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By, P. M. HALE. ADVERTISING BATES. N OFFICE : Advertisements will be inserted for One. Dollar per square (one inch jifor the first and Fifty Cents for each subsequent publication. Contracts for advertising for any space or time may be made at the office of the RALEIGH REGISTER, Second Floor of FUher Building, Fayetjeville Street, next t Market House. Favetteville St., Second Floor Fisher Building. tlATB OF sfcttSCRIPTION: One eopj one year, mailed post-paid . .. . . .$2 00 One Copy six month, mailed post-paid.. . , 1 00 ZW No name enteredjrtQiout payment, and no paper sent after expiration of time paid for. VOL. -1. RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1884. NO. 12. H4HVE FROBI CAJIMWKKTlNe. Julin Henry Boner. The moon shone white along the road, The summer night was still, f And the morning star like a torchlight glowed From the top of Three Oak Hill. The meadow grasses fed the air ' ' With a scent delleiou&ly fine, A nd the spider spun his gossamer snare Fiotri the blackjack tree to the pine. Thousands of insects faintly sung In the warmth of the1 summer night, The bat flew low, and the great owl swung . Like a bell in the mystic light. The ripe corn rustled its yellow blade, . The fleld-poppies woke from then swoon, And the leaves of the wild grape lightly played In the rays of the rising moon. i Down the road at a leisure pace Rode Pete on his aged mare, Whose clumsy feet left a little trace Of dust in the silvery air; The leather reins were dropped, and hung On the saddle-horn, and a song Strangely pathetic the negro sung As his piebald cantered along. . , The tune was queer and the words were odd, But the mush tilled the night, ' As he sung of the wonderful love of (Jod And the shining robe of white. 1 His black face turned to the starry sky : Reflected stars in tears, Fiir Pete: was happy with seer's eye ;He saw beyond the years. ; - '. ": . ; Pete wasaffreaeher old and gray, He preached, when he was a slave, And be preached at the dawn of freedom's day, I" De Lord has power to save." And many a preacher talking to-day jAbout the heavenly goal Had better go to bis closet and pray For the faith of that African's soul. DAVIDSON! YOUNG MEN OF NORTH CAROLINA. Theodore Fulton Davldaon. ! Each successive generation looks with dismay at the passsing away of the great names that have illustrated it; names so associated -with honors, with: public ser vice, with personal worth, that they stand ont -resplendent luminaries against the dull ; background of commonplace humanity; names that arc the guides in counsel, the rallying points for liberty, the lights of sckial life; and their extinguishment calls I for the mournful sigh, "We ne'er shall i hick upon their like again." J Through all time-there has been this ap prehension of the generations of men when their leaders fell and when, their guides were taken away ; yet this apprehension is never completely realized. It happens in human history that centuries, very often far apart, are illustrated by some prodigy of valor, of generalship, of eloquence, of pbetic genius, of excellence in art, that lifts them far above and beyond the reach of ambitious emulation. These stand alone, apd will stand alone, through all timefc without equals or rivals, set up as the ex amples of the intellectual gift imparted to the human race, which, in a future stage - of existence, may be the common property of all. But in dealing with the race gen erally. Nature is just and generous and equable, and sustains with equal average tie fair allotment of gifts and talents; and iii each generation arise the men whose career will be distinguished by such acts of public service as will attract to them their fill II share of popular admiration and confi dence ; placing them in their turn in the at titude of leaders and guides, and bringing round, in their turn, when they pass away, the inevitable lamentation and despair. ! For the successors of those who have commanded the reverent respect , of the public, or of those whose1 career must soon 1 lie. brought to a close by the inexorable niritrrh of Time, the eye turns to the young men of the day; and among those most signally endowed with the gifts of intellect, and who have improved those gifts by as siduous cultivation, and who have adorned their gifts with moral worth and social graces, will be found those who are to . lead, those .who are to direct public liffairs, those who are to animate in time (jf public troubles, those who are to cjheer in times of public calamity, and -tfeoKe. moreovei, who are to adorn so tin 1 life and demonstrate that public inter ests are best advanced by high social lirtues. ! Among those whose promise to shine in all these varied qualities is the subject of this sketch. i Mr. Davidson is the-son of Colonel Allen T. Davidson, now a prominont lawyer of --Buncombe county, a member of the first Confederate; Congress. He was born in 'Haywood cbunty in, the year 1843. In earlv infancy his parents removed to Cher okee county, where they -remained until the beginning of the war, the subject of this sketch in the m&ntime having been sent to the school of Colonel Lee at Ashe- yille. where he received all the scholastic training he ever enjoyed. It hadbeen re solved by the father that his son Theodore should enter the Navy, and he held an ap pointment to the Naval Academy at An napolis. But meanwhile the! war broke out, and with youthful enthusiasm he joined a company "raised in Buncombe, the first company from west of the Blue Ridge, and went to the field, his company being at tached to the First (or Bethel) Regiment He was afterwards transferred to the Thirty-ninth, of which Colonel David Coleman had the command. In 1863 he was placed on the staff of General Robert B. Vance, where he remained until the war closed. After the close of the war Mr. Davidson upplied himself to the study of the law, and was admitted to .practice in 1867. His rise was steady, if not rapid; though, measured bv the flight of years, it may be culled sufficiently rapid, in view of the reputation so early acquired. Ardent in bis' nature, pronounced inhis opinions, it was unavoidable that Mr. Davidson should take a very pronounced stand in politics. The condition of the country permitted of no neutrality. Mr. Davidson was too brave and candid a man to covet obscurity, -mid he ranged himself as one of the bold- -. ,t r.f those who knew the Democratic iparty, to be successful, must be aggressive. rHe developed noted qualities for, leader ship, and in his capacity of chairman of the Democratic .Executive wjuiiuiuro w Buncomlxs county, which positidn, he held for eight years, he did more to create and perfect a thorough local