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4 THB CHABLOTTE NUym MARCH 19 J911 The Charlotte News p ■ H iH'- ;'ni Sunday by I in: m:>^s ro, W. t. rr« ••idenl and Cm Mfsr. Tcleplione* i I IV nr ‘ - I fHi'P 11: p r r\'; ,\ AV Ar.l^WKI.T f'!ty Editor \ V ''.r I’- ’H. . . Advert;sinc- Mi;r. R'-TKS riie « IinrJoftc Xot". .ar.J S’.l” lay. . ..,ir ' .. .. • • • • 00 I \ ■ ? .n V’ V Only. J-:."''! .1 0.1 , :.o' ,:.o \ nfoiini’i'nu'iit. ,.f t • r ■* , ? 'I--, fiill'-'vin*;; .> X.: : -t’.! 1 M*'- , . : t- ■ ■ : ;■ . p’ i>r H P' ! 1 ] ' t ■ or. M" 11 l'«* j ■to ■ ■ v'l; s I :i ; ■ A .it > =1 :on ' i ':n ! •\ T fv ORMNG MARCH 19. 1911. ,,’OR'^AL PLANS. til ^ I >n of NOT FOR SALE. With all of the crookedness, trickery, fraud and deception in this old world, virtue still reigns, honesty continues to be the best policy and truth persists in rising, though often crushed to earth. Some who read the daily papers are too often led to draw quick infer ences. and declare that the world is on the dowjiward course. In the realm of politics much crookedness ha& been brought to light even during tlio past tow years. Men reared to high office have been shown up in all their perfidy. T^loction frauds; trickery in legislative halls; fraud in poverninental administration circles—dishonesty in high places and much of it: And yet were the truth known, where one crook is found even Jn political circles there are an hundred honest men, too pure to swap char- ac'ter for oiTlce. too honest to buy a vote, too srtraight to countenance ct ookedness even on the part of their s\ipporters. case of scandal or vice calls for big headlines, creates a big sensation, and ton often lead? to tlie popular verdict that everything Is rotten in Denmark. Wer^the lives and careers- of honest men, who have battled off the snares of tlie tempter and stood firm, advertised in the same vav that the career of the crook is exploited (he newspapers would not find room enough to print the stories. And. leaving tlie field Oi politics, and coming down elbow to elbow with tlie plain, average V-dzens. In these ranks there is le&s corruptlo today than ever before. Cliaracter stands for more. Honesty is considered more t?a.:rod. I’urity is more dearly sought after than in any other year or cy- clc. M does us .good to see occasionally the real man played up in the papers. The ('hioago Hocord-Herald. of recent date, contained this niagnifl- crnt worv'. sketch of a man who was too honest to sell his vote. In this broad land of ours there are thousands on top of thousands of men made of the same stuff. ‘ Not fur S’ale” is the title of the picture: ‘ i'd like alnii'-;liiy well to have more money than my pursfC contains; I (U' luy v.r.v I'ost to save, bui still they get my hard won gains; 1 walk t;> suvo a nickel when the wi^ids of winter fiercely blow; I wear the hat and coa! ;mk1 vpst th:u first 1 wore two years aa;o: T long for money; it is iiard for me to keep my bark alioat. but no man has sufficient cash to b:;> niy votv- I long to make my children glad, to give them much they are .'.V r.i ti: if i had money all the things they want should quickly be supplied; i' sniMf-'ViS ’lie t hear il-'in ask for \Aiiat 1 cannot afford to buy; they caiin-’i understnr^.d i.nd come to innocently ask* me why; I see the patches they must w^ar and !('el a lump come in my throat: but not a man is rich tr.ou.uh to buy !n.\- M>tc. 'i'he little home on which I've paid installments tor a do/.on y'ais may never be my own: my breast ist often filled with i niht.i n;ul C iVs; I do not know how 1 shall raise the interest when it is dt;e; tliere is a doctor's bill to nav; the dollars I have saved are few; tny shoes are run down ai the heels, i wear a threadbare overcoat, but no man has &niiiti»ni cash to buy my vote. "—Chicago Record-Herald. . -■ ; >f ■■ t.. a tri; ’ > ; li h- ai: N- 'V V'^rk i’t;e 'U’l s. ,>n !>ut ..a^e f‘ ,i ;ne: -'l; ’-r.-d r ■> icii ;.tl.j - I . . . ' 'h^ r -n I ; ♦ 'Ti u!-ich :n : :• , vi- ^ !' ns ..a V .• i.im,:'. ut- ♦> t>r, f" orc:e ♦ ••new A>1..!uS ) ► —WALT MASON'. ♦ ■^*'pho:d vaccination. - ■ ^ - ,-.ide ^i I iii f i >' !'■ !- •' . -V 'n ! ! !T T> - o,.; - •! . sii' i-fi-sfiil a V. ' ■ >-inc.