Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-02

Arkansas, StetsOn of Maine Harvey
of Wisconsin and Joyner Of South
Carolina are giving a series Of lee
lures at the Summer School for the
South, at Knoxville on "City and Coun-
ty Superintendence. A Knoxville ex-
chai ge has Glowing with refer
ence to Arkansas Day:
The exercises of Arkansas Day We're
opened by the singing Of ''Water Lii
les by the Summer School quartette
AID Dixie by the audience
lion. John H. Hinemon, supernten-
dent of public instruction for the state
OF Arkansas. delivered the address of
the occasion. He began by saying that
he wuu. Il speak briefly and declared
that the glories of his state are in ex-
act :, verse ratio to the length Of his
speech He spoke of the history Of the
Arkansas Traveller which has been
cmba' med III art, literature and me-
Haunted before the eyes of the cultur
al. courageous and dignified citizens
OF li1t great and growing common
wealth.
In the richness and variety of her
soil, in the genial and healthful char
acter OF her climate, in the wealth OF
her natural resources, in the splendor
and strength of her noble manhood
ard the charm and beauty and worth
Of her cueenly womanhood, said Mr.,
Hinemon, "Arkansas is easily the peer
of any OF the galaxy Of American
states In literature, in statecraft and
diplomacy, in the forum and on the
battlefield in the pulpit, in the press
and on the hustings men from Arkan-
sas have taken high rank wherever
they have gone and have acquitted
themselves with honor and distinction.
In the war with Mexico volunteers
leadership of Archibald Yell, with
Mississippians under Jefferson Davis
and other bands of heroic sons of the
south, won the battles which gave to
us the great domain in the west. In
the great civil strife Thomas c. Hind.
man of Arlfnsas won undying fame.
Military critics have pronounced Tom
Hindman of Arkansas and Bedford
Forrest of Tennessee as the two great
est generals of that war who had prior
to the conflict no military training
whatever, and it is we'll known that
after the conflict was over foreign
government employed Gen. Hindman
to write two books, one on the con-
duct Of armies in time of war, the
other on the conduct of armies in time
Of peace What tribute to his genius
and military skill!
"And Arkansas claims, too, the
peerless Cleburne, who entered the
ranks of the Confederate army as a
private soldier from the city of Hell
ena and who gave up his gallant life
on the CORY field of Franklin leading
a desperate charge and wearing the
stars of a major general In legal
learning and ability at the bar, Au-
gustus H. Garland Of Arkansas, attor-
ney general under President Cleveland,
was the peer of any man who has ever
held that high office. In pulpit ora
tory and persuasive speech. perhaps
none in the south have welded great
er power than the lamented Winfield
or the gifted Hunter
Mr. Hinemon referred to a number
Of, others, among them Gen. Albert
Pike, who as poet orator, soldier. Ma
son and statesman, won high place
among Americas great men.
Though young in years" said Mr..
Hinemon, Arkansas is rich in his
tory and in achievement The state
stands fifth in area among the southern
states and her population numbers
about one and one-ha1f millions. Her
timber resources are very great; she
has the largest lumber mills in Amer
lea: she has every variety and color
of marble and apparently in inexhaust-
ible quantities: her coal fields are
rich, extensive and in large part I'M