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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-31
The Governors Ball.

To the Editor: All of the churches
have spoken in strong terms against
public dancing.
l told Governor Glenn I was sorry
he went to the ball. He modestly
said that as his friends arranged a
program for his inauguration he
thought it was right for him to carry
it out.
If they had put some whiskey in the
program, would it have been right for
him to take the whiskey?
Does my friend act like a gentleman
when he asks me to violate my church
rules?
1t is time for worldly men to re-
.spect the rules of the churches. They
piously asked the venerable DR.. HUFF
ham to pray in the morning. Why did
they not ask Dr. Moment to pray at
night?
/ think it is time for the Christians
of North Carolina to let their COVER
nors be inaugurated without any
dancing. A. D. BELTS.
Spring Hope, N. c.
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Going to Europe.

Especial to News and Observer
Greensboro, n. c., March 30.-EX-
Mayor Il. V. Taylor, one of the leading
lawyers of the city, and a very strong
factor in it's industrial and social
growth, will on May 21st set sail for
Europe for a four months tour, He
will be accompanied by Mrs. Taylor
and Miss Ella Parrish, of New York
He has been hard at work studying
French for two months, as he will
spend most of his time in Paris not
for pleasure alone. 1t was rumored
here that Mr. Taylor had accepted
very important position to represent
a large corporation abroad and that
his leaving was for long time, but
he states that this report is untrue,
and that he will return to Greensboro
and resume the practice of his profess
sion in about four months His tour
will embrace London, Brussels Paris,
Liverpool, Florence, Venice. Milan,
Rome, Pompeii and many other noted
cities and sections of the old world.
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College. The Durham Sun draws this
speaking pen-picture of the distin-
guished Mississippian:
1T is good to hear Bishop Galloway
Durham is blessed in having him
here. With a mind admirably trained
and logical, with a style strictly origi-
nal and piqaant, with expressions
felicitously graceful and winning. with
platform appearance of ease and
grace itself, he stands among the most
entertaining speakers of our acquaint-
ance, and we have never yet heard or
seen anything from him that did not
breathe an air of freshness and frag-
rance waited from some flowery grottO
of beauty and interest in a new found
Florida of thought and reflection"
Bishop Galloway comes of good
North Carolina stock. his father hav
ing been born in Brunswick county.
this State. The bishop is not only
one of the ablest men in his church
and one of the South's first orators.
He is as we'll a statesman in the best
sense of that word and in Mississippi
exercises the office of the citizen to
the glory and honor of that noble
commonwealth. Upon the occasion of
the completion of the new State capt.
toll at Jackson, the principal Grafton
was delivered by Bishop Galloway. 1t
was a stately and magnificent address,
worthy to rank with the speeches of
jefferson Davis. Sergeant s. Prentess.
Henry Foote and Lucius Lamar.
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Important Insurance Case.
(Rocky Mount Record.)

(ROcky Mount Record
The case of Mr.. J. T. Sherrod. who
lives in Rocky Mount against the
Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Com
pany was tried in the Superior Court
of Martin county lest Friday Mr..
Sherrod had a house in Martin county
worth about $500, insured in the COM
pany The house was burned in June,
1904. The fire insurance company re-
fused to pay his loss. because as they
CLAIMED Mr.. Sherrod had failed to pay
one of his premiums so that the policy
had lapSed Mr.. Sherrod claimed he
had paid all premiums of which any
notice had been given him The case
consumed an entire day in trial. Mr..
Sherrod was represented by T. T.
Thorne. Esq. of Rocky Mount The
insurance company's attorneys were
M essrs. Don Gillian, II. w. Stubs and
Irtin. Mr. Sherrod won the
are ury being out only about
so#t" before bringing in a YER
ability for the loss on the
Ompany.
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-Eayg't
produce something or do something
and actually earn their living 1T Will
be a good job
In Raleigh the action of the city
authorities gives encouraging evidence
of a purpose to enforce the law. The
men selected were at the top-notch
of their profession. The complaint
cannot be brought in their indictment
as it has been before that the police
have selected those least able to care
for themselves. Too often has the
suspicion existed that the negro in the
crap game was the almost certain
prey of the law and the gambler with
the room affording a free lunch"
was immune by virtue of the magni-
tude of his sin. After the vagrancy
law has been tested in the case of the
men who are able to employ lawyers
to present their side. after it's effective
ness has been proved at the hands of
those able to put the matter to the
issue, it will be time for the city au-
thorities to devote their attention to
the more numerous class of negroes
who hang about the streets, getting
their sustenance from the meals al
forded by the cooks of the town. who
will not work and who compose a
dangerous and an irritating class of
population.
In the meantime it is we'll to have
made start; and if the laws prove
ineffective, time is long and there will
have been ut least sign-post erected
along the read to a public policy that
looks not to the few but to the happi-
ness of the many
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wIpENING cHURCH STREET.
The Tearing Away of Buildings for
This Purpose Has Begun.
lSnecial to News and Observer.l

