The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-23

| like this are preparing educated farmers
and in the next decade l expect to see
the farmer with his library and with
such a home life that there will be no
wisdom in leaving the farm for city life.
The extension of the electric railway is
to exert a great influence for the farmer
as these lines extend will not be confined to
his home by mud embargo. The move
ment for good roads, the telephone service
with all its convenience, and the extern
SIGN of rural delivery will ell aid. l hope
to. see the time when on these routes
packages can be taken to the farmers so
as to save journeys to town Tor small
alticles. Other improvements now made
possible by small plants are gas, electric;
lights water, all things which go to make
farm life pleasanter, and which In keep
ing people on the farms will lessen the
congested tenement and fat life of the
city. There in the country is the life that
gives us the best health. With education
anG farm life we will have the strongest,
the purest, the noblest life, giving us the
best specimens of manhood and woman.
hood, and all tending to purity in bust
ness, in society, in politics.
I do not want to trespass on your
time but there is just a word 1 would like
to say about speaking. 1 am interested in
speakers, and believe that we should
have a large number OF educated mon
who can speak, who can think on their
feet and give the benefit of their wis
dom to the world. Peace has its de-
mands no less than war There is just
as much patriotism in peace as in war,
and if its arts were developed fully there
would be less of a requirement for war.
Then we could give our minds, and not
or bodies to our country.
81 have had many letters from students
asking What should man who is a born
orator do to become a good speaker?
IaU ghter.) | think orators are born just
like others. U4aughter) Yet there are
two things which are necessary to every
SPEAKER; first, he should know what he IS
talking about, and secondly, he should
ne an what he says. To be eloquent it Is
necessary to have information and earn
estness, and with these third thing,
brevity. I have heard many speeches so
full that they become wearisome. There
is too much in them to get through SO as
reach the thought There is too much
husk for the corn. In illustrating the
idea that self-evident truth should be
tcrsely told Mr.. Bryan related two stories,
as being the best examples he knew OF
b. evity.
The first was of a conversation held be-
tween a clerk in a saloon and the pro
prietor who lived above, this being before
the days of the dispensary. The clerk
called up to his employer and said:
Mr.. So and SO is here. Is he good
for two drinks
"'Has he had them?' was the reply.
'' He has was answered.
| . Then he is ended the conversation.
at contained no superf1uous words,
!! said Mr. Bryan who then said there was
another story of brevity with moral
which he wished to tell.
1.-TWO men met. One asked the other
'"'Do you drink?
Sc THAT is my business, sir CURLY re-
srcnded the party addressed.
Have you any other business? asked
Il tire ouestioner and that ended the con-
versation.
This said Mr.. Bryan, has in it not
alone a teaching of brevlty, but also
mc,al, and that is that the man who
drinks soon has no other business to
which to give his attention.
Then the eloquent speaker spoke OF the
niece ssary qualifications for the best man
hood. He declared that it was not alone
TIE duty of the school to make scholar,
but to aid in the development OF the moral
side of man, developing mind, and body
ard heart in union. To neglect the
spiritual for the physical and mental ne
declared was an error.
There is a struggle and conflict that
we can not avoid, it begins at our blrth
and ends only when life ends. That we
properly meet this is one OF the great
est things in life, and the end gained by
It is noble. 1t is taught to us IN the
words of Christ himself who SAID He
that ruleth his own spirit. Is greater
thar he that taketh a city. upon these
! words Mr.. Bryan dwelt earnestly, urging
! uror the young men the necessity Tor a
! spirit of self-control.
; II an eloquent peroration the speaker
) concluded by wishing the very best things
for the young men he addressed and that
| with all these they have strong bodies
strcng{ minds and hearts developed tc
, guide both body and minds.
AS he concluded there was storm
, of applause and soon amidst this there
were heard cries of "Aycock, Aycock, Ay-
cock" and as he arose, Capt. Phelps, o
S the A. and NJ College, said, Governor