The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-28

bulletin boards OF the university anu
throughout the more conspicuous parts
of our little village the following no
tice:
presidents Office, The University
of North Carolina There VIII DE
memorial services in the chapel to-
morrow at $50 in honor of the late
David CASTOR Worth, 1853.
Agreeable to the notice, faculty and
students together with number OF
friends from the village assembled at
the appointed hour.
The Rev. n. III. D. Wilson in the
opening prayer made tender reference
To the beautiful character Of Mr.. Worth
thanking God for the example given
us of a life so upright, guieless anu
pure.
DIR. Manning spoke impressively OF the
vraat lessons taught by Mr.. Worth
life. His life was one well spent
crowned by virtue, distinguished for IN
tegrity. honesty and purity. lie was
one who did his part nobiy and dld it
well. and his life gives us the best les
sons that human life can give.
Or. Battle reviewed personally the IN
cidents in Mr.. Worth's college life
having feeling tribute to the beauty or
the character of the deceased. DR..
Battle had been intimately associated
with both Mr.. Worth and his father,
Governor Jonathan Worth, and IN ms
review pointed out how the good quail--
ties of an upright father was renected
In the noble son.
DR.. Alderman spoke as follows:
Young Gentlemen of the University;
The death of David CASTOR WORTH
of the Glass of 1853, after some years
of grievous sickness bravely borne, IS
now known to you all. The University
nauses for an hour to-day in the work
II has to do to contemplate thus noDlc
life, to catch a glimpse, through it's I'M
varying course Of some of the endur-
ING realities of life. to rejoice that he was
of fellowship with us in the things of
the mind. and to set him before the eyes
of youth as yet another bit of gold in
the garnered wealth of manly beauty and
vigor falling to US always here, as
priceless heritage.
Well-born, well-reared, well-endowed,
weIl-educated. David CASTOR Worth en-
tered upon life as one fit and and worthy
of success. He found his work imme-
diately IN what we are accustomed to
regard. falsely enough. as the more roll
some and more mechanical employments
OF trade For over a generation in the
city of Wilmington he gave the strength
of his brain his energy, his character TO
the work Of his choice, only laying it
down under the stress of declining
health.
1t was my fortune to know Mr..
Worth better. perhaps, than men of my
age can usually know men of his.
| knew him in his home, so clear, so
just and withal so tender; ] knew him
In his great business, jealous farsighted,
upright. honest as the day: ! knew him
in his church. humble, tolerant, heedful
of every just cry of suffering or distress;
knew him in the counsels of this Uni
versity. silent and sagacious but with a
touch of boyish love and sentiment for
Alma Mater. lighting MP as with a
fame, the stern self-restraint Of his char,
acter: knew him in society, modest, APP
proachable, kindly, lacking in forward
ness but instant in good action, and i'm
peling wholesome respect and d trife
of awe by reason of the native dignity
of the man. and feeling that he had
not uttered all of himself.
Knowing him thus and having in mind
also our great roll, Graham. Mangum
Badger, CASTOR, Polk, Vance, praeclara
ct venerablia nomina, / yet declare to
you, young gentlemen, that this Univer'
sity has nourished on her broad bosom
no worthier son, nor one who better used
the time appointed to him to live.
The spell of the world and the glamour
and pride Of it did not fall across his
path, neither did any fevers of ambition
fret and waste his well-ordered days.
Wealth came to him honestly won
children grew up around him worthy
Of his name, friends multiplied about
him, duties came with power, and were
not shirked.
Through the inevitable conflicts of life
upon which we enter so often full OF
hope and belief and faith and out OF
which we drop so soon disillusioned and
weary and bitter, he had the strength
to keep the first bloom of his you'll
quite unassailed, and even the power
at last, to look with calm untroublet
eye through the awful mystery Of physi
cal pain and anguish, at the glorious
distant scene And this is why whole
State has watched with sympathy at The
bedside of simple gentleman adornins
a private station, as a king might bt
proud to adorn his throne, and mourns
his loss as the loss of one who illus
trated in its highest form the dignity
and majesty of Republican citizenship
We loved him here at the University
as mother might love a tender son
who had not forgotten her in the day OF
his strength and in the hour of heI
need. His hands were ever quick to
serve us. You know full well what he
did here. Almost to the end he would
put aside his affairs and come to our
annual festival-a welcome guest always
the latent humor of his nature twink
ling in his eye, his strong features in
formed with pleasure as the quip and
Jest and happy memory went around the
board.
He seemed happy here with the quiet
happiness that men of his type feel
the happiness of duty done and the con-
seriousness of IL,
Sweet as lutte at twilight blown"
Such was this strong, serious, gentle
man who counted himself but little.
He did not dream that he had any
fame, though fame had come while he
yet lived: not indeed in noisy shoutings.
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