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OLD SCHOOLS OF-BUNCQHBE
EDUCATIONAL - AFFAIRS
YEARS GONE BY.
IN
The Vihiniion Post surprises its by
sieakmg of a person hu returne-d to
her regular work as returning to- her
"avoatin." Whe returne-d t her vo
cation, which in this case wa-s tobacco
stripping. If she also dabbled in dress
making r painting or it-aching more
for entertamrm-nt than for revenue,
s-'ifie one of thote w-iuld be her avt.ca-tion.
Tile Oregon, reported arrived off l'or
to Kico, left San Francisco Marcb 1J;
Callao, Peru. April 7; I'unta Arenas,
Chili (where she picked up the Mari
etta, April 17; Hio Janeiro. IJrazil,
April So, and Mania. Ilrazil. -May p".. The
entire distance she traveled in ') days
as about 13,ijO niiies. iK-ductinii five
or six days for detentions, while coal
ing, it w ill be seen that she I an at the
rale of only about 11 miles the hour,
though her top speed is piui ed at 11
knots the hour or 17.1" miles.
One Spanish spy has already confess
ed his guilt by committing suicide. It
is believed there are several in this
country who may yel be induced to
take themselves off in that way ii they
can be caught. There is a belief that
some of the powder factories that have
been blown up weie exploded by agents
of Spain. In t'uba as elsewhere light
houses, by international agreement ol
civilized nations, are exempt from de
struction by an enemy. The Spanish
take advantage of this and place but
teries in or near them and lire on oiii
sailors. lilanco nets adrift a d-ielicl.
heavily loaded and Moating just lee.
with the Bca. in the hope that one of om
cruisers may be sunk by it at nigiit by
running into it. All this is Icguimatt
Spanish warfare and about the only
'kind the Spaniard has yet shown him
self capable of.
Now of what does it remind one
this campaign of ambushes, spying
mysterious explosions, tiring from
masked ball, lies and the like? Why,
that the campaign was begun in. kind.
w ith' the explosion of the Maine. Near
ly every act of the Spanish goveriimeui
since war was det tared has been ol tne
sort a civilize'! got ci mucin is i.bovc
doing.
Butler's Terms.
It ought to be safe to say that loitler
had won a defeat in his victory ft the
Populist convention at Kab-igti, for
surely not even the men who have been
favoring fusion or co-operation would
take either on Ills terms the pi enerva
tion of the l'opulist party intact and
the making certain lii.it it has in the
future as many olUces as now, national
and Stale. Imagine the 1 i-mo(-ratic
party of North Caiulina pledged to til!
a certain number of oiliccs with Popu
lists! No, it is extremely unlikely tint I!ut
ler has the least ielca, thai any 1 ii-iuo-ctats
will subscribe to such a co-opcra-lioii
as he demands. What he pti babiy
had in mind, in proffering fusion, was
that when the Iiemociatic parly de
clines it for the bcsl reasons that
it was not existing for the building up
of a rival party he would hereafter on
the stump make the charge
that when the 1 .-m"ci.ttic party
could have co-operated with the
I'opulisl party to socuie free sil
ver it would not do so. lie will
doubtless make that charge, ignoring
the truth that the failure lo co-operate
was on other grounds.
There is precisely one way in which
I'opulists can co-operate with lK-mo-crats.
anil we believe there is only one;
by leaving the l'opulist party and be
coming leuiocrals. And in any part ol"
the State where there are a consider
able number of I'opulists who wish to
do this, a representative man from
among them can doubtless he nomi
nated in the lcmocratJc ticket as ;
Dcniturut. if such a guarantee of tlu
sincerity of their welcome lui. k is d
sireci n coui'i w.eu ie given, and we
doubt not would be. If there is any
oincr way ol co-operating it has not
yet been mentioned, all our efforts to
draw from those few Democrats who
think they want to co-operate with the
l'opulist party, as a party, having fail
ed to elicit a single response.
Conclusion of John W. Starnes' Pa
P Tribiito to Mrs. Hutsell's Elo
quint Blackgum Rod
The Asheville Female college was, for
many years, the flower of female edu
cation in the mountain section. This
was the property of the M. E. church
South, but was patronized by all, as no
offensive church creed was taught in
it. The mountain people owe much to
this institution for intelligent, Chris
tian women mothers who refer with
love and admiration to the dear school
that prepared them for usefulness in
life. It has always been a strictly fe
male school in which were educated
many of our best and brightest women.
Among these were Mrs. Governor H. L.
Taylor of Tennessee, and Mrs. Senator
J. Pritehard. Hefore the establish
ment of this college there was in Ashe
ville an institution known as the Fe
male seminary, conducted by Itowley
and Dickson. When the college was
founded the seminary merged into it
and but little is remembered of the Fe
male seminary at this writing, April
The enrollment of this college
was as many as 1D0.
LKE S SCHOOL.
