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Interesting Sketch of a Gifted Son of the Old North State,
Prepured and Read by Mrs. Ida T. Wilkins, at a Recent Meet
ing of the Book Club.
"Baek to tin1 place of liis hirtli
'I'u tin' dearest place on earth."
He suffered greatly from pain '
anJ poverty but lie never lost his !
cheerfulness. To his friends who '
were w ith him w hile in the hospi- j
tal in Raleigh he spoke of how he 1
loved that city and its people and
hoped to spend his lust days there, j
But he did not, for from dire ne-
cessity he was soon up and hack j
at work in Washington. Here in I
March 1903 he died. He was laid
to rest in the old Congressional
cemetery by the friends who knew
and loved him best. Like most of
those w ho think on higher things
the affairs of the world did not gain
1 In
To Men,
TpTI UK truly great man is the poet. The poet speaks to the souls
I I ot men lie puts m peautitul language the sentiments that
other inen feci but cannot express. He reads the messages
mat (iM nas written in ins great dook ot Nature. He is the
interpreter between God and man and his message lives for
ever in the hearts of men.
W"e have lately discussed a genius of this class and one to whom we
could by virtue of birth lay claim to, as our very own. We are fortu
nate in being able at this time to study something of the life of another
gifted son of the Old North State and one whose life while bounded j many of his thoughts and when
with a greater number of years, these years were so full of suffering ihc sad eyes closed on earth it was j
from ill health and the sting of poverty as to render them tragic in their j found that the wolf was still in its .
sadness. We are supposed to be familiar with the facts that John 'llir on 'hJ roet's hearthstone, i
Henry l'.oner was born at Salem, N. C, in 1845; that his schooling i "The boys" in the printing office j
was had there; that he learned the printers trade; that he worked on ! bought the lot in the cemetery and i
newspapers in Salem and in Asheville; that he was reading clerk in the 1 ruisec' a funJ fr necessary ex-1
North Carolina Constitutional Convention in 1868; that he was chief ! reuses. The Author's Club in,
clerk in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1869-70; that , Ncw Vork sem nw'erial aid to the j
he was in the United States printing office from about that time till i sviciow and so among them these
1886, and again in the last years of his life. But about this time his nicn of ,he Nor,n ave 10 tncir
greatest life began, and it is of this later life we would speak today. A Southern brother an. honored and
recent writer says: ! honorable bed in the earth which
"Dr. Benjamin, a man of letters who, with Boner and others, was a 1 ne,J l,ie tlones llf Calhoun, of
number of the Authors Club in New York and is now editor of publi-: Clinton and other heroes of peace
cations of the National Museum, says of Boner that he awaits resur- am vvar' j
rection into fame, that will come as surely as it did to Poe, the greatest Soon a,,er his death some of his i
of all American poets." fiends began to collect a fund to j
He calls Boner the first man of creative genius who has lived in N. ray for removin2 his bdy from j
C. To hear Boner read by Dr. Benjamin is to be startled into a sense Washington to Salem and place a !
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Ten long years ago an Ohio
girl married a rich old man with
one foot in the grave so she
thought but he is still buying his
shoes by the pair.
Dr. Gilbert Rcwe, pastor of
Tryon Street Methodist Church,
Charlotte, is a bold one. He has
asked the women of his congrega
tion to take off their hats during
services.
The Dupont trophy, a silver
cup, has been awarded to the Lum
ber Bridge Company of the State
troops for making the highest
score at the indoor target shoot Jof
any company in the State Guard.
The score was 332 out of a possi
ble 350 points.
The most important casedecided
by the Supreme Court of North
Carolina this term is the case of
Barden vs. Railroad Company,
handed down last week, the opin
ion written by Justice Manning.
The question which gives impor
tance to the case is this: Can a
railroad by the establishment of
relief departments governed by the
railroads, and which have certain
stipulations governingits members,
who are limited to employes of the
railroad, release itself from suits
for damages when the injury was
caused by its negligence? Judge
Manning in the opinion for the
Court, says: "In our opinion,
this stipulation is an ingenious
scheme devised by the company
to avoid responsibility for its neg
ligence, and as such is inequitable
and void."
