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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-28
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION IN THE
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

The following extract from the recent
report of the Hon. N c. Schaeffer, Su-
perintendent of Public Instruction of
Pennsylvania. shows that industrial edu-
cation is bound to become a part of tle
public school curriculum. 1t emphasizes
the need of industrial training for our
school teachers: ..
Zone of the most perplexing education
al problems is the making of a satisfac-
tory school curriculum. All are agreed
that subjects which have become anti
quated, SHOULD not longer be taught
Equation of payments is based upon
methods of conducting business that pre-
vailed several centuries ago Fure food
laws should in no long time make alliga-
tion a thing of the past. The analysis of
puzzling sentences whose meaning is be-
yond the grasp of the pupil. is a mere
waste of time. 1t is not a valid iargu-
ment to say that such subjects must lie
retained for the sake of mental discip
line The sciences which beget Higher
forms of mental power, can be made to
furnish adequate and sufficient materials
for thought Arithmetic and grammar
nave InOHOpOllZSu lllS DlGSSSI oIitS VI
time in rural schools. How little arith-
metic beyond the Fundamental rules does
the average farmer use! Mistakes in
grammar and exercise in false syntax
have no bearing upon his crops. Oh the
other hand the laws governing the fer
tility of the land, the growth Of crops,
the destruction of noXious insects are
seldom taught. The practical study of
natures forces and laws should receive
more attention, especially in country
schools.
THE work must begin in the Normal
Schools, must be carried forward in
teachers meetings at institutes and sum-
mer schools, and must finally be made
to percolate into the lower schools and
into the every day life on the farm. The
efforts to improve the schools should
above all else be centered upon the
agencies that help to fit the teachers for
their work"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-28
LET THE LEGISLATURE AID.
North Carolina Should Have an Exhibit at St
Louis Worthy of the State

TO the r:-Haying been appointed
Special Commissioner for the Louisiana
purchase Exposition Company, to repre-
sent them in the States of Delaware,
Maryland, the Virginias and the Caro-
iinas, in bringing to the attention of the
people of the States the advantages to
accrue from comprehensive exhibit of
their industries and resources at the
Greatest of Worlds Fairs, to be held In
st. Louis. April, 1904, to November 1st.
l"O4 And as resident of North Caro-
INA, taking special interest in the fu-
ture of the State, I beg through the
columns of your valuable paper to briefly
present the case for the consideration of
His Excellency, the Governor, the mem
bers OF the Legislature, and your readers
generally.
AS to the results to accrue from exhib-
iting at expositions, many persons ex
press the opinion that no good arises
therefrom for the exhibitor, and that 1t
is an unnecessary expenditure. When the
Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-28

he shot at! The poor "mica women"
out digsdng mica and the lords of
creation idle! No man or woman IN
Mitchell or any other county has ever
depended solely on mica for living.
No woman in Mitchell county has ever
dug out mica from the earth. A. few
have trimm ed mica and prepared it for
markell nice, light task. No woman
has ever been known to carry mica to
Marion for. $3.50
How fluently does he dwell on "ignor-
ance," and, the lean, lank hounds like
those in haraohs vision, running and
hiding from him." Sensible hounds they!
He says hsa met two little girls riding
a donkey to school at Bakersville.'
Every one doubts his ever being in
Bakersville, but if he came here he no
doubt tramped it, and overtaking the lit
tie girls on their way to school, spark
of goodness may have been in his soul
and he placed the little girls on his back
then they rode donkey.
How strikingly strange that this coun-
fly, long famous for it's grand mountain
scenery, it's celebrated summer resorts,
such as "Cioudland on the Roam" with
it's capacious hotel, enveloped in the
clouds. and "Essaolla Inn,'' at Linville
City, on the sparkling waters of the
T4inville, with it's drives, parks and lakes
nd near approaches to the Great
Grandfather" the father of waters,
where thousands of men and women of
wealth, education and refinement yearly
visit for health and recreation. from all
parts almost of the world, and not a
single word spoken or written by them
except in praise of these people and their
Inequalities, until this modern Solomon,
hailiug from Battle Creek, away up in
Michigan, comes like a thief in the
night, with soul as black as his as
sumed name suggests, and under that
black mask for some purpose, God only
knows WHAT ISLANDERS and bellies these
people to his hearts content and skulks
off to his den.
Shame he would disgrace the maya
zine he represents Shame that he
would belle and Islander the good women
of the country. He should pull off that
black mask and. quit journalism.
D. A. BOWMAN.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-28
Woman's Rights.
(Mr. Dooley.)