'ol. Stephen Lee's classical and
mathematical school for boys, located
in what is now known as Chunn's Cove,
two miles east of the city or Asnevitie,
was established in 1844. This val
uable school continued under Colonel
Lee up to 1879 almost without interrup-
ion. except during a short service of
its principal in the Confederate army
Phe patrons of this school were scat
tered from Virginia to Texas, a large
lr cent, coming from South Carolina.
where Col. Lee was well known and
highly respec ted. North Carolina, Ashe
ville and vicinity in particular, furnish-
-d its full quota. The young men and
students, in addition to the excellent
and classical instruction taught at this
chool, were thoroughly disciplined for
'lege life, of the many who received
:i miction at this school, who have
in.i'i. sheir mark in the vocations of life
md their impression on the society in
whic h they moved are: Thomas D.
Johnston, lawyer, and Capt. C. S. A.,
legislator and member of House of Rep
resentatives in the Congress of the Uni
ied States; W. 1). Hilliard. M. D., Supt.
nospiii for insane; Thomas W. Patton,
capt. C. S. A., merchant, mayor of the
city of Asheville, for two terms; S. H.
Ueed. lawyer; H. M. Lee, civil engin
"cr; U. L. Coleman. Col. C. S. A., civil
engineer; Thad. Coleman. Col.. C. S. A.,
ivil engineer; A. H. Kaird, Col. C. S.
A., farmer; Frank Huger. Knoxville,
Term.. Maj. C. S. A., superintendent
railroad.
It is for the most part guess-work
to attempt to give the enrollment, or
che average attendance of the herein
before mentioned scnools. It is, howev
er, safe to say that they were large
schools for the time in which they were
taught. Many other schools were
taught throughout the county at vari
ous times and places, but as they were
not of long duration it has not been
.nought necessary to note them in this
-ta tei-ient. There has not been a time
in 4" years, except from 1860 to 1X70
that a determined young man or wo
man c ould not get a fair academic ed
ucation in Buncombe county. I cannot
remember further back than 40 years
ago. but older persons say that the es
timate of the schools given here is an
underestimate rather than an overes
timate. NAMES OF PROMINENT TEACH
ERS. Reems Creek Wood, Calfee, Mc-
i 'arthy
PEOPLE.
ouo-ii vvunemiina avails herself of a
royal prerogative and frankly de
clares she ""detests music."
v liliam Krupp is the name of the first
man in lioston who volunteered to
carry a gun In the present war.
t.eneral J. 15. Steedman. the hero of
t hickamauga, was imprisoned in
Jlorro Castle in Havana not long af
ler the close of the Civil War. He
had gone to Cuba to aid the insur
gents and was captured by the Span
lards. His predicament finally was
reported in Washington and his re
lease followed.
Miss Augusta H. Rriard served in the
carding room of the Pacific mill, at
Lawrence. Mass., continuously for 4o
years. For 30 years she was under
one overseer. She lived in one cor
poration boarding house for X years,
during 32 of which she occupied one
nra. jmu nas earned enough
maintain her comfortably.
to
Among the men who have enlisted in
Colorado is Lyulph Stanley, a, brother
of the Scotch earl or Aii lie. : In 1S1
his father, the late earl, purchased
for him a large tract of land near
Oreeley. Col., w here he has since been
a remarkably successful cattle raiser,
having some of the finest blooded
stock in the world. ' Low Ogilvie,"
as he is know n. has enlisted as a pri
vate in the First Colorado regtment.
The night before lewey left Washing
ton to take command of the Asiatic
- squadron he was guest of honor at a
dinner. His hostess and others ex
pressed regret that he was ordered to
such a distant iHst. The commodore
, said: "l shall find plenty of work to
do. You know the Spaniards have
fleet over there, and 1 11 have to des
troy that of course. Then there are
the . Philippines, Spanish territory.
Some day you'll hear that Tve cap
tured Manila before breakfast."
Campbell and Yost.
Sand Hill Hood, Craves, Collins. Os
borne. Barnes.
Asheville Female college Cummings,
Kennedy. Atkins. Barker and Jones.
Uhe-r high sc hools in and near Ashe
ville Newton. Lee, Rowley, Dickson,
and the c atalogue of prominent teach
ers up to the last decade, will he com
plete. No, no. The-re was one very-
prominent teacher, if you please, whose
name I hail forgotten. The Lord has
been be tter to her, in length of life,
than any of the others, so I must
not fail to. mention the name of Mrs.
-Mary Ann Hutsell. and though con
nected with the shirting scenes ot mi
gratory life, she is indeed a most re
markable woman. She has taught in
nearly every part of Buncombe county.
My father died on the liKth day of De
cember. 1S!i7. at the good del age of SO.
and yet, this woman, then Miss Mary
nn Wells, taught him (father) in her
"ivld field sc hools" when he was a boy.