- i>; ; (J t’ii • »* ' ;■; ■’ ■ ;p wl o ar - availiii.; ’ - \ nMiori to he r* n- '! V . i’ f- > •. s in thoi ‘ • ■; • ' 1 ■ :ri‘i. • a :..ic iia e 1 • •■a | •- .'h i.sc . and the re-1 : ‘s ^■’”e »‘en a -. onderf il df’creasej . *h‘ *1 I’l, : ‘ >!■;»“ 1 fr"*-i tvMhoid! ' ' ■ - - T- I r.' nf the i ‘ ' ' ■ inrrv ha^: • - ■ • -I t I h‘.id an'l ■ . r o In the mohili-■ • T ■ > '.t. ’iie Mexican' ' ' d the meiical ■ i.nrtiuiity to ^ ‘ ^ a • .d »r;-d and in-! ■ T , while th('y j L '.. ’. re they are more i f. •. tWi.. -i.r. than in! and the students of rliat institution, as 1] as a. number of the doctors, took tlu' tro;itment wi'h excellent results. Tiiero V as iku a case where the pa tient sutiei! d any inconvonfence. Last ^:!'n:ner the:'e were numerous cases of 'ypliold f^'ViT in the city. This year th-re w;.I un.'auil'tt,diy he as many, if not nv'-'e. V.hcr smallpox wi;s sv.r-pins: ilie country ver;.hody was vacc::i,."ed aeainst it. Small 'ox is net as , Mai as is typlioiil, yet there are !fw i^L-opIe who have thought about beit:-; vaccinated against the latter. Snr'.’lpox has bien practically wii>ed out, and there is as much reason to believe that typhoid would go the same wiiV i; the proper measures were tulv- e” aueiinst it. I' is i:i -lie power of the secretnry of V ar to en "i ce the vaccination of -i)!diers, and lie ^hoi-ld do it without del.:,.. There is no reason whj- this di. i :r'C sh'Hild collect its toll of death in-m the r;:nks of the army every year vh.en there is a sinitde remedy ilur has Hei n proven effective,’' and :hrst-> huasure> shotild be put into inaf'tioe wherevi-r any large body oi! ■ irooi s are hroutiiu tocrefh. r. take hold with such determination -as will iireclude the possibility of fail ure. :Vnd by tile way. si)eaking of the campaign for a new Y. M. C. A. in Raleigh, It is a fact not unworthy of note that the capital city is being born anew in many respects. That si>irit of progressiveness which ha? electrified this section is being felt in the capital of the state, and even today Raleigh is building a splen did new $i:ir>,i')00 auditorium, a new hotel and spreading out in many other wa.\ s. The News wishes Raleigh success in this latest tindertaking. 4 Ge, ar ' f' 'T*: e vaf^ination dof s ho iiifii in th'ir • " i*!-' I, ♦.'.'•'•,1 in tlif rare^^t ' - • • {*r, )Thr r I'iini in favor of ‘ ■ ' ' H’ :'jn. ■ I .r*> ; • ciioi in Cuba liiifl Florida ■ ■' 'I"'" the S!i;iiiiNii ,\nifi- 1 ^.ri ■■ -.r : hu killfd hy the bul- j- V r.* . p rry. Hundre d.^ I ave tlied : 'he wflf* I'ktscd. More iie dying , and with !he oxc-pfion of 1. ^he ordinary sanitary measures, 1 ;o d p:ntm«rn» has done little to ef- 1‘ ' tually wipe out tli». di.sc-ase. The ‘"an.p at San \rtonio is report- fd to be one of the best ;in ariiiy ever f 'abllshed f*"oin every point of view, yf-t if t. phoid fever were to get ;i fc-art there, it would demoralize the entire foici*. The men have been brought there from different climates, most of them r insiueraoly cold**r anfl ijra tirolly all of them suiferid frotn the heat during the first lew days. T phoid would nec- o'^aurlly be more severe with these li.en now than under ordinary con- llrions. After being vaccinated for typhoid yotjr chances of having the disease ar« exactly one-h:ilf less than before t:i#* virus had been iu.iected into your v«*ins. In the cases in record where t-'«‘ jjs(‘ase has iieen i-dntracted after \ 'irin.ition the chances c.r recovers siio lour times as gnat. In vi«!W of th«.-v fjicts it seems t*> l>o u|) to fho i •■(•ii.taiy of v.ar to taive some af (i.)n ! waid i»rotccting the army from tin- 1 .dady. K.'crntjy some of the virus was so- 'ur« (1 b> physicians lu the faculty of the North Carolina Medical College Y. M. C. A. BUILDING FOR RALEIGH. Next weelv r.:ilfis.;h will ina-.gurate a cmr.paign to raise Stio.OOO for tiie pu:':'i>sc of I ■ Mdiug an u.'-io-dato Y. M. ! . A. hiii- iiag. It i-> not to the credit of the state, or o:’ Ralcif-'h, tliat North Carolina's caiii al city is the only one in the rnited Slates without a Y. M. C. A. itnildin::. It is not trx) late to sujiply ti’.