organization of the parfy than had been before, or has since been attained. He was-also, as his capacities liecame more largely known and recognized, for six years the chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of the Eighth (now the Ninth) Congressional District. It was not possible that a .man so thor oughly equipped with all th armor and weapons of political service would be long excluded from the public councils of the State,; and accordingly Mr. Davidson was sent in 1879 to represent the Fortieth Dis trict in the State Senate and was returned in 1884. His services in that body were eminently great and useful to his section and to the whole State. He was placed on several committees in the session of 1879, being chairman of the Committee on Corporations, and a member of the Com mittee . on the Judiciary and of Internal Improvements. In 1881 his legal reputa tion and his sound judgment pointed him out as worthy of higher honors, and he was made chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, admitted to be the most im portant and responsible committee ' in either House ; at the same session he was also a member of other committees. Profoundly impressed with the necessity of such railroad legislation as would hasten to its completion the great work of tnc Western North Carolina Railroad, begun aupiciously years before, but halting and embarrassed by renewed succession of dif ficulties ; and also with enlarged and lib eral views to the relief and advancement of the interests of the whole State, her gave ardent attention and untiring industry to such propositions as involved the' comple tion of the "Western North Carolina Rail road. In his professional Character, he gave able legislative aid to such wise and important questions, as improvement in the law of evidence and practice, to the codi fication of the laws, to the creation of a railroad commission, and other measures calling into action both the concern and the ability of the statesman, in all of which Mr. Davidson placed himself in the front rank of his compeers. Upon the creation of the Inferior Court of Buncombe county Mr. Davidson was made chairman of that body. The juris diction of this court being given to relieve the Superior Court of its overburdened docket, brings to its cognizance a very large class and number of cases not capital, involving in their disposition aweighty degree of reponsibility, of judicial knowl edge, and of inflexible firmness ; and un der the administration of the present chairman, that court has attained a dig nity and an authority only inferior, as in fluenced bv more limited jurisdiction, to that Df the Superior Court itself. Mr. Davidson, now in the very prime of life, in the vigor of health, in the flush of well-deserved reputation, with most exem plary private character, still a young man, may justly be regarded as one of the Torso men coming forward to wear the mantle and bear the burden of that generation of worthies which shall soon pass away; but passing away, to leave their places well and honorably filled. -j ".MOTLEY'S THE WEAR; ! ; The Tariff Defeat. There was a full House and a full vote on the day which was to decide the fate of Mr. Morrison's bill. Eight members were paired; two did not vote or other wise account for themselves; 314 voted 41 Democrats and 118 Republicans voting to defeat the bill; 152 Democrats and 3 Republicans voting for the bill. The 41 Democrats who voted against the bill were Eaton, of Connecticut; Muller, Hutchius, Arnott, Spriggs, Van Alstyne and Wemple, of New Yorkl McAdoo, Fiedler and Fer rall, the three Democrats from New Jersey ; Randall, Elliott, Boyle,, Curtin, Connelly, Duncan, Ermentrout, Hopkins, Mutehler, Patton, Post and Storm, the twelve Dem ocrats from Pennsylvania; Converse, Foran, Geddes, Jordan, Lefevre, Murray, Paige, Seney, Warner and Wilkins, ten of the thirteen Democrats from Ohio ; Budd, Glasscock, Sumner and Tully, four of the six Democrats from California; Finnerty, of Illinois ; Findlay, of Maryland ; Hunt, of Louisiana; Snyder, of West Virginia, and George D. Wise, of Virginia. The only Republicans who votea witn the Democrats were Messrs. Wakefield, Nelson and Strait, of Minnesota. The pairs were four Mr. Bennett, of North Carolina with Mr. Ochiltree, of Texas; Mr. MuJdrow, with Mr. Valentine, of Nebraska; Mr. Wood,, of Indiana, with Mr. White, of Kentucky, and Mr. Riggs, of Illinois, with Mr. Nichols, of Georgia, the last two, being Democrats. MrW Robinson, of Brooklyn, did not vote, neither did Mr. Barr, of Penn sylvania. A Squarely Honest Boy. Detroit Fr?e Press. Two or three weeks ago a pedestrian who was passing a house on Riopelle street heard the sounds of a terrific struggle going on, and as he looked in at the front door a boy about twelve years of age, who sat in the hall, quietly observed : - " It's only the old folks having a little row, stranger." "Do they have "em often?" asked the man." ' ' Almost every day . " ' If I were in your place I'd stand at the door here and charge ten cents admis sion fee. It's worth the money to see a family riot like this, and you might as well make a few dollars as to let the chance slip." The boy said he would think of it, . and the pedestrian waited until the man had choked the woman as black as a plunl, and then passed on. Yesterday he chanced that way again, and there was another row going on, and the same boy sat on the" doorstep. "I'll see the show," said the man as he pulled out his wallet. " Has my advice profited you?" "Stranger, I can't take your money," replied the lad. "Why?" V "Because I'm a square boy. For a week or so every fight in there was as a 1" J Ik XI - n . square as a aice anu worm me price ui admission, but as soon as a crowd began to come and the gate money began to run up to eighty or ninety cents, dad and mam began to hippodrome on the- public. That blood on his nose was put there half an hour ago, and mam's black eye is three weeks' old. They want me to stand in with them and deceive the public, but I can't do it. Let the best man win or quit the business is my motto. Pass on, stranger, for this is a put-up job to gull the confiding public." , Washington Territory Described. San Francisco Alta.J A gentleman who has just returned from Washington Territory was asked how he liked the country. ' ' Well, sir, he replied, 'every bunch of willows is a mighty for est, everv froar ond a sylvan lake, every waterfall a second Niagara," every ridge of rocks a gold mine, and every'man a liar." Victuals and Clothes. Handles, to make a ereater show. Wear coats stuck out with pads and puffing ; And this is surely apropos, For what's a goose without the stuffing? What better reason can youm r, ana iaan But thousands now for