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The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-08-19

Some Of the Democratic papers
claim that no political party can cor
rect its own abuses. If that is true
then the voters will be remiss in their
duty if they do not put the Demo
cratic party out of power in this
State at the next election.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-08-19
Accident at Furniture Factory.

Greensboro, n. c., Aug. 12.-Capt.
] H. Dewitt, acting manager of the
Greensboro Furniture Company, met
with a distressing, and possibly ia
tai, accident at the factory at noon
to-day by getting caught in the shaft
ing of a machine.
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Supervisors for This State.

The census supervisors for this
State have been announced as fol-
lows:
North Carolina-First district,
Josiah C. Meekin, Sr.; Second, James
NJ. Newborn; Third, H. Frank
Brown; Fourth, William Claudius
Pearson; Sixth, Irvine B. Tucker;
Seventh, A. Turner Grant, Jr.; Ninth,
J. Yates Killian.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-08-19
Thirty Persons Killed in an Earth.
quake in Japan.

Toxic, Aug. 15.-Reports received
today concerning the earthquake in
central Japan Saturday afternoon
show there were a number of fatal
tiles and that great damage was done
to property. The dead at present is
said to be thirty.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-08-19
Minister WI Recalled.

Mr.. WI Ting Fang, the Chinese
minister at Washington, has been re-
called by his government and will be
succeeded at Washington by Chan
Yin Tang. China will probably send
Minister WI to Peru.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-08-19
Negro Drowned in River Near Duke.

Dunn, N. c., Aug. 13.-Yesterday
morning while working in the river
at Duke on the bridge, the boat got
away with Ben McNeill, colored, and
ran down the falls, capsized and
drowned him.
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SERVICE.
Leave Norfolk s p. m. Old P..-.
Z D. m. daily Except sunday. n.y.
rive Baltimore Z a. m, conner'.-s
with rail lines for PHILADELPHIA. Nex
York, and all points North and We,
YORK RIVER LINE"
Elegant Passenger Steamer "A.-
ianta" leaves West Point Moutar.
Wednesday and Friday, $3.50 . "a.
for Baltimore and all points North.
arrives Baltimore $40 a. m.
Steamers call at Gloucester Point
Clements Clay Bank, and Almond
r. H. DeBUTTS. T p. A.
Raleigh, n c
c. L. HOPKINS. T. P. A,
Norfolk. N
@. L. GAMBLER. G. A..
Norfolk. "a
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-08-19

In speaking of the returns of the
recent Democratic primary in Vir-
ginia, the Greensboro Telegram
says:
I'VE had an idea that Virginia
was modern State, with facil-
tiles for gathering the news
promptly. But one wouldn't
judge so from the circumstance
that the returns are not all in
yet from the Democratic primary
held last Thursday was a week
ago. Some parts Of the Old Do
minion must be still in the
woods"
At least some of the ballot boxes
may have found their way to the
woods and it may be that the ma
chine is experiencing some difficulty
in getting the needed majority in
the proper" shape. A few years age
it took long time to get the re-
turns from certain counties in this
State.
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DINING ROOM ON SALOON DECKS

Elegant table d'hoie dinner. -s-
club breakfast. 25c. 10 s0c Polite
attention and the very best service
In every way.
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tive. Many sudden
deaths are caused
by it-heart dis
ease, pnsumonia,
heart failure or
apoplexy are often
the result of kid
ney disease. II
kidney trouble is
allowedtoadvance
neutrality-suspicious.
ed blood viii at
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-08-19
VOTE ON DISPENSARY.
Unofficial Returns Show That Fiji
teen Counties in South Carolina
Voted DRY" and Six Counties
Voted 'Wet."