"Mark Twain" died at his
home in Redding, Conn., Wednes
day evening, April 21st at 6:30
o'clock. Samuel Langhorn Clem
ens, America's foremost humorist,
and known the world over as
"Mark Twain," was born in Han
nibal, Mo., on November t30,
1835. He began his first regular
literary work in 1862, and in
1867 he published his first book,
"The Jumping Frog of Calaviros
County. ' Later followed some of
his best known works. "Roughing
It," "Tom Sawyer," "Innocents
Abroad," etc. In a recent biogra
phy of himself he wrote pathetical
ly of the death of his daughter
Susie, and on the day before
Christmas of 1909 the last crush
ing blow came w hen his daughter
Jean was found dead in a bath tub.
The young woman had been a vic
tim of epileptic fits, and had been
seized with one while in the
tub, which resulted in her death
while his humor made
world happier, outworn by grief
and egony, he died of a broken
heart.
of our poet's power. We have all read those little things he wrote,
because a North Carolinian wrote them, but how few of us have
thought it worth while to study, to probe, to find the strength and
sweetness beneath, as we should do if the work of a writer from the
North or from England were put into our hands! Some of us at home
are apt to think that "no good thing can come out of Nazareth. " We
pronounce nothing fine which is brought forth upon North Carolina
soil, until a critic from outside informs us that it is worth while. And
so this man sleeps and is almost forgotten. But may we not hasten
the resurrection Dr. Benjamin speaks of by giving these few thoughts
to his memory?
Mr. Boner would never speak much about his boyhood davs. Some
times he gave glimpses of them in his verses. In one he tells of "A
Boy in the Piney Woods," and in another he recalls "A Memory of
Boyhood," how he hunted "ripe delicious muscadines,"
Floating on the gentle Yadkin, in an
Olden time canoe
Singing old plantation liallads,
1 ami charming lilue eyed Sue,
ISlue eyed golden trcss'd Sue,
Now we row from dappled shadons
Vnderueath the tangled vines,
I'p the sunny stream where all
The radience of the morning shines, j
On the purple muscadines." !
It was while at work in the Government Printing office in Washing-!
ton City that he published his first book and won fame. He called his '
little volume "Whispering Pines" and in it he wrote of the
"Fields ol corn a. id crumlilmg vines. '
Along the golden Yadkin,"
where with one he loved, "We walked among the whispering pines."
His best verses were of his own beloved Southland and the Old
North State. j
He called the South "The moon loved land and thought"
"No lovelier song nas ever heard.
Than the notes ol the Southern mockingbird, "
and dnrinff rhp ina rnld winter d:iui in ih nrihom I.:., u. i
turned to
"A great log lire, a great hearthstone.
A cheering pipe of coli or briar
And a red, leaping, light'ood lire,"
But of all places on earth his heart turned first to the beautiful little
city in which he was born the quaint old houses, the shady trees the 1
beautiful avenues, the venerable old church, the sacred city of the dead ' CaXarrh Cannot Be Cured
these scenes crowded on his mind as he went to his daily tasks far 1 ""V'.T' 'YlTT " ,l,ry,?",not
. , v.uiij luarws mi reach the seat of the disease. ( atari li
suitable marble slab over it. Among
these friends were some of the
most famous men in the United
States. His body arrived at Salem
on Sunday morning. At the close
of a peaceful Sabbath day while
the evening shadows were length
ening, with a great concourse of
sympathetic friends, gathered near,
and with the grave lined with
boughs from the cedars about
w hich he wrote so lovingly, the
sweet singer was laid to rest.
During the sen ice, the old church,
whose
"one simple spire points to the skies
Above the lofty trees,"
was filled with friends. Bishop
Rondthaler, of the Moravian
Church, Governor Glenn and his
old friend, Mr. Benjamin, of New
York, and other prominent men
were present and paid their tributes
to this true North Carolina poet.
Then he was carried to the place
which had been prepared for him j
in God's Acre and laid to rest.over :
his grave was placed a simple i
white marble slab on which is the !
following inscription, the last lines J
being written by the famous poet I
and scholar, Boner's warm friend, !
