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

is need of a new awakening to secure
better attendance upon the schools. Mr..
John II. Mintz. of Shallotte. is the pro-
gressive county superintendent
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04

decided on consolidation of districts, local
taxation and better salaries for real
teachers.
Y. ID. MOORE,
County superintendent.
Kings Creek, n. c.. May 80, 1902.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04

one-half and. by the end of the third
month the attendance having dwindled to
less than 90 per cent compels the school
to close. / think the school should con-
tinue for the benefit of even ten per
cent who are interested enough TO at
tend for minorities have some rights that
they should be protected in.
JOSEPH PIGOTT
County Superintendent.
Straits, n. c., May 30 1902.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
r. H. WILLIS.
CLAY COUNTY.
CLEVELAND COUNTY.

No report received from Clay in time
for this issue.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
C. II SPENCER,
CALDWELL COUNTY.

County Superintendent.
'amden, n. c., May 80, 1902.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04

tees to properly Operate. This can
never be done with so many. Three lot
each township would be much better.
The few feel the responsibility more ana
attend to their duties better. Give us
compulsory attendance and in a Few
years North Carolina will be in the
front rank.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
CARTERET COUNTY.

I think the pressing need of schools in
this county is to devise some method
to induce attendance. While our schools
start off with sixty or seventy per cent
of census, it soon begins 10 lag, and soon
we are not able to average more than
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
CASWELL COUNTY.
CATAWRA COUNTY.

No export received from Caswell in
time for publication.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
BRUNSWICK COUNTY.

There has been marked increase in in
terest in public education, though there
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
The Natural System Of Vertical Writing
The Fastest in the World.

Bronson's American Literature
scholarly attractive and stimulating
book adapted to the practical work
of the classroom, yet literary in
spirit and execution.
Cloth, 374 pages. Price. ......... soc.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04

Flickinger's Civil Government,
A historical and analytic study of civil
institutions, as developed in the
States and in the United States,
adapted for schools and colleges.
Cloth 374 pages. Price. .. 81 90
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-06
EARNING PIN MONEY.
Enterprising Women Have Sundry
Novel Means of RepIenishinE
Their Empty Purses.

Most women, the wives and daugh-
ters of well-to-do men, usually have
fixed allowance of money which
they may expend for their own uses.
Vi course, this allowance is not al
ways large enough to satisfy them,
and many are the means devised by
some to increase the amount. The
wide-awake woman always finds
way to do this when she tries. She
may have dancing class, or deco
rate china, and one makes use of
taste for millinery by altering and
sometimes entirely trimming the
hats of her friends, requiring in pay
ment something more substantial
than mere thank YOU"
The advent of the turnover collar
has opened quite a field for the
woman clever with her needle, who
embroiders these dainty accessories
by hand for 25 cents each, finding a
ready market among acquaintances
whose talents do not run along such
lines.
Another young woman, whose sole
useful accomplishment is the rather
o-d-fashioned one of knitting, does a
thriving business in underskirts and
slumber robes. She has been asking
and receiving five dollars each for
the results of her industry, but it is
to be feared that she will not be
quite so fortunate in the future, as
the shops are now offering those ar
ticles at rates lower than she could
possibly afford.
Laces were never more beautiful
nor more lavishly used than they are
this season, and the presence of a
lace loom" upon the market prom
Uses wonderful things to the woman
who can use it. 1t is said that with
this instrument the making of valen-
ciennes and torchon laces is eaily
learned at home. This is new de-
parture in this country and is well
worth trying.
To one who has the facilities and is
blessed with the knack of raising
flowers violet culture would be re-
munerative in the highest degree. In
the opinion of this column, however
those who are successful with flowers
are, like poets, born, not made"
Some persons never can learn how to
deal with these lovely members of
the plant world. However, everyone
may try. With each season the dainty
purple flower has grown in popular
ity, and it is safe to prophesy that
this state of affairs will continue.
The prices which it brings are
enough to encourage anyone in
search of pin money" to attempt its
culture.-Chicago Chronicle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-06
HIS DECISION.
Young Man Who Was Drifting Into
Dissipated Habits Heeds
Timely Warming.

