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

gives them instruction in the arts as
well as in manual training. 1t fits and
qualities them for citizenship in our
great State.
The graded school is a new thing fer
Townsville This is its first year. In
May, 1901. the citizens voted local tax
to maintain the school: and in May,
1902, they voted, without dissenting
vote, ten thousand dollars worth OF
bonds to build and equip school houses.
The attendance at both the white and
the colored schools has far eXcelled the
expectation of the most sanguina ad-
mirer OF the school movement Not only
is the school we'll patroniZed by the town
people, but quite a number of students
who live near the town have taken adj
vantage of the opportunity offered and
have availed themselves Of years
schooling To students out of town a
very small tuition is charged. The
prospects are bright for much larger
school next year The school now has
but seven grades, but new grades vill
be added annually as the students re-
quire advancement.
j. T. HENRY,
Superintendent.
Thomasville, N. c.. May 30, 1902.
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which he let ont to renters. THE in
crease alone in the rent of these houses,
said he, since the establishment of the
schools, has been enough to pay all of
my school tax. | attribute this TO the
influence of the schools.
At the close of the first year of the
schools the int crest which the people Of
the town have learned to take in public
education was plainly shown by an over
crowded house on the night of tho clos
ing exercises. Hon. ]. Y. Joyner was
present and 1is mastery address was
listened to and afterwards talked about
with enthusiasm.
At the annual meeting OF the board,
held on May 18th, the facilities of the
schools were increased by the election
of one teacher, additional to the present
force. These beginnings, though small,
give hope of large efforts and greater re-
suits in the future. The time is not far
distant VIXEN oxford will be as famed
for it's public schools as for its private
schools.
p. d. w. CONNOR
oxford. n. c.. May 80, 1902.
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June, July and August covering the
course prescribed by the Supreme Court
for applicants for license.
The expenses of a session of nine
months in the Department of Law need
not exceed $3.50
COURSE IN MEDICINE.
The University has established full
course in Medicine. leading to the Degree
of MD. The work of the first two years
will be conducted at the seat of the Uni
yersity as in the past.
In order TO secure hospital facilities
and the clinical advantages OF city,
the last two years of the medical course
Will be given at Raleigh. A large and we'll
trained faculty has charge of these
courses, and a high standard is main
tanned Living expenses are very reason
able and the total costs per annum VIII
be about the same as at Chapel Hill.
The medical students of the State may
now obtain the best instruction within
its borders, and at greatly reduced cost.
The faculty who will have charge of the
work at Raleigh is composed of the fol-
lowing Well known physicians and sur
geons: Fl. A. Register, MD, Dean; A. w.
Knox. NJ. D.; W. |. Register, NJ D.. X.
H. Lewis, M. D.; X. p Battle, Jr, M. ID.
The first two years of instruction at
Chapel Hill. under the direction of DR..
r. H. Whitehead, Dean, are accepted by
medical colleges of high standing as
equivalent to the first two years Of their
course.
The Medical Department has labora-
tories OF Pathology and Bacteriology sup.
piled with modern apparatus for eX-
detrimental and lecture work; also a dis
secting hall for an extensive study of
practical anatomy. The laboratories of
Chemistry and Biology are also open to
medical students. Excellent equipment
is provided for the study of these
branches.
The total expenses per year, including
board lodging etc, need not exceed $500.
DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACY.
There is also two years course in
pharmacy. leading to the Degree of PHI.
G. This school has been established with
we'll equipped laboratories, specimens
and complete equipment. complete
pharmaceutical education can be OBJ
tanned at the University at greatly lower
cost than in the Northern colleges Two