Especial to News and Observer
Durham. n, c., March 30.-There
is no longer any doubt about the tear
ing away of the Rigsbee property and
widening of Church street This
morning the city paid into the hands
of Clerk, of the Court G. b. Green the
$4,000, the amount assessed to pay
for the property. At one o'clock this
afternoon the first plank was taken
from the side of the old Kempner
corner building, which for years has
been an old .eye-sore. 1t stood on the
corner of Main and Church streets, a
small wooden shack. By this evening
most of this old building had been
torn away. The work of tearing away
the remains of the buildings will be
pushed forward with all possible speed
cleared and ready for the grading
down of Church street.
The street from Main street to the
new union station will be one hundred
feet in width and will be u very pref
ty and convenient approach to the
new station. There will be a consid-
cradle grade but with q one hundred
foot street this will not be so notice
able.
Contractor N Underwood of this
city, has been given the contract for
the erection of the new laboratory
building for the University of North
Carolina. This building will be erect
ed near the Mary Ann Smith building
and will cost about $4,000. The
work is 70 begin at once.
In a short while the Board of Yes
try of the St Philips Episcopal church
will give the contract for the erection
Of a church building to cost from $l5,-
600 to $4,000 The board has al
ready approved of plans that will soon
be turned over to the contractors for
bids. The church will be a beautiful
structure, brown stone and with l
style of architecture that is entirely
out OF the ordinary. 1t is proposed
to begin work on this building by the
first OF June.
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THE ESSENCE OF vAGRANCY.

The issuance of warrants for three
.rancy under the provisions of the new
law and the test-indictment found
against the future shop of Ware &
Leland, serve as an indication to the
people of Raleigh that the law will
not blink further than it may be COM
PEELED to do at the practice of getting
something for nothing, and that it will
not countenance among the citizens of
the city a class of superior beings
above work and yet prosperous to n
degree that is in it's practice an insult
and in its example menace to honest
toll.
As a matter CT business appealing
to the more or less universal desire
on the part of men to gamble, the
bucket shop-or exchange house-and
the common gambler occupy an equal
footing. Both cater to human dis
ease that is as old az Adam and as
ineradicable apparently as the moth
er's milk of mankind. At the Same
time, disease feeds on contagion and
vice on opportunity. That law is
good one which reduces the chance
to sin, however strong may
be the inrate desire. 1t
will not do to say that be-
cause the world is full of weak or
depraved individuals, the practice of
catering to foolish hope of gain should
be either encouraged or condoned.
Weakness is the heir of the flesh. TO
which the law is the guardian so far
as it may proceed with dignity
AS a matter of fact the idea of
vagrancy as expressed in the newly
ratified law is the solution of the
problem of control of those who have
elected to earn a competency. not
through their own endeavors. but
through the mistakes of the public.
The broad proposition thus laid down
makes few distinctions. other than ex-
list between what is commonly called
work" and what is not. The fact that
the CRATER in one or the other line,
has accumulated roll is no longer
an excuse. The test of a man is be-
coming III the INV, DIS 1t has lOHS DSeIl
in society Of the better sort. to be
not what he has or what
he pretends TO be, but what
ne does and what he is. The
artificial standards of mere money or
appearance are gradually forsakin"
the territory of intelligent civilization
for the boundary of uniformed lands
and immature opinions. 1t is to work.
or to lose caste. not only with men
but with the law.
In commenting upon a proposed
New York statute providing tax of
two cents on each hundred shares Of
stock bought or sold. the Richmond
News Leader truly says:
"The proposed tax probably would
put out of business a considerable
number Of stock gamblers: but these
people are merely Migrants, after ell.
They produce nothing, serve no legiti-
mate purposes and represent nothing.
They are rich today and poor tomor-
row. according as they guess right OF
f.
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Oratory and North Carolina Orators
Elizabeth City Economist

