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OVER DIXIE BREAKS TEE
DAWI OF lEE (OLDEN AGE
Universal Education is the Keynote of the Confer
ence Now in Session at Athens.
ROBERT C. OGDEN’S RINGING APPEAL
Honorable Clark Howell Wel
comes the Educators.
THE GLORIES OF THE EDUCATIONAL AGE
Poetic Portrayal of Coming Develop
ment Beautiful as a Dream Yet
Splendidly Beal. Education For All,
Cries Ogden, an Eight Months’ School
in Every District, Let Nothing Less
be the Aim of This Conference.
(By the Associated Press )
Athens, Ga., April 24.—1 n the chape!
of the University of Georgia welcome
was tonight given Robert C. Ogden and
Ills party of philanthropists an assem
blage composed of prominent educators
from all parts of the South, jurists,
business men and students who came
here to be present at the first session of
the fifth annual conference for the de
velopment of education in the South.
The conference was invited to the State
by the Georgia Legislature and Hon.
(Mark Howell, of the Senate,
speaking for the • nonwealth and for
the municipality hens, voiced the
first words of \w After extend
ing a hearty gree ' gathering of
distinguished me Mr. How
ell said:
“This we loom niafle doubly hearty
in the declared purpose of this organiza
tion to conduct its work along lines
which will recognize the necessities of
the great masses of the whites as well
as of the blacks who compose our pop
ulation. In the excited rush of some of
those philanthropically inclined to pile
up funds to be devoted exclusively to
the education of the negro, the strug
gling masses of the whites have been
too often lost sight of.
“It is best to be frank in this matter
of so much importance to our well be
ing. The failure to secure heretofore
the real, sincere and practical co-upera
tioi: of the South in external education
al movement normally entitled to the
very fullest support and sympathy of all
the people from the section most direct
ly affected has been due to the fact that
the philanthropy which has directed its
energy toward the South has been ex
pended almost exclusively in the behalf
of one race, overlooking the greater ne
cessities of the other. As a result of this
course, vast armies of poor, white boys
v ho could not help themselves since the
Civil \Var have been working cut their
own salvation against odds which have
required superhuman endurance to sur
mount-
“ln this day of trusts and combines
let the work of this conference bo to
improve the opportunity to organize the
biggest and most comprehensive trust
yet attempted—an educational trust in
which every child will be a stockholder
and every human head will be a share
of stock- When you do this you will
have inaugurated a movement beside
which will be insignificant the combines
which corner both the land and the
ocean, and which levy tribute on every
morsel of food which enters the mouths
of the hungry. There will be created
in such combine a store house of ener
gy, backed by riches greater than Gol
conda’s and which can be made to un
fold to the eager world the priceless re
sources locked in the bosom of the
wealthiest undeveloped territory of
God’s green earth—an energy which
will harness our rivers, start to pulsat
ing as never before the beating arteries
of our commerce; create new factories,
inspire new- enterprises, transform idle
ness into industry and touch with his
tragic wand of knowledge the source
from which will spring an overflowing
fountain of peace, contentment and pros
perity.’’
Mr. Ogden was then introduced and
delivered his annual address.
President Robert Ogden’s address at
Athens, Ga.:
“This conference exists for a holy
cause—holy in the highest sensp. Its
creed reflects the divine love, broad and
beneficent as the universal sunshine and
expressed in the single simple dogma
that every child in this bread land pos
ssses the natural right to a good English
education. The personnel is cosmopolitan
in a marked degree. Here are Governors
of States, officers of great corporations,
educators of every degree, clergymen of
many communions, editors, authors,
bankers, merchants, lawyers, who. for the
time being, have set aside their several
cares for the larger interests of our
common country. And the crowning grace,
influence and power of this assembly ap
pears in the presence of so many good
women.
“In moral and national things the new
century is an advent to the world at
large. There is a sudden manifestation
of accumulated power. Masses of capi
tal rush together with magnetic impulse
and in startling magnitude. Community
of interest pools in concrete form, values
that had not been comprehended in de
tail. This material life is national.
“Simultaneously with this realization
of things an intellectual awakening ap
pears. Generous facilities for research
are placed at the command of science.
