some
months ago. a Western minister, pub
licist and university president, in ac-
knowledging a bequest of Standard Oil
money, openly praised the trust, and
by inference it's methods.
1t is not possible, and it may not
always be wise, to inquire into the
hidden sources of a pious gift. But is
there no limit to the evils which pub
lie charity may be made to cover?.
The great danger to American life
and American ideals is the laxity of
business and political morals, and no
one fact is SO powerful in increasing it
as the fact that those who profit by it
are able to buy patents of social and
moral respectability1with the proceeds
of violence. The knowledge of this
works harm to the public conscience
which no riches in our religious and
educational endowments can make up
for
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-22

an autocrat. and I do not say this in
any uncharitable spirit or out of NAL
ice, because of being on the other side
politically. / grant him to be the pos
SCISSOR Of many amiable qualities, and
of cheriShing pure and benevolent in
tentions. The danger to the country
of a benevolent despot' is in the pre-
cedent set. The present incumbent of
the White House may do things which
have no warrant in law, for what he
thinks is the public good, but the eX-
ample may be urged in the defense of
some successor who may be animated
by sinister motives.
The Presidents expressed sym
pathy for the masses has led to this
confusion of ideas as to his political
classification. My idea of p Democrat
is one who does not believe in
transccnding the limits of the Consti-
tuition or Of infusing his own person.
atty into every governmental detail.
The ultra demonstrations acts OF the
President, particularly as to foreign
relations, are indefo1sible from a
Democratic standpoint. There are
other grounds on which l would be
bound to deny party-fellowship with
him, even while ready to admit that
he is in the very zenith of his fame,
and that the nlaudits of the nation are
his"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-22
What Casper Does.

Asheboro Courier.
The case against ]. L. Casper in the
Federal court at Greensboro
last week went off on a
recommendation contained in a
letter from Commissioner YerkeS
recommending that he pay $4,000 and
the COSTS The whole amount paid by
Casper was $4,000. He is a big dis
tiller and wholesaler at Winston
Salem. Casper is a member of the
firm which makes checkers" A
circular is sent with his whiskey cir
culars offering to send tWenty-four
bottles worth $24 for IS. An attempt
was made in one or two places in
this section of the State to handfe
Checkers but it has been demon
strated so clearly that it is substi-
tute for whiskey that few are SO bold
as to try to sell the preparation as
medicine. The State chemist analysed
a bottle purchased by the mayor of
Mooresville and found 37.6 per cent of
alcohol. AS whiskeY only contains
about As per cent alcohol it will be
seen that Checkers" contains almost
as much alcohol as ordinary whiskey.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-22
JOSEPH JEFFERSON.

Possibly the impending death of no
man in two generations has struck
from the heart of the American public
such sincere regret as has the almost
certainly mortal sickness of Joseph JEFF
ferson. And yet, in the feeling which
the knowledge of his end invokes,
there is nothing of bitterness, nothing
of sorrow save pity that the day OF
q big soul is merging into the horizon
of eternity. There was never a kind
lier. fuller or more helpful life thai
that of the great actor who is passing
the portal. He knew the best of all the
secrets of the sympathetic heart, All
ever ready humour without q sting.
As an actor he merely found the
means of expressing himself, His un-
doubted genius scarcely more than the
incident which enabled him to give
himself to the public. His roles took
on, It is true, an individuality at his
hands which makes it almost sacrilege
for them to be essayed by other men,
but he chose them for himself. In a
certain tangible sense Jefferson did
not adapt himself to the plays i'll
which he won his greatest success; he
chose those roles best suited to his
heart and there it was that he Won
that something which. aside from
greatness, begets love.
The man himself has lived to receive
the full fruits of his wock in honors,
in money, in reputation. In private
life he repaid these things of his own
earning by true friendships wide
flung charity, generous aid to the
struggling in his own and other pro-
fessiong. Most, however, did he love
the great public. which never tired Of
him. And it was>as Rip Van Wrinkle
or Bob Acres that he was best known
to the people at large. In these roles,
the name of Jefferson was SO merged,
into the delicate satire of their lines
his genius fitted so tremendously, that
they cannot be the same again. Vino
has seen Jefferson in Rip or the Rivals
will infinitely prefer his memory to a
he walked the boards in these old
plays, feeble with age, yet seeming to
win from the intimacies of the lines
the old time fire of youth itself And
always the public flocked to see and
hear and laugh and cry as though the
cid plays were again the successes of
a first night
The lesson taught by jefferson and
Irving is the old text that the valiant
soul may not be tied to circumstance !
The theatre makes demands which de-
stroy the weak and too frequently
narrow the strong. There have been
many great actors: few great actors
have been great men. Jefferson in his
life was both He used the stage as
his mouth piece instead of following
it as his master. His influence will
continue in his profession in ever wild
eninG circles. The actors who loved
him and made him the dean of their
profession will hold his name sacred
as one living without cant whose life
was an Inspiration. The public that
forgot its sorrows in laughter at his
drolleries, that went wild with delight
at the inimitable quality OF his accent
that followed him TO the half-starting
tear at a word, will remember him
with all the longing and all the ten
derness that cling to the ineffable
sweetness of things that cannot come
again to joy.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-22
CONE OF THE LOT"

