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The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1902-10-23

are up now.
Crops are bout gathered. Corn
made but little. Turned off too
pry.
Have been picking cotton ever
since the 1l4h August, and sold two
bales in August, something new
or did before.
But | don't like the Lone Star
State any better than did. tell
you | don't like II country that is
so chilly and where there is so
much pneumonia, and | don't
think you Tishomingo people
would like to be forced to have
smoke IN the door to keep out mus
quitoes, and the chigoes so plenti-
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1902-10-23
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This signature is on every box of the genuine
Laxative BrOmo-Q uiniae Tablets
tho remedy that cssres n cold I'm one day
where he has been.
We learn that Messrs Ball and
Dan Tuberville were both married
to Misses Lambert, Oct. 10, 1902.
We wish them much happiness.
FL S Massey has ginned so bales
of cotton.
No more at present.
Yours as ever,
CRAw FISH
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-19
FAYETTEVILLE NORMAL.

notwithstanding its disadvantages,
having no building of its own or any
industrial department, the board is de-
cidedly of the opinion that this school is
doing a good work. Land is already Sc
cured on which Normal Industrial
building may he placed, and by strict
economy the board of directors have in
hand a balance from the annual appro
priatiCn.
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COLORED NORMAL, FRANKLIN
TON

This school presents another instance
of directors who do not direct, says
the board. Only one of the five gentle
men composing the board of directors
gives it the attention it deserves. There
are about 65 students of both sexes
The situation is desirable in every re-
spect, the property consists of about
so acres of farming land and good build
ings, but these latter sadly out of re-
pair. The property was acquired and
the school in part supported by donations
from Northern friends, about 81 600 being
received in this way during the past
year.
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surely our hope that we will find no
other institution in North Carolina so
utterly unsatisfactory in every respect
as the Normal School for colored people in
the town of Plymouth. s The board
(of directors), composed entirely of
White men, seem to have bestowed very
little if any time or thought to it's direc-
ton. In evidence of this we report that
after strenuous effort we were unable TO
find anyone who could give us any idea
of the disposition which had been made
OF the States money. In further evil
dence we find that the negro man en-
ployed by the directors as superintend-
ent is utterly unfit to fill so important
position
THE results are such as may ever be
expected when directors do not direct
miserable building, unsightly and I'M
tidy, lot of dudish looking negro boys
for whom no instruction is provided in
any branch of industry; girls who will
never be able to teach children habits
of neatness, because they have never
learned such themselves. Justice, how
ever, leads us to report one good result,
to-wit., wide spread dissatisfaction
with this school throughout the COM
,nunity in which it is located. 1t would
indeed be lamentable if such a school
should give rise TO any other feeling
than complete disapproval.
There can be but one need for us to
report or recommend, the prompt, COM
plete and permanent discontinuance Of
this one of our State Institutions
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-19
STATE HOSPITAL, RALEIGH.

STATE HOSPITAL, RALEIGH.
The board finds that while there are
considered to be about 800 insane per-
sons in the Eastern district. there are
only 404 patients in this asylum. The
others are either in the jails, the county
homes or in charge of their relatives.
This is indeed sad condition of things.
Yet the superintendent tells them that
he has recently DISCHARGED fifty patients,
and that there have been few new adj
missions. The examiners are glad to
know that hereafter it viii be the duty
of tax assessors to ascertain the num-
Der Of the insane. Not having any such
statistics they are not willing to recon-
mend any additions to the capacity Of
the hospital.
A speedy change of the water supply
is advised, and it is suggested that ar
rangements be made with the Water
Company of Raleigh to supply pure
water. The hospital is now provided
with water from two sources: l. From
Rocky Branch by means of a hydraulic
ram. The point of intake is about one
fourth mile below the emptying point of
the sewer from the A. and NJ. College,
The branch above drains section which
is already rather thickly inhabited and
rapidly increasing in population. This
water is used for laundry and bathing
purposes. 2. Several driven wells from
which drinking water is raised by power
pumps. The quality of this water is said
to be good.
