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PATRON
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Vol, X.
LASKER. N. 0, THURSDAY, November 17, 1892. ,
Faflore.
The Lord, who fashioned my hinds for
working.
Set me a task, and It is not done ;
I tried an4 tried sioee the early morning,
And now to westward finketh the sun!
UoUe tke task that was kindly given
To one so little and wek as I
Somehowmr strength ?ould never grasp
. ':, - : ; j. .
Never, as days n years went by.
Others around rae cheerfully toiling;
Showed me their work x they passed
away;
filled were their hands to overflowing.
Proud were their hearts, and fiad and
gy- . - ;
Laden with harvest' spoils tbey entered
In at the golden te oC their rest;
Laid their sheaves at the feet of the
Master; . - j .'- '..
Found their places among the blest ;
Usppy he they who strove to help me,
Failing ever in spite of their aid!
Fain would tbeir ' love have borne me
with (hem,
: But I was unready and sore afraid. ,
Now I know way task will never be fin
ished, ' i
And when the MaSTEB caileth my
. natui, ,' :i-''-.; "
The voice wjl find me still at my labor,
Weeing, beside it in weary shame.
With ejmpty bauds I shall rise to meet
.htm,; -' ; - ' " ! ' !
AuL, when He looks for the fruits of
years, . '. :
Nothing have I to lay before Him
But broken -efforts and hitter tears!
Vet when I call I fain would hapten
Mine eyes are diai and their light' la
gone ; ; ' ' .
And I aiu asyweary as though I carried!
A burthen of beautiful work well done.
I will fold my empty hands on my bos
- : otu,
Meekly thus in the shape of His Cross;
And the Lord who made them so frail
and feeble j t
May be will rlty their strife and loss.
. The Month.
LIST OF OFFXQPES
MT NOBTHAMPTON POMONA OEASOE, P. Ot
, f, H.. FOB 183.
Master, A. E. Peeie; Overseer, Nez
eie Davis; Lncturer, J. B. Brown; Stew
ard. G. BSiuitli; Ase't Steward, 1L C
Lassiter; Chaplain. J. D. '.Barnes i;
Treasurer, K. Davis; Secretary. K. R.
Maddrey; G. K., J. V. Griffin; Poiuo
ua. Miss Mamie Smith; Flora, Jr, L.
S. Griffin ; Ceres, Mrs. L. J. Lassiter,
ud Stewardess, Miss Bell Lassiter.
Xleetiag of SUte Gracge.
The next session of the North Car
Oin& SUte Grange, Patmns of Hus
bandry, will meet at Nashville, Nash
county, oti the second Tuesday in
December, being the 13th of the
cnoatu. ;
All Graagers are invited to ittend.
The railroads will be asked to give
the ;asal convention rates, and, as
heretofore, tbey will doubtless do so.
Delegates going by rail will change
cars at Rocky Mount.
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This is for You ,
it you were receiving The Roanoke
I'athov at the time it was suspeiided,
and have not paid the amount due for
Cbe came. 1 again ea.ru etly ak all to
raruj. It is right that you should pay
aiKi'I-i.'-v,! tb? luoheyi. This is enough
lo say xo those. "ho lutond to ty, and
JL hote no one will refuse, if 5'ou do
not know what the amount is plse
let aue know. D. M. Bfiauc
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
rKOCfcEOINS Of" .THEIR SESSION
illKLD KO VEiCBEE 7TH.
The Bosrd of County Commission
ers met in regular season Norember
7. Present: C. R. Harrell,chainnan,
S. N. Buxton, J. A. Garris, E.
Baugham and W. P. Vick.
Frank Blaker & Co. were granted
license to peddle oq ob J horse
wagon for twelve months..
Louis Jacobson was granted li
cense to peddle on foot for twelve
months. i
It was ocderd that th Treasurer
pay tbe estate of J. W, Grant$7.40
for services as Connty Commission.
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It was ordered that Wo Grant,
Chairman Board of Magistrates, call
a meeting of! the Justices for first
Mondav In December to consider
the matter of selling the timber on
the poorfhonse land and for such
other basine8 as may come before
them.
Tbe following accounts were ap
proved and ordered to be paid : B. T.
Story, for 735 feet timber for bridge
across Cordti&oy Swamp, $11.02.
C. R. Harrell, supplies for pauper.
$7.13.
, J. D. Bennett, for lumber famish
ed for election purposes at Hardings
Store $13.72.
R. S. Parker for labor, etc., for
home of Aged and Infirm $25.00.
Geo. Wv Deloatcb, for coffin for
pauper $2.50. f
John E. Moore, lumber and work
on well in public square, $18 65.
