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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-21

| kENNEBEC COUNTY-In Probate
| 1905 800 -
NOAH G. SANBORN, administrator on
the estate Of JOHN w. WHITTIER, late
or vierna. In said County. deceased. hav-
ing presented his first account OF admins
tration Of said estate for allowance:
oRDERED. That notice thereof be
given three weeks successfully, prior to
the fourth Monday of January, Inst. I'm
the Daily kennebec Journal. a newspaper
printed in Augusta. that all persons in
t"rnsted may attend at a. Probate Court
then to he held at Augusta and show
cause. II any. why the same should not be-
allowed.
G. r. STEVENS. Judge
Attest: w. A NEWCOMB. Register.
jan7sat3t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-21

kENNEBEC COUNTY.-In Probate
Court, At Augusta, in vacation. Janu-
a Certain Instrument. purporting to be
he LIST will and testament of HARRIET
NJ. W4MAN, late of Gardiner in said
County. deceased. having been presented
Tor PROBATE:
given three weeks successfully prior to
the fourth Monday of January. Inst. in
the Daily kennebec Journal. a newspaper
terested may attend at Court OF Probate
then to he holden at Augusta and show
cause. If any. why the said instrument
should not be proved. approved and al
lowed as the last will and testament Of
the said deceased
G. r. STEVENS, Judge.
Attest: w. A. NEWCOMB. Register.
jan7at&
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24
The Willy CRITTERS.
q Fayetteville Observer.

FdyelteVllle observer.
The big grafters are no less cum
ming than the little municipal graft
ers. By the "big grafters" we mean
those who hunt the field of national
politics and go for big game
AS we had occasion say before the
ST. Louis convention last year, the
corrupt elements who ostensibly train
with and burden the Democratic par
ty, pushed the candidacy of Judge
Parker merely for the purpose of
side-traking the Bryanites, or Chica-
go Platform Democrats. That &C
complished, they proceeded to carry
out their original purpose-and So
having alienated many thousands Of
old fashioned Democrats from Park
er by their commentator of him.
they set to work to beat him on the
home-stretch.
All this, from start to finish, was
predicted and recorded in the Obser-
ver giving rise, by the way, to a
memorable contest at the State con-
vention at Greensboro) and, at last,
we have the final link in the chain of
confederation as an incident of the
great insurance company frauds.
Judge Parker, too, who discovered
too late the perfidy of some OF ms
leading supporters, finds confirma-
ton in the outcome of these same
anti-graft Investigations for his ante
norton charges in the wind-up or
the presidential compaign.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24
THE CARLYLE BUILDING.

Work is going forward rapidly at
Wake Forest on the new Alumni
Building which will be ready for dedi-
cation about the first of December At
the dedication will be one of the
events of the Baptist State Conven-
year in Raleigh, and it is expected
that the whole body will go out to
Wake Forest to attend the Inaugural
ton of President Poteat and the dedi-
Writing to Charity and Children of
this building, DR.. Charles e, Taylor
says:
Despite the daily showers, the
Building committee has not ceased to
haste toward completion the new
Alumni building Had weather condi-
tons been propitious, it would, ere
now, have been covered in and almost
ready for occupancy. AS it is. now
that the third story window frames
are in place, the edifice begins to re-
veal the symmetry of its architectural
proportions And it is not difficult
to believe that the Alumni building
will be the most capacious and at
tractiVe of the six which adorn the
campus.
II had almost written the Carlyle
Building in the last sentence. And,
surely, it would not be uniting as a
subtitle, for, without the energy, en-
thusiasm and tact of John B. Carlyle,
grass would. now be growing where
today the ring of troWel and the
stroke of hammer resound from its
rising wallis. Long after he is dead
this beautiful and useful structure
will be a monument to the unpaid Ia
Dor and unselfish devotion of Prof
Carlyle"
That handsome building, which has
cost a large sum, has been erected by
many small contributions. Not a sin
gle man has given what would be
called a large sum, though some sub
stantial amounts were given by a few
men, The bulk of the money came in
small amounts and Dr. Taylor does
we'll to give the high credit for secur-
ing the money to Prof. Carlyle, whose
we'll directed zeal has secured it's cree
ton. 1t is q happy suggestion to call
it the Carlyle building. The contribu-
tors would all rejoice to thus see hon
or given where honor is due.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24

