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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-25

of the Sophomore and Junior Classes.
The certificate pupils will be heard in
one number each. Students of the
Vocal Department will assist.
The musical public is cordially in
vited. No cards of admission.
+ X 4
KirmeSS Practice.
Thursday, 10 a. m.-Greek Nation,
Diana, Peycle, Cupids and Soldiers.
11:30-Indian Proposes.
4:30 p. m.-Nile Worshipers and
Slaves.
y. m.-Spanish Girls.
$50 p. m.-Japanese and Minuet.
No one admitted except the actors
and chaperones.
1t is important that these taking
part be prompt and thus oblige the
manager.
NaSlf-Hart
The following invitation has been
sent 70 friends:
MIR. and Mrs. Benjamin b. Williford
desire the pleasure of your company
at the marriage of their sister,
Miss Rosa Rainey Hart,
to
Mr.. Marvin Wesley Nash,
on the evening of Wednesday, June
the seventh,
one thousand, nine hundred and five,
at half after eight o'clock,
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
Rocky Mount, North Carolina"
"At Home
after June fifteenth.
Selma, North Carolina"
4 !. \
Haskins-Carpenter.
Kinston, N. c.. May 24.-Cards have
been issued for the marriage of Rev.
L. b. Haskins, of Erlanger KY, and
Miss May Florence Carpenter, of Will
son, June 9Th. The groom is a native
of this county and brother to Messrs.
A. f. and j. T. Haskins, Of this city.
Miss GriGsns' At Home.
Woodland n. c., May 24.-Last ev-
ening Miss Josephine Griffin gave de-
lightful AT Home Party in honor Of
her friend, Miss Pat Adams, of Mon
roe, N. C.
The guests were met at the door by
little Misses Pauline Outland and Mar
guerite Blanchard, and ushered into
the elegantly decorated parlors by Miss
Griffin, where everything awaited a
pleasant evening. Several exquisite
selections, vocal and instrumental.
were rendered by Miss Adams Miss
Adams is charming young lady and
has Won host of friends by her visit
to Woodland
Refreshments were served during
the evening and everyone enjoyed the
occasion.
Miss Griffin won the admiration of
all present by her careful attention to
her guests and may we'll be termed an
ideal hostess.
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At the Confederate reunion in
Louisville, the Durham camp will
have at least five young ladies as rep
resentatives. These will be Miss Naomi
Redmond, Miss Jessie Harper, Miss
Cole and Miss Cults, of this city. and
Miss Helen Day, of Louisville. daugh-
ter of a citizen who left this section
several years ago. These have con-
sented to act in the capacity named
and others may decide to go later. as
the time draws nearer.-Durham
Herald.
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There'll be more joy on our old farm
Than in dozen States,
When all the colleges are out
An Sally graduates
Well tune the old piano then
Hang roses on the gates,
An step up proud in all the crowd
When Sally graduates!
# l. Stanton.
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Greater Germany.
!. q. Il. Johnston. in Fortnightly Review

Sir n. II. Johnston. In Fortnfgktly Review.
The German empire of the future will be.
or should be, a congeries of big and little
states semi-independent in many respects,
bound together by allegiance to supreme
emperor by a common customs union, an
army and navy for the defence OF their
mutual interests. This empire will include
The present German kingdoms, duchies,
municipalities, and republics. and. in addi-
ton, a kingdom of Bohemia under q IIaps-
burg or Hohenzollern, kingdom of Hun
gary, kingdoms of Roumania, Servia, Bull
garia, principaIfties of Croatia. Montenegro,
Macedonia, republic of Byzantium, a sui
tanate of Anatolia, republic of Trebizond,
IN emirate of Mosul, a dependency of Meso-
potamia-the whole of this mosaic bound
together by bands and seams of German
cement. Wherever there is vacant land and
a suitable climate German colonies will be
established as they have been In Transyl-
vania and Syria Gas also In southern Rus
STA and in the Caucasus). The territories
IF this German league would thus stretch
rom Hamburg and Holsteln, on the Baltic
and ON the North sea. to Trieste ana the the
Aegean, to the Gulf of Alexandretta, 70 the
Euphrates and the frontiers OF Persia.
