The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1905-08-17
HENDERSON. N THURSDAY. AUGUST II, 1905.

were building, but there was no water,
only n slimy basin. That evening the
tide was in and it was deep enough to
float a ship.
We crossed the bridge to Cambridge
where Longfellow stood lat midnight
when the clock was striking the hour.
Instead of the narrow wooden structure
my imagination pictured when in child
hood my sweetheart sung it, it was 100
feet wide, paved with belgian blocks and
bearing street cars. autos coal wagons
and people and vehicles without end.
This brings us to Harvard College, the
biggest thing | ever saw. Ninety-twO
large brick buildings from 2 to stores
high. More than a mile OF buildings
and big iron fences, and great gates, the
inscriptions over which it would shake
US to the core to read, so inspiring were
they. "Veritas'', Enter and get wis
DOM '.Ie shall know the truth and the
truth shall make you free. etc, etc.
The one over the law building was best
of all but too long to quote. Ana -!
the books in the librabries, and the won
ders of the world in it's museums Every
flower extant made of glass; every ami
NAL and man in skeleton and stuffed;
illustrating beautifully the Darwinian
theory by a line of skeletons from the
lowest form Of monkey to the highest
form of man. One dining room leeds
l 200 at $500 per week and another
600 at cent for butter. | cent Tor bread, =,
2 cents for meat and SO on for meal.
The birth place of the poet Lowell is in
the cumpus marked by a stone, the place
where the preacher in the army prayed for
it's success the night before the battle OF
Bunker Hill by another. the place and
tree where Washington took command
of the army in July, 1873 by another
The house where LongfellOw lived and
died still stands there. The battlefield
of Bunker Hill and it's celebrated monu-
ment where Webster spoke twice is visit
ed by thousands yearly from all over the
world. Boston Common, known the
world over, the public garden nearly as
big. with everysfiower, tree and shrub
that will grow arranged with an eye to
beauty. We saw there a plant very COM
mon to us whose name we did not know,
the Gysippium. We had always called
it cotton; it attracted more attention
among the crowds than the Rose oi
Sharon or the Lilly of the Valley. Paint
inps. sculpture, architecture, literature
and history are the dominating IDEAS oi
| Boston, and Harvard is the place where
they are taught.
Massachusetts has only fourteen cOun-
ties, is not half as large as North Caro-
| lima, and has one and half q times as many
people, has $4,000 per capita or five
hundred million dollars, in its savings
banks alone They make shoes and spin
cotton and make other things that their
long cold winters will not permit to be
done out of doors, and nearly all we
make goes to them. | asked what they
thought Of W. l.. Douglass their shoe
maker governor? They like and honor
him. He is said to be worth five millions
and won't have the Office another term
| We were in his Office. but he was out. A
lady guide showed us over the capitol
it's as fine and pretty as the Nationa
Library at Washington, while the coun
ty court house nearby cost more THAI
the taxable value of Vance county. IT.
a rich and prosperous and intellectual
community and made us think with sad
ness about many of the log cabins ant
red gullies of our section. They've beel
making money and saving it nearly bon
wears, while we were turned loose will
nothing in 1865. The street car system
beats anything. An electric road run
both ways half under ground and hal
elevated all around the city, with whicl
all surface cars connect and one far
paid where you get on pays you to tn
subway or l. way and will put you in I
few yards of anywhere in less than =
minutes without further charge. w
walked in Fanueil Hall and the oil
South meeting house, and saw some @
the tea that was thrown overheard
some of Washington's hair Marth'
WashingtOn's dress. the table JOh
Brown owned and other historical curio
, galore. We didn't get half around an
this letter can't tell half we saw an
heard in the great churches and theatre
and elsewhere. We were in the same he
tel with NJ Witte but didn tsee him; wer
afraid to be near when he came out les
: an anarchist might throw a bomb. W
saw in the country long boxes nea
, many of the houses and on inquiry fOun
, they contained ladders and hose for us
, in case of fire, and we passed a stab
where horses are boarded and baitet
that is as we learned, fed meal or tw
J or as we would say ''transients."
1 "All the world is like ones own fam
} ly'' says the Italian proverb. The diffe
ence we fOun0 was, III tne wealth. all
t number of memorials and care taken t
= accumulate and preserve both.
= On our way home nearly all the pa
| sengers were seasick, and Jim and bot
: concluded Henderson's familiar scene
8 would look mighty good to us if "
8 could only get there. and that they wei
: nearer "our size and color of eyes" tha
/ the historic. rich and cultured Hub.
] We were glad to go; we enjoyed II
j sights and the voyage and we were gla
t to stand again under ''our own vine an
Y fig tree There is no place like home
e T. T. HICKS.
, trruct II 1909