L. A. Outland, fees arid officer of
Jury in cuse of State vs. Julia Gary,
$7.00.
J. T.Fiythe, account filed, $15.23.
J.J. Burnett, repairs to well in
public Square as per order if Sher
iff, $400 '
E. B. Lassiter. repairs to Urahaw
Swamp bridge, $459. ,
L. A. Outland, expences in arrest,
ing R. A Caldwell $14.75.'
J. S. Grant, for board of Jury
during last term of court, $74.0.
J. A. Buxton & Co., for fence
around jail., $34.85.
D. A. Jord ar, board of prisoners
in Jail: for October, $97.05.
. . R. S. Gay. servies as officer of
Grand Jury, $10.30
J. A. Buxton & Co;, supplies for
Home of Aged and Infirm, 151.96.
J. M. FJythe, goods furnished
jail. $961.
John A. S.vkes, Jr., for conveying
Dennis Rogers to jail, $2.40.
Lassiter Dros.,for lumber, $46 02:
P. W, Edwards was appointed tax
cpteciprvfor'X)temeece;:-T9wu
in place of W. 11. Joy her whi failed
to qualify. I
Mrs. Martha Pritchard was al
lowed provisions from the Home of
the Ased and Infirm to tbo amount
of $4.00 for three months.
Several persons applied to the
Board and were relieved of double tax
and many were allowed to list land
and proerty which was notjlisted in
June!
Kiud Words.
Who can appreciate the value of
kind words? Those who are in deep
affliction know best the worth of
kindness administered witb real sym
pathy for suffering. The heart must
be hard indeed that can resist a spir
it like this. Rerpoof may be met
with stubbornness, advice with dis
gust, and warning with indifference ;
but all these feelings vanish before
love that is without dissimulation.
Hope arises undismayed, and take a
new hold on life. Despair gives
place $o courage, when we find there
are human heart that beat in unison
witb ours, and we think that after
all, life is worth living.
We read in God's word that if
any man offend not in word, the same
Is a perfect man, for the good reason
that the lips express what the heart,
approves. The clods of the valley
cover those whom we have either
cheered and encouraged to attempt
new victories, or those who have be-
come discouraged and dishearted. f
Hard, cruel words are like poison
ed arrows ; they leave the ncver-lo-be
forgotten sting behind, and some
times later are sure to recoil upon
ourselves. Which, then, shsll we
cultivate, , a retaliative, revengeful
spirit, or the wisdom thai is from
above, that is "first pare, then peace
able, gent1 e and easy to be entreat
ed, full of raercv and good fruits?
The former dries up all tbe fountains
of the heart, &ad leaves it sore and
desolate. The Lord help us to man
ifest tbe spirit that characterized the
life our Lord and U aster.
Sketches of Leading Educational
Insiitctlgns of the ''Sooth. ;
The opening. September I, 1802,
together with the subsequent formal
dedication of Trinity college,; Dui
ham, North Carolina, marks the :be
gtanlng of a new erajin the history
of this institution. y' . .
In 1838, the: late Rev. Brantly
York. D. D.. established a grammar
school, near Trl n ity, Randolph cottnty.
North Carolina.! This was the 'iu.
cleus of Trinity college. Four years
latter, Dr. York resigned tlie manage
ment of Union ihstitnte, as the
school was then called, and the Rev,
Braxen Craven, a youth of nineteen
years, was elected in his stead.
This position he held, with the ex
ception of an interim of J two i years
during the war, until tb time'of his
death, November 7, 1882. Dc. Cra-
. . f .
ven was the real foun ier of tbe col
lege. Beginning life in obscurity
a poor boy, without friends, social
position or influence for forty years
Braxen Craven built his best life
and manhood into the institution
unden his charge and exerted a most
powerful influence upon the educa
tional affairs of the State, follow,
ingthe death of its distinguished
president, Trinity college Jcarrie
financially embarrassed, its atten
dance dwindled away, and its frencls
grew dispoudent !At this juncture
Julian S. Carr, J. W. AlspaugU and !
James A. Gray came forward tritrj j
timely aid; improvements ,'were
made in the curriculum, the number'
of students increased ; and I
dence in the future ot the institution
began to be restored. I ', j i
But it is of the new TrinityicoK
lege that this brief sketch, Js me nett
ed to treat. The permanrepajsi
anceof the institution vS?f
fallof 188.7 henJJte Jlld-l
lin C rowel I, A. B, an mnus of
Yale university was elected presi
dent. Dr. Crowell is possessed of a
tireless activity. He is a strong
thinker, a forrcibie speaker, with the
courage of his convictions, a keen
logician, a terse and vigorous writer,
and an earnest student of social and
economic problems. He interprets
with excellent clearness the com
plex 3igns of the times, and his un
relenting energy carries him into all
fields of thought.
