The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-06-13

value OF the buii.ing in which We are
gathered
From the time thar the first building
was put up, the school has steadiis
grown in area of patronage, influence
and usefulness, and b people Oh al
that COUNTRY have unswervingsr stood
by il as its most constant friends. Iuev
send their daughters. they give OF their
money, they sound its praises, an
they are proud that the world Is be-
ginning to take cognizance Of its name.
they rejoice in displaying a warm par
tisanship in all its doings OF class days
tree-days, literary c~antssts, concerts.
etc, and crowd its halls, auditorium
and campus wearing h colors Of the
rival Dolemics. How could a sceoci
fail 20 succeed when its home felix's
stick TO il like that? In b meantime,
il sends out its silent, far-reaching IN
fluences through the world, in its alum
nae, cultured, modest, earnest young
women. fitted for any sphere Of life: in
its brilliant pianists, organists and So-
calists, the oasts Of the drawing-room
and the concert hall. in the faithful Ia
bors and vigilant care Of its president
and faculty.
And now the wood and shingles OF
the attractive but modest buildings of
the seminary are giving place. to The
brick, iron and stone of the more i'm
posing structures of the college: -he
time of probation and experiment has
passed, the institution is an accom-
plished fact, and the architect and
builder are planning and fashioning
r. 1000 --I h~:Ia-t rrn Hn-v
DR.. c. G.. Vardell. his faithful board or
trustees and other coadjutors are lay
ing the foundations deep and broad
for not only this generation but for
posterity, when he, carrying !ull
sheaves, shall lay by the harvests and
fold his hands-but may that day be
many years away, for DR.. Vardell is
now in his physical and intellectual
prime, with a great capacity for use
full work.
| learn that there is a man in North
Carolina, generous n cultured-a
man who lives not all for himself. tut
keeps in touch with the great brother
hood of humanity. and h uses lis
time, exerts his talents, and spends HIS
means for the material, intellectual anal
moral betterment Of his fellowmen-
who has it in mind to erect at the
Presbyterian College at Red Springs or
in it's vicinage a memorial, to be eX-
pressive, in marble wall of sculptured
tablet or inscribed shaft, of ome trip
ute to deported worth, some sacred
emotion of his soul, some ch~erishable
sentiment of his heart. 1t seems TO me
that he will build both wisely md
we'll, certainly he could not choose a
more beautiful spot. Framed in natures
loveliest adjoining Of forest, flower and
shrub, this memorial will stand. .le-
flying the corroding rust of time n
the sharp tooth OF decay, TO teach lis
noble lesson to after years, alOngsi =
the temple dedicated to the arts ana
sciences, and cOnsecrated to the deyei-
opment of the purest type Of woman
hood. AS generations are born, grow
up n pass awav, men will on
them, memorial and cOllege-both ME.
morials-and say. 1T is we'll"
was sitting at the writing table in
the Hotel Lafayette the other day,
pushing the busy pencil Of the newspa-
per correspondent, when a well-dreSS5d
gOOd-loOking stranger sitting next TO
me, after apparent hesitation as 10 in
~terrupting me-, ventured to ask me
some questions about the outlying su-
burbs of the city-Haymount, HarrIng-
ton Hill, HOlt-MoTgan village, and
Campbellton. | gave the stranger what
information could, of course, and that
regarding Campbeilton, IS it is now
fresh in my memory, will not come
amiss to the readers of the SUNDAY
Messenger, especially its many realers
along the Cape Fear river.
The county Of which Fayetteville is
the seat or capital was taken in 1872
from that extensive territory lying on
both sides Of the Cape Fear river
known as Bladen, and was named in
honor of the Duke of Cumberland, com-
mander OF the British forces who put
Prince Charles Edward to such sore
straits at Culloden. Two years after
of Cumberland into county, .
the Highlands of Scotland, who aided
SO greatly to the numbers and INDUS
trial force of the settlers of this section
that quite a busy village grew upon the
banks of the river. Further accessions
were received in TAG, after the wreck
of the fortunes Of the Stuart Preten-
der; so that in 1760 the hamlet vas
duly surveyed, laid off in streets ana
squares, and christened Campbellton. in
honor of Farghard Campbell, the most
citizen OF the place. Two
years later the colonial assembly in
it with ad iiitonal dignity by a
which conferred on it municipal
powers, rights and privileges with auth
ority to build a court house, Jail stocks,
whipping post, and, as some cynical
old bachelors declare. a duckfng stool
for termagant wives.
Campbellton saw no cause to fear a
until 1765. when Robert Cochran,
hustling, industrious Pennsylvania,
here, and fixed on Cross Greer as
a good point for the investment of his
means and the expenditure of his en-
He built a mill where are 20
merchant mills of Captain J. D.