An estimate of the cost of connecting
the hospital with the city mains is 81, 500.
The company agrees to furnish the water
supply at the rate of &C. per thousand
gallons. 1t is recommended that steps
be at once taken to carry out this plan,
either by meeting the expense from the
Stewards special fund.- or by special
appropriation by the General Assembly.
An analysis of the Stewards figures
shows the cost of maintenance per capita
to be $1513 per month. The payroll for
July. 1902, was 81 .901.52 or an average
monthly cost for attendance on each
patient of $4.54
1t is recommended that the appropria-
ton for maintenance continue as at
present, ST. 500 per annum; that special
appropriation of $4,000 be made to buy
four new boilers; also special appropria-
ton of $500 to improve ice plant.
STATE HOSPITAL, MORGANTON.
The report on this hospital begins by
quoting q number of letters from persons
of every class, written to Dr. p. L..
Murphy, beseeching him to take pity
upon their afflicted relatives, who are
doomed to long Imprisonment in the COM
mon Jail, and yet are not lawbreakers,
but are afflicted with that worst of all
diseases, insanity. These letters are
heart-rending, and a lack of room has
prevented the appeals from being acted
upon.
Statistics are given to show that. ac-
cording to the accepted estimate in
North Carolina of two insane persons
for every thousand. there must be in
the Western district about 1,548 so af-
Continued on Page Four.)
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food of ignorance which like black
pail Expresses us, and makes more
weighty the burden which must be boFhe
by your Excellency and others who are
striving to arouse and sustain puDlc
sentiment in favor of universal educa>
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with their local situation. will appreciate the dif-
hculty of attaining satisfactory solution. Those
from less cosmopolitan cities may say that II
cannot be done. But It can, and is being done
right here in Hoyoke-and the keynotes OF the
solution are education example and the rorce OF
law.
To put the last first there is force OF law. a wise
law which declares mo minor who cannot read
and write the English language can be employed
in any factory commercial enterprise: Inat
law leads TO education, and the road is direct II
Is being enforced this year never before. ana
in order to hold their jobs-jobs which mean bread
and meat and life-hundreds have been forced into
night schools, where they are taking the first step
toward good citizenship.
Two kinds OF example set IN HOlyoke. No,
not the usual good and bad. for these are both
very good in their way. One example Is that Of
the native Americans. the mill owners. the well to
do business men. who careful about municipal
affairs ConsideTate in their treatment of the for
eiEn workman and liberal IN providing for the
education Of himself and family.
The other is the most powerful example Of sue
cess. Many OF the foreigners who came to HOlyoke
early in its history have prOspered and become
City Clerk with such satisfaction that both parties
Endorsed their reelection Others have become con-
tractors builders and salaTied officers in industrial
affairs. The French who have raised themselves
have taken TO property accumulation. They saved
a few hundreds bought a lot and borrowed enough
10 build block and then did It all over again
These examples count.
\ NeW-NCrker. accustomed to the crowded. dirty
regions of his city along both rivers. would have
difficulty in recognizing Holyoke tenement There
is little Il any unhealthy Crowding The tenements
almost entirely OF brick. built in solid substan
tial blocks. There are no front yards. 10 be sure,
but in the rear are roomy courts. There is little
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hers and It is surprising how newcomer
from sunny France or Germany or harsher Poland
picks up English from the other boys"
the club. The sight of five hundred boys In
large rooms is enough in itself Upstairs they are
working with type. presses and box machines.
Downstairs they are playing, building up
their bodies and their brains. Little Francois.
astraddle OF bench, is giving charitable hour to
teaching a neghbor the beautiful language Of
the New World in which all the books are writ
ten. newly arrived Pole is being initiated into
the delights of ping pong by couple of German
urchins There sharp cries from the corner
back Of the library Fight FiEhtr is the veil,
and there is rush in that direction II is all
in a minute. stopped by some of the older boys
Il wouldn't give a cent for boy that wouldn't
fight in while, would you?' remarks the
superintendent A lad without his tricks will
never amount 10 shucks.
