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DAIIY Vol. -I. No- HI. SECOND EDITION. RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY ID, 1897. 4:00 O'CLOCK A. Al. sO.OO a Year. THE TRIBUNE IS REPUBLI6AN, BUT, IT 15 Trie PEOPLG'S PAPGF. 81 rtri Industrial College Memorial Exercises Relating to Life ND SERVIGES OF HON. S. Al. FINGER ADDRESS BY JULIAN S. CARR ON THE PHILANTHOPY OF DORO I THY DIX. Much Interest Manifested in the Exercises The Tribune's Repre sentative in Attendance. l.i i'. Sidney M. Finger was born in. ,r:-:n county, North Carolina, May I-;,; lea red on a farm; received his v -'lucation in the public schools hi.- native county, acting as assist- ;f: out- of these schools at the early i f thirteen; through his own et id home prtpare'd for college al :'. entered Catawba College, . Ca- i.,t Muiity; remained nearly four i a ting as tutor a portion of the Li i i .:. 'itarlung in the public schools :; .!,; vacation; entered -liowdoin Col j ,, iht- age of twenty-two; gradu v. i'th -distinction in lstil; enlisted as i..::ai-. -in the Confederate army, in ! i any 1, 11th ii' giment, N. C. i: i : assigned to duty as quarter : j :- -igeant; promoted to he cap.-ii'v-v the battle of Gettysburg and !. .!. to Charlotte, X. C, as assist- rtcrniast.er, charged with th& li' ii .'i the "tax in kind" -.pro vis : i iM- army in that district; per '..:;. i t tii duty so efficiently that snb. - . !;i :y he- was promoted to majoi i i ';,.-.! u..-dwith collecting that tax hi -'.-!; ui the State. After the close :1s- . .'t he opened a school in Ca .t o : iuiiy; after a lew months -l i put tnership with J lev. .J. C. i ii ,' ."i i organized' Catawba High' --.li'"'f i'.i X v.tou in the buildings ut ':'" !. .':! .-': taught here till fail J - i. ' t"j-. him to abandon :u i engaged in nierehan-li-Mn .n.d iii.iciii'aciuring'; in the fall e .v- ii was erected to the, .i lU-t'i t .s.eiitatives of the Statt ' served so acceptably that -' .' '' i'-Nij .--lection he was chosen Sen- ' '! i 'he district embracing the. n.;, s "t Catawba and Lincoln, ana U 111 111 his ;id elected Senator trom this ! Ill 1SS1. As M ItHvIsj titr hi. Hi attention chieliy to educa linaricial matters and soon leader, in these. In 1882 hd nai a i I ointed a member of the- first "f dircetors of the North Caro ";io! X.'t L- :sane Asylum at Morganton. His. ive ability and his wise counsel ilniost invaluable in laving the. 'tiii-lation of the snlendid' snerpss nt Mm. magnificent institution. I:rl-M hf was chosen Superintendeiit 1'ui.lie Instruction of the State ot --! t!t Carolina, lie discharged the du-i- ii this office with such distinguish ",. a!,i!''' that he was re-elected in 1888 Hth"Ui any considerable opposition. 'us ' ise guidance the cause of j iibli. . (Kuation made more 'progress durmj; his administration than during any pi.-vious period of . the State's his "i. The public school tax was in . as. ,i. the North Carolina College or -URultuie and Mechanic Arts was. es iHhhshtu. a system of county educa nonal institutes was inaugurated, m--h. under the able conduct of Dr. luu-les I). Mclver and Dr. Edwin A. Yunnan, greatly assisted in bringing i'H.wt an educational revival and in ,t. , !iniv many much needed reforms in .a" l uidic schools. The schools were 'H ivased in "number and- improved .in vnuracter and equipment, the standard "r teaching was elevated, the require ments therefor made more uniform and nwre rigid, and the methods of instruct ni conservatively reformed. -Major Finger had early seen the ne- essity for a school for. the training ot teachers, and almost from the moment Of his; in1iwf "uv. nun iniu uiiilc nau uegun l' Phad for the establishment of such institution by the State. lie was araong the first advocates of it in the North Carolina Teachers' 'Assembly, JM was a member of the first commit- ' appointed by that body in 1886 to I -it sent the necessity of its establish ment before the Legislature of North -iroiina. In season and out of season save to its support the whole weight V. ,ls.personaI. professional and official :.utnee. until, in the closing year of !.;is a,ltinistration, he witnessed- what t deemed the crowning of his educa ! ;llubition in the successful estab- j nni.nt and the auspicious opening of 11 :ate Normal and Industrial School Winnon at Greensboro, N. C. As 1 'resident of the first board of di t'.rs .f this institution, that was ', : ' - d with w isely locating the school, 1 t ntending the erection of suitable igs. selecting a president and !' ; and successfully inaugurating 1 -:: ' . work like this, his duties were "'iai:X -nd arduous. .These duties wert ---d