Edmund Clarence Steadman: I
JOHN HENRY BONER j
BORN IN SALEM, N. C.
JANUARY 31, 1845
DIED IN WASHINGTON, D. C.
MARCH 6, 1903.
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away from home.
"No more have I in that dear place a home.
And saddest memories cling ahout it,
But by Ood's good grace
Beneath those trees in whose dark shade,
The tirst loved of my life are laid
I want to lie."
boon alter he published his little book of poems called "Whispering i preoption, it is composed of the in-st
Pines" he lost his place in the United States printing office on account 1 knmvn combined with the Lest
of his politics, but his work received recognition from his literary ' ""' a'rt''tly " ,l,e
t. , r . . .. , m-"" ' I mucous him fares. The perfect eomhi.
friends at the North, who never failed him. In the storm and stress ! . r the two mgredien.s is what
that followed, one of the foremost literary men in the United States, produces such wonderful results in cur
Edmund Clarance Steadman, of New York City, was delighted with 'ttg C1,arrl1
Boner's poetry and secured work for hitn in New York. During the F' ,T' niENEY c0-
next few years, he worked on several important literary productions t , 1 ,r Toledo Ohio.
. u - . r- 1 . K'uuutiiuiis. Testimonials sent free, l'rice 7j cents
Among these were the Century Dictionary and the Standard Diction-1 per untie, sold i,y ail druggists,
ary. Then he was made editor of the Literary Digest, which was so ! Take Hall's Family pill's for eonstipa
improved through his critical judgment and excellent taste that he was tio"'
soon recognizea as one or ine nrst men ot letters in liNew York. But
the Niagara like thunder of Broadway so distressed both him and Mrs.
Boner that the longed for something like their old home among the
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Carolina hills. They sighed for the trees, the grass, the birds, the The Sound Sleep ol Qood Health,
katydids, and the song of the cricket on the hearth. At the suggestion , The restorative power of sound sleep
of Dr. Benjamin they built a home on Staten Island and called it I 'a"n"t be overestimated and any medi-
"Cricket Lodge." j cine that prevents it is a menace to
Here he hoped to pass "life's declining years happier than the past 1 w'4"1' ''' !", u.then.Ku 'l1airi-'
. ju 1. . . u 11 ... " 1 " l8- "V8: Foralone time I have
had been, but it was not to be. Like too many high strung men of i unable to sleep soundly nights
genius, Boner was a man of temper and stubborn will. He differed ! because of pains across mv lack and
bath
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with the publishers of the Digest about some trivial matters and rather
than yield he resigned his position. Then it was that the wolf sought
his dwelling where poverty had entered, that Boner heard this sniff,
sniff, sniffing at his door, with the "white plague" which he then be
gan to fight the pathos of his life.
The following poem appeared in the Century Magazine for January
1901:
"The wolf came snifling at my door,
Hut the wolf had prowled on my track licfore.
And Ins sinlf, amir, snilfat my Lodge door sill
Only made me laugh at his devilish will."
"1 stirred my lire and read my book,
And joyei! my soul at my ingle nook,
His sniirand snarl were always there
Hut my heart was not the heart of a hare."
"1 cursed the beast and drove him away,
Hut he came with the fall of night each dav,
And his sniff, sniff, sniff the whole night through
I could hear between the winds that blew."
And the time came when I laughed no more,
But glanced with fear at my frail lodge door,
For now I knew that the wolf at bay
Would sooner or later have his way."
"The fates were three and I was one,
About my life a net was spun,
My soul grew faint in the deadly snare
And the shrewd wolf knew my heart's despair."
"A crash! and my door flew open wide,
My strength was not as the beast's at my side,
That night on my hearthstone cold and bare,
He licked his paw and made his lair."
"Broken in health and weakened in spirit" he received the aid of
his friends to secure again his position in the government printing of
fice. But disease had fastened upon him. Every stricken son of the
Old North State turns to her when the end draws near and in Boner
the wish was so strong that his friends aided him to raise the means
for a trip home. He wrote to a friend: "Am going south next week
in bad shape Doctor says consumption." Then it was that he came
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was very poor and my general condition
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