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0. CA tan jsp&u htm II II II I II II II FIFTIETH YEAR. ORGAN OF THE NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE. RALEIQH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1904. NUMBER 14 Raleigh Christian Advocate. ORGAN OF THB North Carolina Conference, M. E. Church, South. Published Weekly at No. 106 W. Martin street. THOHAS N. IVBY, Editor. Subscription Rates. One year, 81.60; six months, 75 cents. Preachers of the North Carolina Conference who act as agents receive the paper free of charge. All other preachers, and widows of preachers, $1.00 a year. Business. Watch the label. It shows the date up to which the subscription has been paid. Change In label serves aB a receipt. Regular receipt will be sent when re quested. When the address Is ordered changed, both old and new address must be given. Address all letters, and make all checks and money orders payable, to the Raleigh Advocate Co. Manuscripts. All matter for publication to be returned to the writer must be accompanied by proper postage. Matter for the Editor and matter for the printer must not be on the same sheet. Obituaries must not contain over 160 words, nor contain poetry. One cent a word will be charged for all obituary matter over 150 words. Advertising. The Raleigh Christian Advocate Is a fine advertising medium. Rates will be promptly furnished on application. V $tie gee gt V THE OPENING HYMN. Ode Composed by Edmun Clarence Stedman, Which Was Sung at the Opening Exercises at St. Louis Last Saturday. (The following hymn, written upon invitation of the Exposition management, by Edmund Clar ence Stedman, was sung by a chrous of five hun dred voices. The music for the hymn was writ ten, also upon official invitation, by Professor John K. Paine, of Harvard University): HYMN OF THE WEST. (World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904.) 0 Thou, whose glorious orbs on high Engird the earth with splendor round, From out Thy secret place draw nigh The courts and temples of this ground; Eternal Light, Fill with Thy might These domes that in Thy purpose grew, And lift a nation's earth anew! illumine Thou each pathway here, To show the marvels Clod hath wrought Since first Thy people's chief and seer Looked up with that prophetic thought, Bade Time unroll The fateful scroll. And empire unto Freedom gave From cloudland height to tropic wave. Poured through the gateways of the North Thy mighty rivers join their tide, And on the wings of morn sent forth Their mists the far-off peaks divide. By Thee unsealed, The mountains yield Ores that the wealth of Ophir shame. And gems enwrought of seven-hued flame. Lo, through what years the soil hath lain At Thine own time to give increase The greater and the lesser grain, The ripening boll, the myriad fleece! Thy creatures graze Appointed ways ; League after league across the land The ceaseless herds obey Thy hand. Thou, whose high archways shine most clear Above the plenteous Western plain, Thine ancient tribes from round the sphere To breathe its quickening air are fain; And smiles the sun To see made one Their brood throughout Earth's greenest space, Land of the new and lordlier race! The committee having in charge the Mormon investigation suddenly resumed its sittings last week, but almost as suddenly adjourned tempo rarily, having been in session three or four days. Nothing new was brought out. The story of Mormon intrigue and tyranny was only carried through another chapter. The testimony of sev eral apostles was expected, but these high official saints made themselves invisible to the extent of hiding their whereabouts from the officers of the law. It is not now known when the investiga tions will be resumed. We are not sure that Bishop Calloway, who ad dressed the Conference for Education in the South in Birmingham last week made such a hit with the learned and philanthropic tourists from the North as with the Southern portion of the audience. The .Bishop advanced a theory which is deemed somewhat "non-progressive, and narrow" by some would-be leaders of thought even in the South. lie actually said that two points had been settled in the South: (1) The negro will never enjoy social equality; (2) the' will be educated apart from the whites, (mod doctrine and true, but we believe that it was accounted by some of the philanthropists as pure heresy. The application by Mr. Cuyler of New York, for a Bocoivorship for the A. fe N. C. B. B., occa sioned no surprise in these parts. Such a thing has been expected for several weeks. Judge Pur nell of the Federal Court, has designated June 21 as the day on which the railroad shall show cause why a Boeeiver should not be appointed. This day was fixed with reference to the time of the completion of the Investigation Committee's re