Even IL 1t did not reach to the actual shores
of the Persian gulf It would extend TO the
junction OF the Euphrates and the Tfgris,
and might share with Great Britain the
Joint control of the Shat-et-Arab or the es-
|
central and southeastern Europe would
have as coaling stations for it's feet and
depots for It's commerce footholds on the
continent of Africa. in China, the Malay
archipelago and the Pacific, and possibly
the West Indies. To obtain the right to
found such splendid. continuous and self
contained empire, Germany might have to
make sacrifices, surrenders and sales in va
rious directions. She must IN the first place
renounce all idea Of the Incorporation with
in her linlits of the low countries Hoilarid,
Belgium and Luxenburg); she must restore
to France the fortress of Metz and that
small area around about 1t OF French
speaking Lorraine which lies to the west OF
the Mosei1e and the river Seille. To Scam
dinavia she must give back the little dis
trict OF HadersIeben (the slice of Slessig
which is Inhabited by Danish speaking peo-
pie. bounded on the south by the Haders-
ieben estuary and by the G3elds eau riverl.
TO Italy German Austria must restore the
Trienffno Chat peninsula of German ter
ritory Inhabited by an Italian or Rumanth
speaking people which lies to the south OF
zlxol). =
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HOW IT FEELS TO BE
SHADOWED DAY AND NIGHT

pay and it'll hold you until I have a
chance to place YOU permanently. The
confidential stenographer of this bank is
In 1a HOSPITAL ], pr s to undergo an oger
he'll be on his legs for three or four
months, although he's sure to recover all
right, and when he gets well he's going to
have his job back, for he has been with
the bank for good many years and Is
crackerjack It's pretty close and init
mate work that you'll be called on to do
for the banks cashier sure enough job
of trust. I've been instructed to exercise
extreme caution as to the young men
send down to the bank to the looked over,
ana l am exercising caution. You're the
you're all right. / know that you can do
the work and you've got trick Of looking
a man In the eye that about satisfies me
as to the other end of it, not to mention
your recommendations. Go down and hit
EN- up now and let the cashier see the
pest you've got in you. Hope you grab
the Job. It's Atty week
1 went right down TO the bank, and,
after walt of half an hour or SO. was
let into the cashiers cage. The cashier
was mighty clear-eyed shrewd-looking
man with gray beard-he's the president
OF the bank now-and the way he took me
| IN, from hair to shoe leather when ] told
him what was there for, was sure discon-
certing.
He allowed me to do most of the talking,
and even when | paused between replies to
his questions he'd permit the pause to be-
| come so protracted while he kept looking
me over In his penetrating, irnpaling kind
| of way. that had hard time to keep from
/ wriggling in my chair.
| He asked me more questions than a
| census enumeration. / got right back at
| him with the replies, so as not TO give him
| the impression that / was a hesitator or
anything of that sort. Finally he tried me
/ on my shorthand, reading from the annual
report of his bank at a rate of speed that
| more than kept me hustling to stay along
| with him, although was a pretty speedy
| youngster at the pothook game in those
| days. transcribed the notes on type
/ writer and handed them over to him, and
1 he pronounced the work satisfactory.
Er-humphy the shrewd-eyed cashier
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said. finally 4 think you ought to be able
to fill the bill, young man. I don't-we-
precisely know-um-when shall need you.
but-um-well. / think you may consider
yourself employed from this date. Just let
me have your address, and I'll send for you
when want you.
This struck me as being queer. He told
me that I was employed, and yet he didn't
know when he'd want me. l couldn't just
make 1t out, but concluded that 1t wasn't
up to me to say anything. If was en-
ployed I knew that 1 was entitled to pay,
and l figured it that If the bank could af-
ford TO pay a man $50 week-which was a
corking salary for an amanuensis stenog-
rapher-while / loafed I'd just enjoy the
loaf and let it go at that. l gave the cash
Ter my address, had a lodging on Madi-
son avenue-and went away, to report to
the employment agency man that I'd nailed
the job.
az don't know when I'm going to work,
though said to the employment agency
man. telling him about that end of the ar
rangement
"'oh. thatll be all right said the en-
ployment agency man. You're on the pay
roll from today all right Just little way
some institutions in New York have, you
know. Er-by the way-just sort o. take 1t
easy till you're sent for. Get your nights
rest in full every night. YOU understand.
The job may be exacting, and you want to
be all there when you're called upon, seer
and-he shot me a crafty glance out OF the
tail of his eye.