hundred dollars Will cover the necessary
expenses for nine months.
SUMMER SCHOOL
For many years the University has
maintained a Summer School for Teach
ers. The total number of teachers who
have attended is 3.408. The instructors
are chosen from the University faculty,
and from the leading teachers OF the
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When the school opened it was in
debt about s1,1OO for furniture. and fur
nishings. That has been paid; 5000 in
terest on bonds also, and today. as the
treasurer's report shows, the finances
are very satisfactory.
School opened in the building and on
the ground purchased of Mr.. Cox for
Sc 900; about $4,000 were used to finish
building and provide equipments. Last
summer and fall our board seeing the
necessity of more room built a $4,000
annex in the form of an auditorium.
with seating capacity of a thou
sand, and four large recita-
ton rooms, by public subscriptions
of $2,03050 and borrowing the balance.
with faith and confidence, that within
a few years all will be we'll.
With but fair estimate upon the
valuation of our school, it being a large
corner lot in the heart of the town, High
Point has evolved a school plant, within
four years OF $4,000 in valuation.
All educators, teachers and visitors
are profuse in compliments upon its
beauty and adaptibility.
When the school opened, there were
many coniectures as to the probability
or the SchooIS Delng conducted success
fully enough to make one tremble and
the most successful doubt but today,
stands our relief with its growth, its
reputation, its power. 1t is the pride and
life giving spirit of the town, and not
only of the town abut OF the State, for
our leading educators and public men
refer to it as a school of unsurpassed
excellence" Dr. Venable President of
the University, says: "He has not seen
such progress, growth and interest in
education as our school and plant in
dictate this side of Oklahoma"
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State. A number of distinguished eduea-i
tors from outside the State are also en-
tloyed instruction is given in Academic
branches, Literary, Linguistic and Sclen-
tific. and also in methods and school
management by experts and specialists.
Certificates are given to all those VINO
remain to the end of the term in at
tendance upon three or more courses.
The only fee charged by the University
is one of IS.
NON DENOMINATIONALA
The University, as State institution,
is nom denominational, but recognizes
religion and morality as the basis OF
character Morning prayers are held
daily and attendance is required. Each
month a sermon is delivered by one of
the University preachers. There are
special courses of instruction in the Bible.
The Y. M. C. A. meets four times each
week.
PHYSICAL TRAINING.
There are excellent facilities for ply
steal training. The gymnasium, Memorial
Hall. is equipped with modern appliances
for exercise. and is under the supervision
of an experienced director. Attendance
at the gymnasium is required of all stu
dents except Seniors The athletic in
terests are controlled by the students.
with the advice and supervision of the
faculty.
ENROLMENT NEARLY 600.
The attendance for the year just clos
ing reached nearly the large total of
500. Of this number over 400 were en-
rolled in the Academic Department. In
this respect the University of North
Carolina stands at the head of Southern
educational institutions.
The faculty numbered SO members in
GLIDING 30 of professional rank.
STATE APPROPRIATION.
The State last year appropriated $S7,
500 to the University. This appropria-
tion, if collected per capita, would
amount to about cents per annum to
each inhabitant; but the tax is paid en-
tirely by property, and the mass of the
people in the State really contribute lit
tie or nothing to its support. The tax
for the University does not come from
the public school fund. 1t is a tax on
property alone, and its advantages ac-
crue to the sons of the poor. 1t is tax
of the property holders for the benefit
of themselves. their neighbors and the
State. II is an anglication of Christian
ity TO government.
INDUSTRIOUS SONS.
Among the distinguished Alumni of the
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History Of the High POin
Schools.

