The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24

never carried large sums about his
person and charged on 5000 a year
for teaching which he spent on char
liable objects-giving freely to the
poor man or woman, boy or girl
whom he might meet. He often
wrote words of advice, and lines of
poetry in the school books or al
significant poem in the autograph al
bum of one of his school girls, dated
May &c, 1896:
Though / of the chosen. the choic-
est,
To fame gave her loftiest tone.
Though I, 'nong the brave, the
braVest, 'e 49,
NV pleasure and my baton are gone
NV eagle that mounted to conquest
Has stopped from his attitude nigh,
A prey to the vulture, the foulest,
No more to visit the sky.
One sigh for the hopes that have
persisted,
One tear for the wreck of the past
One look upon all 1 have cherished
One lingering look, it's the last.
And now from remembrance ban
The glories that shower in my
brain
o, Vanish fond memories, vanish!
Return not to sting me again..
Mr.. Lucius Butler, of Iredel coun-
ty, the grand father of the recent
popular Superintendent of Public In
structions of Iredell, was faVorlte
pupil of Ney's and he told him that
when he heard of his death, to come
at once and take charge OF mis- trunk
for in it would be found information
that would astonish the world. But
a stranger came and got the trunk
soon after his death and before Mr..
Butler could get it, and was never
heard of again And now in conclu-
sion. let me relate the strongest evil
dence that our old teacher was Ma
poleon's great Marshal. While on ms
death-bed in Rowan county Dr.
Matthew Lock, one or his ola pupiis
was his physician attending hlm IN
his last hours. A short while before
he died, DR.. Lock said to him, "Mr.
New YOU have but a short While 10
live and it is my duty to tell you,
he interrupted him saying Il know
that Matthew, I'm not afraid 10 dle:
| believe in the Christian religion.
DIR. Lock answered, II am glad 10
hear you say that, but it was for this
have lived among us a long time IN
great mystery, and as you are about
to leave us forever, wills you please
tell me who you really are? Dr
Lock said Ney raised his head and
looked him squarely in the race WIN
that eagle eye, and after little hes-
itation, feebly uttered these words:
IT am Marshall Ney, Of France"
These were about his last words.
Now take his character for truth and
honor, as he always had lived
among us, for no man was ever more
of truth and honesty dur
ing his life than Mr. Ney, could 1t be
possible he would go into his grave
with a falsehood upon his lips? But
If you readers are still douptIul Oh
this subject, If they will procure
COPY of Rev. w. A. Weston's book,
eHistoric Doubts" and read it care
fully. | don't think there will remain
even a shadow of doubt1n the mlnu
Of the reader, that our old scnooI
teacher was the famous Marshal OF
France.
MY next teacher was Rev. James
Knox, a near relative of James Knox
Poke, the 18th President of the
United States, who was a, North Caro-
Iinian and educated at our University.
NV teacher, Mr.. Knox, was educated
at Davidson College and taught
classic school on Rocky Creek, IN
Tredell county. I boarded with Mr.
Natley Tomlin with the teacher at
that time one of the best boarding
schools in the State. My next teach
ar was that grand old man, DR.. Bax-
ter Clegg, of Mocksville Academy
NV school mates here were the late
DR. II. II. Pritchard. DIR. Hillary Hud-
son, author of the Methodist Ar
NOR and other works, Samuel ..
Tatum. DR.. Jno Kenyon, Jacob Eat
On. father of the present popular
Mayor of Winston-Salem, Hon. j. ID.
Click. DR.. Jno. Kerr Martin, the Kel-
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