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or ,j ra f Vol. 10. USIVEESIIl OF NORTH C1H0LINA, CHAPEL HILL, S. C, January 30, 1902. 5o. 14. THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE UNIVERSITY ' ATHLETIC' ASSOCIATION. ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Of King Alfred Addresses by Dr Hume and Judge MacRae In the place of the regular meet frig the Shakespere Club announced for Jan. 1,3rd, the celebration of the one thousandth anniversity of King Alfred was substituted. Dr. Hume o-ave an address on "Alfred the Teacher-King"; and Judge MacRae on "Alfred the Lawmaker," Both addresses were highly entertaining and very instructive. Dr. Hume said in part:- "This is the Alfred memorial which should have been in Novem ber, but having been put on we come tonight to commemorate the great King. In the time of pillage and warfare; he was truly a literary man. Alfred, the son of Egbert, was born amid the chalk hills of Berkshire. His early education was not cared for except by his good mother, as Egbert'5, time was full)' occupied with duties as priest and statesman. Verv early in lile, he had a deep sense of the spiritual, and at the age of 5 years, the king of Rome called him "Little King-." "Alfred was the fulfiller of all his race; he was the best man of his time. While Ethelred was in his tent praying, Alfred was fighting! the enemy, for to him, to fight was to pray. He became king at the age of 20. Saxony, not yet England, was the home of many a cultured man that was deeply under the influence of Christ. Alfred drew the lines closely about him and subdued the heathen Danes. But they were too fierce to remain subdued and ever and anon they arose against him. Yet, notwithstanding all, Alfred triumphed over them iu the end. " "King Alfred was a man of visions he was remarkable in literature, as well as a great patron of missions, sending missionaries to India." "After another siege by the Danes, peace reigned for about five years and then it was that Alfred became the Teacher-King. The monastery schools that gathered about Winchester were the germs of the great University at Oxford and the other schools of England. Alfred began his work by translat ing Latin for his people. He be lieved in a man's showing his worth by his deeds. He said, 'This was the beginning of English prose." Dr. Hume concluded by saying that Alfred, as the rounded up man was, on the whole, like Washinton and Lee. He was a man of God, and had so much to do in making the English roce, that it is fitting that we celebrate his anniversary." Judge MacRae, in speaking of "Alfred, the Lawmaker" said a mong other things: "I propose to give a very rapid sketch of the beginnings of the reign f law in Britiain and the part that Alfred took in the laying of its foundations. Although our sym posium is supposed to carry back to the earliest days of British historv, a thousand years ago: Brit ain has as long a story before the time of Alfred as it has since. Its pre-historic annals are delinea ted on the rongh stones and the smooth stones, aud the bronze im plements of its successive inhabi tants." plete system of police and the effic- lent administration or -justice, r rom the cavities left in the limestone. In this wav there has been formed these beginnings we have our coun- large pockets of very rich ore ex- ties and townships of today. He is tending into the limestone. The said to have established trial by copper ores that are being mined jury and Ihe Grand Jury system in are largely oxydized and many of some primitive way, and we have the mines are worked for years be- them still. And they are the very fore the oxydized ores are exhaust- palladium of our personal security ed and the sulphides encountered. juiagc -Lixoxvctc ucdu wilu me anu noeriy. it was l rom Air red i ne copper mines or Arizona can ty .. TV 11 f ,1 i , I . . . ? . . I . . vctve uweners or me earnest time ttiat we got our idea ot Jligh Court be divided up into live districts . . - - I T I w bo had no law but that ot nature; of Justice with its several divisions, known as the Bisbcc in the south- with whom the law of property was "Alfred's Dom boc or Code of eastern part of the Territory where ...... . i mat or, appropriation and posses- laws waf the first compilation of are located the mines of the Copper sion. Atter tne ave Dwellers the law of England. He was the Queen Consolidated Mining Co. wauic me vumds,, lhc -hi st cumun- nrst unnstian lawgiver ot the the vjlitton District winch is near ity life, who owned their tracts of Anglo-Saxon people. Government the east side of the belt and which land as long as they kept them in by law's was first systematized by includes the mines of the Arizona use. About iUU 5. came the him. It was said of him that he Copper Company and the Shannon people ot the Age ot Bronze. They once hanged forty iudges for inef- Copper Company; the Globe Dis- were miners and traders, tor in ficieucyf or corruption. This may trict which is nearer the west side their time were the first traces of reasonably be doubted for he proba- across from the Clifton in which commerce with Carthage and Phon- bly did aiot have so many as forty are located the mines of the Old icia. Following them about 50 B.C. iudg-es.f This custom of hamrinir Dominion Copper Company; the Ceasar first took the Roman Legions judges has long since been discon- Troy, a new District that has come to the coast ot Britain. He iound sinued, though there really was a to the front during the past few the people of Celtic blood, there Chief Justice sentenced to be hang- years and Hiich is still further to . ... ... i ,- i divided into petty kingdoms, and wit' rind flip Rlar.lr R;lnrp