The increase of endowment to great in
stitutions of learning, is the recognition
of the debt that wealth owes to scholar
ship.”
The President then outlined the organi
zation and work of the Southern Edu
cation Board, and the Board of the Gen
eral Education Fund formed since the
last conference. As to the problem of
education in the South he said in con
cluding:
“Out of the case comes the silent ap
peal of millions of children of school
age. With this appeal comes the cry
of our country with a stern demand that
from this child material for good citizens
for the future shall be furnished. It is our
duty to so echo and re-echo these appeals
that the ignorant shall rise up and by
the mere force of human right demand
adequate education, that the people
should tax themselves for education,
that school authorities should promote
the best ideas of education, and that phil
anthopry should supply the lacking mar
gin beyond the capacity of the public
purse and private local liberality. Let no
doubtful expression or uncertain sound
go forth. Education for all the people;
good, well equipped school houses with
competent teachers and an eight months’
larm in evj&ry school district. Let this
and nothing less be the aim of this con
ference.”
WAKE FOREST WINS
Danville Cadets lie Score in
Fifth Game Won in
Ninth.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Wake Forest, N. C., April 24.—Wake
Forest defeated Danville Military In
stitute this afternoon in a slow but ex
citing game. In the fifth inning the visi
tors tied the score and it was anybody's
game until the ninth inning, when the
home team scored one run.
Score: R. H. E.
Wake Forest.. ..2 0120 00 0 I—6 8 11
D. M. 11 00 0 4 0 0 0 o—s 8 9
Batteries: Wake Forest, Hobgood
and Caddell; Danville, Cole and Faust.
Struck out, by Hobgood 8; by Cole 8.
Bases on balls, by Hobgood 4; by Cole 0.
Three base hits, Sams 1, Dunn 1.
National League Games.
(By the Associated Press.)
Chicago, April 24.—Chicago won in the
first inning by four hits and Wagner's
error. Pittsburg could not hit Williams
when hits were needed.
Score: R. H. E.
Pittsburg 01 1 0 000 1 o—3 8 2
Chicago 4 000 00 0 1 o—s 10 3
Batteries: Chesbrough and Zimmer;
Williams and Kling. Time 1:45. Um
pire, Cantillon. Attendance 3,400.
Philadelphia, April 24.—G00d batting
by Brooklyn and weird fielding on the
part of Philadelphia gave the visiters
the last game of the series.
Score: ~ R. H. E.
Brooklyn 1006 02 2 0 5—16 16 1
Philadelphia 1 3 100001 0— 6 10 3
Batteries: McMakin and Ahern;
Voorhees, Salisbury and Jacklitsch.
Time 2:05. Umpire, Brown. Attendance
2,048.
Cincinnati, April 24.—The Cincinnatis
had an easy time with St. Louis today.
O'Neal was wild, but Hahn pitched well
and was given good support.
Score: R. H. E.
Cincinnati 26 00 00 0 1 *—9 9 0
St. Louis 0002 00 0 0 o—2 9 4
Batteries: Hahn and Peitz; J. A.
O’Neill, Wycker and M. J. O’Neill. Time
1:50. Umpire, Emslie. Attendance 1,400.
New York, April 24.—The Boston and
New "1 ork baseball clubs broke even in
the series of games which was finished
today at the Polo grounds, each side
having won two.
Score: R. H. E.
Boston 1001 04 1 0 I—B 10 4
New York 0100 00 0 0 3—4 7 3
Batteries: Malarkey and Kittridge;
Mathewson and Yeager. Time 1:42.
Umpire, O’Day. Attendance 4,200.
American League Gam?*.
(Bv the Associated Press.)
Baltimore, April 24.—The home team
won thu»game from Philadelphia in the
first inning today, making six runs.
After that Plank steadied down and
stopped the run getting.
RALEIGH. NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL 25. 1902.
Score: R- H. E.
Baltimore 6000 00 0 0 *—6 9 2
Philadelphia .. ..0 10000 0 1 o—20 —2 6 2
Batteries: Hughes and Robinson;
Plank and Powers. Time 1:45. Umpire,
O’Loughlin. Attendance 2,485.