cheerfully, lovingly, and ''; ininent ability. -1 ' the expiration of his term of s Superintendent of Public. In ;:t -fion. in recognition of his forme :i ';:a-i.Ie services, he was appointed a 1 . ,,f the board of directors from ; OmsressiOnal' district. ! " the hour of the establishment ot institution by act of the . Legisla " . to the hour of his death, Major '1: - r was its devoted friend, never itating to make to its best interests : needed contributions of his valua- tir,ie and thought, and ever making s l eisonal interests and business sec- i;'- y to the interest and business of institution , lecognition of: his splendid ser '' 1 to the cause of education, and ol" i! untiring devotion to the State Nor ;t! and Industrial College, the-faculty ' that institution desire to place on ;("Jd this brief sketch of his life and following resolutions, expressive ol their loss and their sorrow at his death: "Resolved. 1st, That in the death of Maj. S. M. Finger the cause of educa tion in North Carolina has lost one ot its truest, ablest and wisest champions, the State of North Carolina one of its noblest and most patriotic, citizens, th State Normal and Industrial College for Women one of its first, firmest and warmest friends. "2d. That every member of this fac ulty and every student of this institu tion feels a ket-n sense of personal loss in the death of him who in life manb fested toward them an almost parental care and love. "3d. That we desire to assure his be reaved wife of our unbounded sympa thy and of our deep affection for the name of her honored husband. "4th, That 'a-copy of this sketch and of these resolutions be sent to Mrs. Fin ger.anolher be spread upon the records of the State'Normal and Industrial Col lege, and that a third be transmitted to the board of directors of the insti tution." Address of Julian S. Carr. The world has been slow to learn the great Christian doctrine of the Broth erhood of Man. else the nobleprincipleof philanthropy would not have been so hidden for. ages from many and con fined to the few. Now and then in the centuries there have appeared a few meji to illustrate the love of man by self-sacrifice, by consecration of means, by even giving life for the brnefit ot suffering humanity. Some lofty souls have risen like a mountain peak above the plain, and have by a marvelous de votion of" self to the good of their ftl- Jow.-meh, secured the blessings of hea ven and the recognition of their coun trymen. These. devoted servants of man have been found in all nations since Christianity shed its benignant influ ence urort the world. They have beer-, found i all ranks and conditions of lift and in the several callings to which men give their time and .energies. The Good Samaritan has been performing his blessed work of benevolence and sympathy and mercy all down the teeming, centuries. This nineteenth cehtury has been marked above all the eentujies by thw progress of philanthropic work, and tht multiform and multiplied expres sion of genuine philanthropy of the soul. It would require a oIume instead of a few minutes' ad dress to express in rapid outline 'even the manifold and splendid manifesta tions of the last hair a', century of this benignant and beneficent principle of exalted human naturethe love of mau for his fdlow-man. "Now becasions teach us new duties: Time makes anc ient good, uncouth."' The occasion that places me before, you as the speakerat this hour has sug gested the train of thought in which 1 have indulged. We are here to commemorate the life of one of the most noble, the most de voted, the most earnest, the most en- , HduiK ul me worms pnnanthropisls uorothea Lynde Dix. The mention ol her name in North Carolina, before a North Carolina audience, is enough tn arouse admiration, sympathy and grat. itude. '. She was beyond all fair question a woman of many virtues, excellencies and noble qualities, and by her long and untiring devotion to that one great cause that shaped her life, drew st. heavily upon lur mental, emotional and physical resources she deserves to have a high pedestal on the pantheon of the world's" benefactors- and phllanthro pis,ts. Her life is one of the most re markable of American women, and. take her all in all. she deserves to rank at least with the few foremost women whose dceds reflect unfading honor and glory , upon her sex and coun try.. There are those who hold her, as her biographer. Fran cis Tiffany, does, to be "the most use ful and distinguished woman America has yet produced." She is certainly one of the most memorable. Her birthplace and birthday are un certain. Authorities give different places and dates. The probability is that she M as born at Worcester, Mass.. in 1794. Two leading authorities give this date and place. Twt authorities give 1802. 