^s need, and put the old state along wi'li the rest, and in the fight to be inaugurated next week the entire state takes a deep interest. The campaign for funds with which to builfi the Y. .M. C. .V. home in Char- kitt(; was one of the most nol.al)le in thf-- city’s history, ibisiness men qtiit '\nrk and went forth among friends Foir l:ing subscriptions, it was the one absoildng subject of public interest at ■ h.it time and hundreds of fiatriotic citizviis coiid’ucted the movement, whi' h resulted in crowning success. Over $100,o(ti) were raised in a brief ."lia( I anfl that without ai>i)arent dif ficulty. ( liailoite citizens appreciated the need of an aderpiate Y. M. C. A. or;:aniz;ition and home and they sup- })lied that need without hesitancy. There were no tichtwads in the lay out. Kvery one wns anxious to do his or her pan. The K'sult is that Clinrlotte has to day a Y. M. (I. A. institution than which there is no more beautiful in tile South—an institution of civic pride, and one whose good influences are felt on all hands. To this buibiing hundreds of boys go daily, ctr:ige in various forms of exer( i:->e and amusement, and are thc;iehy kr])t out of mischief. Sur rounded hy the most wholesome in- fltiences; tliey are taught the necessity f)f a .strong mind in a strong body. The Y. M. C. A. In any community is a potent factor In the building of character, an institution which lifts society uiiwards liy surrounding the younir with the right kind of influen ces. Charlcjtte would not know how to get along without her Y. M. C. A. It is a notable fat^t that the Y. M. C. A. spirit is spreading, and that to day in many cities cami)aigns similar fc that planned, by Raleigh are re- suliing in success. Atlanta has just completed a notable fight for a splen- «lld home for the local organization. SIe(>i»y old Chjirleston for once became wide awake rui the subject, and the way the oldest inhabitants shelled out funds for tlu* pro.1ect was some thing rniirvellous to behold. It wil! never do for Raleigh to fall down on the present undertaking. Nor do w'u heli‘ve the ciimpaign will fail. Each citizen Hhould feel that the move ment is a personal matter, and should "it cost the government $14,500,000 to take the cens-us, or about 15 cents a name. Uncle Sam saved $150,000 by failing to count one million Texans. —Houston Post. It was worth double the money to T’ncle Sam to forget that he had them. ‘ In festive spring-time mood Editor Brunson, of the Greenville News poet izes thus: de- , spise i fiies. Coca Cola may be injurious. In fact, over indulgence in any old thing from coffee on up or down, is anything but beneficial. Rut we can testify to the falsity of that expert's claim that four coca colas would kill a person. Editor Robinson thinks that the ruler of Mexico did not Die-as quick as some of tliem thought. If there is a spark of life left that pun will kill him? Speaking of welcomes, the Times Disjiatch describes Senator Lorinier’s home comin.g: “Two bands and 10,000 bandits wel comed Ix)rimer home.” The mayoralty campaign, like “hot taffy,” gets bigger the longer you chew it. Since the contributing editor has been South the Outlook has been rath er gloom v. It is time for the near-poetess of the Raleigh Times to awaken from her winter siesta. The price of lobsters has been rais ed 100 j)er cent. This blow was aimed directly at Charles-tonians. Judging from reports ju&t made by the government Uncle Sam is getting the hook for the hookwarm. We are living in an atniosphere of oratory. The first installment of spring poet ry is presented today. And now Blease has wound up the winding-up commission. Mary had a hobble skirt, She wore it to a ball. And everywhere that Mary danced. She didn't dance at all. SUNBEAMS. Gentle Raps at The New Well.' The army plays war and the pres'i- dent plays golf.—Charlotte News. And Rlease plays . —Anderson Dailv Mail. (From Baltimore Sun.) Senator La Follette cannot help hav ing a soft spot in his heart for the Mexican insurgents. You notice that the subscriptions for the Democratic National Conven tion fund keep piling up. But we- will not witnesss real war until the militia officers in full uni form start for the front. The American generals don’t see in Mexico any signs or arches bearing the words “Welcome to our country.” Every “lame duck" fondly imagines he is a “come-back.” Try tlie Second Bounce. •‘Fourteen days and you can look ’em over ’ In practice-work,” says Terry Cleaton, in the Charlotte News. Is he referring to the troops in Texas, of the workmen who are going to build the interurban trolley?