NeWspaperdom. an important Jour
nal devoted to publishing and adver-
Using, in a note to the News and OBJ
server says that there are less than
$50 newspapers in the United States
unanimously endorsed by local ad-
vertisers. Your admirable paper, the
News and Observer. is one of the lot
the only one in your city so endorsed"
The large circulation of the News
and Observer in every section of the
Satisfactorily from Murphy to Man
-teo-makes it by all odds the best ad-
vertising medium in the State. An
advertiser said yesterday that answers
came to him from a small advertise
ment from fifty-four counties in one
week, including Haywood in the West
and Hyde in the East Fifty thou
sand people read the News and OBJ
server every day. and local adver-
Users appreciate its value as an ad-
vertiSing medium. Indeed, while there
are other good papers in North Carp
lima having a large circulation in Il
circumScribed territory, the News and
Observer is the only paper that goes
into every county and almost every
neighborhood in the State.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-22
Looks Like Selling Justice.
Fremont Courier.

Fremont COurlor.
There is not much satisfaction as
far as the people are concerned, in
the sentence passed upon Casper, the
big distiller, by the Federal court in
Greensboro. Commissioner Yerkes
came to his rescue, and let him "pay
out. The sum of $4,000 is a pretty
good haul in, but if Casper is guilty
of the charge upon which he was con-
victed, he should have received the
punishment which would have been
imposed had he no money.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-22
VIII Never Rise in the South.

Up in Wilkes the revenue officers
have almost killed Bob Deal for ex-
posing the facts as good men say they
exist. This kind of thing has been in
the land since the South surrendered
to Grant at Appomattox. 1t is hard OF.
Deal, but if he can stand it it will help
to redeem old Wilkes from the hands
of the men who are at the helm. The
Republican party will never rise in the
South SO long as it tries to rule by
force
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-22

William Travers Jerome says
Thomas Jefferson was a fakir." One
hundred years from now. when five
hundred million people celebrate JEFF
ferson's birthday. do you suppose any
body will remember that fellow
named Jerome lived in the year
1906?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-22
MORNING TONIC.
(Philip Brooks.

Be done with saying what you don't
believe and find somewhere or other
the truest divinest thing to your soul
that you do believe today, and work
that out in all the action and conse-
Grafton of the soul in the doing of
your work.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-22

A public officer ought to enforce the
law The officer who does not en-
force it ought to be retired to public.
life. If a law is not right it will be re-
pealed if the official whose duty it is
to enforce it does his duty
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-22

With the agents after the owner Of
the biggest interest in the Equitable,
it is a case of Hyde and Seek in New
York.
If there is anv prophet living in
America toda- his name is Thomas W.
Lawson. Read his early articles and
then read the recent story of how the
inside fellows worked" the Equitable.
What Hyde and others did in the
Equitable is a sample of the methods
of other great concerns.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-22

According to Mr.. Hyde a policy
holder ought to pay two prices for his
insurance-one price for protection
and another price to enable the inside
clique to give fancy dress balls and
costly banquets. This wholesale scan
dal will result in reducing the cost of
life insurance if the people have
enough sense to compel the reduction
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-22
Worth Dragging Over.

Tarboro Southerne~.
North Carolina now adds Head of
the University of Virginia" If the
Sore Backs wish to boast of Doctor
Venable at our University we are will
ing, Tor ne IS man worth Dragging
over.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-22
ilious Bill was getting bloated

ana ms tongue was muchly coated,
Patent "tonics' wouldn't cure him.
Companies would not insure him.
All his friends were badly frightened
6ut their spirits soon were lightened
for Eli said-and they believed him
EARLY RISER pills relieved him.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-22
Greatest Show on Earth.
Washington Post.

WdsHIHSIUn POSt
Those life insurance companies in
New York might recoup any financial
losses by charging an admission to the
meetings of their directors.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-22

Scotchman and therefore has plenty
of sense. When informed that his
niece had married a riding master and
former coachman. Mr.. Carnegie said:
''The family has no objection to the
match. Mr.. Heavier is an honest up
right young man. l would rather
Nancy had married a poor, honest
man than a worthless duke. We want
no rich men in the family They
don't need such men-the "old man"
has enough and to spare.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-22
THE LATE BISHOP WATSON.

