The news & observer., 1905-10-13
"FurI it, RurI it, Take
it Down" p"
AND SAVE THE STATE
Office of The Secretary of the State
Fair Has Fun With the Stunts OF
the Perpetual Kickers. A New
Banner Will be
Raised.

Furl it, hurl it, take it down.
For there's not man to praise it;
But they all would like to raze it;
SO howl aloU eternal knockers,
The things as cheap as thirty coppers,
Knock it, roast it, howf it down."
O. B. JOYFUL.
The inspiration which created this
efIusion originated in weary sight
on Fayetteville street. No apology
was offered to Father Abram Ryan by
the dreary author, who indited his
verse on a card which illustrated a
scene too tiresome to narrate. The
card, with scores of mates, was
marked to Hon. Joseph E. Pogue,
secretary of the State Fair, and the
object for complaint and ridicute is a
banner suspended across Fayetteville
'lrecc bear.ng the inscription: "Wel-
come Our President" and beneath are
TWO large American flags, tattered and
torn, permitted to be reduced to such
eAtreEItles as all the armies of the
united world could not equal
Secretary Poguc has been lombard
ed. noodcd, ana stormed, with illus
Usual cards emphasizing the
necessity for lowering this banner
aItu eI,ner substituting another or
-~.ttns the glory of the majestic skies
* this imperial section Gas Dixon
would say) greet President Roosevelt
as ne rides up Fayetteville street the
admlred one of the populace. Many
a funny stunt was done on these
cards, and one gentleman even wrote
to the President these words: Il
want you to know, sir, that | didn't
have a -- thing to do with the
hanging of that red tape"
Blindfold the Presidenl.
lady standing at a street car sta
ton while the cars pass without talk
ing her on. remarks on one of these
cards:
1T is really a shame to keep one
waiting for you to act, and l suggest
that you please either blind-fold the
President next Thursday or take the
beautiful CD banner down. It's a
measley shame!"
Take me back to Old Virginia"
sings the President in despair while
his glazed eyes look at the rag rag
ing in the displeased and ashamed
wind overhead.
Take me down. down, down,
Where the wurzburgher flows.
''See what the welcome flag drove
me to- says man PROSTATE with
his mouth beneath a German beer
barrel.
A young girl, peeping through a
key hole remarks: I'm curious 20
know why you don't take your banne.
down.
An unhappy papa with score of
belligerent kids smoking his cigar
pulling his hair out by the roots
and sticking pins in his trousers in
most deplorable condition, in the
depth of his unutterable woe eX-
claims: "Stop your kiddin' and take
down your most beautiful banner"
Raze it and Save the State.
1t was with the direst forebodings
that "Deemosthenes' prayed the sec
retary. in the name of liberty, civic
virtue. and honor, to cut down that
affair and save the State.
One notification was urgent. and it
portrayed a man being badgered out
of town, while peaking these
things:
1.-The writer intends to leave town
before the President comes, but out
of respect to the city remove the
Rag. It's a disgrace to even such Il
small town as, --- (here village
of a boasted population of 10000 was
named) Let the Rag down and save
the city"
The photograph of nree fighting
cats followed "A few scratches from
an admirer of the Presidential BAN
ner."
badly scratched and patched
tom1cat weeps behind a window
pane, and lugubriously mourns: II
can't come out tonight, for I was
out last night and saw the welcome
flag, and this is the consequence /
viii be out any time after the flag
is down.
"One on me, that banner" yelps a
lii
knocker.
Il should like to come up and see
you regarding that banner" squeaks
a young guy gazing ungallantly up
at weli-lighted window. where -
81 wish you would take notice."
whispers lobster and pointing 10 a
happy pair in unhappy circumstances,
too ludicrous to tell, that the ban
ner across the street is too large and
conspicuous, so please get a smaller
one This was deep sarcasm, for the
banner is sufficiently small, as it is
said that yesterday afternoon a gang
of fellows with opera and spy
glasses endeavored to locate the in
glorious decoration, and i'll succeed
ed.
1t was also reported that last night
brass band circled beneath the
banner and played rag time.
ribbon half an inch in width and Ia
mentally short, the following epistle
was yesterday sent to Secretary
Pogue:
Honorable Sir:
Approaching the fact that you are
large public spirited man and
have the interest of our Fair City
always at heart and wish to do the
best for it's good name and further
| aoic fnI,
of which you are the valued secretary
and knowing that the same society is
unable to do the many things that 1t
would like TO do, on account OF beinS
| financially incapacitased and deploflng
that your society has seen fit to at
| tempt to place a banner across Fay
etteville street. when they were un-
able to do SO in a creditable manner,
appreciating the noble and self-sac-
rificing effort YOU and your society
| have made, I desire to come to your
assistance. and having more money