—Greenville News. • Come Again. Good afternoon, St. Patrick; Erin gobura! But Phillips. Patton and Cow an want Hoffbreau.—Durham Sun. Sufficient Provocation. Inconceivable, but nevertheless so. Aye. shamefully so, and never in their most ridiculous days did insurgents Patton and Phillips ever perpetrate anything half as bad. No. sir, even though Witchard has indulged in a form of alleged wit that we imagined would make the shade of the lamented Mark Twain shudder and be glad that be was no longer a funny mortal, he was never so “crool, crool.” While we have aften felt regret q.nd repentance as we looked back over our chaotic days of silly punning, yet never— in fact, nev-vah—were we ever tempted to indulge in such, as the following from the Durham Sun, which, with tears of sorrow brimming our optics a choking sensation in our throat and a feeling of genuine pity in our heart, we reluctantly direct your attention to: “The ruler of Mexico is strongly of the opinion that he didn’t Diaz soon as some people had supposed. It is to be hoped that thi^ w'ill not bring on a revolution with such insurgents as Phillips, Patton and Cowan.”— Wilmington Dispatch. Would Preserve the Kiss. The Charlotte News thinks if the campaign cigar is to go the campaign kiss ought to also. We favor the lat ter, but oppose the former.—Green ville Piedmont. A Killing Pun. The ruler of Mexico is strongly of the opinion that he didn’t Diaz as soon as some people had supposed. It is to be hoped that this will not bring on a revolution with such insurgents as Phillips, Patton and Cowan.—Dur ham Sun. It is spring, but not very gentle, thus far, .Annie. Gives Phillips Raps. Phillips is writing beautiful spiin poetry in prose. The only cause for alarm about it is that it may cause tlip versifier of The Charlotte News to break out again. The poetic concep tion of Phillips are to great, how- tions of Phillips are too great, how- account.—Raleigh Times. From Other Sanctums Cart .Before the Horse. The “pay as you enter” street cars will do very well for towns where the travel is not heavy, such as Char lotte and Columbia.—Greenville Pied mont. We’ve Got Both. Charlotte is boasting of her big freight depot. Durham prefers to boast of her big freight business. Durham Sun. Vivisections. Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the laboratories in the Rockefeller Insti tute for Medical Research, is c^fident that the achievement of a positiV^i^ure for infantile paralysis is not far dis tant, “provided obstructive measures are not thrown in the paths of those who are working for the solution o-f this and other great problems.” By “obstructive measures” is mean anti vivisection bills. This is a distinctly encouraging declaration and one to which opponents of experimentation with live animals as subjects do well to give all due consideration. No right thinking person believes in needless cruelty to dumb animals, but that is no reason Avhy our sympathies should b^gin and end with them. Sure ly it is less cruel to make a few dumb animals suffer temporarily than to al low thousands of children to die an nually from a disease the prevention and cure of which is only to be found through animal experimentation.—Vir ginia Pilot. Matter for Probing. The announcement from Omah a few days ago that the government had called on the railways for five hundred tourist Pullman cars in which to send soldiers down to the Mexican border gives timely pertinency to the “prob ing” which President Taft is said to have ordered of the traveling expense account of government officials and employees—^an item that is reported to. have aggregated more than twelve million dollars in 1910. It is hardly con ceivable that the war department pro poses to furnish sleeping car accom modations for enlisted men as well as commissioned and non-commissioned oflScers; and if not, what can it pos sibly want v/ith the cars asked for? Five hundred Pullmans mean from eigth to ten -thousand berths. Certain* ly eight or ten thousand army officers are not going to the Mexican