Twenty-Five years ago young
man was sent as special clerk from
Milford, Mass. to Chicago. He was
placed in responsible position, and
soon made the acquaintance of MANY
other young men to whom Chicago
was a commercial Mecca.
The new clerk was a pleasant fell
low, and had taste for social life:
but situated as he was, the social
life had to be such as he could make
for himself, and that was, not I'M
naturally, the free and easy comrade-
ship of other clerks. Almost with
out realizing it, he found himself
gradually drifting into dissipation.
1t was social drink here, a quiet
game of cards there, and always a
cigar in the mouth. Every moment
that was not spent in business or in
bed was given to things which at the
time seemed to him innocent enough,
but which were really undermining
his manhood.
After he had been in Chicago a
month or two, he met an old class
mate of his from his home town. A
few evenings later he found himself
in his friends room.
Look here, old fellow" said the
friend, 81 want to have a straight
talk with you"
$50 ahead" said the other, pleas
antly.
81 will. Now what have you got
out here in Chicago? A clerkship
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-06
WHOLE NATION IS AROUSED.
France shows Unusual Interest and
Activity in the Movement for
Temperance.

During the last few years, in which
there has been a noticea bic subsistence
in the temperance agitation in this
country, the movement has been show
ing new strength in Continental Eu-
rope. NJ. d'0riol, who follows closely
moral and religious movements in
France, states that until five years ago
the only systematic attempt to check
the progress of alcoholism in France
was that made by the Protestant So
ciety of the Blue Cross. The work of
this society was distinctively religious,
and its method was TO appeal for total
abstinence upon religious grounds.
1nasmuch, however, as the Protestant
church in France is not only weak in
numbers but weaker still in social
prestige, the Blue Cross movement
could not be said to enjoy really ma
tional influence. In 1895, however,
there was established the Anti-Alco-
holic League, having at its head men
of scientific distinction, and working
along lines approved by most of the
more serious people in France. 1t does
ilOl QEllduu lOtdl aus llutHNt Ol lNS
members, except from the use of dis
titled liquors. but it conducts an agita.
ton against the evils of the increasing
use of intoXicants, and establishes in
various localities clubs with reading
rooms, biliard-rooms, gardens, and
gymnasia, and with restaurants in
which no alcoholic liquor whatever is
sod. Following the example of this
league, other societies of a similar ma
ture have been founded which are car
rying on an educa tional work and pro-
viding wholesome places of recreation
for the people. But all this educational
work conducted by private societies is
of narrow influence compared with the
support given the movement by the de-
partment of education of the general
government, which, says NJ. d'Oriol,
has caused anti-alcoholic teaching to
be given as part of the regular course
in all the pubic schools. This work of
the educational department of the
French government has been seconded
by an order from the war department
prohibiting the sale of distilled liquors
in the army and navy. Inasmuch as
national government rarely takes ac-
ton along moral lines except in re-
Spouse to an irresistible demand from
the people. the steps taken by the
French government show that the
temperance movement has already be-
come serious factor in the moral life
of France-OutlOOk
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-06
FACTS.

The whisky trust paid out $1,941,-
36S in dividends during last year
more than double the amount of the
year before.
The city of Manchester enjoys the
doubtful reputation of having more
public houses than any other mu-
nicipality in the United States.
The Jerry McAuley mission in New
York had last year an attendance of
10000 people at its meetings. Many
of these are homeless men and drunk
ards.
An Anti-Profanity league has been
organized for the suppression of
Americas most popular sin, that of
blasphemy. Rev. Roland D. Sawyer,
of Hanson, Mass, is the general secre-
tary.
F. w. Jacobs, of Blackwell. Okla.
who was adjudged insane just be-
fore Christmas, was at one time a
good lawyer with a fine practice. His
insanity was caused by the excessive
use of intoxicants.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-06

