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i,if! i ' Ifiii' jpH jrfmY-tfffUfiB i'i I ill E - g. CO m 2 & w s S3 p -i CD c-t- O h-h CD O w O S eg S x 3 & Cu.5 4. This Argus o'or the people's -rig-htn, Doth an eternal vigil keep ' No soothing strains oi Maia's sun, Can lull its hundred eyes to sleep' Vol. XVI. GOLDSBORO; N. C.. THURSDAY JUL Y 12 1894. KG. BO if : ? 4 i 1 '1 . 'it '--9 ." - 'I i n 1 FORGOTTEN. Ah, i me! there was a time, long, long ago, When joy and pride Filled to the brim a beating heart, As tender eyed A maid most sweet with timid feet Would wander on, Content to bo where'er thou wort. And rest upon Thy heaving bosom as it told It's tale of love, No witness there the truth to prove. But stars above, And shadowy woods and rippling stream, And cooing dove. Ah. little dove, didst thou but know As to thy nest Thou and thy mate were flying fast, Sweetly to rest, "What the drear future could disclose. Thou wouldst mourn on, And ever morn through day and night With sadder tone. And rippling stream ' thy noto would change To sorrow's wail. And faster wouldst thou How o'er rocky bed, Through wooded dale Till thou did'st reach the ocean wild and wide, And then wouldst pour Thy sorrows in her lap. and she with thee Forever more. Would weep and weep, and the wild and wider be Throughoht eternity. Oh, shadowy wood! the trusting place Where heart to heart They soon would part, Thou wouldst be sad, thy willows weep. And sadness steal Into thy heart, forevermoie to brood. Until all space Was filled with gloomy shadows dark as night, And every race So stilled with the thickness of the gloom That ali would die; Dnt then the awful shadows m jving on Towards the sky Would oven blot out sun and moon and stars. So that no light Could ever shine on the sad world again But endless night. In awful mystic silence there would reign I-.il v Tellers Ilodgers. Printers Peculiarities. A printer don't rush to a doc tor every time he is out of sorts Nor to a bakery when he wants pi, nor to the woodpile when h wants a stick. Nor to the Bible when he wants a good rule. Nor to the gunsmith when he wants a shooting-stick. Nor to the cabinet shop when he wants furniture. Nor to the bank when he wants nuoins. Nor to the girls when he wants a press Nor to the lawyers when he has a dirty case. Nor to - the butcher when he wants phat. Nor t) the pump when he is dry and has ten cents 111 his pocket. Ex. An Appeal to the Public. There lie buried in various parts of battlefield of Bentonsville, N. C. quite a number of Confcder ate dead, who fell in battle at that place and others are buried near by who died from their wounds. The U. S. Government have removed all those who fell on the Union side, and it is the desire of the Goldsboro Rifles to remove the Confederate dead who are scattered throughout the battle field, and which has since grown up with trees and bushes, to some suitable place near the line of battle and erect a monument to mark their last resting place. The cost of the undertaking will be very heavy on account of nearest distance to railroad being 17 miles, and the undertaking without outside assistance, can not be accomplished. We, the committee, appointed by the Rifles, do most respect fully call upon all those who fee disposed to aid in this worthy cause for contributions, assurm them that all donations of money. or any article of merchandise no matter how small the value will be gratefully appreciated. Contributions can be sent to any member of the committee receipt of same will be duly ac knowledged. Very respectfully, Committee, goldsboro rifles. Capt. T. H. Bain, Lieut. John W. Gulick, Sgt. J. K. Crnmn Corp. Thos. Hill, Private Jos. E Kobinson, Private ri. A. Ureecn RESERVE CORPS: I. F. Dortch, Maj. W. T. Hoi lowell, Capt. W. T. Dortch, J no W. .Edwards, J. JVi. Jt'owen. VETERAN CORPS: Henry Lee. B. M. Privett, Capt. T. W. Slocumb. Dr. W. H. 11. Uobb, Capt. S. D. Phillips. The Perfume of Violets The irarity of the lily, the trlow of the rose and the flush of Hebe combine in Pozzoni's wondrous rojd:r. THE SUMMER SCHOOL. What an Observant Icachcr Thinks of the People at Chapel Hill, and the Work They are Doing. Editor Argus : One coming to Chapel Hill, as did to-day, knowing nothing of what is being done at the Uni versity bummer School for Teachers, will be