The High Point graded school was
established the first Monday in May.
1897. when the citizens of High Point
voted $40, 900 for the erection of build
ings and equipments.
1t opened the goth of September, 1897.
The following is a brief history OF its
growth and development.
Its enrolment the first day, was 1886.
which increased during the year to 476
1t began the second year with 47s pupils
and ended with 562; the third year. with
56S and ended with sos; the fourth year,
with $50 and ended with 662. The fifth
year with GO. and will end with about
1876
The increase the first year was 80
pupils; the second SO; the third, 30; the
fourth 1903; the fifth, s., and a real in
crease for the four years of 339.
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OXFORD GRADED SCHOOL.

Oxford has long been famed for its ex-
cellent private schools. 1t is the home
OF the most famous military school in
the South, of the Oxford Female Seminary
and the Hilliard School for Girls. These
schools afford now as in the past the
best advantages for the education of the
children of people of means, and the town
has always been proud of them But
they do not reach the great mass of the
children of the community. This de-
feet in their operation aroused in the
minds of the thoughtful citizens OF the
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ThOmaSviIle Graded School.

Tbomasville has long been the educa-
tiopal centre OF Davidson county. Here
is located the Thomasville Female COL
lege, which dates it's years of usefulness
far back into ante-bellum days. Here,
also, is located the Baptist Orphanage,
that is doing, and has been doing, a
vast amount of good for the orphan chill
dren of that grand old church. The
Orphanage annually cares for about two
hundred and fifty homeless children. 1t
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St. PaurS School at Beaufort

made perpetual by the beneficiaries. II
each beneficiary gives note for the
amount of the scholarship, payable after
leaving school, in a few years the work
can become self-sustaining.
Manual training and Industrial work
form a special feature of the school
course. This department is modelled
after the schools of Washington, Balti-
more and New York, which have been
visited and studied by the principal.
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st. PauPs School. Beaufort, has in
augurated an educational movement in
the county that has already accomplish
ed wonders for the town, and the influ-
ence has begun to spread through the
county.
The school was established in Septem-
Der, 1892 with % students and three
teachers but by the close of the year the
membership was So. Encouraged by this
evident interest in education, Mrs. M.
r. Geffroy, to whose untiring zeal and
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-20
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Meetings-The Confederate Veterans
Association. Stockholders. Savannah
Electric Company.
Special Notices-Ship Notice, Strach-
an & Co, Consignees; Andrew Hanley
Company.
Business Notices.. & w. Laundry.
Steamship Observation-Disclosures and
Miners Transportation Company; Pc
ninsular and Occidental Steamship
Company.
Observation-Disclosures the Great
at Theate<. Tonight; Miss Bob
White AZ Thezter Tomorrow Night;
Richards & Pringles' Minstrels, al
Theater. Wednesday Night.
To-day al the De Soto-Daoud's
Egypt's Greatest Astrologer and Palm
list.
Pearline-Jsmes Pyle & Son. New
York.
Medical-Heiskell's Ointment; Cas-
toria; Hostetter's Stomach Bitters;
Lydia Pinkhams Pills; wrights In
dian Vegetable Pills.
Cheap Column Advertisements
Help Wanted; Employment Wanted
For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal
Miscellaneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-20
CURRENT COMMENT.

The New Orleans Picayune (Dem.)
says: President Roosevelt will do
we'll to take to heart the lesson of Mr..
Cleveland's second administration. II
he also wants a second term and the
Endorsement of the American people,
he need hope for failure only if he shall
continue to turn down the politicians
in dispensing patronage. They will
surely destroy him politically as Mr.
Cleveland was destroyed. 1t will avail
him nothing to work for the good of the
country. A party leader is expected
to work for the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the
politicians"
The New York Commercial says
while catastrophes like that of Wed
nesday last Gin the Park avenue tun-
neD are inherently shocking and not
unnaturally bring railroad management
in general under sharp public criti-
cism temporarily, it must be conceded
that. on the whole. life and limb on
our railroad lines are safe. When only
one passenger out of 5000, 900 is killed,
the chances of death are really so re-
mote that most of us can take a seat
in a railway car without a thought Of
the risk involved"
The Philadelphia Record (Dem) says:
I'VE need the products of Cuban fields;
the Cubans need the products of our
fields and factories. That alone is
sufficient basis Of understanding; but
that is not all There is a dictate Of
plain duty We are by promise tied
and In honor bound to set the PROSTATE
islanders op their feet. To let their
harvests rot by refusing them entry TO
our markets under present circum-
stances would be a cruelty which this
national is incapable OF inhicting upon
a people who by the fate Of war stand
in the relations of its wards"
The Louisville Courier journal says;
1T Is argued that the shipping bill
will enable us to sell $4,000 900 worth
OF coal To South America, which IL now
furnished by Europe. Tho assertion
that there Is lack OF transportation
facilities 20 South America has been
exploded. The Manufacturers Commit
tee which went 10 South America some
years ago found that the transporta-
ton facilities were sufficient but more
cargOes were wanted. our ship owners
are not contemplating carrying goods
cheaper n they get the b0unties on
the contrary they complain that rates
are too low, and ON this they base the
demand Tor government aid"
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-20