II must have been euriously Dense but
dye know that 1 didn't see through the
thing even then7
II started to leave the employment
agency.
'Er-um-by the way. you don't monkey
any with the ponies or the pasteboards, do
you. son.? the employment agency man
called after me.
Moneys too hard to get answered
him. and then left his Office.
II had room, as say. on Madison ave-
nue.. and got my meals around at any old
place within the limitations of my pocket
book. I went to my room straight from
the agency, read the papers for awhile,
fused around and changed my clothes, and
about s In the afternoon started out to get
some dinner.
GAS went out, noticed standing on the
corner opposite, a smooth-shaven, quietly
dressed chap, swinging cane. didn't
pay any particular attention to him. and
only remembered later where I'd first seen
HIM
81 stroiied over to one of the inexpensive
restaurants on 9th avenue and sat down at
one Of the rear Tables Af,o,.t fxzo v.i,,,st.su
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from Prof. Ripley Of Harvard and applied
to our immigration statistics by the writer,
we will return to him for the temperamental
traits of the three races pouring in upon
US.
The great neutral races are contributing
contented, patient, passive faces-their ex-
pressions sometimes degenerating into
morosity. They bring US neutral tints and
shades of soul, then, we'll as of bodyl
They are the conservative people of Europe,
but irresistible when once aroused, as we
await to see In Russia. They make sed-
entary, comfortable neighbors; peaceful cit
liens, wherefore we may forgive them for
broadening the American nose. leveling the
American stature, neutralizing American
bIondness and brunetteness.
The blond army of Teutons bring with
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terials Of our beauty come: but each must
:aow pass to Its particular sculptor. Those
immigrants settling on soil rich in deposits
of lime ultimately become taller race.
The measurements Of over 100000 men
drafted for the Union army when classified
by states showed that the conscripts from
Vermont New Hampshire and Kentucky
were noticeably the tallest. These are the
states of rich lime. Of hard water-stuff out
of which long bones and big skeletons are
made. Indeed. not only the soil and the
water. but the natural food, the climate
and all related phenomena of any given
spot are at work remolding the human form
divine.
Seven distinct beauty zones would seem
to divide the United States, each with its
sculptor at work. This interesting theory
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was suggested to the writer by Prof. Otis
T. Mason. head curator of anthropology,
United States National Museum, In the
course Of an interview.
These zones or belts are marked by their
imprints upon the Indian during the mil
lenniums which those aboriginal Americans
dwelt therein. The first is the snowy zone
of upper Alaska and the neighbor!ng arctic
regions, wherein man becomes shorter,
fatter, more compact, like the Esquimaux.
The second is that of the Pacific coast,
molding fat-faced people, squat in sta
ture. with small eyes and short noses, The
third Is the Hudson bay territory extending
through Canada and our northwestern
states as far as the Rockies and producing
race tall and slender. with thin but
powerful legs. The soil of our eastern
states produces strong Iin deep and elo-
quent mouth, fullness over the eyes. Then
comes the southern agricultural zone en-
larging mans and woman's features. but
refining their noses and mouths. Another,
the interior basin zone, imparts some of
| these same characteristics. but leaves man
more dwarfed. There are traditions that
pygmies once inhabited this territory and
left their diminutive houses. Then comes
| the irrigation region of the southwest pro-
ducing people generally well fed. but sub
| ject to famines, privations and arid eli
| mate. AS result the Indian here has an
uncanny look; their faces are wrinkled,
puckered and dried up. They seem to bear
the map of the Colorado river ON their faces.
| White men are here subject to practically
| the same environment and the stationary
| population will be similarly marked.
| That American beauty becomes necessar-
| lily brunette as soon thoroughly accli-
| mated is also the opinion of Prof. Mason.
| I'm all countries and chimes nature has
| her favorite colors." he told the writer. IF
| the human and animal Inhabitants of these
| regions do not possess these characteristics
| they soon die out. Nature loves a negro
| in Africa and the white man soon dies in
| that country. Only black pigs will survive
| in Florida: only white horses in certain
i other localities. The skin. hair and eyes
| Of the Indian are the colors which nature
| loves in America and the blond type must
| decrease here. The entire American con-
| tinent seems to demand these colors, for
when the whites first came here they found
| one dark race from Point Barrow to Terra
| del Fuego.