She was born in the northwest part of
this county, almost before its history
began, and has lived and taught
through every Re-Deration until the
nresciit. i would not be afraid to bet
my be-st hat that she has worn out
more- black gum timber on bad boys'
backs than ever "Carter had oats". She
was always a firm believer in "black
gum tea." She lashed that bloody
scourge across my back the last time
it ever "swarped" thereon. Sheivv me
a Buncombe boy that she diiln't whip.
If all the yells that she ever raised in
a school house were put in one yell and
that yell were yelled into the vicious
ear of Spain she would turn Cuba
loose and take water like a tow wad
shot from a pop gun. Why. today, she
could lick 13 years old King Alfonso
XIII. before a cat could kill a rat. and
be surprisingly happy after the licking
Mrs. Hutsell always sat in a chair
on some high platform where she could
see without walking. By her side lay
continually her weapon of war the all
important black gum, six feet long. In
the winter season she kept a foot stove
In this heater she had the scholars to
put live coals of fire for the benefit of
her feet. Well do I remember how she
would crac k that finger at a boy and he
would walk up to the throne. She would
then and there kick that little heater
from its place of concealment with the
positive order that he put live coals
no chunks in it. But we did sometimes
put chunks in it. Bad boys! Halloa
here! In a few minutes the smoke
would rise from certain linseys and cal
Icos which were spread profusely about
the throne. Only think! This was the
smoke of that teacher's torment. See!
It begins to fog up the mistress fidgets
The devilish boys whisper, "Look out
sues a-settin on a chunk; shell soon
hatch out a fire." So it was war. And
woe unto the fellow that put a chunk
under the Mistress' skirts!
SCHOOLS OF TODAY.
At this writing. April 25, lsis, the
prominent schools of Buncombe county-
are Bingham school, for boys; Weaver-
ville college, for both sexes; Camp
academy, both sexes: Asheville Female
college: Swannanoa Farm school, for
boys; Home Industrial school, for girls:
formal and Collegiate institute. for
young women: Skyiand institute, for
both sexes: Fairview college, for both
sexes; Sand Hill academy, for both
sexes; Antioch seminary, for both
sexes: Beech academy, for both sexes!
Flat Creek, for both sexes: Jupiter
school, for both sexes; Biltmore school.
for both sexes: Avery's Creek, for both
sexes; Hominy high school, for both
sexes. These are all large and flour
ishing schools with crood attendance.
Besides these there are more than a
score of small, private, or rav schools.
In the city and county round about
'that run four months in the year, and
the educational outlook for Buncombe
is before the reader, on the 25th day of
Aprtl, li9S.
During the last 10 years many of our
young men have graduated from the
State university at Chapel Hill. This
powerful old university has many de
voted and able friends among the peo
ple of Buncombe county, which speaks
most hopeful for higher education
among them in the future. The writer
has learned by observation that the
friends of general and universal educa
tion are not as many as there should
be. Any man or woman, who receives
the emoluments that come during act
ual service in school work, may show
the deepest friendship for general
learning. But the test of making per
sonal sacrifice fo" elucational work of
ten shows a decided cooling of ardor
and a pitiable weakening of energy. So.
we may venture'to say, that "time and
tight places" are the only sure test of
ioyal friemiship, either to the person,
people or State.
The schools of Buncombe county al
most went out during the civil war.
Barely enough fire was left to kindle
from. As late as 1S.VI the public schools
hal hardly revived. On the first of
June. XHK, a cuunty superintendent of
public instruction was elected, who at
rnce threw himself, body ami mind into
the work, having the support of a
friendly and able man, A. T. Suinrney.
who was c hairman of the board of ed
ucation, well acquainted with the peo
ple of the county. Mr. Surumey was
aroal mineied. painstaking and patriot
ic. flon. Robert M. r urman, then edi
tor of The Asheville Citizen, rendered
valuable and timely aid by giving us.
jf his columns, himself writing up the
progi ess of the work, visiting the close
f schools, and in many ways rendering.
the most able, unseilish and patriotic
aid. So, the superintendent went abeiut
n all his power and energy to inspire
public interest and build houses. Foi
eight years the work rushed forward.
Then c ame a lull. In lsii7. Col. T. i.. i
Long was chosen as chairman of th
county board. Col. Long is a son of
the late Dr. Alexander Long of Salis
bury, who. in 1 ? 1 4 . graduated from the
tate university with Charles Hinton.
Governor Charles Manly, Postmaster
General Brown of Tennessee, and oth
ers who have been great. The work is
moving steadily on again.
