The Morning Post from Raleigh, North Carolina • Page 3

MORNING POSIT AV X)ECEM 03 Intermediate rjassi IN B0YLAN, PEABCE CO Extends Season's Greet j. and Wish One and All a ChristmaSo Merry tV. M. Lawton, respectively. The children came forward and brought their, off erins for the poor, mese.

donations mn4l I and useful articles and they will be dis- toaay By a committee. The entire rear of the platform was stacked with these good things to cheer and gladden the desolate homes. After the gifts received Old Santa (Mr. R. E.

Prince) appeared and gave to each and every child a package of candy. Rev. F. A. Bishop made a short talk at the conclusion.

The programme rendered by the little. folk was as follows: Opening Earth by classes. Recitation, "Welcome," by Miss Irene Scott. 6n Bells," by the classes. Cail0n' "Send a Greeting Far and Wide', by Miss.

Maude Pollard Eqcercise, "The Christ Child by pisses Catherine Ala-bach, Bettie Hicks, Lena Scarborough Leafy Boyd. Solo, "Little Lord Jesus." by Miss Lizzie Hogan. Recitation, "Coming of Christmas" by Miss Eullne, Smith. Song, "Sing, Ye Littte Children," by the classes. Recitation, "My Doll and by Miss Maggie Blackley.

Exercise, "Whosoever' by Misses Mamie Boyd, Mamie Hicks, Alline Wooday. T- Solo and Chorus, "Glad Christmas Story," by Miss Florence Bagwell and class." Exercise, "Crowning the Cross," by Misses Mera Dean, Maggie Pool, Lizzie Hogan, Maude Marshall, Lillie Waldon. Song, "Peaceful the Night," by classes. CnitltTJIAS TREE CELEBRATED AT BILTxTIORE ETry Employe on tk Vt Vandir bltt Eatate Rreetvcd a Handsome Present Asheville, N. Dec.

25.Special. The Christmas tree given to the em-ployeeb of the Vanderbilt estate at Biltmdre parish house this afternoon, while a most" enjoyable affair, was, owing to the absence of Mrs. Vanderbilt, like the play of Hamlet with Ham let left out. Heretofore each year Mrs. Vanderbilt has personally superintended the Christmas entertainment for the employees of the estate and the tree has always been placed in the Biltmore manslotl, "and hr absence this year was; keenly -felt by all who participated Jn' the annual holiday event.

number of the Asheville friends of Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt Went out to Biltmore to witness the affair, which wvas under the supervision of R. Swope, r6ctor of All Souls' church- The tree was literally weighted down with presents of every description, from the smallest and most inslgnifi-icant toy tothe most useful household gift. Mr.

Swope read a telegram froni Col. Charles McNamee, manager of the estate, is" at Seattle, wishing all Off the' estate, a merry Christmas During'; the distribution of the gifts by the heads of-, departments of the estate an orcsestra rendered a number of selections. v. Another. Christmas tree entertainment 'twas enjoyed on the estate tonight it being the annual Christmas tree for the nurses of the Clarence Barker Hospital, at Biltmore.

The tree used for this' entertainment was the same one that the presents last year of Mr. and Mrs; Vanderbilt's little daughter, Cornelius; Stuyvesant, and which was named in honor of the little one. The presents distributed to the little ones and those distributed to the nurses were very handsome ones. C. E.

Mathews went to Wilmington yesterday to spend a day or two with Mrs. Mathews and children, who are visiting her parents, Dr. and Mrs. W. D.

MacMillan. DR. SIMMS LEAVES Will Enter Upon His Pastor-. ate at jSaffney, S. C.

Rev. Dr." A. M. Simms, who has been visiting his son apd daughter here, left yesterday for Gaffney, S. where he will enter upon his pastorate tomorrow.

Rev. A. Cree, the present pastor there, has. resigned to accept a call to a church in Louisville, Kentucky. The members of the Gaffney church expect to have both the retiring oastor and the new pastor with them Sunday.

Mrs. Simms has remained in Raleigh to continue her visit to Mrs. Thos. B. Moseley, her daughter.

FOUGHT FIERCELY IN THE STATION A spirited fight enlivened the scene at the depot yesterday afternoon just before the departure of the Seaboard An-' southern trains. Two men fought for mor haa five minutes and the air was blue with he most 'prof an oat hs. A Raleigh man appeared under the depot shed just after the Seaboard train arrived, and began a quarrel with 'a passenger. 'The Raleighite was fighting drunk and the stranger got decidedly the best of him. The pair Mh' other fiercely.

rolled jja. iifc cw. around on the platform and got almost under the train, i A number of ladies were in the station, but their presence did not restcain the profanity, and they were forced to hear the foulest vulgarity and oaths. The depot master said he 'phoned for a policeman, but all of them were out except the turnkey. He then; appealed 23 Ip I shall be deprived of the glamor and iiegeanmes tnai irugnx De trustea to stir fond feminine hearts and to prove good for the enlistment rolls.

