The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1889-06-06
HON. II. ". SANDERLlN
DELIVERS A BRIGHT. WIT
TY, HUMOROUS AND EN-
I\ENTLI INSTRCC-
TIVE ADDRESS.
A Large Crowd and Enjoyable 0c-
casion, in Spite Of lnclement
Weather.
SUBJECT:--A PLEA TO YOUNG MEN
TO ADOPT FARMING AS A PRO-
FESSI0N.
The Farm the Great Antidotc'
BELLEvoIR HIGH SCHOOL,
Ora, n. c., May 31st

BELLEvoIR HIGH SCHOOL,
Ora, n. c., May 31st.
The closing exercises of Belle
voir High School were held on
Friday. The morning was dark
and rainy, yet a large crowd
braved the elements to hear the
address ty the orator of the day,
who had made himself famous
as a stump speaker, in the re-
cent State campaign. Mr.. ID. b.
Nicholson, of the Clinton bar,
the popular and efficient Read
ing Clerk of the last two Sem
ates, in q very timely and hap
py manner introduced to the
anxious audience, Hon. Geo. w.
Sanderlin, Auditor of the State
Of North Carolina. Mr.. Sander
lin arose amid applause and in
his most genial and appropriate
Introductory remarks put his
audience and himself on the
best OF terms.
He said that during the Cam
paign he was duable to come tC
this county and was happy tC
have the present opportunity tc
meet such a mum Der OF the good
people Of Sampson. He was
doubly pleased to come on at
occasion like this, for he had
understood that Sampson lee
the State with fourteen sucl
high schools, which like beacor
lights stand npon the moral ant
educational shores of a nation:
progress. The tendencies of hrl
man nature are either to brood
upon the past and conjure III
bright pictures Of what ''migh
, have been," or to foster hope b.
painting a roseate prospectus o.
, what may be. In fact the poe
r try of manhood is, when 1 wa
a boy" the poetry of boyhoo'
is, "when [ will be a man." Thi
1 tendency to look forward int
the future or back into the pas
=, was recognized by Johnson il
v the opening chapter of Rassela
aye who listen with credulity t
5 the whispers Of fancy, and pursu
; with eagerness the phantoms c
hope, who expect that age will pei
; form the promises of youth, an
u that the deficiencies of the preser
! day will be supplied by the morrow
= attend to the history Of Rassela
Z prince of Abyssinia."
Also by Gray, in his Eleg,
when musing upon the later
$ capabilities that lay lost an
o buried under the sod in q coul
try church yard:
Perhaps, in this neglected spot, is laid
Some heart, once pregnant with celeSt
10 fire;
Hands that the rod of empire might ha
sway'd,
le Or walked to ecstacy the living Tyre.
q But knowledge, to their eyes, her ann
page.
10 Rich with the spoils OF time, did ne'er I
is roll;
If Chill Penury, repressed their noble rage.
=. And froze the genial current of the soul
re Full many gem of purest ray serene,
al The dark. unfathom'd caves of ocean be
:. Full many flower is born to blush unse,
III And waste its sweetness on the desert a
es Some village Hampden, that, with dauntl
breast,
The little tyrant of his fields withstood;
Some mute, inglorious Milton here may re
10 Some Cromwell guiltless Of his countr
,v blood.
q, The applause of listening senates to co
IS mand
of The threats of pain and ruin to despise;
- To scatter plenty DER a smiling land,
'ic And read their history in nations ey
n Nowif Gray could philosphi
like this upon the "might ha
ce been," amid the moulderi
ed ruins of the empire of the dea
how much more do [ feel Ii
philosophizing upon the may
amid the progressive evidenc
le, of the empire of the living?
et- Matthew Arnold when enteri
the school at Rugby, alwa
lifted his hat in the presence
ell the students. By way of {
nd planation he said that he did
because it was probable that
US was in the presence of some
ice the great and good citizens
nd the future. So to-day [ f
L like uncovering in the preseI
these young people, and at
same time entering an app
if to them upon their future cour
81" Hence my subject:
log A plea addressed to yoI
og, men in favor of farming a
no profession or calling in life.
me 1t is true that there are ma
no other professions that hold ,
ten more allurements to the yol
ite, man than farming, but it is a
:. true that there are thousands