The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1905-08-24
Mr.. HICKS WRITES AGAIN.
Some Additional Notes About Ills
Trip to Bostou-The Novelty and
Enjoyment of a Thousand lilies Ride
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On the Ocean.
didn't quite finish the account of our
trip to Boston by sea, but it grew SO
long just quit As it furnished ANUS
ment to friends I'll complete it.
The novelty and enjoyment of that
thousand miles on the ocean we will not
soon forget, the Captain and the Mate
and Stewards LIST Ind and Bird were Just
ordinary plain men, but the sailorsspoke
in strange accents. During my investi-
CATION of the hold OF the ship, far up un-
der the Prov | saw a beautiful little en-
CINE and a man rubbing the brass parts
of it with a little rag and brown stuff.
They were rubbing brass pretty much
everywhere there was any. | asked the
man what the engine was for? After
three efforts | understood him to say it
was to ''eave the hanchOr." 1t will
always be strange to me why he and
other English people will rob heave Gifts
just deserts to give to anchor what does
not belong to it, We learned that Provi
dence, II. L., with 100000 people has
only one morning daily newspaper. The
people in Boston dress very much as we
do except that did not see an alpaca
or linen coat while there and only one
| CoIldl. All NOlS IouS Tics
tened with hame string knots. Every
except on Sunday, We saw then about
and Copley Square. A Canada regiment
was there on a visit and it and the An
cient and Honorable Artillery of Boston
a regiment organized in the year 1886,
were to parade. We never saw such a
crowd nor such a parade together.
Two thousand soldiers marching, sever
al bands playing and the officers and
soldiers dressed so fine. Every right foot
moved at the same instant and so with
the left feet, hands and heads Looking
down the street the whole face of the
| earth seemed to sway up forward and
down with the bodies OF the men. The
music was thrilling English and Ameri-
can armies frOlicing together in sight OF
the battle OF Bunker Hill and at the scene
of the Boston Massacre We did not
hear the word sir while there. Simply
yes or no. The word going used by
| US for will, as are you going to do SO
| and SO? was not heard there by us.
Nearly every tree we saw had a ban
dage of loose cloth about six inches wide
Others had a bandage of coal tar or 9th
er sticky substance. These were to pro.
| tect them from caterpillers and other
bugs and vermin that soon destroy the
trees if not kept back We saw on near
| ly every street, square and place large
enough for it monument erected tC
some great man, and with very few ex
ceptions they were labeled, Erected b..
| the City of BOstOn" We wondered what
would be said by the Henderson people
if their tax money were used to build q
monument to anyone. The state re-
| quires all children to attend school ant
has policemen whose special duty it is tC
see that they do, and to arrest them j
| they do not. That is one law we will
have to adopt The returns now show
| that not half our children attend school
There will be great kicking against it
but there has been active opposition tt
| nearly every forward step that ever wal
| made in government. This law has beer
in force in Massachusetts, for sevent.
| years, Horace Mann had most to do will
it's beginning He of course is preserved
in marble and in bronze as well as in tn
affec tons of the people. The school funt
in Massachusetts is nearly five dollar
per capita. Ours is not more than one
fifth that much.
Most of the prominent people of New
| EuElduu dIc vi tuC IN
church. William Ellery Charming wa
it's greatest preacher. Numerous monu
ments to him-and Charming Memorial
churches They claim that he liberalize
religion and brushed away many OF tn
unreasonable provisions of 'creeds tina
were for long time professed but nc
believed in or lived up to. DR.. Edwar
Everett Hale at present Chaplain OF tn
U. S. Senate is it's greatest living preacl
er. We attended one of it's churche
and heard a great sermon; very earnes
and serious throughout. The Poop
there looked very much like Henderso
people, but they moved on, they had t.
If they didn't they would be run owe
Often when would think | was safe
lodging a street car an autOmObl
would be right at me. Jim insisted tia
folks had the right of way over stree
cars and autos; but | was afraid to clai
it. They were moving too fast.
7. T. HICKS.