agreeably sur prised to find such a large gath ering oi teachers ana otner peo- ile of culture; and will be in fected at once with the spirit of study that pervades the atmos phere of this cool, green, quiet spot. There is more intellectual activity to-day in Chapel Hill than anywhere Carolina. For else m North here a goodly leading teachers number of the of the State men and women are gathered together for study and mutual improvement. My excuse for asking space m your paper ior tnis loner is. that many teachers, 111 our Graded School, and others, have ome to me for information con erning the University Summer School. It has been impossible to tell definitely, before the school began, what would be the work in each department. But the school opened JHonday, the teachers have got down to busi ness, and I wished to come, see for myself who are here, what is being done, and through the Argus tell the teachers of our part of the State and any other interested persons. For I would advise all who expect to teach, is avcII as actual teachers, to come to this school, if they can lossibly afford it. Indeed I should say that lew teachers that have not had the advantage of collegiate education and normal instruction, can afford to stay away. This school has the best xaculty of any normal school ever m North Carolina. The following schedule of daily exorcises will show the faculty and what is being taught. The chapel and recitation rooms of the Univer sitv are used, so that several ecitations may be conducted at the same time: . 8:15 Prayers in the Chapel. 8:30 Elementary Latin, by the inductive method, Miss Pool, Ral- ie:h Graded School; Primary Work, Miss Fulghum, Goldsboro Graded School ; Anglo-Saxon, Dr. C. Alphouso Smith; Algebra, ?rof. Gore, University of North Carolina. 9:15 History of Education Methods, Prof. Alderman, Uni versity of North Carolina; Ger man, Prof. Toy, University oi North Carolina. 10:00 History and Civics, Dr. K. P. Battle, University of North Carolina; French, Prof. Toy, University of North Carolina; Geometry, Prof.. Cain, Univer sity of North Carolina. 10:4o-ll :lo Conference Period and Recess. 11 :lo Hiducational t'syehology and Methods, Prof. Claxton, State Normal and Industrial School; Elemeutary Greek, Dr. W. J. Battle, University of Texas. 12:00 Physical Geography, Prof. Bryant, State Normal and Industrial School; Arithmetic, Superintendent Noble, Wilming ton Graded School. 11:45 Botany, Prof. Bryant, Normal and Industrial School; Lauguage Work and Grammar, Superintendent Graham, Char lotte uraaea School; wirgils Eneid, Dr. W. J. Battle, Uni versity of Texas. 8:20 t:. m. Public Eicctures m Chapel. Besides the teachers above named, I have met the following ladies and gentlemen here: Misses Louisia Hill, of Goldsboro, and Chorlotte Bush, from the Wil mington City Schools; Mabel Hale and Kate Lawrence, of the faculty of the Raleigh City Schools; from Fayetteville and vicinity, Misses Devane, Eliza beth and Mary Evans, Marion Mallett, Kate Fairley; Misses Mary and Annie Dey, of Norfolk, Va.. nieces of Prof. Toy; Mamie Cox, Greenville; Elizabeth Hil- liard, Granville Institute, and Cora Jenkins, of Oxford; Fannie Yarborough, Louisburg;' Berta Lee, of Mocksville, assistant in the State Normal and Industrial School; Bessie Whitaker, Ral eigh; Superintendent Toms, Dur ham City Schools; Superinten dent Overman, Salisbury City Schools; Messsrs. E.P. Mangum, J. I. Foust and E. E. Britton Several families are spending the summer here, among them, those of Judge Shepherd and Hon F. M. Simmons. Dr. Manmn tells me he has 32 students in the summer law school. I have not seen the registrar to get the ex act enrollment oi the summer school for teachers. Prof. Al derman thinks that there are about 75, and he hasa-eason to feel gratified at the compete sue cess, at the very beginning, of this new departure. For these seventy-five young ' j men and women have- come .here for the purpose of prof esf ional advance merit. The enthusiasm, shown, in their conversation and glow ing on their countenance, is in spiriting. And though they evi dently are enjoying the work here, yet pleasure is a secondary object with them. I attended this afternoon the recitation in English, conducted by Dr. Smith. I counted some thing over" forty students in the room. They were studing