This imperfect statement is made by
the author with the hope that the his
torian in the years to come may find it
of value. He can now hear the trarnr
of the Asheville Light Infantry drilling
for the war over Cuba. Only yester-
lay. Rev. Dr. J. S. Felix, their chap
lain, preached to them what was sup
posed to be his last time before they
met face to face with the warriors of
Spain. He told them that the same Co l
who preserved them at school must
preserve them in battle. The scene re
minded me of 1SK1. The muliied dium
broke upon the holy stillness of the
abbath day. but the Blue and Gray-
are hand in hand, shouleier to shoulder.
for the Bingham cadets, led by Major
Bingham, wore the Gray, while the
Asheville Light Infantry, leel by Capt.
Bookl.art, wore the Blue. Oh, dreadful
war. It confuses my very senses. But
for it this article might have been very
much better. Whatever is said in this
statement is said with an honest pur
pose, and is perhaps as nearly true as
can be learned at this time. only,
enough is not said. There- have- been
and si ill are- manv true men and women
whose name s elo noi appear here. Thev
we-re once in our s -hoots, but ate riot
remembereel by me. To many of them.
night has come and they are asleep.
In due time. yes. at the right time. God
will v ake them all up. w hi ther by the
tinkle- of a bell or the ringing of a
gong it eliners not. at roll call they'll
be present. We'll see.
Kindly dedicated to the- energy of
Edward L. Brown, jr., by his friend,
JOHN W. STARNES.
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE
QUARTERLY CONFERENCES.
Appointments for Asheville Dis'rict,
M. E. Church, South.
Rev. Dr. I. Atkins, pre-siding eleler.
has annouiice-il the following appoint
ments feir (iiiarti riv i-ont'ere-ne e- in the-
sheville district M. E. chtirvh. South:
North Asheville-. .May J!i-:;i.
Bethel. May 2!-:U.
Biltmore, Skyland. June
Haywood street. June- 4-."i.
Spring Creek. Spring Creek. Jui
I'M
The greatest Englishman of the nine
teenth century was William Ewart
Oladstone. The long list of English
staesmen may be read without finding
a single name that shines with greater
splendor than his.
He was a product of the middle class,
the rugged upright Scotch middle class.
His father, John Gladstone, was born
at Leith. His Scotch mother has been
described as a "lady of very great ac
complishments, of fascinating manners,
of commanding presence and high in
tellect, one to grace any home and to
endear any heart."
Mr. Gladstone began life as a Tory,
a fact which his biographers attribute
to the teachings of his father, who had
been strongly imbued with the princi
ples of Canning. The premier was fa
veired with vital energy to an extraor
dinary degree. Born at Liverpool on
Decea.ber lviy, instead of tottering,
bent and imbee-ih toward the grave,
he. almost t the last, stood erect at the
heael i f the English nation, his hand on
the throat of Toryism, his speech ring
inir down the halls of the future.
freighted with prophecy and glittering
with the fires of liberty. At the height
of his power, at 76, lie was a conspicu
ous refutation of the hoary supersti
tion that three score and ten is the lim
it of man's usefulness. There need be
no olel age when the spirit keeps young.
Interest in life, activity of brain and
r-vmpalhv with humanity will defy old
age ami keep it forever at bay.
EARLY LIFE.
Mr. Gladstone had not passed his 12th
birthday when he was entered at Eton,
where he spent six years, learning all
there was to be learned then. Aft 31
leaving Ktetn he studied two years with
Dr. Turner, afterwartls bishop of 'al
cutta. then went to Christ church, Ox
ford. At exaniinatiem in "n
gained the highest honors of the uni
versity, graduating double first-class.
In 132 he was summoned to be the
nominee for the House of Commons
for the borough of Newark. The reform
bill had iust passed. At that time
plea of ill health, and Disraeli became
leader of the Conservative party and
prime minister of England. Mr. Glad
stone made up bis mind that the Irish
church should no longer be endured.
Early in the session he laid upon the
table of the house a series of resolu
tions, the first of which roundly de
clared that "in the opinion of the House
of Commons it is necessary that the
established church of Ireland should
cease to exist as an establishment."
Disraeli appealed to the country. Glad
stone was defeated in Lancashire, but
elsewhere the Liberals triumphed, and
Gladstone, returned from Greenwich,
found himself at the head of an over
whelming majority "a prime minister
personally more powerful than any who
had held the reins of state since the
palmiest days of Sir Robert Peel."
He at once disestablished the Irish
church, and the next year saw the Irish
land bill added to the statute books,
and the elementary education act
passed.
In 1875 Mr. Gladstone had announced
his retirement; from politics. But
inspired by the wonderful let
ters of MacGahan (of Toledo,
O. ), the famous war correspondent of
the London Daily Isews, Gladstone
roused Europe on the "Bulgarian
Atrocities," in a campaign through
Midlothian. He threw himself into the
cause of the oppressed Bulgarians with
an energy that astonished even those
who knew him best.
FROM CAMP GRIMES BOYS
NEWS ABOUT ASH EVILLE'S GAL
LANT SOLDIERS.
-1 .
2H.
Hot Springs. Paint Koik. June
Swannanoa, Tabernacle'. June 1
Central. Jure- lie-n.