border, for the very good reason that we haven’t that many to send. Here would indeed seem to be matter for the Eco nomy Commission to look into carfeful- ly and thoroughly. This is, it is true, a big country, with possessions extend ing all the way from Porto Rico to the Phillipines and to Alaska; but even when this fact is taken'into considera tion, twelve million dollars for travel ling expenses in one year still appears to be, out of all reasonable proportion to the necessities of the case. That is as much as It cost to operate the government in all its departments seventy-five years ago, and larger than the total expenditures on behalf of the average state government today. In the face of such apparent extrava gance, the wonder is not that we are having difficulty in making income keep pace with outlay, but that the Washington agency has not gone bank rupt long ago.—Virginia Pilot. If you would be loved as a compan ion, avoid unnecessary criticism on those with whom.' you live. —^Arthur Helps. t Mayoralty Camgaign Something New. Charlotte’s newspapers are not free horses to be ridden to death. A hot municipal campaign is on in that town and the brethren are printing all about it at space rates.—Greensboro Record. A newspaper’s space is it§ stock in trade, and there is no more reason why it should be free to a political advertiser any more than any other sort.—Concord Tlrbune. Glad of the Change. Mayor Hawkins, of Charlotte, is a candidate for renomination and the opposition to the mayor has centered on Dr. C. A. Bland. Each candidate has a campaign manager and the managers are using the c^fiily papers to set forth the claims of their candidates and to criticise the other fellow. But they don’t use the news columns of the daily papers. They buy sfiace and say what they choose in the space, just as any advertiser cries his wares. The idea is by no means new but it is not common in this part of the country and we’re glad that it is bemg adopted. —Statesville Landmark. New in Campaigning. Something new has been .introduced in the way of campaigning in Char lotte. The mayoralty election is at hand and the Hawkins and Bland forces are carrying liberal space in the Charlotte papers in which they argue the good points of their candidate and herald the deficiencies .of their oppon ent. The custom of waging a political campaign through the advertising col umns of a newspaper is something new for this section of the South, though it is an old method in larger cities. It is a splendid way of reach ing the people. There in the same is sue of the papers they can spread the arguments on both sides and se lect the man whom they expect to sup port. This method of reaching the vot ers is a good one and shows more con vincingly the extent to which the ad vertising columns are read. It has got ten so now a days that the advertis ing department of a paper is about as interesting and popular to the read ers as the nev>s columns.—Cleveland Star. Among My Book (By Col. W. S. Pearson, *in Greensboro News.) It Pays-to Advertise. The camgain 'preceding the com ing municipal election in Charlotte is certainly developing into something warm, and the opposing candidates are using advertising space right along to tell their respective side's of the controversy.—Greenville Daily Reflector. Warming Up. Charlotte is in the throes of a mun icipal campaign which holds the pos sibility of a bitter fight. Mayor T. W. Hawkins is a candidate for re-election and he is opposed by Dr. C. A. Bland. Both candidates are using lots of space in the newspapei’s, running large ad vertisements daily. Claims and count er claims are being made and we shall be somewhat surprised if things do not assume a more or less bel ligerent atmosphere ere long.—Gas tonia Gazette. EDITORfAL CAPSULES. With the United States army mass ed on the Mexican frontier we hope the Canadian Tories are feeling less disturbed over the danger of annexa tion.—Chicago Record-Herald. « 4c « Senator Boies Penrose looks ‘like an “old guard” remnant.—Baltimore Sun. * * « Lest you overlook it, please note that Mr. Roosevelt is also conducting maneuvers in the south. .Just why is also a matter of conjecture.