'Her early experience was sad, for, like John Stuart Mills, she can scarcely be said to hay-had any child hood surely a great deprivation and calamity. Her father' was a merchant, and we suppose left iier little, if any, means At any rate, she had verytearl responsibilities and had to rear and ed ucate two young brothers as well as struggle for an education for herself. Her young life must have met with most serious trials, for ever after this sympathetic, . noble woman held sealed lips as to that evidently distressing pe riod, and all of its bitterness and sor rows were kept fmt in the secrecy of her own soul, even down to the end of her advanced years. There is a dark shadow, evidently of badness, hanging over her girlhood. Home became so dark and oppressive to her young soul that in despair she took refuge with her grandmother, then living in Bos ton. She had prLde. ambition, high'spir its. and yet she met with many humili ations. trials, sorrows, disappointments all along this bleak term of years, hard ly ending with womanhood. Possibly it may be admissible to draw aside the veil that shadows the darkest hours of 'the life-of this most admirable and sympathetic woman, who was a beni son to the world. From one who knew Miss Dix most intimately and from her received many testimonials of her fa vor and esteem, we1 get the hidden sto ry of love that went out in darkness, bringing a great sorrow to one of the noblest of earth. It shaped her life to a great degree, and made her a heroine unlike any the world had. or the genius of sorrow and romance had ever pic tured. She was betrothed to an accom plished gentleman, who was stricken with mentai disease and sent to an insane asylum. That was the turning point in her destiny; that was the ep ochal hour in her shadowed life. Hence forth -she would live for afflicted hu manitv and be the evangel of mercy to "the smitten and darkened. She entered upon her life-work feeling, doubtless, as a poet has said of the many toilers in the vineyard of the Lord: "How beautiful for a man to die Upon the walls of Zion: to be called L,ike a watchworn and weary sentinel To put his armor off. and-rest in heaven." She had, happily, a bold, brave heart, a robust will and hardy self-reliance, sunerior mental capacity and a willing .. - ..'.. '.-..:.:.. . ' . :. . . ::-:'-' -..;.,' ' -' .. .... ',....- .-'. . r... , :. . ness to serve. She began life's must earnest battle first by opening in Bos. ton la model school for girls. It was about this time that she began to look into the neglected condition; of the con victs in the Massachusetts State prison. She began to visit them, became deep ly interested in th-ir welfare, and sought to alleviate their sufferings and misfortunes. " She probably continued these gracious efforts for some years, as it was irt 1834 that they were discon tinued, her health being very much im paired. She had been the governess of the celebrated Dr. William Emerj Channing's children. In 1834 she left Boston and visited England, when she met true friends to whom she becamn greatly attached. After spending eigh teen months most delightfully and re freshingly to her wearied body and, mind, she returned in imin-oved health and btioyancy. -She had received a leg acy from a relative that had made hei independent of toil. Her life had been such a strain that at thirty-three or four, as it may have been, according to the date of birth, it was sadly marred. But God had a noble philanthropic work for her to do. and He spared he life and restored her to health. She was quite ill in England, but her new friends there were so kind, so sympa thetic, so genial and loving, that they nursed her back, to health. When sht returned to her native land she found an unpleasant change in the frigid. un sympathetic society, and in the bleak ness and austerity of their New Eng land life and scenery. She began then in earnest her life-work of devotion and sympathy and service. She had been in a stern school of experience. She hadwalked the burning marl of sorrow and sunering, and it was "the ruue grasp ot that great impulse" of iove and sympathy "which drove her into the wide, wasteful fields of duty. She girded herself tor sacrifice and toil. "She nad been severely taught and knew, as Cicero had said long ago, the great Hu man orator and essayist, "men resem bled the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their leilow-creaiures." Emmanuel Kant said "Benencence ii a duty, .... and thus thy beneficence