The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-10-21
TRINITY COLLEGE,.
What Student Thinks of the Plan of
Campaigning in Randolph.
Especial Cor. STATE CHRONICLE

the faculty have kindly consented to give
US a holiday. | don't know why it is, but
every school boy | ever saw loves il holi-
day. If some boy Will get up petition
TO that effect and 90 around to all the
boys rooms, none OF them will refuse 10
sign it. | should like to know what it is
that makes the students heart thrill With
so much JOY, when be hears that on such
"a day We shall not have to 60 to school
Why does the lazy boy like it2 Because
he won't have to study: No. He docSn t
study any way. Why does the studious
boy like it? Because he can rest! No.
For he Invariably studies all the holiday
What is it then? Well, | don't know
what it is, but | do know that there is Il
nalneless something, Eve know not what, ,
which gives a charm to a holiday and
makes 1t the poetry of school-life. 50
much for holidays
We had speeches to-day from over a
dozen candidates. These ofIice-seeker, in
cluded almost all grades from congressman
to coroner. There were Democrats Re
publlcanS, Independents, and Prohibition
lists, and us many as four aspirants for one
office. Some were young men, who came
forward to sacrifice youth and talents 10
the land of their nativity; some were in
the meridian splendor of life, ready and
Of TO their dear old State; while some had
already lost their teeth" iii the service Of
their country, and now stepped forth to
give their second chidiShncSS' as Il Vo-
tive offering to the land they love % Well
don know how to account for such Il
mania for Office, unless it be the bad
crops and general scarcity Of money.
Whatever principle or circumstance may
have induced them to take such a step, ~
whether 1t be avarice, ambition. or patri-
otlsm-Over half Of them Will not be
elected, and will have spent much money
and lost nue. time for the privilege of
going about to say nothing. | am pretty
sure, taking it as a whole, | never heard
much sorrier speaking in my life All the
candidates resurrected the musty archives
of ante belum days, and endeavored to
trace from that period to the present, how
dark and deep and infamous were the
deeds of the opposite party. After hay
ing bored the audience with that uninter-
estlng information, they lampOOned each
other in Il still less interesting manner.
| sat and listened at this warfare Of
words for several hours, and when | left
| began to think how sweet must be the
tiowery path of politics. | confess my
ignorance concerning political campaigns
| do not know the processes by which of
fees are sought and won; neither do
understand the May principles of Civil
Service: but am of the opinion that none
but i'll natnred persons will satirize their
neighbors, and that only those who suffer
with indigestion or same irregular organic
action will hurl scathing invectives at
their opponents. 1t is characteristic of
all who are endowed with healthy
morals to have little sympathy for way
ward tongue; and l'have yet to see a good
natured man who delighted in libelous
language.
| know that much of this system of
railing results from an improper estima
ton of wit Most of it is done in order
to excite laughter at an opponent: ''as if
it were not infinitely more honorable to be
a good-natured man than a wit.
There Is strange tendency in some
people to feel merry when another is rIdi-
culed, and some have descended so low in
to the scale of humanity as to exult in a
fellow-creature destruction. Such are
dwarfed in soul, if not in reason
Last Saturday, a committee met here
for the purpose of founding a female in
stitute. The purpose of the school is to
give yo1ng ladies a good practical educa-
ton, and prepare such as wish it for the
higher classes in college There seems to
be no doubt as to its being established
The bone of contention seems to be con
cerning its location.
This will be determined by what those
desiring it in their vicinity are willing to
offer as inducements. This grand move
Much success to them. A land of many
schools cannot be less than a fiourshing
one, and the advancement of education in
any community is a sure sign of its pros
perity.
Since my last letter, we have had sew
eral additions to our number. Everything
seems to be going along smoothly. En-
aminations next week; then comes the
question from all sides: did you get
throughN' STUDENT.
OUR Democratic friends have only to re-
main true to their manhood to their
patriotism, to their State, to their fidelity
to their own race and blood in the State,
to again meet the enemy of all, even with
their new 'sleaders" and root him as be-
fore. But, all must work. Work, from
now until the day of election should be
our motto, and triumphant success is as
sured.-L Concord Register.
What Tickets to Vote.
: On election day each voter will deposit
he following tickets
s The names of the Chief Justice and