The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-01-02
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Senator Thurston says he win vote
for Cuban recognition with a fun under
standing that it may mean war with
Spain.
An English church paper denies the re-
cent statement that the new Bishop of
Peterborough was appointed simply be-
cause he was rich enough to repair the
west front Of the cathedral.
1T is STATED in the papers that there is
a female applicant for State Librarian.
The woman's name is not given. 1t is
q position that woman might I'LL in an
acceptable manner.-Alamance Cleaner.
If anything is to be crippled in the State
for the sake of economy, do not let 1t
be our public schools or magnificent
University, with its doors open to the
poor youth of the State, offering them
means to get an education when they
are not able to pay for it.-Beaufort
Herald. Edited by Methodist.
1.-The students of the College of Law OF
Syracuse University have adopted the
following yell:
Agency, contracts, bills and notes,
Equity, pleadings, sales and torts,
Domestic relations; Raw! Raw! Raw!
Syracuse Varsity,
College of Law"
Secretary Olney cannot go to Chicago
to attend the jackson banquet, much to
his regret, because the President gives
his last cabinet dinner January 9TH and
wants to have every seat around the
table filed. Not only win the members
Of his present cabinet and their wives
be present, but Mr. BisseI, who was
formerly General, and MIR.
Smith, who was formerly Secretary of
the Interior, with their wives, are COM
ing, and it is to be reunion of his Off
cial family.
In one of the rural districts a Georgia
minister was invited to dime with citi-
zen who, though wealthy, furnished his
table poorly When they were seated the
host said: Times are mighty tight, par
son an we amt got nothing much ter
set before you, but, SIGH as it is, you air
welcome. Win you ask a blessin' on
what you seeY' The parson, observing
the scant repast, lifted up his voice and
said: Lord, make us thankful for what
we see, and may we be able 10 find it
when we reach for it. Let it not es-
cape US and prove a snare and a delu.
sion. amen. Thank you for the green's.
Atlanta Constitution.
Anent the fact that MIR. Mckinley
will be inaugurated in suit made Of
Ohio wool, the st. Louis Republic, says
that as 'shis syndicate manager did not
hesitate to appropriate the American
flag and degrade it TO the uses OF poll
tics Major Mckinley should elaborate
the idea and have a red-white- and-blue
shaFt and collar, with bandana hand
kercnief to match. The typical Ameri-
can headgear is the coon-skin cap. A
coon-skin cap, a pair of Uncle Sam boots
and the great seal of State for a watch
charm would complete a costume which
would be calculated to fire the American
heart with patriotic PRIDE
Joseph Jefferson has taken up the
cudgels against undue athletic training,
which he says kills off more people than
1t cures. The strain undermines the
system, forces the heart to a task far be-
yond its powers, and as a result there
is a collapse Of the life machinery long
before the appointed Time" Mr.. JEFF
ferson says that he met Lawrence Bar
rett some years ago on a street corner in
Boston, and Barrett said he was waiting
for car to take him TO a gymnasium.
whats the matter with walking? said
Jefferson; that's better exercise than you
will get ut the gymnasium and it will
save you the trouble of going there"
Some time ago 'The Journal" referred
to the liberaEty of the Southern States
iii the matter Of negro education, show
ing that they had appropriated nearly
$S0,000,000 to negro schools since enan-
cipaition, and that more than 50 per cent
of this sum had been paid by the whites
We stated in that article that the South
is inevitably committed to two PROPOSE
tons: First, the support Of negro schools
by general taxation; second, the separa-
tion of the schools for whites and negroes.
Under this policy 40 per cent Of the illi-
teracy among negroes has disappeared;
over 1000 negro teachers have found
places in Southern schools, and their
number, as well as the number Of negro
pupils, is steadily increasing. We also
called attention TO the fact that there
are in the South, besides the common
schools for negroes, which every South
ern State maintains with increasing lib
crafty, 1872 institutions for the secondary
and higher education of negroes includ-
ing thirty-two colleges. Atlanta Journal.