Cane 'ri-e-k. Ililgirt. Jinn
Saluela. Reedy I'ati h. July J.-'.',.
lle-n ! rson ville. Julv t-lo."
L.'ie .-st.-r. Zi.m Hill. July K.-lT
Fii'iieh Broad, Re-eves' School House-
July lti-17.
Sulphur Springs. River View
24.
Mills River. Shaw's Cre-e-k. July
Weaverville. August 8-7.
Ivy. Mars Hill. August fi-7.
July-
Add to these four large free schools In
the city, three for whites and one for
colored, and one Episcopal school for
colored, and one industrial school for
colored young women. To this should
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
harlotte News. Wednesday: Mr.
I' rank Mahan. secretary of the Char
lotte Y. M. C. A., has been appointed
general secretary for the association
work among seileliers at Tamo.i. Fla
He leaves tonight for his new post.
Cherokee Scout: H. 11. McNamara
left Thursday fe.r Chicago, where he:
will organize a company to vverk ricl
mineral lands in this vicinity. He ex
pects to be absent about six weeks, an;
will visit his ohj he. me at Tower, Minn
Wilmington Star: E. J. Robinson
of Detroit. Michigan, has purchased
from . s. Warroc k his fine farm near
Masonboro, and will begin operatiems
on a large scale very soon. His leadin
crops the first year will be strawberries
and lettuce.
Winston Sentinel: Rev. J. T. Gib
bons (col.) editor of the Twin-City Her
aia, teeis comment that an ettort was
made last night to assassinate him.
Somebody shot into his room through
the window. He has the ball in his pos
session and thinks he is on the track
of the man who did the shooting and
the ones who hired him to do it.
Goldsboro Argus: Chief of Police
If reeman proceedeil Sunday to w ind up
the business of a blind tiger arrange
ment. It seems that a woman who runs
a restaurant had been suspected of
selling whiskey on Sunday. She was
caught Sunday doing a brisk business.
She is said to have a trap door in the
ttexir and bottles were taken out read
ily. Cherokee Scout: The Appalachian
Land and Lumber company have tilee.
articles of incorporation with the clerk
of the superieer court. The capital stock
is $60,tMX. This company owns the cel
ebrated Hammonds tracts of timber
lands in this county. They will employ
100 men in the various departments.
The stockholders will meet in Murphy-
May 30.
Spartanburg corresionelenc e Green
ville (S. C.) News: Vance Rhodes of
Polk county, N. C, has the faculty of
accumulating money. He had $1;n5 in
an old trunk in his humble home. A
few days ago, when he was absent, two
persons with faces blackened entered
his house, took the trunk and made a
seizure of the money. A man named
Sheehan has been arrested for the
theft.
Charlotte ews: Adetachment of
that time he
was l"J years old, somewhat robust anS
consideied handsome. The author of
th history of Newark speaks of his
"bright, thoughtful and attractive
bearing."
To realize how much Mr. "Gladstone
changed sin.-e the beginning of his pub-
lie career, we have only te remember
that his maiden speech in parliament
was mu.le in defense of the domestic
institution of slavery. Africans were
impeiiied into Demerara and Trinidad
later than into any other colony, and
the elder Glailstone owned many slaves
in Demerara. To denounce "the pecul
iar institution" was te impugn the hu
manity of his father. The sessiein ol
ls, however, was memorable for the
extinc tion of slavery in the British col
onies at a c ost eif $U!ii,0!tU,ilM).
At the age of -i: Mr. Gladstone was
junior Ion! of the treasury, under Sir
Robert f'e-e-1. This was only the be
ginning of more rapid advancement.
Parliament bail scarcely met for the
session of !::." when he was installed
in tin- ctf.i t- of unelcr sec retary for the
colienies. and brought in his first bill,
designeel te improve the comlition of
passengers in merchant vessels. The
ministry did not live long eimugh tc-
adorn the statue books with this hum
ble effort.
His lust staggering blow, however,
came from contact with ' the Irish
church. The ministry ef which he
formed a member, was defeated and
foiled to resign on a nucleus of the
Irish i hurch bill of ls:;9.
In 1::; Mr. Gladstone married Miss
Catherine Glynn, daughter of Sir Rich
ard Glynn of Hawarden Castle, Flint
shire.
FOUGHT REFORM
During the ne-xt live- or six years Mr.
Gladstone' was opposed to his great
chief. Pe.-l. Lord Macauley described
Gladstone at this period of his careei
is a "v-oung man of unblemished e-har-icte-r
and oi distinguished parliament
uy tal-.-nts. the rising hope of those
Uein and unbending Tories, who fol
low reluctantly and mutinously a lead
er w hose expe-rieiu-e and c-loejuence are
indispensable to tlie-m, but whose cau
tious te mpe-r and moderate opinions
they abhor."
