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The Jewish outlook., 1907-09-27
Esperanto and Jewish Ideals

1t is surely a remarkable success to
which Dr. Zamenhof has attained TO
have given birth to an idea which has
breathed a new hope into many despair
ing hearts, to have created a language
which, though it may never become uni
versal, is already spoken by hundreds
of thousands of enthusiastic disciples in
every part of the world; to be acclaimed
as the Master" by admiring crowds in
one of the principal university cities of
the world: and to be the recipient of
countless other honors from distin-
guished public bodies would be won
derful achievement in any case. But as
the achievement of Polish Jew who
has lived his whole life in the heart of
the Ghetto, working for his daily bread
among his poorer cO-religiOnists as an
eye-doctor, it is more wonderful still.
For the Jewish community the progress
of Dr. Iamenhof's new language will al
ways possess Il fascinating interest, mas
much as Esperanto owes it's existence to
his strivings for the benefit of the jew
ish race 1t was the protest of a warm
hearted Jew against the racial animOSi-
ties from which his people have been the
principal sufferers. The invention of Il
medium of international communication
was intended to break down the barriers
of pre- ejudice and misunderstanding that
separate the families of the human race
from one another. 1t was one of the
many movements which the Jews of vari-
Gus countries and ages have led for the
benefit of mankind, and by which they
have realized the ancient prophecy Of
becoming
A Blessing to Others.
The success of this particular move
ment would be enough to turn the head
Of any ordinary man. But DR.. Zamen-
hof is not an ordinary man. He is so
meek and modest that through it all he
has retained that simplicity of manner
which is one of his most charming char
acteristics. Those who are privileged to
know him intimately say that never have
they met so noble a character. No stran-
The Jewish outlook., 1907-09-27

ger seeing him the other day as he pain
fully made his way through the Jewish
Quarter of the East End, London, would
have imagined that this quiet little per-
son was 'the King Of Esperanto-land,
come to look upon the burdens of his
brethren.
''But you must have been gratifed,"
L remarked, "at the wonderful reception
you had the other evening at the Guild
hall from the Corporation of the greatest
city in the world?''
1T was very gratifying, of course
he replied; and then he added, sadly,
"but it has come too late. If Esperanto
could have received such recognition
twenty years ago, when 1 was a young
man and full of energy, it would have
inspired me to enormous efforts which
are impossible now, my health being
broken"
1t was "a pathetic admission from a
man who is only forty-eight years of age,
but who looks and feels twenty years
older; upon whom the fierce strug-
giles of chequered career have
ture agedness. Dr. Zamenhof told me
The Story of His Life
the main features of which are prob
ably familiar to many readers; how he
was born in Bielotok on the third day
of Chanukah, 1859; his father and
grandfather having been teachers of
languages: the former an officially rec
ognized professor of German at War
saw and the latter the pioneer Of mod
e4'n culture among the Jews of Bielostok;
how, having been educated at Warsaw
he went to Moscow to pursue his medical
studies and finally settled down in his
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1907-09-05
Rays From the New Bern Sun.

A day of pleasure can yield yeaas
of grief.
The brave man rarely hollers when
he is hit
1t pains true man not to be able
to please all his friends.
The smallest man is generally the
one who belittles Others.
If you agree with everybody you
certainly cannot be right yourself.
All honest men are true to their
convictions, regardless OF the criti-
cism fred at them.
A fishing worm is all right when
you want to go fishing, but a very
poor substitute for backbone
Down in Georgia they will shut up
the saloons; but uncle Remus will
still hold on to that 'ceitful Jug.
A newspaper that has no opinions
OF its own, but tries to agree with
everybody's respect.
The friends of just one candidate
are not the only ones who belong to
the party and have a right to their
views about it.
Much of the campaign thunder
heard so far is a good deal like the
old mans soda water-nothing but
sWeetened wind.
They are seeing japanese spies
down in Atlanta. Wonder what
they'll see when they begin drinking
blind tiger booze.
If the Northern politicians will
both let up and shut up about the
negro, the South-white and colored
will get along all right.
The Durham Herald remarks that
"some of the candidates for Governor
seem to have nothing else to do"
They haven't got time.
No man who remembers Moore
county court week of a couple of de-
cades ago will agree with the propo-
sitiOn that hard cider is a soft drink.
Taft says the South would cut
more ice if it would try to forget
about the brother in black. What's
the use to try when the Northern
politicians won't let us?
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Temperance and Prohibition.
Norfolk Virginian-Pilo

