Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1898-01-06
HENRY RLOUNT.
He Amt In 1T with Old Man "Jinks"-The
Argus Philosopher of m What
He Says About Education and Ben
Aycock's Speech.

DEAR ARGUS: The one event
of the a S was the school
commencement exercises of Miss
Kitty Parker's school at Faro.
which came off on the evening OF
the Oath of December, 1897, with
great eclat. The programme is
too long to give entire. Suffice it
to say all did and acted their
part we'll. The songs, dialogues
and speeches showed the careful
training of a mind we'll up in the
art of teaching, and the selection
of pieces to programme we're well
calculated to inspire both girls
aud boys with a love for country,
home, aud the beautiful in life.
We never heard anything more
beautifully appropriate and
thrilling than some of those
lovely songs by the girls, whose
voices we're as sweet as the song
OF birds that float or the perfume
of flowers. The boys battled man.
fully for the plaudits of the large
crowd present, showing thor
ough training by a disciplined
mind; but the girls must be ac-
corded the meade of praise. Boys,
don't be discouraged; d long life
with all of lis tragedies is before
you; be faithful. be true, be am
bilious; love virtue, emulate the
good, the pure, the grand and
noble in life. Make your coun-
try better for your having lived.
Perhaps some of you boys aud
girls may rise to eminence and
fame, your generation and coun-
try needs your highest and no.
blest minds. There is a world to
be guided and saved. Some of
you boys ard girls may be in
training for that exalted position
There IS no trust greater than
the immortality of NOBLE en-
deavor: grander than this union
of States Is the self hood of
mat: man dies, but principle
lives. Miss Parker is very much
beloved by her pupils in the Faro
section aud oy all others who
were fortunate enough to form
her acquaintance. All want her
back to teach again. The cap
stone in the programme was the
address of Hon. B. F. Aycock.
Nc one knows better bow to give
good advice than Benjamin. He
felt himself. on the inspiration
OF the pretty faces and yes,
that lent enchautment to the
scene. ard be arose equal
to the occasion, ~eloquently,
grandly, rising to the highest OF
his Decentralization. Thoughts
following thoughts, ciothed ia
richest English, ike wave chas-
ing wave on old oceans briGy
deep, or like lightning flashes
from the empurpled sci He dis
eussed the Enorat aud religious
effects of education, and the need
of such an education to-day
among the masses, or education
on a higher plane in a mdsterly
manner, showing plainly that the
foundation OF all power is knowi-
edge, or Intelligence impaired
by civilization and heightened
by teaching: knowledge dlffased
throughout all ranks of society
His forcefu! and pathetic descrip-
ton of a boy or girl trying to
rise above all difficulties to the
topmost round in The ladder of
fame, was truly thrilling and in
spring, giving life new beauties.
and bliss too exquisite to last. It
is needless to say Benjamin did
his theme ample justice. as the
appreciative audience testified.
After admonishing the girls and
boys to endeavor to grow up
model women and men, trying to
make this sin-cursed earth of
ours as glorious, lovely and as
beautiful as when the morning
stars first sang together, or when
God and man walked together
beneath Eden bowers, to the
music of angelic mlnstrelsy, ev-
cry note as fawless and as stains
less as the pulsings in the heart
of a sunbeam, and as pure and as
clear as the dream OF a crystal
when sleeping in the carrusca
ting bed of brightest diamonds
and catching on its face the
brilliant chances of the dazzling
splendors that glisten upon the
sapphire walls of Heaven.
All went home satisfied al
what they had seen and heard.
JEFF M. JENKINS.