The death of Bishop Watson, of the
Eastern Diocese of the Episcopal
church of North Carolina was not UNI
expected. He was an old man when
elected to the bishopric but had served
deity as to deserve the high honor.
AS bishop he measured up to- the best
traditions of the great office. He was
a scholar, a singularly pure hearted
man, and his death will be deeply de-
plored. Elsewhere appears sketch of
his useful life.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-22

Good Friday services will be held
today at Christ church at J. a. m.
and p. m. The puAlic is invited
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-22
Roosevelt Despot; Not a Democrat.
Washington Post

Those good people who are styling
the President a Democrat are sadly
III error remarked Hon. Charles a.
ToWne, former United States Senator
from Minnesota, but now Democratic
Congressman-elect from New York
City.
''The President, on the contrary, is
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-22
WHAT IS THERE
IN IT?

SCOTS Emulsion is a care
full blend of the purest cod
liver oil, hypophosphites Of
lime anu soda, glycerine and
dash Of havoring. The COM
bination of these valuable
ingredients emulsifed as in
SCOTS Emulsion represents
the greatest remedy yet dis
covered for weak lungs, poor
blood, low vitality, child
weakness and all wasting
diseases.
Well send you a sample, free
SCOTT & BOVINE, 400 Pearl Street, Ne,A
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-22

Labor is very scarce in Monroe. and
as fast as man is sent to Jail a
farmer signs his bond to put him in
the cotton field. Labor is needed on
the farms. How can it be obtained?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-22

From the editorial page of Mr.
Deals paper the following editorial
paragraphs are taken:
"a temporary black eye is prefer
able to a permanent black character.
$50 long as Federal Grafters. Sneaks
BulI-dozers and towards run loose in
the land it is dangerous for an hon
est man to walk around attending TO
his business
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-10-19
A WOMAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY

France does not want her, nor does
Germany. When she finds her way
here she is expelled, and when she
treats the fatherland to friendly Wis
it she meets with similar fate. This
is a queer predicament for a woman
who has served as cantiniere in a reg
iment of zouaves. It is true that the
Judge in the appeal case just heard
in Paris dryly remarked that she
had certain number of condemna-
tions-fifty-five"-to her record, but,
as the heroine of this adventure quiet
ly replied that she did not know why
she had been expelled, adding, proud
ly. that her father had been a gen
darme, it is to be presumed that the
Offenses for which she had been pun
ished were not very serious. Infringe
ment of the decree of expulsion fran
ed against her seemed, indeed, to
have been the worst cantiniere, who
can now enjoy little breathing time
in France pending, perhaps, the fran
ing of new decree which will drive
her again over the border.-Paris Cor
London Telegraph.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-10-19
THE "coMING NATioN."

Now the American immigration
question in Canada has reached a eli.
max. 1t takes only three years for an
Immigrant to earn q vote in Canada,
and $4,000 former American voters
will socn come into their Canadian
suffrage. There are in round nun.
bers 100000 males more than 18 years
of age in western Canada who former
ly lived in the United States, 10000
OF whom are old enough to vote. There
are now between 100000 and 8OO,OOO
settlers, with possible voting pop
ulation of 2400O0, high per centage
because many cattlemen without fam
lilies are emigrating from Montana
and Wyoming. BY the end of 1905
the American vote in the Canadian
West will be overwhelming.
In eastern Canada thousands of peo-
pie believe that this invasion means
the ultimate annexation of Western
Canada by the United tates. 1t is
called "the coming nation."-The
Worlds Work.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-10-19
LOTS MORE LIKE 1T.
F'Ienty More Proof Like This, and
All From Pine Bluff People.

No chance fer argum ent here.
No better proof can be had.
What Pine Bluff man says
Is the best evidence for Pine Bluff
people.
Read this case.
We have lots more like 1t.
R. D. McGaughy, president OF the
McGaughy Hardware company aro
coroner for Jefferson county. business
address 2O7 West Second avenue, res
.dence 8O3 West Sixth avenue. says
81 had symptoms of kidney trouble
Tor some little time, and seeing Deans
Kidney Pills recommended so highly
for this particular complaint !
thought l would test their merits. ]
procured a box at the MannTanker.
sley Drug company POI Second ave.
rue, and was not sappointed with
the results, as l received much bene-
lit from the treatment I am pleas ID
to endorse Doan's Kidney Pills as a
remedy of merit and one in which the
public can rely
For sale by all dealers. Price SO
cents. Foster Milburn company, Buff
falo, New York, sole agents for the
United States.
Remember the name-Doan's-and
take no other.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-10-19
IT WAS ALL OVER.

