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STORIES OF PICTURESQUE NORTH CAROLINA
The People's Magazine
Vol. I SEPTEMBER No. 10
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ADVISORY BOARD
Locke Craig, Governor of North Carolina ; - Raleigh, N. C.
JosEphus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy Raleigh, N. C.
Lee S. Overman, United States Senator Salisbury, N. C.
F. M. Simmons, United States Senator Newbern, N. C.
Joseph Hyde Pratt, State Geologist Chapel Hill, N. C.
J. C. PriTchard, Judge United States Circuit Court of Appeals Asheville, N. C,
W. A. Erwin, President Durham Cotton Manufacturing Company Durham, N. C.
Julian S. Carr, Manufacturer and Banker Durham, N. C.
J. Harper Erwin, Secretary and Treasurer Pearl Cotton Mills Durham, N. C.
John E. Ennis, M.D St. Petersburg, Fla.
R. M. Wilcox, President Greater Hendersonville Club Hendersonville, N. C.
R. R. HaynES, President the ClifTside Mills CUffside, N. C.
W. A. Smith, President Laurel Park Electric Railway Hendersonville, N. C.
L. L. Jenkins, President American National Bank ; Asheville, N. C.
F. E. DuRFEE, President Citizens Bank Hendersonville, N. C.
S. B. Tanner, President and Treasurer Henrietta Mills Charlotte, N. C.
D. A. Tompkins, President High Shoals Company and Atherton Mills Charlotte, N. C.
B. Jackson, President the Peoples National Bank Hendersonville, N. C.
FOREWORD
III
Tlvc) Now ^onc\\ m Lrcovnt^ivo
HE SOUTH has already begun to turn lis attention to literature, m antici-pation
of the imminent cultural awakening of her people. The South finds
expression today for her reverence for the past through the erection of
countless monuments to her civil and military leaders. It is also highly
significant of the larger vision of the new educational era in the South that
memorials are begmning to be erected to her educational statesmen. It is noteworthy,
however, that thus far in her history, the men and women of letters in the South await the
recognition of the universities and the colleges, the appreciative attention of the scholar, the
adequate appreciation of the public.
In the literature produced at the South, there is always the lurking danger of section-alism.
That danger is now almost wholly negligible. The literature of a homogeneous
people, the purest section of the Anglo-Saxon race still surviving anywhere, will inevitably
reflect the ideals, the passions, and the life of that people. But it is a far cry from
sectionalism, with its devastatmg blight of self-sufficiency, to the healthy virtues of a sane
provmcialism. The South today, along with the whole country, is beginning to feel the
impulse and the pressure of the international spirit. As Nicholas Murray Butler has
just said: "We Americans need the mternalional mind as much as any people ever
needed it. We shall never be able to do justice to our better selves or to take our true part in
ihe modern world until we acquire it. We must learn to suppress rather than to exalt those
who endeavor, whether through ignorance, selfishness, or malice, to stir up among us
antagonism to other nations and to other peoples." If American literature, if Southern
literature, is to represent the best that is thought and felt in the world today, it must be
surcharged with a sense of human solidarity. I think it was Marcus Aurelius who said
that the intelligence of the world is social. In America, there is bitter and urgent need for
that cultural and spiritual illumination which has come in Europe from a Tame and a
Brunetiere, a Carlyle, an Ibsen and a Meredith. "The man who expects to rise above
mediocrity in this age," says that trustworthy critic. Francis Grierson, "must not only become
familiar with the characteristics of his own people, but must acquaint himself with the
virtues and vanities of other nations, in order to wear off the provincial veneer which
adheres to all individuals without practical experiences, and mocks one m a too conscious
security of contentment and indifference."
We shall not acquire a literature truly autochthonous in character until we realize the
supreme criterion of literature as set forth by Bourget: that there is in every work of art
something more than esthetic effort, that each creation is inevitably and almost uncon-sciously
a manifestation of all the elements which make the national character. We shall
not acquire a literature truly international in character until we realize the ideal of art as
defined by Stendhal: "the analysis of the human passions and the artistic expression of those
passions." These are the inevitable criteria for the literature of America. The recogni-tion
of the immitigable obligations of such criteria is a poignantly felt want m the literature
of the South. The ideal Southern writer, said Joel Chandler Harris once, in speaking of
the cultural deficienc:es of the South, "must be Southern and yet cosmopolilcm; he must be
mtensely local in feeling, but utterly unprejudiced and unpartisan as to opinions, tradition,
and sentiment. Whenever we have a genuine Southern literature, it will be American and
cosmopolitan as well. Only let it be a work of genius, and it will take all sections by
storm." —Archibald Henderson
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TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR SEPTEMBER, 1914
The cover page and entire contents of this Magazine are protected by copyright, and must not
he reprinted without the publisher's permission
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Foreword—The New South in Literature Archibald Henderson 608
Frontispiece—Mrs. Locke Craig (The First Lady of the State) 610
EDITORIAL COMMENT
Will You Aid in Making Sky-Land The Southern Monthly? 611
"Sky-Land"—A Poem ., Br Lilita Lever Younge 613
The Passing of the First Lady of the Land 613
"Jule" Carr for Prison Reform 614
The I. W. W. and The Cotton Mills 615
Hands Entwined—A Poem By Rees D. Rees 616
War in Europe 617
The Night's Song—A Poem By Ida Clifton Hinshaxv 618
WOMEN PROMINENT IN THE LITERARY AND;" -CULTURAL ACTIVITIES OF
NORTH CAROLINA
The First Lady of the State : Contributed 619
Margaret Busbee Shipp \. By Archibald Henderson 620
Christian Reid 625
Our Lady of Letters 626
Ihe Notable Work of one of North Carolina's Notable Women By S. .4. Ashe 628
Sallie O'H. Dickson 632
Woman's Place is in Her Home By Elica Skinner McGehec 63=;
Florence JNI. Cooper 642
A Favorite in Washington Society 643
SPECIAL ARTICLES
The Winners of the West Contributed 646
The Trail of Daniel Boone By John P. Arthur 651
Caesar's Head, in the Highlands of South Carolina By R. Marion Bryan 656
Some Fields for Historical Investigation By J. G. DeRoulhac Hamilton 662
Extension Activities of the University of North Carolina in Connection with the Library
Commission Work By Louis R. IVilson 663
Music and Composers of North Carolina By Gilmore Ward Bryant 666
Poems Set to Music by Ivah Peterson Glascock 669
N. Brock, and a Dream of Fair Women.. 671
A Prayer By Laurence Ferguson 675
FICTION
Little Paulfat By Margaret Busbee Shipp 676
A Prisoner of War By Mary C. Robinson 681
The Ontonola—Poem By Martha G. Bosicell 690
INDUSTRIAL SECTION
The Industrial Workers' Own Postoffice 691
MRS. LOCKE CRAIG
The First Lady of the State
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The People's Magazine
Vol. I SEPTEMBER No. 10
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Will You Aid in Making Sky-Land the
Southern Monthly?
IX THE initial number of Sky-Land
Magazine, something over twelve
months ago, the following announcement
appeared
:
"Sky-Land comes to the people.
Sky-L-\nd seeks no higher reward than
to win the approval of the people. * * * *
"Published in 'The Land of the Sky,'
on the heights from which a wider
vision may be had, Sky-Land proposes
to stand for the development of every
interest in every section of 'The Old
North State.'
"Sky-Land is non-political and non-sectarian.
^^'ith an ootimistic confi-dence
in the possibilities of the future,
and unwavering faith in the people of
North Carolina. Skv-L.\nd hopes to
have a part in the work of giving wider
publicity to the development of North
Carolina.
"Sky-Land stands for the better
things ; for progressive movement ; for
reform where reform is needed ; for
larger culture; for happy home life; and
will endeavor to be an exponent of the
coming greatness of the entire State.
The opportunity presents itself, and
Sky-Land accepts the opportunity, and
will labor for Statewide upbuilding."
COMMENT
That Sky-Land has endeavored to
keep the faith, to live up to its pledges,
is a statement we believe our readers will
corroborate. In the outset, we promised
to strive to make each succeeding num-ber
better than the last. We have
accomplished this aim. and we can say
modestly and in all sincerity that Sky-
Land is a good magazine, a worthy
periodical—clean, wholesome, and ever
al?\-e to the development and interests of
the State. But in making this claim we
are mindful of the fact that by co-operation,
the keynote to success, we can
make Sky-Land better and better still.
Our great ambition is that Sky-L.\nd
become the vital exponent of the varied
interests of the entire South. This is a
big ambition, but without a big ambition
we should indeed be wanting in that
spirit of progress and achievement with
which the South is imbued.
The North has criticised the South
because it has not yet produced a maga-zine
worthy of its own wide field, and
v\-orthy to compete with the periodicals
of the North. Why should not the
South produce such a magazine ? //
can. Skv-L.\nd picks up the gauntlet
of that challenge, and by earnest en-deavor
and constant improvement will
strive to attain that goal. Sky-Land
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can become The Southern Monthly if
the people will rally to its support. In
the name of success we invoke once
more the golden word
—
Co-operation!
With the co-operation of the section
Sk^'-Laxd endeavors to worthily rep-resent—
the Xew Old South—together
with the merits U]3on which the maga-zine
rests, we can realize our vision, we
can establish The Southern Monthly.
While you have slept, w€ have burnt
the midnight oil, we have battled against
mighty obstacles, we have fought back
discouragement in our effort to give
to the State a magazine of which it may
be proud. Thought of monetary gain
has been pushed in the background in
our desire to make Sky-Laxd perform
its higher mission. But in order to ful-fill
our dreams to establish a Southern
Monthly, it is imperative that we
have the support of the South. In
view of the herculean effort we
have put forth, and the results we
have given, we feel that we are worthy
of that support. This assertion is not
made in a spirit of vainglory; its truth
is evidenced by the many encouraging
words that constantly come to us, and by
a rapidly increasing circulation. But to
further our plans for the establishment
of a Southern Monthly of the standard
we have decreed for it, our subscription
list must keep on increasing. To meet
competition in the outset, we placed the
subscription price lower than a magazine
of the character of Sky-Land justifies.
One dollar a year represents a figure in
easy reach of every magazine reader. Do
you wish to see the South represented
by a monthly magazine which, if prop-erly
supported, can and will take rank
with the best of the standard magazines
on the market? If so, send your sub-scription
today. AVe are constantly
accosted by well-meaning friends who
say kind things of Sky-Land, and in-variably
wind up with the remark, "I'll
subscribe tomorrow." or perchance "I'll
advertise a little later." Tomorrow
comes, and they have forgotten the
promise made in good faith ; it is lost
sight of in the pressure of duties. Why
not subscribe today—the moment after
you read these lines? Manana is the
tombstone of good intentions. Do It
A'07V is the monument of accomplish-ment
on your part and ours.
We next appeal to the business men
and manufacturers of North Carolina
and the entire South to recognize Sky-
Land as worthy of their advertising
patronage. Sky-La xd has become a
strong advertising medium. Until now
we have made little effort to obtain
National advertising, realizing the neces-sity
of first securing circulation. Dating
with January i, 1914, we would gladly
compare our mailing list with any other
])ubIication in the State. We do not
believe another publication in the State
can show as large a list of voluntary
subscriptions, not only from North Caro-lina
but various sections of the country.
Besides this excellent paid-in circulation,
Sky-Land is placed monthly in libraries
in all the large cities in every State in
the Union, and is for sale on trains and
news-stands.
\\"e are as careful of the character of
our advertising matter as our reading
matter. The claims of our advertisers are
investigated before copy is accepted for
insertion. Only reputable and high-class
advertising is solicited. Cigarette and
whiskey advertisements are not taken.
True, we could obtain a class of adver-tising
that would easily finance the maga-zine—
and the financing of a publication
of the standard of Sk\--Land is con-siderable
: but we are determined that
nothing shall enter into the makeup of
the magazine that would detract from
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the high standard we have willed at all
hazards to maintain.
With the rapid increase of our circu-lation
the past six months, we now feel
that the hour is struck in which to make
a vigorous campaign for advertising, and
with this end in view we have just placed
an experienced solicitor in the field, who
will devote his entire time to advertising
and circulation. With the current num-ber,
Sky-Land's vacation is at an end,
and beginning with the next number we
shall invade the advertising world ii^'ith
Nie determination to capture some of the
spoils.
To the business men and manufact-urers
of North Carolina and the entire
South we offer a twofold opportunity,
that of placihg your wares and commodi-ties
before a wide and well-to-do cli-entele,
and that of aiding in the establish-ment
of The Southern Monthly.
Do you approve of Sky-Land? Do
you wish to have a part in establishing
The Southern IMonthly?
If so, we again invite you to subscribe
and give us your advertising patronage.
"Sky -Land"
AMONG life's pleasant happenings I count
The coming of my Sky-Land. When I
scan
Its storied pages, forest, field, and mount
Draw strangely near ; all Nature's wondrous
plan
Stands forth revealed ; the sunbeam's alchemy,
Transforming dross into the purest gold,
The beck, reflecting glimpses of the sky,
New meanings to my dream-filled eyes imfold.
Outlined against the blue, flecked here and
there
With tinted argosies, while breath of rose
Is wafted toward me on the ambient air,
Tall mountains tower, in whose calm repose
I read a sermon, ancient beyond ken.
And, soaring, where a streamlet lilts along,
Far from the turmoil and the haunts of men,
A matin bird pours forth his joy in song.
God of the mystic Temple of the Woods,
Behold me at Thy leafy shrine adore.
Heedless of creed, 'midst vernal solitudes,
While choirs invisible their praises porr !
Each flower-bell a censer, deftly swayed
By shy wind-acolyte, each lily-cun
A chalice after wondrous pattern made.
Fit in Thy service to be lifted up
!
O'erhead, primeval liranches spread their
shade.