—Minne apolis News. ^ ^ j|. The horrible discovery that J. Pier- ptnt Morgan owns Mexico also lends a golden glow to the picture.—Pitts burg Gazette. « * » The army is playing war and Mr. Taft is playing golf.—Washington Her ald. He « ^ Russia, it is reported, will not make that military demonstration on the frontier of China, Probably she has been doing some figuring on the cost —Albany Journal. * it * It does seem strange that the in tense interest of both the president and the ex-president in the south al ways increases as the end "of a certain four-year period approaches.—Pitts burg Post. * * * Legislatures might engage in more profitable business than the attempt to regulate the w'earing apparel of wo men.—Rochester Herald. 4: « * The health of Diaz seems to be much better than that of Mexico.—N. Y. World. « * * If our little demonstration on the border brings, on a war it may yet be Major General Thodore Roosevelt.— Boston Herald. Ill « » Will the current proceedings again develop a warrior candidate for presi dency?—Providence Journal. A JAR OF G4NGER. So far not a poor player has been signed by any of the baseball clubs.— Youngstown (Ohio) Telegram. * Colonel Bryan at Cambridge, spoke on the advantage of brevity. This is real reform.—Washington Herald. Of course, the government inten tions toward Mexico are entirely “pa cific;” but you observe those 20,000 soldiers are not armed with toy pis tols.—Memphis Commercial Appeal. A Cincinnati firm recently went in to bankruptcy because it could not collect its\ debts. The money was prob ably keeping lent.—Cincinnati Com mercial Tribune. There was some criticism that Dr. Aked did not strike oU in Fifth ave nue.—Birmingham Age-Herald. . THE DAY’S QUOTATIONS. Virtue is a rough way, but proves at night a bed of down. —Watton. Things at the worst will cease. —Macbeth. Sidney Smith once said he would give a great deal to be as sure of anything as Tom Macaulay was cock sure of everything—a fine tribute to that ample, precise mind. All the world knows his story, his books are in every library, his name a household word wherever English is spoken or read. Why, therefore, write about him having, as all must know, nothing new to saj’’ of him, no new light in which to view him. Oty excuse is the same Thackeray once offered. He said he had been a faithful lover of Rebecca, daughter of Isaac, of New York, for 40 years, ''and was then prepared to battle with any felon Templar in her behalf, ^o with us and the writer in question. In an equal period our feeling for him is akin to Thackeray’s for the Jewess. At the university we touched the hem of his garment, under the sing ing seas of Sicily we sat at his feet, beside mountain streams ^n the hush of midsummer, with the deep blue above our only watcher, his words impressed themselves forever; we have talked him, quoted him, praised him to congenial admirers on the lawn at midnight with all the horns of elfland blowing, blowing. Ah, the perennial pleasure of communion with a great mind. Friends prove false, your bank account is over drawn, sickness invades the fireside, creditors dun, the weather is nasty, the cook strikes and leaves, but your favorite author looks down from the accustomed shelf on the sleeping bouse cat, and an hour’s interview with him finds j'^ou ready to tackle the world’s worst edges. Macaulay nas been with rare aptness call?d an ambassador from the learned few to the ignorant many. Truly an ac quaintance with his works is the easiest of all gates to the great realm of English letters, which lies in tlie years behind. No more charm ing Major-Domo could be wished for. Au dthls introduction is of no small consequence. Some intellectual soci ety will be sought for by the average man, and if not properly ushered into good' company the chances are that he v.nll fall in with the bad. We are persuaded that Shakes peare for instance, is repulsive on first acquaintance to the boy or girl graduate of even our best schools. The very words seem unique and im- like our every day American—in fact as strange as Bible language. But let the youth or mainden begin their introduction to that ocean of reflec tion, observation, humor and philoso phy with Romeo and Juliet, and lo the ice is broken, the faint dawn of a mighty sunlight