Norfolk Virginian-Piot
Governor Glenn is disposed to place
little credence in the recent report
that there was likelihood of the
North Carolina legislature following
the example of Georgia by passing a
State prohibition act. The Governor
says there is strong sentiment in
North Caaolina for State prohibition;
mot. however as in Georgia but by
a vote of the people, for we believe in
the peolele ruling and unless public
sentiment is behind prohibition it
would be valueless" In this the Gov
enor is indisputably and altogether
right, as the experience of Maine and
Kansas has abundantly and conclu-
sively demonstrated. And vet there
is danger OF State prohibition, even
when endorsed by popular vote not
representing public sentiment in
every and all localities within the
commonwealth. In a State election
it is both possible and probable that
the vote in localities where public SEN
timent does favor prohibition, NAV
be sufficiently large to overcome the
adverse vote in the few where such ia
not the case. In such event enforce
ment of the law would be not one
whit less difficult than if State pro-
hibition had been effected by legisla-
tive enactment. In these localities
prohibition would be "valueless" be-
cause public sentiment would not be
behind it. True temperance is best
promoted by local option-the leav-
ing to each locality the determine
ton OF whether or not liquor shall be
legally soil.
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Waiting tor her to dress home: to start il
as partners wholly devoted to each 9TH
er'S good; to start it with no fool no.
tions in your heads about each others
projections; TO start it with the firm de-
termination to take each other as you
are and to build on that foundation a
castle not of air, but of love, Of labor,
Of mutual joys and mutual troubles
that shall last till death do part.
This isn't all | started out to say,
but l guess it's about all you'll want
to digest this trip. l can imagine Bill
is walking up and down the next room
with his hands in his pockets, wonder
ing why in the world it takes a woman
so long to dress. That's one of the
things he'll never find out, but when
you go down you can tell him it was
just love letter from your next best
fellow that YOU were reading. That
will relieve his mind about the toilet
and at the same time give him some
thing else TO worry about. Bills all
right, but can't help but feel little
sore at him still for stealing my little
girls heart away from me. SO I'll
leave him and you to your devotions
until l go home again to play a little
part in the great drama of your lives.
GoOdby. little girl, until then Your
affectionate father
JOHN SNEED.
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around You going and coming Too
many young couples put their future
in pawn in order to cut Il wide swath
on their wedding journey. They come
back bankrupt in spirit and purse,
worn out bodily by the rushing here
and yonder trying to cover as much
ground III given period as their legs
will stand and getting peevish, bad
tempered and broke in the process.
It's bad way to start, my dear. 1t
stocks a weight on you that it may
take years to unload, and too often it's
the basis of chickering's that lead to per-
mancnt unhappiness. don't know
whether you remember Nellie Ander-
son or not, but she was a mighty fine
girl, and when she married Tom every
body said it was an ideal match, what
ever that may be. They went off on a
bridal trip with the announced inten-
ton of making things hum. And they
did. Tom mad to send home for more
money to get back on, and when they
did strike the town again they were so
Knocked out by worry and fatigue and
indigestion that they were spatting at
each other like a couple of cats on the
back yard fence. And the worst of 1t
is that they never got over it, for the
last time | heard of them they were
fighting yet. No, little girl, don't try
to break any records on your bridal
trip. Don't try to see how many differ
ent kinds Of posters you can get on
your suit cases. Just pick out some
nice, quiet spot, where you can stay
for a few weeks at cost that will
come within the limits that your hus-
band can afford, and there pass the
time together as sv-eery and happily
as you may, forgetting for the moment
that there is anybody else on the face
of this green earth or any other time
but the present. That's the way to
spend Il honeymoon. That's what
honeymoon is for-to get away from
the world for spell, not to get into
the thick of it. Then you may-under-
stand me, | say may, not will-come
back at peace in mind and heart, know
ing one another better and loving one
another better, ready to get down to
| the serious business Of married life in
| the proper spirit.
That kind of wedding trip is pretty
near as good as none at all. When
| Your mother and / were married her
| horse was saddled after the ceremony
| and together We rode through the green
| bordercd lanes to the little home /
| had prepared for her. That was all
| there was to 1t Its the best way, I
think, and Yet l can't advise you to do
| the same. Times change and customs
| change with them, and what was
strictly proper forty years ago won't
| do now. The trouble with even the
kind Of wedding trip l have suggested
Is that too much sweetness is likely to
pail. ! remember once that you got
! mighty sick on chocolate drops and
You wouldn't look Mt chocolate drops
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Newspapers and Crime.
Trenton On. J y Gazette.