dinner dress ness les thinner ; Whv men are poor, and TH1 naught is left to dress for dinner. A. M. Waddell.J " Foolery, 8ir, does walk about the orb like the sun ; it shines everywhere." Tuvlflh KUjht. A favorite maxim of one of my deceased fellow-citizens whom I recognized as a philosopher,, although he was innocent of books, was contained in these words: There are so many ways for a man to make a fool of himself in thia world that it's mighty hard to escape them all." It was doubtless a paraphrase of some thing which an earlier philosopher said, but the author did not know it. He evolved this painful truth out of his own experience, and if he had never said any thing else would still deserve the title which I have given him. Where is the man who never on any occasion made a fool of himself ? If there be such an one his escape is very apt to be due to the fact that Nature saved him the trouble by per forming the operation herself in his case, once for all. Nothing short of superhu man wisdom on the one hand, or the most hopeless stupidity on the other, would en able a man to go through life without at some time, and generally much oftener than oncej making a fool of himself. I say this, brethren, for your consolation, and feel confident that it will meet your unqualified endorsement. I appeal, too, in support of the assertion to all history, sacred and profane, and to biography gen erally, including the lives of the saints. Although ADAM HAD THE ADVANTAGE of commencing life as a grown man, and thus of escaping every youthful indiscre tion, he had not gathered his first crop before he made the biggest kind of a fool of himself, and the propensity has re mained in the "family ever since. That event was really what caused the melan choly Mark Twain to weep so copiously at his tomb several years ago. Moses I am sure felt like kicking himself frequently before he met those seven girls at the well in the wilderness, who took him to their father's tent and gave him the first "square meal" he had eaten since he left town; and even Solomon, the very embodiment of wisdom, made a fool of himself a thou sand times. These men "acknowledged the corn" and died happy, and full of confidence in the future. There is always hope for one who freely admits the charge against him self, but for him who solemnly denies the accusation there is none whatever. Rea son and orthodoxy alike pronounce this judgment although they call the act by different names. The fact is that most, if not all, sensible people pass their lives in alternately making fools K themselves and bewailing the operation. The rest of ntankind, who are largely in the majority, omit the latter part of the programme which is the best argument that can be advanced in favor of the doctrine that most of the crowd will take the wrong road after they close business here and "Leave the warm precinct of the cheerful day." Happy, indeed, is the man who will honestly and frequently say "I made a fool of myself." And here let me draw a distinction between this phrase and the one commonly used to express the same idea. It will be discovered not, only that there is a wide difference between them, but that by the use of the more common phrase great injustice is done to a long suffering and much abused animal. When in the frame of minn to wmcn l aunae, men generally say "I MADE AN ASS OF MYSELF," but theyi grievously wrong that patient and serious quadruped by the comparison. An ass never makes a fool of himself. I do not mean to be understood as intimat ing that seriousness is an insuperable ob stacle to one's making a fool of himself. On the contrary, that process is entirely compatible with the utmost solemnity of appearance and deportment. I am only defending the ass who cannot now speak for himself, as he once did, however elo quent his heels may be. The- maxim of the rustic philosopher which has been mentioned, however, was directed rather to the multiplicity of the facilities for mak ing a fool of himself which a man finds surrounding him in this world than to his pronenesa to utilize them. "There are so many wavs," was the burden of his com plaint. The infirmity of the race is taken for granted as a matter of course that a man will make a fool of himself is assumed as perfectly natural but that there should be such a superabundance of ways pro vided to do it was the thought that weighed upon him ; and there is a humor ous pathos in his manner of giving expres sion to it. It cannot be denied that the ways are numberless, and that, notwith standing the danger-signals which have been set up by innumerable victims like signboards marked, in plain letters, "Keep off," " Beware of spring-guns," "Look out for the locomotive," and the like these ways are still daily thronged with those who mistake them for the ways of pleas antness and peace, and only discover their error after becoming objects of ridicule to others, or of contempt to themsel ves. So numerous, indeed, are those who have made fools of themselves, that if a reward should be offered ipr one who had not, a man would make a fool of himself to claim it, and thus add .another to the number of ways in which that operation can be per formed. ; There is not a pursuit in life, from PREACHING TO POKER-PLAYING, or from studying the exact sciences to deal ing in futures, about which men do not continually make fools of themselves. There lsj hardly a problem mat ever pre sented itself to the human mind, from the origin of evil to the tariff question, in re- srard to which they do not indulge this inclination. It is a natural instinct, to illus trate which a bewildering maze of facili ties is presented on every nana, and there fore it is not surprising that my observant countryman should have been so deeply impressed witn tne exceeding ciimcuny oi escaping them. Go back to the earliest records of the race which are only the records of the lives of the great, in which the doings of the multitude have no place and. select ing any character you please, read the ac count of his career. You will find inevit ably that he made a fool of himself, if not frequently, at least once. Human history is in a igreat measure but the record of human folly; and all literature, including its most -serious forms, is, of necessity, from one point of view, only a tremendous satire. Look at Alexander the Great, after gob bling up the last crumb of territory that he could nna, sitting aown line a scnooi boy that had stuffed himself with the last nlum in' the pudding, blubbering because there was no more to cobble I Think of Socrates going about barefooted and with one thin sole on in tne aeaa oi winter, asking everybody all sorts of questions about all sorts of things, while his family were