Shake speares "King Richard III." It was not merely a lecture by Dr. Smith, but a recitation in which the whole class participated, and one could see frotnthe answers to his questions that they had studied the lesson. I found that Dr. Smith had talked to thenij about the proposition of rhyme j ank blank-verso in different dramas of Shakespeare, end stopt and run on lines, feminine endings and the effect such things l ave in determining the chrono logy of the play. ; When I entered they were considering the whole play of "Richard III" as a work of art. Dr. Smith was illustrat ing by means of a unique diagram on the black-board the introduc tion, rise of action, crisis, de cline'of action, and conclusion of the play. He stated that usually the crisis comes early in Shake speare's dramas, but in "Rich ard III" the action is a long time in reaching up to it. After dis cussing what is meant by these divisions of a drama, he gave the class the task of determining for the morrow's lesson just where in "Richard III" each division began. He gave the crisis himself as marked by the crowning of Richard, and ending when Richmond began to arm. For a short while Dr. Smith discussed the value of different editions of Shakespeare, and recommended for classes a series published by McMillan & Co. It was in this recitation room (the one used by Dr. Hume, second floor, old East Build ing, north entrance) that I met most oi the teachers whom have named above. I have given this outline of an English recitation to .illustrate the aca demic work being done here. Dr. Smith's method is also full of suggestions to teachers of literature, and Superintendent Graham, of Charlotte, devotes his time especially to the consid eration of how to teach language in schools. The classes. of Prof. Alderman and Professor Claxton in the history and philosophy of education and methods of teach ing are largely attended. One of the most popular classes here is- that of Miss Fulghum of Goldsboro Graded School faculty, whose subject is the teaching of primary reading, Miss Fulghum has a class of fourteen small boys and girls that have never been to school before. She teaches these every day in the presence or a large number of teachers who wish to learn her method and the princi ples underlying it. These chil dren are learning to read by the word method supplemented by the phonic. There is no better class in the school in its practi cal value to primary teachers Miss Fulghum is able, with her class of children, to illustrate the principles she advances. She also shows how orawrag can be made of great use to a teacher in all clasess. As ar citizen of Goldsboro. it is a source of pride to me to note the good impres sion oee of our city school teach ers has already made upon the faculty and students of the sum mer school. The greatest ml est is manifested in her work, many mothers in the village at tending her classes. A feature of the school de serving or notice is tne comer ence at noon. This is a time for the discussion of any subject teachers may bring up, and for answering questions of methods discipline, etc. To-morrow the subject will be the recitation what a recitation should be and what it should not be, how it should be conducted. ; s : The school will- last four, weeks from July 2. The tuition fee is five dollars. Board costs at Chapel Hill about fifteen dollars a month. I believe it will profit a teacner mucn to attend even half the session, if no more. 4 As one bright young woman, who is ambitious, but had never enjoyed the advantages of mg scholastic education, remarked to me: "It is an inspiration just to meet these professor; here, and hear them talk. wrote .to M. to come, I told her it would do her good to be in be in Chapel Hill, if she did not study a bit." I think so myself; and to prove my faith, although I came here for only a short visit of inspec tion, l have resolvea, as soon as I can attend to a few matters! of business in Goldsboro, to return next week to "Chapel Hill, and remain during the session of -.the summer school Logan D. Howell. Chapel Iim.'p. July 5. , t PROF. ALDERMAN'S ADDRESS. Mr. Alderman said: : ? 