William Gwin. the colored messen-
ger, who has served thirteen Secreta-
ries of State during the past thirty
years, wear a gold watch inscribed
From William NJ Evarts to William
Gwin, February, 1S93'
Frederick Macmonnes the dis
tinguished Brooklyn sculptor, has ar
rived home after a prolonged absence
in Europe. He will locate in Brooklyn,
any says that he lived in France sew
enteen years as a student and as a
practicing sculptor, because l though
it was necessary and best for my
work.
M. Bernstorff- Schroeder, the Danish
journalist who is making tour of the
world, earning his own way hand
cuffed, has arrived in Milwaukee, sew
eral days ahead of schedule time. He
will go direct to San Francisco, thence
to Yokohama, Kong Kong, the Suez
Canal and home, where he is due to
arrive Aug. 29.
Count Metternioh, the new Ger
man Ambassador" says the London
Chronicle lis altogether a rather 81
lent man, and, when he does speak.
does not care to intrust himself to
Bnglish-a language which, however,
he reads. London contains for him
many memories of the great Meter
Mich, the Austrian premier, who took
refuge here from the revolution of 1S4S.
and did not return to Vienna until 1851.
Most of that time he spent on Rich
mond Green, in what he thought the
most charming house in the world,
called the Old Palaces
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-20

A Boston physician was the other
day describing a new and promising
drug. "Of course" he concluded, 1T
was discovered in Germany. as most
of the recent important discoveries
were. Germany leads the world in
scientific research" In London a few
days ago the Technical Education
Board OF the London County Council
was told that the reason, Germany was
making such strides in commerce, at
the expense of Great Britain. was that
Germany. for a number of years had
been giving attention to the scientific
training of her young men. while Great
Britain had neglected relatively speak
ing. to do any such thing. 1t was de-
clared that if teaching of that kind had
been taken up thirty years ago, the
English industries would have saved
millions of pounds and been in a
mach better position to-day.
1t is stated that there are not less
than 10000 trained chemists in the fac
tories of Germany, always seeking
new processes and evolving new ideas
calculated to increase the productive
ness of the plants in WHICH they are
employed. Gradually they are elimi-
mating the waste products" and turn
ing them to commercial account. They
have produced an artificial indigo.
which they are selling in England in
competition with the indigo of India.
They make a first rate fertilizer from
a certain kind of Stag, and this pro-
duct they are selling in Great Britain.
We printed the other day a notice of
how sawdust was pressed into bricks
in Prussia and used as fuel.
The experiences of Great Britain
and Germany in this matter should
prove valuable lesson to the United
States. We are now fairly on the road
to commercial supremacy of the world.
To continue to gain we must have
more scientifically trained men. The
national institution that Mr. Carnegie
purposes to establish will do valuable
work in the higher branches of scien-
tific investigation: but it must be sup
plemented by scientific schools in the
states. More archaeological institutions
are needed. Especially is this true in
the South. Nowhere in the world is
there better material from which to
make chemists, metallurgists. engineers,
etc, than in the South. but we haven't
the schools for their training. Legis-
lators and benevolent rich persons
ought to give this matter their care
full consideration.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-20
WOMEN DOCTORS