almost starving, and his children growing, up with perhaps less benefit from his almost supernatural wisdom than any- body else! Hear Antony's pitiful cry, "Would I had never seen her," when, waking from his Egyptian orgy, he real ized that he, "the triple pillar of the world," had made himself a wanton's fool, and that bis folly would be as immortal as his fame.: (Alas! how many undistin guished Antonies there have been since Cleopatra died !) Consider the conduct of Ca?sar himself when the mob applauded his refusal of the crown ; or the dismay of his murderers when they realized that with him they had destroyed the only hope of the very liber ties which they professed to be trying to preserve. Picture to yourself that assem blage before whom Galileo was summoned to renounce his awful heresy, and say if there has ever been anything in the astro nomical line to equal it, until the Rev. Jasper, colored, of Richmond, Va., electri fied the world with the discovery that "the sun do move." Imagine Henry VIII. in the role of a religious reformer t Think of Ponce de Leon sailing three thousand miles in search of a fountain whose waters would bestow perpetual youth. Look at Sir Isaac Newton, cutting two cat holes, one for the big cat and one for the kitten; or that fierce genius Dean Swift, interposing to prevent the pardon of a condemned crimi nal upon the sole ground that as he put it he "was a fiddler and consequently a rogue, and deserved hanging for something else." Survey the pages of history and behold the number of empires lost and crowned heads choppedoff as the conse quence of their owners having made fools of themselves, and at the same time recall the conduct orthose who overturned these governments and executed these rulers, and decide if you can which made the BIGGEST FOOLS OF THEMSELVES, Did Charles I, ascending the scaffold and dying like a brave man and gentleman rather than surrender his fantastic notions about the divine right of Kings, make any greater fool of himself than did those who put him to death and afterwards made laws for England? I do not await the answer to this conun drum, but skipping a centurv would re spectfully call your attention to George III, swearing and crying over lost Amen can colonies; or invite you across the channel to see Napoleon at the zenith of his power, with his dynasty firmly estab lished, his name a terror to the nations, and all Europe anxious for peace, yet yielding to .the silly dream of universal empire, and falling like Lucifer to rise no more. Shall I point to other illustrious instances in our own country and in later times? If so. there would be danger of an endless labor; and yet in order to es cape the Charge of partiality, and to give the devil his due, I would indicate one who made the greatest noise in the world that was ever made by one man, when he fired two hundred and fifty tons of gun powder at one round at the astonished garrison of Fort Fisher, and heard the echo of this tremendous exploit reverber ate around the. world in shouts of laugh ter. This is sufficient for the purpose in hand, and will fully vindicate the claims of our country. Go through the whole catalogue of illustrious names, ancient and modern, and you will find in each and all of them, as in the common herd, ample il lustrations of the truth of what the clown in Twelfth Night says to Viola: "Fool ery, sir," sayR she, "does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere." It is unnecessary, however, to cite in dividual cases, great Or small, in proof 6f the fact that it is mere act of making a fool of himself. We can afford to let him go, however, with the certainty that he will furnish abun dant opportunity, after attaining his ma jority, for the. illustration of the maxim with which this essay began. He comes upon the stage at last, and at once the comedy begins. The probability is that be is poor, and be commences life with the determination that he will live economically, work hard, and improve his position. Being a social animal, and, possibly, blest with some sensibilities, he naturally seeks congenial associates. In a little while he begins to think that mar riage is the only natural state, and, con strained by prudential considerations, he selects a rich girl, courts her, and is re fused; whereupon he swears vengeance and eternal enmity against all rich people, and perhaps emphasizes it with alcohol, which gives him a sick headache and causes him to lose a day's work. Or, if sentiment is-more largely developed in him than caution, he falls in love with a poor girl, marries her, and finds himself in a year or two in possession of a grow ing family, without a proportionate in crease of income. Or, what is much worse, he succeeds in his courtship of the rich girl, marries her, and becomes an emasculated player of a second fiddle for the rest of his life. It nray be, however, that he is not poor, but well supplied with this world's goods. If so, he is apt to start'out with the fool notion that this makes him better than his neighbors, and the result immediately is, that he incurs the pity of all self-respecting people, and the ridicule and ill-will of all others. If he should happen not to cherish an undue sense of his own importance, and should try to prove it by an unpretending and generous course of conduct, he is apt ' to make a mistake in that direction, and to realize that, in endeavoring to escape the suspicion of a want of liberality or courage, he has succeeded in making a fool of himself. Of course, if he should happen to be both rich and miserly, he begins at the outset to make a fool of himself, and never ceases until he finally foes into his hole in the ground. But oing WHAT THE WORLD NEVER DOE8 MIGHTY HARD TO KEEP FROM making a fool of oneself. It is true that many persons do not try to keep .from it, but simply follow their natural inclina tion. Yet the most watchful and prudent, even when freely criticising tile infirmities of others, are apt to realize that they are doing the same thing; or, what is much more amusing, do it without realizing it. The funniest thing in nature is a man solemnly making a fool of himself with out knowing it at the time, or afterward. And yet it is an everyday occurrence, and one which frequently seems to give real satisfaction to the person engaged in it. There is, however, a vast difference be tween the effect of making a fool of one's self, and being made a. fool of by another. In the former case, however aggravated, it is possible for the victim, after the first shock of the discovery, to see something in it to laugh at; in the latter, never. The best-natured man under such cir cumstances will find his supremest effort at hilarity result in that equivocal condi