In quaint devices interlocked and bent
;
Yon brown path, winding through the pleasant
glade,
Leads not to glorv but to sweet content.
Would I might linger always, morn and i.oon
And dewy evening close to Nature's heart
—
What ! must the vision change so swift, so
soon.
Back to the stone-paved streets and busy mart?
—LiLiTA Lever Younge
The Passing of the First Lady of the
Land
PERHAPS no "first lady of the land"
ever endeared herself to more of the
people of the country than did Mrs.
Woodrow \\'ilson, whose death at the
White House, on August 6, sent a wave
of sorrow over the land, a wave leaving
everywhere in its wake those ripples of
sadness which time alone settles into the
calm of resignation. This sincere and gen-eral
grief is a true evidence of the affec-tion
and admiration in which Mrs. \\i\-
son was held by the country.
Mrs. ^\'ilson, youthful alike in ap-pearance
and spirit, possessed great
charm of manner, and a personality that
A-anquished all prejudice. \^ersatile, she
was above all a lover of her home, be-fore
everything a wife, a mother. In
President \\'ilson's remarkable career
she has played a close and a constant
part. She was a writer of ability, and
an artist of great talent. Her paintings
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have won prizes in art competitions, and
reproductions of her lovely landscapes
are hung in hundreds of American
homes.
Perhaps the thing which endeared
Mrs. Wilson most to the people was her
earnest interest in the social problems of
the day, and her civic welfare work,
where her accomplishments were "for
practical improvements. Her last
achievement was the passage through
Congress of a bill for the improvement
of Washington alleys. For this measure
she strove hard, and its enforcement will
mean the sanitary and moral reorganiza-tion
of that section of the Capital City
which is not least important because least
brilliant. Mrs. Wilson was a lover of
mankind, a friend of the oppressed.
The President of the United States,
always sympathetic where the private
griefs of others are concerned, has the
deepest sympathy of the people whom
he represents.
"Jule" Carr for Prison Reform
NORTH CAROLINA has had its
educational Governor, Charles
Brantley Aycock ; its Prohibition Gov-ernor,
Robert B. Glenn ; it has its Good
Roads Governor, His Excellency, Locke
Craig ; and when it elects Julian S.
(affectionately dubbed by the people
"Jule" ) Carr to office, it will have its
Prison Reform Governor.
"Jule" Carr believes in the State's edu-cational
uplift, its prohibition movement,
its good roads policy, its expansion and
progress along all lines—forsooth, every-thing
that makes for the highest and best
interests of "the Old North State" which
he has ser\ed with a loyalty and devo-tion
that is recognized by the people the
entire length and breadth of the State.
But, in addition to strict adherence to
these policies, should "Jule" Carr assume
the high office the people are clamoring
for him to accept, one of the strongest
planks in his platform would be for
Prison Reform.
From certain recent investigations of
North Carolina prisons, it would seem
high time that we place in the guberna-torial
office a man who has the important
and too-long-neglected issue of Prison
Reform at heart.
It seems passing strange that former
governors, the majority of whom wore
men with the keenest sense of moral obli-gation
towards their fellow men, have
given so little heed to this vital question.
Only of very recent times has there been
an awakening of the public conscience
to the pitiable plight of the convict and
the pitiable plight of those dependent
upon him. Conditions and abuses have
been and are existent in our prison sys-tems
which are a shame and disgrace to
the State, and which cry out to high
heaven for redress.
The great heart of "Jule" Carr has
heard the cry, and is ready to respond
should he become governor ; and indica-tions
strongly point to the fact that the
office will be thrust upon him.
One of the initial movements of his
administration would be sweeping re-forms
in the equipment and arrangement
of prisons, the care and management of
prisoners ; and last, but by no means
least, he would see to it that ample
pro\-ision be made for the family of
the convict or prisoner during his
term of incarceration. Often families
are thrown into the direst need and
miserv because the support by the hus-band
and father has been ruthlessly cut
off. To meet this exigency, "Jule" Carr
would advocate the passage of a law
whereby the State would be required to
pay to the wi\-es and children of convicts
all monevs accruing from their services,
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over and above their cost to the State or
county.
"Jule" Carr is a firm believer in
justice, and in the punishment of those
guilty of crime, but he does not believe
in the punishment and suffering of the
innocent; and in the dependent families
of guilty men he sees innocent sufferers,
whom the State should relieve by ceasing
to make its "justice" a source of revenue,
by reforming its prison methods so as to
include in its justice the innocent familv
as well as the guilty man. He deems it
false economy to run the State prison on
a revenue basis ; in short, he opposes con-verting
the earnings of the penitentiary
into revenue for State purposes and uses.
iNIoreover, ''Jule" Carr recognizes in
the soul of even the blackest criminal
the divine spark which is but waiting to
be kindled—and he believes in giving
every man a chance. He advocates the
appliance of humane methods and con-siderate
treatment in dealing with the
felon, with the hope of helping restore
his erstwhile lost manhood.
"Jule" Carr's solicitude for the welfare
of the unfortunate, his deep love of
humanity, is well exampled by his recent
declaration : "I had rather be president of
the Children's Home Society than the
Governor of two States."
The North Carolina Children's Home
Society, to which he referred and of
which he is president, works throughout
the State to rescue children from un-healthful
and evil surroundings and en-vironment,
and to place them in re-spectable
families, where they will have
a chance to develop into high-minded and
healthy men and women.
It is just such unselfish and humani-tarian
interests as this one that appeal to
him, and find ready allies in his energies
and abilities.
When "Jule" Carr is elected Governor
of the State, North Carolina will have a
brilliant administration, of which social
reform and advancement will be the
kevnote.
The I. W. W. and the Cotton Mills
NOW that the I. W. W. has invaded
the South, must we expect to see
idle operatives, closed mills, strife, want,
misery, bloodshed? These are the con-ditions
left in the wake of the I. ^\^ A^'.
in the North and in the AVest. We do
not believe that these conditions will re-sult
from the activities of the Industrial
Workers of the AA^orld in the South.
The creed of the "I Won't Workers,"
as they are widely and deservedlv be-coming
known, is itself a paradox
—
justice through violence. Where there is
violence, there cannot be justice. The
methods which the I. AA'. W. is seeking
to employ in the South are the same
which it employed in the North and in
the West ; but the laboring class to which
it seeks to appeal with these methods is
not the same. The methods of the I. A\'.
W. are not compatible with the character
of the mill operatives of the South.
The methods of the I. AA'. A\'. in seek-ing
to stir up strife are emotional appeal
to the ignorant, appeal to class hatred, in-citation
to destruction of property and
other acts of violence, and decrying of all
social responsibilities and of national
loyalty. Its cry of "justice" is the cry of
anarchy—nothing more and nothing less.
AA'here it has sought to right one wrong,
it has made a dozen others, off which it
has thriven as a vampire until its lust of
power was satisfied. In the record of the
work of the I. AA". AA'.. it is the associa-tion
itself, and not the working class,
which has profited by its activities.
The testimony of Adolph Lessig, an I.
AA'. AA'. leader, in a hearing on the Patter-son
silk mill strike, which occurred a year
ago, makes yerx clear the criterions, if
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such they may be called, of this so-called
labor association. Lessig was asked
:
"If in your opinion, or if in the opinion
of your organization, a strike could be
won by blowing up a mill, would it be the
policy of your organization, so far as it
has announced its policy, to do it or advo-cate
it?"
"A\'ell," was Lessig's reply, "I be-lieve
that would just depend on that sit-uation
; and I believe it would be dealt
with at the time."
"Well," assuming that that would in-timidate
or in any other way bring about
the settlement of the strike favorable to
your people," he was asked, "would you
then advocate it?"
And Lessig answered
:
"Well, we probably would not hesitate
to pursue that course then!"
These methods have had their brutal
trial where the workers have been for-eigners,
ignorant, impatient, excitable,
mistaking license for liberty and the
smooth-tongued eloquence of the agita-tors
for the voice of American freedom.
The operatives in the mills of the South
are not foreigners, are not ignorant, and
are not tools to do the unhealthful work
of the irresponsible agitator. The mill
operatives of the South are an intelligent,
industrious, and thinking people, and for
intelligence and industry the I. \\'. \\".
has no use. These operatives of the
South are liberty-loving, self-respecting,
and clear minded. How, then, can this
so-called labor organization, with its ap-peal
to mob violence, make headway in
the South?
Besides this incompatibility between
the agitator and the employee, the work-ers
of the South have the advantage of
observing and reflecting upon the idle-ness
and suffering which have followed
the activities of the I. W. \A'. in the North
and in the \\"est. and the unstable results
which it claims as accomplishments.
Co-operation between labor and capital
is to be desired, indeed is necessary for
the advancement of mutual interests.
^^'here a wrong exists, it should be
righted by means of calm consideration
and clear understanding. There are few
mill owners or managers in this advanced
era who are not willing to see justice
done their employees. The true union-ism,
and one which is rapidly becoming a
reality, and which will inevitablv do
away with strikes, is the unionism be-tween
employer and employee, between
the two members of the one familv
—
Labor and Capital.
It is because it works against this co-operation
that the I. W. \\'. will not gain
headway in the South, because it is at-tempting
to injure the people whom it
promises to aid, and the people are wise
enough to realize the fact.
^^'e believe that labor troubles are
more and more coming to be settled
amicably and peacefully ; we believe that
mill owners are everywhere awakening
to their obligations to their employees as
men and brothers ; it is our con-viction
that employees are alive to
the appreciation of justice when
they possess it. and to the realization that
the only way to win it where they do
not already do so, is to enlist the sym-pathy
of the thinking public, which will
not tolerate methods of strife and dis-order.
With the support of thinking
people, no reasonable demands of labor
will go unheeded by capital.
Hands Entwined
By Rees D. Rees, of The Denver Bar
A RUGGED man, with nerves of steel,
And sound, brave heart that does not feel
The dread of death e'er stalking near,
'Tis thine to toil with nought of fear
In quest of bread—scarce any more,
Thy wage can liring within thy door
—
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From day to day in dark mines deep,
The while the wolf his vigils keep.
The wolf of want that scurries where
Thy loved ones sleep beneath thy care.
In lowly hut, thy own sweet home,
The dearest spot 'neath heaven's blue dome.
O grieve not o'er thy hunilile share
In His great plan, for thou art there;
Thou hast a work the world needs done,
A daily need ere set of sun.
Thou hast not gold the world to give,
Yet dost thou aid the world to live
;
Thou dost thy part, but not alone,
For as the sinew needs the bone.
So dost thou need the hand of wealth
To bring thee work that gives thee health
And joy and pure contentment sweet
As loved ones dear their needs ye meet.
Thou hand of wealth ! how great thy pow'r
!
What mighty tasks thou dost each hour!
Worldwide thy field, for weal or woe,
Man's heaven-sent friend or giant foe;
Clasped hand to hand with honest toil,
Thou'd free the world of burd'ning moil
;
'Twould peace and joy and blessings bring,
The earth make glad and angels sing.
O Toil, alone, thou helpless art,
Nor canst thou, Wealth, e'er do thy part.
Until, unless thy quarrels o'er
A friendship true thou dost restore.
Thou liand of wealth, be just, be square;
Thou hand of toil, be honest, fair.
Thus help and bless each other's lot,
Nor mar the same by one least blot.
Contentious greed and nlurd'rous strife
Ne'er solved the problems of this life;
Struggle we may till life is o'er.
The question's there, just as before.
Let reason rule with rod of right,
Justice, mercy, not fear and might.
Then silv'ry rifts will rend the sky.
Progress and Peace will reign on high.
Time is fleeting, speeding away,
Nearing, are we to Judgment Day.
We'll soon be called from labor here
'fo meet our God in yonder sphere.
Entwine your hands in loving grasp.
And peace, good will in union clasp.
Heaven then will flood our world with light,
The light of love, eternal, bright.
War in Europe
THE war in Europe, which at this
writing appears to be settHng down
to a long, grim struggle for supremacy
between the many contending nations, is
to be deplored from humanitarian and
economic viewpoints, and condemned
from the viewpoint of good ethics.
President Wilson's proffer of his services
as a peacemaker has been the one note in
the whole inharmonious performance
which has rung true with the professed
measure and rhythm of the World
Powers—universal peace. The cause
from which this tremendous war has
arisen was a small point of diplomacy
between two minor nations, a point
which should have been settled by diplo-matic
arrangement, and which could
easily have been arranged amicably at a
peace conference. Instead, the most
powerful nations of Europe, recent ad-vocates
of universal peace, are now fly-ing
at each others' throats.
To see the Peace Palace at the Hague
turned into a fortress and occupied by
armed soldiers would be no more incon-gruous
than it is to see this bloody war-fare
in the face of the recent "peace
measures" of the combatants.
The truth, of course, lies in the fact
that Europe for the past decade has been
in an inflammatory condition, and the
Austrian-Servian episode was merely the
match applied to the fuel. The German
Emperor, the "War Lord" of Europe, is,
with small doubt, the man most respon-sible
for the furthering of the war, but
Russia, with diplomatic finesse, did much
to bring matters to a head. England, it
is to be hoped, will do much to bring
matters to a close.
What the outcome of this war will be
no one can foretell. Will France win
back her lost provinces from Germany?
"\^'ill the Gemian Empire give place to a
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Republic? Will England acquire new
territory? All these things are possible;
but the only certainty is vast loss of life
and property, and the birth of grief and
misery which will not have their end in
this veneration.
"Our actions, depending upon our-selves,
may be controlled, while the
powers of thinking, originating in higher
causes, cannot always be molded to our
wishes."
"The modern majesty consists in
work,
est ornament."
What a man can do is his great-
"Those who bring sunshine into the
lives of others, cannot keep it from
themselves."
"There is naught in this bad world like
sympathy : 'tis so becoming to the soul
and face."