Chicago, April 24. —The Chicago team
was shut out today, being utterly unable
to touch Siever’s great pitching.
Score; R. H. E.
Chicago 0000 00 0 00—0 2 0
Detroit 0000 000 3 2—5 9 0
Batteries: Patterson and Sullivan;
Siever and McGuire. Time 1:35. Um
pires, Connolly and Johnstone. Attend
ance 2,000.
Washington, April 24.—Boston straight
ened Carrick’s erves out for seventeen
hits and won today’s game easily.
Score: p.. H. E.
Washington .. ..00010020 0 — 3 9 5
Boston 2100 30 4 1 *—ll 17 2
Batteries: Carrick and Drill; Young
and Criger. Umpire, Sheridan. Time
1:40. Attendance 2,500.
St. Louis, April 24.—St. Louis won
again from Cleveland today.
Score: r. h. E.
St. Louis 0002 02 0 0 *—4 8 3
Cleveland 010001 000 —2 5 3
Batteries: Harper and Maloney;
Taylor and Bemis. Time 1:58. Umpire,
Carruthers. Attendance 1.000.
Other Games.
At Columbia, S. C.—Davidson College
5; South Carolina College 4.
HEW BEEN WINS THE SECOND. ~
The Farmers Are Defeated by a Score of Seven
to Five.
(Special to News and Observer.)
New Bern, N. C., April 24.—The second
game between New Bern and the A. & M.
College, was pulled oil today at the
Athletic Park, the home team winning
out by a score of 7 to 5. Much credit is
due to the 16-year-old amateur pitcher,
Gannon Fulford, for his clever work in
twirling the ball for the home team.
THAT POLL TAX.
If YOU do not pay YOUR poll tax before the first
day of May, YOU cannot vote.
This law is as unalterable as the laws of the
Medes and Persians.
YOU will feel very cheap next November to be
disfranchised because YOU failed to pay your poll tax.
Pay it today.
Score: R. H. E.
New Bern 0021 13 0 0 *—7 4 6
A & M 2 0 200 000 I—s 10 6
Batteries: New Bern, Fulford and
Daum; A. & M., Shannonhouse and
Brockwell. Time of game, 1:35. Attend
ance 500. Umpire, C. L. Stevens.
Milton Beliield Dies of His Wound.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Windsor, N. C., April 24.—Milton Bel
field, the slayer of Thomas Stevenson,
died in jail here yesterday from the
wound received at Weldon when arrest
ed. It was hoped that he would live un
til court, that he might be used as a
witness against the others in jail here,
charged with assisting him in the slay
ing.
Died From the Burns.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Goldsboro. N. C-, April 24.—Lillie El
len Petle, daughter of J. C. Peele, near
Princeton, who was badly burned a few
days ago while setting fire to some
grass, died at 1 o’clock this morning.
$5,000 Dormitory at Lenoir College.
(Special to News and Observer )
Hickory, N. C.. April 24.—A $5,000 dor
mitory is to be erected at Lenoir Col
lege, the Lutheran College here for fe
male students. This increased capacity
is necessary to meet the needs caused
by the increased attendance.
Graded School Elec cion.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Roxboro, N. C., April 24. —The election
cn the graded school tax will be held
here on the 28th of Mav. The Courier
is making an earnest and able fight for
the school.
DOWN THE MOUNTAIN TO DEATH
Engine Bans AWay With Engineer on Lum
ber Road Near Soginaw.
(By the Associated Press.)
Roanoke, Va., April 24.—A special
from Bristol tonight says that an en
gine and twelve cars on a lumber road
ran away down a mountain near Sagi
naw. YVes’tern North Carolina, yesterday
and were wrecked- William Burton, en
gineer in charge of the train, was in
stantly killed.
Albert W. Bertrand, of Lynn, Mass.,
has sent to Senator Lodge a story of
the death of Father Augustine, of 8010,
P. 1., under the torture of the water
cure. This priest, it is alleged, was tor
tured to force him to confess where in
surgent gold was buried. He was unable
to survive the ordeal.
THE TRAMP, TRAMP
OT THE ROYS l«y
The Rebel Yell Re-echoes
Along Dallas Streets.