tion of the facial muscles described as " the drv grins. lucre is a conscious ness of- personal responsibility in the one case which serves to palliate, if not to diaruifv. the foolery; in the other there is onlv the sense of inexcusable and in ten tional personal outrage perpetrated by a third person, and if there is any one human right or privilege that is absolutely inalienable, which cannot, under any con ceivable circumstances, be transferred to another it is this-of making a fool of one s self. ray, more; tne slightest in vasion of this privilege is resented on the nstant with a fierceness which nothing less than a sense of cruel insult could evoke. I have already said that there is no pur suit in life and no condition of society in which men are not continually making fools of themselves. I confine myself to men because, bo far as.my observation has extended,, they can supply nmple material for a discussion of the subject; and, be sides, who EVER HEARD OF A WOMAN making a fool of herself? They may have eccentricities of various sorts, and some of these eccentricities may be developed in strange ways, but that any woman ever made a fool of herself is a proposition that cannot be proved by me. There is one class of men who, by rea son 01 tneir proiession anu occupation, ought to be and generally are exempt, as far as human innrmity will allow, irom this practice, but it seems to be known alike among them as among oiner. ioiks. I mean the preachers. They have a pecu liar claim to the reverence and esteem of their fellowmcn, and they generally enjoy it, but for this reason when oue does make a fool of himself, he generally leaves no room for doubt in regard to the SUCCESS OF THE OPERATION. Whether it be upon a question of theol ogy, or ministerial authority, or the rela tions of the church td the world or the like'; Or upon his own personal relations and conduct towards .others, it is not only possible for him to do it, but when he does it, the job is apt to be complete. It is, thank Heaven, not a common occur rence, and this may account for the thor oughness of the performance when it does happen. And now, in regard to the mass of man kind generally, where shall the illustration bee-in ? A minor can plead bis non-age to the gravest contract he can make, and, of course, therefore, is irresponsible ior ine isregarding the fact of wealth or pov erty as an incident in the career of a young man, let us follow him up, and predict some of the ways in which he will be apt to make a fool of himself. Suppose that, influenced by the loftiest and most unselfish motives he adopts as his pursuit in life what is regarded as the ; noblest f professions, the cure of souls. He wants to equip himself thoroughly for j the work, and therefore diligently delves J in the mines of scriptural and patristic lore. He reads himself full of divine I things; he ponders over the problems that confront the human soul, and con structs a theory of the universe which reconciles all difficulties. He finds his brethren less learned than himself, and naturally pities their ignorance. He grad ually glides into an ex-cathedra method of expounding his doxy, which he is fully persuaded is but a synonymeforthe secret counsels of the Almighty ; and, cherishing a comfortable sense of his own security as one of the elect, honestly regrets that most of his neighbors are bound to go to Hell. Longing to distinguish himself as ; a champion of the faith, he reads, solely for the purpose of answering them, the essays of the scientists and philosophers, which are supposed to be subtle attacks on religion, and the result is a discovery on his part that he is, perhaps, after all, no more intimately acquainted with the designs of the Creator, while he is much 1 T .3 1 A Tl" 1 . 1 less miormeu auoui nis wonts man some other folks. The natural tendency of this discovery is to infuse the element of in tellectual modesty into his composition, which is always a healthy process, and then some good old-fashioned preacher, with a head full of brains and a heart overflowing withhuman kindness, gets hold of him, and makes him a christian. He may not have such good luck, however, and, if not, the last state of that man is worse than the first, and he never does realize that he has, on any occasion, made a fool of himself. Let us take another case, and suppose that, instead of undertaking the cure of souls, our hero should devote himself to one of the professions whose business it is to kill bodies such as the army, the navy, or the practice of medicine or to dimin ish estates, such as the law. He is only entering upon a wider field, where the fa cilities for making a fool of himself are greater, and where the probabilities that he will do so amount to almost abso lute certainty. He is liable, for instance, as an army officer, to issue from his HEADQUARTERS IN THE SADDLE,' a high-sounding declaration of his inten tion to immediately sweep the enemy like chaff from his path, and before the ink on it gets dry to find himself running as if the Devil was after him in the other direc tion, with that enemyin hot pursuit trying to return to him the clothes and things he left behind. If he is an American Naval officer he is just as apt as not to risk his life in deep water on one of our so-called war-ships, or to hanker after the North Pole, instead of staying ashore and leading the german, like a serious defender of his country. Should he become a doctor he is almost sure, in the earlier years of his practice, to terrify some anxious mother by informing her that her innocent babe, who is lifting up his voice and wrestling tearfully with Ai$ UNADULTERATED CASK OF COLIC, is suffering from an excessive accumula tion of gas in the sigmoidal flexure of the colon; or, to frighten some man whose eyesight has been impaired by the too free use of tobacco and the too frequent in spection of the bottom of a tumbler, by communicating to him the pleasing intel ligence that he is afflicted with compound myopic astigmatism. If the person in whose welfare we are interesting ourselves should resolve to pur sue the noble profession of the law, which is the very last of all in which one can afford to " get left,11 the chances are that he will labor agonizingly over his first case, prepare an elaborate brief, commit his speech to memory, declaim it over and over again in private, and when the day of trial If or him and the case) comes, will learn, to his dismay and the infinite dis gust of his client, that there is a fatal defect in it somewhere, and perhaps that the statute of limitations will be a bar to his bringing a new action ; or, if he has made no mistake and has really mastered his case and fortified himself with abundant