'There is no higher duty devolving on faithful States than to preserve freshly the memory of their great events and their noble men. And it is not simply a duty.. It is a condition of national i greatness and the sumblimest evidence, of moral energy latent in demo- ratic communities. The most plcndid manifestation of the awakening of historical self re spect in North Carolina, and of new-born pride m her heroic past, is this scene before our eyes these earnest, upturned aces, with the unspoken music of liberty on their lips; this ovcly: landscape filled with the glory of mid-summer; these vo- lve stones crowning hill-top and lley, marking the rescue of a great American battle-field from the silent forest; this transfor mation, by patriotic energy, of i unkempt wilderness into a grand Pantheon for our honored dead, more impressive than the marble memorials of Rome or ranee, because its roof is the arch of the sky and its pillars these stately oaks sweeping the pper air. 'It is no slignt thing to have such a spot as this in the borders of a State. 'Here our fathers dared to die that we, their children, might be free. "The majestic charm which in ests the Marathons and Water- loos and Yorktowns ali spots where human freedom has made stand is beginning to settle over this lovely plain where our embattled iarmers stood. Here tofore the theme of this great day has been some brave North Carolinian who illustrated her valor in arms. To-day, for the first time, wo meet to tell the story of a civic hero, to witness the inauguration of a monument to him and his colleagues, and to account faithfully the life and character of one whose clear, bold signature to the Declaration of Independence writes the name of Win. Hooper where all nations may behold it and all time cannot efface it. . THE IIOOPKll FAMILY. "The Hooper family is an an eient and honorable one in Eng- sh and Scotch annals. The founder of the American branch of th? family was the Rev. .Wm Hooper, of Boston, for twenty years pastor of Trinity church vm. nooper, wnose me is our theme, was the eldest sou and child of this brave old Scotch minister, and was born in Boston, June 17, 1742. "In the fall of 1767 when liber ty was flaming like a beacon over the land, Hooper came to North Carolina to make his permanent home, lie was m his 2oth vear. graduate or Harvard, thrulm with the eloquence of Otis and Samuel Adams, happy in the choice of his new home, blessed with youth and vigor in the brilliant dawn of a revolutionary era. NOKTII CAKOLINA AS WILLIAM HOOPEtl FOUND IT. 'North Carolina had known one hundred years oi stormy political ; existence at this time, Two hundred and fifty thousand people occtipied the territory be tween the Cape Fear, the Chowan and the Catawba and Yadkin. It was a composite population em bracing the strongest strains of many stocks and uniting every type of race character in North ern and Western Europe Teu ton, Celt, Saxon. "Many scholarly men like John Fiske, James Gilmore and Henry Cabot Lodge have sneered at and be-littled the first century of North Carolina history. They will have to bear m days to come the reproach of having missed the thread of political develop ment in the freest Commonwealth in North America. The key to North Carolina character in this inchoate period is the subordi nation of everything materia prosperity; personal ease, finan cial development to the remorse less assertion of the sacredness of chartered rights against the insolent encroachment - of the carbet-bag pro-consuls of the royal and proijrietary govern ments. "Somethinjr of the ' frenzied oerseker rasre and wild, dauntless individuality of their barbarian forefathers shouting along the frontiers of imperil Rome mani rested itseli in the ruthless ease with which the early Carolinians arose and set aside a tyrannical ruler, laughed in his baffled face and accounted the threat and the mutterings of his master across the seas as of no .more .import than the plaints of a ballad singer. If in their remotness and isolation our ancestors ever stayed into lawlessness, it was the light struck from isolated law by the mailed hand of op pression that led them astray, "After six years residence in the colony Hooper entered pub lie life in 1773, and for ten years there was no step taken in the great movements of the day in whieh'ho did not take a foremost 1 art. . - X- ' ' 'The two years intervening be tween August 25th, 1775, and December 18th, 1770, is the epic period of our life, revealing