The Northwestern University, Chi
cago, viii sell the buildings and
grounds of it's Womans College of
Medicine and abandon that branch of
the institution. Trustee Raymond was
asked why the university would cease
to teach medicine to women. His re-
ply was direct and blunt. I'VE shall
abandon the Woman's College of Medi-
cine" said he, because it is impossible
to make doctor of woman. Women
cannot grasp the pharmaceutical and
chemical laboratory work, the intrica-
cies of surgery, or the minute work of
dissecting In our women's medical
| department we do not get as high a
class of scholarships as is set by the
other colleges of the university"
This statement, naturally, has met
with resentment on the part of women
who have become or hope to become
physicians. 1t cannot be questioned
that several women have achieved emil
hence in the practice of medicine. At
least one such. DR.. Sarah Hackett
! Stevenson, lives in Chicago; and there
are several other woman physicians in
the same city who have been very sue
cessful in the practice of the profess
sion. One of the Chicago women doc
| tors said the reason the Northwest
ern University's medical school for
women was a failure was because it
did not have applications enough from
women, and that the lack of applica-
| tons was due to the fact that the
school differentiated between men and
women in the character of instruction
| given; that women who chose medicine
as career preferred to go to a school
where there was co-education, in order
/ that they might receive the same in
| struction as that given the men stu
dents. "They like to be treated as en-
titles" she said, mot as a rare half
| or a SEX"
Meanwhile a noted woman educator
| Celestia S. Parrish, in an article in the
Educational Review, takes the ground
that there should be a difference in the
higher education of men and women
| and particularly in their education as
physicians. She points out that while
the man doctor will continue to treat
both sexes. the woman doctor will be
seldom called upon to treat any of the
diseases peculiar to men. 1t is her
idea that women should become
specialists with view to treating
women and children, while men should
continue to cover the whole medical
field. She further declares that. as the
field and functions of men and women
differ in all of the relations of life. so
should there be a difference of train
ing, to fit each sex for it's proper
place.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-20
nrTrER SCHOOLS NEEDED.

Ware county is going to vote on Feb.
/ on the question of levying a local tax
for school purposes. There ought to be
no doubt as to the result of the cleo
ton. Ware is one of the progressive
counties of the state. and we venture
t. predict that the majority in favor
of the tax will be a big one.
Georgia is doing a great deal of rail-
road building and will continue to do
a great deal for years to come, and
her railroads are increasing her wealth
and population, but if one-half as
much money were spent on school
houses and in supporting schools as
there is in building railroads the de-
velopment of the states resources
would be twice as great as it is.
The counties which refuse to tax
themselves for schools, depending
wholly on the small amount they get
from the state school fund, are stand
ing in their own light. AS long as they
pursue that policy they will have rea-
son to wonder why it is that home
seekers pass them by, why it is that
their lands do not advance in value
and why it is that there is no increase
from year to year in their tax returns.
They are poor and will remain poor. In
order to advance progressive methods
must be adopted and good common
schools are one of these methods.
The state school fund is large, but
the fact must not be overlooked that
there are a hundred and thirty seven
counties and that the amount the
minor counties get is comparatively
small. 1t is not enough to give the
children of a great majority of them
enough schooling to inspire them with
a desire to improve their surroundings.
There is not one of these counties
which do not supplement the state
school fund with a local fund that
wouldn't make an investment that
would pay a hundred per cent. if it
were to levy a local tax for school pur-
poses.
Ware county is going to adopt the
right course and her example ought to
be followed by every other county that
depends entirely on the state for its
schools.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-20
BRIGHT HITS.

How it is in the car we miss
Folks sit like this.
But in the one we're sure to catch
reJammedlikethis Judge.
Made 1t Unique -Squldig: There's
something very remarkable about this
umbrella.
McSwilligen: It's the first one you
ever bought. supnose.-Pittsburg
Chronicle
A Charitable Audience.-"Oh,n no our
amateur dramatic club doesn't play for
anything but charity"
Il inferred as much the other even
ing, when the audience was kind
enough TO applaud your performance. /"
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
Only Waiting. Doesn't it make
you the least bit envious to see what
elegant furniture Mrs. Eyehy is putting
into her house next door,"
Not a bit. My husband says ii will
be sold by the sheriff within six months
and I'll be there to buy ."-Chicago
Tribune.
Her Point of View.-Mrs. Hiram Of
rem: How long were you in your last
place?
Applicant: OF was there just a month,
ma'am.
Mrs. Hiram Often: A month. What
was the trouble?
Applicant: The trouble was, ma am.
that / was took sick, an OF coulGn t
get away amy sooner.-Philadelph
Press