authorities, the bland old lawyer with whom he is associated as junior, will flat ter him with a conference in which he will manage to pump him dry, and then, wh,en the case is called, will inform the Court that his young friend has so carefully pre pared it that he must insist upon surren dering the principal part of the argument to him, and will only make a few explana tory remarks himself; whereupon, to the horror of the junior, thejold fellow coolly and deliberately proceeds, to deliver the entire argument exactly as he pumped it out of him, omitting nothing whatever and then, with an air of perfect innocence, takes his seat, while the overwhelmed and outraged junior realizes with shame and indignation that he has made A MOST UNMITIGATED FOOL of himself. Nor will this be, by any means, the last time that he will indulge in that business. On the contrary, just as it is possible that the worthy preacher who has been for years portraying the endless bliss which awaits the righteous, may exhibit the liveliest aversion to entering into it himself, or the sick doctor may die rather than use his own medicine, so the lawyer who has all his life been counselling others as to their business, and drafting instru ments for thedistribution of their prop-1 erty, may finally either leave his own affairs in wretched confusion, or may draw with great care a will which defeats his own wishes, or may die without any will at all. ' But leaving the so-called liberal profes sions, and supposing the man to have adopted a business pursuit that of a mer chant, banker, manufacturer, farmer, or the like it is no exaggeration to say that just in proportion to his eagerness to grow rich at it, will be the frequency with which he will make a fool of himself. He will, often against his own judgment, buy or sell property or advance money for speculative purposes or the like, having at the time an uneasy consciousness that in doing so he is making a fool of himself, but doing it, nevertheless, in the hope of gain ; or he will do it with confidence at the time, losing sight entirely of something which will appear to his apprehension only simultaneously with the conviction that he has made a fool of himself. The fact is that, next to love, MONEY CAUSES MORE PEOPLE to make fools of themselves than false pride, or ambition, or anything else in the world. It is the one universal tgnit fatv. which all persons at some time, and some persons at all times, pursue, as if it was a lamp that lighted the way to Heaven, instead of being, as it too often is, a mere jack-o'-lantern which causes its pursuers to make themselves ridiculous in the eyes of others, and miserable in their own. If, instead of devoting himself to any of the pursuits already mentioned, the man should resolve to make it the business of his life to instruct the youth of the coun try, the chances are that there will be fre quent occasion in his career for some kind hearted person to repeat the droll apology in the Antiquary: "Remember that the man is mortal, and has been a school master." It is not my purpose to pursue this in quiry into every profession and calling in life, even in the very general way in which l am treating it, for it would require a week to get through ; but there are one or two more occupations which cannot be omitted from the discussion without doing very marked injustice. Indeed it is but simple truth to say that they are more pro lific in illustrations of the theme proposed, than any which have been heretofore men tioned. Suppose that the gentleman who is claiming our attention should turn his gaze towards HIS AFFLICTED COUNTRY, and awake to the great truth that she needs him in her councils. It is a thought which forcibly presents itself at soine stage of existence, and generally at an early pe riod, to every American citizen, who is not entirely abandoned to the selfish occupa sion of minding his own business; and there are even some of these who seem to find no irreconcilable antagonism between the two things. He enters the political arena, to use a classical phrase, or, as it ii" expressed in the vernacular, he goes into politics ; and, in order that his beloved country may re ceive his undivided attention, he neglects or abandons his former occupation, if he had one. The result is, that in a short while, if he is honest, he finds that in ad dition to being the victim of a liberal supply of misrepresentation and abuse, his patriotism constitutes the chief, if not the only, capital left on hand wherewith to meet the demands of his creditors and the large and interesting family with which, as in duty bound,he has provided himself ; and then, during the abundant leisure of which he is the possessor, another thought which has frequently before suggested itself more or less vividly to him, assumes the form of a powerful conviction that he has been making an elaborate and finished fool of himself. This is apt to be the experience of the poor and honorable public man. and is his method of making a fool of himself. There are other sorts of politicians, who pursue different methods, and make fools of them selves in a different way. For instance, the wealthy ignoramus often buys his way to public position, and, after securing it, attributes the sycophancy of his flatterers an.d the civility of his associates to their admiration for his character and ability, and accepts with serene complacency, as nothing more than his just dues, the most absurd and extravagant suggestions of his eminent fitness for still higher .honors and graver responsibilities. Equally amusing ROCKINGHAM. OLD MAIDS. A PROSPERING COUNTY, Tobacco Wheat 'Manufacturing. James D. Glenn. Rockingham county was formed in 1785 from Guilford, and was named in honor of Charles Watson Wentworth, Marquis of Rockingham. Wentworth, the county seat, is 116 miles north-west of Raleigh. The county is located in the Piedmont section of the State, on the line of the Piedmont Air Line Railway, which runs through the eastern portion of the county. There is also another railroad through the northern part of the county, connecting with the Piedmont Air Line at Danville. Its population in 1880 was 21,744. Its area is 552 square miles. About one-third of the land is in cultivation, probably a little over one-third in original forest, and the balance in old field which is being rapidly improved by old field pine. The forests abound in all the trees known in the State, such as oaks, walnuts, pines, hickories, -chestnuts, locusts, poplars, ashes, gums, sycamores, willows, cedars, etc. There are a great many saw mills in the county, which do a fine business in lumber. The general character of the sur face is broken though gently undulating, being of easy cultivation, and