The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-10
A Large Crowd at Summer
School Last Night.
SUPT. RAGSDALE'S WORK
Nj. Joe Wealhes on Sunday School Work.
Bstlermeni Of Rural Schools ---Bishop
Cheshire Today and Prof. ]. B.
CARLYLE Tonight.

Bratton, the newly elected bishop of Mis-.
sissippi. in his delightful lecture on Henry
Timrod
DIR. Bratton was introduced in very
happy manner by Prof. d. Hill who said
that, just as we were beginning to con-
consequences of stealing rector from
South Carolina, Mississippi came in and
stole him from US in turn and made a
bishop of him.
Henry Timrod, the South Carolina poet,
was the topic selected by Dr. Bratton. 1T
spite of the fact that Henry Timrod is
comparatively little known, he is destined.
said the lecturer, to be ranked with the
sweetest singers of our country.
He was born in Charleston, S. c.. IN
1929, son of Mr. William Timrod, who was
elected captain of a military company
during the Seminole War, and served in
Florida, where he met his death. He was
a man of poetic taste and some ability,
as little poem on his .Blue-eyed Boy"
showed
Henry Timrod was described by his
teachers and sehool-masters as being mod
est and diffident with a nervous way of
speaking, slow of utterance, fond of out
door sports and occasionally OF fight.
The young man was educated at the
University of Georgia, and his first effort
after graduation was at law, in the office
OF NJ. Pettigrew, a relative of General
PettigreW, OF this State. He found he.
was not suited for the law, and began
the study of his fayorite literature in the
hope of securing a professorship, mean
while tutoring young men who came
under his charge Later he formed the
acquaintance of the poet Hayne, and be-
came chief assistant on Russelfs Maya
zine. of which Hayne was editor in chief.
In 1850 Timrod published a small vol
ume of his poems. from the press of Itch
nor, which received very favorable men
ton, even in the North.
During the war the poet was for q
time correspondent at the front for the
Charleston Mercury, but he could not long
endure the awful sights of dismembered
bodies, and he staggered home, sickened
by me experience.
Next we find him associated with a
newspaper enterprise in Columbia that
promised him a comfortable income.
About this time ne began to press strong
his suit for the hand and heart of an
saglish lady, whose brother had married
one Of his sisters. To this period belonged
some of his best poetry. "A Years Court
ship" The Lily. and others.
The poems are true to life; the poet
fairly won his bride, and married her ON
February 18th, 1864. Then came the ter
rible period of the close of the war. and
Timrod was one of the victims of the
want and poverty that destroyed many a
family. His well-knl., strong frame sue
curnbed at last to hemorrhage after hem
orrhage He obtained employment as
copyist at $500 month. but it was too
late short poem called "A Common
Thought" foretells the end. And so he
died at the age of 80, an age at which
most men are just beginning their best
work
Dr. Bratton read selections from a
number of Timrod's poems. with delight
full comments on each one. The talk was
very interesting and the audience listened
with close attention to the lecturers
words and the poets rhythmic lines. Tim
rod, said the lecturer, was one of the
sweetest and purest of Americas poets,
and one that all the school children should
be taught to know.
At II o'clock yesterday Supt. w. H.
Ragsdale, of Pitt county made an ex-
eeIlent address on the necessity for rural
school libraries He told of one lady
teacher in his county who in one term
of school last year induced the people
of her district to erect new school
building, to establish library and make
other great improvements in the educa-
tional conditions of her section.
superintendent Ragsdale will lecture on
this subject each day for the next three
days.
A large and enthusiastic meeting OF
Wake county teachers met to consider
the question OF the improvement of rural
school houses. Very encouraging reports
was made by Mrs. Blalock, Miss Abernethy
and others.
On the auditorium stage Mr.. j. FL.
Weathers OF the primary department Of
the Tabernacle Sunday school, taught next
Sundays lesson 10 a class of thirty charm
ing little pupils of his school. He was
assisted By Miss Rosa Broughton and lit
tie Miss Nina Cooper All who were pres
ent were delighted with the exercises
There has been no more helpful or beau
tifnl service during the session.
Today at 12:45 Bishop Cheshire will de-
liver lecture in the North Carolina his
tory course.
Tonight Prof j. B. Carlyle, of Wake
Forest College will lecture on the sub
ject The Teachers tasks in the New
North Carolina.
NEW ARRIVALS
The following il a list of the teachers
that have come in since last Saturday:
Arlington. Kate w. Raleigh.
Bowers, Mrs. b.. Roanoke Rapids.
Browne. Mary S., Phoenix, Ariz.
Booker, Ernie N, Smithfeld.
BreswelI, Margaret ", Whitakers.
Bryan, Elva. Jonesboro.
Darden, Belle, Raleigh.
Davis. l.. Jay. Black Creek.
Dowell, Roaina, Carthage
Gilmore. Kathleen. Mt Olive.
F'eatherstone Lizzie. Leasburg.
Freeman, Bessie L., Center, Tex.
Franklin, Stella b., Raleigh.
Franklin, Minnie L.. Raleigh
Fleming, Robert r.. Jr., Pactolus.
Guess, Maude E.. Cary.
Leash. Mamie. McCullers.
Lide May. Diggs.
Lockhart e. w. Mohun.