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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
JOHNSTON COUNTY.

The following figures will show that
the public schools OF Johnston county
have made some progress within the past
ten years.
My last annual report shows tina.
while the increase in school population
over that of ten years ago is not quite
fifteen per cent, the increase of enroll
ment in the schools is nearly so per cent.
and the increase in average attendance is
quite so per cent.
The increase of funds expended is 20
per cent. The per capita apportionment
ten years ago was $1.11, now SLIP; the
average length of school term then for
whites was 1872 weeks, now 1874 weeks.
The number of first-grade white teach
ers then was forty. now seventy six ;;
the number of white female teachers
then was twenty-six, now forty-nine.
Foremost among the needs of our
rural schools is more money. If this
need were supplied. better and more
comfortable school houses. better teach
ers with better pay, better schools. and
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somewhat slow The white schools aver
| aged more than four months last year
The colored schools not quite four
months. Both will, l think, average
| four months this year. Hartford county
has We'll qualified white teachers in all
the White schools. l examined and ap-
lproVed SO white teachers the present
school year. All these are women except
fiVe, and 20 OF the women are first
grade. Chowan Baptist Female Institute
prepared the greater majority OF white
women who teach.
Colored teachers are not, as a rule,
we'll prepared. majority Of these are
men. The men among the negro teach
ers are better qualified than the women.
Shaw University and Elizabeth City
State Colored Normal School furnish the
best qualified colored teachers
The school houses are in reasonably
good condition. with few exceptions. Not
| fine but comfortable. With more money
we would make them better. and equip
them better. What we need is enough
money to pay good teachers encouraging
| salaries for four full months in each
school year in each district, and houses,
roomy enough to accommodate properly
| and comfortably three-fourths of the
children of school age in each district.
Then the efforts making for increasing
the educational spirit will do the work.
Let us not forget, in our enthusiasm for
public schools Il have done quite a deal
of enthusing and am ready to do
more) the ability to read and write
is not the sole qualification for citizen
ship An Anglo-Saxon man of good
heart and character, though ignorant OF
letters, is far better citizen than is the
glib reader and writer wanting in heart
and character.
JOHN C. SCARBOROUGH,
Co. Supt. Schools, Hartford County.
Murfreesboro, N c., May 80, 1902.
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HAYWOOD COUNTY.

We are glad to report that our schools
this year have made considerable prog
ress in this county.
The evidences OF progress are. more
money, longer schools. a greater aver
age attendance and more earnestness
among our teachers to build up good
schools in every district.
We have built some new houses and
some OF them are models of beauty and
convenience. We are doing all we can
to put the benchesl out of our school
houses and get in desks in their stead.
Our new books are giving satisfaction.
We think our people will all be ready
for the new books in our schools for
next year.
We are preparing to hold an Institute
for teachers this year, which will be
held about the middle of July and con-
tinue two weeks.
R. A. SENTELL,
County Superintendent.
Clyde, N. c., May 80. 1902
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GRAHAM COUNTY.