The Night's Song
By Ida Clifton Hinshaw
THE Moon Lady has donned her shimmering blue-black gown,
And loosened her golden tresses to light the town
—
Her dear little star-children watch the long night
O'er the wee ones of earth—'til comes the light.
"Sleep"—they cry—"sleep—sleep—we will keep
Vigil over you, away up here so high.
Sleep little ones—sleep—sleep—sleep,
Never weary, we watch from the beautiful sky."
. . . . hush ! the Moon Lady comes, a tiptoe 'cross the grass,
To peep in the windows, at each little lad and lass.
"Bye-bye," sweet and low, she sings—"sleep—sleep,
Not one tear from those pretty little eyelids weep."
The little stars whisper, in the garden of the sky,
"There, there, honey, don't you cry."
And the soft wind croons, as it begins to creep
"Sleep—go to sleep—to sleep."
The fairies flit about on fireflies for steeds.
Loving little creatures, eager for good deeds,
Breathing low—"for good children night has wings.
Listen to the Dream-man as he sings,
'Sleep—sleep�����'til dawn does peep.
And the sun begins—to creep—to creep.
Stealing kisses from the lilies and roses.
And the mocking-bird of his voice makes posies,
To lull you to sleep—to sleep—to sleep'."
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m®M Pwirrominent la Tie Literary aad Cult urnl Life
of lN©rt:h Carollaa
iiiiiiiiiiiniiniiiii
The First Lady of the State
(Contributed)
IT NO longer suffices to record the lives
of great men alone, for we are at last
beginning to admit, although we have
always known it, that the wives and
mothers have invariably played an im-portant
part in the success of great
careers.
We are all more or less familiar with
the brilliant career of Hon. Locke Craig,
our present Governor; but it is the object
of this article to briefly introduce Mrs.
Craig to those North Carolinians who
have not been so fortunate as to meet her
and know her.
Mrs. Craig is several years the junior
of her husband ; and the genuine pleasure
which she seems to derive from the duties
incumbent upon the first lady of the State
frankly gives the lie to the wisdom of
immortal Shakespeare : "Uneasy rests
the head that wears a crown." It is
such a relief to see people really enjoy
their duty.
Before her marriage, Mrs. Craig was
Miss Annie Burgin, of Old Fort, N. C.
Benjamin Burgin, her great-grandfather,
came south from Maryland, and settled
upon the banks of the Catawba River.
The old homestead, built three genera-tions
ago, is still the residence of the
Burgin family. Related to the Burgins,
are the famous old families of Western
North Carolina—Davidson, McDowell,
and Alexander. While still a child,
Annie Burgin began to take her part in
the communal life of the picturesque
little town in which she was born, reared,
and educated. At the age of thir-teen,
she became the organist in the
Presbyterian Church, and continued in
this capacity until her marriage took
her away from Old Fort. At the age of
fifteen, Annie Burgin first met Mr.
Craig, who was then a young lawyer, just
beginning to climb the ladder of life,
which has now attained to the highest
position of honor that a State can bestow.
As soon as Miss Burgin finished school,
at the age of eighteen, she and Mr. Craig
were married, and left immediately for
Asheville, where they resided until the
inauguration called them to Raleigh.
Mrs. Craig is the mother of three
sons : Carlyle, the eldest, twenty-one
years old, is a student of the United
States Na\'al Academy, as is also
Arthur, the youngest, eighteen years old.
George, the second son, twenty years
old, is a student of the University of
North Carolina.
Mrs. Craie, besides being musical, is
very fond of books, and takes a lively in-terest
in politics and in the daily news-papers.
She is an expert housekeeper,
and well qualified in every respect to
grace the Executive Mansion of her
native State. A woman of charming
manners and most attractive personality,
no woman that ever occupied the Execu-tive
Mansion has endeared herself more
to the people of Raleigh and to the State
generally than has Mrs. Craig, nor more
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completely filled North Carolina's ideal
of a woman of the highest social type
and accomplishments.
A happy home furnishes a strong back-ground
and support to a public worker,
and those who are acquainted with the
family of Gov. Locke Craig at once
realize that his ardent devotion to the
welfare of his State, and his strong and
fearless stand for the principles he advo-cates,
is largely aided by the strength
given him of a congenial home life.
Margaret Busbee Shipp
By Archibald Henderson
THE world is beginning to say that,
with the turn of the century, the
South is losing, nay, has already well-nigh
lost, those inalienable and lovable
traits which throughout American his-torv
have flooded it with the halo and
glamor of romance. The impassioned
oratory of bygone days is yielding place
to the cold, economic demonstration of
contemporary legislation ; a Simmons
and an Underwood supplant a Lamar
and a Grady. The classic, spend-thrift
hospitality of ante-bellum days is
impossible in our age of fierce comoeti-tion
and relentless business; there is no
time left for the lordly ease and leisured
grace of the days when the dusty travel-er
responded with quickened gratitude to
such whole-hearted hospitable inscrip-tions
as ''\\'elcome .\11—to Buncombe
Hall." The attitude of shrinking
modesty, of shamefaced self-deprecia-tion,
characteristic of the South for
almost a half-century following the \\'ar
Between the States, is yielding place to
quiet reserve and that assured self-con-fidence
which is the child of real power
and true greatness. The nation looks
with unshaken confidence to the South,
and aljove all to North Carolina, for
leadership of this nation, both at home
and abroad, in the fulfilment of her high
purpose and prophetic destiny.
\\'ith the turn of the century, there
has come a change, imperceptible though
it appear, in our attitude towards those
higher things of life—art, literature,
music, culture, the realm of the spirit
—
so inevitably obscured during the era of
twilight, when the South, in the dimness
of anguish, struggled to lay anew the
foundations of her civilization. Every-where
today, in North Carolina, in the
South, the eyes of the people are up-ward-
turning, forward looking—intent
upon those higher things of life, the
emanations of genius, which measure the
true enlightenment and culture of any
civilization.
North Carolina's constitutional in-difference
to literature in the past places
her in unfortunate, indeed discreditable,
contrast with the New England of an
earlier period, with the Middle \\'est of
our own day. Our quiet self-satisfaction
with what is immediate, our absorption
in the purely local, have kept hidden
from our sight the larger contributions to
the real thinking and art of the time,
made by our own native writers. The
North Carolinian reaches the country,
and Europe, through the pages of the
A'orth American Rcviezv, the Atlantic
Monthly, or Harper's I\Iaga::ine ; he or
she can only reach North Carolina
through the pages of the daily and
weekly newspaper. The nearby, the
familiar, touch our people most in-timately.
The person whose writings
appear most frequently in the most acces-
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sible medium is the best writer, because
he or she is best known. Many a reputa-tion
is thus won by default. Many a
local celebrity, as Bernard Shaw once put
it, ''owes his eminence to the flatness of
the surrounding country."
In the days when the name of Alar-garet
Rusbee Shipp was often signe:l to
of her abounding life, know Margaret
lUisbee Shipp. And those who are con-cerned
for the fostering of the literary
spirit in our midst have taken account of
her work, and awarded it public acknowl-edgment.
The State Literary and His-torical
Association was honored with her
name as second vice-president in 1908,
MAEG.\KET BUSBEE SHIPP
stories which appeared in the Lhaiioh'c
Observer, she and her writing was a
theme of constant comment and discus-sion.
Yet, no sooner was she graduated
from the school of local journalism into
the broad life of the American magazine
world, than the general public of Xortli
Carolina lost close touch with her writ-ings.
Those who know the America of
today, and drink deep from the springs
as first \ice-president in 1913, and she is
now a member of the Executive Com-mittee,
the first woman who has ever
held that position. There is something
mistaken, erroneous, in the fact that the
wider the national reputation of a native
writer, the narrower is the range of ac-cjuaintance
of our own people with that
writer, the smaller the local circle of
readers.
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"Yes, I do recall that Mrs. Shipp
writes," remarked a man of Statewide
reputation recently. "But of course I
never recognize her work when I see it,
because I don't know her iioin de plume."
That remark, as the French say, "gave
me to think furiously," and to laugh con-sumedly.
For ^Irs. Shipp has no nom de
guerre, and all her writings are boldly
signed "Margaret Busbee Shipp."
The most difficult art I know is the art
of writing successfully for the modern
American magazine. It is much more
profitable to write magazine articles and
stories than to write books. The Ameri-can
magazine pays two to- three times
what the English magazine pays ; and five
to ten times what the European magazine
pays. To find a place in the high-class
American magazine means to win in a
competition of sealed bidding against
thousands of competitors. To enter the
sacred precincts of certain magazines is
a more difficult feat than to scale the
walls of a fortified city. Indeed, the
editorial sanctum of one of these great
popular American magazines is a sanct-uary
fortified against, the invasion of an
endless horde, determinedly fighting for
inclusion within the charmed circle of
creative literature.
Can we restrain a, thrill of pleasure,
then—even before the perusal of a single
line—on opening one of those great
popular magazines, with tens of thou-sands,
with hundreds of thousands, with
millions even of readers, and discover-ing
there a story or essay signed "Mar-garet
Busbee Shipp?"
Who can restrain a feeling of pride in
the discovery that sometimes the feature,
and on occasion the position of honor, in
such publications as Leslie's Monthly,
Everybody's, The American, Collier's,
The Cosmopolitan. The Saturday Even-ing
Post, to mention only a few of the
most conspicuous, has been a story or an
essay of Margaret Busbee Shipp? And
one can scarcely estimate the size of the
audience for one whose writings appear
in rogue. The Smart Set, Pearson's,
M'unsey's, The International, The Church-man.
The Woman's Home Companion,
The American Boy, The Youth's Com-panion,
Ainslee's, N^ezv York Ez'ening
Posfi, The Xational Magazine. The
Reader, Broadway—the list is too long
to go further with its enumeration.
Surely this widely popular writer has
achieved a distinctive position during the
past decade and a half.
Today, I dare say, ^Margaret Busbee
Shipp is the most admired, the best loved
woman in North Carolina. This most
enviable distinction, which is easily hers,
is regarded by those who know her well
as the most natural thing in the world.
She has always seemed, has always ap-peared,
to be the incarnation of romance.
The pitiless beauty of high tragedy has
fallen upon her brow ; yet never has her
life ceased for one moment to be an in-spiration
to all who know her. Romance
is a very real thing to this living image
of a dream of Botticelli or a vision of
Rossetti — subtly delicate, sensitively
feminine to the finger tips. Her friend-ships
are utterly impartial—as to age,
sex, or condition. To all she displays
the same charm of interest, the same
genius for sympathy, the same faculty
for sharing with others the best of all that
she is and feels. These words from a
beloved friend express the feeling
which she is so fortunate as to inspire
:
"Here is a woman who is 'obedient to the
Heavenly vision,' who has not lost her
ideal in life's hard, prosaic struggle, nor
lowered her standard once, though she
has fought single-handed in the fray.
Are we thankful for music, for flowers,
for art in all its forms? Yes—and for
such women as ]\Irs. Shipp, who inspire
our duller souls that go more heavily, and
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help us to believe in beauty still, though
our eyes be too dull, through weariness
and pain, to see."
Refreshing naivete, remarkable pre-cocity,
quiet self-confidence—these were
hers even as a tiny child. As a baby,
from her cart, she casually protested
:
"Don't tell me my eyes is pretty ; 'cause I
knows it" ; and the neighborhood gladly
claimed her as its most beautiful child.
The story of her childhood would be the
narrative of the quaint, naive sayings of
unconscious cleverness. As a little tot,
she made the unforgettable prayer: "God
bless th-e. dear, good candy man—who
walks just so," getting up from her knees
to illustrate to the Lord the gait of her
dear friend, Mr. Royster, who was so
kind to children, he being much bent at
the time from rheumatism. This same
charming literalness found expression in
her personal interpretation of her first
sewing lesson : "Hem a little, then run a
little"—she taking a run around the
flower garden between every ten stitches.
Everyone recognized her remarkable
originality, as a very small child ; and in
particular her marvelous memory, which
is a family characteristic. No wonder
that one who, taught by an amused
father, rattled off Shakespeare as the
average small child recites Mother Goose,
came to be regarded as an infant prodigy I
. The serial stories in the children's
magazines, such as St. Nicholas, excited
the imagination of the fanciful child. She
and her childhood chum, Eliza Skinner,
laughingly tell of the wonderful fairy-tale
"Rumpty Dudgett," of "Eyebright,"
of "Donald and Dorothy." In those two
short hours between dinner time after
school and the early winter dark, these
two excitedly read Louisa M. Alcott's
stories when they first appeared, serially
:
"Under the Lilacs," "Little Men," "Little
Women," "Jo's Boys," and the rest.
Under the dexterous management of
Miss Stubbert, an adroit teacher in the
primary grades at St. Mary's School, Ra-leigh,
little Margaret was first inspired to
literary effort. And at the age of ten
"Margie" produced a composition on "A
Visit to Asheville" which won the honor
of publication in The Muse, the magazine
published by the Seniors at St. Mary's.
An early ideal in fiction was "The
Duchess," about whom she wrote a vol-uminous
"appreciation" at the age of
fourteen—only to consign it ultimately to
the wastebasket. Regrettable decision
!
for how interested we should be to see
the early "appreciation" of one who has
since given us, in certain of her own
stories, somewhat modernized versions
of those charmingly sentimental and
frankly romantic creations, "Molly
Bawn," "Doris," and "Airy, Fairy Lil-lian
!" And that remarkably natural con-versation,
expressive yet unpretentious,
which runs all through the novels of
"The Duchess," is likewise a character-istic
of the dialog of the stories of Mar-garet
Busbee Shipp. Whenever I see her,
as conversation flows, slightly contract
her eyelids, I know that she is sedulously
pigeon-holing some conversational gem.
If I am observant, I shall some day find
it in one of her stories. To use a Shakes-pearean
phrase, she is "a snapper-up of
unconsidered trifles"—a loving journalist
of the ideas and emotions of daily life.