'rWoman's rights? What does a wo-
many want iv rights when she has prlVl-
leges. Rights is the last thing we get IN
this wurruld. They're the mex thing to
wrongs. We have tn right to be sued
FIR debt instead iv lettin' tn bill run,
which is a privilege. We have tn right
to pay taxes, an right to wurruk.
None iv these things is amy good to me.
They'se no fun in thin. No, sir; women
don't need rights. TIL Pope, 1mprors,
kings an women have privileges ordhi-
n'ry men has rights. Ye never hear iv
tn Impror of Rooshya demandin' rights
He don't need thin in his wurruk. An
so it is with women. They haven't tn
right to vote, but they have tn prllege
iv controllin tn man We illicit They
haven't tn right to make laws, but they
have tn privilege iv breakin' thin, which
IS betther. They haven't tn right iv
fair thrile be a jury iv their peers, but
they have the privilege iv an unfair
thrile be a jury iv their admirin' infee-
yors. If 1 cud fly, dye think I'd want
to Walk?'
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-28
a GRAND OLD MAN.

Tonight in Henderson all denomina-
lions will unite in a service in honor OF
Rev. J. D. Huffman, d. D., the retiring
pastor of the Baptist church at that
place It is beautiful tribute that the
PEOPLE of that good town will pay to
North Cardinals grand old man. DR..
Hufham has often been called 1.-The Bap-
fist bishop; he is the property of all
North Carolina, for his long life has
been a blessing to the whole State. In
spirit, the people of North Carolina will
be present tonight in Henderson while
the people of that town do honor to the
States most eminent divine.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-28
ANOTHER BL0ODY-sHIRT YAWP

A short time ago a suggestion was
made to the pastor and officers that
memorial tablet of Winnie Davis be
placed in Grace Baptist Temple, Phila-
delphia Memorial tablets have been a
part of the decorations of the Temple,
the last one erected being to the memory
of President Mckinley. The pastor APP
proved the plan, the money was obtained,
but before the tablet was put in place
there came protests from certain G.. A.
r. men and others. Will the time never
ing even to it's noble women, will die in
all hearts? If the tablet had been to
jefferson Davis, the yawp might be I'M
derstood, but why anybody anywhere
should object to a memorial tablet to
the pure daughter Of the president Of
the Confederacy is inconceivable. The
pastor of the church, DR.. Conwell, has
not been moved from his approval by
the criticism, for he says;
to be a most refined and womanly wo-
man; and she is said to have been con-
tinuously engaged in generous deeds, All
my prejudice as Northern soldier
faded away in her presence. / cannot
forbear to add that the manly acceptance
of defeat by the Southern men and their
sincere return to loyalty and labor, amid
poverty and defeat, was one of the most
noble and most singular events in the
history of any people. Their social po-
sition among the blacks forcibly over
turned, their homes ruine2 and their
cause defeated, they took the shame and
loss in a brave spirit, equaled on few
battlefelds But their industry and en-
terprise made necessary by their poverty
have developed a race in the South Of
seIf-reliant, intelligent and patriotic peo-
pie which must make them soon d lead
ing force in our nation.
1.-The frequent visitor to the Southern
States must recognize the fact that an
honest, hospita BILE, skilled and thinking
race is now covering the ruined South
with unexampled progress and enter
prise. The name of typical Southern
woman, or of a Southern man, is nothing
to be ashamed of on the walls of any
church.
1.-THE ungrateful fling in the declara-
tion that the costly tablet now in the
church to President Mckinley suggests
at once that that noble man would have
objected to the name of jefferson Davis s
daughter being near him is an assump-
ton that is too foolish to heed. Presi-
dent Mckinley had no such prejudices.
Some of orr DatriOtic soldiers oppose the
insertion of the memorial for different
reasons, but the majority We have heard
from favor the idea as being one of the
last acts in cementing the brotherly
union for which they fought.
"For myself 1 am heartily in favor OF
it,"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-28
Pooling the Crowd.

