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'X. ew r. .EIOH K C THE CAUCASIAN VOL. XV. RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1897. A KETCH OF BEFORE AND AFTER THE WAR. Villi an Account of a Wonderful Fox Hunt in Old Virginia. M,n millan'i Magazine i mau with a soul within him 1 enter Virginia for the first !n' who me Bame ieenngs oi man- A A 1 t At 1 i. r uce mat lie woniu cross me uor- ,ri of Ohio or Indiana. Shocking i-i the KogliHhman'a ignorance of Lrut iica M past, toe field a or ir- Q1&, at least, eren through the ivtuV) r rullman car, will call v ,i,ui vision of (ieorge Washing- I a 1 !. a e . Q Ann i lib rairiazes; oi lapiain !ffljtii uj(! I'ocahontan; of L Fay- Pi of Mr. Jefferson, in bis blue i . t t . ir.nt ar.: mree-cornerou uat, jogging ,D thf country roail; of Patrick H,.nry 'imuderiDR at king and rar- I . .. .1 : -ii 4i a IhiiiHit nuti il an men) uguruB are ,t (M'lirM'd so distinctly on the iv ii' r h iiiumory as peruapa mey Uiiiii;m mere win ue &i leasi a : r k i r: iT tenderness for the Bcenes of ,Ht drcariiy old plantation life that ii-iniu'li the medium of wandering nustri I ; in more reo.ent times fasci- Httil cur t-biluhood, and with the khiifs d( its banjos gave us the ro- fcantw m(I or slavery. 1 hen it is liit yt su rday that hlavery itself Lri?-ln -d up- n these self-same fields, Ll in h! thera the theatre of one of ! urn t g'gantic wars of modern ui.'K. ilrre, winding beneath the mlioiid 'H an obscure brook, whose him' twenty years ago was in every ulishitiHu'ri mouth as it ran red tlit Iih blood of slaughtered thou mis. Horn a country village, uTf tlio fate of a great nation ... 1 1 A irir tr ttvemy-iour nours upon tne unit'; and if any monument is nntniL,' or this Titanic struggle, in1 would you tind one so com i't in the great graveyards at, southed over Virginia, bristle uk with tombstones of Federal bt on federate dead I It is at a tie .station not one hundred and ly unit's south of Washington that would asK the reader to alight. tr several hours we have been run- South, and been gradually awirjL' nearer to a chain of blue tmntHins, whose wavy outlines th been following ns sin no tulddav von our ritrht. and climbincr crrad- klly higher and higher into the estern sky. Between us and them 14 nti iiruliilA.f inff lanlnrAnn or held nil forest, rich in the gorgeous col- 1111; of the South, and bathed in 0 waim light of declining day. Oar old friend the general's car go, is there to meet us, and the nung DiacE lace oi his grey- tided Achates, greets us with grins recognition from the box, and i numerous tugs at the brim of shabby wide-awake, as we and trunks and the mail-bags are sued on to the platform, by the prting and impatient train. He I.. . I mi - urs no uvery. ii is true, xne car- ire has not been cleaned for a luth. The horses probably have fn taken this very afternoon from plough; but what of that! Is not Hospitality all tne greater on account! The station-master a not rush out and touch his hat, the general is quite as much iored as if a cloud of obsequious 'ters and powdered footmen had isted in our removal from the m to the trap; not from a stand at merely of mutual respect it might apply as well in Ne- Lskfl or Oh'O bnt simnlv on snniA.1 bunds alone. a our five-mile drive we pass puiiers of farm-houses of all sorts si. 's some new, some old, some re, some small, sometimes with My porches embowered in annual lepers, and sometimes old strag- psr irardens full of box and honey- Hie and mvrtle. thvme. and balm. many half - foreotten herbs. ppling streams cross the road in Ary valley, for it is mostly up and rn "dl. Nothing can be more ftures.me than the country wigl! which we are traveling; Xietiuiea the rough and winding M leads in thrnnch woodlands xe l:irj;e leaves wave above our sometimes through open l"i where the tobacco just ripen fr the cutter's knife is spread its dark green leaves above the r'ii. led soil, unit vhrn thft tall piHti corn in all the SDlendor of its foliage rustles gently in the D"1.' wind. Here, too, to the ;t and left, stretch wide stubble With thfiir dnan ji.rnfit nf an . . - r r - 11 weedj over which in a month's NO. :;o. i " . . . . this hour of sunset with all the sounds incidental to a Southern farmhouse at close day. Negresses, their heads bound ronnd with color ed handkerchiefs, and carrying tin milk-pails on them, come calling down the lane for the long iine of cows that are slowly splashing through the ford beneath; negro ploughmen are coming in on their mules and horses singing lustily to the accompaniment of their jingling trace-trains; pigs and calves from diverse quarters, and in diverse keys, hail the approach of their common feeding hour, while through all, the dull thud of the axe from the wood pile seems to strike the hour of the evening meal. If picked to pieces there is noth ing specially attractive about the general's bouse; but to any one who had ben wandering among the whitewash, and fresh paint, and crndeness of rhs ordinary Northern or Western rural districts, there will be much that is refreshing in this old Virginia home. The present house, built upon the site of the original homestead, dates back only to the year 1704, and was planned, a family tradition relates, by Mr. Jefferson, who was a second cousin of the then proprietoc. However that may be, we have at any rate the long portico resting on white Hated columns which the great statesman is said to have done a great deal in making characteristic of Sonthern country houses. The high brick walls are unrelieved by ivy or by creepers, but the green Venetian shutters thrown wide open almost cover the space between the many windows, while behind, innumerable offices and buildings of every conceivable shape and material, and