The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-08-11
SURPRISING TIE KU-KLUX
Made Himself Obnoxious Pro-
noting Reconstruction.
LETTER TO HIS wAYwARD SON.
The North Carolina Colony at Wash
ington Delighted With the New
President of the State
University.
University.


the South against Judge Shellabarger
for his pernicious activity, as it seemed
to us, in promoting reconstruction
measures, and in surpressing the ku-
Klux. The North Carolina legislature
subsequently passed more drastic
measures against secret political socle-
ties, and with popular acquiescence If
not approval. Now the Judge is dead,
and the acts that bore his impress
cease to NeX because conditions have
changed, and there is no necessity for
their exercise, and charity has taught
him and us lessons. The Judge was a
consistent Elder in the New York
Avenue church. He reioiced in a son
who, when sowing his wild oats, was d
diligent and swift sower, now a mod
Ell head of lovely household. His of
flee was also made glad by a steno-
grapher who regarded not man nor
his dignities The son was recuperat-
ing for his fall sowing at Atlantic City,
and the father dictated him letter
in regard to some Office matters, and
closed by requesting the stenographer
to add any fit gossip that would inter
est the boy, and serve as an apology for
-
of the office The letter was more
carefully typewriter than usu-
al. and was presented TO the
fond father when at his bust
est, and of course signed with
out hesitation, and dismissed Among
the choice bits of news with which
the stenOgrapher concluded the letter
was something like this: ''Was out
with the boys last night unloading
sch0Oners-of beer. The Avenue was
too narrow for us, so we floated in on
the morning tide. aud the head I've got
on me is simply majestic" Next days
mail brought the letter back to the
Judge with the endorsement that the
contents were simply shocking, and
if not over his own signature,
would not be believed of such a re-
spectacle person,etc. OF course the
Judge dismissed the culprit, but only
for time He gave him a vacation,
a raise in salary, a wholesale lecture,
but kept the letter to show when in
real good humor to some approaching
friend.
Another story that Mr.. Frank Bright
tells me of Judge Shenabarger runs
something like this way: Speaking
of the disappearance Of considerable
men. or men who had for any reason
attracted and interested large public
attention, some lawyers sat in an Of
flee and filled up the tagging summer
evening recalling men who had filled
columns of comment, and were now
dead or gone away or never heard of.
There was General , and the
Hon. - and Judge Shellabarger.
Nobody ever ears of them now. And
4 l.
fellows of the old rat who had been
king of the rats for long time. He
had got gray, and had many sears
where the soft fur ought TO be to
show his many narrow escapes and
close calls. Assembling the rats in
council he thanked them for their
loyalty and putting away his honor
in younger paws, he retired and was
heard of no more. One day, having
sold his last bit of cheese, the corner
groceryman repaired to his cellar to
fetch up a big genuine, no filling
Ohio cheese, big as the moon. He
braced himself for a good lift when,
taking hold of the box, he found it
as light as a sitter. There was the
box and the rind, but no cheese, and
there sat the old grocery rat. He had
not been much in evidence. but his
retirement had been marked by de-
yotion to a most luscious abundance.
The lucrative quiet and absorbing
practice to which the able lawyer had
retired had indeed concealed him from
ponacal view, but had enabled him TO
lay by a store less eYanescent and
less gorgeous than public employment,
but more filling.
The newly remodeled and uphol-
stored Senate chamber will be the
most deliberately and properly proper
toned legislative hall of modern times,
because the latest. No approved in
yention of practical usefulness will be
omitted
In spite of abuse and criticism from
British periodicals, the Novel Course"
at Yale has proved a success, if we may
Judge from the letters of inquiry, in
terest and endorsement received by
DR. VIM. Lyon Phelps, who conducts
this department. Each pupil is re-
CURED to read one novel week, and
to write a theme upon it. These
themes are handed in, read aloud and
criticised. Then the lecturer gives
his own ideas upon the author and
novel under discussion, Analysing the
works construction, Characterization,
and its quality generally.
Last year the class studied Howell's,
Kipling, Turgeneitf, Tolstoy Dauret,
Lott, Hall Game, Crawford, and many
more 1t contained two hundred and
fifty men, and every one considers
the course valuable.
The election of Mr. Alderman to the
Presidency of the University gives
unmitigated satisfaction to all North
Carolina residents in Washington. lie
has experience and great capacity, and
added to these comes to the work in
his young years, with all that that term
implies. which is hope first, and then
the patience hope gives, crowned with
energy with the upbuilding of his
institution, so dear to the hearts of
North Carolnians. A State is rich in
deed when it has two such sons to
choose from as Charles d. McIver and
Edwin A. Alderman. The writer, how
ever, must confess 10 a positive feel
ing of Joy when it was learned that
DR.. McIver refused even to consider