-
"Why do you water stock, papa,
AS people say you do?"
The magnate closely to his breast
His anxious darling drew.
"a .sy"wsrsseg"-
''We water Stock" the great man said,
'To make our gains seem small"
"And they are small?' the child ex'
claimed.
Oh, no, dear, not at all.
why do you wish your gains, papa,
To seem less than they are?''
The great man stroked his darling's head
And seemed to gaze afar.
IF dividends were ninety-fve
Instead OF six per cent,
The people would revolt, and we
Could not sit down content.
But if they knew you water stock
And why you do it, too,
How do you fool the crowd, papa.
AS you appear to dor
1--WE fool the foolish. stupid crowd
He said in accents mild.
Because the crowd is ne'er so glad
AS while it's fooled. my child"
S. E. Kiser, in Chicago Record Herald
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-28
Concerning the Wilson PcstOfice.
(Atlanta News.)

nVicktus-"What!" cried Mr.. RQpse-
welt, "eVickt him from office? Sheath,
No! BY the Sword of Kettle Hill. No!
He shall stay!''
Hail to His Nimrods!" cried his Nu-
bians. eve are his even unto election
dav!"
But" faltered a Lily White. "Mr.
Roosevelt"
Il have spoken!" Numbered the Man
of Smedes, Miss
I'm Wick tus! InVick tus!' cried
the Nubian guard with flashing teeth.
o, Theodore. my Theodore, your actions
may not "gee" with things that you
have said before-yet thine the Wick
toree!
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-28
1T IS NOT SURPRISING,
Chatham Observer.

Chatham UbserVer
1t is not surprising that Butler and
Dan Russell, who have always been
against the best interest of their State,
should now be trying to collect these old
bonds that their crowd saddled upon the
State when her people lay helpless and
bleeding at the mercy of the gang who
robbed our State and brought shame
en- her good name and suffering upon her
people with all the evils of misgovern-
ment and ruin.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-28
WORKS WELL IN CHATHAM.
Chatham Record.

An effort will be made, when the Leg
islature meets, to prohibit the rnanufac-
ture of whiskey outside of incorporated
towns This would break up the licensed
distilleries throughout the country
which ruin so many men and destroy the
happiness of so many families.
Until last year this county was af-
flicted with several of these cess-pools
of corruption, but all have been removed
by an act of the last Legislature, and
their removal has been great blessing
to the county. 1t will ever be gratifi-
cation to this writer that he wrote and
secured the passage of this act.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-28
PRESIDENTS ARE BORN, NOT MADE
TO ORDER.


Louisville Courier-Journal.
AS to a Democratic Presidential nomi
nee in 1904, the Courier-Journal has a
general impression that the party will
have to "scare up some good man not
hitherto associated with the idea in the
public mind, yet having the personal
character and the political antecedents
to establish in the confidence both Of
the conservative masses of the people,
and the rank and file of the party We
have never regarded Gov. Hill, of New
York, as even a promising possibility.
Tom Johnsons failure in Ohio and Pat
tison's failure in Pennsylvania eliminate
them from a field of speculation that
rested solely upon contingencies which
did not materialize. Who the Unknown
may be remains a secret to all except the
Creator. Presidents are born, not made
to order, and may be he who will be
sworn in as President the 4th of March,
1905, is one who is at this moment Sc
riously considered by nobody not even
by himself.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-28
A PERTINENT INQUIRY.
Chronicle.

When Senator Butler was looking up
donations for educational institutions,
representing this State at the time how
came it that he forgot his own home
educational institutions, to which he was
bound by ties of nativity and sworn 70
protect by an oath of allegiance, and put
his energies in work for South Dakota
educational institutions. when he knew
that the deal with South Dakota was in
tended to injure his own State and peo-
pie?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-28
THE GIFTS OF THE WEST.

Frederick J. Turner in the January At
lantic.
The West gave to the world such types
as the farmer Thomas jefferson, with his
declaration of independence, his statute
for religious federation, and his purchase
of Louisiana. She gave us Andrew jack
son, that fierce Tennessee spirit who
broke down the traditions of conserva-
tive rule, swept away the privacies and
privileges of officialdom, and, like
Gothic leader, opened the temple of the
nation to the populace. She gave us
Abraham Lincoln, whose gaunt frontier
form and gnarled, massive hand told Of
the conflict with the forest, whose grasp
on the axe handle of the pioneer was no
firmer than his grasp of the helm of the
ship of state as it breasted the seas Of
civil war.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-28
Spirit of the Press.
RoxBoRo WANTS DsPENsARY.