set at all angles, gradually lose themselves among the stems of a grove of state ly oaks. Here, too, in utter defiance of the commonest rules of modern decora tive art, hang specimens of the ear ier efforts of photography, framed moreover in fir cones and in forest leaves ! French-looking men in grey uniforms with stars upon the collars of their tunics. In the centre are Lee and Jackson. Around them are those of his family and their friends who fought and bled by their side. The other rooms apart from the fur niture are much the same. There is a library where the books are kept in high, glass covered shelves, and where modern peiiodicals, Rich mond, New York, and local papers, with pirated editions of some of the English reviews, lie scattered on the table. . A dining-room also wain scoted, with a long table in the cen tre, surrounded by cane-bottomed chairs, a bare lloor, a sideboard con taining some curious specimens of old silver, and a chimney-piece de voted entirely to petroleum lamps a room meant to eat in, not to sit in. There is no bell in the house, but it is not wanted, as an obsequious darkey even in these days of free dom follows you to your room and anticipates your wants. When supper is oyer (for late din ner has never crept into Southern life, even Baltimore still dines at unearthly hours), we drift naturally into the verandah. The general's wife has appeared and made tea, but you will not see much of her. She has a soft voice, has once been pret ty, and was a H of Sussex county a distinction which in Southern ears has the same sort of a ring as that of a uourtenay or Lev on, or a Percy of Northumberland would have in this more exacting land. She will tell you, if you ask her, that there were many months between '01 and 'Go in which she was glad to get a little corn-flour, and green coffee, and also of how she buried the plate beneath the magno lia on the lawn when the Yankee general threatened to make "Oak Ridge" his headquarters, and how the negroes remained faithful to her all through the war, and cried when they were told they were free and had to go. one captivated the gen eral thirty years ago at the W hite Sulphur Springs; and in the com prehensive ideas of kinship which exist in Virginia they doubtless up to that time ranked as cousins The general has sent to the barn for some tobacco, and through bowls the stnramn'a oottor mill ha of red clay such as were smoked by Icmir for the covevs of nnail. bnt the father of Pocahontas, and long r linif t .1 ,i . ft I redd stems from the swamps o KW3 tnrAA1 H,cif toval anrfa.n North Carolina, we blow clouds into u f mill variant n.ifia alnnff iVi a the balmy night, and listen to the general 8 Biorieu vi me past. The general, of course, talks over old days. He has sobered down about the war. In fact, like many of his neighbors, he was himsel against secessi n, or all thoughts of it, till the mutual aggravations and the complications or those reverisn rains "Ktu or willow-bordered streams water and enrich them, while f r lUeir soft turf the shadows of "tJ? r &s the light of day de - uiu iuo tail wvaiiw-vaius e the familiar ndn rt tha lnr t lUe first r.nt n1a.nfa. and thin l, I . . r -- smoke above their roofs times drove him into the struggle in V dearly against the reddening which he so pre-eminently distin ( Negro cabins of squared logs I guished. He is immensely proud of pier upon the roadside on sunny the part his state played in tne war -ops, or in shady elens. while however, and if you saw him every "eld and format rnmAa the wild dav for six months, he might bore 0(y with which the Ethiopian von on the subieet; but who can be rs his hours of toil. Behind all. snrnrised that the stirring scenes of P'Ru many miles away, the grand those five years should be uppermost s or tne Jilue liidge Mountains in the evening or. a lire inai nag oxn piled acrainst the Western skv. erwise been spent in the unbroken r rockv summit. the,r ffhnstnnt. mrmntonv of eountTV PUrsuiUl ied BloDes. thnir ilonn rnfrinaa I n - 111. aI Ilia VaWi: and uweu DV white cascades th&t L.... k.J .nfkino in nmmnn with - I UBfDl UmSJk C.U J UMfc " ' them. Their ways were not his ways, and for year the intolerance of either waxed stronger from a mutual ignorance born of absolute social separation. He has, however, little rancor left, and is conscious rather of havino- MimA wflll ant of the i i . j - - i - f- r n ih. i j t i .i i. . i. i a vi : r , uuuitjBieau nanus. in i struggle in at least puuuv suiua- is the manntion irlf with ira 1 t!nn. Hia fallen -randenr is soothed &cres of lawn and as much more by being made the hero of the novels Uchen garden, surrounded nart- and the maeazine articles of his Y wall, and partly bv a picket- prosperous and triumphant but gen- re mg Darns, out- erous ioe. ne lives in uikhiuou w Viaer CeaseleRalv thronirh hum. groves and shrubberies of rho- endrons and of V.lmi a.B. 11 Ttll- Fd into a nnifnrm tint nf thn dt and the deepest blue. short struggle up the hill be arings us to the plateau on I to all; bnt they, in the fulness of their heart, forget the stabbornni of his rebellious blade, and in the growing cosmopolitanism of their rampant prosperity, pat him on the head as a carious historic and social relic of which nationally they are proud. Be rather likes all this, but takes it with his tobacco, puts it in bis pipe, and smokes it, in fact, as he used to thirty years ago the bloodhound stories. Outside opinion to the general atd his generation are not of much consequsnce, as death alone will put an end to the conviction that he and bis compeers are representatives of a past social state that was superior to every thing, not only in America, but on earth. The general's only brother was a captain in a U. S. cavalry regiment