The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-05

THE DAILY NEWS AND OF
University, that Tennyson is the great
est English poet since John Milton.
What European poet since 1850, real
~ surpasses Tennyson? The answer
will come promptly--Goethe OF
course. Perhaps But / cannot from
three different translations of "Faust,
or from volume of TRANSACTIONS OF
his minor poems, obtain one half the
pleasure and satisfaction that / can
secure from a reading of Tennyson's
works. Prof Smith has fallen into a
common error--that General PlcKett
| led "his devoted followers in their
heroic charge at Gettysburg. Their
charge was dashing and brave, but
not more so than the charge of Petit
grew, at the same time. or of other
North Carolina troops, Lanes ana
Others. in the Gettysburg battle. Gen
eral Pickett was not in the charge.
That much is assured. Col. Charles
Venable settled that. His peerless
band did finely. but not one whit
more than the North Carolinians did.
1t is very hard for truth TO overtake
falsehood with its seven-league boots.
North Cardinals Observation-Disclosures S
lost nearly as much as Picketts df-
vision lost at Gettysburg. Drawer
more heroic men never charged in bat
tie than the North Carolinians i'll the
Gettysburg three days bloody contest.
The lies about that battle have mis-
led tens of thousands.
----
That great and heroic divine, the
very celebrated Scotsman, John Knox,
was the author of the plan of educa-
ton for Scotland in the sixteenth CEN
fury, which embraced a school for
every church congregation, a high
school for every town, and the build
ing of the three important universe
ties of st. Andrews, Glasgow and
Aberdeen. No greater or more conse-
Grated hero ever stood forth before
men as the champion of Church and
the PEOPLE He was the first cham
pion of Christianity, according to that
very eminent Scotch essayist, critic
and biographcr, Thomas Carlyle, Ito
send the school master into all corners.
saying Let all the people be taught
His four hundredth year will be cele-
brated duly in Scotland this present
year. 1906. One of the Scotch noble
Reformer, said of him that he was a
man "Who never feared the face of
man." His memory deserves to be
treasured by all free, enlightened, and
Christian people.
Rev. ]. A. Stradley, well known
and venerable Baptist minister in
Granville county, recently reported
thai the drunkenness and crimes had
been reduced in that fine educational
centre of Oxford by two-thirds, and
all by the great temperance reform
movement, resulting in the closing OF
the bar-rooms. Goldsboro is another
example of what has been done by
the temperance movement. Mr.. A. r.
Morgan writes to the Raleigh Chris
tian Advocate that a great improve
ment has followed the closing of the
whlskey dens Of inquiry. / quote from
him:
1.-THE wives and children of laboring
men who formerly spent their earnings
in bar-rooms have been fed, and cloth
ed, and sheltered, as never before IN
their lives. Men who at the beginning
of 1904 were soaking their entire
earnings i'm the bars are now accumu-
lating property. Drunkenness and pro-
family, formerly so prevalent, have de-
parted from our streets. 1t is just as
sa fe now for ladies to traverse tho
great tarongs Of people who crowd our
streets on Saturdays as it is for them
to pass on any other day. In
fact. no business, except the liquor
business and branches allied thereto,
such as the fellow who sells drunk
en- man a three dollar suit of clothes
for fifteen dollars, or who swaps him
a blind horse for one with two good I
eyes and receives q bale of cotton TO
L., <
Goldsboro on account Of prohibition
On the other hand, vice and crime
have been diminished and dccency ana
order stimulated thereby
Good laws faithfully enforced will
always do good and help public morals
and safety.
That was strong and well deserved
that II distinguished
educator, DR.. William Z. Harris, y. >.
Commissioners of Education, and a
vigorous writer, paid TO the great
Methodist denomination i'm the United
states "Thc Methodist church is the
strongest church in the United States.
II has q power to reach the people,
power greater than tina: OF any other
church. l have noticed in the last
twenty years how the Methodist
church is sending out philosophers OF
a high order, and attacking the evils OF
skepticism as entrenched in such sys'
tenn. I have noticed too that in mat
ters of scholarship the Methodist
church is sending forward "oung mel
into the lrst rank. AllI vel this re-
markable church does not lose th2
ground which it, has always held III
the enlightenment Of the masses Of the
people,
Among the great historians bord
Macaulay was the first to rec0Snlz" tn
Methodist movement, and to give 1t
proper endorsement. After some thir-
ty years, John Richard Green, min
lister in the Church of England, and
an historical writer of admirable ana
even splendid parts paid Methodlsm
a high tribute in his most entertain
ing and impressive History OF The
English People," one OF the gems IN
modern historical composition. Then
a few years later, that truly most Ju-
dicious fair and able historian, Lecky
who died within q year or so. a great !
loss surely, for he was par excellence |
the foremost living historian OF thc
English speaking race. (himself an
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