of his Sunday school class, there is not
one genuine religious emotion. 1t
is all a ding-dong about success, an
emphasis upon correct living, not for
the beauty of the holy life, but be-
cause it is the surest foundation for
success in life. SO much for his cor
rect life, not half so perfect as that
of the young man who turned away
sorrowing from Christ because the
Christian test was too severe Nothing
of Co.'s love, not one sentence throb-
bling with love for his fellow crea-
lures, not one touch of sympathy for
the unfortunate, for the millions of
honest failures, for the worthy ones
who went down in honest endeavor.
No love, no sympathy, no compassion!
Christianity, bah! But Mr.. Rockefel-
ler's philanthropy, what of the millions
he has given for this cause? His own
words explain it. To his Sunday school
class he said regarding his giving:
''In proportion to your investment, so
will your dividends be- Not for the
good it will do Others but for what
it will do for me. Mr.. Rockefeller
does not consciously look at it that
way. He has too much sense to think
that he could make an outright pur-
chase of salvation. 1t is the result
of his habits of thought. 1t is the
mistake he has made in carrying the
dominating idea of his business into
his religious life. You quarrel with
Mr.. Rockefeller for giving his money
and you would quarrel with him more
for not giving it; what would you have
him do with it?'' piously eXclaims one
of his d. d. apologists. Nobody quar-
rels with him for giving it. The quar-
rel is with those who make his CIV
;11cr al he h. n
quired it, the apologists who set up
the Rockefeller standard as the ideal
for American youth. The end does
not always justify the means, even if
a man does stay at home at night and
go to church on SUNDAY"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24

article in the New York Times on
Life Insurance Problems-Unwieldli
ness of the Large Companies and
Chief Danger" that is so good, we
print it here:
Though the press and the public
generally are greatly surprised at the
recent revelations regarding the giant
life insurance companies of this city,
the state OF affairs has been we'll UNI
derStoOd by insurance men, and the
present situatioD was predicted by
many almost fifteen years ago. 1t
was then pointed out that at their
then rate of progress the great life
insurance companies would soon at
tain such size that their directors and
trustees, even with the best inten-
tions, would be unable to give proper
attention to their affairs, and that the
State Insurance Department also
would be unable to supervise them as
closely as necessary. AS all these
things are now demonstrated facts, it
would now seem wise to consider the
recommendations made many many
years ago as a preventive, and en-
deavor to apply them to present con-
ditions.
I'm the years 1892 and 1898 it was
panies attained a certain volume of
assets they should no longer be allow
ed to employ agents to bring in new
business, and thus go on swelling in
size to an indefinite extent. The in
fiuence of the large companies at
that time prevented Az action, and
they pretended that there was no
danger whatever that they ever
would attain the great size then pre-
dicted for them in the future, but
their arguments have been proven
erroneous, SO the only question is,
shall they be allowed to expand in
definitely?
I'm these days of gigantic corpora
tons for manufacturing and CONNER
cial purposes, some persons may say,
why shall we not have gigantic life
insurance companies as well? 1t
should be remembered that there is
one vast difference between the assets
of a life insurance company and
those of commercial corporations. IN
the case of great railway or manu-
featuring corporation the assets are
practically all planted, or invested SO
as not to be available in cash, while
in the case of great life insurance
company it is almost altogether the
other way, and it's assets can all be
converted into cash in hand in very
short time and used to suit the pur-
poses OF the man or men controll-
ing it,
Every man who is capable of
learning from experience will, l think,
agree that laws should be passed to
the effect that, whenever the assets of
a life insurance company shall at
tain the amount of 100000, it
shall no longer be allowed to employ
any one to obtain business for it, nor
to issue, even to voluntary applicants,
any policies except to replace insur-
ances that have ceased and cannot
be revived"
Moral for North Carolina: Give the
bulk OF your insurance to home COM
panies and the balance to those COM
panies that are honestly and economi-
cally managed for the benefit OF the
pOlicy-hOlders.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24
Is IT LUCK OR CRAFT

Thomas w. Lawson, continuously in
the public eye for. more than two
years, is either the radiant child of
fortune or the Napoleon of advertise
ment. Great as his success has been
in keeping himself before the public
and his name if not exactly a house
hold word one on which to hang the
use of strong language when one has
conscientious scruples against profani-
lty, it has remained for Mr. A. j.
Smith, attorney, to set the seal upon
the Lawson Immortality by an adver-
tisement in the New York Commercial,
presumably paid for at high rates in
good coin and prominently displayed
in the following words and figures, to-
wit.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24
PREACHERS AND THEIR PAY.

