The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-21
THE WORK OF WOMAN


top at the burial; then recall the walk
Young Vance had to the old mill. Inc
antfthesis is sufficient, by Suggestion,
So it was that the sunshine was slIteu
through the years and the dew was
shaken from the bush. Ut was all
delicious.
And so Vance grew and grew; he was
brought further and further from the
surino-house along the winding path
of his career, every step of which Mr..
Rattle knew. A pause was made at
his phenomenal performance IN 1898,
when he beat Avery for Congress,
astounding the State. Up the hill he
came, the view getting some clearer.
On the table-rock of the war-days Mr..
Battle stood with his friend, and down
into the valley of Reconstruction days,
the two went together, treading a
thorny way. Up again they climbed
higher than ever now. The Governor
appeared in a new light; then the
Senator stood so far above the rest of
his people that he whole landscape be-
low was the whole of North Carolina.
Then the speaker made all forget the
Senator in the great man of the COM
mon people. They had come along the
path together-along that rambling
path, but rambling with an end in
view from fountain-springs of the man
to the eminence of the man in his
ripeness. And his friend was with him
when they brought his body home, and
he told, with the same simplicity, OF
the tears of the people along the way
from the North Carolina line to the
spot near Asheyille, almost in call OF
Mitchell the two perhaps communlng
now as they did long, long ago. But
all mention of this effort of Mr.. Battles
had been better left untouched. 1t was
like the creation of Randall; it must
be contemplated not analysed. And
this Randall! A fitting man withal to
do this work. AS great in some re-
spects perhaps as Vance. Almost in
a strone's throw of the portrait, this
genius, as a poor boy, had lain upon
the ground on his way afoot from
Buncombe county TO the University.
The palbhos of it!
In Westminster Abbey, there are
three slabs together, namely, those of
Shakespeare, who created; Sam john
son, who criticized his creation, and
David Garrick. who made real what
he created. When / looked upon this
trinity long ago as youth, | did not
think the scene would be xecalled to
me as 1T was yesterday. There was
Vance, the creator of a new personality
in the world. Battle, his Sam Johnson,
and Randall, in some fashion, his Gar
rick, in making even the workings of
his soul real under his reyerential and
creative touch.
/ spoke of the work of McIver. 1t
is a great one, ii the evidences are any
guide. The essays were of an UNI
usually high order.
Miss Elsie Weatherly, of Greensboro.
presided with great gen5leness and
dignity. Miss Colts essay on the
.School-master in Literature" was
unique, and Miss Lazenby's What a
Woman Did, was charming. Miss
Sanders showed much depth of
thought in Childhood in Literature"
and in .The Wages of Woman" hiss
Garvin was sprightly, original and IN
struetiye. Miss Deaton's "A Baptism
of Sorrow was full of fine feeling;
and for common sense and mature
thought Miss Milan was not excelled
in ring out False Pride in Place and
Blood"
The members of the class of '96 and
subjects of their graduating theses
were:
Emily Manetta Asbury, CASTOR
county The Farmers Daughter.
Francis Maud Coble, Richmond coun-
~ The People Must be Amused"
Laura Hill Colt, Rowan county-The
Schoolmaster in Literature.
Sallie Joyner Davis, Guilford coun-
tv-The Mission of the American No-
man.
Iva Clark Deans, Wilson county
Child Life in Literature.
Martha Cornelia Deaton, 1redeil
county, Baptism of Sorrow.
JEANNE Howell Ellington, Rocking
ham county-The Narrowing Lust OF
Gold.
Hattie Gum Garvin, Catawba county
The Wages of Women.
Blanche Berwyn Harper, henoir
county-Writers of Fiction as Teach
ers of Morality.
Emma Boyce Harris, Northampton
county-Science the Interpreter of
Gods Thoughts9in Nature
Mary Ellen Lavenby, Iredell county
What a Woman Did.
Tina Kirby Lindley, Guilford coun-
ty-The Puritan and the Cavalier in
America.
Stella Elizabeth Middleton, Duplin
countv-Woman in Philanthropy.
Mary Winnifred Milan, Warren
county-"Ring Out False Pride in
Place and Blood"
Katherine Lenora Moore, Iredell
county-The Finger of God in History.
Annie May Pittman, Edgecombe
county-The Uplifting Powers of HUI
manity.
Emma Lee Reid Mcdowell county
The People Must be Amused.
Mary Annie Sanders, Union county
Childhood in Literature.
Elsie Weatherly, Guilford county
The Ethical Aim of Education.
The marshals were as follows:
Grace Smallbones, New Hanover,
chief; Emily Gregory, Guilford;
Annie Hawkins, New Hanover;
Nellie Bond, BERTHE; Willie Watson,
Warren; Madge Little, Arson; lola
Exum, Greene; Trina Caraway, Gull
ford: Bessie Rouse, Lenoir; Grace
Scott, Buncombe; Nan StDudwick,
Orange.