will engender in thee that love to man kind wmch is the fullness ana eonsum mation ot the inclination to do good." in this world where there is so much ot wail and weariness, so much of sor row and suffering, there will be always occasion tor the exercise of love and ever a place lor human virtue. The generous soul, full of . -sympathy, can ever find occasion "for his bounty," though there be "no winter in it, but a glorious "autumn 'twas that grew-the more by reaping." . She devoted herseu to the .investigation of the condition of three classes of unfortunates pau pers, lunatics and prisoners. It was in 1841 that she took charge of a Sun day school class of women in the East Cambridge House of Correction. She w as encouraged in her 'beneficent la bois by her pastor and friend, the elo quent Dr. Channing. Miss Dix visited tne prisoners in the Boston jail and found them without fire in the coldest weather. She found the insane treated ip this way. She went into court and by iier representations compelled the authorities to listen to her pita of mer cy, and it was heeded and stoves were at once introduced. She made a thor ough report of the condition of the jai, exposed its abuses, and with the aid ot influential friends succeeded i recti fying wrongs and bringing something of comfort to the inmates. Here was the start of a most remarkable life of bentvolence and mercy. She began to work outside of Boston. Within the two following years she had actually visited every jail and alms house in Massachusetts, and had made a special study of the condition in which she found the incarcerated in sane. 11843 she presented to the Leg islature, of her State a petition in be half of the "insane persons confined within cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens, chained, naked, beaten with rods, or lashed into obedience," illustrating the then common belief that .the insane were "subjects of moral perversion,' and as such no treatment could be too severe for them. In this most benig- 'nant and praiseworthy effort in. behalf of these victims, these children afflicted of God, she suc ceeded, and secured rem edies and blessings for them in many ways. Having been so signally suc cessful in her own State, she began ta extend, work into other States, and ta visit blessings and mercies upon the sad and suffering insane in other parts of the American Union, In prosecuting her noble work of relief and pity she visited every State in the Union east ol the Rocky Mountains, endeavoring to reach the insane everywhere, and to persuade the several legislatures to take prompt measures for the relief of the poor and wretched. . God blessed her wonderfully in this most noble and gracious labor of love in behalf of His own afflicted poor. Remember that this great sacrifice of money, lime and toil was at a time-when to travel was irk some, sometimes difficult, and "not without danger. From State to State this. pleader for the poor and suffering went, seeking to move the hearts of men to extend the blessings she sought upon the hapless, helpless inmates ot jails and other places of confinement and torment. One of her several biog raphers says that she traveled from. State to State until "her system was actually saturated with malaria," and she never withheld her hand or slack ened her energy, or withheld her hope until she saw twenty asylums in twen tv different States erected, at work, filled with the suffering and under proper, wise, benevolent management. In less than four years this consecrated earnest worker for humanity, this reso lute, noble benefactor of her race, this wise philanthropist, had traveled ovr ten thousand miles, visited fifteen penl tentiaries of the States, visited over three hundred county jails and houses of correction, visited over five hundred almshouses, and in addition many houses of refuge and hospitals. No place was too squalid and mean and polluted for her; no scene too repellant and terrible; no spectacle of suffering humanity too sickening. Nothing could dampen her ardor or shake her faith or lessen her enthusiasm or prevent her activities in behalf of the distressed sufferers. On, on she went, toiling.suf fering herself often; anxious, earnest, resolved. "On no other page of the annals of purity, merciful reform can we read such a series of moral tri umphs over apathy and cruel neglect." There have been other seekers of tht God who loved humanity and suffered and labored in their behalf men who ' - ' " s" ' ' - and worked re no other nation lived who achieved good of the dis- tressed" of eart, at so much cost ti herself; with such persistent, unbroken