Voted ''Wet."
Charleston, S. c., Aug. 1.-THE
unofficial returns from the elections
held in twenty-one of the so-called
wet" counties of South Carolina for
the purpose of allowing the voters
of each county to choose between
prohibition and the county dispen-
sary system indicate that the prohi-
bitionists have won victories in if
teen. of these counties.
Charleston Votes Dispensary.
Charleston, S. c., Aug. lin the
lesion by vote of to 1 voted fol
the county dispensary system anG
against prohibition.
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THE NORTH CAROLINA
State Normal and
Industrial College

Maintained by the State for the Women
OF North Carolina. Pour regular Courses
leading to Degrees. Special Courses for
Teachers. Fall Session begins September
IS, 1909. Those desiring to enter shonld
apply as early as possible. For catalogue
and other information address
il. FOUST, Pres, Greensboro, y. c.
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John Wesley Gaines, defeated
for Congress, takes to the lee
ture platform. There is no rest
for the wicked.-The Jeffer-
sonian.
Which reminds us that some oil
the ex-politicians in this State are
now in the lecturing business.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-08-19
The North Carolina
College Of Agriculture and
Mechanic Arts

The States college for vocation.
al training. Courses in Agricul.
ture and Horticulture; in Civil,
Electrical and Mechanical En-
gineering; in Cotton Milling and
Dyeing; in industrial Chemistry.
Why not fit yourself for life by
taking one of these courses?
Address
d. 81. HILL, Pres't,
West Raleigh, N. c.
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When writing advertisers. please
mention this paper.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-08-19

Paiatial Steamers "Columba ~.
Augusta"
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-08-19
The Cause of Many
Sudden Deaths.

There is a disease prevailing In TINS
country most dangerous because 50 deep
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-08-19
CHESAPEAKE STEAMSHIP c,,,
PANY.

Superb Service TO Raltirnor~
via
Chesapeake Line.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-08-19

WE SOLICIT CRITICISM OF OUR
SERVICE.
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souls. But to him or her who is un- ashamed-who would see life as 1t is-who would watch the panorama of life from the viewpoint of one who can see the animal and spiritual alike in men-ramli- iarity with Whitman will benefit. How would 1t fare with the intellectual devel- opment of student whose demonstrator in anatomy had all to say of the brain and nerves, and naught of the stomach and generative organs? One is as essen- tial as any in the tuition of those who propose to heal the body. And of those who propose to look deeper Into the souls of men and women-who have somew..a at to say of those thoughts and deeps that directly affect our well or ill-being, our days work-what of him? Shall we ex- purge words that have reference to notn- ing save twilghts and milk-toast words, spring airs and delicatesse?
 Whitmans flesh words, work words words that praise the tangible living body; all it's expressions, all it's gestures are worth while-for it is the vehicle of the soul, or the deeps of consciousness Being so, it represents the largest con- ception of man. Can not the largest con- ception of man furnish material for a poem? In the world is there anything half so wonderful and curious thing as it? Must a poem to deserve the name be a conglomerate mass of jingling meta phor with background of heliotrope, sum-
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APPRECIATION-By Alfred Battle Bealle