SIRE AND SON IN THE LINE
Besides the Veterans Walk Fair Maids
of the South.
AND THE TATTERED BATTLE FLAGS WAVE
Near the Head March the “Hornets” of Caro
lina “We Are From Arkansas; Now
Laugh, Darn You.” Gordon
the V terans’ Idol.
(By the Associated Press.)
Dallas, Texas, April 24.—With their
blood stirring to the same old airs which
bade them do and die for their cause two
score years ago, the veterans remnant
of the Confederate Army represented at
the Dallas Reunion, marched through the
streets of the city today, the object of
wildly cheering throngs.
The day was a holiday in the city, all
public buildings being closed between the
hours when the parade was passing.
Thousands of visitors, coming for the
sole purpose of seeing the old soldiers,
were added to the multitude already on
the streets.
That the weight of years was on most
of them was apparent in furrowed cheeks
and snowy hair; in halting steps, and
rounded shoulders; but that the old pride
of achievement and duty well done re
mained was also to be seen in in the dog
ged persistence with which they followed
the old flag and threw off their years to
the strains of "Dixie.” Many a veteran
who, in other days, exhibited a brilliance
j of execution which added much to the
'of execution which added much
!to the success of Confederate lead
| ors was compelled to drop out of line
I before the march was over. Many from
i tlie decrepitude due to Advancing age or
; wounds received in battle were unable to
i report, but they found places along the
' way and waved their hats and schreeched
j the famous rebel yell to show that they
j were with the marchers in spirit if not
I in actuality.
The line of march, covering the down
town district was a packed mass of hu
; manity. The crowd was by far the lar
gest that the city has ever entertained.
Windows were bright with the faces of
women and girls with waving handker
chiefs and flags and the sidewalks were
almost impassible by reason of the con
gestion The decorations by reason of
the splendid weather of late -were as
bright as on the first day.
All the available police were kept busy
trying to keep the crowd off the streets
but with ill success. The throng was
far too large to admit of control by any
ordinary force. The spectators were for
the most part orderly and many were
forced into the street by pressure be
hind them on the sidewalk.
The start was made at Main and Aus
tin streets at U o’clock. Major General
Van Zandt, marshal of the day, and staff,
preceded by mounted police to clear the
way, led the parade. Following him
came General Gordon and staff. The
erect, slender figure, the alert eyes, the
gray pointed beard of the commander-in
chief were well known to most of the
spectators. The location of the gray
horse which he bestrode could almost be
told by the increase in the volume of
cheers progressing like a wave. The
General started to acknowledge the
plaudits by taking off his hat but soon
left it off entirely, bowing incessantly
to right and left.
Near the head of the line came the fa-
I mous North Carolina “Hornets” with
I hornets nests pinned to their breasts or
hanging from poles.
In this division was the old Hag of tho
| Third North Carolina Cavalry.
The old emblem hung in shreds, but
was carried with all the more pride for
its wounds. Georgia. Texas, Tennessee,
Kentucky, in fact everv Southern State,
was represented in the parade, proudly
boasting of flags new faded and turn.
Many had to be held together with
nets, but they were proudly waved never
theless in answer to plaudits of the
crowd.
The Arkansas delegation carried a
banner inscribed:
“We are from Arkansas, now laugh,
darn you.”
The sDonsors and maids of honor of
Forest's Cavalry rode with the veterans
on horses and were roundly cheered all
along the route.
Even greater was the cheering for the
Tennessee maidens, who walked side by
side with the old soldiers whom they had
come to honor. The Tennesseeans made
a fine appearance as their dress was the
unitorm of grey of the Confederacy, and
they wore army caps and for the most
part carried muskets with bayonets
fixed.
A country delegation from this State
having no, muskets, carried canes on top
of which they placed their hats.
The Louisiana sponsors were mounted
and rode behind the tattered flag of the
old 14th Louisiana.
Behind the old soldiers came the
members of the Sons of Confederate
veterans. They were proud to follow
their sires. As wab stated by a speaker
at their meeting yesterday:
“We could do no better than to do as
they have done —to show courage, forti
tude and devotion when the hour comes.