In all directions Gladstone then
fought reform, tooth and nail. He pas
sionately defended negro apprentice
ship, the. last vestige- of slavery permit
ted in the West Indies and he opposed
a scheme of national edue ation.
Sir Robert Peel was back in povvei
oi i .it i anil cuausione was returned a
iiK-mner lor Newark, and held two of
ne-es in the ministry, maste r of the mint
ami vice-president of the- board of trail
i ne revision ed the tariff, so closely
. I'liie-cLe ei wun tne tree trade policy to
".mi jwiii-n ciiacistoiie was then elrift
ing. gave him ample opportunity for hi;
genius that "statesmanlike view of
.. n'uiunii u wun tne consum
ace mastery oi Ue-tails which subse
lueuiii maiKeu his budgets." Even
uien ne nail established a reputation a
uruawi, aim even as an orator anu
statesman.
Sinc e INI.'! Mr. .Gladstone did so muc
i"i cue people that his minor achieve
mems were lost sight of. Few remem
ber that he was the author of the par
uamt-iiiaij train w men travels full
iciiKin or an lines twice
fare ef one pennv a mile
In lvlj he resigned because the e-v
moment UIOUgQt 111 a Dl eiea IIP- n-itl
-oayiinotn col rase in a wav that ofren.i
. . ..v.
eu ms sound cnurc-n principles. In ls5(
sir j.ooert Peel died and in 156 Glad
to,ic iose to a neigiit that trave hin
eimaneni place in history.
HE MADE FIGURES ELOQUENT
The first of what
a
a day at
the New Tork navy yards passed
through Charlotte Wednesday aboard
a special train oound for Key West.
One of the "blue jackets." Fred Harri
son of Providence, R. I., presented a
News reporter with a souvenir of the
ill-fated battleship Maine. It is a rquare
piece of copper that was taken from
one of the air taks of one of the life
boats. On the face of it Is carved in
delicate lines a splendid picture of the
Maine. Above the picture Is the oft-
repeated phrase, "Remember the
Maine." and at the lower corner Is this
be added 125. -white and colored, trr I "a link in Havana ttom- VahMi.rv 1
district schools throughout the county 18S8.
proved to a long
sews of budget speeches, unsurpassed
in parliamentary history, Mr. Glad
stone delivered on the mh of April
K".1 'I- V. . . . -
iucu eApeciauon was at its ze
nith, the house was crowded and jam
meei, tne vast crowd remaining tirelest
uuiing nve hours of astonishingly elo
uem. uirtuiij,- wnicn matte even ava
lanches of statistics attractive.
He was the main strength of th ih
eiueen ministry, ana as chancellor of
tne exenequer he financed the Crimean
war. In 1S5", when the coalition fell to
pieces and Lord Palmerston undertook
to construct a new government out of
rne rragments, Mr. Gladstone resigned.
tie remained out of office several years.
In the brief administration of T.orr
Derby, in which Disraeli had twice held
the office of chancellor of the ex.
t-nequer, came to an end, and Gladstone
again joined the ministry formed bv
Lord Palmerston. which lusted as lomr
is Palmerston lived. There was peace
ana prosiierity throughout this reisn
The year I860 completed the commercial
treaty with France, abolished the naoer
ciuty, ana in his first budget Mr. Glad
tone ended the stamp duty. This par
liament came to an end in July, 1865,
-vir. tiiaastone offered himself for re
election at Oxford and was rejected
This event created a profund sensation.
As long as he was politically associated
with Oxford, his alma mater, there was
possibility that he might resist the
influences that were steadily leading
him into uncompromising Liberalism.
That chain broken, there was nothing
to retard his growth. The pent up
flood of Liberal life rushed downward
like a cateract. A reform bill was to
be introduced by Earl Russell, and to
Gladstone, as leader of the house, fell
he task of Introducing it and bearing
the orunt or the battle which raged
around It. The measure was defeated,
the ministry resigned and the Earl of
Derby again called to form a ministry
from a party in a hopeless minority.
VICTORY IN DEFF4T
As BOOS as Da rllamonf n
,1ns year Lord Derby resigned on the
DOWNED BY " DIZZY."
But the actual outDteak of the war
between Russia and Turkey alarmed
England. Disraeli saw his chance and
took it. When the Russian armies
finally defeated the Turks, the treaty
of San Stefane was signed (July 13,
187b) and Disraeli (then Lord Beacons
field), returned with his colleague, the
Marquis of Salisbury, bearing back
with him what he characterized as
"Peace with honor."
in ISM) the tseacnsheld cabinet was
thrown out, and Gladstone, after much
negotiation, was summoned by the
cjueen to form a cabinet. Later he was
himself thrown out on the renewal of
the coercion bill. The Parnelites and
Conservatives combined to defeat Glad
stone. The Conservative ministry, with
Lord Salisbury as premier, lasted
about six months and was defeated by
a coalition between the Parnelites and
Liberals. Mr. Gladstone was again call
ed to torm a cabinet, and at once
brought forward the issue of his bill
for home rule for Ireland, the bravest
act of his wonderful career. On the 8th
of April he made his wonderful speech
thereon.