Nor stiffness so cold, nor running water
 from the faucet, nor odors morbif1c
 impress me-
 But the house alone-that wondrous
 house-that delicate fair house-that That immortal house, more than all the
 rows of dwellings ever built! Or white-doomed Capitol itself, with
 majestic figure surmounted-or all
 the old high-spired cathedrals; That little house alone, more than all-
 poor desperate housel Fair fearful wreck! Tenement of soul!
 Itself soul Unclaimd, avoided house! Take one
 breath from my tremulous lips; Take one tear, dropt aside as I go, for
 thought of you, Dead house of love, house Of madness and
 sin, crumbled, crushd. House of life-erewhile talking and laugh
 ing-but ah, poor house! dead, even
 then;
 Months, years, an echong, tarnish' d
 house-but dead, dead, dead" Perhaps Whitman's final word to us, as must be the final and largest word of any poet, Is one of charity and love. 'I hear it was charged against me that
 I sought to destroy institutions But really I am neither for nor against
 institutions;
 What indeed have I in common with
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mer seas, maids with gold hair, half mad lovers?
 Comes Whitman, who makes havoc of these ideals-laughs at us, charging us with plagiarism, imported sweetness and piano tunes.' The near themes ne praises:
 "Will you seek afar off? You surely come
 back at last, In things best known to you, finding the
 best, or as good the best. In folks best known to you finding the
 sweetest, strongest, lovingest." Perhaps no word-maker has wrought so delicately well with simple text as he. "A Noiseless, Patient Spider is illustra- tive of this: "A noiseless, patient spider, I mark'd, where on little promontory,
 it stood, isolated; Mark d how, to explore the. vacant, vast
 surrounding. It launch'd forth filament, filament, fila
 ment out of itself: Ever unreeling them-ever tirelessly
 speeding them, And you, O my Soul, where you stand, Surrounded, surrounded by measureless
 oceans of space, Ceaselessly musng, venturing, throwing
 seeking the spheres, to connect
 them; Till the bridge you will need be form'd d. till the ductile anchor hold;
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Till the gossamer thread you weave,
 catch somewhere, o my Soul.'
 Nothing would glad me more than with this brief paper to offer some hint, some suggestion, that would result in a nearer approach and an awakening to the beau- ties of Whitman. At present, Selections From Walt Whitman,' containing some admirable things, may be readily got from book stalls, but these exclude his larger. nobler work. Joy, Shipmate, Joy" By Broad Potomac's Shore,' "Warble for Lilac-Time" find place in such editions, but "I Sing the Body Electric Song of the Open Road" and the tender loving kindness of "The City Dead-House' rnd no place in the small collections. Is the following not a prayer, a sermon of the most searching kind, this symphony for earth's outcasts? I have found nothing in literature to surpass it's beauty ana pathos:
 By the City Dead-House, by the gate, As idly sauntering, vending my way from
 the clangor
 I curious paused. For To, an outcast form,
 a poor, dead prostitute brought; Her corpse they deposited unclaim'd-it
 lies on the damp, brick pavement; The divine woman, her body-I see the
 body-I ook on 1t alone,
 That house, once full of passion and
 beauty-all else I notice not;
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Having studied the new and antique, the
 Greek and Germanio systems, Kant having studied and stated-Fitche
 and Schelling and Hegel. Studied the lore of Plato-and Socrates,
 greater than Plato, And greater than Socrates sought and
 stated-Christ divine having studied
 long.
 I see reminiscent today those Greek and
 Germanic systems, See the philosophies all-Christfan
 churches and tents see, Yet underneath Socrates clearly see-and
 underneath Christ the divine see The dear love of man for his oomrade-
 the attraction of friend to friend, Of the weli-married husband and wife
 of children and parents, Of city for city, and land for land" In a final comparison of whitman,s poems with those of the European sing CTS, 1t is just I think, to say he is In the world of poetry to Tennyson, what Wag- ner is in the world of music to Chopin. A far cry, perhaps, but after all, the dit- ferences lie only in the shaping and grouping of words-the shading and blending of tones. The ideals twno knows?) may not have been dissimilar Truth and beauty, at least, were striven for.
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them? Or what with the destruction of themO Only I will establish in the Mannahatta, and in every city of these states, in land and seaboard, And in the fields and woods, and apove every keel, little or large, that dents the water, Without edifices, or rules, or trustees, or any argument, The institution of the dear love or com rades." "No labor-saving machine, Or discovery have I made, Nor will be able to leave behind me any wealthy bequest to found hospital or library, Nor reminisoence of any deed of courage, for America, Nor literary success, nor intellect-nor' book for the bookshelf: Only a few carols, vibrating through the air, leave For comrades and lovers" q dream'd in dream. I saw a city in- vincible to the attacks of the whole rest of the earth; I dreamd d that this was the new City of
 Friends; Nothing was greater there than the quail
 ity of robust love-it lead all the rest; It was seen every hour in the actions of
 the men of that city, And in all their looks and words"
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wv HY the literary laity has so long A/ baked in it's appreciation of
 w Walt Whitman, cannot unoer- stand. No matter what truth it may be vehicle for, perhaps any crude intel lectual effort must suffer crucifxion at its beginning; or at least the children of custom, the disciples of established things. will make the attempt. It is as if at a theater entrance one of a crowd in- quires, twill there be any singing and and dancing?" and negative reply causes another seat to be vacant. "Sing to us, play to us-make us feel good-but for Gods sake no serious talk, no ex- aminations, no going beneath the veneer" Let us have metrical songs singing worcs -tinsel and furbelows.
 Whitman is no prude. Rather is he can gerous-dangerous to men and women alike whose ideas are all garmenteo fn tinsel and furbelow. There is place in life for tinsel and furbelow, but not out in the stress of things, where men worfl and suffer, where actual punishment and sin is. where reward and uplift is.
 Pages and pages might be clipped from Leaves of Grass without great injury to the book, its morality considered-its morality considered as antagonistic to current ideas that all knowledge having direct reference to the sexes must be suppressed. It is not a book for timd
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centuries after the ascension of the Savior.
 The New Testament was quite widely extended hundreds of years before printing was invented. It existed in manuscript form for many centuries before the English language was born. The manuscripts were usually written in Greek, and were exceedingly numer- ous. The transcribers were not always well equipped for their work. and sometimes failed to take in the mean ing of the text which they copied. Under such circumstances it was inevi- table that errors should now and then creep into the text; and as the trans scribers copied one from another. and for long series of generations, it is evident that the later copies would be likely to contain more of these errors
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should be all the time working toward this end. There is not even an age limit in this state; at least, if there is, it is not observed. l know of girl of 15 who took charge of a school of 80 scholars. There was some excuse for this state of things ten years ago, when the uniform examinations were first estab- lished, but there is certainly none now.
 Think of il. Life instructor and know ing nothing of the history of Greece, of Rome, of England, of modern Europe; nothing of the literature of England, of America. not to speak of other nations . nothing of any language but their own nothing of natural science in fact, wholly without culture, yet teachers for life after six yearsi
 This is the forst feature of all-the fact that these young people whose school course has been less than half the work
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THE New Testament, in single
 volume, as we now have it, is
 between 15o0 and 100 years old. During all these years it has been read publicly in Christian assemblies for worship, and privately in the closets and studies of individual Chris tians. During the whole of this period 1t has been the authority to which Christians of every name have con- stantly appealed in the various con troversies which have arisen among the churches, whether those controversies had reference to doctrine or to practice Any investigation as to it's origin, or as to the order in which the several books were written and collected must therefore be confined to the first three
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than would the earlier ones for each transcriber would be apt to copy the errors of his predecessors and to add some of his own. This is the reason why scholars. in their attempts to set tie the true reading of disputed pas sages of the New Testament. attach the greatest importance to the most an cient of the extant manuscripts. The efforts of modern scholars to settle the true and original reading have given rise to the strictly modern science of "Textural criticism"
 There is no question that, in some pas sages of doubtful meaning, the ambiguity is to be charged to the transcribers of the Creek text, and not to our trans lators. The vast multitude of manuscript copies, scattered over various countries, would seem to make it remarkable that there are SO few rather than so many
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THE NEW TESTAMENT-By J. C. Hiden,