comes to the reader and his subsequent journey is from one island of verdue to an other. To inculcate a love of letters in early life, one must seek and find a loving introduction to books, and, once found, no jail is ap rison to the book lover, insomnia is robbed of hajf of its terrors, poverty can but mutter defeat in the conquest of a proud spirit, severe bereavement is soften ed with the images of heroic endur ance, which the cultivated imagina tion supplies, even death itself is met at the threshold with vivid recollec tion of those, who faced it with dis tinguished courage, or diagnosed Its terrors from the loftiest table lands of philosophy and revelation. Speaking of death, no one had had an easier departure from a world he adorned than our author. December 28, 1859, was the day, and a cold one, too. The orator, poet, historian, lawgiver, newly made baron, affection ate kinsman, noble patron of poor men of letters, was found apparently asleep in his chair with unfinished manuscript on the table beside him. Not a sound had been heard by careful watchers, there was no evi dence of the slightest struggle; the great heart had simply abrogated its functions, and the fine brain active so many years in manly work, but now robbed of its ally, must needs let the story of William of Orange remain unfinished. I have stometimes thought of the queer cosmopolitan company he must have encountered on the other styx, Barere, old, ugly and wizened, and Mr. Robert Montgomery, I am sure, ran away as soon as Macaulay’s boat landed; Milton restored to that glo rious beauty he possessed when sec retary to the Protector with Bunyan, the Pilgrim, must have ran forward to give the glad hand; Macchiavelli doubtless made an engagement for an interview; Hasting and Clive, arm in arm, with Meer Jaffler, Hyde Ali, Surajah Dowlah, Nuncomar and Sir Philip Francis, in the rear approach with mingled curiosity and good will while old Sam Johnson, still attend ed by Bozzy, and leading a com pany in which we recognize Burke^ Sheridan, Fanny Burney, and Mrs. Thrale is seen in the distance puff ing, snorting and trying to adjust her misplaced wig. There are others not all friendly by anj^ means but ap parently interested. Peele and O’Connel and Wilsdn Croker stand apart with pronounced scowls, while the whole race of Stuarts, the Charles and Jameses, with the wicked earle at their sides, are loud in indignation against the new company, and but for Red-Nosed Noll, rushing down to the wharf arid asking for news, would have caused a riot. His presence quieted them in- stanly. These be foolish thoughts unworthy of farther pursuit, but furnish an inkling of the vast ground Macaulay covered in a comparatively short life. Fellow of trinity, commissioner in bankruptcy, member of parliament, contesting with Brougham, the first place in the great victory for re form in 1832 lawgiver and educator in India, returning with a secured livelihood, again in parliament and in office, representative of great cit ies like Leeds and Edinburgh and all the while pouring forth -that wealth of learning, reminiscence, anal ysis, argument, eloquence with which the essays and the history are alive— at last honored by the queen with a peerage and by thie bookseller with a hundred thousand dollar check. AVhat a varied, pleasant, profitable highly honored life for this sturdy bachelor, who gave his sister and parents the affection most men be stow upon Chole or Arminta. As partly illustrative of the power 'ibo' so ?.-e ('a;:.' ■' ’"e ~ -‘S' the Pen: ■' a' - as i have ' ‘ i'e son ’iUueP(| ■ excep- nil. ■ i: whiip ' -y r :'hlTirr, „ r,f ■y no’. f ■Mrf}!.- ingi'- this dead sceptre wields ! opinion that the only , edge the average Anier;. upper life has of Incra. from the lives of Clive I-, ' that the same man's the inductive philosor:h from the essav of Ha-- knowledge of ' the gr, when those seeds werf , have sprung into s, • ■ growth in this side erty, with its attenda. blessings is derived fron, on Milton and other i in,v Macaulay's plan of v have been to go ovr: means of the essays ing events in the life o^* ; paratory to combining • a more fruitful and \ his gi’eat history and. ten years of life aV.i would have realized / The work lay on hij, ,, plete, only a 'torse, br- of Hercules. W^ith peculiar loving have read in the edition by his sister, Lad,\ Tr. ,. ; fragments of the tinfr i; of his hero, William Or; They equal the be^i work, free of ornamem. : , old virality and no les.