The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1902-01-02
OUR RALEIGH LETTER
NEWS NOTES FROM OUR REGULAR COR
RESPONDENT AT THE CAPITAL.
The Death of the Old Year, the Dawn
of the New-The Time for Good
Resoluti0ns-Educat and the As.
ISOLATION of Academies - Various
Matters of interest-Other Notes.
From Our Regular Correspondent.


lives-where is he who will cast the first
stone at the balance Of his too fallible
brethren and lay claim to the attitude OF
the Pharisee?
How many are there among US who
will dare-in the presence of his God this
day-to say that he has been all that he
should have been, or all that he could
have been, to himself his brethren, his
Master and the world about him, even
for the one brief year now sinking into
the grave of Time?
Oh the lost opportunities to do good;
the failures to perform well-known duties
the neglected privileges, the too little
appreciated blessings that We're lavished
upon many OF us!
We refused or failed t. properly esti-
mate their Importance, and neglected to
take advantage of them, as they were
passing, and now that they have passed
us by and are gOne-irrevOcably gone
how poignant the grief how sharp and
painful are the lashes of Conscience.
In few brief hours. over yonder East
ern hills the first rays OF the sun will
dawn upon q new year Then let us,
gathering wisdom for the future he up
and doing, actively doing. whatever of
good may come our way, that may lie in
our power, during the year of our Lord
1902; and may God give us all strength
throughout and enable us one year from
this day to say we have lived the year to
some good purpose; that we have not
prOstituted the powers of body and
mind, with which Providence has so
richly endowed some of us. to selfish and
base purposes, nor sIuandered the wealth
with which He has filled the Golfers Of
Others OF us, without having alleviated a
single case of want and suffering; nor
wasted the strength SO many of us possess
without having raised up some one, if
only One-at last realizing that lit is not
all of life to live" May you, my friend,
not fail to realize and respect this truth
and may your sleep be tranquil. and
your hours of waking be solaced with the
reflection and conviction that YOU have
at least faithfully and conscientiously
endeavored to not live in vain.
EDUCATION AND THE ASSOCIATION OF ACAD-
MES.
The North Carolina Association Of
Academies held Il meeting in this city last
Friday and Saturday. and matters in
which the delegates are specially interest
ed were considered and discussed-better
school facilities, more school houses bet
ter equipment (the class of teachers in
cluded) and other educational PROPOSE
tons. the affirmative side OF which nearly
or quite all those present are understood
to have taken.
The papers read were very interesting
and contained much valuable informa-
ton. One OF them contained this para
graph which furnishes food for thought
for the compulsory educatiOn'' advO-
Gates, as well as to all of us:
THAT nearly one-half the white chill
dren in North Carolina are not in school
indicates the necessity for strong remed-
ial measures and the fact that utterly
inadequate financial provision has been
madefor accommodating them if they did
attend. shows that our Legislative solons
| must discover or invent means for greatly
increasing our educational exchequer in
order to provide educational advantages
for all the people in the State
Officers for the ensuing year were elect
ed as follows: President, Prof. Edwin
Minis, of Trinity College; Secretary, WI.
Carmichael, Principal OF the Durham
Public Schools.
VARIOUS MATTERS OF INTEREST.
The discovery of the late Nellie Cropsey,
the Elizabeth City girl who has been
missing for some time-her body having
been found in the river near her late home
last Friday evening-sadly solved the
'mystery' which has claimed SO much
attention and newspaper space of late
The Executive Committee of the North
| Carolina Teachers Association met here
last Friday and satisfactorily wound up
the financial business of the year Secre-
tary Mehane was presented with a hand
some gold headed cane
State Treasurer Lacy has instituted
suit at law. as test case, to judicially
determine whether sewing machine com
panies shipping machines into this State
c. Q. d. can be made to pay license tax.
The kinston and Carolina Railroad
Company was incorporated last Satur-
day by the Secretary of State. with an
initial capital Of 100000. The COM
pany proposes to build Il road from Kin
ston to some point on the Wilmington &
Weldon Railroad, through Lenoir, Duplin
and Fender counties, about sixty miles in
length. New York, Pennsylvania and
| other Northern investors are associated
with local capitalists in the formation of
the company.
Superintendent of instruction Toon,
| who has been so critically i'll for several
weeks, is reported to now be ON the road
to ultimate recovery. his friends are glad
to learn.
Wireless telegraphy experiments are
now to be pushed along the North Caro-
lima coast, it is announced A station
has been established at Roanoke Island
| already.
Governor Aycock is scheduled to be in
Morganton today, visiting the State
| charitable institutions there On Jan
nary 14th he will address the Charlotte
Chamber of Commerce, and a few days
later the Durham Jr O. U. A. NJ; on the
22nd of February he will speak at Trinity
College
The appointment of W. c. Hammer, a
leading lawyer of ASHORE. and editor OF
the Courier, to succeed the late Wiley
Rush as Solicitor of the Tenth Judicial
District, will give general satisfaction
| and more. 1t is highly pleasing to a ma
| jority of the Democrats and people gen
orally OF the district, and to the news
| paper fraternity of the entire State.
Governor Aycock is to be congratulated
| upon the happy and sensible selection of
| so capable lawyer and SO excellent
gentleman.
1t is to be hoped that by today 1.-THE
| limit fixed) the friends of Elon College
| will have raised the So, 900 necessary to
secure the $4,000 offered by the New
York friend, Hon. +. H. Palmer.
A dastardly attempt to wreck a pas
| senger train on the A. & n C. Railroad
near Goldsboro last Thursday is report
! ed. The rascals who committed the
| crime have taken a short cut to the peni-
tertiary, and the next station" where
| the devil becomes conductor of their
train, and be may ultimately supply
them with a through ticket, without
"stop overs,' to that delightful summer
resort of his. LLEWXAN