when the war broke out, and he will tell you of the struggle of eon science that decided the latter against his worldly interests to course that some partisan historians have flippantly stigmatized as treachery a treachery that very often gave up comfort and future honors, friends and professional de votion, for the cause their native State had seen fit to embrace, whose hopelessness was far better realized by such men than by their civilian and untraveled brethren at home. He was killed at Shiloh, and his sword hangs in the hall; while our friend, his brother, who had never seen anything till then but a militia musttr, rose to be a general. It is a common fallacy to credit the Southern planter with an un usual amount of profanity. What ever may be the case in the extreme South, the ordinary conversation of the Virginian of all elasses is more free from bad language than that of any Anglo-Saxon community on either side of the Atlantic I have ever come across. The general is certainly no exception to this rule, and as a fair specimen of his class, has a strong reverence for religion. The general still reads the lessons on Suudays, and when some unusu ally ancient and "good old tune" is sung, his deep voice may be heard booming lustily above the piercing notes of the rustic choir. Here tfpon the verandah, with his legs crossed nnd his chair tiltfd back against the wall, he will ta'k to you of the glo rious days of old, of the hundred ne groes of all ages and sizes that every Christmas assembled beneath his roof, and when barn and cabin echo ed to the thud of their stamping feet and to the banjVs twang, when a gentleman was a gentleman, and people knew how to "place'' one an other. Of how nit st of his old riends who sat upon the bench of the county court with him in the old days when magistrates were gen tlemen of influence and property, now dead, Or gone to the great cities, and the country homes with which their names have been associated passed into other hands. "I know it's foolish," says he, "but somehow hate to see the old V lrgima ways and fashions passing away. The war was necessary ; we were a parcel of fools together, and got weH whip ped ror our pains, though we gave the Yankees some trouble to do it, and I own everything turned out for the best; but I tell you, gentlemen, I wish the old arrangement had lasted my time any bow. There were no happier people on earth than we were. Take this country" and as the general says this, he drops the front legs of his chair and his feet simultaneously on to the porch floor, and waves his hand out to where the moonlight is streaming over the awn and the woods behind, and the stubble-fields and the pastures and the winding stream in valley be neath "there were perhaps a dozen such places as this, owned by people of our class. .We were all brought up more or less together. We ought and scuffled at the local school when we were youngsters, and followed one another as young men to the University of Virginia, fox hunted and shot together, danced, raced, and intermarried, till we had lost all count of our rela tionships. We rarely traveled abroad, because we couldn't leave our large households of slaves and the responsibilities entailed by them for so long; and to tell you tne truth, we were not very flush of money as a rule, to say tnat we were gener ally in debt, though true, would leave a false impression. Oar plan tations, dear to us though they were, were of nothing like the value of our slave property, whose increase we preferred to borrow money upon rather than to sell, from motives of pride and -kindliness towards our de pendents; but we were heavily over stocked, and often lived for years on paper "I know we were provincial and egotistic. We thonght ourselves bigger men than we really were, but our political control at Washington did much in saving us from the mental stagnation- that our bare lit erary record aight imply. "Whatever else .we were, we were always farmers and country gentle men, but,in addition, were often judges, senators, bankers, physi cians; that the. Yankees, when the war broke out, thought we were en ervated by luxury, is a proof of how little the two sections knew of one another in those days (and I some times think they don't know much more now.) There never was luxury in your sense of the word in Vir ginia. Such as you see my home to day it has always been, and the meal my wife gave you to-night you would have got in 1800, for thank God and a good plantation and taste for farming, I have never since the year "after the war had to want for the ordinary comforts of life. pay more attention to grass and im proved eatue than of old. l have seeded-much of my alluvial low ground to timothy, and cut all the hay I require every year from them and the rest produces as heavy crops of Indian corn per acre as the Ohio valley, and has done so from time immemorial. Upon the poorer up lands I range my cattle, and grow what wheat and oats' my own people and horses require. I have set out a vineyard which is fast coming into bearmsr. and have planted , severs hundred peach and apple ireea, for the benefit, if not ox myself, at any rate . ox those tnat come alter me ners of the property in tobaeco and eorn on shares with m, and upon the whole I have no great eanse to complain. "Twenty yrar ago, however, it it not at all likely you would have been sitting in the porch atone with m as you now are. The ehances are, there would have been half a dozen here, and double the number of young folks frolicking in the parlor. We sometimes scare up a right smart crowd, even now. when the city people are out here in the sum mer; bnt bless me, I'ye seen the men lying so thick on the floors, tucked up for the night, you could hardly get about