HOABORO WANTS DSRENSAR1.
Roxboro Courier.
It's coming and coming fast. Never
before have the people been so aroused
on the subject of temperance as at this
time in North Carolina. The News and
Courier has come out strongly for reform
along this line and Hon. F. NJ. Simmons
endorses its recommendations. The bar
room must go, and prohibition or the dis
pensary will take it's place, either of
which is a great Improvement over the
present system.
A dispensary is the thing for Rox-
bCco.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-28
A MORNING TONIC.
(Charles w. ElliOtt.l

AS l weigh The forces that affect man
kind, and look back upon the course Of
human history and the\progress of Chris
tianity it seems to me the first and great
est civilizer is steady work. That is the
way by which the race is lifted up out of
barbarism into semi civilization and into
civilization.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-28
PRIVILEGED CLASSES NOT DEMO
CRATIC.
Greensboro Telegram.


We like the way the Corporation Com
mission is proceeding in the matter of
taxes on incomes of judges. Those
judges ought to come up with their share
of government expenses just as well as
any other wage or income Garner. 1t is
a far fetched construction of the Con-
stiution upon which it is proposed to let
the judges out. 1t isn't Democratic worth
a cent TO create any privileged classes in
North Carolina Leave that sort of
thing for the other party.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-28

One of the ablest lawyers in Central
North Carolina, in a private letter, says:
Il read your editorial on taxing judges
salaries, and desire to express my ap-
prevail and concurrence. 1 cannot agree
is a question that should not have been
raised by any judge. Now that we have
three Judges on the bench, who have
been elected since the enactment of that
law, we might get construction of it,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-28

One of the greatest lawyers in North
matter as anybody in the State, in pri-
vate letter to the editor says: Your
editorial in December oath issue was the
been made stronger but, like Mercutio' S
wound it will do"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-28

If you are an ordinary individual, you
have TO pay tax on your income to sup
port public institutions and public Of
ficers. If you are a tax eater, you are
exempt from paying your share of the
cost of State government
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-28

Mr. Roosevelt was wise to decline to
ter. He could not be in a position to
defend the Monroe Doctrine if he under
took TO be arbitrator.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-28
SUCH AS MOTHER USED TO MAKE.
The January Atlantic.


The January Atlantic.
The things that mother used to make
are still in the world. Far in the re-
cesses of life you shall find them. And
the name of the magic charm is pork
Fresh young pork-home- raised pork
clean and fat and sweet. Pork that per-
meatcs and flavors, with no indigestion
in it's bones and no sorrows in it's train.
Verify there is more poetry in pigs than
Homer extracted from their white and
rosy hides-or even Charles Lamb. oh,
for some modern bard to sing the glories
of the vanishing home made pig! For
where he exists joy is. Succotash,-
you know it? Not the cold, hard, lumpy
mixture, one part corn and other part
bean-but succotash, the real thing, such
as our Puritan ancestors knew and loved,
bean favored with corn, corn melting
to bean, and all alive and palpitating to
the gentle influence of pork.
Talk not to me of stock yards or of
herds or butter or cottolene or oloemar-
garine or other just-as-goods. / would
go far this morning to meet respecta-
BILE. worthy piece of home raised pork.
It is not the things that mother used to
make that are passing away, but the
things she used to make them with, the
things that We're raised on the farm, and
all that they stand for,-the things that
we must come back to in spirit and in
truth and in actually if we would taste
again the true flavor of life itself.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-28

Those Kansans, who broke into Jail and
lynched negro murderer on Christmas
day, do not fear that their representa-
tation in Congress or in the National
Convention will be reduced. They are
Republicans and when they lynch negro
they do it under the "higher law
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-28

blanks are husbands-so says wife who
takes in washing.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-28

When young man I SKIS the timid
maid if she vii marry him it is UP to
her to declare that she will knot.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-28

The man who desn't think lie has the
smartest baby ON earth has no baby.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-28
Fine Ruta Bsgas.
(Duplin Journal.)