tenacity of will, with such unfaltering hope and courage, with such sublime success. " - I oome now to the most interesting phase of Miss Dix's most useful ana noble life to North Carolinians, her vis it to our State in 1848. nearly a half a century ago. She was already known to intelligent and leading North Carr). linians for her great services to. hu manity had been .published abroad. Her success in the State of New Jersey in having an asylum erected, the first perfected achievement of this good ana benevolent woman, was not unknown in our own State. That was in 1845 oi 18-i. She came to Raleigh two years, later by stage. .the only way of travel ing then, and it was tedious and long. She also visited Charlotte, two hun dred miles away, enduring day and night travel and bad roads in a 1 unj bet ing stage, the only mode open to her. Then she met John W. Ellis, after wards Governor, and General Rufus Barringer, later to win green laurels in the great warfare for Southern inde Pndence, and others. She essayed to impress upon them her mission, and the noble cause she so earnestly espoused. Wherever she went she met with cour- ' testes and attention oue to so wormy and admirable benefactor, so grand a woman. At Raleigh she aroused much attention, and no little humor, as she told of her prison explorations and her visits 'to almshouses and places of 'mis fry 'and suffering. General Barringer in Ma v. 1S94. in his paper on "The North Carolina Railroad." read before the Historical Society of the University of North Carolina, said this: "The helpless beings were not only often confined, on slight charges, and frequently loaded with clanking chains, all on the idea then commonly prevailing here, of there being no other practical mode of treatment, but the jails and poor houses themselves were horrid to look upon. Almost invariably filled with filth and stench, and the occupants of ten -indiscriminately crowded together. This ivas with Miss Dix no mere senti ment: and she' seemed to despise af fectation in any cause to high Chris tian duty. Every thought was based on sound sense and direct business methods. Her name was already world v, ide. her fame rivaling of Howard and Romillv. She touched incidentally, and without the least offense the general backwardness of the Stale, a State at once so desirable to live and so in need of development. The papers had little to say. but intelligent men and women of all classes and all sections saw a crisis was upon us." , . She wanted one hundred thousand dollars. It ..sent a shiver of dismay tiilVuVh the NorthCarolina politicians; it looked impossible. It would ruin any party or any politician who w ould dare to favor such a wild Quixotic scheme of benevolence. Were not the public streams of revenue dried up; were not the voters severely economical and unused to. great benevolences?. Were not the total revenues of the State but ninety-six tliousand? So talk of vot ing for a measure under any plea, even from a woman of the best intentions, aiid the most intellectual force, was too wild, too extreme for countenance. The bill making the tremendous -.appropriation' was defeated by a large majority. The hospital for the insane looked a dead impossibility, but the philan thropist did not lose all heart or-hope. She had sat by the side of an admira ble Christian woman's bed of;death, and communed with her in secret. It was Mrs. Dobbin, of Fayetteville. the wife bf James C. Dobbin, who was af terwards secretary of the navy. She looked with tender eyes into Miss Dix's kind benevolent, very striking face, and loved her for her sympathy and. for her cause. She. thanked her with sincere gratitude? for her tender watching as she ministered to, her. in what, was to prove her last illness. She felt drawn to her as only two noble natures are drawn to each other; and expressed her profound admiration, for. her, friend's lifework. It was' then she" asked Miss Dix what she could do4 to repay her for her kind ministerings. The noble woman said: "Aski your husband to introduce and advocate another vbill for the erection of an asylum for North Carolina." Mrs. Dobbinicould not re :sist this" 'appeal, and almost with her dying breath she begged her gifted husband to repay her own debt of gratitude to Miss Dix by rnaking an other effort to pass the asylum bill. The appear of a devoted faithful Chris tian wife did not fall upon dull insen sate ears, but melted the heart of him who was soon, to be bereaved. There is nothing so pathetic in our legislative annals, as the cause of Mr. Dobbin a few days later. The good wife had been deposited in the narrow house appoint ed for