with a chance. What does the
chance depend on? Education and
friends. What is your education
Nothing but a high school training.
and most of that forgotten. Who
are your friends? Young men who
flash other peoples money. Now
what are you going to do? Run to
seed and end worse than you began,
or fit yourself for a useful future?
"If you wish to fit yourself, join
an evening school, study part of the
time out of working hours, and
spend your Sundays as you ought
to spend them. Purify your life,
broaden your understanding, and
you will make something of yourself.
But if you prefer to stay as you are,
take another drink, pass around the
cigars and be a Jolly good fellow
with the boys"
The young clerk thought it over
His cigar went out and dropped
from between his fingers. He saw
two futures-one full of ease but
ending in failure, the other fraught
with hardship but leading to success.
He knew the choice was his. 81
thank you, old fellow" he said, at
length. 81 needed it."
At the end of a week the clerk
was a member of an evening class
and had selected his church. He
gave up drinking, smoking, cards and
he M 10 hA ~.
library and to get back something
of his old-time interest in books. He
was surprised to see that he had
dropped out of his vapid life as cas-
lily as he entered it. Nobody tried
to drag him back, nobody seemed to
miss him. In less than six months
his opportunity came, and he seized
it. Ten years later he was a rich
man.
To-day he is loved and respected
by all who know him. His benevo-
lcnces have made the grass greener
poor souls; yet few even of those
for whom he has done the most
know him either by sight or by
name, for he is as transformations
as he is generous.
''Who would give thought to me
to-day if 1 had made the wrong de-
cision?" he said little while ago.
That is question which every
young man can well afford to ask
himself. There is only one answer
to it.-Youth's Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-06

the tea drinker to handle his cup of
liquid refreshment and the accompany
ing biscuit or cake at the same time.
A little contrivance has been devised
which is attached by means of a clip
to the teacup and handy and prac-
teal resting place for the cracker,
sandwich, ETC., is thus provided. The
tea infuser with its long handle is an
other contrivance that will appeal to
the dispenser of this popular beverage.
Claret and water jugs, tea and coffee
pots, cream and milk ewers are appear
ing nowadays in classic form, and
many of the new designs ar copies of
cd Roman, Etruscan and Italian pat
terms. They are ornamental as well as
useful, and the designs here portrayed
are examples OF the best productions
by English manufacturers.
From across the seas also comes the
seryiceable individual egg cup. com
pleting the group. As will be seen. it
is an improvement on the ordinary
type of receptacle of this kind.-Brook-
Ign Eagle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-06

Cowles, of the navy, kept the child and
acted the part of mother toward her
in New York until the father married
the present Mrs. Roosevelt.
Alice is now in her nineteenth year
and is about seven inches above five
feet in height. She has a first cousin,
4 girl of about her own age, who is
the daughter of Roosevelt Roosevelt.
The grandmother of this latter young
lady is Mrs. Aston, who gave coming
out party for her the other day, at
which Alice also made her first formal
entrance into society. In return, this
cousin went to Washington to attend
the great ball given at the white house
in honor of Alice's debut.
Mrs. Cowles, by the way, went to
England with her cousin, Roosevelt
Roosevelt, when he became secretary
of the United States legation in Lon
don during the Cleveland administra-
ton, and superintendent his household
there.
Miss Roosevelt may fairly be called
one Oh lHe luchlest SlIlS III the NorIu.
Hardly had her father become presi-
dent of the United States than 100000
in cash was bequeathed to her by
total stranger.
The Boston man who bequeathed the
100000 to Miss Roosevelt never saw
her. He gave the money on account of
his admiration for her father, and for
no other reason.-N. Y Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-06
TEMPERATE BY CONSENT.
Union County, Ga, Where Whisky
Could Not Be Obtained, Even
for n Snake Bite,

Who can name county which,
without making prohibition an is
sue or legally forbidding liquor-sell-
ing, has not for 80 years contained
saloon? A correspondent of the At
lanta Constitution, on the track of
gold-mining BOOM" processes to
have found such an one-Union coun-
ty, Ga.
IF you were bitten" said
prominent citizen to me the other
day at the county seat, Il believe you
could not get a drop of liquor in the
town to save your life"
In this county rs per cent. of the
people own their homes, In the coun-
ty seat only one family does not own
its own home. There is not dollar
of bonds on the county, and with the
tax rate three times larger this year
than usual, the total state and coun-
ty tax amounts to only S1.15 on 500.
Union county lies among the noun
tains of the Blue Ridge. The court
house is 40 miles north of Gainesville,
about 100 miles on an airline north
of Atlanta, and about ten miles south
of the tennessee line. The quickest
way to reach Blairsville, the county
seat of Union county, from Atlanta
is to go to Blueridge on the Atlanta,
Knoxville & Northern railway, and
drive across the country 26 miles
along the beautiful valleys and over
the mountains.
l was told by a number of reput-
able citizens that there are many peo-
pie in the county who have never seen
a railroad. The eastern part of the
county is probably 40 miles from the
nearest station in one direction, and
so miles in the other.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-06
HOUSEHOLD HELPS.
of Particular Interest to Ladies
Who Entertain.