We have in this county twenty-five
public schools, with a school population
of about seventeen hundred children.
Out Of this number there are about
sixty between the ages of twelve and
twenty-one that cannot read and write.
BY means of s345 State aid, we have
been able to run all our schools four
months this year for the first time in the
history of the county. We have also in
creased our general average about 20
per cent over any preceding year.
But for certain geographical reasons
our districts could be SO arranged that
We would need very little or no State
aid to run four months This. for those
who are not acquainted with the country,
seems hard to understand. They forget
that our population is very muchs scat
tered. and that we have high noun
tains and rapid mountain streams.
We have several very small districts,
but we see no way to better it. There
are a number of little settlements on
the heads of the creeks out of reach of
any school, and the only way we see to
help them any is to let them have little
schools of their own.
Our county has some very efficient
teachers-most of them young men and
women who have had some normal train
ing in the State Normal at Cullowhee.
Indeed, there has been a very marked
Improvement among our teachers during
the past few years, but still our great
est needs are better and better furnished
school houses and a broader scholarship
among our teachers.
j. N MOODY,
Supt. Graham County.
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and experience. OF the "a white teachers
in our county, 20 have taken the full or
partial course in some college. Notwith-
standing this, so many teachers go to
their work without a definite plan or
method of teaching They fail to- create
interest, hence it is a drag and but little
good is done. We, in Greene, are i'm
proving on this line and the future is
bright.
We have too many school districts. and
the board is investigating the hopes to
be able to consolidate several OF them
at their July meeting.
Our school houses are not large enough,
neither are they attractive or comforta-
Bile enough. II we had comfortable and
attractive houses the children would de-
light in attending school. This we are
remedying as fast as we are able.
The past year has been the best year
in the history of Greene county public
schools.
NJ P. DAVIS,
superintendent.
Snow Hill, N. c., May so, 1902.
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HARNET COUNTY.

The schools of Harnett county were
more satisfactorily operated this year
than, perhaps, in the history Of the
county.
The work of the teachers, as general
rule, was faithfully done. They have
caught some of the enthusiasm and in
spiration that is in the educational at
mosphere of the State.
We have been engaged in tearing down
old school houses and building larger
and better ones, but it will take US some
time to do this work as we want it done.
The obstacle that hinders most now in
this county is the Indifference of so
many parents to the education of their
children. This we expect to overcome
by an energetic campaign this summer.
]. S. BLACK.
Ellington, N. c., May go, 1902.
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teachers, and exert marked influence
upon the localities in which they are
situated
During the past year we have had
four of these. Four more are practically
organized now, and next year we will
have in operation in the country districts
eight good academies with all their adj
yantages and opportunities.
In each case the establishment of the
academy has been made possible by the
earnest work, sacrifices and liberality OF
the people of the community In this
has been our great encouragement, for it
is the best evidence of the interest of
the people and the surest pledge of con-
tinued progress.
AS to our needs, we desire improve
ment all along the line, but we especially
need better schoolhouses, better eqaip-
ment, and larger districts, and for these
We are working.
r. B. WHITE,
County Supt. of Franklin County.
Franklinton, N. c., May 80, 1902.
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GUILrORD COUNTY.

Some progress has been made in public
schools in Guilford county within the
past twenty years, but still much re-
mains to be done.
The needs are better school houses and
equipments. longer terms, better and
more experienced teachers, and larger
districts. During the past year or two
there has been very considerable
awakening among the people in educa-
ticnal matters. A strong desire for bet
ter conditions, accompanied with dis
position to comply with the requirements
necessary TO attain them. 70 get outside
help they now understand rhey must
consolidate and vote for local taxation
Many districts in this county, will, L
think, comply with these conditions this
fall.
]. r. WHARTON,
County Superintendent.
Greensboro, N. c., May 80, 1902.
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and inadequate furniture, and the
grounds are generally unattractive. But
l realize that we cannot do everything
at once to-feach the perfection we desire,
SO we are beginning at the bottom In
this respect, hoping other advantages
will follow. We are making an effort TO
consolidate the schools and build larger
and better houses, employ two teachers
in each school for term of four months,
and encourage the continuation Of the
school by a period of four months en-
tered school. BY this means we hope to
make the best use Of the means, and
reach and impress all the children
T. w. COSTEN, JR.,
Superintendent.
Gatesville, n. c., May 30, 1902.
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in the last year. but there is still room
for Improvement. With one single excep-
ton we have not called for help from
the State. as we have been able from
our own resources to run our public
schools four months and over, in some
instances six since last July, the begin
ming of our school year.
What we most need is better and
more attractive school houses, fewer
schools and larger ones, thus enabling US
to run longer terms and have better paid
teachers, and last. but not least, more
real good teachers.
A. S. HARRISON,
Superintendent.
Enfield, n c., May 80, 1902.
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CASTOR COUNTY.