His speech lasted three hours and
twenty minutes, and thrilled the world.
"On its issues," it was said at the
time, "are staked his reputation, the
life of the Liberal party, the salvation
of Ireland and the future of the British
empire."
The New York Sun said of it:
"We should have to go back more
than a century to find a crisis of com
parable moment and excitement
whether we look at the dramatic cir
cumstances of the debate, the tremen
dous imDort of the theme debated, or
the towering ascendency of the arch-
disputant."
But the result was disastrous te
Gladstone's home rule scheme. A sec
tion of the Liberal party, differing from
his views on home rule, deserted him at
the most critical time ,and transferred
their allegiance, under the name of
ligeral-unionists, to the support of
Lerd Salisbury's ministry. After that
Mr. Gladstone continued to advocate
the principle of home rule both in the
House of Commons and in tne press
throughout the country.
' In 1892 he went before the country on
this issue and won. He remained a pre
mier until 195, when he surrendered
his office to Lord Rosebery because of
declining health.
GLADSTONE'S APPEARANCE
A contemporary in the Commons thus
described Gladstone in debate:
"Trembling through every nerve with
intensity of conviction and the wrath
ef battle, he almost literally smites his
opponent hit) and thigh. Taking the
brass-bound box upon the table as rep
resentative of "the right honorable
gentleman" or "the noble lord" oppo
site, he will beat violently with hii
right hand, creating a resounding
noise that sometimes makes it ditlicult
to catch the words he desires to empha
size. Or, standing with heels closely
pressed together, and feet spread out
fan-wise, so that he may turn as on a
pivot to watch the effect of his speech
on either side of the house, he will as
sume that the palm of his left hand is
his aelversary of the moment, and
straightway he beats upon it with his
right hand with a ferocity that caused
to curdle the blood of the occupants of
the ladies' gallery."
CHARACTERISTICS.
Literarily Mr. Gladstone was as ac
tive as politically. His chief intellec
tual recreation was the study of Homer
to solve the problems associated with
the name of the "blind old man of
Scio's rocky isle." The results of his
labors in this direction took form in
three large volumes entitled "Studies
on Homer ancl the Homeric Age." Set
ting aside his various works upon
Homer, his miscellaneous writings of
themselves, with the reading they in
volve, would entitle him to rank, on the
score of industry, with many who have
devoted their entire lifetime to litera
ture. Neither in his writings nor speeches
did he show humor, though he had a
rich fund of sarcasm. A joke was an
unknown quantity to him. Life was
wholly earnest and never flippant.
Fluency was said to be his besetting
literary sin.
HIS INCONSISTENCY.
Gladstone recognized the fact that hit
mental history was one of development
rather than of consistency.
"I was educated," said he, "to regard
liberty as an evil. I have learned to re
gard it as a good. That is a formula
which sufficiently explains all the
changes of my political convictions."
How They Get On in th Second
Regiment Ensign Bagloy's Funer
alVisitors in Camp.
CAMP GRIMES. Co. H. 2d Kegt.
May 16. The boys in the Second regi
ment have not forgotten "Home, Sweet
Home." and request me to remind the
good people of Asheville that they are
still in the land of the living.
The Second is no longer close neigh
bors of the First. We have moved to
the fair grounds, a distance of about
one mile from the other Asheville boys,
but are still in Camp Grimes. We have
eight companies mustered- in. and expect-
to complete our regiment when
Capt. Wagner, together with the Mur
phy company and several others, ar
rive. i
Ve have a very nice Y. M. V. A. hall.
of which our regiment is very proud.
Our Nantahala boys entertain great
crowds every evening with their heroic
Indian songs and dances. Jotin Calvin,
who has been the victor in several
fights with the Indians, is the ringlead
er,- and is very much admired by the
spectators for his songs and dances.
.tidaie Scott, or The Kid, was very
much disheartened today when he was
detailed to assist in digging a ditch. I
think he will recover.
Sergeant Carroll Brown has named
his tent "Hotel Berkeley," and if an
Ashevilleiara could see the crowd
around it when the Nantahala Sym
phony club is playing he would say
that the name was well adopted. We
have not named our street yet, but it Is
most probably that it will be "Paradise
alley."
It has been rumored that the Second
regiment would be completed with ne
gro companies, but the rumor is abso
lutely without foundation, as enough
companies to nil tne regiment nave
been ordered to move and will arrive
this week.
Bibles and blankets were in great de
mand during a terrible storm last
night, but we can't see that the boys
are any better today.
Lieut. Lyman Deal took dinner with
friends in Raleigh yesterday.