This it is to be a realist—to reproduce
life, speech, conversation as it actually is.
Her stories are all, one may say, drawn
from real life. They are the results of
careful observation—fused into form
through a high sensitiveness for romance
and sentiment. Mrs. Browning left a deep
impression upon her as a girl. W'hen
others could quote two lines of Mrs.
Browning, she could quote two pages.
One day one of her chums found
"Margie" spouting page after page of
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Milton's "Paradise Lost" to a most dazed
looking drummer. "Why?" her friend
ventured to remonstrate, after the
"drummer" had made good his escape.
"Because it came in right," responded the
mischievous Margie. "I've waited fif-teen
years for a chance to use it. And
do vou suppose I would have let slip the
opportunity now, just because he didn't
zn'ant to hear it
!"
I shall not lay myself open to the
criticism of over-seriousness by cutting
up the beautiful Margaret Busbee Shipp
into sections and periods, and labeling
things "of the earlier manner," or "of the
middle period," or "of the latest manner-ism."
But I will say that she writes most
diverting love stories, full of whimsical-ity,
sentiment, and feminine contrariety
—
surcharged with a blush of romance
;
charming stories about children, drawn
straight from life, with that "heightening
for the sake of effect" which is the priv-ilege
of the artist ; articles and descriptive
essays full of human interest on the one
hand, of subtle perception on the other.
Her powers of description and narration
are very striking ; one often forgets the
slight story in concentration upon the
beautv or finish of some semi-detail. The
most tender of all her children's stories,
the one which appeals most to me., is
"Little Paulfat," which, with drawings
by Alice Beach \^'inter, occupied the lead-ing
position in Leslie's MontMy Maga::ine
for July, 1904. Much as I profited by
her stories of "Moonshine and Moon-shiners,"
in Collier's, some years ago, I
must give the palm, as a sociological
study, to her photographic reproduction
from life of a wonderful mulatto girl,
which appeared in Collier's in 1908, un-der
the title "One Who Served." I think
one of the most attractive of her stories
is "By Souvenir Postcard," which ap-peared
in The American Magazine, for
Mach, 1906. She has a strong sense for
atmosphere and local color—all of
her stories have clearly defined "set-ting,"
a real geography, so to speak.
Tra\el is her passion ; and this
passion she has succeeded in grati-fying,
in the face of innumerable
obstacles. Few women are capable of
either the work or the persistence that
she has shown. Comically prophetic
were her words, spoken in early child-hood
: "One thing poor people must do,
is travel." The first of her stories which
I ha^-e read since her return from South
America has a distinctive South Ameri-can
setting: "Sweet ]\Iargaret," in the
current Woman's Home Companion. On
all her travels, she is "after the story";
and she always brings it back.
^Margaret Busbee Shipp speaks in pub-lic
with grace and ease ; and I well recall
the great pleasure she gave our ^lodern
Literature Club here, with her delightful
essay on "The Father in Fiction"—an
essay dedicated in her heart to her own
adored father. A speech at St. Mary's
School some years ago—"The dull little
girl at the foot of the class"—won the
hearts of all who heard her, with its
appeal for an education productive of
the truest, finest womanhood. Her ad-dress
on "South America," given in
Richmond, Raleigh, and elsewhere, is
doubtless the most successful and
finished public effort she has yet achieved.
Margaret Busbee Shipp has the most
modest possible estimate of her own
ability. But she has accomplished
wonders during, these past fifteen years
—accomplishment unknown to most,
and achieved in the face of a thousand
difficulties. The best of her work is yet
to be—the future lies before her.
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Christian Reid
625
FRANCES CHRISTINE TIERNAN,
better known by her pen-name,
Christian Reid, is without dispute the
best known, the most famous, of all
North Carolina writers. It is forty-four
years since her first published story.
'X'alerie Aylmer," brought her into
prominence as a novelist, and through-out
this long period, during which novels,
poems, dramas, and travel-stories have
appeared at short intervals from her
prolific pen. she has maintained her pre-eminence
as the foremost North Carolina
writer, has established herself as a lead-ing
writer of the South, a popular
.American author, and has won recogni-tion
in France and Italy, where certain
of her works have been translated into
the French and Italian languages re-spectively.
In 1909. Christian Reid was awarded
the Laetare medal, given annually bv the
Unixersity of Notre Dame for distin-guished
ser\ice in literature, that being
the first time the medal was ever awarded
to a Southerner.
All North Carolina is proud of Chris-tian
Reid as a notable writer, and in ad-dition
^^'estern North Carolina hails her
as its discoverer and its sponsor, for it
was Christian Reid who named West-ern
North Carolina "The Land of the
Sky," a name and a country now known
the world over through her christening
and her writings. ''The Land of the
Sky," published in book form in 1876.
after having appeared as a series of
travel-sketches in Appleton's Journal.
described the author's journey in a stage-coach
through ^\'estern North Carolina,
and first focused the attention of the
country on the grandeur and beauty of
that mountainous section.
It was in a stagecoach that Christian
Reid penetrated the mountains, lumber-ing
up through Old Fort, and into the
forested heights beyond, and it is the
atmosphere of those pre-railwav davs
—
days of chi\-alry and romantic adventure,
days when courtesy and hospitality were
a part of e\ery character and home
that permeates the greater part of
Christian Reid's stories. In reading
many of her books today, one is carried
back to the days of old courtesies and
customs, and railways, mills, and modern
tendencies vanish from our mental
\ision. giving place to the picturesque if
somewhat stilted civilization of which
the stagecoach was the peripatetic
symbol. -•
Frances Christine Tiernan was born
in Salisbury, N. C, on July 5, 1846; and
today li\'es in Salisbury with her aunt,
Afiss Christine Fisher. In appearance
she is aristocratic and distinguished, with
finely molded features and beautiful eyes.
In character she is modest, uiiright,
strong. Her writings, which are all jnire
in tone and purpose, and delicate in sen-timent,
reflect her own high standards
and ideals. She is a firm believer in the
inseparable relation of art and ethics,
and has borne her responsibilities as an
author in complete harmonv with her
responsibilities as a woman. Her art is
of her life, not a thing apart from it.
"JMorton House," published in 187 1,
appeared close on 'A'alerie Aylmer." and
in the following years she wrote "A
Daughter of Bohemia." "A Question of
Honor." "Armine," ''Roslvn's Fortune,"
"The Child of :Mary," "Philip's Restitu-tion,"
and "]\Iiss Churchill."
In 1887, Christian Reid was married
to James ^Marquis Tiernan, and went
with him to live in Mexico, transferring
the scenes of her ne.xt novels to that
country. .-Vt this time appeared "Pic-ture
of Las Cruces," "The Ladv of Las
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Cruces," "The Land of the Sun," and
"Carmela, Little ^laid of ^Mexico." The
most successful of these was "Picture of
Las Cruces," which was published in the
French periodical, L'lUnstration. as well
as in this country. Her principal works
of fiction were completed in "A Comedy
of Elopement," "A Woman of Fortune,"
"Weighed in the Balance," "Carmen's
Inheritance," "The Man of the Family,"
"The Chase of an Heiress," and "Prin-cess
Nadine." This lasi novel has been
translated into Italian, and published in
a set, among the volumes of which are
novels bv Honore de Balzac, George
Sand, and Rene Bazin.
"If I Had Known" is perhaps Chris-tian
Reid's best poem, and her war
drama, "LTnder the Southern Cross,"
which met with instant success every-where
in the South, is without doubt her
best play.
A greater part of Christian Reid's
work is linked with a past atmosphere
and period, but her romances live on,
and will continue to live on, for her art
embraces her ideals, which are not of
any one time or place. As Christian
Reid herself has said
:
"Of one thing we may be distinctly
sure, the art which declines to acknowl-edge
a divine purpose as the key to the
riddle of man's existence signs its own
sentence of -extinction. For looking back
over the wide field of literature, of the
best which man has thought and said in
all languages, we find that nothing sur-vives
the destroying touch of time save
that which is in harmony with the eternal
verities."
Our Lady of Letters
FOR what one accomplishment is Mrs.
Lucy Bramlette Patterson most
noted ? Ask Society, and you will be told
it is her brilliant entertainment, her
lavish hospitality ; ask an author, and
you will learn it is her splendid en-couragement
to young writers, her in-terest
in the advancement of literature
in North Carolina ; ask a reader, and
you will hear it is her cleverness as an
author, her \-ersatile wit as an essayist
;
ask a Club-woman, and you will be in-formed
it is her work in the State Chap-ter
of the D. A. R. ; ask a close friend,
and you will ascertain it is her ideal
home-life, her family happiness. From
this you will infer, and correctly, that
Mrs. Patterson is a woman of man)' in-terests,
of splendid intellect and big
heart.
The daughter of the late Col. William
Houston Patterson, of Philadelphia,
Lucy Bramlette Patterson was born at
"Castle Roche," her late father's home
in Tennessee, so that she belongs by birth
to the South, although Philadelphia was
for many years her home. The history
of the Patterson family and the history
of Philadelphia are indissolubly bound
:
when one is written, the other is written
also, and it is no less true that in the
future history of North Carolina the
name of Lucy Bramlette Patterson will
have an important place. iMrs. Patter-son
has lived in North Carolina for the
last twenty-six years. Since her mar-riage,
in 1888, to her cousin, Lindsay
Patterson, her home has been at Win-ston-
Salem. Known as "Bramlette,"
there is no more beautiful home in the
South.
Mrs. Patterson is often spoken of as
"Our Lady of Letters," an aft'ectionate
reference to her presentation to the peo-ple
of North Carolina of the William
Houston Patterson Memorial Cup. This
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cup, which perpetuates her father's
memory, is an active incentive to the ad-vancement
of literature in the State, a
suitable mark of Mrs. Patterson's lasting
devotion to her father. The cup is
awarded each year to the author of the
work of highest literary skill and genius
published during the year, the competi-
John Charles McNeill, to whom it was
presented by Theodore Roosevelt, then
President of the United States. The
latest award of the cup was to Horace
Kephart, on the merits of his book, "Our
Southern Highlanders."
The William Houston Memorial Cup
is of gold, sixteen inches high, and seven
LUCY BRAMLETXe P.ATTEESON
tion being contined to residents of North
-Carolina. The name of the winner is
engraved on the cup, which becomes the
permanent property of the author win-ning
it most often in ten years, provided
it has been awarded to one author not
less than three times.
The cup was given by Mrs. Patterson
to the State Literary and Historical As-sociation
of North Carolina, in 1905, and
the first author to win it was the late
inches in diameter. It has three handles,
and at the base of each handle is a coat-of-
arms—those of North Carolina, Penn-sylvania,
and the Patterson family, re-spectively.
The cup is studded with
forty-nine precious stones, all North
Carolina gems.
Every year Mrs. Patterson gives a
house-party at "Bramlette" to the
authors of North Carolina, believing that
our writers should be well known one
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to the other; and her individual en-couragement
to struggling beginners in
the field of creative literature has helped
more than one writer to attain success.
Mrs. Patterson has represented North
Carolina in many important affairs—she
was chairman of the Historical Com-mittee
of the State Commission to the
Jamestown Exposition—and has always
been loyal and alive to the interests of
the State. Thoroughly womanl)', and an
active worker for the good, she inspires
good work in others, and her unselfish
nature makes her friends everywhere.
Fond of books, and an earnest student
;
true to her friends, and devoted to her
family, Mrs. Patterson is a virile force
in social, club, and literary afifairs of the
State : and in each of her varied interests,
like the facets of a diamond, she appears
to shine with particular brilliance.
The Notable Work of One of North Carolina's
Notable Women
Bv S. A. Ashe
THE XORTH CAROLIXA BOOK-LET,
of which ]\Iiss IMary Hilliard
Hinton has been the editor for some
ele\en years, has been of such benefit to
the State that some account of its origin
and of the beneficial influence it has ex-erted
among our people should be pre-served,
and it is an agreeable task for
me to try to do this, and to express my
appreciation of the work of its founders
and editors, who deserve so thoroughly
the sincere thanks of the State.
The Booklet is published by the North
Carolina Society of the Daughters of
the Revolution, and it originated inci-dentally,
in an effort to promote a laud-able
object of that Society.
Notwithstanding the great part North
Carolina took in the Revolution, the So-ciety
of the Daughters of the Revolu-tion
was not organized in the State until
1896. Two years earlier, ]\Irs. Spier
^^'hitaker was invited by the General So-ciety
to become Regent for the State,
and, on her acceptance, she began the
work of establishing a State Society; but
there were many difficulties to be over-come.
It was foreign to the habits of
our North Carolina women to associate
on the basis of family achievements in
the distant past, or to employ themselves
in work outside of their social environ-ments.
But gradually, constantly, and
persistently, Mrs. Whitaker sought to
interest others in the objects of the So-ciety;
and at length, on October 19, 1896
—the anniversary of Comwallis' sur-render—
she successfully organized the
Society in North Carolina. Among the
objects stated in the constitution were
to "perpetuate the patriotic spirit of the
men and women who achieved American
Independence, to commemorate Revo-lutionary
events, especially those con-nected
with North Carolina ; and to en-courage
the study of the country's his-tory."
Once organized, the Society im-mediately
addressed itself to the promo-tion
of these objects, Mrs. \\'hitaker be-ing
the mo\'ing spirit, for her broad
views, liberal sentiments, and wide
acquaintance with historical subjects,
admirably qualified her for leadership,
while her loveliness of person and of
character drew all toward her.