| Eventually we will all have dark hair
dark hazel eyes and dark compilations. de-
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49, HAT New York news story about
81 the keen chap who, by forging
certified check. got possession of
II s360Oo0 in gilt-edged securities,
Interested me a good DEAL" OBJ
served q well-known official of the Treas
ury Department. Il worked for a little
while In a New York bank-one of the big
gest-myself, and before the arrest was
made was curious to find out If this was
what is known as an inside job'-if any of
the employees of the banks involved ham
pened to be in 'cahoots with the fellow
who presented the forged check and got
hold OF the securities. The Job looked so
neat ana tasty, from every point of view
that l thought 1t must have been pulled
off with the cooperation of some bank
employe or employees who knew all of the
circumstances connected with the $500 900
loan on the securities.
From my experience as an enploye of
the New York bank l don't see how a dis
konest man ever gets into the employ of a
banking institution of the metropolis at
all. My own experience in getting on the
pay roll OF a New York bank gave me an
insight into the extreme care taken by
the banks In the big town in selecting
their men.
About dozen years ago 1 found myself
O stenographer out of work owing to the
failure Of a New York firm for which
had worked for nearly FIVE years. Invent
TO one OF the stenography and typewriting
employment agencies in New York and
registered as a shorthand man to whom
come work would be acceptable.
he man In charge of the stenographic
employment agency knew me and he was
fully acquainted with the fact that I was
good workman In the shorthand line He
told me that he thought he'd be able to
land me in a Job without much bother,
and asked me to report to him on the fol-
lowing morning. did report to him the
next morning, and he handed me slip
on which was written the name of one of
York.
It's only temporary job. the employ
ment agency man told me, but it's swell
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gold-crested. Let US see what 1t contributes
In the way of beauty tints-features and
form divine. The golden hair and violet
eyes that poets sing Of; hair sometimes
reddish, as Titan loved it. or tawny. or
sandy and eyes perhaps light gray; noses
straight, narrow, prominent, often aquiltne;
faces oval and long, but hopeful and happyi
faces also smooth in outline, with cheek
bones not prominent; heads very long-what
we once called the domestic head;' stature
tall and commanding-a trait as constant
with these people, as narrowness Of nose.
Here we have, as we are told, the one
time favored-of-God, the born rulers of the
world. now doomed to die out They are
the blond Teutons, once pouring America
ward, but now carried by dwindlfng cur
rents, out of England Germany, Scandina-
via, the Netherlands, Finland and F'land-
ers. They have been forsaking us gradu-
ally, since that lamented year. 1882
The third and last wave, nearly as great
this, with gold crest. rolls in with UNI
brous shadow. 1t is that of the dark Medi-
terranean races misnamed Iberic. It has
these beauty elements to offer: Eyes black
or brown, which flash fire Of hate or love;
hair very dark and often curly-due to an
cient strains Of African blood; noses
broad; compilations dark, generally olive;
faces oval and long; likewise heads hind
heads prominent; figures slight. slender and
rather agile.
This, the brunette type Of the Mediter-
ranean pours in upon us from lower Italy,
Sicily, Corsica, Greece, Spain, Portugal.
turkey, ana pears with IL some beauties or
north Africa and western Asia, of the same
stock.
* II
Thus three out Of four Of these imni-
grants are giving US broad noses dark hair
and medium statures. Two out of four are
contributing brown hair and hazel to dark
grayish eyes. Heads are equally divided
between round and long. Broad faces and
oval faces are about equal. But the chances
for either distinctly blond or distinctly bru-
nette hair and eyes are only one in four;
for tail statures, too. one in four. The
broad nose, dark hair and medium stature
therefore, seem bound to multiply amongst
US unless the currents of immigration
change; likewise the pure blond or pure
brunette seem fated to become rare, COM
pared with the great nondescript type Of
neutral colors.
But what about expresson-the high
lights and shadows of souls. playing across
the faces of these incipient Americans? The
above analysis of the physical characters
tics of Europeans having ,,een borrowed
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them stateliness. we learn. Theirs is the
domineering spirit and ell of the leading
dynasties of Europe have long been re-
cruited from their ranks, says another
classif1er. Blends were the rulers of bru-
nettes. all the way from the Peloponnesus
to Ireland, declares the man-student, Du-
mont.
Il *
The brunette army from the Mediter-
ranean are innately impulsive-the race of
political radicalism. So we have pouring
in upon us the passive nondescripts equal
to the stately blends and the impulsive
brunettes combined. Are not these neutral
Celto-Slavs potent Jewelers.. indeed?