CASTOR county 10 cotton mill county.
Fifteen or 20 per cent of her children are
totally illiterate.
We have' 100 schools taught by compe-
tent teachers. $500 $50.
Twenty thousand dollars is annually
apportioned for schools. superintend
ent is employed for nearly half of his
time and new school houses are being
built continually.
There is one continual cry arising from
all who favor schools in CASTOR.
Give us compulsory education and save
us from ignorant rulers. For the people
rule.
F. B. RANKIN,
Superintendent
Mount Holy, N. c., May 80, 1902.
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FRANKLIN COUNTY.

The records Of the public school work
in Franklin county show that in the past
three years the average length of term
has been made four weeks longer, the
average salary paid teachers $500 a
month higher, and the average attend
ance 10 per cent. larger. This marks
the general progress.
Perhaps the most noticeable feature
has been the establishment and work of
academies and high schools in rural dis
tricts. These work in conjunction with
the public schools, give term of nine
months, afford trained and competent
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HYDE COUNTY.

The sun in all his wide course shines
not upon people that has been awaken
cd to greater extent as to the good re-
suits of public schools than my people.
In all the districts the school houses are
coy and comfortable. The attendance
is very complimentary to the parents OF
the children and the teachers of The
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schools. The best people send to the
schools and the best people teach the
schools.
speeches. fired the minds and hearts OF
the people of North Carolina as to an
educated citizenship and our Legislators
devised ways and means to give four
months terms to each school. More
money is needed to increase the terms
ami raise the curriculum to a higher
standard.
JOHN WATSON.
Superintendent.
Swan Quarter, n. c., May 30, 1902.
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HENDERSON COUNTY.

Henderson county, with an area OF
about 500 square miles, has So white dis
tricts and II colored The average value
of houses is s125, few Of them being as
large and comfortable as should be- AS
a rule they are poorly seated, there be-
ing no patent desks used.
/ visited all the schools last fall, held
township rallies which were largely at
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tended, and easily got the money for all
the six rural libraries. We have about
40 first grade and 25 second grade teach
ers, who get an average salary Of $50
and $25 per month, respectively, land who
teach about 10 weeks in the year. Many
of our weak districts need consolidating
into strong ones. We have begun this
and shall do more.
JAMES M. JUSTICE
superintendent.
Hendersonville, N. c.. May 80, 1902.
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A Classical and Commercial School.
262 Boarding Students Last Year =: FfyFirSt Year.
THE BEST EQUIPPED FITTING SCHOOL IN The The SOUTH
(NEAR GREENSBORO, N. CO.

N
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which
OF five miles
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GRANVILLE COUNTY.

During the past year the people of OK
ford voted special tax and established
a graded school in Oxford 1t has started
out well and Will have a good effect in
an increasing the growing interest in
public schools in all parts of Granville
county
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AS in politics so in education. historic
old Halifax county is no laggard, she
does not like to be and seldom, IL ever.
is to be found at the tail end of anything.
She is ever pushing forward to the front.
Our public schools have improved much
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JACKSON COUNTY.

In Jackson county the statistics of 1892
compared with those of 1902 Justify quite
an optimistic view of education. In 1892
Jackson county had three first nineteen
second, and two third grade teachers. In
1902 she has forty-siX first. eleven second,
and two third grade; and, notwithstand-
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GREENE COUNTY.

Compared with the schools OF other
counties, Greene county schools are doing
good work. So far as my knowledge goes,
our teachers are above the average Of
nublic. school teachers in preparation
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in the education of her children. and it
is our purpose to make her tie banner
county If possible.
w. O. cox.
County Superintendent
Winston Salem, N. c., May 30. 1902.
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IREDELL COUNTY.