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At the meeting in December, 1900, it
was resolved to devote the energies of
the Society to the attainment of some
particular object; and their attention be-ing
drawn to the "Edenton Tea Party,"
of October 25, 1774, by an interesting
article read by Dr. Richard Dillard. the
idea of commemorating that patriotic
action of the women of Ed^Hton occurred
the men, not only had its effect in the
Province, and throughout the Colonies,
but also in England, where the papers
published the resolves and the names of
the signers as "fairly representative of
the moral and physical support the wo-men
of the Colonies were contributing
to the common cause." It naturally
touched a responsive chord in the breasts
MARY HILI.IARD HINTON
to them. It was a happy thought, and it
aroused their enthusiasm—the Daught-ers
of the Revolution would set up a
memorial in enduring brass to those wo-men
of the Revolution who determined
to adhere to the same patriotic resolves
which the men had adopted in the Con-gress,
binding themselves by signing an
association paper, just as the men had
done! This public action of the Eden-ton
women, taking a stand along with
of the women of 1900, many of whom
had themselves, like Mrs. \Miitaker,
passed through a similar experience in
early life. But funds were needed for
the purpose ; and on motion of Mrs.
Helen Wills, a sister of Airs. Whitaker,
a committee composed of Mrs. Walter
Clark, Mrs. Hubert Haywood, Miss
Martha Haywood, Miss Grace Bates,
and Mrs. Ivan Proctor, was appointed to
consider the matter and report at the
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next meeting. In the interval, doubt-less,
the usual methods of raising money
were discussed, but Miss Martha Hay-wood,
who has been gifted by nature
with some rare intellectual endowments,
conceived a novel idea—to issue a
monthly publication, confined to articles
relating to great events in North Caro-lina
histor}'. Such a magazine would be
in line with the general objects of the
Society; it would disseminate informa-tion
about local history; it would rescue
from oblivion many patriotic events
—
such indeed as the "Edenton Tea Party."
Herself enthused with the idea. Miss
Martha Haywood conferred with
friends, and was encouraged by them.
^Irs. Hubert Haywood (before mar-riage.
I\Iiss Emily Benbury) fully con-curred,
and together they made the sug-gestion
to the full committee, who
warmly approved ; and, later, it was un-animously
agreed upon by the Society.
Naturally, ]\Iiss Martha Haywood and
Mrs. Hubert Ha^nvood were asked to
take charge of the publication, the funds
in the treasury being available for post-age,
circulars, and incidental expenses.
It was decided to call the magazine The
North Carolina Booklet, devoted to
Great Events in North Carolina History.
The first step was to secure articles to
be published each month for a vear
for they would not ask for subscrip-tions
until the continued publication was
assured. The response to invitations to
supply articles was satisfactory : and
then the prospectus was issued, setting
forth the subjects and the names of the
contributors to the first A'olume of the
Xorth Carolina Booklet.
There was a great deal of latent"
patriotism among the people, but it had
never been organized. There had never
been any general patriotic association in
the State. Outside of matters connected
with the "^^^ar." interest in historical
subjects had largely been confined to the
locality of the event. It took time to
develop an interest in the Booklet; but
eventually it was accomplished. The
first number appeared in May, 1901, and
consisted of a monograph by Maj.
Graham Daves on A^irginia Dare, the
first English child born in America, "a
fitting subject for the first article of a
magazine issued by the 'Daughters,'
edited by women, and the proceeds to be
used in commemorating the patriotism of
women."
After two years of arduous labor
freely given, ]\Iiss Alartha Haywood and
]\Irs. Haywood, having successfullv
launched the enterprise, preferred to re-tire
from the management ; and thev
were suceeded as editors by jNIiss I\Iary
Hilliard Hinton and :Mrs. E. E. Moffitt.
The new editors were well equipped for
the work, and were imbued with a de-termination
to maintain the publication
on the high plane of excellence it reached
with its very first number. Eor two
years it was continued as a monthly, but
in 1905 it was converted into a quarterly,
the change taking place with Vol. 5, in
July, 1905. Four years later, i\Irs.
]\Iofiit removed to Richmond ; and since
then the entire work connected with the
publication has been carried on by Miss
Hinton. ;\Irs. ^Moffitt, however, retains
all of her former interest in the Booklet,
and continues to fill the position of
Biographical Editor, furnishing admir-able
sketches of contributors; and in the
last April number she had a verj' appre-ciative
and excellent sketch of Mrs.
AMiitaker, the founder of the Society.
In 1908, the Society was able to carry
out its purpose of erecting in the rotunda
of the State capitol a beautiful bronze
tablet to the fifty-one ladies who signed
the association at the Edenton Tea
Partv, among whose names we note
:
Blair, Blount, Bonner, Barker, Creecv,
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Cunningham, Haughton, Littlejohn,
Vail, Benbury, etc.
The Booklet having no capital, every
year's expenses have to be paid out of
subscriptions, but neither subscriptions
nor advertising is solicited. The sub-scribers
are, however, among the most
intelligent and public-spirited people of
the State ; while it has readers in many
other States. It goes to all the libraries
of L^niversities, and the great libraries
of the country, and to many colleges. Its
publication has been a labor of love on
the part of both the contributors and
editors. Altogether, there have been
published more than two hundred and
fifty articles, contributed by one hundred
and three authors, among them being
thirty women. Of the latter, we men-tion
the following : ]\Iesdames Sara Bea-mont
Kennedy, Thomas J- Jarvis, John
W. Hinsdale, E. E. Moffitt, Emily Ben-bury
Haywood, Marie A. M. Matthew,
Fannie deBerniere W'hitaker. Helen
deBerniere Willis, Lindsay Patterson,
Rufus T. Lenoir, Hayne Davis, Georgia
Worth Martin, J. G. Boylin, M. G. Mc-
Cubbins, W. ^^'. Joynes, S. G. Ayr.
Walter Clark, Lutie A. McCorkle, Lula
C. Markham, Misses Martha H. Hay-wood,
Lida T. Rodman. Susie Gentry,
Bettie Freshwater. Pool, Adelaide L.
Fries, Annie Lane Devereux, Rebecca
Cameron, Catherine Albertson, Pattie
\A'illiams Gee, Julia S. White, Anna
Alexander Cameron, and Mary Hilliard
Hinton.
When we reflect on this outcome of
the enterprise undertaken by the Daugh-ters
to raise a fund for the erection of a
tablet, we may well repeat : "A noble oak
has grown from the acorn, ^\'hat an
advantage it has been to the State ! How
many subjects have been explored
—
how many historical incidents havf been
rescued from oblivion—what a medium
it has been of thought—what a stimulus
to writing for the public to read. Our
people, before the Booklet began, were
not in the habit of writing for the public.
Now, many use the pen as if they had
been brought up in New England. I re-joice
in the good it has brought our peo-ple."
Yes, the Booklet has been of in-estimable
advantage in fostering literary
work, in introducing among us the art
of public writing, and in disseminating
information about historical events that
otherwise would have remained in ob-scurity.
Since its influence began to be
felt, we have seen a revival of the State
Historical Society, whose membership
extends well into the hundreds, and co-incident
ha\e been an enlarged patriot-ism
and a gratifying development of in-tellectual
life.
For eleven years the Booklet has been
under the management of Miss Hinton,
and her work has been so important, and
her services have been given so freely
and with such sincere patriotism, that I
am sure the following sketch of her will
be of interest.
Miss Hinton resides at her home,
'^lidway Plantation," some miles out of
Raleigh, where her Colonial ancestor.
Col. John Hinton, coming from Chowan
"precinct," located a "Crown" Grant in
the early decades of 1700, he having
been one of the first settlers in what is
now Wake County, and his title being
one of the oldest in the county. "Mid-way
Plantation," which has ever re-mained
in the possession of his descend-ants,
was a part of the large landed
estate he accummulated. The Hintons
came originally from Wiltshire, England,
and are descended from Sir Thomas
Hinton, of "Chilton Foliot" and "Earl-scott,"
Privy Councillor in the reign of
Charles I.
In the female line. Miss Hinton is like-wise
descended from the Dvmokes. of
Scrivelsby Court, hereditary champion"
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of England for centuries ; and in virtue
of that historic descent she is a member
of the "Order of the Crown of America."
But not only has she patriotic blood be-cause
of those distant ancestors—she in-herits
the same public spirit from her
North Carolina forefathers. Her grand-father's
grandfather, Col. John Hinton,
was with Tryon at Alamance, and fought
for Independence at Moore's Creek, at
the head of the Wake County regiment
;
while her maternal ancestor, the lamented
Col. Jonas Johnston, also fought at
Moore's Creek, and received his mortal
wound at the battle of Stono. Her
granfather, Maj. Charles Lewis Hinton,
was a man of affairs. He served as a
member of the Assembly ; was Treasurer
of the State from 1839 to 1843, and then
again from 1845 to 1852. He was one
of the Commissioners who completed the
building of the Capitol ; and one of the
Commissioners who purchased the lands
of the Cherokees in our western moun-tains.
He was a Trustee of the Univer-sity,
and, indeed, his public spirit was
manifested in many ways all through
life. It was he who built the present
home, "Midway Plantation." Miss Hin-ton's
father was the late Major David
Hinton, and her mother was a Miss Carr
of "Bracebridge Hall," Edgecombe
County, who now resides at "Midway
Plantation."
Miss Hinton is not only a good busi-ness
woman, but she is richly endowed
with intellectual qualities, and is un-usually
accomplished. In 1910, she was
chosen Regent of the North Carolina
Daughters of the Revolution, and re-elected
in 1912, and is still the incumbent.
She was Historian-General of the Gen-eral
Society, Daughters of the Revolu-tion,
1912-1914; but declined a re-elec-tion
in 1914. She was chairman of the
Committee on Historic Research of the
National Society of Colonial Dames of
America, 1912-1914; and she is the
Councillor of the Order of the Crown in
America in North Carolina. She is like-wise
a Daughter of the Confederacy.
She has occupied for some time the
position of Heraldic Artist in the North
Carolina Society of the Daughters of the
Revolution, and has filled orders for
coats of arms from various parts of the
LTnion. She is now making a special
study of portraiture, but the Booklefi is
her favorite interest, and indeed that
constitutes her life work. But, amid all
of her engagements. Miss Hinton, hav-ing
ideas to express, finds time to write
articles both for the press and the maga-zines.
She is never so happy as when
at work. There is only to be added
—
that she never would have attained the
eminent position she has in the esteem
of her co-workers and associates, if she
did not combine with her unusual in-tellectual
powers the personal charms
that adorn the lovely feminine character.
A Woman Greatly Beloved
IF TRUE greatness be recognized by its
modesty, then Miss S. O'H. Dickson
can be called truly great, for there is no
more modest writer in the State than
the author of "Ralph Fabian's Mistakes"
and "Flotsam." But it is only necessary
to know Miss Dickson's work to recog-nize
her talent ; only necessary to read
any of the stories and poems which, for
the past seventeen years, have brought
delight to children and their elders alike.
Her literary work possesses the unusual
combination of charm and helpfulness.
Miss Dickson is a believer in mankind.
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and her optimism is apparent in all her
poetry, which rings with the spirit of
a great faith and courage.
Miss Sallie O'H. Dickson is the
daughter of a Presbyterian minister, and
was born in Charleston, S. C. She re-ceived
her education in Charleston, and
at Orangeburg Female College, and for
some years taught English, music, and
art. She has spent most of her life in
North Carolina, and for the last fourteen
years has devoted herself to literature,
making her home at Winston-Salem.
Her interest in music and art has re-mained
unabated, however, and as an
artist Miss Dickson has attained no
small measure of success.
Miss Dickson has a wide circle of
friends, and is greatly beloved by them.
She does not care for society, insofar as
society means a round of gay pleasures,
but she takes intense interest in all that
concerns the welfare of her fellow men
and women, and goes in for the deeper,
finer things of life. This is evidenced
in her philanthropic work ; more than
one man and woman owes his or her
success in life to Miss Dickson's un-erring
instinct and unselfish aid.
Deeply pious, and an earnest worker
for the church. Miss Dickson has been
able to make her books of religious bene-fit
without lessening their general interest
or their literary value. The strong
human interest which Miss Dickson in-jects
into her stories comes from the
sympathetic and understanding interest
she herself takes in the problems of life,
and especially the problems confronting
the young.
For years it has been Miss Dickson's
task to select the books for the Winston-
Salem Presbyterian Sunday School
library ; every book that has gone into the
library Miss Dickson has read and ap-proved,
and her approval means that the
books are of a good moral character
—
not namby-pamby, but books calculated
to impro\e and help their readers; and
in no instance has she lowered her high
standard of selection.
Possessing a strong character, Miss
Dickson's loyalty to her friends is one of
its most beautiful attributes. Her life
has not been without its afflictions, which
she has borne with the patience granted
only to great strength of character and
to a deeply religious nature. This calm
fortitude is reflected in many of her
poems.
Aliss Dickson uses a pseudonym, and
under the pen-name of O. H. her- poems
have for years apjieared in many papers,
and are today appearing in The Charlotte
Observer, The Prcsh\teriau Standard,
The Presbyterian of the South, and in
Oincard.
.\mong the many admirers of Miss
Dickson's poetry was the late John
Charles McNeill, who termed "exquisite"
the little jioem "Lost." in which Miss
Dickson simply and beautifully ex-pressed
her understanding of the minor
tragedies of life. We quote from this
poem
:
Just a small home-made doll
—
The notice read,
And "rag" at that—and all
Who read it said :
"Only a child's rag doll."
Oh yon who smilin.5 read
This tale of woe.
Yon careless ones, take heed
Lest you may know
The loss of some "rag doll."
Some loss that others deem
As small as hers.
Some little hope, some dream
Which sorrow stirs
Like this—a child's rag doll.
Many of Miss Dickson's poems are
majestic in form and scope, as her "A
Greeting to Grandfather Mountain," the
iambic pentameter of which sweeps one
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forward in breathless appreciation of the
mountains ; but it is in her lyrics that we
find the greater joy. "Do We Forget?"
is the delicately expressed truth of the
secret survival of human sorrows, which
once read will indeed never be forgotten,
while in "A Prayer" ^Nliss Dickson, with
one homely touch, has visualized the
hope inherent in all of us. In "A Great
Man," one of Miss Dickson's latest
poems, is shown this author's ability to
recognize the real heroes of life, and
in acknowledging their greatness she
shows her own. The poem follows :
A GREAT MAN
"Real glory
Springs from silent conquest of ourselves." —Tfiompson
This man was great. He faltered not
Because the way was rough
;
For him to know it was God's way
—
For him this was enough.
