The state chronicle., 1893-06-24

one or the pest acts OF this Assem- |
bly, that it erect upon ihis resting !;
place q monument to the first State
Superintendent of Public Schools, |
Rev. DR.. Calvin II. Wiley, bearing |
upon its face the record OF his deeds
and labors: beautiful lesson to the
living and 4 reverent tribute to the
memory of the dead.
Would that I bad space to give
the full address, for it was q most
excellent one, and added another
wresth to those already worn BY
this representative of tie progress
sive teachers of North Carolina.
At the close of the address Sec
retary Harrell introduced resolu-
ton expressive Of the heartfelt
sympathy Of the Assembly fer Prof.
E A. Alderman and his wife in the
recent loss of their little boy, the
last Of their children. The reeolu-
ton was adopted by a rising vote,
and Immediately telegraphed to
Prof Alderman.
Miss Corinne Harrison, of New
berne, next made q most pleasant
ten-minute talk, in which she al
luded to her presence with the AS
sembly five years ago, and to the
great work it had accomplished
since that time, notably the estab-
lishment of the Normal and Indus
trial School and the erection Of the
handsome home of the Assembly.
The remainder Of her talk was de-
voted to discussion Of the value
of the Ling or Swedish system of
gymnastics.
Superintendent F. II. Curtis, of
the Shelby Graded Schools, then
read a most scholarly and interest
ing paper on "Education tie Might
lest Factor in the Development ana
Elevation Of Man" In it he traced
the grand onward progress OF all of
natures vegetable and animal pro-
ducts spd showed that in every in
stance it was education end educa-
ton alone that worked the wondrous
change. The paper was greatly en-
joyed by the Assembly.
The programme committee ap
pointed yesterday, consisting OF
Messrs. E. G.. Harre!l, J. Y. Joyner
and @. F. Siler, next announced
through Nr. Harrell the programme
for the next session, and the morn.
ing work was closed with singing.
At night q very large audience
greeted Gov. Elias Carr. As he en-.
, tered the hall, leaning upon the
arm Of President Blair, the cele.
, brated Bearden's Orchestra, of Au
gusta, Ca, played the "O,d Nortl
, State" and the audience applauaed
, vigorously. Miss Lula Brown, O.
, Greensboro, who last year was mos
, appropriately named '*The Ncrti
Carolina Mocking Bird" then sar
, "True to North Carolina" and wa
| heartily applauded.
President Blair in few vel
chosen words presented the Cover
nor to the Assembly.
Gov Carr IN brief predatory ex
pressed his thanks to the Assembl,
and at once entered upon a discus
, sion cf the evolution of education
!, from o chaotic and disorganize &c
state to one of beauty and syme
, try. He spoke of this sge as .
wealth creating one, the question
, applied to almost every thing being
; "will it pay?" This is not otter
: put with reference to educatjona
matters, and that they suffer in con
! sequence is evident Discussing
g this view he developed the though
that education does pay, for Will,
it is expensive, still it is not as ex
pensive IS that condition of affair
= brought about by ignorance an
= vice. Taking as an illustration th
advance in the electrical world iron
q the time OF the Philadelphia centen
q NAL exhibition to the present day
q the vast change from the time whel
+ electricity was used only for trans
mitting messages to the presen
:, varied and wonderful uses to whicl
: the creative brain of the educate,
, man has made it a servant, he drov
o home the thought that in this lin
4 education had paid. In the chemics
! world it had also paid a
evidenced from the career 9
q Louis Pasteur, the great benefac
, tor of the human family who's
: name is above all others upon tn
= ladder of fame, where it Justly be
70 longs. OF him it has been said tha
- he has done more to lift the stud
of medicine above empiricism an
4 to place it upon a secure scientif
N basis than any man who ever livet
= His whole career entities him to
~ styled a typical educator.
is Agriculture, he said, is likewis
9, indebted to the laboratory, for b
e, it's aid many important advance
r. have been made. The labor prt
,r tects the people in a thousand way
d and saves to them annually mi
i. lions of dollars. The value of IL
1t educated brain in the application
"a steam is another evidence that ed,
le cation pays. The proof of this ca
r be found in .he fact that the boile
se used in the British Isles furnish
,e force equal to four times that
a the male population Of the glob
Tho ir A1ancoa o. tho Rr;tarn L