The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-17
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The hum-dIum Of county editor :
life is such that when he ge,s chance 10
ri lie fifty or huadred miles on q rs lroad
car, ne feels a. much responsibility rest
ing upon lin ID report the new. he gath
cred on such I trip. and takes as much
pleasure in writing up his adventures, a.
does the reporter Of a great metrop Titan
daily when he i sent OFF TO get the
facts" IN JyhnstoH fl ,od or a Char les
ton cart. rake.
With these selfsame feelings Of respon-
ibil t. and pleasure, the ed or oi TIE
DEMOCRAT Is under obli.auons to report
to his readers that he took a day or two
fl last week and went to Wake Forest
and back. We went through Weldon. a.
usual when we 20 towsrds Raleign. Only
a short while was gwen Us there but Ion e
enough TO speak u uncle Jesse Powers,
he railroad en- yloye no says there has
lot been a shower Of rsIu in Weldon In
IS year. day nor night, without his get
ting part of il on bis blue suit. We got
breath with our friend, Rev. W. Il.
Morton and spent It IN solicl ing him 10 let
Us insure his life in some good company
Tor our own benefit. We told Lin that
f he stays in " eld0n much longer We
bought we could make good spec on
lim that way as he recently pitched head
g cfair 1r9
more recently has been beaten by some
me and ''left for dead " He did not say
se might take out the policy on his life,
oct has decided to move from Weldon
for other reasons, however.
The towns along the Raleigh CASTOR
railroad look like they did nine years ago.
Of course they all have new buildings
here and there but they look about tic
same.
At Wake Forett everything looks tile
same about ''the Ilill''; bot the campus
has been greatly improved since our &C
quaintance with it as a student a few
years ago. The new building lends quite
an attractive feature to tie grounds. The
campus walls are now Of stone and the e.
ergreens an2 other shrubbery re prettier
than they we've few years ag'.
In the Chapel the rol!-call o f the stu>
tents is much as it was in 1888, the
only dltference being IN The number OF
names to call. There were then about
l75 students and now there are about $50.
The good and noble cid DR.. Royal still
opens the morning service by reading
from the Scrip lures, and the boys pay
better attention to the reading and are
much more quiet at prayers than they
were when we were one Of them Though
we always kept stll.). The singing at
prayers is simply grand. Our old chum,
Prof. Beck with, let US go and tit With
him on the rostrum, apd when those 25D
students stood up and sang, we felt foot
taller. Oh. the power of such a Christ.
ian institution, We peeped into the
Erzelian halt and it IS very much im-
proved since Tom Dixon male it hideous
with Lis dec'amatIons and philipp:Cs
against Ferney Ma shall or any ore else
who did not agree with Kim. 1t was
rare treat to sit in the PtilomalheSian
hall and listen t. the debates Of the young
orators. They discuss the same oil / ques-
TONS that have been di clesed for a quar-
ter Of century, but they are new t.
the III and the discussions were very in
ten e>ting to us,
The students are quite courteous to Wis
tors and a better class OF young men can
not be found in the United States. They
are earnest and noble young men. TIE
class that read essays while we were in
tacitlv promised to send us some manu-
scripts and We shall print at least one if
they do.
Hard times is az common greeting
in Wake c.unty as III IlalifIx, AMI We
ere as we'll satisfied here as we shoIl be
there.
The printers are begging through the
window f<r Us to let Up on them this
week, so we will stop here to resume
when we take another tri 2.