It is to Mr Washington Duke that
the' college mainly owes its removal
to Durham. His donation of over
$85,000 for that purpose registers
the highest water-mark of education
al benefaction eveF made by a South
era man. Mr. Dnke, who is a mil.
lionaire tobacconist of Durham, was
once a poor boy. By the practice, of
thrift, industry, and the saving grace
ol common sense, his fortunes were
built. He is plain, straightforward
man, with a heart as well as a purse
of gold a man incapable of flattery
or hypocrisy such a man as Diogines
once looked for with a lantern; in
vain, in the streets of Athens.
As usual with every great enter
prise in which NorthlCaroIina is in'
terested. Colonel Julian S. Carr, was
one of the first to the rescue wL i tbe
college called for aid. and after Mr.
Duke, was tbe largest subscriber to
the fund- and most earnest advocate
for its removal to Durham ' Ten
years ago, when the college seemed
compelled to go down. Colonel Carr
threw himself into the breach with
a donation of $ 10.000 and when the
removal from OId Trinitv" was
proposed, he again came forward
witli the offer of the present r site
Trinity Park" containing 62J
acres and valued at $20,000 acd up
wards. Colonel Carrs educational
benefactions are not confined to
Trinity college. He has been a gen
erour supporter of the State univer
sity at Chapel HilU of which he is an
alamos, and quiet recently he has
made a gift ofa thousand dollars to
Davidson college, thaleadins Pres-
byterian school of ; the State. Col
one! Carr Is a millionaire in a finan
tial way, and a billionaire' in the
true riches of the heart. , i
The principal dimenskmaof the
main building are 50x208 feet, three
stories with basement. Tbe central
part of tliibuildiDg.belD one-Uiird
of tho entire length bf it. project for
wards 25 feet, makJug-the width 75
feet one-third of Us length, and- 50
feet the other twoUiirds. Over the
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principal entrance, at the center in
front, is ta square tower 7 150 feet
high, with h clock showing tbjree' di
a Is, and a bell weighing 2.500 pounds
The building is of brick, faced with'
pressed brick and trimmed with ter
ra, cotta- and Sanford brownstone.
The style is Romanesque and the
structure handsome and imposing.'
, The interior is -fitted op with a
view to secatin the best results, in
light, heat,' ventilation, comfort, con
venience auJ. appearance.' . The sys
tem pf heating i.nd4ventilation is su
perior to that t)f most -tjol Lege build
Ings in the South. t ' v V;
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lb5 .building -contains five class
rhoms.'parlbr, president's offlceV'prU
yte office, treasurer's office, library,
faculty; room s, cbapcl, s and rooms for
Students.' Tne-'vclassc rooms have"
blackboafds In the separating parti-
tions, t thus -admitting. the! greatest
amount pfdignach'daisropjii."
i?Tb6re are two other buildings not
counting the reslcjlehce of. the profes
sors, fb 'the" Park; viz.; the College
fnn?;ls.utiful and capacious hotel
al building, w hie . is t': 2. g'i ft, of- tbe
president Crr fioiinrfX .hlji'dcceased
teprscUj
of the Methodist EpTscopaf 'Church,
Soxtb, in North Carolina. The in
stitution is under the control of the
patronizing conferences, the North
Carolina conference nnd the West
ern North Carolina conference of
the .Church'.
Within the next few years the
probability is that there will be three
leading seats of learning in southern
Metbedisin, -charged especially with
theological education of the higher
character. Vanderbilt university is
one of these, another will be west of
the Mississippi, and the third ought
to be Trinity college. Dr. Tillett,
dean of the biblical department of
yanderbilt, has repeatedly expressed
the desire that such sbould he the
case, and offered to spend a summer
stumping the State In the interest of
such a school at Trinity college,"
The college now has in addition to
the regular academic departments, a
school of theology a school of histo
ry and politics, a school of econo
mics an 3 social science, a school of
law and a school of pharmacy, each
presided over by a, specialist. It is
the purpose'of the president to give
Trinity more of the university char
acter that tbe institution may stand
in different and less antagonistic re
lation to the other colleges of tbe
Met hodist denomination in the South.
For the past several years the col
lege has put itself in direct contact
with the meet progressive thought
of the times, dealing largely with
modern problems, and with modern
metho.ls of instruction and inquriy.
The greatest need of the institu
tion at present is an additional en
dowment of at least $200,000. The
Southern Kducator.
A Poor Aulhorilj.