call a Palimpsest or codex resriptus- the works of the Syrian Father Eph- raem being written over the New Testa- ment text. and making it hard to de- cipher.
 The manuscripts which I have de- seribed are known as the four great "un- cials," i e., manuscripts written in large letters, like our capital letters. The let ters, too, are written separately, and do not run together as in "current hand. What are called ''cursior' manuscripts, i e., those written in smaller letters, and in current hand. are of later date say from the ninth century on-and their authority Is not usually so high as is that of the Uncials.
 Under the labors of the three famous critical scholars, Bergel. Wetstein and Griesback, a system of critical rules grew up, most of which seem to be sound and sensible. Here are some of them: Knowl-
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manuscripts which contains the whole of the New Testament Tischendorfs own account Of his discovery reads like novel, and is intensely interesting; but is much too long even for condensation here.
 The Vatican manuscript of about the same date with the Sinaitic, i. e., about the middle of the fourth century. is care fully preserved in the Vatican library at Rome The great critical scholars. Westcott and Hort, held this to be the chief authority among manuscripts.
 The Alexandrian manuscript of the fifth century was presented to Charles l of England 1928. by Cyril Lueeer, Pa triarch of Constantnople, and is now in the British Museum.
 The manuscripts of Ephraem Syrus (fifth century), is commonly marked with the letter c, and is in the National H. brary at Paris. It is what the scholars
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or it's equivalent somewhere, of two years above the normal school and have re- eeived the degree of A. B. or B. S..
 Such was the plan outlined by the pres fdent of our state university in a late interview. Surely this plan does not aim too high. The most valuable asset of the state is her children; these are the capital without which all of her other possessions are valueless.
 With what care the state has hedged the practice of medicine! A man must be 2l years of age; must have spent four years in careful preparation for his work, and even then must stand an ex- animation in the state in which he is to labor. Are the souls and minds of our children less valuable than their bodies :? It seems so.
 Let us compare the actual conditions of our educational affairs with the plan
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FOR ALABAMA-By Julia S. TutWiler