This is what one can see every evening but sun
day until 8 Then the boys, file out. They are
under promise TO straight home. and oheying ii
the curfew law does not reach them by special ar
rangement with the police.
Mr.. Thompson is full of stories about his bows
One of them transformed last Christmas
by clothes which he had earned the club that
his father did not know him. and was startled
by the improvement out Of a drunk" which had
lasted for months into good jon. Another Is of
the raid of the Tiger Town Terrors." or some
such gang. which not raid all
They came from South HolYoke fifteen strong
TO put the club on the bum. they put IT," said
Mr.. Thompson. They came into this room and
began to look around. One by they found some
thing TO interest them, and the raid was forgotten
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extreme poverty Of the heartrendng New-York
kind, for those who work have little trouble
getting places, and those who cannot cared for
by the city. Many OF the tenements are the two
story vine covered rows, which have been called
the typical NeW-England tenements Nearly all
clean and well kept. especially il the French and
Irish quarters IN many of the houses the landlord
has rule that the halls must be scrubbed by the
tenants IN turn, and strange as II may SEEM the
plan works. owing TO a healthy rivalry among the
housewives.
The most important factor in the Americaniza-
ton OF Holyoke are and have been the public
schools, in which nearly nine thousand pupils are
enrolled. OF this number nine in every ten are
foTeigners-the figures being $500 Irish. 300 French
500 German and 800 American. This is exclusive
all Of whom are of foreign parentage.
Our system Of evening schools. elementary and
grammar. has been most important factor in the
Americanizing Of Holyoke." said Professor L p
Nash, superintendent Of the public school system
yesterday 10 a Tribune reporter. They nave de-
creased the illiteracy TO wonderful degree. We
have attendance Of about one thousand in
the five schools which open at night OnlV
about half this number forced attend bv
that wise Massa chusetts law preventing iliterate
workmen from holding places. The others come
OF their own volition and many going on with
higher branches
"A point Of special interest is the way in which
foreign girls have fitted themselves for teachers
and the success they are having in the schools a
number of Irish girls who from the poorest
families have pushed through the public school and
worked their way through the normal. They have
come back TO US thoroughly fitted for the work
and we have found places for them. Now. the
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French girls beginning to do the same thing
II shows most commendable desire to rise above
their surroundings which is certainly most Amer
lean spirit
in this work is the HOlyoke Boys club and In
ly from the French and Irish quarters 1t occupies
the old and rapidly decaying Methodist Church
property in Main-st, in the heart of The Flats
A most energetic young Englishman, John ID;
Thompson, directs the club, with the advice and
assistance of such well known men as Mayor A. =
Chaplin. J. S. Weber T. W. Holley. NJ, NJ 5;
Moriarity. W. T. Dean. Frank Beebe, \. J. Rand
and r. T. Prentiss.
Keep the boys off the street and help them to
help themselves is the motto OF the Boys club
said the young superintendent; and we are doing
it for at least twelve hundred every year To ac-
complsh the first must give them an evening
home. We do IL with games-all sorts from ping
pong to checkers and the library which is filed
with entertaining books. The interest of the-older
The help part found in the industrial school
which affords opportunity for learning four
trades printing. bo0kbindnE, hoXmaNiuS and
wood carving. Most of the boys who belong 10 the
club will have go to work the day they are four
teen. They know IL and that there Is no getting
away from Il. II they know the rudImeuts Of q
trade. learned "A sort Of play, they escape the
hardest part. the breaking in-
The club costs the boys nothing. and as
they skifu in the trade they are following We
pay them for the work BOYS like 10 things
printing certain fascination In most factories
girls employed as box makers because the boys
lack the fine touch necessary TO successful work
Vet boys O; the club make all the boxes for one
Of the largest manUfa NtNrers Of typewrttug paper
All uationalites 10 Dee found among the mem
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THE GREATEST

Before they went home we gave out fifteen new
membership cards -, ..,.
the Young Mems Christian Association, which
has a cOmmodiOus building on one or the
directors OF the association. and George e.