So we have seen whence these raw ma
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after I'd taken my seat the chap I'd no.
ticed standing on the corner across the way
from my lodging house walked in and took
seat not far from me- I could have
sworn that he didn't see me at all. and I
didn't think anything Of the matter~1ust
then. I went on eating and reading a
the restaurant I decided that, as long as
had job even If wasn't actually working.
/ could afford to blow in half a dollar on
some show or other. So I went to one of
the Broadway theaters, invested In a four
bit seat in the upper balcony, and enjoyed
"As i had an aisle seat went out after
the first act to stretch my legs and take q
smoke. Standing idly before one of the
glass frames of the lobby entrance to the
theater. looking out on the street, was the
man I'd noticed across the street from my
lodging house and at the restaurant where
I'd had my dinner. I thought 1t a bit odd
that we should cut trails in that way so
often, but 1t never occurred to me that
there was anything doing in that connec-
ton in which 1 framed up as one OF the
central figures.
when the show was over, walked over
to my lodging house, stopping at drug
late. for the weather was cold. When I
came out of the drug store could have
sworn that / saw the chap I'd last seen at
the theater, leaning against an electric light
pole on the other side of the street
- It's funny that chap and have had
the same route SO often today reflected,
as trudged along to my room. where
quickly turned in.
well. after I'd had my breakfast on the
following morning. I walked down to the
Aston library. There were some shorthand
books there that / didn't have copies Of,
and wanted to do q little digging up on
shorthand word signs.I got the book I
wanted and sat down at g. table with pad
and pencil to do little practicing on the
word sign characters. When I looked up
from my work ten minutes later, the first
man my eyes fell upon was the chap I'd
seen so often on the day before. He was
apparently buried In big book that rested
on his knees, and oblivious Of everything.
Fright then-and guess you're saying to
yourself that It was shout time-the idea
flashed over me that was under surveiI.
lance, and that the bank that had employed
me was behind It.
ST didn't feel dead certain. of course, but
I felt pretty sure, and determined 10 test
the thing. went on with my word sign
practice for half an hour or so more. and
| then returned my book and went out. It
was then getting on toward noon, ard
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walked over to Broadway lunch place
and ate. Ny man whom I'd left buried in
no e0S se at the Ast9e Library was there
Then I knew that the bank was sort o.
getting little preliminary line on me. and
l understood why hadn't been put to
work Immediately by the cashier.
1T was certainly queer sensation, that
thing of Being logged 1t made me very
nervous was constantly tempted to twist
my head around and look back every time
man shadcwing me was not far behind me,
and knew, or felt, that he didn't know
that knew 1t. Consequently 1 wouldn't
yield to nay almost irresistible temptation to
look over my shoulder. But 1t sure was
hard job not to rubber around.
Il saw my shadow everywhere I went
that day, up to the hour that opened the
front door. of my lodging house to go to
bed, and by that time felt genuinely hang
dog felt like man playing a sinister
part. didn't get much sleep that night,
right then and there that wouldn't be a
fugitive from justice for all the wealth OF
India. knew that could never stand be-
ing logged as a steady thing.
my man was right in my neighbor hood
from the time I left my lodging house the
next morning till about noon. On the whole
don't think he was particularly adept at
his work. He ought to have known that
his perpetual nearby presence would get
me to thinking.
About noon he disappeared from my
trail. and my relief was intense. ! didn't
know whether I'd passed the ordeal or not,
but concluded that I'd soon find out. i
was right. When I got back to my room
I found note from the cashier of the
bank. that had been left by messenger,
directing me to report for duty on the fol-
lowing morning at $50. So had passed
all right.
"Now. 1t had seemed to me that this was
all foolishness. this logging Of a man only
to be employed by bank for little while
as an humble stenographer, who'd never
| have a chance to handle any of the banks
funds.
.'But found out on the very next day
that 1t wasn't foolishness at all, that ex-
treme caution shown by the bank.
.Tll give an example. A couple OF hours
after I'd been taking the cashiers dicta-
| ton he dictated me telegram that read.
In essence. like this.
John ]. Blank. Cashier 'steenth Ma
tional Bank. Chicago:
$" Pay to ". J. Jones without identinea-
| don. ei5.o00