along the streams there is a great deal of bottom land of dark rich alluvial soil upon which fine crops are raised without any manures or fertilizers whatever. The soil of the uplands is mostly of the light gray sandy sort, so admirably adapted for the raising of fine yellow tobacco, for which the coun ty is noted, though in some portions the land is heavy and dark, suitable for rais ing large crops ot wheat. All the land produces wheat, oats, clover and the grasses, and in portions there are fine meadows of natural grass. Good farming land, (especially for fine tobacco) unimproved, sells at from $3 to $5 per acre-; improved with houses, wells, barns, etc., sell at from $7 to $10, while river bottoms are held at from $20 to $50 per acre ; land rents readily at one-fourth for uplands, and one-third for bottoms. The usual yield per acre of tobacco is from 500 to 1,000 pounds, according to whether the tobacco is fine or heavy and common ; fine yellow tobacco sells at from $30 to $40 per hundred pounds around (that is for lugs and all), while the heavy and common sells at from $3 to $10 per hundred. Farmers frequently realize as much as $150 to $250 for the tobacco from a single acre of land that they bought at $5. The bottom lands are usu ally devoted to corn, of which there is generally enough raised to supply the needs of the county and a good deal is exported to Danville, Va. Potatoes, cab bages and all vegetables are raised in great abundance, as are also all the fruits, ap ples, peaches, plums, cherries, etc., coming to great perfection. The people find a most excellent market for the sale of all their products in the city of Danville, Va., which is only about twenty-five or thirty miles from Went worth and is easily reached by the farmers of the eastern and southern portions of the county by way of the Richmond and Danville Railroad, while those of the northern and western portions find easy access through the Danville, Mechanics- ville and South Western Railroad. The Dan river, running through the county to Danville, is also navigable for large boats its entire length though the county. The town of Keidsville, situated upon the R. & D. R. R., also affords a good market for all country produce and is fast becom ing the leading tobacco market of the State ; a few years since only a way station upon the railroad, with one house" and a depot, now a town of over 2,000 inhabi tants, with four of the largest ware houses for sale of leaf tobacco, num bers of tobacco factories, some doing the leading business in plug to bacco in the State, stores of all kinds, schools, churches, etc. Its business men are alive to the interests of their town and are destined to make it one of the cities of the State. Leaksville, Madison, Stoneville, Wentworth and Ruffin are all small towns with a population of from 200 to 500 inhabitants, that have good schools, stores, etc., and afford good markets for those immediately around them. Rockingham is probably one of the best watered counties in the State; the Dan running through the northern portion of the county, with its tributaries, the Smith and Mayo Rivers, with Wolf Island, Lick fork, Sauratown, Jacobs, Hogans, Buffalo, Matrimony and other numerous' creeks, form a complete net-work of water courses. Each and all of these streams have most excellent water powers, suitable for the largest mills and factories. The Leaks ville cotton mills, upon Smith River, has one of the finest water powers in the State. The southern part of the county is watered by the Haw River and its trib utaries, Big and Little Troublesome creeks. Coal is found in a great many places along the line of Dan River, and iron near Troublesome creek, in the southern part of the county and other places. Good building rocks abound in many places. 1 C. P. S. in th N. C. Presbyterian. J By dint of constant inquiry we arrived at last within a mile of the house where we 'hoped to find our old friends living. Meeting a couple of wo men walking along the road we ventured upon one more inquiry. Both women were poorly clad,' and only one had on shoes. " Do you know Miss Sally W , and her sister, Miss Matilda, living in this neighborhood?" j " O yes, we knowed 'em both mightv well." ! " How far is their house from here?" " Why they are both of 'em dead, but you'll find their sister at the place." " Dead ! Can it he possible?" "O yes! they died, both of "em, last summer. I know its so, for I knowed 'em both mighty well.? We went on, but the sunshine was out of the day for us. We were too late too late. All the affection we had meant to show the kind inquiries, the kind offers, the gifts, the messages, all too late. And how often it is so in this life, our best deeds are done to-morrow, our kind est actions come when there is no longer any need for them! On arriving at; the house, the family came to the gate and we were made wel come. We went in and sat down to hear something of the jast days and last illness of our old friends The younger of the two had dropped dead from her chair where she sat with her knitting in hand and in perfect health. ' The elder sister. Miss Sally, whose health was feeble, took to her bed upon t&is, and died in ten days thereafter. After her death the family made the discovery that she had a large "eating cancer" in her breast, a thing that no one had any suspicion of, either in her own home or elsewhere. The surviving sister said she supposed Matilda must have known it, as -they had shared the same room and bed for some time, but if so, she had carried the dismal secret to her grave. Miss Sally had dressed herself to within two or three days of her death, and then becoming delirious could no longer do it, but she resisted every attempt made to change her .attire, and was very emphatic in her charge that no one should do it. They humored her, and so, not till they went to dress her fpx- the grave did they understand. The Doctor, who was present, said from appearances the cancer was probably four or five years old. She had gone on with her vocation of sick-nurse in all those years, and given no hint of the fire that was burning into her self. She knew what to do, andknew too, no doubt, that it" was hopeless from the beginning had dressed it herself and in her trunk were found medicines, plasters and other things necessary. I asked her sister what could have been her motive for concealing such a thing. The sister re plied that she supposed she must have, thought it would prevent her being em ployed as nurse, i-"Sick folks; wouldn't have liked to have her with a cancer." She would have been out of employment, and would have had to stay at home, and be a burden, while she died by inches, as an older sister had done with the same dis ease, years