Hubert the general secretary, are making a great
effort in behalf of the foreign young men. Read
and write classes are held for those who know
nothing of English. The fee is merely nominal and
the classes are kept small Advanced courses In
mechanical drawing and steam engineering have
been great help in advancing young men in the
mills. The club has all of the usual association
features, into the benefits of which the foreign ee-
is rapidly getting insight.
on November II the Misses Skinner will open
coffee and rest room for working girls in Main
their father. William Skinner, silk manufacturer,
who died eight months ago. and the day of
The rooms will be of great service to the hun
dreds of French and German girls who work in
noon coffee and sandwiches will be served at the
extremely low cost of two cents AT least once
each week an entertainment will be given on
other evenings the girls VIII make the room
gathering place, with piano. magazines and pa
pers for their amusement. There will be sewing
machine Tor those who care to make thetr own
dresses The Misses Skinner have undertaken the
entire financial responsibility.
The Rest Room is intended to supplement the
work of the Young Womens Christian Association.
which has quarters in the centre of the city. too
far away from the southern portion be of much
service to the girls The association has large
classes of foreign girls I'm sewing, cooking MILL
merry and kindred arts and does a work that is
who want to get married.
The Americanizing influences exerted by the
churches must be taken seIf-evident far as
this story is concerned. Mention might be made of
the sewing classes conducted by young society
Second Congregational Church. which in the
foreign quarters. This does for the very young
learn the various stitches and practise them doll
clothes. When they can dress dolls neatly they
begin on their own clothes, going from simple
And by all this Holyoke will in time be able to
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The opinion OF Chairman James Campbell OF the
Democratic Town Committee the State cam
pagn Is one OF the interesting revelations since the
election He says In an interview that the State
Democratic Committee ran the campaign on wind
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-09
RECEPTION AT BARNARD.

DEAN GILL RECEIVES THE FRESHMEN AND
THEIR FRIENDsTHE BERNARD BEAR
The most fattering OF all the entertainments
given 10 the freshman class OF Barnard was fur
nished by the hospitality OF the dean. Miss Laura
u. Gill. who had reception In their honor last
Friday IN Miibank Hall The freshman and
many OF their friends they wanted TO invita-
were cordially received by Miss Gill and members
of the faculty, and ushered to the theatre IN
BrinCkerhOff Hall where music was played through
out the afternoon The parents and guests were
shown about the buildings by the officers OF tho
upper classes. and altogether had plentiful graft
hcation OF that interest and curiosity which
generally characteristic OF freshnen's friends
The members Of The Barnard Bear the newly
organized literary society of Barnard. viii have
fortnightIy informal meetings at which they win
discuss the methods or modern novelsts. beginning
with Meredith. Hamilton W. Mabie who Is
trustee of Barnard is TO address the society in the
near future Recently elected officers OF the society
are: President. Clare NJ. Howard. O3: vice-presi-
dent. Helen King, 'lS: secretary Ethel VI. Pool. V
and treasurer Helen Erskine o. Professor Will
lam r Trent was elected honorary vice resident
Inc AlITnnSe Association Of Barnard College has
work Of the Students Aid Committee may be more
adVanIageOuSly transacted The officers OF the
SSSoclttloh ELECTED tor TINS year are Eresideat
Mary stuart FuilInal %, ViCe-preSldent. Louise !.