port for which the State is now anxiously wait ing. It is thought that tin4 report will be in the hands of the public by May 21. Tt is almost the consensus of opinion that the road should have been leased long ago. When the difficulties of the A. iV N. C. B. B. shall have been satisfactorily ad justed, the people of the State will breathe more freely. They are tired of this constant turmoil. It was "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," we believe, who was made to utter that immortal say ing about her placing all her troubles in a box, pushing down the lid and then "settin' on it." It was "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," we be lieve, who in her own true name, Mrs. Mary Bass, on last Saturday was arraigned in a Louisville court on the charge of emptying the contents of a slop jar on Mrs. Fmily Smith, whose only of fence, it seems, was in visiting the Cabbage Patch with the news that she had read the book, and in not "gittin' " when she was told to "flit" by the irate Mrs. Wiggs. We can hardly believe the story. Yet it is true. It is with difficulty, though, that we can see in the incensed slop-thrower that unique, witty, patient philosopher, "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch." What a difference, any way, there is between fiction and reality. Yet after all, when we consider the circumstances, there was no great incompatibility between the fictional qualities of Mrs. Wiggs and the real qualities of Mrs. Bass. The people worried the lat ter very much by visiting her, and carrying away mementoes, and the Judge did right when he dis missed the ease on general principles. At 32.15 p. m. on last, Saturday, President Roosevelt pressed the button which set in motion the machinery of the great St. Louis Exposition. A large crowd of people, many of them visitors, witnessed the ojoning ceremonies, whieh were opened with prayer by Rev. Frank M. (lunsaulus of Chicago. Mr. Taylor, Director of Works, pre sented to President Francis the keys of the Expo sition. Sousa's band played the "Louisiana" march. President Francis delivered the Exposi tion buildings to Frederick Skiff, the Director of Exhibits. Edmund Clarence Stedman's "Hymn of the West" was sung, several addresses were made, the button in the White House in Wash ington was touched, and the answering rumble of thousands of wheels, the fluttering of thousands of banners, and the shouting of thousands of spectators announced that the greatest Exposi tion on the globe had been opened. It is a matter of pride to North Carolinians that the North Carolina display, on the first day was a centre of interest. No North Carolinian need feel ashamed of the State exhibit. On Sunday, the gates were closed. They will not be opened on Sunday. The Christian's Sab bath has gained a great victory. On the heels of the report that the Vladivoslock Russian fleet was not hemmed up in the harbor, but had sunk a Japanese transport, came the news that the Japanese army was crossing the Yalu river to attack the Bussian defences. This movement began on Tuesday morning, April 2ith. By Saturday the Japanese had crossed over from the island on which fortifications had been thrown up. The Japanese army formed a battle line four miles long. On Saturday (leneral Knrako sent this message, "I will attack the Bussian de fences May 1 at dawn," This promise was car ried out, and on last Sunday a great battle was fought. The Bussian army 30,000 strong, was driven back, and the strategic; key to the mili tary situation in Manchuria was captured, it is reported that the Japanese lost 700 men, and the Russians, 800 a small mortality when we take info consideration the number of combatants This battle was a crushing blow to .Russia. This gives Japan a strategic position which will bo quickly used. It seems to be the purpose of the Japanese army to oeciim- (he Liaotung penin sula. This will place flu; Japanese behind Port Arthur with their warships in front. This crushing defeat for the Russian anus im mediately after the proclamation that Russia would brook no mediating interference by of her powers, but would proceed to punish Japan in her own way, is particularly hard. It, is conceded by the majority of military ex perts that Bussia is already whipped. Ex-Viceroy AloxicfT is responsible to a large extent for Bussia's bad plight. He succeeded in making the Czar believe that Japan would not light but was only blustering. Bussia realizes now that she has mi hand one of the most serious wars in which she has ever engaged, in the language of the London Daily Telegranh, "Russia at the hands of the new power in the Far East has suffered the greatest defeat that has befallen her arms upon Asiatic soil since Erniak the Cossack, crossed the Urals."
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