Besides, society dearly loves the military. Time and again have our exclusive tourists, returning from abroad, deplored the painful home lack of household troops, dress parades and regimental band concerts. Surely a few millions may be well spent In saving our army system the social turn contemplated in the New York assembly idea. It will be a glorious period in our evolution as a nation mill it ant woen Summer's bright season may witness dally af terooon teas with Uncle Sam supplying the canisters on a tented field close ranging to the well-defended metropolis. WHY MOT BE HAPPY I A Graham CnntT Corresponalant Tlls Good Newi Ffaio Hit JXIoaiA tafn Section To the Editor of The Post: As the year of 1903 is about closing out and though I am not in the habit of writing letters to newspapers for publication, I thought I would give" you a short fetter from this part pf Graham county.

Will say first, I have reading the Morning Post about ten months and have found it so far a very conservative, upto-date newspaper, dealing with facts in an instructive manner, and, that liberality that ought to characterize every newspaper. Newspapers have much to do with molding the opinions and governing the acts of the people in all parts of our country. Therefore, editors- ought to "be very cautions as to what they say through their papers. If we had less, jommalism possibly the people would be better off. I am glad to note that while Graham county is surrounded by high and picturesque mountains, there is quite a sum of money being spent here in the -timber, and lumber business, and evidence of its lasting for quite a while yet.

And this Is not the only good thing among us that is attracting the attention of men of capital to this part of the country. It is now a well known fact that we have large talo deposits of excellent quality, especially in this part of the county, which lies from one mile to four miles off the railroad now being built down the Tennessee river and on to Knoxville. So it Is but a short time until we can rise up with one accord and assert that we are the. happiest people in North Carolina, We shall be happy first, because the Immense wealth which has been hidden under our foot trails has been found and. is being developed; and second, we can raise all the vegetables of the best Juicy qualities, the finest chickens, with yellow legs, and eggs to feed all these hands who will be engaged taking out and developing our rich minerals.

Why not be happy? GEO. F. BROCK. Brock, N. Dec.

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250 Rooms. European Plan, with- out Bath, J1.50 to with Bath. S2.50 to $4.00. Just a step from Broadway and all the big shops, theaters, surface and elevated cars. ALore Sods the night wind shivers on he hilltop; crawls the pale faced fog" from Cold the sea; hv the one and blinded by the mv late steps longing unto Turn i thee' as thy glad hand, held in si- arnLnce toward me.

cUt thy window's light across the lea; nS a flower waiting -for the arth wind. with tny tace So there for ma. rId as the gale and like the mist per 1 yading T-e sul of the dark riight and the c0ul for me' rV or for living or for i my late love forever unto thee. I ismiiy Bronte. reading as follows were Sallie Paul requests the Invitations "Mrs.

JU' honor oi ur her daughter, Sophia, to Mr. Luther sioan, Monday afternoon, December neaty-eihtli, nineteen" hundred and IJ.ee, three jo'clock, 247 North Main 're Concord, N. C. At home after To-uaVy 607 North Brevard' street, rharlotte, Te cards have been Issued reading: honor pf your presence Is at the marriage of Mrs. Pan- jraynard Mr.

Meredith H. Jennings' of Roanoke, Virginia, on Tuesday afternoon! Decenaher twenty-ninth, nineteen hurred and- three, four o-rini. RinggQjd Baptist church, Ring- old. Both young are known in sevral towns of this state. II jlr.

and Mrf? "Walter Bishop of New" Bern are In tie city spending the hollars with relatives. Mr. and Mil's. Charles Ellis of Co- luinbia, S. l-rrived yesterday to.

visit ilr. Ellis' fatfier, Mr. D. J. Ellis, on Hillsboro street.

1 Mr. and MCs. D. D. Traywick left yesterday for Bristol, on a visit.

Mr. Traywick lis the Southern Railway agent in Rale'ih, and he will return to his post here next "Wednesday. Miss Anna Lales left last afternoon for a visit toj friends in Greensboro, Danville, RLchnond and Oxford during her Christmas! vacation. I Miss Emily Taylor went to Pittsboro vesterday on a visit. I Miss Lizzibelle Dunn, who.

Is now located in Norfolk as a trained nurse, arrived yesterday to spend the holidays here. Mr. and Mrs. H. Montague of "Winston-Salem arrived yesterday after noon and will; spend several days in Raleigh as the guest of Mr.

Montague's Mr. B. P. Montague, on Nevv- Bern avenue. Miss Annie Rogers and Miss Narnle Rogers left last afternoon for "Wash- bgton for the holidays.

-Mr. and L. Rivers have to Greenville, S. on a visit, Mr. and Mrs.

George Mitchener gave a big Christmas party at their hospitable home, near Gamer, last Among those who went from Raleigh to attend were Mrs. N. G. "Whitfield, Miss Lena Whitfield, Miss Frances Rand, Miss Bashti Rand, Miss Mattle Dcv.d, Miss Helen Brown and Messrs. Hubert and Thomas Rand.

