The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1881-11-27
THE PEABODY Fund.
a Few Items COncernin2 Its
Texas applications


DIR. Rufus c. Burleson returned
Monday from final tour as the repre-
sentative of the Peabody fund III
Texas. DR. Burleson visited Palestine
and Gainesville for the purpose OF
completing arrangements for placing
the fund.the two towns having recently
taken charge of the free schools. Pal
estine already has her schools III active
operation, but Gainesville is Just com
Melting a magnificent school building
and will soon be III readiness. Dr.
Rurleson has been subjected 10 con
siderable erroneous statement and
some downright abuse since lie ac-
cepted the position, and it is but due
! him, as an energetic and honest admin
| istritor of duty III tins matter, to pre-
sent the matter Iii It's true form, for IL
would seem that most people do not
understand his connection with 1t. In
| the first place the directors Of the
| American fund have no one who acts as
an agent, in the usual acceptance
of the term, but select some compe'
| tent person to present the advantages
to be derived from compliance witt
the requirements of the donor before
the people and the mode of proceed
IRE necessary to receive the benefits
| Before one dollar had been expended
and after DIR. Burleson had accepted
| the trust, to be compensated IN the
pavment of his actual travelling eN
/ penscs and the employment OF per
son to take charge OF Waco unlNeTslt!
duripp its presidents absence, he
made a tour of the state, visiting the
| county-seat of every organized county
and addressed the people upon the
merits of the pan and left Instruc
| tons how to secure the fund. This
work occupied about eighteen months
! Aftcrward. whenever community
adopted the free school system III
/ full Crut not in the abortlve manner
now recognized as state institution
and put itself i'll readiness to receive
/ the disbursement, Dr. Burleson would
confer with the community and rec
ommend some person 70 act
as superintendent or principal
of the schools. Our readers are
familiar with the facts connected
with the endowment of the Houston,
| Denison, San Antonio, Brennan, Gal
weston. Austin, Sherman and other
schools throughout this state. Upon
| the recommendation of DR.. BurlesOn
the first principal of each was selected,
and the depository of the fund, the
state superintendent of schools, was
authorized by the dire tors of the
board to disburse the pro rata. The
cornerstone of the bequest is that the
/ beneficiaries hold themselves entirely
aloof from connection, in the manage
ment and operation of the schools,
/ from all dtnominational interference
or suggestions. In carrying out this
prccept DR. Burleson has honestly and
/ fcarlessly lived up to the letter and
spirit Of the instructions, to the com
/ pl, te satisfaction of the directors, and
/ has incurred the displeasure, expressed
/ In no gentle terms IN several Instances,
/ Of the various denominations, his OWL
not excepted, for in no single instance
I has he ever recommended any
principal closely Unidentified with
church interests, not even when
/ the community has deserved 1t, and
/ for such fearless aud exact observance
Of du,y DR.. Bureson deserves more
/ than the usual credit, when the fact -
/ taken into consideration that he him
self Is conducting a denominational
/ institution and his whole life has been
/ devoted to denominatinnal education
4 He has also been uukindly and nm
justly charged with having been neon
tiuently discharged 10y the directory
+ but nothing could he further from the
truth, for his services nave been gratu-
itoUs, except as above stated, and
purely a labor of loTe, entered into
really against his desires. Ns duties.
If so the work my be designated, arr
required ouly when, after some city has
taken the schools into her own charge,
it becomes necessary for a principal to
be recommended. Many people sup
pose the fund has regular yearly
agent, who has the fund, but such Is
not the case, the state uperiutenGent
receiving and dishursing the mol,ey-.
In tins connection the EXAMINER walld
be gratitied t. chronicle Waco as
among the heueticinrcs Of the fund.
Try RIvERES LINIMEET Tor inc re-
lief and permanent cnre Of rheuma
tism, neuralgia. '.eadaehe and all kinds
Of pains