When Demosthenes was interro-
gated as to oratory and what it was
and replied that it was "action''-and
repeated that answer three times, he
did a deal of harm and made a class
of speakers that sawed the air like
gladiator. Shakespeare was not an
orator. but he hit the nail when he
Said--"suit the action to the word and
the word to the action"
Is Aycock an orator? He is sparing
Ct action. Was our war governor.
Vance, an orator? He had but little
action of the arm, but his facial ex-
preston was full of action, and you
could descry pathos or humor by its
action from afar. Was Riz Bennett
an orator in his palmy days? The
roar of his Niagaran voice drew au-
dience," while his sinister arms hung
loosely by his intercostals. Was Ran
som ar orator? Yes, but too finished.
Demosthenes' advice had done him
harm. Was Willie p. Mangum an ora
tor? Yes ard a grand enc. Was Will
liam w. Cherry an orator? Yes. and
a prince in the family. Was William
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A Tar Baby Club.
Wilkesboro Chronicle

WllhSSDOFO OHEOnlCle.
The Republicans are getting a run"
in the club businessi BiAtcHburn's
Tar Heel Club at Greensboro put the
hall in motion. Now, the Republicans
in the Eighth District, we understand,
are preparing to organize a Tar Baby
Club" and give a big banquet. They
claim that President Roosevelt en-
dorses the movement and will attend
the banquet. The object of the club is
to control the Federal patronage of
the Sth, in the absence of resident
Congressman: also to compel all future
candidates to slap their hands and
kick their feet against the Tar Baby
so they will be stuck" i'm the district
and can't jump over into the "brir
patch" of another district. The Re-
publican club industry is booming.
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They Cannot Deny 1t.
Lexington Dispatch.

Lexington Dispatch.
A goodlyl number of ofice-holders
met in Greensboro the other day with
the object as they say. of organizing
a respectable Republican party in
North Carolina. Surely these men do
not mean to admit that there has not
heretofore been a respectable Republic
can party in this State.
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-
All right we now look. This is
what we see:
She compels her railway corpora
tons to pay an income tax upon the
assessed valuation of $190,000,0OO.
She compels the coal barons and
the marble quarry owners to pay in
come tax upon an assessed valuation
of $95,000,000.
She compels the landlords, bankers
and merchant princes to pay income
tax upon an assessed valuation of
$500, 100000.
In this manner she forces her
wealthy classes to pay on property and
income nearly two hundred million
dollars annually toward the support
of the government!
Her tariff duties are levied exclu-
sively upon articles which are not nee
eSSarieS of life.
Not a dollar of tariff need the poor
man pay to live in perfect comfort.
This tariff upon the non-neceSsaries
amounts to $170,000,000
From Intoxicating liquors the reve-
nue. is $15O,000,000.
Thus it will be seen, by a look at
England, that the poor man can feed
himself, clothe himself, build a house
to live in. and supply it with necessary
furniture without having to pay the
dollar of national tax.
In this land of the free he must pay
the tariff tax, or go naked, ,eat grass.
and live in a hole in the ground.
But let us look at England again.
We see her operating her postoffice,
carrying parcels as we'll as letters. She
does not allow express companies to
amass fortunes by robbing the peo-
pie in the carrying of light freight.
Thus she makes $40, 100000 instead
of letting the corporations make five
times that amount.
She owns and operates the telegraph
lines, and makes $1S,000,000 per year
instead of letting the corporations
make it.
What, therefore, is the net result
of the Look at England?
We discover that the government
supports itself upon the possessions of
the people rather than upon their ne
cessities.
Give us the same system of taxation
compel those who possess the wealth
to pay the expenses of government
and l., fer one, will say MAKE the
salaries what you will so long as you,
who make them, have to pay them
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Cannot Vote the Republican Ticket
and Maintain Self Respect.
Chatham Record.