Mr.. Henry j. Faison has a four acre
ruta bega turnip patch which is very
dne indeed, and is yielding 500 bushels to
the acre. This crop is most profitable
for milk cows, cattle and hogs, and also
for local markets He presented the
Journal with one that actually weighed
nine pounds and two ounces, the biggest
We scribe ever saw. These turnips are
gathered. tops cut and banked like po-
tatoes and keep well during the winter.
e. usuallv denotos -. 80; ~
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-28

* usually denotes a has been, but
an exhorter is one who is still at it.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1902-10-23
MANCHESTER DEror.

Regular meeting Of Sinner Corps on
Friday u 2 so p m.
Mr. spd MIS- A. Cherbonnesu have tax
co 8 esrrisse drive 10 Troy.
The Fuller L1nber Co. lost che OF
their best horses in the runaway sccdeDt
Monday evening,
Henry Walker has bought A y. Goa
nor's brick house and Mr. Conner expects
to bnild . new house on bis farm,
The Manchester Lab. & Power Co
are nov supplying the Vail Cos ci'cnit OF
electric lights until their engine can be re
paired The company is repairing lite
dam so /. 10 e,t the foil Aow Of wster.
IS, l. Gnnl.b is 10 the | N Der b1tiaess
90 . lstgtr tcsle thsn ever. He will cut
~, 600 600 lee, OF ~ roce In bis own mill
this present year, tIcltsive Of what is put
into tie mills 10 which lie hss psrtisl 10
terest d. ssJs tie Gemsud for lumb
sss nsver betle', ard 1t is impossible TO
Oil ell orders received His stock OF lss,
year. logs uss exhausted about the ftst Of
Septenb Der, and be hss been getting up
sbout 20, 900 feet per day direct from tie
slump ,inee that date. Mr. Griffith leaves
10 . lev ds,si.r the Wea TO setstl ind
carload OF hotse He will use 200 lofses
hsndlina lun or aud logs his slater. sud
% Jokes OF OF ore COS beipg Used 10 q.
Jog the sitt-rs stock OF lsas
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1902-10-23
High Grade and Low Price
Inconsistent.

Some people say there Is sentimenf 10 bust
ness but we DO not believe il there is too much
strife aud struggle continually going on IN The
endeayor TO accumulate wealth to permit any
great amount d sentiment, to creep into bust
ness especially where it affects ones pocket
When some one tells You that he will sen you
the best paint on earth at low price, there must
be something wrong II ptohably costs more
per gallon 10 produce II w. Johns Liquid Paint
than any paint made in the country FOR the rea,
son that nothing but the very highest grade raw
material are used and the paint receives one
more grinding than amy other brand known
This must, and does make the paint finer insur
ing greater covering capacity, 6neness Of tone
strength Of color and greatly increasing It's dura.
hiiity This extra labor aud expense is not sem
tmental, it is done 10 make good paint, and
explains why the II W Johns Paints bear such
an excellent reputation, Address II W. Johns
Mfg Co., 700 william streeis New Yotl, fur,
complete Color Card oud PamIsHts fINtcror
Decoration -
II Johr pairts are Garfield III stock ~
M, L, Manlcy &Go, Manchester Depot VINO Wi
be pleased to give YOU any dcsrcdinlormation.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1902-10-23

TIE St Albsts Messenger Iu g
special despatch ssJiog that persistent
funors are 81 Ut TO The eject tbs; Ger,
W, W Gfoat's ts.sts vii rot elesr up
ior eloush TO ply the debts. Tao yess
$50 Il wss siEtu 10 BE- ut5e'stooi that
q e. Grout bad msde large snm Ct
non,y, 500. 000 OF note by ionuu,,e
deals ia A'ebi.oa t.i'rJii .n1 copper
s,osks. DatIhs the pat suGnsr there
have been reports tsai 60 ii3aed epfcals
tios by the o raj 90 the Nss York
mat-t bsi utt tssn - iorluaaie. Tue
As,sssst,'s d'.psiea tsys: II is ssid
tha 5 Gator r. etor holds mortgage
on 0fnsfsl @ vat's hoze 10 Kuby tor
sii 600. that bis rersonsl property IL
norisssss TO seitsin usnbers Of the
Gtos, family. and tia, there are losns
standing sssinsl bin 90 the books Of
several Vermont bsria