The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-03-26

before The Ladfcs Memorial Associ,p-
lion. It * about the most attractiyelN
printed address ! remember ~ haEv
-ccn upon q North caroiiniau and
Printed in our State. The address IL
self * cleariN. felic.tcuSls. written. ID
good taste, with amplitude II p]crsonal
discussion. and is most valuable for
it, historic ii indivIdrdl conSidcra-
tom. IT Is Il fine presentation Of one
al the great men of North Caroline
hose life was both distinguished and
most memorable. II has several like
ness Of Con. Ransom. n II OF them.
that taken when IN his full NATURES,
Is n very striking portrait of one WHO
had q most attractive and engaging
personality. knew .lim first in 1912.
but heard his NcrE remarkable al
dress when he was graduated In June.
1877. at the CniyerSit of North Caro-
lima. ~ receiving he highest di~tinc-
ton with the celebrated most
rarely gifted James Johnston Petti-
grew. afterwards ~I:rigadier General.
and killed in the vi some Two o.
three years ago. ] wrote some fpul o.
GVc columns cOncerFlnG him ior the
News ard Observer. General ransom :
address nj the ComIuenccrncni, PrcSl-
don't Polk and suite D ing present. was
ono Of welcome. and II was par excel
ltncc the foremost address | ever list
cncd 10 from 80 young z man. Ihe
GignitS grace and &c G or his manner
yeas quite mastery. The New York
Ecrald.S correspondent. who accom-
panied the President, laudcd it most
d~iScrectly ard Justly. Among those
who attended with the president were
Conmodore VI. Z Ma1Erv. then the
bets known abroad Of ali living Amcri-
c3ns. and Secretary Of Navy. Hon.
Joan Y. Mason. of Vi gInia.
Gen. Ransom was born near War
xHtA So 90. lhat.-.np. = I SOC .ln
died October :, 1901, being rs years
old. He served in the t.. :. senate for
tWcnty-thrce ANA which was
more than any other North Carolinian
ever served. His grandfather, seymour
Ransom. was II hal brother of the
very distinguished and TcVercd Nd
tlaniel Macon. al Warren. who was in
the l.. :. Congress for more than
fkirty-fvc years. Cen. Itsanom made
u fine record rs Il soldier i'll the great
war, and was Of conspicuous fidelity
and bravery. He was wounded three
times. aEc leave To mention two
events in his brilliant life mentioned
in the adGrceS before ne.
He was Of kindly, sympathetic ma
tUre which asserted itself in war as
in peace. He WAS seen to dismount
from his superb var StcCd and to
help tho brokcn down or sick soldiers
az he trudgcd along toc rOad in NCari-
ness ana tfS tiIG, sumo tllllC9 bISllioQIl-
ing to give Il ride to 'some III his
own saddle. This vas grand and m
spring. In the Congress. am Ohio /.
s. Senator asked after Ransom of his
friend Il Senator from Kentucky. lie
said in reply that Col. land all OF
his clients he represented did not
have money enough to make Gen.
Ransom do ar act as Senator which he
thought II Col. EurgWNn says
that lin the fierce light of % years
service in the senate. no one has ever
had the te?nerity to suggest that Gen.
Ransom was at ny time influenced to
do a public service from pccuniarN
considerations" He was indeed Il great
North C~arolfnian. and one Of the most
ConSummate masters in public address
our state has ever produced. He died
in great peace ana all 0Ner the state
his admirers and friends count by the
ten thousands. While not approving
Of all he did in public life, SO long ex-
tended. have Il great admiration for
his combination of rare gifts of lead
elShip. his eminent abilities as orator.
rhetorician and statesman. and his
really distinguished services in war and
in peace.
The growth Of M~ethodism with It's
Grand American theology that has 50
Impressed the world. should interest
saints and sinners. DIR. w. +. Tillett
SAYS that there are 90 it|inerant
PREACHERS. 10000 local preachers, II
more than 100000 Methodists. The
two great religious bodies, Northern
and Southern MethodiSts. With their
ministry. members and missions. rep
resent more than one-half of the nu-
merical strength of Worldwide Meth
"dfSm. III the Southern Methodist
church there are It's. 81 members-
! gain Of ia.263 members in one wear.
II 1915 thcrc were but 400 600. There
are now 46 conferences in Southern
M~ethndisrn. The average pay of all
travelling preachers for 1896. was;
S622. In 1906 il was but $+3S. OF all
Methodist bodies in North Carolina in
1906. there We're 196.333 OF these
155.410 beIon" to the southern Meth
odiSt Episcopal church. There are 211
clerical members OF. the \. G. Confer
ence. OF these I think | know per
eonally some thirty. In the Western
~. G.. Conference there are 221. and
IT these I think | know personally Il
half dozen perhaps. Tn glancing Ncr
that very excellent publication. The
southern Methodist Hand-book." !
some how failed To find tho respective
strength Of the two \. G. Conferences
The total have given. | take leave to
ada thar ! have never seen Il better
nublicati"n of its kind than this vol
umC of 22S pages. 1t is for 1907. and
: admirable. a"''lnged and most am
},lo. 1t gives history. bioCruphy. liter-
atnrc a"d statistics in great ahund-
aroc. The arrangement Is indeed e~-
ceIlent. aud the NOiunre Mt - cents is
c~tr"m"IN bean. Fve~v irtcllieent
Methodist layman in all Southern