The truth is the present Republican
party in this State is the same old
coon with few more rings on its
tail" This is admitted in a series of
resolutions adopted by the Republican
members of the last Legislature. and
published in the Winston Republican
of March 18th. In one of these resO-
buttons it is admitted that "the private
life and conduct of some of the party
managers and office-holders are such
that the self-respecting professional
and business men. who are anxious
to vote the Republican ticket. cannot
do so and maintain their self respect.
What do Weakened Democrats
think of joining a party whose lead
publican members of the last Legis-
lature?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-31

CASTOR an orator? 0. Yes! Cicero
would have stared at him in amaze
pent, Demosthenes would have hug
ged him and called him my son; and
Hortensius would have turned green
with envy Is Governor Glenn an ora
tor? Yes and no. He totes no IL
brogans and when he brought them
down on the platform Felix tremb-
led" and the shoes should now be in
the Hall of History at Raleigh.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-31

Moonshine liquor is made by disre-
putable and dishonest fellows That
''Moonshine road" in Durham was laid
in the night time at the direction
of corporate anarchists.
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Judge Pritchard is not likely to per-
nit the Southern Railway to try an
action involving a title to land by
criminal proceeding. Not much!
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A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR.

Durham is honored this week by the
presence of a great man in the person
of Bishop Galloway. who is deliver
ing course of lectures at Trinity
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-31

Here's a good motto for Durham
from Morgan in Watson's magazine:
Don't surrender until you see the
size of the enemy-and then don't
surrender"
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AeW News. Va. March 3d.
ale Purvis native Of Brooklyn
500 to Robert c. Ogden and
years treasurer Of HAMPTON
3o I'd Agricultural Institute
led saoa lly today of heart disease
la# operation a week ago for
o. uble A wife and two chill
ae-4 re him.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-31

tndI uIIice. mere Is uo law rrqunIIIs
the Clerk or Register to keep a record
of their receipts and no estimate of
their compensation can be made.
The Legislature amended the law
as to compensation for sheriff which
will reduce the amount the sheriff of
Wake county has been receiving from
$4,000 to $3.50. that is to say, it re-
dueed the compensation by $3.50.
Heretofore the sheriff has received five
per cent on the gross amount of taxes
collected. AS he has collected in
round numbers $1SO.O00 annually, his
compensation-(le ss the amount paid
for deputies and expenses) been
$4,000. In the new machinery act it
is provided that all sheriffs shall re-
ceive five per cent on all taxes col
lected up to $4,000 and 2 IL per
cent on al amounts in excess of
$4,000. This reduces the compen-
sation of the sheriff of Wake and all
other counties where the amount col
lected exceeds $4,000, but does not
affect the compensation of the sheriffs
in the small counties.
The compensation of county off,
Gals in the large counties has grown
very much in recent years by reason
of the increase of business and popu-
lation. In fact the compensation now
paid is too large, and 1t should be adj
justed upon some better basis There
is no good reason why any official in
Wake county should receive greater
compensation than is paid to the Gov
ernor of the State or the Chief Justice
of the State. They ought to be well
paid and given ample and competent
assistance. The Wake County Com
missioners will do well to study the
matter so as to help in a proper So
luton that will secure a continuance
of capable officials at salaries that are
neither extravagant Gas at presently
nor niggardly.
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MORNING TONIC.

(Wisdom of the Brahmins.)
Tt is not blessedness to know that thou
thyself art blessed;
True joy was never yet by one, nor yet
by two possessed
Nor to the many is it given, but only
to the all;
The joy that leaves one heart unblesSed
would be for mine too small.
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Spirit of the Press
Who Paws the Taxes.
Tom Watson's Magazine.