the furious energy latent in a quiet people, and setting forth the dear, old Commonwealth clad in more heroic garb than she has ever worn, save, perhaps, a cen tury later, when the seeds of dis union sown by ancestral coward ice jn the national constitution had blossomed into the blood-red flower of War and she turned aside from the safe middle paths of dignity and peace she loves so well to tread and wrought like an unwearying giant to stay the tury ot civil strife. HOOPEIl AMONG THE COUNSEL LORS OF THE STATE. "Five Provincial Congresses called by her citizens met within her borders in these eventful years. In all of them Wm. Hooper was a constructive, po tent influence. Unmoved by con siderations of personal gain or loss, with , British fleets hover ing off her coast and rebellious iries gathering their clans for battle in her very heart, the men of Carolina with serene and patient wisdom guided the State through the successive stages of self defense, -rebellion, provin cial government and statehood. There was haste a plenty, but no confusion, no anarchy, nor law- essness. Coolly, calmly, swiftly, they set their house in order for war with the mightiest empire on earth their motherland; crushed with quick and terrible promptitude rebellion in their own limits, and yet maintained inyiolate the id dominance and sacredness of civil law. No de tail of administration escaped their notice, no adjustment of power to liberty remained un guarded, no question of human rights was undiscussed. With the steadiness and precision of egal forms they chased a fleeing Governor from his palace and with sublime satire ascribed the legislative silence to his en forced absence. "Troops were raised, money emitted, a State created with de liberate, circumspect dignity m the short space of" -twenty days. Nor is this the full recital of the achievements . of these civic giants in the American back woods. They rejected prema turo Franklin confederations, de clared first of all American colo nies, both in impetuous Meek lenburg and in open assembly at Halifax, April la, Lo, for lm mediate independence, ordained with splendid sagacity a Univer sity for the education of their posterity, and formulated amid the hot clash of diverse ideas constitution able to bear for sixty years the steady strain of Democratic institutions. No epi cal exaggeration can accentuate this recital. THE FRIENDSHIP OF IREDELL AND HOOPER. "There is nothing lovlier m our history than the friendship of Iredell and Hooper. Well-born, scholarly, single-minded, law yers from love of it, they stood for all m all to each other m an isolated country snd in a rude age. nappy in eacn others compauy, on horseback ' on in stick gigs they traversed the, new State from Salisbury to Wilmington. 'Life is sup portable, when Hooper is with me,' says Iredell. Together they faced, the bad inns, crowded quarters, wrangling attorneys, choleric judges and suspicious clients. "In their long journeys they discussed the great principles of government, the future of the new nation struggling into life, or bemoaned the fatuity of the Dem ocratic spirit which just then was beginning to sweep with lawless force across the face of society, In their enforced absences they poured out their . souls to each other in a correspondence which mirrors the life of the time and srives structure and colof to an otherwise formless epoch. "In alternate labor and illness cheered bv his heroic wife, the two years passed on and on Mon dav nurht. October. H. 1yo, m his 48th y?ar, on the day preced mg the date fixed for the mar riageof his only daughter, his life goes out in unspeakable gloom and sadness. For one hundred and four years he has slept in the quiet church -yard at the ancient capital of llillsboro Now he sleeps here on thG field where the srreat Declaration was translated by - valor into fact. cared fof reverent patriotism and immortal with his brothers in civic and martial fame. HOOPER AS A MAN. : " ."Let me not conclude without speaking of Mr. Jlooper as a man. - JNo more fascmatinar and ourtly figure graces the life of our simple, earnest past. His slight, fragile form, his serene, beautiful face, wherein is blended masculine strength and womanly sweetness 'a face that painters love to limn and ladies to lqok upon' stands out like some finely wrought cameo against a back- gaound of chaos and revolution. In his letters we catch a glimpse of the ceremoniousness. the sleepless deference, the delicate lunctulo of an unhurrymg age; in his' merry-makings we seem to reproduce the stately minuette, the vanished dz'aperies, thi per sonal royalty expressing itself in stately ..dignity of a time for- ver gone. He was a tender, sensitive, loyal, happy gentle man; a fearless, forceful, vigorous-minded cttizen; a great ora tor, a great lawyer. He loved his friends and was by them be- oved. 1 do not fancy he .was ever very popular. 