The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-11-05

ture of the landscape is the New Eng
land tobacco barn, or more nearly, to-
b3cco shed, because the tobacco raised
here is air cured. Most of our Havana
cigars are made of this tobacco North
ampton is a great educational center of
Massachusetts. Smith College for high
er education of women is located here.
Dr. Seeiye, formerly president of Am
he1St College, is president of Smith Col
lege. Nearly fifteen hundred young wo-
men, half of them from other States,
are in school here. The entrance eX-
aminations are as high as those required
to euter the Sophomore class at our
State University. 1t costs a girl here
from $500 to $1,000 dollars per annum
to go to this college, owing to her faith
er'S money and lack of sense combined.
Just across the valley, at the foot of
beautiful Mt. Holyoke, stands Mt.
Holyoke Seminary, another large school
for the collegiate instruction of young
women. There are severaI hundred girls
in this school. Seven miles up the val
ley but in plain view this morning, rise
the dome OF Amherst College, where Il
thousand young men are fitting them
selves for the professions and for life.
To the westward only a snort ride, over
the beautiful ceruean Berkshire Hills,
is Williams College, where for half Il
century that born teacher, Mark Hop
kins, influenced so many men during
their collegiate life. Here last but not
least is the greatest oraI school for the
deaf in the world, the Clark School,
presided over by one of the greatest
and most consecrated of women Miss
Yale.
There are many spots, sacred in his
tory and tradition. near here. Mt.
H0lyoke on the east and Mt Tom on the
west side of the Connecticut river, are
known as the haunts of MasSasoit, 50
long the friend of the New England
settlers. These are also the home and
haunts of King Phillip, who did not in
herit his fathers love for the pale
face" but who led a rebellion of his
race, and after his defeat by Church,
and the destruction of his braves, met a
tragic death among these hills. Not far
away is Deerfield, the scene of one Of
the most cruel butcheries of the Indian
war, and many relics OF that fearful
catastrophe, picked up near the spot, are
preserved in a museum there Not many
miles to the southeast is Mystic, where
the Pequot Indians were destroyed, af-
ter having danced the war dance, and
applied the war paint to exterminate the
infant settlements Of Hooker at Hart
ford, and Davenport at New Haven.
Everything through this part of
Massachusetts is different from North
Carolina. The style OF architecture is
mainly Colonial there are no negroes,
the hotel servants are white girls, the
brakemen, the BARRIERS, the hack-drivers
will talk with you in almost any Ian
D. suage 3ou may choose, so you do not
have too long a repertoire, and viii dis
cuss any subject from the 'origin of
the species to the initiative and the
referendum"
Time and space forbids discussing
many interesting characteristics of these
people and tlris part of the country
This whole State, however stands as
an object lesson Of what universal edu-
cation does to make a State rich and
prosperous. May we learn lessons of
economy from Massachusetts along this
line. NJ. III. HOLT.