-: ,.,j charm, which ever Born of so fanatical ai ii , ., Zachary Macaulay, oik looked for more radical!; . than he ever showed, , his. hatred of slavery rr tion. A whig of the whig.' ’ vanced beyond that scho ever the stern foe of s bigotry he v.anted thought and action for _ and the descendants of ;-.n ■ little caring whether th. world won those blessing Perhaps his observ-' id^ races had taught liim i day, at least, they werp of such valuable gift?. C and duties appeared to cast upon him. These he Other things, how^'vor they might have appealed sitive benevolent nature, n stepped aside that tht';>- iivi,;:: The story of Enginn,] Men- ihp Crusaders to the Crin^o^n war ?,:■ pealed to him and in iini-' H oi ibed his Avhole iniellectual f>Vi p Whoever had succeederi ir; ridv.^nr ing that dear realm in mlial moral? o- material welfare found in nim a doughty champion, wlicpvcr had caused the hand of prngrp-- tn stay its fashioning was his joe. ar.d he minced no Avords either in arivocaoy or denunciation. He angered the Qiiakpi>- hi told the true story of Wiir.-i . P'ur- he angered the church wli.n bo i!!, canonized Cragmer. but he ■ an d fi' - none of thc.se manifesta’I",.-. In- able in disposition. 1 thin:. Mio >t, signs of hatred to his 1:in(i : i i ■ found in all his letters m IrIo :o John W'ilson Croker and L. ’>1 liro - ham. The one sedulousiy srivoe tn bei!'- tle his reputation, the ''■ enviously to share it ih"- 'rh • Edinburgh Review. Both tailed in purpose nnd are gotten. All the world know? of Mn'-si- ilay’s wonderful memory f.iui i:n ■ power and charm in lablr : ■ was in his younger days r J ’Vv, chaperoned chiefly by T.ad-- and came from the ordeal, a-a'! M-= i- mony points out, wholly iinsDtalfi With so many claimp t'^ ticn, with so many lionn’-s her,;i"i upon him from youth to ap- it seems staggering to one- ^ tv'f’ ''.- ity to further claim for liii a on Parnassus, but le; ’rim wlni dciilbts read the story of the Bridge, without a ri.Mng the marriage of Tirzah ar i Fhlr-'!' without a tear and be ci>nvin'‘>'!l. Macan’ay was not a cv- - trf-.v- eler apart from his Tndin i- He knew Paris, of couiv:, :n'’ Rhine and Rome. He vi ' d ’’'f- land and Scotland poin'^ "la; " ’f' to be described in his hir he was a homebody, he ' ingle-nook and the play n- kinspeople. making vers' amusement withotn end. In religion he seems t> ' broadly Catholic, havins Shakespeare's religion, i what that was. He 1>::; church as a human not n ' ation, and his review of - tory of the Popes affor i: an insight as to what i"- i- such subjects as can be f' works. He ever distinguished o spirit of Christianity and and, despite the ajtpa’'"'ti record to the contrary. ^ that in every crisis the ' Founder had shown on i - liberty and right, in?'.': Hugeunots in France, the ^ gle in Holland again:-: * Second, the wars of P ' English struggle again si ' He w^as decorous in nil religion especially so. In person he seems tn about such a man in / George Winston. His habit perate, but not obstemi" lieved with all his sor- could not be made moral by legal enactments, h ning the framing or framers. He thought the purpose: ernment to be extremel.- range towit, merely . the of the health, lives and P* the governed with the por tion of their elementary but no step further would . Their thoughts must be ; talk free, save where a/, injured, when the courts '' redress, their writing free ship, their religion v.hate might choose it to be, th- solutely free, and prot* against home or foreign ji! almost sided with Mr. Jfi thinking that the best ? was that, which goven; It is a thousand pities th^' common sense of this horn losophy is lost in the ma the Octopus and in the ut- tion of coipmuniiy self he!i ’■d 'he “Ignorance is bliss,” say ney Ledger and it ought to Greenville Piedmont. >
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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March 19, 1911, edition 1
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