the house without treading on them. "Then, in those days, as I before said, you knew who was who. Now If your daughter goes out to a dance in the neighborhood, the chances are she is escorted home by young Smith wnose rather kept ibe store at the forks of the road yonder when I was a boy, or young Jones who measures calico in a dry-goods store in town. Perhaps that's all right; mind you, I don't want to say anything against it. We are a free country now, and a republic (worse luck to it), but I sometimes feel like the old Lord rairfax, who, on hearing in the backwoods of Augusta county, of Cornwallis'8 surrender at Yorktown, told his servants to 'carry him up stairs to die, as there was no use in his living any longer.' "Then there was a large class of good honest yeoman farmers living amongst us, also slave-holders, that were welcome to a seat at our table, or a bed for that matter, if they came along, atd with whom we were on a familiar footing, but still thev were not of us. Their familusand ours did not even pretend to asso ciate. The annual call they made perhaps as neighbors was a mere relic of very old colonial days when families were more dependent on one another, and a sort of feeble protest against class distinctions a mere show of equality that hurt no body and amounted to nothing, and that the very negroes laughed at. But if we held our heads above the large yeoman who yery often had considerable property, and nearly as many negroes, sometimes more than we had, they in their turn looked down on the smaller farmers, who again revenged themselves by their contempt for the overseers and the poor whites. In fact," says the gen eral, laughing, "we were a power fully aristocratic people, I promise you, and you will find the fires still smouldering through the country now, and working with the new ele ments if you lived here long enough to get below the surface " "Mar'se George. Oh, Mar'se George." The voice is Caleb's from out the darkness; he has stolen round the house and his white teeth are flashing on us from the foot of the verandah steps. "Hullo, Caleb, what's up!" "Mar'se George, sah dars suthin the matter wid dat are sorrel mar agin, 'pears like she's powerful on easy a snortin' an' a gwine on; I thote I'd jest git you to step round AT THE UNIVERSlTf. THE ONE HUNDRED AMD it COM 0 COM ENCIMEMT DAY. "The ltela to the A fl an' look at her." While the general, who, like all Southerners, can not only break, buy, and ride a horse, whether he be farmer, merchant, or lawyer, but doctor one, too, in a rough and ready fashion, gets his stable lan tern and hurries across the lawn to wards the lodging of the "sorrel mar," we revel silently in the balmy night. The ceaseless trill of frogs and tree-crickets seems to grow ouder now; all sounds of human 1 turn voices have ceasea; great-winged beetles and cockchafers go swinging through the trellis work of cypress and trumpet flowers, and fall with a thud upon the verandah floor; bats flit backwards and forwards before the lighted windows; the night owl hoots gloomily from the orchard, and the whip-poor-will fills the val- ey below with his plaintive song; fireflies dance against the dark back ground of shrubbery, while the great oak-trees above us gently rus tle their leaves on which the moon- ight is streaming from a sky cloud ess and twinkling with a myriad of stars. "Then as for sport," continued the general, having once again seat ed himself at his favorite angle, those antlers in the hall were of course not taken here, ur part ridges and turkeys we had plenty, and still have, but my father was a great sportsman, and we owned, like many other families, a quantity of wild land in one of the south-west ern mountain counties. In fact, nearly the whole of county at that time belonged to ns. It did not amount to very much as property. Our Virginia mountaineers are tough customers, and they squatted all over the valleys at a nominal rent, which had to be drawn from them like eye teeth. The old gen tleman, however, had a fancy for the place, and used to come home with a whole string of horses behind him as the revenue of his principali ty. But we boys, and indeed all our friends, used to look forward keenly to the annual excursion to the moun tains. My father had a pack of hounds of which he was exceedingly proud, and with which ne would hunt foxes at home, and deer when he went to county. A long cavaleade it used to be that every October started from this door to the mountains. My father and one of his old cronies in the big carriage, two wagons full of provender, am munition, blankets, etc, and fifteen or twenty friends -and servants, mounted on saddle-horses in the rear. The ninety miles used to give us three days of traveling, and at the end our mountaineer tenants used to throng to meet ns at the rude shooting-box with stories of deer and 'bar,' wonderful to listen to, and g, negro eabins, resonant at tirement, eonrting no nan, and cWil J Negro tenants cultivate the odd cor "I Tm Alaaaal Clmm Ki rcU U(rM GMariM UwmA- .Wa-Aaaaal Atf4raa bf Haau W. C WIUaa-Taa Alaaaal Baaaaal-aWaly af Lla.tea.at U...r..r m,..ld. Tk. Taaat "Maria Carallaa aa Mar Valvar. Ur" University of North Carolina, Chanel Hill, N. C, Jane L This was the 102nd commencement day at this university, and it was made delightful by perfect weather, a large attendance and interest, and by a well arranged programme. The opening event of the day was the meeting of the Alumni Atociation. over which Thomas S. Kenan pre sided. Just before noon the acade mic procession formed and marched to Memorial hall. It was composed of the seniors, President Alderman and the faculty, and trustees. The noble hall was filled with an audience which worthily represented the State. Four of the