Trenton On. j. Gazette.
Degeneracy seems to be the motive
power back of the wave of crime that
is sweeping through the city of New
York and tapping other towns in the
country.
In most OF the cases Of assault
reported by the newspapers little chill
dren are the victims Of brutal men
who, judging from the published ac-
counts OF their actions, appear to be
actuated by an Overwhelming lustful
mania.
We are inclined to the opinion
that publicity in some instances may
act as q deterrent to crime, but we
believe that the newspapers ought to
be careful to aviod the publication of
anything that is calculated to inflame
the minds of passionate men and
women to such a degree that they
become blind to their moral response
bilities and think only of their un-
holy desires.
The New York newspapers devote
columns every day to the setting
forth OF facts relative to crime, and
the more revolving the crime the
greater display of type in describing
it.
A sharp censorship should be ap-
piled to all news of this character
that comes to a newspaper office. 1t
should be the aim of every editor of
a public journal to make of it a
vehicle of clean and inoffensive infor-
nation. Every newspaper ought to
be an upbuilder rather than a down.
puller of public morals. Every news
paper ought to be a CONSERVATION of
the best interests of the home. Every
newspaper ought to be a power for
good, and it can not be all this if it
gives the greater part of it's energy
and space to spectacular display of
the miseries, sins and crimes of de-
degenerate men and women.
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A man was rece ntly arrested in
Greensboro for selling beer under the
name OF yellow Ade," and upon be-
ing bound over to court put up q
cash bond in gold.
At the request ofa loyal subscriber
We suggest that the gold so deposit
ed was but another form of yellow
ade, but we must positively decline
to make this statement upon our
own responsibility Greensboro In
dustrisI News,
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Where He Missed 1t.
Charlotte Chronicle.


In the course of the hearing of tes-
timnny in the railroad suit, in New
York, Mr.. Justice asked General Man.
ager Taylor, of the Mobile & Ohio
road, a witness, what he would sug-
gest that the Southern railway do in
order to bring about the greatest
prosperity in North Carolina. Mr..
Taylor promptly responded: ITO be
allowed to go on as in the past. Be-
cause, as you have stated yourself,
Mr.. Justice, North Carolina has be-
come the greatest manufacturing
State of the South, has the largest
cotton industry of any State except
Massachusetts, is the greatest plug
tobacco centre in the world, and all
this under the system OF the South
ern railway, for it is on the lines
OF this road that all these indus
tries are located" II he had con-
Guided his first sentence with land
give fairer freight rates. he would
have put it exactly.
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Yes, It's a Free Country.
Goldsboro Record.