There is preacher in Danville who
has not paid his debts and some of
the members of his church desired
his resignation because his failure to
meet his financial obligations Injuries
his usefulness. He made no reply to
the request for his resignation but
announced that he would reply at the
services on Sunday night. The church
was crowded and he "flayed" the Off
GERS literally. and declared that he
could not pay his debts promptly be-
cause his salary was not paid as
promised.
This unseemly incident, in which
preacher and people are in the wrong,
ought to impress upon the few the
importance of seeing that the preach
er, who puts aside business and OPP
portunity for money making, to devote
himself exclusively to preaching the
gospel should be well paid and
promptly paid. He cannot, unless he
be useful when his family stands in
need of comforts or, when he owes
debts that give him embarrassment.
There is another reflection for
church members: the cost of living
has increased very much, the laborer
gets more per day than two years
ago, and there has been an upward
trend in prices. The preacher who
gets the same salary he received five
years ago is actually getting about
twenty per cent less, for everything
he has to buy has gone up in price.
During the great campaign of 1896
some preachers were appealed to not
to support Bryan on the ground that
i'm doing so they would be voting to re-
duce their fixed income because 1t
was alleged they would be paid in sill
yer and it would buy .less than the
dollar they were then receiving, And
some few were guided by that appeal
to their personal salary. Well, Bryan
was not elected. The gold standard
prevails. The preachers fixed salary
OF 1896 will today buy twenty per cent
less imam 1t WOulu lHcH. lie CdoC
in the circulation of primary money
has helped everybody except the man
who gets fixed salary which has not
been raised.
But, men and brethren, aside from
the fact that the dollar buys less than
formerly, ought not the preacher to
be paid better salary and ought it
not to be paid promptly? Is it treat
ing the minister with common fairness
TO embarrass him because, in the first
place, his salary is often so little that
he can get along onlw by practising
the closest economy, and in the sec
ond place, he is forced to wait often
till the end of the year to get the
major portion of his salary, and to
pay time prices because he cannot pay
cash.
This is presented as serious sun
day morning reflection to every church
member in North Carolina.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24
INSURANCE A NECESSITY.

Those people who jump to the con-
clusion that insurance is unSound De-
cause of the disclosures of the over
grown trust companies in New York,
are in grevious error. Insurance is
one of the necessities of the age and
there are many companies managed
honestly. The evils now aired must
be remedied. When negligence is re-
sponsible for a railroad wreck, nobody
says abolish railroads." but sthey
demand proper safeguards. People
will be more careful where they put
their money but they will not quit in
surfing.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24

1t will be a long time before the
canal is finished. Hon. j. ID. Yeomans,
formerly member of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, is credited
with making the following remarka-
BILE statement mo Panama canal
will ever be built and no American
engineer who was not paid for his
statement ever said the project was
even feasible. The railroads are con-
trolling the situation. For the reason
that the Nicaragua project was feasible
it was killed"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24
HE SHOULD SPEAK.

Mr.. Roosevelt wouldn't listen to his
advisers in October, 1904, when Judge
Parker said that corporations were
putting up big money to elect Roose-
Welt. His singing sentences of denial
made him many votes. Why is he 81
lent now in seven languages when the
testimony proves that Judge Parker
was right? Judge Parker did not say
then that Roosevelt was a party to
the corruption. But he was the bene-
hciary of the abstraction of trust
funds. He ought to compel Cortelyou
to pay it back. Will he be as defiant
now and as courageous as in 1904?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24
A GOOD RULE FOR BANKS.

The Southern National Bank. which
opened it's doors at Wilmington on
Monday of last week, adopted one
clause in it's bylaws which merits uni
versal commentator. 1t is one that
prohibits the salaried officers of the
bank from dealing in futures of any
kind or specializing in marginal trans
actions. This is an action that might
we'll be adopted and put into practice
by every bank in the country. That
rule prevails in other banks and 1t
ought to be the law in all of Them
Nearly every defalcation in banks is
due to speculation on the part of Of
ficials. If there is any man in COM
munity who ought not to speculate,
that man is the banker. He holds
the most responsible position in the
community and upon his strict honesty
and integrity depends the safety of
the savings of hundreds. If he spec
ulates and puts up margins the temp
tation to use the money of depositors
to tide over an unfortunate turn of
the wheel will be so great that some
times he will yield. He will not in
tend to be dishonest, but the use of
bank money makes him a thief in the
eyes of the law, though in purpose
he never intended to take a dollar
that did not belong to him. There is
but one safe rule for bank to follow:
Permit no official to speculate:
The Southern National starts out
we'll and sets an example that should
he generally followed
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24
Cruelty Must Not Be Tolerated.