Tom WatSon'S Magazine.
Golfers Weekly thinks that the
United States should pay higher sala-
ries. Ambassadors do not get enough.
Neither do Cabinet officers The
President also is underpaid. How Ia
mentable!
Look at England" says Golfers,
in effect
England pays 100000 to the Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, $4,000 to the
Speaker of the House of Commons,
and so forth and so on.
Well, let us accept the invitation,
and look at England.
Who pays the taxes in England?
We know who pays them here With
us the poor man pays the tax.
When he covers his nakedness, when
he satisfies his hunger, when he builds
his house, when he buys tools to work
with, he pays an outrageously oppres-
sive tariff tax.
Rockefeller pays no more Federal
tax than is paid by many one-horse
negro farmer in the South.
Morgan pays less Federal tax than
many a Western corn-grower who fed
his stove on ear corn in 1891, because
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Referred to the Tar Heel Club.
ChrOnicle

At the last election there were some
folks induced to vote for Roosevelt be-
cause "he had put the price of Irish
potatoes up to 81 for the benefit of the
farmers" Why is he letting them
drop below soc now?
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hips for the S. & C.

eh City. n. c.. March &c.
E@s aa aamships are said to have
a purchased by the Suffolk
.9s15a Railroad. Thew are to
2 oecween Edenton and other
ta IS section of the State. The
#e ef are in addition to those
~ Sc by the Suffolk and Car
ita i'll greatly improve the SER
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Democrats Can Afford to Pay Bill.
Duplin Journal.

One or two meetings of this club
during the campaign will carry the
State 100000 Democratic majority,
and it will well pay the Democratic
committee to set up the menu.
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STATE NEWS.

There will be County Interdenom
national Sunday School Convention at
Princeton Saturday. A very interest
ing programe is being arranged for
the occasion. Among the speakers
who will be there are: Rev DR.. r.
H. Whitaker, of Raleigh; Prof. d. j.,
Sipe, of Kenly; Rev. Geo. L. Story, of
Raleigh; Prof. Canady, of Benson.
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PAY OF COUNTY OFFICIALS.

TIL action of the County Commits
sioners in Wake county with refer
ence to the compensation of the Coun-
ty Treasurer has created some talk
about the compensation paid to coun-
ty officials The compensation to
commissions, has steadily grown by
reason of the increased taxes for
schools, roads and other improve
ments, by the increase of court and
every official in the court house at
Raleigh exceeds the salary paid to
the Governor of the State. 1t de-
velops that last year the compensation
of the County Treasurer was about
$4,000, and that the sheriff received
for collecting taxes alone little over
$4,000. OF course out of those sums
the sheriff has to pay all his deputy
tax collectors In addition to the
$4,000 for collecting taxes. the sheriff
receives fees for the other duties per-
formed, out of which he pays his
deputies. There is no law requiring
the keeping of any record as to
amount of such fees. AS to the Reg
lister of Deeds. he receives in addition
to fees-of which the law requires no
report-compensatio as clerk to the
Board of County Commissioners. Out
~ he ieez ast v amount %@l~ Htta
.-l ~, ~
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AMONG THE RAILROADS.

The Press learned from Mr.. JOS. Il.
Hickman, of Rabun county, last Sat
urday that Capt. Tate, who has the
contract for grading the railroad
from Clayton to billiard, has his camp
built at Jas. w. Carriers near the new
High School building in the Valley. and
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A consolidation of the Maline Kni

A consolidation of the Maline Knit
ting Mill and the Wachovia Knitting
Mills has taken place. All of the ma
chinery of the Maine mill will be
moved to the Wachovia Mill, which
has just been completed, and work
will begin under the new organization
the first of May.-Winston-S Salem
Journal.
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Gen. ]. Q. A. Bryan. of Trap H
is very low with lung trouble-an
scess. He is in a critical condition.
Wilkesboro Chronicle.
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Luck is the leading woman in {
portunity's stock company.
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The graded schools at Burlingt
have been closed for two weeks on
count of measles.
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A letter received here states that the
president of the Norfolk & Western
Railway, has appointed w. S. Battle
Jr., a North Carolina boy, formerly
claim agent general claim agent in
charge of personal injury and loss and
damage to property, freight, etc
Winston Sentinel