ago. iShe was resolved not to yield to the same fate, and went on nurs ing the sick to within a few weeks of her death. " After Matilda died she seemed to wilt right away and never even tried to hold her head up." I thought it as remarkable and affect ing an instance of resolution, of self-control, of reticence as I ever met with in all my life. I knewjMiss Sally was a woman of courage and of spirit, and who . knew how to be silent, but I had never thought her capable of this. One thing at least was pleasant to know, that they who had always worked faithfully and given their best days to the service of other people, at the close lacked no comforts in their humble home. The good people of Dur ham, where Miss Sally had been chiefly employed of late? years, had ministered to her during the last months oi ner re maining at home so that, as her sister said, ;"she had inot only all she needed, but she had what she liked." And so the two sisters passed quietly out of life together, leaving behind them no name or memorial. They were old maids, and the last of their name. They sleep side by side in a country graveyard, and the mounds that cover them will soon be undisringuishable. Yet their lives though obscure, nvere useful, and respec table and valuabfe in a highdegree. They had carried themselves with discretion, prudence and kindness, and filled their, place in life well; They were members of the Episcopal church, taking great com fort in its prayer-book 5and services, but loving all christians, and finding, in the abundant charity of their heart, " no dif ference among good people, whatever there might be in their churches." Peace to their memories! is the conduct of the would-be statesman, who is forever disclaiming a desire to hold the office which his fellow-citizens, he knows, are dying to thrust upoa him, but which, by some perverse combination of ""circumstances they never do thrust, even when the opportunity presents itself. If, bv false pretences and ceaseless dema- goguery, he manages to secure an office, he is at once transformed into a verita ble Sir Oracle, and is firmly persuaded that the failure to earlier recognize his claim to preferment has been a serious public detriment. Statesmanship involves no difficult problems to him, and govern ment becomes the simplest of tasks. He remains in this comfortable frame of mind until some day one of those unpretending persons who happen to know something exposes his ignorance, to the great amuse ment of the public, and the fact, which has long been patent to others, begins to dawn on him that he is not an overshad owing figure in the drama of public life. Suppose, finally, that the man should become A NEWSPAPER EDITOR, and Well, let us rest awhile; and, dur ing the pause, permit me to observe that if knowledge of a subject is derived from experience I consider myself amply quali fied to discuss the different ways in which a man can make a fool of himself, but am entirely willing to defer to any one who knows more about it than 1 do. The President's Canvans. BASIS OF LEGISLATION. Getting Campaign Funds Together. Suicide or Dr. gelgle. Charlotte Democrat At Lowesville, Lincoln county, on Sun day last, Dr. Edwin H. Seigle, formerly of Newton, committed suicide by taking laudanum. He was about twenty-three years old and unmarried had been drink ing rather freely recently. New York Post Washington Letter. The fact that President Arthur has not had organizing force enough to secure many delegates from the States represented among the politicians. One of the Cabi net orhcers, speaking oi tms to-aay, saia that the reason why they had not gone to their respective States to work for Presi dent Arthur was because he was opposed to it. l his omcer was very ceriain mai he could have secured all the delegates from his State for the President had he visited it, but he had not; every delegate from that State is against Arthur. It is learned that there has been some 'very earnest talk among the Cabinet on thia subject, and that more than one of them desired to enter into the political canvass, but- the President was resolute in every instance. This utter lack, however, of organization in the Arthur forces gives his followers consiaeraDie apprenension now that the delegates are all chosen. The coming thirty days, they say, are to be days of manipulation. What the oppo nents of Blaine evidently most fear is a stampede to him of the Southern delegates. . Unfinished. The day has ended and the sun has set, Unfinished U the task I planned to do ; I sit and ponder o'er with deep regret The golden sunlight vanished from my view. And thus full oft at last when life doth close, And toil to ended for the restless feet, The cherished work of life is incomplete. O Thou who know est all from sun to sun, From birthday morning to death's evening chill, Look on Thy children, with their tasks undone, In loving kindness; and forgive them still. When there seemed a probability that the bill to extend the bonded period of whisky would pass both houses of Con gress the financial managers of the two great political parties were in an enviable state of ecstasy.jfor thUy were satisfied by distinct pledges, it is said that the grateful liquor men would give them all the money that might be neeaea ior use in the coming campaign. But the defeat -of the bill brought gloom, and showed- that something now must be done, and at once, to raise thf wind. Hence the frater nal and enere-etic spirit witn which Re publicans and Democrats have united in rolling up a bhjr RWer and Harbor bill. The sum already agreea upon oy tne House is nearly fifteen millions, with the Senate which never is mean when there is any chance to spend the people's money still to be bejard from. Netc Yvrk Herald. :" ? Freaks of a Tornado. Charleston .News. A North Carolina man, whose house was demolished the other night, after ward found his watch hanging on a small limb of a tree Ithat had blown down in the yard, the chain wrapped several times around the limbi It was ticking away as if nothing had happened. Another man, who always kept a gun at the head of his bed j was found phot through the body and the gun lying near him empty. i . A mtber Hln. Fhjladelphia CalL Lillian Whak a queer title for a book, mat -1 Ma What title t Lillian-" Not Like Other Girls." Ma It is rather odd. Is it a novel? Lillian Yes.j I wonder what the hero ine: can be'if she is "not like other girls." ,'Ma I don'tjknow, unless she goes in the kitchen and helps her mother instead of staying in the parlor to read novels.
The Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.)
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May 14, 1884, edition 1
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