of high school are to be declared teach CTS for life after six years Life in- structor ought to be the most honorable title in the state. bestowed with the greatest care I know of one state where some years ago the title liceniate of in- struction, betokened by the honorary let ters l.. l., was given so indiscriminately and often unworthily, that it became a popular joke to say that they signified Little Idiot"
 I cannot imagine how such law got on our statute books 1 am sure it did not meet the appreciation of our educa- tional authorities. The life teachers of such a grand state as Alabama should be a body of men and women not only thorough in textbook work, but highly cultured, broad-minded men and women who can hold up the honor of the state
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outlined by the president of our state university: The lowest grade of Alabama teacher-the third grade-is required to have only the attachments of the sixth grade of public school; that is, the knowledge of the average child of 13. This is five years below the standard outlined above.
 The second grade of Alabama teachers must have only the knowledge of a child who has completed the seventh grade, which should be done at IA. In both cases child who has completed these grades in a good graded school will prob ably know more than a third or second grade teacher since in the best graded schools there is usually much instruction outside of the text books; especially is this the case in the best graded city schools. The present standard for sec ond grade teachers is years lower than
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edge of the documentary evidence must precede the choice of readings. l. e.. nobody is competent to decide upon the text until he has acquainted himself with its sources.
 The shorter reading is to be preferred to the longer because eopyist Is more likely to add to than to eurtail his text.
 The more difficult reading is to be preferred to the easier.
 The reading which explains the origin of the other readings Is to be preferred.
 In the space at my command l can, of course only skim over the surface of this extensive subject The literature is vol luminous and sometimes too intricate and technical to attract the general reader; but It is worth while for all toerably intelligent readers to know something of the origin and the history of what is commonly called "The Textual Criticism of the New Testament"
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1t should be according to the plan above. The next grade-the first grade teachers the highest grade the state acknowledges at present, have completed at the most four of the 14 Carnegie units now gen erally required for high school gradua- tion: American history, one year of physics, high school algebra and plane geometry. They have really done less than one-third of the work of high school course But let us put as high an estimate as possible on their asttainments and say that they are on a level with the student who has finished the second year of a high school. Then they are still four years below the standard they should have reached.
 Of course, we cannot bridge at once this wide, yawning gulf between the ex- isting condition of educational affairs and that which should be. But certainly we
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differences of reading in the various copies which have been examined and compared. We must remember that the New Testament was more frequently transcribed than all other books together, and this remarkable fact may well im press us with the wonderful provision which has been made TOT preserving the volume in form substantially correct. Even in the Ethiopian church, for cen turies lost to the rest of Christendom, the New Testament held it's place, and when this church was rediscovered, at a comparatively recent date, they were stilf in possession of copies SO correct that the Ethiopian version is still an author ity in settling the text.
 Our oldest manuscripts date from about the middle of the fourth century. The Sinaitic manuscript was discovered by Tischendorf in a convent on Mount Sinai. in 1859 It Is the only one of our older