Capt. Gibson was visited yesterday
by Col. Burgwyn, who is very proud
of our boys and thinks they will be
ready for Cuba when they are equip
ped.
We have the Gastonia company on
one side and the Wilmington company
on the other, and are very well pleased
with our Western, North Carolina
neighbors.
We were visited yesterday by Mrs.
White G. Smith, Mrs. T. W. Bookhart,
Mrs. Ed. Rumbough, Mrs. T. W. Pat-
ton and Miss Josie Patton, all of whom
were home folks to Hie Asheville b .ys.
G. C. B.
Ensign Bagley's Funeral.
CAMP GRIMES, May 17. A hard
elay's service was that of yesterday,
and our boys can feel that they have
well performed a very trying duty. At
3 o'clock the First regiment was formed
in column of fours and. preceded by the
full staff of field officers under com
mand of Col. Armfield, and keeping
step to its band, which, for the first
time took its place, marched from the
camp to Fayetteville street, a disance
of two miles, where it was formed in
close column of companies, facing to
wards the capitol.
Here one of those long and wearisome
delays occurred, which though un
avoidable, are to be regretted. For an
hour and a half we stood in ranks, "at
rest, by command, but at rest only Dy
command, because in fact the fatigue
of this delay was scarce less than
would have been a march for the same
length of time.
It was a truly impressive scene: ine
Capitol square and all the adjacent
streets were filled with people. Looking
toward the State House we could see
near the statue, the burial casket,
wrapped in the national colors and en
shrined in beautiful flowers; while a
glance in the opposite direction showed
Favetteville street, as far as the Yar
boro house, filled with soldiers, ready to
fight at the call of their country as had
their brother in whose honor they, were
assembled.
At last the long delay, ended, the
llower laden casket was taken on the
shoulders of a special detail of first ser
geants and borne tenderly to the army
wagon, which, suitably adorned and
drawn by six draped horses, took the
olace of a hearse. Our regiment was
then moved forward by column of ours
to the right, passed the casket and thus
formed the chief guard of honor.
A very impressive and beautiful sight
t was. to look over the line or strong.
brave men, quietly, gently, and, some
of them, tearfully, marching in slow
and solemn step to the time of the dead
narch. which was continued by the
jand from the State House to the cem
tery. There we filed passed the open
rave, incased with flowers, sweet ana
iright, to indicate the sort of home
hat should be the final resting place or
ill men who are brave and true.
Our three battalions were then form-
d in a hollow square, the commitment
services were read, a salute or eleven
Tuns was fired, and' we all fired three
vollevs of blank cartridges, and thus
the ceremony closed.
We were then more than three miles
from camp, which we , had left four
hours ago, and it took a right swift
hour's march to get home by 8 o'clock.
You may be sure we were al Hired and
hungry, but justly proud of our perfor
mai ce of duty, which had elicited the
warm praise of our colonel.
our days are becoming rather mo
notonous, not much to do. except drill,
drill, and enough of that, but it is not
an easy tasR to make you up a daily
letter with so little variety of material.
Our field and staff have secured their
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horses, and thus axe more as they
should be.
Our company artist enlivens us and
excites our mirth by his funny pictures.
We would send you his idea of the ap
pearance of our adjutant of battalion
if we thought you could do it Justice;
but it would be a pity to have this gem
poorly reproduced; so we will keep it
for our own delectation.
Even the endless rumors of moving
are today quiescent, and we miss the
excitement to which we have become
quite accustomed.
So. to put in one sentence what your
readers -will most wish to hear, all of
us A. L. I. boys are wel land happy. We
are acknowledged on all hands to be
the best behaved, best drilled, best dis,
ciplined, best working, and best be
loved by the Asheville girls, of all the
companies of this regiment, and the
last characteristic we intend to de
serve. It. S. S.
A. L. I. Notes.
CAMP GRIMES, May IS W. F. Ran
dolph of the Hooley Gooleys surprised
us last night with a visit He spent
about an hour in camp, and the boys
were glad to see him.
At I. -30 J. H. Lange was in camp f r
L few minut's. .
Sergeants l'atterson ami Privates
Cuthcy and Haird are suffering with
kcoiryted arms.
.'nde Sam will not issu-s clothitvr or
anything except rations until we reach
Tainpa. Four of our boys are dmeloss
jr.ei tciirot leave until shod.
Sc-rger.nts Israel and Bernard -ire
busy at the wash tub at this writing.
We wear Uncle Sam's high-button
coats.
And the truth about us won't hurt:
Because you see a man with a standing
collar
Is no sign that he has a shirt.
Cannaday, A. L. I.
When this regiment leaves Raleigh
the Asheville Light Infantry will not
come by Asheville. So I have been in
formed, but not officially.
The question has been asked. Why
are the boys so happy when they see
our fifth sergeant coming. The answer
is, Because they know Knight is near.
It. S. S.
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