Mt Airy News
They are having time at the A.
and M. College with the boys who
are guilty of hazing. There. are not
many boys who get the backing put
on them but what deserve it. A fresh
fellow enters college and often good
coat of greese and Oh = backing will
do more to remedy the evils caused
by the spankings he never got at
home than all the lessons he will ever
learn. Don't be too hard on the fell
low who is anxious to take some of
the egotism out of one of mammals
little darlings.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24

Mayor Dunno. of Chicago, has not
given up his fight for city ownership
of street cars. The city claims title
to about one-third of the trackage.
the franchises for which either have
expired or will expire within two
years. If the people of Chicago will
hold up the hands of Mayor Dunno,
municipal ownership will be realized
in that great city to the advantage of
every citizen, but it cannot be achieved
in year or a day
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24
The Charge that Prohibition Hurts a
Town Shown to Be Untrue. ~

Durham Recorder.
No special reason is assigned for the
great increase in the value of taxable
property in Durham, and there may
really be none, but suppose a decrease
half as large as the increase had been
shown, there is little doubt but that
we would have heard of it already
and prohibition would have been the
reason. If the town can prosper as 1T
has under prohibition, there are many
who see no reason for change on
that score.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24
MORNING TONIC.
(Phillips Brooks.

There is no life SO humble that, if
il be true and genuinely human and
obedient to God, it may not hope to
shed some of His light. There is no
light so meager that the greatest and
wisest of us can afford to despise it.
We cannot know at what moment it
ma flash forth with the life of God.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24

Jay Gould was a big man in his
day He said: "In a Democratic dis
trict, 1 am a Democrat; in Republi-
can district, / am Republican; in
a Greenback district, / am a Green
backer;-and all the time am for the
Erie Railroad" Mr.. Mccall, of the
New York Life, evidently thinks the
mantle of Jay Gould has fallen on
him.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24

Mr.. Cortelyou knows how much
money insurance companies PAID 10
elect Roosevelt Let him be sum-
moned and require the officers who ao-
stracted the amounts to make rest1tu-
ton. If Mr.. Roosevelt does his duty
he will see that this is done.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24

In the editorial yesterday on What
will this Years Cotton Crop Bring 2?
line was dropped from the forms.
We wrote that the circulation was
$31.40 per capita. which was the
largest amount ever in circulation in
this or any other English speaking
country.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24

we'll set out upon the road of noto-
riety and wealth.
If Lawson didn't think it up, how
much would he have paid for the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24

The farmer who holds his cotton
does well, but the farmer who goes
into speculation is doing himself and
the South an injury.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24

DR.. II. B. Thomas, brother of Hon.
charles Ra Thomas. has located in
BurgaW to practice medicine.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24

Roosevelt's inaugural medal is to
bear the Presidents motto "Aequm
cuiquie," which means "a square deal. "
Before the medal arrives, let him give
square deal' by making COrtelyou re-
turn the money improperly taken to
secure his election. That's the sort
of Square DEAL the people want.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24
Should Teach Valuable Lessons.

Should Teach Valuable LESSONS.
Smithfield Herald.
we are not opposed to life insurance
companies but it seems to US that the
recent Investigations should teach us
some valuable lessons about sending
our money to the North where it can
De used to defeat our objects politi-
cally and otherwise.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24

A little friendliness is worth
whole lot of financial assistance.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24

'Tn vain we call old notions fudge,
And bend our conscience to our
dealing;
The ten commandments will not
bulge,
And stealing will continue stealing"
When Perkins and Mccall used the
money of policyholders to elect Roose-
Welt, what right had they to so use
that trust fund committed to them for
future widows and orphans?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24
"WILL NOT BUDGE."

The New York folks call stealing
graft or ''misapprOpriation of
funds" or some other name that does
not crate so much on the.feelings as
the severe word stealing. But, though
they use new terms for the old sin,
they cannot change Gods law. Lowell
wrote:
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1905-09-14
Council Proceedings.


The town council met Monday
night in regular session, all members
being present except Mr.. Reynolds
The electric light plant was report
ed in good order also that contract
had been made to have smoke stack
on same painted at cost Of six dol
lars. The finance committee stated
that the tax books were ready to be
turned over to the sergeant amount
on same 81, 925.85. 1t was ordered
that the books be turned over to Ser
geant Shipley and the above amount
charged to him. The treasurer re-
ported 1925 65 in hand. Michael
Shell was relieved of erroneous dog
tax for the years 10000.
A proposition, in writing, was re-
ceived from Jas. K. Hendricks to fur
nish 200 perch of crushed stone, de-
livered on the streets, at 80 cents per
perch. The consideration of a prop
osition to purchase two cages for the
Jail was postponed until next meeting.
q. S Martin appeared before the
council and stated that he was una
bic to comply with the cash. terms for
the sale of the electric light plant to
him, as agreed, and the council not
agreeing to s.ll for part cash, on mo-
ton the order for the sale Of same was
rescinded.
Bills to the amount of $l58.34
were ordered paid, after which the
council adjourned.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1905-09-14
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