He gathered up the little things
That others thought were small.
And bore them without murmurings
—
With him God's will was all.
He lived as nearly as he could
By God's great Golden Rule
;
His brother's burden shared, nor groaned
Beneath his own. The School
Of Patience, where God's will decreed
That he must learn to wait.
There too he toiled, and his the meed:
"Well done!" Was he not great?
It would be easy and pleasant to select
many more of Miss Dickson's poems to
illustrate the many phases of her work
and the many fancies of her creative
mind, but we must refer those unfamiliar
with this author's works to the books
themselves, where they will find an
ample reward in a rich field of poesy.
^^'e cannot refrain, however, from in-cluding
here those restful lines of twi-light,
"Good Night!"
GOOD XIGHT
The long light slants adown the Sapphire
tinted hills.
And leaves a tender parting kiss of glory there.
It is the sun's good night unto a tired world.
"Good night !" the sleep\' valleys answer, and
then draw
Their coverlets of mist about them, and are
still.
Followinsf, in chronological order, is a
complete list of Miss S. O'H. Dickson's
books published to date.
"Howard McPhlinn, A Story For
Boys" (1897).
''The Story of Marthy" (1898).
"The Grangers and Other Stories"
(1899).
"Guessing at Heroes" (1899).
"Reuben Delton, Preacher," a sequel
to "The Story of Marthy" (1900).
"Souvenir of North Carolina Moun-tains,"
Poems (1900),
"Chestnut ^^'ood Tales" (1901).
"Grandma Bright's O. P's" (1901).
"Ralph Fabian's Mistakes, A Story for
College Boys and Their Fathers" (1908).
"Within Our Doors, Our \\'ork
Among Negroes."
"Stories for Grandma Bright's For-eign
^Missions Evenings."
'Stories for Grandma Bright's Home
Missions Evenings."
lK^O<HKKKH>llli<KHKm<3^Jtt<>mKKl<J<3^ii^^
"Dearest!"
By Lena Green
STILLNESS, and the gate of home.
Soft-breathed blessing of the night
:
Tender, holy-hov'ring gloam
And vigil pure of clear starlight.
Faithfulness, the quiet touch
And calm, of firmly clasping liands
:
Deep, steady eyes, revealing much
Of trust, that all true love demands.-
"Dearest!"
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Woman's Place is in Her Home
AS EXEMPLIFIED BY MRS. ARCHIBALD HENDERSON, PRESIDENT OF EQUAL
SUFFRAGE LEAGUE OF NORTH CAROLINA
Bv Eliza Skinner McGehee
635
"W/O^'IA^^'S place is in her home!" W announces the anti-suffragist,
with the self-satisfied air of having just
originated this unanswerable argument.
In courtesy, we waive the point of origi-nality;
the truth of the statement we af-firm
and reiterate, but cannot admit its
force as an argument against suffrage,
for, to borrow a watchword of the great
Laymen's Missionary Movement, "The
light that shines farthest, shines brightest
at home." As a case in point, the life and
work of Mrs. Archibald Henderson,
president of the Equal Suffrage League
of North Carolina, furnish a striking
example.
Barbara Henderson is the daughter of
the late Rev. Wm. Shipp Bynum, an
Episcopal clergyman of high mental en-dowment,
wonderful spiritual gifts, and
rare personal charm, and IMary Louise
Curtis, a beautiful and gifted woman
of distinguished lineage, herself the
daughter of an Episcopal clergyman.
Dr. Moses Ashley Curtis, of Hillsboro,
N. C, the loveliness of whose character
has become part of the sacred tradition
of that quaint, historic town, a legacy
of love and honor to his descendants.
Mrs. Henderson's childhood and early
girlhood were spent partly in Fletchers,
in the western part of the State, and
partly in Lincolnton. Like most min-ister's
salaries, Mr. Bynum's required
careful manipulation to cover the
needs of his family, and as it
was his habit to "distribute freely,"
and from him that would borrow never
to turn away, the result was naturally
"plain living and high thinking," than
which there is no better foundation on
which to build an education. Mrs. Hen-derson's
education was continued at St.
Mary's School, Raleigh, from which she
was graduated with high honors in 1899.
Miss McVea, now dean of the Woman's
Department of the University of Cin-cinnati,
then lady principal of St. Mary's,
took great delight in Mrs. Hender-son's
mental gifts, especially in the
promise shown by her as a writer of
verse, saying that she was the only girl
she had ever taught whom she considered
capable of writing real poetry. Like all
the women of her family, Mrs. Hender-son
possesses great beauty, and is
dowered to a rare degree with the
social grace and adaptability that are
the peculiar birthright of American
women ; but at this period of her life she
cared little for "society" and general
popularity, finding herself too grave and
too shy for the light-hearted and frivo-lous
youth about her. Her mind was
bent on acquiring knowledge, and she
took life and herself very seriously.
She entered the Junior Class at Chapel
Hill the fall following her graduation at
St. Mary's. Here Youth found her, and
claimed her for his own, for here she
met Dr. Henderson, and became engaged
to him. Their engagement lasted dur-ing
the two vears of her college course,
but did not interfere with high accom-plishment
on her part, for she graduated
in the class of 1902, having made the
Phi Beta Kappa Society, and receiving
at once both A. B. and A. M. degrees.
Her marriage, in June, 1903, to Dr.
Henderson, has proved happy enough to
encourage the hope that the angels have
not altogether gone back on their job.
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but still take an occasional interest in
such affairs.
Their home, "Fordell," at Chapel Hill.
is luxurious as well as artistic in its ap-pointments.
During each year, many
guests from a distance are entertained
here, carrying away with them gracious
memories of their host and hostess
;
while friends that are nearer and dearer
and not so difficult in her case as with
most of us, because the "servant prob-lem"
presents no difficulty to her, as even
under present conditions she understands
how to command not only efficient but
Moving service.
Growing up in this home are two little
girls, with good minds, straight, strong
bodies, and beautiful faces; and less than
MRS. AKCHniAI.D HENDERSON .\ND CHlLriREN
find in the Henderson's home a restful
haven, into which lliey can slip awav
from their own environment, and re-fresh
their souls. La\-ish hospitality was
an inheritance and an easy \irtue. Inu
Mrs. Henderson boasts that her table
conforms to the strictest canons of the
Housewives' League, both with regard
to economy and the proper constituents
of food. This is not easy, but most
necessary in this day of high food values,
a month ago a baby sister was born. Dr.
and Mrs. H^enderson have their own
theories of education for these young-sters,
and, to assist them in carrying out
their educational ideals, a cultivated
young lady is employed, whose sunshiny
temperament gives an added grace to the
home, which good discipline and intelli-gent
co-operation makes happier for both
babies and grown-ups. Circumstances
make it possible for Mrs. Henderson to
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conduct this kind of a home, but she
was not less happy during the early years
of her married life, in a tiny cottage,
with one little maid-of-all-work to help.
A\'hen an emergency arises—and they
do arise sometimes, of course—she is
quite capable of going into the kitchen
and doing the work herself. On one
occasion, she was expecting a week's
visit from distinguished guests from an-other
university, when through a "con-catenation
of concurrent circumstances*'
she was suddenl}- deprived of both cook
and butler, and there was no chance of
filling their places on short notice. This
visit necessitated innumerable guests to
meet Dr. and ^Irs. , special dinner
parties, etc. It would have been quite
simple to turn over their guests to some
other member of the "Faculty," and the
reason would have been considered qui'-e
sufficient ; but i\Irs. Henderson did noth-ing
of the kind. She cooked and served
the meals herself : nor was there a party
the less, nor a meal which would have
been more delightful had the usual order
of things been unbroken. The em-barrassment
which guests ordinarily feel
when their hostess is placed in such a
predicament vanished in face of ^Nfrs.
Henderson's evident pleasure in demon-strating
her mastery in domestic accom-plishments.
As our grandmothers would have
phrased it, Mrs. Henderson has many
"ladylike accomplishments." Her musi-cal
taste is highly cultivated, and affords
her much pleasure; she paints with
facility, and has remarkable talent as a
designer of artistic gowns : her em-broidery
is the admiration and envy of
all who know her, and having great
monetary value because of the original-ity
of the designs, is one of a half-dozen
ways in which she could, were it desir-able,
follow what Charlotte Perkins
Gilmer calls the example of Solomon's
virtuous woman, that is, make her own
living.
But pre-eminent among her gifts is the
capacity for unselfish service. "Ich
dien" might well be the motto of her
life, for as truly as was the case with
her father or grandfather she is amongst
us as "one who serves"—her family, her
friends, the community in which she
lives, the cause she has espoused.
The Equal Suffrage League of North
Carolina was organized in Charlotte, on
December 4, 1913. with the following
officers
:
Mrs. Archibald Henderson, Chapel
Hill, President; :\Irs. J. E. Reilly, First
Vice-President; Mrs. Hossfeldt, Second
A'ice-President; Miss E. IMaslin, Third
\'ice-President ; Mrs. George Green,
Newbern, Recording Secretary ; iNIrs.
Harry Chase, Chapel Hill, Correspond-ing
Secretary ; Miss Mary Palmer, Char-lotte,
Treasurer.
Advisory Board : Chief Justice Walter
Clark, Gen. Julian S. Carr, Dr. Archi-bald
Henderson. Dr. Edward K. Gra-ham.
Committer Chairmen: j\Iiss H. M.
Pierrv, Chapel Hill, Finance ; Miss
Suzanne Bynum, Charlotte, iMembership
;
Miss Anna Forbes Liddell, Charlotte,
Publicity.
At that time, two local leagues were
already in existence in North Carolina,
at Charlotte and ]\lorganton, respectively.
The Equal Suffrage League of North
Carolina places itself on record as op-posed
to militant methods. Its object is
to gain the vote for women by an appeal
to reason, justice, and fair play. Since
December last, Mrs. Henderson has ably
directed its energies from her home in
Chapel Hill, and with the assistance of
Miss Engle, an efficient speaker and or-ganizer
sent to North Carolina by the
\\'oman's National Equal Suffrage
League of America, enthusiastic leagues
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have been organized in the following
prominent towns
:
Raleigh, Asheville^ Goldsboro, Chapel
Hill, Newbern, Winston-Salem, Kinston,
Reidsville, High Point, Salisbury, Hick-ory,
and Henderson ; and within the past
few weeks a League has been organized
in ^^'ashington by the progressive wo-men
of that town.
Ex€cuti\'e Committees have been ap-pointed
in Greensboro, Concord, \\'il-mington,
and elsewhere, soon to be fol-lowed
by formal organization.
Xot only has Dr. Henderson long been
an earnest advocate of the cause into
which she has thrown herself with such
impassioned zeal, but, knowing the in-tensity
of her desire to help her sister-women,
he urged her acceptance of the
presidency when it was offered to her.
As in his literary work he depends
largely upon her criticism and co-opera-tion,
so her work has his heartiest svm-pathy
and support.
The Equal Suft'rage League of Xorth
Carolina has drawn its first recruits, as
has been the case with all great causes,
from the best and finest that we have
—
what we love to call our representative
citizenship ; and we are now in posses-sion
of fairly accurate knowledge as to
the amount of interest existing in the
State—where the Cause is weak, where
strong.
Since January, Airs, Henderson has led
the Equal Suffrage Educational ]Move-ment
in North Carolina, by the publica-tion
of four bulletins and several strong
newspaper articles. These bulletins give
in condensed form much of the best
Equal SuftVage thought of the day,
selected by her, and with clever apper-ception
united under the following
Titles:
No. I—"Woman and the Home."
No. 2—"Woman and Fair Plav."
No. 3—"Nine Questions and An-swers."
No. 4—"Why We Want the Vote."
Below are given some extracts from
these bulletins
:
No. I
—
JVoman and the Home
JVe are told that the first duty of
woman is as mother, and the highest
sphere of zi'omaii is the home. True,
and it is that which places upon woman
the obligation to enter into the life of
her community, and nation, and help to
make them a fit home for her child and
her family.
No. 2—JVoman and Fair Play
It is Phe right of woman to use not
only the power of persuasion, but the
power of the ballot, to protect herself
and her children. The ballot is the point
at which intelligence and moral senti-ment
take hold upon action, and mold
institutions and laws. Woman has a
right to this most effective means of
transforming the social environment
into greater fitness for the highest life
of herself and her loved ones. It is the
right of woman also to enjoy the edu-cating
and developing eft'ects of civic
responsibilities.
It is the right of man that woman shall
vote, in order that his companionship
with her may be lifted to the plane of
equality.
It is a man's right to have his children
borne and reared by women who have
had full advantage of development, and
who understand the world and condi-tions
under which their children will live.
It is the right of children, living and
unborn, to ha\'e the ennobled mother-hood
and the more excellent training
that will come with a symmetrical, well-rounded,
fully developed womanhood.
It is the right of society to have the
purest force in the world put into action
in political life. It is the right of society
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to have the virtue, love, and devotion of
womanhood crystalhzed into law.
N'o. 3
—
Nine Questions and Anszvers
6. What is womanly? Whatever
generous and noble duty, either in a pri-vate
or a public sphere, God gives any
woman the will and the power to do
;
that, and that only, for her, is womanly.
9. What is the first duty of woman,
and her highest sphere? The majority
will answer : Her first duty is as mother,
and her highest sphere the home.
Granted. These duties then impose
upon woman the obligation to enter into
the life of her community and nation,
and help to make them a fit home for
her child and her familv.
