The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-14

school, every Town us dCdueHy every SCI
ton It's college, and every State its uni-
ersity
With willing hearts and unfaltering faith
The mothers have nurtured the minds OF
their children and grounded them IN the
faith of the church, Today, as at no other
time in our history, education IS becoming
temperance in all things IS
evidences of love and charity
abound, and the disciples of our Saviour
are cultiplying
THE FIELD OF ENDEAVOR WHICH is
OPEN TO YOU.
Compare North Carolina now with
what it was in 1880; study the Census re-
ports then and for each succeeding de-
cade; let your eye run over each section.
each county and town, and you viii be
to see how rapidly develop
ment is taking place. The State with its
thousands of industries presents a field Of
endeavor to every one Of its sons and
daughters.
The foundation Of this rapidly increas-
ing development was laid m a time Of
trial, and with daily self-denial by your
fathers and grandfathers. Since they did
so much with so little, surely we have
right to expect that their defendants, with
such greatly increased opportunities, will
prove worthy Of them, and will place their
State in the vanguard Of the States that
have made this great Republic the wonder
and admiration of the world.
President Spencer, of the Southern
Railway, thinks that the places to be
filed in this great industrial age, will not
find a sufficient number of capable men
to fill them; but if he will glance over the
history of the South for the past twenty
five years, consider the difficulties en-
countered, the obstacles surmounted, and
the work accomplished he cannot fail to
conclude that south of Mason's and Dixon's
line are to be found, not only statesmen
and warriors but men and women who
can be depended upon to discharge every
duty and meet every emergency,
In the early biographies North Carolina
was only noted for its tar pitch and tur-
pentine; it has been called a strip Of land
between two States and not in the very
distant past was slightingly spoken Of as
the sample State, because of its varied
products in rather small quantities.
Geographically this long and narrow
State extending from the Blue Ridge TO
the Atlantic coast, and lacking great har-
bors, was not likely to attract the atten-
ton of the world.
Across the State from northeast to
southwest the three great railroad systems
carried our products through the ports of
neighboring States, thus leaving North
Carolina without credit for the multitude
and endless variety OF what she was pro
duciDg.
Ever since the days when the Mississippi
was our western border NC have sent
North, South and West thousands Of men
who have won fame and honor in the
States Of their adoption, while at home our
own. resources have been neglected and no
great cities have been built or giant en-
terprises started to attract the attention
of the outside world.
So it is that ninety-seven per cent. Of
cur population is native and to the man
ner born, and ninety per cent. of our
wealth is the result Of our own unaided
labors. But even so, busy towns are scat
tered throughout our borders, the eastern
counties pour countless cars of lumber,
truck. fruits and cotton into the markets
of the country; the great Piedmont sec
ton with its humming spindles and busy
factories is sending merchandise to the
four-corners of the earth; while the
mountain section filled with water powers
quarries timber and fruits, and possessing
a beauty and grandeur uneXeccelled east
of the Rockies may well become a source
OF boundless wealth.
The fourishng educational institutions
throughout the State. the common schools
in every township, the churches in ever
increasing numbers, all are helping TO
make this State a great and glorious COM
it is a goodly land.
But the State needs every one of its
sons and daughters, there is work for the
very best that we have, there are pro
bcms confronting us that only our wlsest
can solve. and I urge every student at
Horner's to make of this State his dwell-
ing place and her advancement his chief
earthly concern.
And before all else choose for your
selves the pearl which is above all price
and take as your councillor your ex-
emplar and your friend Jesus of Nazareth,
who was subject unto his parents, who
was not ashamed to follow the trade of
a carpenter, who spent thirty years n
preparation for his life's work, and who n
the short period of his ministry on this
earth gave to the world the gospel Of love,
which through time and eternity will be
the greatest blessing OF the human race.
In presenting this medal to the success
full competitor, who is to be warmly con-
graduated as the victor in a contest into
which all of the boys of Horners entered
and there are no better or brighter any
wish to speak Of him in whose
memory il is given.
In the early days of the period to which
| have referred Vim Henry Horne was
born. He inherited from his father those
noble characteristics of which / have
spoken, and from his mother the gentle
ness and sweetness of our Southern wo-
men. At the tender age of 5 years he lost
his mother, and for some years thereafter
his father. although fast becoming one
Of our States captains of industry, never
theless found time to train this ffail bog
and lavish upon him all the tenderness of
which his big heart is capable. The re
sponse was such as to gladden. his fathers
heart. OF him his father says: In all
the Is years of his life he never once gave
me cause for a harsh word and amid all
my grief and sorrow ! deem it a great
privilege and consolation to have been the
father Of such child
Mr.. Horner says of him that he was
faithful in every duty. Of spotless integrl- \
Iy, and beloved alike by his teachers and
fellow students or him his room mate