The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-23

first blood that was shed in the Colo
MES in resistance to the unreasonable
exactions and manifest expressions by
the British Government. Granville
county, SO Husband states in his book,
was the leader or beginner in the
Regulation movement. Many of the
very best people in that county and
Orange and the others engaged, were
in it. You will find in Wheeler pro-
test against British wrongs and OPP
pressions as early as 1855. 1t was
written by a citizen of Granville, and
is signed Nut Bush" 1t is good
time for our North Carolina novel
readers to take to "Alamance or The
Great and Final Experiment" by the
late Calvin H. Wiley, the great mover
later in behalf of popular education,
and the first and very efficient super
intendent of the State schools. His
novel is at least readable, and thor
oughly patriotic and true to the peo-
pie Harper & Brothers published it,
in about 1916, in volume of good
size, octave, unbound. l think it quite
probable that copies can as late as
now be procured of that House. /
think the price was 25 cents. 1t is
fifty years or more since | read it, and
I do not doubt that it is as enjoyable
and meritorious as many of the novels
that are appearing and are devoured
as if ripe apples.
Mr.. William Edwards Fitch, M. D.
has published an octave of 307 pages.
entitled Some Neglected History of
North Carolina. Being an Account OF
the Revolution of the Regulators, and
of the Battle of Alamance, the First
Battle of the American Revolution l
am glad it has been published. That
reminds me of the only article l ever
wrote for a Northern daily-The New
York Herald. 1t was an account of
the Battle of Alamance and was pub
lished on the anniversary of the bat
tie in 1871. / was telegraphed to by
the Herald to write it, which | did in
four nights by 10 o'clock. after work
ing all day on newspaper. 1t f1lled
the first page in the Herald, with
picture of the battlefield, and / receiy-
ed for it $50, which was the most lib
eral pay / ever obtained from any pa
per- | wrote some for my old friend,
Dr. c. f. Deems's excellent weekly
The Watchman-@nd that with the
Herald article constitutes all | ever
wrote for any publication North of
Richmond, Va. | have been since
1916. almost entirely a North Carolina
scribbler. In 1868, 1 wrote soma for
two publications at Memphis for
short time. But what healthfui
awakening there is latterly in matters
historic and geographic concerning
North Carolina. "Old Rip" is wide
awake now.
''The Review of Reviews" for April
has pictures of two we'll known ma
tive North arolinians-Thomas Dix
on, Jr., the gifted novelist, and DIR.
Edwin A. Alderman, born in Whining
ton on 18th May, 1861. There is
sketch of him by Professor w. P.
Trent of New York. Professor c. W.
Kent, of the University of Virginia,
also contributes paper on that inSti-
tuition, with a good portrait of the
founder, the very eminent and able
Thomas jefferson. 1t was opened in
1925. thirty years after our own great
University of North Carolina began the
most important work of education. L
would be glad to see In the same ma
gazine a finely illustrated article on the
University of North Carolina from the
refikad and responsive pen of Prof. G.
Alphonso Smith, or Professor Archl-
bald Henderson. 1.-The Review of Re
views" gives eight pages to Prof.
Kent's article. 1t would probably give
equal space to our own superior Uni
versity, if a paper on it was sent to
DIR. Shaw, the able editor. The North
somehow does not know what noble
institution of learning there is i'll
North Carolina Our educators have
been too modest. Write it up In North
ern prints.
The University of North Carolina is
a great institution of learning, and
richly deserves to be fostered by every
progressive and appreciative North
Carolinian. It's present year Is its
10th of actual service, and 1t is the
oldest State University in the South.
and indeed in the entire American
Union. with but one solitary exception,
that of the University of Pennsylvania.
1t has been helped very little by the
State, and of the thirteen excellent
buildings it has not one that was erect
ed by North Carolina. And still 1t
has done wonders for it, Since the
academic year of 1899-1900, the i'm
provements made aggregate $175, 900.
It's enrolment for the present ScholaS-
tic year will exceed $40, and it is to
be hoped that ere long it will pass 700.
1t has IS members of the Faculty, OF
which AZ are Professors. 1t now, In
it's Medical Department, graduates
with the degree of M. d. 1t has a
good medical Faculty consisting of
twelve in the Department at Raleigh;
with eight Professors, nine scientific
laboratories in the Faculty at Chapel
Hill. The expenses or cost of living
for nine months in the Academic De-
partment is from $192.37 to $21O.37,
WnlCn IS a mere DaSdIeIle DIS COIlpdT-
ed with the expenses at Harvard Uni
versity, Mass, and some others of the
costly institutions of learning. The
Department of Pharmacy is complete
and varied II has in the Faculty ten
members, and possesses the best lab
oratory facilities in pharmacy and
general science. This school has been
established with well-supplied labora-
tories, specimens and a complete
equipment. There is a two years
course leading to the degree of Phi. G.
A complete pharmaceutical education
can be obtained at greatly lower cost
than in the Northern colleges
The pharmaceutical laboratories are
well-equipped and cover floor space
of $500 square feet. In addition the
student has instruction in the Chem
zeal, Physical and Botanical Laboratories
The State gives but $37,500 a year
to the maintenance of the University.
1t is small sum or'such great end,
when it is remembered that the appro-
priation if collected per capita, would
amount to about 2 cents per annum
to each inhabitant; but the tax is paid