Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-09-04
THE GARDEN OF EDEN.

Why brethren, don't you know that
this is Gods country down here be-
tween the Neuse and Pamlico rivers,
where we do not have to look double
to see such sights? Now, If our doubt
full brethren would just come down
here we would be glad to take them
around and show them many SUCH
acres of corn. Yes, we could snow
them stumps and roots of the old ap-
pie trees that grew in that old his
toric garden. Here is the spot, and
no doubt when our doubling brethren
saw the sights in this land of milk
and honey" they would feel like the
golden gate had been opened unto
them and they were walking the
pearly streets Of Paradise. No seeing
double in this, brethren, just come
and take squint with one eye your
selves and be convinced. If we only
were allowed the privilege of harvest
ing some of that corn in liquid
state, brethren, we would just be the
happiest people on the earth, and two
hundred bushels per acre would then
be a small crop. AS it is, to raise
more than $50 bushels, it takes so
much barn room to harvest it, we
can't spare the space,-Bayboro Sen
tinel,
All who know the congenial, effer-
vescent Will T. Caho, the versatile
editor of the Bayboro Sentinel, need
not be told that he is capable of pen
- in
graphic detail, whether Paml1co
county, as now claimed by him, be
the original terrestrial habitat Of our
traditional first parents, or Asia Mi
nor, for it is simply a condition OF
mind and not of fact-a sweep Of the
Imagination limited only by the ca
pacity of the individual soul that does
the soaring The mind roams at will
through all worlds. We dream dreams
of beauty: Aye, by power, and scope
and grasp of the human mind, we
transcend the visible immensity OF
space, and yonder, where the bright
ness of the light dims the vision OF
-archangels, we, created little less
than Gods first-born spirits, gaze into
the face of Infinite Truth, Infinite
Good, Infinite Beauty. The vision
thrills us; the sight moves us, and
under the influence of the inspiration
we resolve to do great things: to live
nob1y; to act manfully; to die sub
1imely-after having filed the world
with the renown of our genius and
blessed it with the benefactions of OuT
virtue. To those who know him best
and love him for what he is; such
mind and such man is Brother Caho,
who wore the Confederate Gray with
honor, and again and again touched
elbows with as heroic comrades in
the battle-line at dawn never to see
them more, for their lives went out
in the charge beside him, or on the
field of fighting, who so valiantly de-
Tended the heights of Fredericksburg,
who sustained the travail of the
march and the fierce battle of the
Wilderness" and was of those who
went "furthest at Gettysburg. Why
should not such man, who fought
for home and during four long years
laid his life daily a fresh sacrifice
upon the altar Of Southland in de-
fence of principles that are eternaI1y
right-why should not he, being
vouchsafed to return to the home he
has thus defended, feel that thai
home is, indeed, in the very heart ot
the Garden of Eden?
So be it, Brother Caho! We shall
not take issue with you, however
much we feel that Goldsboro is tn,
veritable Eden of all the Earth, fol
we were not old enough to share YOU
"canteen" in the trenches and smell
powder and face death on the field il
defence of home: so dip your pen il
the aurora-borealis ink-bottle of you
patriotic heart and let her go ad 1ibi
tum, and1somewhat paraphrasinl
Shakespeare-may you find ethica
sermons in those splendid fields O
soughing corn, tongues in brooks an
good in everything and be spare
yet many years in which to enjo