the dead dust to dust, and ashes to ashes. The sorrowing legis lator. Speaker of the House of Com mons, elad in the garments of sorrow, heart, very tender, yet firm, so fresh a-bleeding, entered the House and be gan at once to fulfill the sacred pledge he had made to his dying wife, and to meet the measure of a plain and sober duty he owed to the ministering friend to her who was gone, as well as to the multitudes of people all over North Carolina, who were smitten and af flicted, in sufferings many and deep, and with no hope or aid of earthly solacement or delivery. A prominent and former citizen of our State has given a most striking picture of this scene, that is historic and worthy of the painter's brush. Dr. Eugene Gris som from his far-away hrme beyond the Rocky Mountains, wh a heart sighing and burning to return to the land of his ancestors, wrote of the Speaker: ''Feeling keenly his own be reavement, and cherishing sympathy for the woes of other. su?tained by a nrofund sympathy that moved every bosom, he redeemed - nobly, hf. lat promise to -a dying wife, hy a speech which made a great imprfln. At the time all was favorable to the ora tor. His own nature was moved to its depth. His heart was softened and made tender by- a distressing bereave ment. Gratitude to Miss Dix. deep sym pathy for the smitten of God. a yearn ing desire to help the unfortunate, all moved the gifted 'and generous North Carolinian, and he arose to the great demand of the occasion and the height of the argument, producing an oration rarely equalled.' This is not excessive; hardly" any soeech has been heard within the de liberative walls of our State that rose visited prisons forms. but in has that woman so much for the so high in the pathos and power of Its eloquence,, that produced such remark able and instantaneous effects. It broke down all serious opposition, swept away all hesitation, and paraly zing doubt, and changed into friends scores that had faltered and doubted, and the bill passed by a small majority. The results were electrical. It en nobled the men who voted for it. . it thrilled the hearts of the good and brave everywhere, it stimulated be nevolence, it lifted up philanthropy and brought delight and pleasure to the great heart of the noble woman of New England who loved her fellow man and was endowed with an excep tional power and' personality. God blessed forever the memory of Dorothea Dix. Let her sweet and gracious name, synonymous with philanthropy and mercy, be ever treasured in the house holds of North Carolina so long as virtue is practiced and veneration and admiration of the good are cherished in the hearts of our people. When the Lord Almighty needed a torch-bearer for the insane, and persecuted, and neglected. He called to the earnest soul in bleak New England, and she an swered in the tumult of her soul's con victions of duty. "Here am L send me." She asserted her right to be with and in . the world's heart with the truly no ble and great. She magnified her of fice of mercy, and deserved t be treas ured as among the best and niost self sacrificing of women, and among the highest and purest of philanthropists. The late Hon. Robert H. Gilliam, of Oxfovd. among the truest and most sympathetic of men. of much popular ity anu lnnuence. was a member of the House, was in yvarm sympathy with Miss Dix. -and heartily co-operated with the Speaker and aided no little in passing the bill. In the Senate Hons. John A. Gilmer, one of Guilford coun ty's distinguished and well-beloved sons, always true, always ready to dare and die for the right, and others work ed for it and it passed. In addition to her other services. Miss Dix made stupendous exertion to ob tain a grant from the United Statescon gress, in ISIS and lS.'O. of I0.ooo.iioo acres of public lands to the States, for the relief of the indigent insane. She succeeded at last after great ef fort, but President .Pierce felt con strained to veto the bill on the ground that the Federal Government had- no power, to make such an approbation. In the great war between the States, this indefatigable friend of the dis tressed was the superintendent of the hospital nurses, having the entire con trol of all such appointments and as signments to duty. " After its close, she at once resumed her blessed labors in behalf of the in sane. She wrote a half dozen or more books for children, also a work, (in 1845). entitled "Prisons and Prison Dis cipline," and many tracts for distribu tion among the prisoners In jails and penitentiaries. In addition, she drew .up many memorials before legislative bodies in behalf of lunatic asylums and reports