It was estimated that 12,000 men were
in line, about 3,000 being veterans.
General Gordon had great trouble in
getting back to his hotel. At every op
portunity the crowds, eager to shake his
hand, corralled him and every moment
he stopped the crush about him increased.
At the hotel a crowd of sponsors and
maids of honor captured him, and as
many as could threw their arms about
him. Adjutant General Moorman, res
cued his chief by main force, and ac
tually dragged him into the hotel.
“It was as great a parade as I ever
saw at a re-union,” said General Gordon,
and General Moorman echoed the expres
sion.
There was no business session of the
association, a recess having been taken
until Friday when the re-union comes
to an end.
This evening the beauty and chivalry
of the South represented here gai’nered
at Camp Johnston, where the grand
Kaliph’s ball was held. Occasionally in
the whirling maze of the dance, doing
his best among the younger people, a
veteran could be seen dancing with some
laughing sponsor or maid of honor. But
the old soldiers generally stayed in the
seats surrounding the floor- The Kal
iph’s in their costumes gave the scene
at times a bizarre cast and afforded
considerable amusement- The guard
march was led by the Kalip and his
queen, whom later in the evening he
crowned with elaborate ceremony.
A reception to General Gordon at
Episcopal College ■was--the social fea
ture of the day.
THEY WILL BORE FOR OIL-
The Biddell-Stewart Company Lease 5,000
Acres at Beaver Dam.
(Special to News and Observer)
Asheville, N. C., April 24. —Papers
were today filed hero granting lease of
nineteen tracts of land at Beaver Dam,
four miles from Asheville, comprising
5,000 acres to the Sidell-Stewart Oil and
Gas Company, which proposes to bore
for oil and gas, beginning operations in
a short time. The company is formed
of two men, W. T. Sidell and E. E.
Stewart, of New Martinsville, W. Va.,
to investigate the oil possibilities of this
region. The company will bore within
a year or forfeit the lease- Should oil
and gas be found the renters will pay
to the owners one-eighth of all oil pro
duced and S2OO per year for gas from
each gas well drilled.
Today in tile Superior court habeas
corpus proceedings were held involving
a prize fight between two negroes. The
contest took place at Linn. Polk coun
ty, only one of the participants being
caught, the other escaping to South
Carolina. On the prisoner brought here,
Judge Justice imposed a bond of SSO.
D. E. Cunningham, of this city, is
preparing to start silk worm raising
on a small scale at his home here.
Hon- Locke Craig, who has returned
from Watauga county, reports that the
Democrats of that county are in fine
shape and will carry the county in the
next election.
POSTMASTER EXUM REMOVED
The Bridge at Kinston Paying Poll Tax For
Republican Delinquents,
(Special to News and Observer.)
Washington, D. C., April 24.—Complaint
was made some weeks ago to Representa
tive Pou that Postmaster Exum, of Four
Oaks, Johnston county, wilfully refused
to deliver seed sent out by Mr. Pou.
The Postoffice Department has investi
gated the complaints and found them
well founded. The postmaster has been
removed and the office is in charge of
the postmaster’s bondsmen.
Representative Claude Kitchin has ap
pointed a competitive examination for
his naval cadetship at Weldon, on June
sth. All applicants must have resided
within the district for two years, be not
under 15 nor over 20 years of age.
The House today concurred in the
Senate Amendments to Representative
Claude Kitchin’s bill to authorize a
bridge across Neuse River at Kinston.
The bill now goes to the President and
he will sign it promptly.
Representative Claude Kitchin has
been assured that the Senate amend
ment appropriating $2,000 for Fishing
Creek will be retained in the River and
Harbor Bill.
A Randolph Democratic leader reports
to Senator Simmons that the Republican
sheriff cf Randolph county has returned
less than 200 insolvent tax payers this
year, when last year he returned over
one thousand. This year not a single
white Republican is returned as in
solvent. This goes to show that Repub
licans are having their taxes paid for
them in counties having Republican
sheriffs. \ A very few days remain to
you, Democrats.
Many men believe honesty in modera
tion |s the best policy, .
PRICE FI VE CENTS.