seniors delivered ora tionsA. T. Allen on "The K-la tion of Government to Freedom;" D. B. Smith on "America in Civili zation;' Donald Mclver on "Conflict Between Knowing and Feeling;" S. B Shepherd on "The Growth of Law." Theses were presented by the other thirty-eight members of the graduating Jclass of forty two that by Arthur William Belden, of Wilmington, being on tion of the Industries vancement of Chemical Science." The chief event of the day was the address by Hon. William L. Wilson, president of Washington and Lee University, who was introduced by President Alderman. His theme was a quotation from John C. Calhoun, "Liberty is a re ward to be earned; a reward reserved for the intelligent, the patriotic, the virtuous and the deserving," and the speaker said: "This is the generali zation of true statesmanship and this is the fixed law of Providence. This university owed its foundation to the belief so earnestly entertained and so often acted upon by the fath ers of the Republic that there work was foredoomed to failure unless the free government they established could be buttressed for all time by the school house, the college and the university. Hence the men who founded the commonwealths found ed schools. Of all the cheering state ments in President Alderman's ad dress, none, in my judgment, throws so certain and bright an augury over the future which this universky faces as his enumeration of the young men who, by their own effort?, and in part by occupations by which, if not dignified by high purpose, miprht almost be called menial, are working their way, through difficulty and obstacle, to university education and to the power, influence and responsibility which university education brings in a democratic country. From such youths wf have learned to expect much. They have enriched every field or human endeavor. This university may fit the young men of North Car olina to become intelligent planters, successful merchants, scholars and teachers, clergymen, physicians and lawyers, but it must likewise fit all of them for the high and strenuons omoe of citizenship. The idea, that is to-day the most dangerous of all our delusions is that free institutions are an easy thing to establish, easy thing to perpetuate. "Of the two original contributions whicn tne people made to the con stitution, the electoral system for choosing president and vice-presi dent, and the supreme court, the former was speedily nullified by the development of party systems they did not anticipate, and the other has become a bulwark of freedom and a balance wheel of government. .. t j . . . . k . ''i i" idp io i o noata wat The eeater tf rna-ardic io all tb c-oa ry, bat I did not acre with bin 1. . urrw mr- ori sou ineta ma a among cor r-protativ. and there would b nor of thr-m if thara were coorase and fnppcrtat home, pailly am en r that part of tb people who bava tba intallifaaca and who ought to have tba it rl inc atd virtue to k?p -ublie opinivn lightened and wholeaom. Atd where do this responsibility fall so heavily and U3 directly as upon tnosa who aie trained for ettuan hip in the grrat schools faoHtd and maintain d by the StaUt Tb educated man who shirks the obli gation of ci'iz nabip or regards poli tics as a field to b ahunned rhirk the obligation of citnnhip or le regards politics as a field to be ahun ned shirks the obligation of patriot ism. Our freedom is no longer in danger from wilhou; many dangers may arise from within." Degree were conferred on gradu ates as follows: B. A. on Barton C aige (magna cum laud ). W. A. Criuklev. T. J Creekmore, Driua Eat man, (magna eum land ). R. II. Graves (macna eum laud.-), W. D. Harvard, F. J. Haywood. Jr. (cum lande), W. J. Homey, W. C. Lane (matrna cum laud), Oscar Newby, S. T. Liles. W. S. Myers (eum laude). S. B. Shepherd, Wiogate Underbill (eum laude), R. V. Whitener (cum laude), A. I . Williams, Jr., J. S. Williams (magna cum laude), J. S. Rav. Batchelor of Philosophy on A. T. Allen (magna cum laude), W. D. Carmicbael, Jr., A. H. Eirerton (cum lande). R. S. Fletcher, J. A. Long. W. H. MacNairy (magna cum lande), D. B. Smith (cum laude). Lionel Weil (magna cum laude). Bachelor of Seience on Percy Canady 8. P. Copple, H. G. Connor, Jr., (cum laude), S. N. Harris, I. N. Howard, W. J. Nichols, B. W. Weston (cum laude), R. A. Vright (cum laude) T. L. Wright (cum lande), Bachelor of Letters on A. W. Gelden, W. W. Boddie. W. 8. Howard, F. B. John son, . V. Lientz. Donald Mclver cum laude), A. W. Mangum Bache lor of Laws on K. L. Rope, E S. Smith, Master of Arts on Daniel J. Cnraig, Master of Science on R. K. Coker. The prize winners were: Arehi bald Henderson, Holt medal; R. V. Whitener, Hume medal; Donald Mc lver. Kerr prize; J. G. McCormick. John 8. Hill piize; Ed ear Newbv. Harris priza; S. B. Shepherd, Worth priz; E. J. Nixon, and W. J. Weav er, materia medica priz; T. L. Rose, Manning priz9: W. J. iiorney. This afternoon the alumni dinner was given in Commons Hall, Col. Kenan being master of ceremonies, The responses to toasts were as f 1 lows: Lieutenant-Governor Revn old, North Carolina and Her Uni versity; Claudius Djckery, "The Alumni and the University What Her Sons Owe to Their Afma Mater." State Senator George E. Butler, The University and the Pnblic Schools;" E. J. Hale, The University and the Alumni What the Univers ity O wes to Her Sons." Lieutenant-Governor Reyno'ds. in replying to the toast, said: "There are certain functions of the office of Governor which I think I can perform with as much grace and satisfaction as any man who ever occupied the gubernatorial chair in this or any other State, one 1MB. "Wha f ooela or f.taatf ha riea I 1 If All P. Mil I H P. an There is to-day and there can be no stable freedom save historic freedom Even