on philanthropic subjects. She was a tireless worker for the suffering children of men: was instant in sea son and out of season, and with voice and pen sought by all persuasiveness and intellectual gifts to move those in authority to stretch forth the hand of charity and sympathy for the al leviation of the condition of the un fortunates of earth. What a work of diligence and beneficence was hers? How nobly she performed it! She visited Europe twice her last being in behalf of suffering mankind. She visited Great Britain and the con tinent; she visited Rome, "the eternal city," and was. fortunate and influential enough to induce the Pope to lTuild in that city a splendid asylum. She named a layman for superintendent which gave offense, to the clergy. She wrote a letter to His'Holiness in three languages defending her appointment." a his appeal was successful, s , In her visit to Scotland, she was re buffed by the Lord Lieutenant, a representative of the Crown at Edin boro, and went to London and appealed to the Premier of England who sum moned , that official before him and gave a severe reprimand. Her efforts there resujted in the present Lunacy Commission and Code of Great Britain, the finest in the world. In advocating that law, drawn or formulated by , Miss Dix a member of the Lords. used this language:. "To our mortification, my Lords, the neglected condition . of the dependent classes in the Empire has been called to our at tention. by a foreigner: and that for eigner an American: and that Ameri can a Protestant; and that Protestant a woman!" Her life was not without adventure as well as fruitful benevolence and blessing. ' She was perhaps nearly half a century ago in the extreme West, this side of the Rockies, and by stage. At the right place for such work, the stage was held up by one of those ad venturous desperadoes who failed to know the difference between mine and thine. This -American Dick Turpin de manded her ' money or her life. Shf took out her pocket hook and asked ouietly: "How much do you want, sir?" His ansyer at once was: "Not a cent from you. madam. I have heard that voice before." He slunk away abashed, the truth doubtless being that in some jail or other place of confinement for criminals, or perhaps In some hospital laid upon a lowly cot, these two had met previously, he a felon, she an angel of mercy. She was practically the founder of enduring benevolent in stitutions in Europe and America, her labors in behalf of mercy were not limited to our native land, as we have seen, and among the active philan thropists of the world throughout the ages,, she has no rival, no peer. She was indeed a most lovable and noble soecimen of true womanhood, "with the grasp of intellect, the fertility of resources, and the indomitable force of will that goes to the make-up of a great statesman or a great comman der." . When Iter good work was done, when he had passed, her eighty-fifth year by one. count, or her ninety-second year by two or three other biograrihers. she went to that first child of her toils the asylum in New Jersey, suffering from disease, to die In apartments "gratefully tendered for her free use bv the trustees of the institution." There this good. pure, noblw sperimen of exalted womanhood finished her course and passed beyond the grave--we must hone to meet in everlasting glory the Majj of Sorrows, the Holy One of: Israel, the Savior f all the broken-Tiearted for sin the blessed Re deemer, who healed the sick and saved th1 Jot She died on the 17th day of July, 1SS7. Let us all believe that "She pa.ed through glory's morning . gate, Ami walked In Paradi5e."" ' Sh did not. like o many of faith's toilers, have -t ait the suminotis of God to depart In fore appreciation and admiration and even gratitude came to her. It did not have to l th.lt 5he nui!-t rvat-e to toil and to live umonn her pople. and her brow 5 should be come told and hvr heart asphy xtated. before ni-n should uppralse her at her true value, and should '-know really what she was. They could say a on' said of another: "1 s-tv what thou art. and know . ' Thy likeness to the wise below. 