A DASTARD VILLAIN
WHO DISHONORS US
Hot Denunciation of Chaffee
by Rawlins.
INHUMANITY OF THE WAR
Orders Under Which Soldieis Could
Practice All Crulties.
RAWLINS CONCLUDES HIS SPEECH
The House Sends the Oleomargarine Bill to
Conference. Fox of Mississippi Defends
Suffrage Clause in Constitution
of That State.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, April 24. —Just before tho
Senate adjourned today Mr. Rawlins
(Utah) concluded his speech in opposi
tion to the Philippine Government Bill.
As on previous days, he devoted much
of his time today to a consideration of
the testimony taken before the Philip
pine Committee. He analyzed the testi
mony in connection with orders issued
by the War Department and by general
officers in the Philippines. He was par
ticularly severe in his denunciation of
General Chaffee, for the orders he had
issued in carrying out the policy of the
Government. He declared, in conclusion,
that the United States would reap a
whirlwind of misfortune and disaster as
a result of its policy in the Philippine
Islands.
Mr. Rawlins quoted from the testimony
of General MacArthur before the Com
mittee on Philipines in accounting for
the disproportion of the killed and
wounded among the Filipinos. General
MacArthur’s explanation was, “It arises
from the fact that our soldiers are
trained in target practice. In other
words they know how to shoot. The
Filipino soldiers do not know how to
shoot.”
The explanation made by General Mac-
Arthur was not satisfactory, in the
opinion of Mr. Rawlins. The Senator’s
explanation was this:
“Our troops were directed not to en
cumber themselves with prisoners and
not to burden themselves with the
wounded. The Filipinos were swept
from the face of the earth. This was in
execution of the program to make of
the Visayan district a howling wilder
ness, and to exterminate all the people
over the age of ten years.”
Mr. Rawlins quoted the orders issued
by general officers in the Philippines.
He was interrupted by Mr. Carmack
(Tenn.) who directed particular deten
tion to this phrase in one of General
Chaffee’s orders: |
“I do not urge inhuman conduct.”
“It strikes me,” suggested Mr. Car
mack, “that General Chaffee should have
said: ‘I forbid inhuman conduct.’ ”
“The purpose was,” said Mr. Rawlins,
the soldiers were left to practice
with impunity and without disapproval
inhuman conduct. That is the only in
telligent and reasonable interpretation
that can be put upon it.
“That was the meaning ascribed to it
zy the subordinate commanders who
practiced the most inhuman conduct that
the miud of man can conceive.”
Mr. Rawlins sharply criticised Gen
eral Chaffee, and denounced him as a
“dastard villain, who has brought dis
honor upon the American name and the
American people.’*
In the Lower House.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, April 24.—The House to
day sent the Oleomargarine Bill to con
ference after agreeing to the Senate
amendments with some modifications
-suggested by the Agricultural Commit
tee. The opponents of the measure of
fered a number of amendments, the
principal one of which was designed to>
place renovated butter on the same foot
ing with oleomargarine, but they were
overwhelmingly voted down. The latter
part of the day was devoted to the Ag
ricultural Appropriation Bill. Mr. Fox,
of Miss., made an exhaustive speech in
defense cf the suffrage clause of the
Mississippi Constitution. He argued
that Mississippi had done the wise and
patriotic thing and deserved the com
merdation, not the censure of the coun
try. If in so doing it had incurred the
penalty of reduced representation in
Congress, he siad, Mississippi w’ould
‘‘take her medicine” before she would
surrender her civilization.
TEN YEARS IN PENITENTIARY.
Quick Work on the Boy Who Wrecked S A L.
Train at De Witt, Va.
The fourteen-year-old white boy, Jack
Quarles, who unlocked the switch on the
Seaboard Air Line road at DeWitt. Va.,
on Sunday and wrecked mail train No.
47, has been sentenced to ten years in the
penitentiary.
This was quick work. The crime was
committed Sunday, the boy was arrested
and confessed on Tuesday, court was in
session at Dinwiddie, Va., and he was
tried, convicted and sentenced on Wed
nesday.
Fishermen, unlike doctors, never at
tempt to cure a sucker until after he ig
dead.