Dunn. 81; recording secretary. Mabel Parsons. IS;
corresponding secretary, Janet Alexander McCoOA
"; treasurer, Caroline 5. BrOmbaCher. 80. There
is TO be a board OF directors consistE, OF eleven
members, viz. the officers ex-Of1ciO the alumle
trustee. and hve additional directors chosen from
1898 is Miss Florence Colgate. 80. The five other
members elected were: Until 1893 Mrs George NC
until 1905. Madeleine Heroy on until 1905 Alice
Keys. 80; until 1901, Virginia 9. Ciidsrsle eve, 80
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late Valentine b Chamberlain. held some years
ago It so happened in the preliminary canvass
for the State ticket that he was switched about 70
the Controllers place the ticket. and thus came
to occupy a much more important place from d
popular point OF view than he would have occupied
as Treasurer Then came the illness OF Governor
Mclean and his declination TO again be candl-
date This brought a number Of candidates for the
nomination. put forth by their friends mainly ana
general declinatiOu. Controller Chamberlain was
then suggested and by unanimous consent, almost
within a day. he looked upon as the probable
candidate His unanimous nomination and his cleo
ton are now matters Of history 1t is an instance
of the peopIe seeking the man. If there
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and promises. and that there was a small amount
of money put forth. not enough TO pay for halls
and for bands at the speaking rallies He con-
dennis the removed of Secretary Maher from the
State committees service just because he was a
Thayer before the canvass. and saws IL Was
just such strokes of genius that pervaded the
entire management of the party in the State For
the Economic League he has "a. use whatever and
says that Mayor Sullivan of this city who was the
nominee of the Democrats forced upon the marry
by the League, Is CRATER and the greatest
disappointment ever in the Mayors chair The
League. he says. is out for Offices first last and an
the time. and the Democratic party must get nd
Of it's alliance with it or go down. EVERYWHERE
that sO-Called labor candidates were put forth Nv
either party they seemed to have been defeate1
with ease by the people. There Will be little more
chasing Of the labor vote in this State by the old
parties
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in the State. Governor Mclean. by the way. has
sufficiently recovered from his Illness to transact
the business OF his office at his home IN SImsbury.
and has been In town once In the past week. He
is rapidly recovering and bids fair come out
his long period Of prosraton in good health before
many months.
While the Legislature has a majority on Joint
ballot Of l2i. the lower house will organize with
about 10 majority. From present appearances
there will be opposition the election OF
Michael Keneay, OF Stamford. as Speaker. He has
been In the lower house and in the Senate serving
the Judiciary Committee, OF which he was the
chairman at the session of 1901 Senator Kenealy
the leader OF the house when IN that body. and
IS of the ablest in the southern part OF
the State. Thee seems 10 be other candidate
for the Speakership in sight The candidates for
ance but George b Hinm8n clerk of The boIise in
1901 and present secretary OF the national com
mittee will be promoted 10 the clerkship of the
has filled the office OF clerk with unusual ability
and has made hosts Of friends throughout the
a review OF the election in this State must neces-
of Hartford, which was the most peculiar that it
has been in many years While II is nominally
working in harmony. a majority of not less than
candidates on the state ticket with the eRcePfon
OF Secretary Ninal and on the local ticket de
rick McCfoVern. and elected two Republicans to
Knox Smith. 1t is,evdent from the result. when
compared with the splendid republican majorities
in New-Haven, Waterbury and Norwich. Demo-
cratic cities LOCALLY that something is ont Of har-
true a large part of the labor being in doubt
and the Economic League. which placed Mayor
Sullivan in the chair being in apparent control of
a large number Of votes. The nomination Of Pat
rick McGovern for Senator was displeasing to a
large number of Republicans who refused 10 vote
for him, voting for the Democratic candidate John
NJ. Ney This added 10 the difficulty OF the situa-
tion, although McGoverns friends were sure that
IL would be OF advantage have him running
The tremendous push made for ONe the Demo
cratic candidate for Congress, who is a Hartford
man, and the Sheriff night all made miXup that
hard 10 handle At the time there was
undoubted ineffciency in the ward committees OF
the Republican party, and the result was the sal
wage OF the Republican candidates for representa-
tives by the hardest kind of personal and indie
pendent work. The coming spring will see a ref
OrmatiOn in the matter Of ward Chafrmen.
The opinion OF Chairman James Campbell OF the
Democratic Town Committee on the State cam
paign one of the interesting revelations since the
election He says In interview that the Stats
Democratic Committee ran the campaign on wind