Goldsboro Record.
1t has come to the pass til 1t an
editor can't express all opinion or
any subject without being taken to
task by some other editor who fails
to view question in the same light:
Or by some private citizen who walks
around continually with a chip on
his shoulder and imagines that
every editorial expression is a direct
hit to him. Guilty conscience needs
no accusing. Every editor, in COM
mon with every other person, is en-
titled to his opinion and should be
entitled to express same without
getting into a newspaper controver-
sy with the thermometer registering
at 100.
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copyright. 1876, by Casper s. Yost-l
"A aY DEAR LITTN. GIRL
" have just received your de-
IA IightfuI letter telling .;., me al. all
about the preparations for
your wedding 1t carries me back to
the time. some forty years ago, when
your dear mother was making similar
and was doing a little
stunt III the same line myself. In
those days the fashions in joyous ap-
parel for men were not 50 rigidly fixed
as now. All your William will have
to do is to raise the price. In my day
II WAS different. To be sure, the cut
Of mans coat and trousers and hat
for such occasions didn't admit OF
much variation. but he had more lat
itude in the matter OF color and goods,
and as to WaistcOasts shirts and ties,
he could % as far Is he pleased with
out fracturing any rules bad enough
to shock society. | wildly remember
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what a deuce Of
a time | had try
ing to decide be-
tween a bright
vel 0 W waist
coat covered
with little blue
flowers a n q a
white one with
black dots on it.
/ finally had to
ask your moth
er's advice about
ii, and she fa-
yOred the white
one. OF course
her DrQfaroOpo
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p L e l l M l d a ~
stock taking, q
little figuring on
joint assets, men
tai as well as
financial; a lit
tie bordering
over plans. Don't
get too all fired
material; dom t
take yourselves
or your future
too seriously
not just yet.
Just build air
castles for the
moment and get
yourselves in
shape to start
life right when
Won oct hack
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How to Be Happy Ever After.'

How to Be FdPpJ Ever Httef'
want to see you get right start
little girl, one that will land yon and
Bill at the post safe winners, and
you'd better not have any mistaken
notions about that happy ever after
business. It's there, all right. YOU
lust bet it is I've had forty years
Of it, and | know | know; but it
doesn't come of itself, little girl-doesn't
come lust as 4 matter of course. Hap
Diness is Il manufactured product and
every couple have to make their own
stock. | want you to get that stuck
deep into your little noggin the very
first thing Happiness isn't found; It's
made Aud sometimes there's whole
lot of toll and whole lot of trouble
in the making. but as rule the more
the toll and the more the trouble the
better and sweeter the product. That's
another point that's worth remember
ing You've got to get rid Of lot OF
fool notions before you can get started
right. 1t takes most people years to get
rid of them, but I'd like to have you go
into this business with your eyes wide
open, with the full knowledge that you
are not going to drift down the stream
in an open boat with silken and per-
fumed sails and nothing to do but
watch the landscape There's some
thing to do, my dear, something for
you as we'll as for William. Married
life isn't a simple speed trial on a
straightaWay course. It's hurdle
race with handicaps, ard you stand
better chance in the running if you
know what the weights are and some
thing about the hurdles. SO II your
old daddy bothers you with informa-
ton about the track don't get out OF
patience He only wants to put you
wise and save you as much of life's
worries and tears as possible. He
can't tell you everything; he can't
know all that the future has in store
for you, nor warn you against the
unknown, but what the years have
taught him he wants to give to you,
and just remember that he does it not
because he is just old and garrulous,
but because he loves you better than
anything else on earth except your
mother and wants above all things
to see you happy.
This Bridal Tour Business.
don't take much stock in this bridal
tour business. | wouldn't advise you
to cut it out. It's the fashion, and
folks will say mean things if you don't
do what everybody else does. But
don't overdo it; don't splurge too
much; don't let William feed his money
to the dicky birds that will hang
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Negro Exhibit at Jamestown Elk.
position.
harlutte News.