"No more will hear his footsteps
on yonder walk as the clock strikes
the hour of g."
Gracious. Jeanette!"
"And the old parlor light will new
er burn low for him again."
"You don't mean it,"
II do, and, furthermore, he will new.
er sit on this sofa three nights =
week and call me pet names a. he has
been doing for the past two years."
IL am astonished"
"And tonight am going to burn all
the old love letters in my trunk"
"B-but why are you going to dis.
card him?"
Discard him? Why, you goose,
am going to marry him!"-Columbus
Dispatch.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-10-19
SOME WONDERFUL TREE5.

Th re j. he H.a-.es -. # India.
which W 5 Ter mas aevv. t4.'t.1
ercP ot .oo3. WI a. ~ y -, $
I"e} ior birds squirrels. p,afowl anG
eel. rs oil alone : wofth a5o:it
$40 pei ton.
Then there is the c,oya tree, the
unopened flower buds of which form
the lspice or pimento tree of Jamaica
another spice bearer, which is ver%
beautiful. Its berries are collected
soon after the blossoms fall, and af-
ter being carefully dried are ready
for packing and sending off to con-
sumers.
There are hundreds of tropical trees
which produce medicines of great
value, the most important of these
being the cinchona, which yields Pc
ruvian bark. From this quinine is
made, and some writer's claim that it
has been one of the most valuable al
lies of man in conquerins the jungles
of fever-ridden countries The tree
was named after the Vice-Quoen of
Peru, the Countess Chinshon who
was cured of terrible fever by its
use.
The camphor tree grows in the Is
land of FOrmOsa, and is tall, majcst C
and beautiful. It's flower is white, and
the fruit a small red berry, but to
convert the tree into our valuable
drug its life must be taken. 1t is cut
down and chopped into small chips
These are then boiled, and the camph.
or passes off in steam and copgeals
in the form of crystals, white and
fragrant.
One of the most wonderful trees
is found in the Pacific Islands, From
it the natives procure towels, glue
cloth, tinder and also bread.
The tree is about as tall as three
story house, and the branches, which
come out straight from the trunk
like so many arms are covered with
leaves and fruit not unlike apples in
appearance.
This fruit is used as bread, and it
is in season during eight months OF
the year, the natives finding a good
living in it.
AS for glue, it oozes from the trunk
Of the tree, and is found useful for
many purposes; the leaves make ex-
cellent towels, and from the inner
bark of the tree kind of coarse cloth
can be made
Besides this, its dried blossoms are
used for tinder in lighting fires, and
the wood is in great demand for build
ing purposes.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-10-19

lcr ot the tiil!iavIrat" he car" e. :.
as "h" stood hv the window ana. lay ~
his hand Oh her shoulder said:
Now. Eisie-I lop" YOU don't mi'}t
my calm you Elsie. lnt I've heeat
chumS with your grandpa 50 Ion.
seems if you must be a sort of relation
of mine Elsie you amt goin' to DO
hotel-that is. unless you're real set o.
it. Your granapa's here, and we,re
here and there's room enough. doHt
want to say too much, but I'd like 10
have YOU b'lieve that me and Pere.
and Jerry want you to stay right in
this house jest as longs you stop in
Orham. Now you will, won't you!'
(To Be Continned)
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-10-19
PATRIOTISM AND
THE WOMAN'S CLUB

The woman's clubs have been accus-
ed of many things, and now it is dis
covered that they are the generators
of aristocracy in this land of the free.
Nevertheless, Miss Elizabeth Howard
Westwood points out in the November
number OF the New Idea Woman's
magazine that they are fulfilling a
noble function in preserving the men,
ory of the past in this iconoclastic
age She says:
TIE patriotic societies were intro
duced in 1890 by the Society OF Colon
ial Danes. Soon after, the Daughters
of the American Revolution. The
Daughters Of the Confederacy, Colon
ial Wars, Huguenot Society and New
England Society followed it's lead.
The immediate effect of this new style
OF club life was strenuous genealogic-
al research, and an excellent thing
it was. 1t is all very well for the
free-born Democratic American to
hold in scorn the caste lines of an
aristocracy, but it does not excuse her
Indifference to the history of her
country and the deeds of her for
BEARS The passport to membership
has been neither wealth, brains nor
social standing, but an ancestor affil-
;oto v,,ith hn which tho MI, h
commemmorates. 1t is the nearest to
the European nobility which this
country has approached. The pur-
pose has been far from the imitation
of effete social systems, however.
The clubs have formed bodyguard
about the nations past, to preserve it
from the vandalism of materialism
and to perpetuate it in the minds of
succeeding generations. Nobly they
have done their work. Their activi-
ties have been varied. They have en-
.couraged the study of American his
tory in the public schools. AS the
children of Israel, wandering in the
wilderness, collected piles of stones
to mark events of their sojourn, they
have marked historic spots with
bronze tablets. 1t has been their priv
ilege and care to purchase and restore
buildings which have figured in his
tory. In New York the old Fraunce
Tavern has hoon houpht and ic coon
to be fitted up as museum"