The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-06-11

DIR. L. Il. K~ingsbury.
the History Of the United States" in
volume VII, page 81, writes Of the
| committee who proposed the Declare
ton and says:
NO minutes of this committee are
/ known to exist, but the result Of their
deliberations. framed with superior
skill, precision of language and calm
comprehensiveneSs, remains as the
monument of their wisdom and cour-
age. & = = Before the month Of May
had come to an end. the resolutions
We're signed by Ephram Brevard, as
clerk of the committee. and We're
adopted by the people with the de-
termined enthusiasm which springs
from the combined influence of the
love of liberty and religion
L hope DIR. George Graham will give
due attention to any thing dangerous
in the new DOC out against the Dec
laration of 1915. l have not seen it.
l notice a Northern statement made
is that the new book completely oblit-
crates the fact Of d Declaration. 1
suspect that this alterations resem-
bleS some other attempts through a
hundred years to destroy the grand
record of North Carolina in the past.
1 has been 50 in the positive resist
ance of British expressions that cul-
6 at LIN DdAIIt Vi ~
May 10th. 1771, and in other impor-
tant historical events. SO long as
North Carolina has faithful, able.
noble sons to defend her against
! wrongs, expressions, ~falsehoods, de-
famations and Sights, her exalted
name and great achievements will be
maintained and defended. 1 suppose
the new book caves to her h Eseso-
buttons While denying the Declaration
Either confers great fame, while both
united bestoWs what will probably be
an immortal crown. I have not seen
the new work and / do not recall the
name of the author. / have never seen
Graham'S works as published.
Did not the great John WESLEY hit
the Yankees a very hard blow When
in his famous Journal" of data of
February 18th. 1872, he wrote: THAT
exercrable sum of all villainies com
monty called a Slave Trade The
Yanks brought the native Africans
over in their own ships, sold them as
slaves to the sunny South" and then
fought and despOiled the South be-
cause it taught the Africans something
as to how to work, and also gave them
Illustrations and examples of some
particulars as to education and civili-
cation. The first slave ship fitted IN
Massachusetts, and sent to Africa was
done by the Colony itself.
Rudyard KipIing who ranks high
among living men of letters in Great
Britain, says that both of his grand
fathers were Methodist preachers.
Old folks still live in the world. In
! the United States today, the oldest
known person is 120 years old 1t is
Mrs. Mary Wood, Of HillsbOro, Ore
gon, and she is of Southern nativity
1877, at Knoxville, Tennessee. She is
in good health. With the boys and
young men sapping their vitality by
the use of the cigarette destroyers Will
there be any 120 years people living
at the close of the next 100 years?
The three greatest characters ever
created by Shakespeare are cons;d-
cred by some of the best critics to be
Hamlet. IagO, and Falstaff. This IS
other waterproof, dramatist or novel
ist-ever created such wonderful and
immortal men? The great critics, or
historical plays, his greatest are the
Two parts OF Henry ", and Henry Y,
and doubtless this Is iudicious opinion.
And vet what greet plays are King
John and Richard II. The first named
is maSterly-a truly great historical
drama. 1t was written about 1896.
In Richard the Second there is a great
deal of splendid, even majestic poetry.
1t is ~unevenly written, but parts are
of great beauty and strength. 1t was
| plODdDlN written before 1Ohn, say III
1894 or 1895. The greatness of the
two plays of Henry the Fourth are un-
Unstable both as to characters and in
cidents Part First was written in
1596-'97, when Shakespeare was
thirty-two, according to R. G.. Whiting
and Part Second in 1897.
The admiration and enthusiasm in
the North among certain writer's, and
also With a few ir Great Britain also,
over Walt Whitman as a poet, nave
been a p~erplexinG mystery to me
through decades. I was gratified to
see that sanity of judgment and poet
zeal insight existed at least with one
genuine poet of New England, and
the best of the later poets of that sec
ton, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Who died
a month or two ago, mucl. regretted.
He read and appreciated Whitman
with correct insight. The editor of the
Atlantic Monthly, Bliss Perry, Who is
one Of the Whitman enthusiasts. in q
highly praised article on Mr.. Aldrich
in the May number of the excellent
Boston Monthly, wrote of Mr.. Aldrich's
estimate of Whitman: II knew him
and liked him personally, although he
would never admit that Whitman was
a poet except here and there a single
phrase That is quite all I could ever
discover in that Wild and dissipated
destroyer of true v~ersifcation and
melody.
In Matthew 2O:9, we read: .Thcy
received every man a penny. That
was for a day laborer in the vineyard
of an employer. How much was it il
Jewish currency of the time to which
it refers? 1t was precisely IA cents
of our own currency. So the Good
samaritan deposited with the landlord
for taking care OF the wounded man,
% cents or two pennies. / give this
for so many are misled loy the use Of
the word penny and ar1 really igno-
rant of the pay that the Jewish labor-
ing man usually received in the days
of Christ, before and after.
The catalogue of the University of
Virginia for 1906-1907 contains 245
g. octave. This great Southern in
stitution is forging ahead with high
success. 1t has for the current year,
7S4 students. On the regular college
roll it has 2S9. Medical students 1874.
Law 225, and Engineering 123. Vir-
ginia furnished SO. Kentucky %,
Tennessee, "a, Alabama 80, Mary
land 81. North Carolina Is. There are
81 States represented. New York
sends Is. Five foreign countries are
represented. Turkey having one. 1t
has a large number Of che COM
posing the Faculty, and very many
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