No. 4. JJliy U'c Jl'ant the Vote
1. The home is the basic unit of gov-ernment.
All government is built upon
groups of homes.
If woman is fit for the control of this
basic unit, she is fit to assist in the con-trol
of the larger structure.
4. Some women prefer to be "shelt-ered"
and '"guarded." They prefer to
shirk the responsibility of thought and
action. Should they be permitted to do
so? If a child refuses to walk, pre-ferring
to be carried, should he be
allowed to lose the use of his limbs from
atrophy ?
7. No activity in which a woman en-gages
for the welfare of society or the
government need di\-ert her energy from
her home. It should, on the contrary,
train her in every department of home
administration. W\\\ the casting of the
ballot consume more time and energy
than bridge and the tango tea?
2. The guarantee of equal oppor-tunity
in modern society is the ballot. It
may be a clumsy contrivance, but it is
the best we have yet found. In our sys-tem,
a man without a vote is but half a
man.
As I read this last paragraph, there
comes to me the memory of a man who
excited my keenest pity as a child. The
State had honored him with a position
of high trust, which trust he had be-trayed.
In punishment, he was deprived
of both the position and his citizenship.
One of my earliest recollections is of mv
father pointing him out to me with the
words: ''Look, my child! Yonder goes
a man who for twenty years has walked
without lifting his eyes from the ground,
ashamed to look his fellow-men in the
face." This man spent his life trying
to bring sufficient influence to bear upon
the legislature to make them annul his
life sentence. I used to pray that out of
pity the ban might be removed l)efore he
died. It never was. Only now are men
and women beginning to realize that such
a stigma has been put upon the mothers
of men, such a brand of unworthiness.
But the keynote to Airs. Henderson's
consecration to the cause of Suft'rage lies
in the following paragraphs from Bulle-tins
3 and 4.
Xo. 3
2. There are thousands of mother^
forced by the poverty, drunkenness, or
incompetence of their husbands into
earning their own and their children's
li\"elihood. Who "protects these women
for the sacred duties of maternity?"
Xo. 4
5. Who "shelters" the wife who
must work at home and abroad? Is it
not the duty of the "sheltered" mothers
to change the conditions of the other
mother's life?
In the e\olution of humanity's con-science,
the time has passed when men
could rest content in luxurious palaces,
knowing that their ease and pleasure
were wrung from the sufl:'ering and
degradation of the poor, or when women,
crying out against a class of prostitutes,
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could be anesthetised by such lying
sophistry as "such things are necessary;
these women suffer for the protection of
society." Now a Tolstoy begs to die
with his "brothers," wretched peasants
about to be executed for so-called polit-ical
crimes ; a Ford divides his millions
with the men who helped to make them
;
and the twentieth century woman, whose
lines have fallen in pleasant places, de-clares:
"I will not take blessings for
which less fortunate women pay the
price, but will give my money and my
life to better their condition. If they
suft'er, I must suft'er zvith them—thev
are my sisters." Because her husband
is her lover, her comrade, her dear
friend, she grieves for the woman who
knows not lover, comrade, or friend; be-cause
her children satisfy her heart and
her pride, and the opportunities for their
satisfactory development are so great,
her heart yearns over the woman whose
children sufifer from sordid environment
or inherited taint; because she knows the
joy of work well done, her heart bleeds
for the woman in the sweatshop, or
under other conditions which compel her
like the galley slave to work under the
whip, with poorly nourished body and
starving soul. Such a spirit inspires the
work of Mrs. Henderson.
Not only in regard to Suffrage, but in
one's own life always, Mrs. Henderson
believes in self-government. "We dare
not give the light that is in our own souls
into another's keeping." I have heard her
say, "We dare not ; for it is all we have
to guide us." In "Woman and Fair
Play," she says
:
"The first object of a laudable am-bition
is to obtain a character as a human
being, regardless of the distinction of
sex."
The Declaration of Independence pro-pounds
the "self-evident facts" about
"inalienable rights" — "rights derived
from God"—rights that could not! be
alienated, even by their ozvn consent.
How did these rights come to be the
property of one-half of mankind? Rights
are not masculine only; and justice
knozi-'s no sex.
Is this a government "of the people,
by the people, and for the people ?" The
arguments against woman suffrage are,
in point of fact, always, in the last
analysis, simply arguments against self-government.
The President of the United States
recently said : "As for other men setting
up as a Providence over myself, I seri-ousl\
object. I zi'ill not live under trus-tiees,
if I can help it. If any part of our
people want to be wards ; if they want
to have guardians put over them ; if
they want to be taken care of ; if they
want to be children, patronized by the
Government—why I am sorry, because
it will sap the manhood of America."
^M^at is sauce for the gander is often
a very good sauce for the goose.
It is the holding of women in perpetual
tutelage, the eternal "playing of Provi-dence,"
the holding as wards without
limit of time or age—it is this against
which women cry out. They cry out in
the selfsame words, and for the selfsame
reasons which actuated our forefathers
in the Declaration of Independence.
These are her principles ; but it is be-cause
she believes that Equal Suffrage
will make this world of ours a better
place for women, and beause she so pas-sionately
desires this, that she is work-ing
for it with all her heart and soul and
strength.
In addition to these bulletins, as ve-hicles
of expression, Mrs. Henderson
has taken up the cudgels in defense of
Dr. Anna Shaw, showing the absurdity
of charging her with "militancy." For
this purpose she published an open letter
from Dr. Shaw, and in conclusion voiced
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clearly her own position, and that of the
North Carolina League, in regard to sex
antagonism.
LTnited we stand, divided we fall.
Fortunately, division is impossible.
Nature is stronger than circumstance or
political exigency. So long as the world
lasts, men and women will love each
each other—marry^and rear children
who shall stand for the best that their
united life and love has been able to pro-duce.
But the more they have demanded
and received in marriage, the more per-fectly
each has assumed responsibility
and striven to meet, a higher obligation,
the greater shall be their contriljution to
the world—through the flame of their
own ideal and its added luster in the
hands of the children who shall bear
their torch and hand it down to succeed-ing
generations. Less and less is man
content with a wife who cannot meet
him as a comrade in thought and action
as well as in thought and feeling. Less
and less is woman content with a hus-band
who cannot see her need for objec-tive
realization or meet her desire for
the things of the spirit.
"It is therefore a matter of pride and
pleasure to the women of North Caro-lina
that the men of the State are strong
supporters of this movement. Prac-tically
all of them are willing that
woman shall have the ballot if she de-sires
it, and it can be proved that she
does. But many men of wider thought,
and more far-seeing, realize that it is
often the woman who does not want it
who is most in need of it, and are striv-ing
to open her eyes to her need and her
opportunity.
"This movement is, therefore, essen-tially
a movement of men and women
working together, and its hope and its
belief is that it will result in a 'more just
and perfect social order,' and in a
sounder economic basis for life."
Surely this should satisfy even those
who feel, as one of our members
strongly put it, that they "would rather
see Equal Suffrage fail than ha^•e it win
by militancy."
A golden opportunity was offered "to
answer a fool according to his folly," in
an article by "Savoyard," which was
published in one of our State papers.
Mrs. I-Ienderson availed herself of this
opportunity, by answering his article in
the same paper, in a dignified but spirited
manner.
Peculiarly weak was Savoyard's quo-tation
that "nobody was in favor of
female suffrage except some long-haired
men who ought to have been born
women, and some short-haired women
who ought ne^•er to have been born at
all." In her reply, Airs. Henderson asks
if he includes in his first category:
Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson,
Emerson, John Stuart Alill, Phillips
Brooks, Henry George, Mark Twain,
John Quincy Adams, Wendell Phillips,
William Dean Howells, Luther Burbank,
Ben B. Lindsey, Theodore Roosevelt,
Henry Ward Beecher, George Meredith,
R. :\f. LaEollette, Israel Zangwill, Ed-win
Markham, George William Curtis,
Thomas Edison ? and in his second
:
Florence Nightingale, Dorothy Dix, Jane
Addams, Maud Ballington Booth, Clara
Barton, Louisa Alcott, Caroline Bart-lett
Crane, Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Selma Lagerlof, Frances ^^'illard, Julia
Ward Howe ?
Savoyard's remarks seem, to me, at
least one hundred years behind the times
;
and certainly all North Carolinians join
Mrs. Henderson in "taking exception to
their tone," since they would class as
effeminate such men as our own "Jule"
Carr, ^^���, H. Southgate, Judge \\"alter
Clarke, .\rchibald Henderson, Edward
K. Graham, the Rev. Mr. ]\Ioss, for ex-ample
: and as unsexed and degenerate
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such women as have taken the lead in
this movement in our State. For even
the "dear" woman who is proud of be-ing
old-fashioned, and the "chivalrous"
man who hates to see woman step down
from her pedestal, must needs give the
subject serious consideration since
these men and women are working for it
as a sacred cause.
The subject of this sketch embodies
much of what is best in North Carolina
womanhood. In it I have endeavored to
show wh\' she believes that Equal Suf-frage
will assist in the development and
uplift of her State—its men and women.
A slogan of the American Suffragists is
:
"Where Jane Addams leads, I am not
afraid to follow !" I believe that North
Carolinians ma}' say with equal pride;
"Where Barbara Henderson leads, we
can safelv follow."
Florence M. Cooper
AMONG the many charming and en-ergetic
Clubwomen of North Caro-lina,
Mrs. Florence M. Cooper stands out
as one whose efforts are crowned with
Result.s—with a capital R. The admix-ture
of charm and energy is an indomi-table
force in the person of ]Mrs.
Cooper, whose sure executive ability is
fused with her delightful personality.
The wife of one of the foremost cotton
manufacturers of the South. ^Ir. D. Y.
Cooper, she has shown herself as much
a master of her field as he of his. Nor
is her field by any manner of means a
limited one. Sociallv prominent in her
home of Henderson, and with a wide
circle of friends, she devotes a great part
of her time to the North Carolina Fed-eration
of Women's Clubs, The King's
Daughters. Order of the State, to Church
work, and to educational work.
^Irs. Cooper was one of the eight
women on the first Board of Trustees for
the Stonewall Jackson Training School,
at Concord, and remains today an active
member of that Board, which was the
first Board of a Public Institution in
North Carolina to have women as active
members. In commenting on this fact,
a recent article in The Uplifl\. the pub-lication
of the Training School, states:
"The Institution would have had a rockv
road except for the wisdom and aid of
the women : among them the capable
and affable 'Sirs. Cooper."
When the King's Daughters were rais-ing
a fund for the erection of a cottage
for the boys at the Stonewall Jackson
Training School, IMrs. Cooper presented
their cause before the Federation of
Clubs, with such vigor and conviction
that the Federation of Clubs contributed
the sum of one thousand dollars toward
the Daughters' fund, assuring the erec-tion
of the cottage. A tablet on the com-pleted
cottage today testifies to this fact,
and is a worthy object lesson of courage
and accomplishment to the boys which
the cottage shelters.
As chairman of the Department of
Social Service of the Federation of
Clubs, formerlv known as the Depart-ment
of Industrial Conditions and Child
Labor, ]\frs. Cooper expanded the work
of the department, and made it thor-oughlv
efficient. She is thoroughly sym-pathetic
in her betterment work, without
being merely sentimental. Heart and
mind are indissolubly bound and well
balanced.
]\Irs. Cooper was chosen chairman of
the Finance Committee of the Federa-tion
of Women's Clubs when that or-ganization
decided to raise an endow-
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ment iiind. Her efforts in this behalf
were most successful. Her arguments
before the various Clubs of the organiza-tion
met with a ready appreciation and
response, and again her efforts met with
capitalized Results.
In considering the in\'estment of the
Federation's endowment fund. Mrs.
Cooper was chosen as one of the trustees
to have charge of the matter, and is at
present serving in that capacity.
\\ herever Airs. Cooper's name is
known—and it is known gratefullv in
many worthy activities — that name
stands for work thoroughly and ade-quateh-
done, for sane sympathy and
absolute efficiency.
A Favorite in Washington Society
A MONG North Carolina's most rep-
^ * resentative women, is Katherine
Gudger, wife of Congressman James J.
Gudger, who represents the Tenth Con-gressional
District of the State at ^^'ash-ington.
Mrs. Gudger is a woman of
loveable personality and strong char-acter,
natural in her manner and sincere
in her friendships. And she has that
rare charm of making friends wherever
she goes. She is as popular with her
husband's constituents as she is in the
social circles of \N'ashington and Ashe-ville,
where she is distinguished as a
hostess and in demand as a guest.
Mrs. Gudger was born in Henderson-ville,
N. C, the daughter of Mrs. Kate
Hawkins, and received her education in
Hendersonville. at Judson College. She
married while very young; in fact, be-fore
finishing her college course, leaving
the institution to become the wife of
James M. Gudger, whose fortunes she
has so closely followed ever since.
Three children were born to Mr. and
Mrs. Gudger, two of whom are now
living—a son, Emmett Carlyle Gudger, a
paymaster in the United States Navy,
and now stationed on President Wilson's
yacht, the "Mayflower"; and a daughter,
Emma Katherine, wife of Representa-tive
John W, Langley, of Kentucky.
Mrs. Gudger has always taken a keen
interest in public affairs, and is said to
be the best-informed woman in the State
on the political issues of the day. From
the first she evidenced a strong practical
irte'-est in her husband's career, and in
the days when he made his trips to the
various courts in which he practised law,
she always accompanied him, and later
she accompanied him on his initial trip
through the thirteen counties compris-ing
the Tenth Congressional District.
At this time she made many friends
among the people, winning their affec-tion
by her sympathetic understanding
of their problems and pleasures, an
afifection which she renewed in manv a
subsequent trip, and retains to this day.