universal suffrage means little. The living spirit of freedom is in the political training, individual enlight enment and morality of the people, And because liberty is the noblest reward ror the development or our moral and intellectual faculties there is an indefensible obligation on every great school of learning to fit suc cessive generation to earn this re ward and to receive, preserve and transmit it by safer title deeds to those who come after them. The question of a system of federal taxa tion and of disbursement which shall operate evenly on individuals and sections is beset with greater diffi culties than in the day of Clay. The question of a stable and en lightened system of banking and currency equally adapted to eyery class and section is harder to deal with in 1897 than it was in the time of Jackson and Benton, ing line between federal sovereignty has been swinging back and forth since the close of the civil war. The still more important ques tion oi the proper sphere of govern mental activity and of individual freedom with its subordinate ques tion whether we are to seek pros perity from laws of congress or indi vidual enort, is raised, as it never was raised before in our political dis cussions, in our party platforms and in numberless schemes of legislation. Then there are new issues the de velopment and consolidation of rail ways, the growth of trusts and oth er-would-be monopolies, the relation of races which invite and may re- oi which is to draw the salary and the other to discuss the toast as it eomeB from the cook, but to the dis cussion of the subjdct propounded by the toast master iu a postprandial oration is another matter, and one in which I never consider myself" a brilliant success. But I am to re spond to 'North Carolina and Her University,' and I do so with pleas ure, for during my short life I have seen the university emerge from a college where young men were pre pared to be ornaments to society, to a university where young men are moulded into useful citizens to build, beautify, ennoble and enrich our gionous old :ate. Thirty years ago 1 nrst landed in Chapel Hill, and even as late as that date the in fluence oi slavery still spread its black pall over this institution. Not withstanding the fact that our dec laration of independence starts out. after the preamble, with these words: 'We hold these trurhs to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; still, born with the blood of the lords whom Cromwell drove out of England in our veins, and with the feudal idea fostered and culti vated by the institution of slavery. a college was considered the place prepared specially for the rich, and me young man wnn tne metal in him to work his way through college wouia nave oeen loosed upon as hardly fit to associate with gentl men. As a result, all the scientific ta . ideas in .tne soutn came from our The divid-1 more thristy and industrious neigh- and State I bors or the north and east. Goi-sg upon this idea the south grew' a set of gentlemen who were most excel lent judges of a race horse or a fox hound, who played whist and chess with the skill of an adept, but who, while they we re' really a splen did race of men'and were gems in the social world, were nothing but gems, otb n-ir trliBot rf Wa are you t" are to taft-J fr what they are, rather Ifeaa fm wfcat tone member cf their family was IB tba forgotten pat. 'WUi are tout Thia it the qaaatioa of tb hoar atJ oar .Birenitj t teach ing and preparer oar joubf men to aBawer ib truth and in fact. 1 aa a man ' " Warren O. Elliott reapotJ-d t the toaat. "The I'otveraity is the la duatrtal Development of tt State," Lee 8. Overman to the toaat, "Cm. tenth i p." President Aldertaao read extracts from a Utter front ea-eaa-tor Rat aim. Three eheera were giv en W. L Wilaon Watiiioirtda at dLer Uaiveraity and Lieateoant Oavei nor Key sold t. Mr. Wilton respond ing to ralU. said lie was delighted at the work done at thia nniversitv. and tha this more taan act net versify that he had ever vi itej rests right upon the people, for whose rpeeial Unrfit it u etah lished. This evening the I'niveraity Glee Club gave a concert in Girard hall. The junior elaaa honors are won by Peter II. Elerv. Archibald Hen derson, C. U. Jobnaon. J. G. Mc Cormick, P. W. MeMntlan. J. D. Parker, E. E. Sams. The Lirbe.t sophomore honors arewonbvJ.R. Carr, T. J. Hill, and W. F. Bryan wins the highest freshman honors. The alumni met this mornior and appointed E A. Alderman. F. D Winston, C. D. Mclver. Claudius Dockery and Rev. N. 11. D. Wilson to take charge of alumni association and to have an iniation fee of ft to be devoted to the pnblieation of an alumni annual, this to be sent each alumnus, the purpse being to pro mote fellowship and keep all in f jrmed of the progress of the uni versity and to preserve the records of individual alumni. The associa tion has in the past five years aided twenty-five students in obtaining education. Lee 8. Overman, Zab Vance Wal- ser and R. H. Lewis were judges of the senior orations, which were f r tho Willie I. Mangum medal, and awarded ibis coveted prize to Dvid uaird hmith. Donald Mclver was awarded a special certificate in the ology. F. A. i)u GOV. RUSSEL'S RECEPTION. K aborted to lha Kapoalllaa Uraiaa ar loo Paraoas-Uav. TayUi'a Walraa and Uav. Kiawll'i Kaly-"Tka I4 Nortk Stat Sad by Qmw. Tartar. Nashville, Tenn., June J. (spe cial.) The State of Tennessee, cele brated today its one hundredth birthday by a most elaborate pro gramme for "Governors' Day." At ten o clock the parade of military .A ! . m was iormu ani escorteu ttoveruor laylor. staff aad committee to the Duncan House, where Governor Rut sell and party were received as the guests of boner. Proceeding in ear riages to the exposition grounds