1 tear he could be cold and disdainful at times, and his graces and gifts set him somewhat apart. The great popular leader is the peo ple incarnate. In him the peo ple see themselves, their weak ness their prejudices, their limi tations, their strength, their vir tues, their aspirations, gifted, glorified, lifted up. The sight of such a man thrills and fascinates the multitude. He soothes their vanity, he touches their loftier life; ho quickens their dull senses and wakes to life their slumbering ambitions. Swift, resistless, chords of sym pathy and love bind together the hushed throng and their articu- ate voice, and his name is in stinct with magic power forever. When he dies the little children cry in the streets, and around firesides his history is told, and to future generations the spell of us name lingers. Hooper was not such a man. The age so how did not breed them. He oved the peeple of his State and was willing to spend himself m their service, but ho was res tive under criticism, resentful of distrust, unbinding in opinion He had that proud faith in fam ily and breeding which, though it hindered him from seeing the splendid justice of Democracy, taught him perfect self-respect and kept him undegenerate and free from baseness. 'The age in which Hooper played his part will always be m vested with a peculiar and heroic grandeur. It gwas an age of ideas, of moral earnestness, of unpurchasable integrity, of faith in God. It was a critical, inquir ing age, seeking to find out and formulate the sum of human rignts, and to incorporate them into the framework of State. The men of the time did their work with conscientious thor oughness, but happily there is no exclusive epoch of unselfish, pa triotic service. Though a bril liant century of intellectual au dacity has swept the world into a raiider day, there is still work for men to do; not so thrilling and dramatic, perhas, but no less vital and far-reaching. The founders discoveied, defined and inaugurated. It is ours to inter pret, to administer, to perpetu ate. They set the child Self- Governmert, timorous and cow ering, m the midst oi nations. It is ours to guard and direct and restrain the boundless strength of that same child, groi into noble and puissant stature, with continents for his throne. Wher ever party spirit shall set its de crees above the ancient guaran tees of freedom, wherever cor ruption shall seek to weaken national vigor, wherever intol erance and ignorance shall dom inate free thought and enlight enment, there we may engage in highest patriotic warfare. "The great army of humanity marching up to higher things, kept step to the music of their passionate outcries of liberty, freedom and equality. It is ours, in the land wherein these cries are facts of life and law, to teach the beauty of peace, the education of all men and the majesty of .republican citizen ship. "And now my task is done. God-like and famous forever among - men are founders of States. So thought and said the great Roman orator, as he gazed upon tfee .marble beauty of the i m norisil ! o t rl V Hoooer. Harve v. Caswell, Jones, Ashe," Iredell and their co-laborers- wero State builders. Their passions, their purposes, their convictions, their dreams are inolten in the f ram and model of North Carolina. Let us hope and believe that their spirits hovering upon some mount of faith. "see it , to-day be neaththis summer sun a shining stretch of Jbright waters, golden harvestrfields, teeming-orchards and - happy homes a steadfast Commonwealth girt about with beneficent-laws and institutions, ministered to by the love and wisdom of a , free and undegen eratci posterity stainless still in honor, fruitful still inv noble J deeds.'