Little Boy (writing a letter) Is
trolley spelt with an e, nr without f
Father (anxious to inculcate a good
habit) Look in Webster.
Little Boy Hnh ! What does Web
ster know about it ? lie died before
trolleys were invented. Good News.
ihrifel Mrs.' Laura CrowelL
y? AS TO Tflfi FUTURE J V
OFFICIAL VOfEt
OF TIIS ELECTION IN XORTjlASIPTOX
CCUXTY, TCESpAT. 'NO VEX
. BER 8, 1802.
Cleveland, Democrat, '
Harrison. Republican,
Weaver. Third party. ,
BidweluVrobibiUonist,
1 Cleveland's plurality,
''X .- -!': : '
. FORCOXORESS.
F. A. XyoodardDemocrat,
n. P. Cheatham, Republican,
E. Al Thorn, third party,
GUes Hlnson, Prohibitionist,
Cheatham's plurality.
J3G3
13G0
45T
45
5
1408
1472
32
G4
for associate justice of sutreme
Court.-:
James C. Mac Rae, Democrat, 1413
William's. Ball, Republican, 1447
i Bairs majority,
? - FOR JUDGE SUPERIOR COURT.."
GeoASa'uford.Democrat, 1412
W. L. Norwood, Republican,
j j Norwood majority.
1447
. 35
1 1 FOR GOVERNOR.
1 ,
Effas Carr, Democrat; 1435
D.;M. Furches, llepublrcan 1027
Wl pEum; Third party, 81,
J. M.TempIeton. Prohibitionist, 38
', . Cartas pluralltjv' s 428
FOR SENATE, 3RD .DiBTRICT. '
C. W. Mitchell, Democrat, -Wau
H. Morris, Republicarf
Jas. M. Early Third Party,
j Mitchell's plurality,
1 'V yOIS .RKmESEXTATIVE.
Cola R. Ilarrelir Democrat, , .
1473
982
67G
491
1482
Cbas. II. Williams; Republican, 9G7 " "
Ja.,U. Grimo; Third party; ; - 665
'CbTrftton,ihib)tfqnls '' 38
CV? llarf eIia;pVarali ty, , -515
. "Co n n t y Odcersv ' . '
: - w, -v i ' -?
, for REoisTEit 6f deeds. ' .
" . .- v' ' "" K-'-;"r-'-M
Jnpi W. Fleptwood, Deraoc'rat;143ilt
'tf. R. Deloatci Reubiraan ?:128
KW. J. Browt4 Thirds Party, ' . Ci)3
Fleetwood's plurality, 140
; FOR TREASURER.
J. A. Burg3'nt Democrat, 1491
R W. Rlanchard. Third party, 833
Rurgwyn's majority, C58
There Was no opposition to M. F.
Staneell. E. W. Conner and Thos.
Dukes, Democratic candidates for
Sherilf, Surveyor and Coroner.
Told by a Boston Dramner.
'There are fonie funny characters out
west still. said a Boston driiiiiiuer at
the Adam House, yesterday, And some
of these preserve their 'individuality . in
spite of their present surrounding.
When I was in Denver, 1 met the editor
of tbe Great Divide, and he U n cu
rious combination. He wears a wild
Cowboy hat, h is a gun on the de6k, anl
when acompoMtor Hjle.ies bim, flren
a shot or two at him to relieve hit mind.
He can Sling ink, & he call it, with
the best writers in the country, and has
a pet rattlesuak in one of hi pocket,
to entertain those who call in with x
etry which U not up to hi standard.
When his paper, the Gukat Divide,
was started four years ao, he made all
the necessary arrangements, but forgot
to choose. a name. Nobody thought if
this till they were all restdy to print,
and then the foreman a ked what the
name wa to ln 1111;' said this west
ern editor, I had never thought of th it.
fay, you chri'teu it.' The foreman
could not think of a name aJ all went
out and had a drink to Hi inula ti their
imaginations. But it wa of-no.uie.
Hnally it wa decided' to throw dice,
and vv boever won, wa to name the pn
per or be shot ou the a. The print
er's devil won the throw and caid before
th-re wa lime to hoot, -all it tho
GiiEAT DlVIbK, and that t at how tho
paper was named, fort he editor toU mo
himself in Denver. 'The appropriate-
nes Of tlie name was not t!lcovered
until afterward." lio-toh 1 1 em Id.
Friendship is the decree of ierft c
tioa in sx;iety. Montaigny.
Our undertaking department 1 com
plete at ail time win fnu artujeiii
of OJmxs ami CAKi., from the fiur
et tiietalic to the c'MaJ tt woild. Or
dera filled al all iine with ili.patch.
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