Charlotte News
We are glad that the colored peo-
pie OF North Carolina have excelled
tile colored folks OF any State in the
South in their exhibit at the James
town Exposition. North Caralina is
the only State that made an appro-
priatiOn-and that of S5,000-for
the installing OF such an exhibit, and
she gave no less distinguished man
than her Governor to make the ad-
dress on Negro Day at the Exposition
North Carolina has the best negro
population OF any State in the South
and we are glad of the race enterprise
and race pride they have shown in
having an exhibit at the Exposition
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1907-09-05

Hugh A. Leonard, formerly agent
OF the Southern Railway at Salisbury,
who skipped about six months ago
leaving shortage OF between 81 900
and 1900, has been arrested in
Idaho where he was working in a
mine and will be brought back to
North Carolina and tried.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1907-09-05

Everybody loves our baby, rosy. sweet and
warm,
Wish kissy places on her neck and dimples
on her arms
Once she was SO thin and cross. used tn cry
with pain
Mother gave her CASCASWEET. now she's
well again.
Sold at Parker's Two Drug Stores.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1907-09-05

How did Jones make all his mon
ey?' ',Judicious speculation" "And
how did Brown lose his fortune?"
"Dabbling in stocks. '-CleveIanG
Leader.
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I'm just crazy to be a reporter.
said the rich mans daughter. 'In-
sanity is no qualification" returned
the editor closing the interview
Philadelphia Ledger.
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y press dispatch states that
men are dying rapidly in Chicago,
while women are increasing with
equal rapidity. Nothing strange.
Merely the survival of the fittest.-
Charlotte News.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1907-09-05

Alabama without railroads, it is
predicted, will be serpentless Eden.
Maybe SO, maybe so, but the devil
will be to pay. all the same.-New
Bern Sun.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1907-09-05

Ii the railroads will stop the unjust
discrimination OF freight rates
against North Carolina towns they
will put themselves in an attitude to
receive the friendship of the great
masses OF the people OF the State.
That is OF more Importance than the
passenger rate.
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right. That's what l like. Then you
are going away on a bridal tower,
as they used to say down where | was
raised, and after you've ripped around
the country a few weeks and squander-
ed more money than William can make
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1907-09-05

for year Yet it was the finest kind
Of candy. There's an old saying that
you can't get too much Of a good
thing, but it's wrong, very wrong.
There's nothing finer on earth than the
society of husband and wife, but nei-
Their at the beginning of married life
nor afterward is it best to have too
much of it. It's got to be modified by
the diversions of everyday occupation
before it will keep well. So I say
don't string out your trip too long
even if you spend it in some seGues-
tered nook
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ton, you and Drift dorm the stream
William together. to that business OF
settling down. Did you ever notice,
when I've taken you to see horse
race. how much trouble AID time are
taken to get the horses lined up for Il
right start? That's the most important
part of the business, getting right
start. aud it's good deal more i'm
portant for young folks just starting
in married life.
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The Making of a
Successful Wife
By CASPER S. YOST.

STARTING RIGHT.-Settiins Down
the Most Important Part Of the Bush
Happiness Is Made. Not Found.
Don't Start Wrong by Making an Ex-
pensive Bridal Tour. 81 * ~
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Preliminary Stock Taki,o

And, short as you may make it, my
dear, don't put in all of it billing and
cooling. It's good time for little
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q al n In s ] Z
months you will
come back home
to settle down
and live happy
e yer after
That, / am pref
ty sure, is as far
into the future
as you've got.
and i guess its
far enough. but
l wish you'd
take a little time
from laces and
runes and such
enhancing fix
ings and give Il
little cOnsidera-
The Washington herald., 1907-10-20
BUDGET CALLS FOR THIRTEEN MILLION

Engineer department, increase. 5000;
total Sle5. .132
Street cleaning department, total, 49,
so; increases in salaries.
Health department. increase, $1,000; to-
tai. S196.Sl0
Public Library, increase, $34, 80; total,
S7S.e6o
Juvenile court. $3.50.
Police court. total, S64,O36. Judges sal
aries increased from S34o0 10 1900 year.
Other salaries are raised prOpOTuOnately.
Insurance department total. s. 900 in
clUdes Increased salaries.
Other items Of interest include esti-
mates for s. So. .255 for all charitable and
correctional institutions. which Is the es-
innate submitted and published by the
board Of charities. an increase OF $4,000.
making total Of $500 for the main
tainance of the Washington aqueduct,
and s6.0o0 for parking the ground about
the reservoir.