.' I - m GUILFORD BATTLEFIELD. How the Glorious Fourth was Cel ebrated on This Historic Field A Day of Speech-Making LV our Special Corr'SOiPli'iit. Greensboro, July 4. Patriotism took on new life to-day at the battle-ground of Guilford Court House. The so ciety, of which Judge Schenck is President, that owns this battle-ground, has converted it into a park, and is filling it wivh monuments in honor of Revolu tionary heroes. Tncrc are eight of these monuments and to-day was laid the corner-stone ox one over the grave of William Hooper, one oi tne three signers ot the National Declaration of Indepen dence from North Carolina. Hooper now sleeps on the battle- iTil liic vrmi 'line limrinrr Vkr-v f , L W lf.-LJ.VAfj lliO Vyl-lltllll.J J.J.UJ V Hi.-, MlV.11 removed here from Hillsboro a few months ago. This morning, on an early train from Washington, came Vice President Stevenson with two daughters aud his niece, Miss Scott. They were met by a local committee of ladies and gentle men, and were tendered a recep tion at the Benbow House. The site of the battle-field, where Cornwallls made his last stand against preene bofore re treating behind his fortifications at Yorktown, is six miles from Greensboro, on the C. F. & Y. V. R. R. , towards Mount Airy. Trains were run every half hour to-day and carried five or six hun dred passengers every trip. The crowd at the battle-ground was variously estimated at from five to ten thousand. The Marshals wero conspicuous in three-cornered hats and Continental uni forms. A brass band from Wins ton played national airs, and a choir of young ladies sang the words of "America," 'Hail Co lumbia," "Carolina." and other songs. The gathering was not confined to Guilford, or oven to the surrounding counties. The chief attraction of exercises was the oration Prof. E. A. Alderman, of University, on the "Life tho by .'the and The Times of William Hooper subject was scholarly and histori cal, rather than a popular one; and with masterly scholarship and with exhaustive research did Prof. Alderman handle it; yet. with his inimitable oratorical charm, it was no mere elegant historical essay Prof. Alderman's large audience heard to-day, and so elegant was his diction, so charming his delivery, and so sympathetic his treatment, that the orator was repeatedly inter rupted with applause. It is suffi cient tribute to his powers as an ; orator, to say that Prof. Alder man on a hot day, wTith a subject that would ordinarily be deemed dry, held the close attention - of his audience, and sustained their evident interest for one hour and a half. He drew a graphic picture of the times of Hooper, which he called "the epic period of our history." He gave the ancestry of Hooper, his early life, course at Harvard College, career as a lawyer, and service as a statesman. He illustrated the beautiful friendship between Hooper and Iredell by quotations from their letters. He quoted also from other contemporaries, tes tifying to Hooper's mental great ness, sterling character and true patriotism. In particular, John Addms bestows great praise upon him, speaking of Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, and William Hooper as the orators of the Congress. It is impossible to do justice to Prof. Alderman's address by any outline. It will be published in full,, in pamphlet form. At the close of Prof. Alder man's oration, a poem written by Mrs. H. C. Martin, of Greens boro, entitled "The Sword of Stuart," was read by President Chrales D. Mclver. Lieutenant Col. Stuart, of the British array, was killed at the battle of Guil ford Court House, and his sword is in the museum on the battle ground. It is hoped this poem will also soon be published. Vice-President Stevenson was next introduced to the audience by Mayor Boyd, of Greensboro, who was master of ceremonies. It was some time before he could be heard for the continued ap plause. Mr. Stevenson spoke lor fifteen minutes. He increased the respect - and admiration that orth Carolinians have for him. e referred to his descent from North Carolina settlers in Ken tucky and Illinois, and he claimed the share of a son in the revolu tionary glory of this State. He also is a descendant of the men who connected the name of Char lotte with Runnymede, and made Mecklenburg immortal. He spoke of the influence of the Stat, of North Carolina for nationa