Mr. and Mrs. Jones Fuller spent Christmas with Mrs. H. Pace: and Mrs.

H. R. Drewry of Norton. are visiting Mrs. Drewry' Parents, Judge and Mrs.

Thomas R. Purnell. Mr. and Mrs. Pabius H.

Busbee left fc Atlanta, yesterday to visit Mr. 1 Mrs. Richard S. Busbee. Mrs.

Herbert E. Norris went to Pitts-wro yesterday to visit her parents, MrV and Mrs. Thomas Burns. -Hss Kate Marshall of Abbeville, S. r--' is with Mrs.

T. S. Jones, 317- West -ones street. Mr. Joseph Fels of Philadelphia is Siting his sister, Mrs, G.

Rosenthal, 0n Fayetteville street. Mr. and Mrs. James A. Brisrgs, at th6ir home on Hillsboro street, last ght entertained all.

the Briggs fam- la Raleigh at a 'family arathering. The four brothers. Messrs. Thoxnas.H., Jno. D.

and Fabius H. Brlggs, Mr "tvivss and children, were present. Miss Annies Gaits entpnrtainftdcher: little eginner'siiA mustemt dei Wednesday evening at the home her mother, Mrs. Weston R. on North street.

little folks hav made wonderful progress- the months they have been taking les- After delighting- them with rr.es and amusements Miss Gales n'ed them with dainty refreshments. DE OTHERS IIAPPT AND WERE HAPPY a'iK Entertainment Glvn 1ytbe uiIrn ortUe Canlral iTIeta-odlt Sundar School Je Sunday school of the Central Binodlst church last nisrht held its "Jistmas The lecture) otn waa filled and the exercise were 1 FOR OVErV SIXTY YEARS. An Old and Weil-Tried Remedy; MRS. WINS LOW3 SOOTH INQ SYRUP SIXTY YFAER by MILUOXS TOD "ETEETII. t-t2 TYvr t- v.

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The police were scattered about town and no one was available at the station house when the message asking for an officer came. Officer Haynes finally arrived. but the fighter had been taken home by friends then. A SLICK GAME (Chicago Inter-Ocean.) Four men were playing cards in the smoking compartment when the con. ductor entered with the request, "Fares gentlemen." Three of them quickly handed up but the fourth did not and seemed to become sudenly embarrass ed.

"Fares!" said the conductor again, trls time rather sternly. The passenger addressed responded with a series of spasmodic winks and tapped, the backs of his cards signifi cantly when his three companions were not looking. "Come, sir; I'm in a hurry," said the conductor. "I am sorry, sir, but I haven't any ticket." "Pay your fare then; it costs only ten cents more." "Boys, will you allow me to take a rakeoff?" inqured the delinquent ol his fellow-players. "Not much," was the unanimous answer.

"My money Is all on the board," said the passenger, appealing to the' conductor. "You'll have to get off at the next station then." The man laid his cards face down and said in a low tone to the next 4 player: "What do rou do?" "I raise you twenty," was the reply. The man passed his hand up to the conductor. The latter gave it one glance. Then he relieved' a fat po-jk- etbook of two twenty dollar bills and handed them to the dealer.

"We see you twenty and go you twenty better' he said. The original raiser of $20, shifted uneasily in his 'seat. Matters were becoming, complicated. Finally he said: "I'll raise rou ten." "Call him," said the conductor, and handed over the money. The delinquent passenger called and started to take in the money on foui aces, whe the other shoved a straight flush and proceeded to fill his pockets with the money, which included the conductor's.

The latter was dazed. The delinquent passenger was meek and astonished. "Now you'll have to get off!" snapped tli a conductor. The train! was just pulling into a station and the whole party alighted. After the train had started again a passenger remarked to the conductor: "Pretty slick crowd, eh? I saw 'em work the same game over In Ohio a few weeks ago." But the conductor was so mad that he did not reply, and went into tLe next car and slammed the door behind him.

Society and the Army (New York World.) Theer is word from "Washington of a congressional disposition to curb in their extravagances the promoters of the army manoeuvres. In the year just past it cost about a million dollars to mobolize. our soldiers in blue and khaki and put them through their military paces. Members ol the house military committee apprehended the pushing forward of plans for parades and displays in 1904 which will result, if carried out, in a national expense bill-of r.GOC.GOO. A scheme in the air is said to look to the acquisition of an immense field near New York city where the occasional massing of great bodies of troops, may be made events of real "so- cial importance." At this suggestion" the committee shoulders may be Imagined as rising in a uniform shrug of disapproval.

For purpose of mere war, spectacle has mz been in the process of relegation to the rear. It furnishes too many and too conspicuous targets to the enemy. It will- be sad, indeed, if through th tactloa mre lejjtsla- ttgyt4 utMt to flnisn. In th prorrwna from th prirnrry ard th-s.