In this county, under the superinten-
dency of Mr.. j. A. Butler. the public
schools have steadily improved. and pop
ular interest in their betterment has in
creased.
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ing, our rural districts have been multi
piled, our school terms have been length
ened from twelve weeks in 1892 to 1412
weeks in 1902 Our school property was
worth in 1892 SO, 1867; in 1902, $13,116. We
had one High School in 1892, now we
have four. 1t is true that we have room
for improvement, but to supply our needs
means only to give us longer school terms
and better equipments.
w. r. SHERRILL,
County Superintendent of Schools.
Webster, N, c., May 80, 1902.
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It Has Been Called Goods Country

all
Its
which
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HEREFORD COUNTY.

The progress of the public schools in
the rural districts of Hartford county
has been sure and marked. though
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GATES COUNTY.

More interest is now being felt in pub
lie education in Gates county than ever
before. This interest manifested itself
In a heightened school term, and a val
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Rev. A. A NJ
N. C.
teachers
and other schools eastern
study
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THE BUILDINGS ARE NEW And FINELY EQUIPPE


South the
buildings ampes opportunities
highest
the and
valuable
maximum of opportunity with minimum of cost"
tuition washing fuel scholastic
be
themselves clubbing with considerably There CATCH
i S n
other school in the Union compete with TWENTY
Profs. ]. A. & NJ. H. HOLT,
OAK RIDGE, N. C..
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Snow Hill, N. c., May 80, 1902.
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HALIFAX COUNTY.

County superintendent.
Greensboro, N. c., May 80, 1902.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-18
BASEBALL ENGLISH.

Contribution to Literature That Ought
to Live Long.
A heater article Of the national had
never been put up on the home
grounds, says the Yale Record, and
when the visitors picked up the stick
in the final with the tally standing at
2 to 2 everybody from the Oldest fan
to the youngest paper seller was stand
ing on his seat and yelling to the local
slab artist to serve up his choicest
assortment of round-house benders
and keep whatever guy was handling
the ash pivoting at delusions. The
twirler was up to business a--3 laid
'em over so fast that the receiving end
of the battery, who wears bird cage
and liver protector, looked as if he
were Smelling peas. The first two vic
tins only tore rents in the atmosphere,
but the third guy connected and laid
off flaming grasser, which would have
made a projectile from thirteen-lnch
gun look like a bean bag tossed from
one baby to another. The man on the
difficult corner was right there, though,
and tagged the horSehide pill with his
sinister talon, assisting it over to the
initial hassock in such short order
that some one yelled. derisively: THAT
fellow runs like an Orange street auto
mobile" The home aggregation came
| to the bat. Every one was confident
| that they were going to pound the
| sphere around the lot, but the oppos-
| ing team ran in a new guy with slow
soEth wing, and before they had ex-
| pected there were two men down and
two strikes on the next guy. But, oh
Phoebe! On the next delivery he be-
came the father of bouncing swat
| which landed in the last row of pota'
| toes in the outer garden and enabled
him to pass down three buttons ant
| scratch the rubber. Did the crowc
| go wild? Say, did you ever see game
| of ball?
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THE LADY AND TIVE TIGER.
Fair Nimrod VINO Bowled Over jungle
AIonarChs In India.