the party were taken through all the buildings and hence to the Audi to- t a a a . rinm, wnicn tesonnded to the in spiring strains of "Dixie" from Cin cinnati's famous band, while the party of distinguished visitors were seated. The party comprised about one hundred persons, of which fifty two were staff officers in foil dress nniform. Governor Taylor welcom ed the guests and the burden of his most eloqaent address was addres sed to Governor Russell, the honor ed representative of North Carolina, the beloved mother of Tesnesse. His remarkable address was tender, pa thetic and witty, bringing both 'smiles and tears from his vast audi ence. As he concluded his speech ne ltd a quartette in ringing two iln,.anr Tka OU Vnrih Wi.l. " the effect of which was intense sur prise and pleasure, bringing forth lond and prolonged applause. When Governor Russell was introduced the audience gave him sach an ova tion as is rarely seen and made every North Carolinian prond that the State was so ably and honorably represented on this occasion. Gov ernor Russell's reply to the welcome and his cordial reception was truly a gem of eloquence and appropriate nesfl. He spoke entirely without preparation or notes, yet be won all hearts by his sentiments of patriot ism and mutual good will as exist ing between North Carolina and Tennessee. After the ceremonies were concluded the whole party was conducted to the Women's buildings. where a most elegant and elaborate lunch was served by the committee of reception, Governor Rnssell oc cupying the post of honor at the head of the table. In the alter noon and evening there were gorg eous displays of fireworks and con certs by the Vaud, and almost every moment has been "pent in doing some honor to old North Carolina and'the men and women who so ell represented her here. This day has done much for the State and the benefits will be many and lasting. C0HS1TUT10H. Senator BalUr Makes a Soech i A4f(X4tiBg Hi! AsprJcett FrcfidiBg Yor aa In CC Tax. INTEREST OF FECTLE VS Tal4a Haata Mha Ma.fc.ai mttwtlUiluiM la tfc. uni Italia a I .m at 1 - - a a Tm tag ttlll laaaaadlataif Sflaafa ttaat to tl Tliltfiaatl'MM m tu a t TiaHlaa.aaa Vfca la4Mi !. m Ma Wat. a M Haa tak.a ttr It laaaraat Taa raaata la fa I Vaa Malta-V a Va.t Still Will a t-anaS a Taa Jala. Vtkaa TaaMraat Um4 a4l f r. aarlty Will Malta i aa - a a Saeart Maaaly mm M aaal a4 I vIIm Saaatar ralt'araa'a Hill tliaataallaa; Ta lalllallaa aad ttef.raadaa. flam. !"! '11 lo lltr I n. a.ian Waam. i. r. June 71 row the prrartit uutliM.k it la w,itil, ttist t Jul) J .,. a VMt rtast and, therefore, our minerals remain' I .a ed nnaiooen in our mountains, our water powers ran to waste; our man' uf act urea languished and our gard ens were unknown. Bnt to-day all is changed. There are no higher types oi mannood than the young men who are working their way through college here and in the fu- with eyes looking wietfully at tke d rthe Adtjn8e8 ia Massachu stood. I could fill the night with stories of the odd ways and curious quire the moderating hand of liw to I ture North Carolina will oe known adjust their relations to a system or I and honored ror these very sons who free government. How shall we 1 will climb to the top ronnd of the deal with such a succession of old I ladder and smile in the strength of and new questions by universal suf-1 their own manhood at the barriers f rage! Whether Jefferson and Mad-1 in their way. From the ante-bellum ison would hold a commanding and I college to polish gentlemen we now life long influence in Virginia to- have a university to build men. The little appropriation the State gives Curative power is contained in Hood's 8arsaparilla than any other similar preparation. It coats the proprietor and maofacturer more. It coats the jobber more and It worth more to the aT 1 ! t consumer, store ss.ui ia reqaireo in its preparation and it eomMuet more remedial qnalilities than any other medicine. Consequently it bat a rec ord of more cures and its sales are more than those of any other prepar ation. Hoods BaraapariHa is the best med ici ne and t bouaaads of testi monials prove that it does actually and perma nently cure disease. Aagal Maaataia Badly Crack ad. Richmoxd. a., Jnne A spe cial from Roanoke say: The effect of the recent earthquake is said to have been very demoralising on the people of Giles eounty, many of whom are preparing to make their Angel Mountain t'ongrraa mi) adjourn It laraperUd that tt paaa Il bill aa earl) aa tie frat t.f July, and that within two r,i, u,- ilouse may Iskr a tion aiJ tl,.. -. ferencr rumnaUr of tte ! Ituuaaa reach a final a-rem-tt. No Jul lMli ia t he laat dale Brd upon lj tit ItV publirana fur tli aprsraira ,.f tt great ground swell ol raprrity . Mat kit lion 1MB at .. a a a itl i Snatur Tillman lisa tli hurir " rut and their frienda in rgr.a frt.t rnrd. lie may nn hate tlirm ii ll. run. He has been liahlfi( hia rraulw tion railing for an inraiiKatltin .f II. erandata ronnrrltd with the aug-ar schedule in the Wilaon t.ill. aa u i, the atifsr a-hdul in 1 1- -i;ih( tar. in Mil. i nr is a unit. and oVu-rm. i tied e (Tort in certain Uirirrin r vent s (ion on hia rraoiutioti. at l.at for the irant. It la whiaMr-d aiiMH.g knowing '" that th i:-uMi au are getting rr1r to withdraw th preaut ausr arhdul. whl.li would give about twenty million dullsra profit to the aujrar truat, and ! autti lute a lower erhedul iu irlrr Iu r vnt an inteatixatiwn. It ! id t aid in jntic to rti?tr Tillman lat be haa not acted aa a artlan. Iut aa a patriot in this matter 11 haa not tried to shild the l-m ralir rartr by simply aaking for an intication of any corrupt inf1uiH u-d t.j th sugar fruat in ahaping th rtt bill; but lie haa dmsiid4 tiat 1 1. conduct of the I tniorstic rartt two years