with some show of law and govern- have too much use for Judges to District containing the principal meat. The Romans, who carried a hang- them: the severest punishment mines of the United Verde Copper law and government with them, nnw ii 1nni of nffirp hr imnpnti. On. whirli is rnnf : rolled hv Senator ment. had to fight their way into the is land inch by inch. The conquered shared in the fame and were exalted by the splendor of the victors. The rule was harsh or mild according to the temper of the ruler, but it was -U(j "But whatever he did, the mem ory or tradition or Airrea win ever remain as a great man, a Christian scnoiar, a Drave general, a wise the, rule of Law. king. 1000 and a good years of evolution So, from after Clark of Montana, which is toward the northern end of the belt. Many of the gold mines are en tirely within the igneous rocks as rrini-iitp nr nnrnliurv :inr1 in.lliv (if these are true fissure veins. One the vein specially that was examined When the Romans were called how species of the human race, the home to defend their city against Cave Dwellers of the rough Stone Alaric, the Britons had to turn to Age, without government at all, it the fierce Lnbes ot Northern Ger- was for him to settle' the law upon many for succor. First came the the basis of the decalogue and the T , t 1 it 1 i I jutes to neip tnem ana in their finUlnn T?h1p nnrl w nnr.tiipr mnn train came the Angles and the Sax- years it has grown aud strengthen ons, the heralds ot a race, which is ed through all its chances about to overspread the world. They drove back the Picts and bcots, and then turned their arms Gf Britain to the English speaking against the inhabitants in whose de- neonle thronrh all thr world. " . J & ' " " ence they had come. The eastern half of Britain became the country of Englishmen, in the end of the sixth century, and from this time the island was known as England. "Guthrum, the Dane, with a- us Dr. Pratt's Lecture. A . ' i 1 j 1 t C . Arizona is tne tnira state or Territory in the production of cop' per, and in 1901 she produced 24 irvr Via. li rrr a r r hdathflne raion nn I x l j. Mr j tun 4.1 i i. i.i i 1U the United otates which was ap- Altrpn Who. tJinntrn nor. thp Ipum- r timate successor ot his brother Ethelred, was chosen king of Wes sex, the man raised up for the oc cassion. Aud if not by him, surely under his inn .ence, the raising of the Kingdom of England, over which, from Edward 1st, 901 A.D. to Edward 7th 1901' the same blood has flowed in the veins of him who is called, by the Grace of God, King of England." "It was in 871 A'D., the darkest hours of the dark ages, that Alfred came to be king. But he shines greatest as the King who united Kingdoms and set up the law over all. He collected all that had gone before in the manner of customs, or . , c tion ot the ore deposits, and on ac- boc, or code, the Common law of . . . . , ' tuuiit ui i li ut iui; icauny sumuic ill the ore-bearing solution, it has gone S in solution in them and Eno-land. He re-established civil government; prepared the division nf thp kino-Hom into Counties. Hun dreds and Tythings with a view to precipitation of the metallic sul- .. , i , i r i i . ...i .i- i i. x:u..,i the estaolisnmeni or a more com- pniues wnicn nave in turn nueu up was that ot the oocorro mining Company located in the Harquahala Mountains in Yuma County. Ihis , i i .1 i . vein was almost meai in us con struction. It had been opened by , . , , r . r t i C an inclined snart tor a aisiance vl 244 feet and in that distance it was . 1 1 . j a ,1 : c . ed through all its chances and Poetically constant in us u.p ui changes, from the little kingdom of 24. It bad a selvege of kaolin.zed Wesscx iu the heart of the island of material on both sides which is also constant throughout its entire dis tance; Although Arizona is often spoken of as a dry, arid country which is incapable of producing agricultural products, this is a very decidedly impression, for wherever water can be brought to the land it is at once demonstrated that it is a very rich and fertile soil, capable of producing abundantly almost any' , , i i r i i : . V- crop. A great oeai oi ianu i ucmy brought under cultivation by means of irrigation, and, it government aid could be obtained so that reser- ii i. i...:ii ...u:-i, I- VOirs COU1U Ue UUlU m wmcu iu store the water whicn ians uuring the rainy season, which might be said to last anywhere from three days to three weeks, a great deal more land could be cultivated and thus redeemed. The resources of Arizona are ma ny and varied and it is not at all 1 1 1 . 1 1 lLni !M ..w. lmf ffnH improoaoie uui umi in auwuivi -. eration a consideraoie portion oi what is now called a desert, will be under cultivation and become fields of alfalfa and corn and gardens and orchards of all kinds of vegetables and fruits. This will be due large ly in. thp rlpvelnnment of the miner- aided in theiai rnnrr which will increase its proximately about 116,000,000 pounds. The gold produced in Ar izona amounts to nearly 2,500,000 while the silver is about $400,000. All the -gold, silver and copper mines are for the most part in the t 1 , a same general Deit which extends diagonally across t h e Territory from the S. E. corner in a north west direction aud varies- in width from 50 to 150 miles. The con stant rock formation of this belt is a carboniferous limestone which is either directly associated with the ore deposits, or in close proximity to them. Some ot the best copper deposits have the limestone for one wall. The limestone has played a very important part in the deposi- population and thus make a home (Continued on 3rd page.)
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