independence. But Mr.. Steven son's speech was nct mere con gratulation for the past. That, he said, is secure. In kindly words he exhorted North Carolinians to look to their future. This State is abundantly blessed of nature. He believes it is enter- ' ing upon a wonderful career of material prosperity. But this must not be all. We must ad vance also the cause of education, religion and charity. It is an honor to this State that her asy lums wrere established, her school system revived at a time of pov erty, depression and disaster. With words of wisdom and elo quence Mr. Stevenson called upon the sons of the men of King's Mountain and Guil ford Court House to remain true to our common country; the nag which is the emblem of lib erty, to maintain peace and the majesty of the law. The crowd was in a speech hearing humor, and in response to the" calls of the people, remarks wero made by Judge Chas. Simonton, oi South Carolina, of the Federal cour; S. Witt kowsky, of Charlotte; Judge Shepherd, Col. Jno. R. Webster. of Roidsville; Dr. K. P. Battle, of the University; Mr. R. II. Battle, of Raleigh; Judge R. P. Dick, of Greensboro, and Judge Schenck. These gentlemen, besides ex pressing sentiments of patriot ism, took occasion to thank Judge Schenck for the service he is rendering the State in inspir ing a love of our noble history and patriotism, and congratu lated Prof. Alderman upon his oration. Judge Shepherd re ferred to it as "tho magnificent address of Prof. Alderman. He has not only done a valuable his torical work," said Judge Step herd, "but ho has established himself as one of the very first orators of this country." Mr. R. H. Battle said that in all his ex perience he had never hoard a more ornate, scholarly oration from any North Carolinian. These tributes to Prof. Alder man were uttered publicly. Vice-President Stevenson also said in private conversation: "I have heard a great many ora tions, but I have not heard one in years that equalled the per formance of that young man to day. In thought and in elegant diction it was superb. I have ' never heard such a perfect organ of a voice that could maintain its purity of tone for an hour and a half without breaking." A pleasing incident of the day was the in-csentation of a souve nir spoon to Prof. Alderman and one to Dr. Battle in recognition of their service to the State in teaching its history. That given to Prof. Aldeiman is an exact Jar sun tic of the spoon used by George Washington as a cream spoon. Certain ladies presented Dr. Battle with a handsome sil ver tea spoon, electro-plated with gold, and handle inlaid in red, white and blue. This is in spe cial acknowledgement to Dr. Bat tle for his tribute last year at tho Guilford Battle Ground celebra tion to the women of the Revolu tion. This afternoon a base ball game between Greensboro and Charlotte was won by the latter team, score 0 to 4. Interesting bicycle races were also hold, Mr. Geo. Adams, of Florida, winning the honors. This evening at the Benbow House, a reception was held in honor of VicOiPresident Steven son, the Misses Stevenson and Miss Scott. These guests of honor had to leave on the 11 o'clock train, but the youug peo ple of G reensboro and neighbor ing towns drew out the evening to a kvte hour with a very cu joyabkVttance. SCATTERED ROSES. A little maiden strayed one day Where roses bloomed along the Ledges, Where dancing daisies decked the way, Aud ferns peeped out from mossy sedges. "; She heaped her little wooden cart With the bright blooms to over flowing, Then turned to go, her little heart Unconscious where her feet were going. A hillside lay along before, With every step the child ascend ed. She spilled her roses more and more Till all were gone, and day was ended. And when the maiden came not back Came anxious loved ones out to find her -And traced her by the rosy track Of all the flowers she left bebiud her. Our little maiden grows in grace, Her path along life's highway t leading. Her still ascending feet we trace By flowers she droppcth, still Ain- heeding. Detroit Free Tresfi. I! 15 0 it If. " tt I I V i) , it V I I it n . I- v- i f i i 1 f : 1 i ! 1 I
Goldsboro Weekly Argus (Goldsboro, N.C.)
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July 12, 1894, edition 1
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