Her personal popularity with the voters
of the Tenth Congressional District, and
with the women and children of the Dis-trict,
has more than once been a power-ful
factor in her husband's election to
Congress, when Republican opposition
was strong. Many a time in the ten
years since Air. Gudger has been in
Congress, he and Airs. Gudger ha\e
taken two or three weeks to a campaign-ing
trip, driving through the various
counties behind a fine span of horses, and
meeting ex'erywhere the cordial welcome
of old friends.
^,^ bile not an <'.\owed suffragette. Airs.
Gudger does not oppose the equal siif-
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frage movement, and believes that there day Book Club—which belongs to the
are many questions now in the province Federation of Clubs—and which is at
of politics in which women should be present educating a worthy young girl at
KATHEKIXK C.IIK.KK, VVirE OF CONGRESSMAN J. W. GUriGER, JK.
allowed a voice, and that following their
participation in these matters a great
social uplift will result.
Mrs. Gudger, whose home is in
Asheville, is a member of the Fri-the
Greensboro Normal School. Mrs.
Gudger belongs to the Woman's Club of
Asheville, and is actively interested in
the Y. W. C. A. of that city. In Wash-ington,
she is a member of the Con-
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gressional Club, and takes a notable part
in D. A. R. interests.
In the national organization of the D.
A. R., Mrs. Gudger is a member of the
Continental Hall Committee, and of the
International Peace and Arbitration
Committee; and was this year appointed
hy the local Chapter as a delegate to th?
National Congress. Mrs. Gudger is an
enthusiastic follower of I\Irs. ^^'illiam
Cummings Story, president-general of
the D. A. R.
She is unusually fond of music,
and possesses a mezzo -soprano
voice of depth and sweetness, a voice
which it is a pleasure and a privilege to
hear. She belongs to the Choral So-ciety
in Asheville, and was for years the
leader of the choir of Asheville's First
Baptist Church.
Washington society, proverbially
hrilliant, has found in Mrs. Gudger a
hostess worthy of its dearest traditions.
When the Governor of Nonh Carolina
and Mrs. Locke Craig were in \\"ash-ington
last winter, Mrs. Gudger enter-tained
in their honor at a notable lunch-eon.
Two other luncheons at which Mrs.
Gudger was hostess last winter were in
honor, one of ]\Irs. Champ Clark, wife
of the Speaker, of the House of Repre-sentatives,
and one of Airs. Josephus
Daniels, wife of the Secretary of the
Navy. This latter was in the nature of
a North Carolina aiTair, at which Mrs.
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The Winners of the West
( Contributed
)
THE most notable and distinctive Locke Craig, to whom Dr. Henderson
celebration of the great national paid a glowing tribute. The tablet was
holiday held anywhere in North Carolina presented by the Elizabeth Maxwell
ARCHIBAI.n HENDERSON
was the celebration at Salisbury. The
most striking event of a day wholly
given over to festivities was the series
of exercises leading up to the unveiling
of a tablet, celebrating the opening of
the famous Boone Trail of 1769.
The orator of the occasion was Dr.
Archibald Henderson, of the State L^ni-versity,
president of the State Library
and Historical Association. The occa-sion
was graced by the presence of the
State's popular GoA-ernor, the Hon.
Steele Chapter, D. A. R., and was ac-cepted
by the Mayor for the City of
Salisbury.
The speakers on this occasion, each of
whom brought a brief message suited to
the occasion, were Mrs. Edwin C. Greg-ory,
Regent of the Elizabeth Maxwell
Steele Chapter; Mrs. Edwin R. Over-man,
Chairman of the Committee on the
Boone Tablet: Hon. Walter H. Wood-son,
Mayor of Salisbury ; Dr. Louis H.
Clement; Mrs. ^^^ N. Reynolds, State
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Regent, D. A. R.; Mrs. Lindsay Patter-son,
Chairman of the State D. A. R.
Daniel Boone Trail Committee; Mrs.
John Van Landingham, Vice-President
General, D. A. R. ; His Excellency, Gov.
Locke Craig; and the orator, Dr. Archi-bald
Henderson.
In writing of the occasion, ]\Ir. Theo.
F. Kluttz, Jr., aptly said in the Charlotte
Observer : "Salisbury, for much more
than a century the pivot of Piedmont and
Western North Carolina, the home of a
long succession of distinguished men and
gracious women, the point to which many
lines of descent that have ramified widely
are traced, the repository of invaluable
records, the place where Colonial and
Revolutionary memories abound side by
side with monuments erected by various
States in one of those National ceme-teries
sadly consequent upon the Civil
War—Salisbury accepted the challenge
of the past to her future. She is today a
thriving and beautiful city, by the most
modern tests. She attracts new popu-lation
continually. She looks forward
with perhaps greater confidence than
ever before."
In a brief speech of singular discre-tion
and sincerity, Mrs. Van Landing-ham,
of Charlotte, introduced Dr. Hen-derson
to the audience as a scholar and
literary critic of international reputation,
whose kevword to his belo\'ed State has
ever been "Awake ! Awake !"
Dr. Henderson's address was described
as an "historical masterpiece." The
speaker rose to heights of oratorical elo-quence
which held his audience spell-bound.
Since the death of Dr. Reuben
Gold Thwaites, Dr. Henderson enjoys
the distinction of being the greatest living
authority on Daniel Boone, and one of
America's leading authorities on the
movement of western expansion in the
latter half of the eighteenth century.
His historical researches in this period
ha\e won attention from one end of the
country to the other, and have received
the endorsement of the leading historical
students of the period. His address at
Salisbury, reproduced in full in the lead-ing
newspapers of the State, was a not-able
contribution to the history of North
Carolina. Below follow a few extracts
from Dr. Henderson's address, which
was entitled "Daniel Boone and the
Wilderness Trail."
"In that epic movement of American
expansion which found its true inaugura-tion
in pioneer advance, and its true
romance in border struggle, the colony
of North Carolina assumed a truly na-tional
role. Two such men as Richard
Henderson and Daniel Boone—Hender-son,
the colonizer and lawgiver ; Boone,
the explorer and Indian fighter—flower-ing
at a single instant out of the life of
North Carolina, endow her with a dis-tinction
of national eminence as a great
creative force in ^^'estward expansion.
Kentucky and the West would be sorely
impoverished, shorn of the greater meas-ure
of the incomparable romance and
wonder of her origin and rude be-ginnings,
if bereft of North Carolina's
epochal contribution : the exploring in-stinct
of Christopher Gist : the pioneering
genius of Daniel Boone ; the colonizing
of Richard Henderson ; the economic and
expansionist ideals of the canny Scots,
James Hogg and ^^'illiam Johnston ; of
the sire of the "Great Pacificator,"
Jesse Benton; of the Harts—Thomas,
Nathaniel, and David; the Hendersons
—
Samuel, Nathaniel, and Pleasant; the
Boones—Squire and Jesse ; Isaac Shel-by,
Felix Walker, John Luttrell, Rich-ard
Callaway, Robert Burton, Bromfield
Ridley, John Williams, John Gray
Blount, Leonard Henley Bullock, ^^il-liam
Bailey Smith, and others less spec-tacular
in their achievements yet little less
important. They were tjie crest and
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foremost fringe of that mobile wave
which welled up from the fountain
source of American libertj', the ancient
colony of North Carolina, swept irresis-tibly
through the 'high-swung gateway of
the Cumberland', and held this fair
region within the circle of its protecting
wall until Kentucky had weathered the
storms of border warfare and was swept
triumphantly into a Union of free and
independent States.
"In the early 'sixties, Richard Hender-son
and John \\'illiams, of Granville, and
Thomas Hart, of Orange, organized a
land company, for the purpose of sending
out an agent to spy out the land and to
examine into the feasibility of making a
purchase of territory from the Indians.
The company was organized under the
name of 'Richard Henderson & Co'."
With authoritative citations to original
documents, many of them in the posses-sion
of the speaker himself, and also to
printed sources, the speaker showed con-clusively
that on his expeditions of 1764
and 1769, Daniel Boone, to employ the
words of ^Ir. Theodore Roosevelt in
"The \\'inning of the West," "was partly
hunting on his own account, and partly
exploring in 1)ehalf of another—Richard
Henderson.
"The Treaty of Fort Stanwix,
New York, in 1768, was partly re-sponsible
for the expedition of 1769, for
the Cherokees deeply resented the fact
that, at this treaty, the Six Nations of
Northern Indians had dared to sell to
the British Government the Kentucky
territory, which had belonged to the
Cherokees from time immemorial.
Richard Henderson and his associates,
following this treaty, realized that the
land, which belonged to the Cherokees,
could only be obtained through securing
title by purchase from the tribe of Chero-kee
Indians.
"Shortly after the treaty of Fort Stan-wix,
the horse-peddler, John Findlay, a
former acquaintance of Daniel Boone's,
wandered into the Valley of the Yadkin.
Findlay had actually reached Kentucky
on a former exploration, and now de-lighted
Boone with the stories of the de-sirability
of the country and the plenti-fulness
of the game. Findlay rightly
conjectured, as stated by Lyman C.
Draper, 'that the only way of reaching
Kentucky through the wilderness, would
be to penetrate farther to the westward
than Boone had done, until the Indian
warpath should be gained, which would
lead through the Cumberland Mountains.'
"Meanwhile, the plans of Henderson
and his associates for securing detailed
and accurate information in regard to
the great AA'estern wilderness had long
remained in abeyance. But now the
great opportunity came in the most un-mistakable
way. The town of Salisbury
assumes national importance as the
scene of a great historical episode. Years
of study of the question, from unpub-lished
documents which I have dis-covered,
and from all available printed
sources, have resulted in the conclusion
that here in Salisbury, in March, 1769,
were met together the time, the place,
and the men for planning a great his-torical
undertaking—the exploration of
the Kentuck)^ \\'ilderness."
The speaker gave numerous citations
from the historians best informed, rely-ing
upon contemporary documents, con-clusivel_
y proving the conclusion, as suc-cinctly
stated by the historian Putnam
:
"Daniel Boone and others had been em-ployed
by Col. Richard Henderson and
his associates to examine the country on
the headwaters of the Tennessee ; they
had passed beyond the mountains, and
discovered the rich lands upon the Cum-berland
and Kentucky Rivers, and the
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extensive barrens, or open lands, in Ken-tucky.
"On J\Iay i, 1769. Daniel Boone. John
Findlay. his guide. John Stuart, his
brother-in-law. Joseph Holden, James
Moonev, and ^^'illiam Cooley. his
neighbors, set forth upon their historic
journey of exploration, to hunt and trap
on their own account, and to explore the
country in behalf of the land company.
This journey will remain forever
memorable in the annals of American
exploration.
"Leaving Holman's Ford behind.
Boone and his party passed in succession
the Three Forks Church, the site of the
present town of Boone, Hodge's Gap,
Graveyard or Straddle Gap, and Zion-ville,
before crossing over into Ten-nessee.
Over this trail passed the first
of the white race who led the way into
the valley of the Cumberland ; here
passed the Long Hunters ; and here
passed the North Carolina pioneers in
their arduous search for the new
El Dorado. And as I think of this his-toric
pathway, which begins here at our
doors and ends only with the Pacific. I
thrill with the prophetic vision that here,
in the long, long future, must pass the
unending stream of humanity forever
:
'Some to endure, and many to quail.
Some to conquer, and many to fail.
Toiling over the Wilderness Tra'l.'
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"History fully acknowledges that
Boone's s€r\'ices to Kentucky and the
\\'est were monumental and incom-parable.
The nation owes a profound
debt of gratitude to Daniel Boone for
his intrepid daring in braving the named
and unnamed dangers of a treacherous,
copper-colored foe. Had not Boone
been a phenomenon—the very genius
of the forest—loving for its own sake
communion with the primeval forces of
nature, and risking all dangers with the
utmost hardihood and native cunning,
no motive, however powerful among
average men, could have induced him to
remain away from home and family for
two long, lonely years, in the twilight
zone of Kentucky. For in him were
united the dauntless courage, the master-ful
independence, and the bold self-reliance
of the men who have made this
nation great. To do, to dare, to con-quer—
it was this spirit, as has been well
said, which enabled the pioneers to win
and hold for the L'nited States the vast
expanse of wild but fertile territory be-tween
the Alleghanies and the Missis-sippi
; it was this spirit which enabled
their descendants and successors to
carry the American flag beyond the Mis-sissippi,
until the Republic spanned the
continent from sea to sea.
"L^pon his return to North Carolina
from his great tour of exploration, in
1 77 1, Boone's glowing report to the
land company excited in them, as ex-pressed
by Governor Morehead of Ken-tucky,
'the spirit of an enterprise which,
in point of magnitude and peril, as well
as constancy and heroism displaved in
its execution, has never been paralleled in
the history of America.' Re-organizing
the land company, known as Richard
Henderson & Co., first into the Louisa
and then into the Transylvania Com-pany,
Richard Henderson carried
through the historic treaty of Syca-more
Shoals : purchased from the Chero-kee
Indians for himself and his asso-ciates,
for £ro,ooo sterling, the greater
portion of Kentucky ; and engaged
Daniel Boone and a party of axmen to
cut out a passage to the heart of the
transmontane wilderness.
"The purchase of vSycamore Shoals,
the unresting: march of Henderson and
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his little band over the blood-haunted
Wilderness Trail, and their erection of a
famous fortified stockade, afterwards
known as Boonesboro, are all dramatic
phases of a movement classed by his-torians
as of incalculable moment and
providential timeliness in our early his
tory. The settlement of Boonesboro
the Re\olution, when perhaps it might
have been British soil.' For it was the
Transjdvania Company which, at its own
expense, first colonized with between
two and three hundred men the Ken-tucky
area : and boldly defying the
Royal proclamation with true revolu-tionarv
ardor, exhausted all means.
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alone made possible the most spectacular
and meteoric campaign in Western his-tory—
closing only when George Rogers
Clarke and his unterrified frontiersmen
grounded their arms in Kaskaskia and
Vincennes. Had it not been