Fair Nimrod who Bowled Over jungle
Monarohs In India.
A record performance for a woman
is described by correspondent. says
the London Field. 'sMiss Pole. niece
of Lieut.-Gen. Sir George Luck, was
the lady, and, as the object of the shoot
was solely to get her tiger, the party
assem- bled was a small one-namely,S Sir
George Luck, Lieut.-Col. Ellis. r. f.
Captain Cook, A. D. c., and two lndian
friends The shoot was to last tour
days, from a camp about ten miles
north of Puranpur, on the Rohlkhand
& Kumaon railway. Thirty-six ele-
plants were collected to form the line,
and it was evident on our arrival In
camp that our hosts had left nothing
undone to insure success. First Day
On approaching the River Sardah we
spied an alligator baSking on the SANDS
on the opposite bank. Miss Pole killed
it with the first shot. Arriving at the
beat, and 'khubper' being vague, we
formed line for swamp deer, and before
long one fell, like the alligator, to the
lady's rifle Second Day-Toward i p.
m out came a topping tiger, making
straight for Miss Pole. Bang went her
1903. and stripes was a corpse. One
shot, no more, as he never budged.
Almost at the same time another came
out to Sir George, which shared the
same fate; and yet another, but this
was too cunning and got off unharmed.
Needless to say the excitement and re-
joicings were great. Mahouts shrieked
'Shabask- and clapped their hands;
coolies stared in blank establishment.
All seemed mad with delight. Lunch
con followed, and then a start for No. 3.
| the willy one. The first heat proved
| too much for him; with all his craft
| he could not escape Miss Pole, who
bowled him over when going at full
! speed at $50 yards. This was not the
first experience of tiger shooting, but
l can safely affirm that it was the
prettiest piece of shooting I have ever
Witnessed Third Day-Sir George
Luck killed the first tiger of the day
Then came a grand beast, who crossed
| Miss Pole to her left and plunged into
small stream in the hope OF escape
but this was not to be permitted. On
reaching the farthest bank he received
a bullet which struck him full in the
body He thereupon threw himself
into the stream again and endeavorec
to regain the beat, but only just man
aged to scramble up the bank, when he
collapsed and was stone dead before
any of us could get up to him
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The Frightened Friar of Pisa

Edith King Swain, who has ascended
more famous heights than any other
woman in the world, perhaps, tells
most amusing incident in an article
about "Scme Famous Ascents L Have
Made" in The Ladies' Home Journal.
She was far up in the famous Leaning
Tower at Pisa, and bending over bal
cony she let fall a toy torpedo, to test
her ability to estimate the exact
height of the structure by Galllleos
method. Choosing a time when
was alone on the tower" she writes,
land no one was in sight below, l
dropped the torpedo, watch IN hand.
At this instant friar came hurry1ng
around a corner, and, by direst chance,
his shaver crown passed directly be-
low me just in time to be struck by
the falling torpedo, which exploded
with appalling effect. / do not know
what the poor man thcught-perhaps
| that is was the crack of doom. He
| was fearfully upset, and SO was L. The
| torpedo was TOO small to do more than
brighten him, but his amazement or
| looking up and seeing me peerlns
down at him in open mouthed horror
like a gargoyle come to life, was eX
cruciatingly ludicrous. l forgot t.
time the report
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WISDOM FOR MOTHER.
Teach Children to rrefsr Good without
Reference Self.

Teach your children correct enuncla-
ton. Pains are taken to have chill
dren properly taught to sing, but they
are not so carefully taught to read and
speak. Yet more than half the charm
of social Intercourse depends on the
agreeable use of the voice. Teach your
children the proper use of money. Do
not indulge them by giving them
money in an indiscriminate manner to
spend as they please. Children who
get a nickel every time they ask for it
often make themselves sick eating
cheap cakes and candy, sickness often
resulting from your own selfishness
| in giving them money to be rid of
| their opportunities. 1t is also apt to
| make them grow up with eXtravagant
| ideas, and very often stealing is a sec
| ond step, when parental indulgence has
| worn out Teach them to be self-re-
| liant and self-confident. The world re-
spects and upholds the one who will
| do and dare" Those who make their
mark in the world are the bold, the
aggressive, and the sef-confident
Those who dare mark out patch ano
have the courage to follow it. Once
having done the marking out" lei
them remember GOethe's motto
Wherever thou art be all there!
And cultivate concentration. Teach
them to be careful from whom they re
ceive favors, as gratitude at times be
comes irksome. Teach them to d.
what is right regardless of artificial
rewards and penalties. Teach them tt
prefer the good without reference t.
self. to plan for and aim at givini
others pleasure, not getting it. An
although in SO doing they will expert
ence a rich enjoyment themselves,
will be incidental, never one for whic
they had striven.-Montreal Heral
and Star