considered by the judges. Each winner is to have his name engraved on the prize, and to retain possession of it for one year.

The judges as finally decided upon by Mrs. Patterson consist of the President of the Literary and Historical Association, chairman, and the occupants of the chairs of history in the University of North Carolina and Trinity College, and the chairs of literature in the University, Davidson, and Wake Forest.

All in all, the plan is regarded by our committee as thoroughly happy, praiseworthy, and practical, and we feel that the whole State will honor Mrs. Patterson for her patriotic action.

PRESENTATION OF THE PATTERSON MEMORIAL CUP.

MARGARET BUSBEE SHIPP.

The gray Senate walls have looked down on varying scenes-dramatic, poignant, decisive. Here the casting of the tie vote of Calvin Graves in favor of the bill subscribing two millions for the North Carolina Railroad was greeted with applause so tremendous as to be carried from point to point of the city; here were the trials which broke up the Ku-Klux; here the reception to the conquering General, when Grant stood impassive as a statue during Settle's speech of welcome. Here was a happier picture when the University doors were declared reopened, or when the Agricultural and Mechanical College was created. Yet there has always been an undertone-the chagrin of the minority, the heartburnings of the defeated. So if, like Shakespeare's wall, these granite sides could show "a cranny'd hole or chink” at will, they would perhaps have chosen to let in an extra ray of sunshine on the 19th of October, 1905. It was a spectacle of double significance. Political bickerings were forgotten in the spirit of hospitality and appreciation, the people of the Capital City were animated by one feeling when they welcomed the great President of our common country. For the first time a State-wide importance was given to literary work.

These events were typified in the loving cup which President Roosevelt had been asked to present to Mr. John Charles McNeill, under the auspices of the State Literary and Historical Association. About them gathered a group of men noted in the State, the two Senators, the Lieutenant-Governor and State officers (the Governor, sadly absent on account of

his brother's death, being represented by his Chief of Staff, Col. Charles E. Johnson), the Governor's personal and departmental staff, the Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, the Mayor of Raleigh, Brigadier-General Woodruffe, representing the United States Army; Gen. T. R. Robertson, the State Guard; the Chief Marshal of the Fair, and those gentlemen under whose auspices the Fair has been made a success, and a small group of men prominent in different walks of life. The State Literary and Historical Association was represented by its President, ex-Governor Aycock; Mrs. Lindsay Patterson, Third Vice-President; Mr. Poe, Secretary, and the Executive Committee.

A small number of women were honored by this opportunity of meeting the gracious mistress of the White House. The President and Mrs. Roosevelt held an informal reception and every one was impressed by the cordiality and tact of the President and the sweet womanliness and gentle courtesy of Mrs. Roosevelt. Columns have been written of her, yet one's mind slipped past newspaper floridities and found her best description in the searching words the wisest man chose long ago: "The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her."

The President's remarkable memory of names and facts was evidenced by the individuality of his greetings. He took Mr. Poe aside to discuss the latter's article in the Atlantic Monthly, he recalled his meeting with Governor Aycock in Charleston. After the informal reception, Lieutenant-Governor Winston presented the newly-elected President of the State Literary and Historical Association, ex-Governor Aycock, who called to mind the history of the cup, and declared it would have an added value when presented by the Chief Executive, himself a lover of literature and a strong and forceful writer. He then introduced Mr. McNeill.

To this the President replied:

"MR. MCNEILL: I feel, and I am sure all good Americans must feel, that it is far from enough for us to develop merely a great ma