1 Thy kindred with the great of old." God grant, that though. he b dead," so far as this life i? concerned, that her noble deed of h e may long "follow her;" that her gifts and ex ample may even Inspire others to noble aspirations and activities: "That every thought and every deed. May hold within Itself the seed Of future good and future need." Profane history furnishes no more pathetic story, 'nor one mure calculated to excite admiration than that of Aeneas bearing his aged father An chises from burning Troy this example of filial love and filial devotion has lived and deserves to live among the brightest mentions of fiction or history. Ruth, the Moabltess, declining to de sert her widowed mother and declar ing "thy people shall be my people, ami thy God my God; where thou dtest will I die. and there will 1 be buried the Lord do. so to me and more also If naught but death part thee and me" teaches a lesson of devotion to the un fortunate that the world has always loved to admire and applaud, and will admire and applaud so long us self- ' sacrifice and devotion to duty excite admiration in the bosom of the noble and the good. Alongside these two immortals in the Pantheon of eternal fame, upon a pedestal' of ' -unselfish.' self-sacrificing j love, time will place Dorothea Lynde Dix. . . 1 NEW BERN PEOPLESTILLOPPOSE "PARTY ROW GILES. In His Efforts to Lease or Buy Public Lands Other Matters of Interest. Special Cor. of The Tribune. New Bern, N. C, May IS On Satur day the Field and Shore Association made still another proposition to the superintendent of public Instruction at Raleigh to buy outright fn) acres of the public lands at L'V cents an acre. The section they are in their liberality dis posed to buy consists of the choicest sporting lands in and around I.ake Ellis. It is our opinion that If the . State will defer giving the irrepressible Park Bow Giles and his philantb?Tplc as sociates a definite answer Tlt a few days there is a bare possibility that In the largeness of their hearts and their desire to deprive the citizens of Craven county of their hunting and fishing privileges they may be induced to raise their munificent offer of 25c an acre to 25J,2C or possibly to 2fic, providing the State would absolve them from paying taxes of any kind on their property af ter acquiring it for a period of S3 years more or less and In various oth er ways show a disposition to further the-interests of the monopolistic. Giles. Jno. C. Tripp, aged 14 years, a son of Rev. H. E. Tripp, died yesterdiy. The remains, were, brought to New Hern. and were taken to Trenton to be interred by 4hose of the deceased's mother who died only a few months ago. Within one year the family have been cut down by the grim reaper, Death, until only one, the father, sur vives. . Hon. E. C. Duncan, a prominent Re publican of Beaufort. N. C, was In New Hern today. Mr. Duncan Is a candidate for the office of collector of Internal revenue for the Eastern dis trict of North Carolina, and his pros pects are exceedingly good. ' An excursion of colored people from Wilmington brought quite a large num-' ber of them to New Bern today. The many friends of Miss Addle Cut ler, daughter of Mr. L. H. Cutler, pres ident of the Farmers and Merchants' Bank, who was taken seriously III yes terday, will be pleased to learn that Miss fCutler's condition Is greatly Im proved at the present writing. Lawyer W. T. Dorjch. of Goldnboro, was among the number of people from out of town that' spent today In New Rem. . F. C. L. GREEKS FORCED TO RETREAT To the MountainsTurkish Troops Pursue . the Fleeing Greeks. Athens, May IH. Dispatcher received this morning confirm the reports of thY evacuation of Domoko by the Greeks. The left wing of the Greek army was turned by the Turkish forces, aftei which the right yjelded to. the assault of the enemy and caused a very din orderly retreat of the Greek troops to the mountains of Othrys to th south west. The Greeks were pursued by th Turks, but the pursuit was of short duration. Prince" Constantino Is now at perven karta. Advices recelv-d later'stat that the Turks have occupied Halmy ros. This, however, is given little or no credit In official circles. TAILORS ON A STRIKE. Twenty-Five Thousand Garment Workers Quit More Likely to Follow. Special to The Tribune. New York. .May 18. It is estimated that 23.000 tailors are now on strike In New York, Brooklyn Jersey City and Brownville, and It iJighly probable that 10.000 more will out within the next twenty-four hours. ' They have leen working In the hor rible sweat-shops for sixteen hours each day und earn only from $3 fo 13 ler week, and during the past year their wages have been reduced about " 50 per cent. Where a contractor paid SO cents for a coat a year ago. he now only pays 40 cents for the same work. They claim as the cause of the strike that their families were starving to death, because they were not paid suf ficiently to buy food. '--.. This strike stands as the greatest, single trade strike ever begun here. The like of It is unknown In. the East.
The Raleigh Daily Tribune (Raleigh, N.C.)
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