ago in ahaping a hdul mil. Ihlerest of thia asm trut lw equally invtigsld. Ilia art ion in thia mat. ter has no doubt sual m lt. ttween h'ni and certain lalia? ! or rata. The In t t irst loll ihnU ) I had whet hr tb rant augsr .!,. ule is wilhdrswn or net. IXOaCSBT HtalK. Two years ago on th 2ufh .f Is.i May, the Supreme i "ourt in a memora ble and inonatroua deaiatun dWided the income tax unr-onatilutioiial. lour ing thia whole time Cotigreaa haa taken no at ion look ing to ih relief of the people, from this alarming and oppreasive deriaion. A few weeka mg- the Supreme . ourt rendered a derieiwn on the anti-truat law that to aom e tent embarrasaed the crest railroad corporations of th country. At otir the railroad lobby lat centered at H ah ingtoo and brought preaaur to hear to have Congress to take art ion fo aet atid the decision of the court by p sa ting a pooling lull, tin lat rridsy Senator ISutler in a perb ailed the attention of the Senate and of th country to thee farts and contracted tLe difference in the condurt of th Senate when the intereat of the people were effected and when l lirue of the railroad corporttions wst in the least Interfered with II railed atten tion to tbefact tbat in Iwrmb'f, be offered a loint resolution propoeing an amendment to the ( onatitutiou providing for an Income tai: that this resolution was referred lo tbeJu diciary Committee, and that up to this time be bas been unable lo get a re port from that Committee. He railed attention to the indecent haate with wbicb Congress was proceeding to civ relief to t he railroads and contraatd it with the indecent a!ownae of 'on greea to move in giving relief toaiity uine million of people. He gave no tice tbat tie would not only tight tb pooling bill but tbat il t he Judiciary Committee would not report his reso lution tbat be would re-m'rodur it and aak the Senate to consider it in om en i It ee of tb whole, and that be would aiktbe Senate to take a vote on that roeaure before tbe pooling bill waa eTer considered. urotr Boi-ffiv fob SKiTiucit vox. Tbe amendment to tbe tariff bill proposed by Senator Cannon providing for an esport bounty on hat and not too as tbe only means ot giving pro tection in a tariff bill to agricoliure and farm tabor has attracted rolitt e attention si Is receivings roua con sideration. The u,uatio ' real merit. d is gaining etrengtti in Congress each dty. It ia not yet rr tain tbat such an amendment can t adopted, but it will be strongly e4 vigorously tappofted. okxstob rarmuasw'e rtax. Senator I'ettigrew hat introduced a bill that to a certain eatent i!lutraa tbe peiocipl known as the initiative and reierencum. ins bin pro vides for tbe voters of the country at tbe next Congres sional elct ioo catling tbeir votes directly for or against certain great economic propositions, la this way tbe people would in a certain sense in itiate legislation, a. lairer expres sion of the entimests aad desires of the American people can be gotten ia this way than through party conven tions and party machinery. Tboo sseds if not millions of voters at every election vote for measures tbey do sot approve and fail to vote for other easoree wax tney iavor uecmwa vumj must either submit to toeir parry poli cy or leave tneir party, tot party pre! ed ice is so strong tost in tuis way tbe people year after year fail to get reforms wbicb a large majority of tbe voters favor and desire, inaeea ii grows plain each year that tbe people will oever again rtie in mia coubwj simple lives of these mountaineers, though none of them were such cu riosities as old Jake, my father's negro huntsman. Caleb here was his nephew, and helped him as a boy with the dogs, and moreover is the grandest liar we have in these parts. He's sitim? uo ith he horse, so we'll call him and makt setts, or CaJhonn in Sonth Carolina. I annual! v is the arerm whieh ia sure I homes elsewhere. . . . - . I . . ... . . . . - I L LJI - - 1 3 J nr Natnamei uaeon in xvortn i to oe euiuvaiea to arrow ana nosii u miq w os usaij enwsra aa scar Carolina, are questions we may into f nut, in these young men who ly all the water has been drained out notii tbau principles of tbe initiative not find it easy to answer. I win yieia a inousanoioid Dace to l oi tne mountain tavxe. tt is io aaiu i ana reit-renaum mpm These were men who saturated I bless her in the near future. To-day I that the salt wells at SaJtville, polities with thought; who un-1 the doctrine that all men are created I Bmythe eounty, have dried np. the highest held equal is oeiievea ana trsacnea here derstood that it of human effort and therefore the noblest field of human study. The people turned to them for guidance and instmetiomi because the people knew them to be capable, virtuous him give yon a specimen, before we I and t riotie lea4erg A ,peker of and r model Democracy exists at Chapel Hill. The sun of science nowh 'ii shines more brightly than here in Worth Carolina. Uld preju dices are gone, pluck and manhood are reeognizedas the most noble With the blood fall of humors, tbe heated term is all the more oppressive. Give the system a thorough cleansing with Aver's Sarsaoariiia ana a ai I two of AVer's Pills, and yon will enjoy Summers as never before !o your life. Jost try this once, and yooll not repent 1 " ' i ' ii ii " il 1 ..a I. I. S I a aWBIB ta fOmttinrud on fourth xmsm.) I the hou ox representatives onee ; traits ox enaracier. xne old ques-1 it. are pat into rJan. no that the Deoole earn legislate directly rndependeat of party aaachia- ery and party eoavenuoos. tbs ixcmxasBDTaz os tobacco. Recently a large and strong delega tion of tobacco men from North Caro lina. Kentucky. Maryland and other States have been ia Washington pr.- taattina? as-sJnat tbe Proposed Ii ea third it I i