The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-12

entirely separate, and each in charge of
a professor, assisted by an associate
professor. In Chemistry the instruction
has been greatly broadened History mas
an additional professor. The equipment
of the Department of Pharmacy has been
doubled and a School of Mining added.
The University Library contains 4O,0Oo
volumes, and 10000 pamphlets. 1t is al
ways open to students. There are we'll
appointed laboratories of Physics, Chem
istry, Biology, Botany, Geology Mineral
ogy, Pharmacy, Pathology, Bacteriology,
and Physiology. There are 5000 volumes
in the departmental libraries. Upward
and onward this noble institution IN its
10Sth year is doing a great, a most inn
portant work for North Carolina and the
South. 1t really is ahead of the Univer-
sity of Virginia, of Vanderbilt and Tu-
lane. 1t is the best manned of all South
ern Universities excepting none, and is
the oldest in all Southland.
| met with two statements lately that
interested me- They occurred in two
articles l read. 1 give simply the statis-
teal parts. The highest mountain in the
world is called the Everett. This was
new to me. 1t is $4,000 feet above sea
level. The highest point reached by a
climber is 23,0S0 feet-or nearly 5000 feet
below the highest point. 1t is 5000 feet
higher than the highest peak of the
Andes mountains.
l was interested, and yet astOnished,
in a report of two very fatal diseases.
Since 1860, in the United States pneu-
monia has actually increased $40 per
cent, while consumption shows de-
crease of 80 per cent. Science has ac-
complished something in the one disease
for mans benefit, while on the other hand
another disease has reached fearful re-
suits for mans destruction. 1t was once
held by doctors that tuberculosis was in
durable, but there are many physicians
who know better now.
l was thinking recently about my many
school mates between 1885 and 1S49. How
few of them remain in this life Of many
scores of boys in Granville county with
whom | was at school at the Oxford
Male Academy, that had been famous
since about 1926, l suppose, / can recall
but four who now servive. OF the ten
boys in my class at Lovejoy's superior
Military Academy at Raleigh 1845 and
1876, all are gone, and nearly all before
they were forty. In the class were two
very superior youths-the two ablest pos
sibIv of all | ever went with or knew at
academy or university-Edward Graham
Haywood and David Miller Carter. /
wrote some column or more of each
when they too passed into the great be-
yond Carter went first some eighteen
years ago, suppose, and Haywood, some
fourteen years since. They were both
remarkable men. Haywood was a great
scientific lawyer. When he delivered
before the Legislature his speech in
contested election case, in his own behalf,
the late truly very able, George z.
Badger. said, after listening to every
word of it: mo such speech has ever
been made in North Carolina by man
of his age" some 80 or 80. Carter was
rich, fat and lazy. He had a very SUI
perior mind. He was a lawyer of ability,
and an independent thinker He had
great facility when a boy, in reading
Latin off hand. He could read the great
est Latin poet, Virgil, by the page with
out hating save to hunt now and then
the meaning of word. He was of much