New designs of notifications in the
line of household conveniences possess
a perennial interest for the housewife,
particularly the alert American who
keeps watch for everything that will
enlighten the work of the household
or is calculated to add to the conven-
fence or comfort of the members of
the family.
Ingenious as are our Yankee in
ventors they do not enjoy the complete
monopoly in the way of inventiveness,
as is shown by the accompanying illus
trations of English designs. In the land
where afternoon tea holds such sway
it is to be expected that some genius
would find way to make it easy for
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-06
CHEMISTRY OF TEARS.
Phosphate of Lime and Soda Are the
Substances Emitted from the
LachrymnI Gland.

Tears have their functional duty to
the body, and the lachrymal gland is
not placed behind the eye simply to
fill space or to give expression to
emotion. The chemical properties of
tears consist of phosphate of lime
and soda, making them very salty,
but never bitter. Their action on
the eye is very beneficial, and here
consists their prescribed duty of the
body. washing thoroughly that sensi-
ave organ, which allows no foreign
fluid to do the same work. Nothing
cleanses the eye like a good salty
shower bath, and medical art has
followed natures laws in this re-
spect, advocating tlR invigorating So
luton for any distressed condition
of the optics. Tears do not weaken
the sight, but improve it. They act
as q tonic on the muscular vision,
keo lg the eye soft and limpid, and
it d Al be noticed that women in
whose eyes sympathetic tears gather
quickly have brighter, tenderer orbs
than others. When the pupils are
hard and cold the world attributes it
to ones disposition, which is mere
figure of speech, implying the lack
of balmy tears, that are to the cornea
what salve is to the skin or nourish-
ment to the blood.
The reason some women weeu
more easily than others, and still
more readily than the sterner sex.
has not its difference in the strength
of the tear gland, but in the posses
sion of more delicate nerve system
The nerve fibers about the glands vi.
brate more easily, causing a down.
pour from the watery sac. Men are
not nearly SO sensitive to emotion:
their sympathetic nature-the term
is used in medical sense-is less de,
veloped and the eye is therefore pro.
tected from shocks. Consequently
man should thank the formation OF
his nerve nature when he contempt
uously scorns tears as a woman's
practice. Between man and monkey
there is this essential difference OF
tears: An ape canno1 weep, not SC
much because its emotional powers
ere undeveloped as the fact that the
lachrymal gland wass omitted in his
optical make-up.-Hygienic Gazette.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-06
German People Arouacd,

The German people are becoming
thoroughly aroused over the destruc-
ton being wrought in that country
by alcoholic drinks. The university
authorities complain that their stu
dents are becoming stupid, and some
thing must be done to stay the tide
of beer drinking. A recent writer
has discovered that nearly all the
crimes are committed while under the
influence of drink. The emperor is
investigating the influence of beer
upon the German workingman.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-06

Europe is discovering that crime is
increasing there far more rapidly
among the young than among the
adults. At the fifth congress of Grim
inal anthropology, recently held in
Amsterdam, the startling fact was
brought out that there are six times
as many murders committed by young
men between the ages of 16 and 20
as by adults between 80 and IS. The
cause is charged to the increase of
alcoholism. Put beside this fact the
other thai II the United States 39,s72
persons died at the hands of homi-
cides in the five years ended in 1900
and Americas problem will gain new
significance. No European country,
except Italy, approaches this record
of slaughter in proportion to popula-
ton.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-06
Young l.
perOr
TT.

Miss Alice Ros
built, of athletic ply
modern type of girl
from the type of delie
rather than robust, which
so generally admired. He.
light and it is dressed in the pre-
Pompadour mode. She has blue ess
with bright color and fine teeth.
Miss Roosevelt looks more like her
mother than her father. She is indie
pendent in her ways, and given to
knowing her own mind, giving it ex-
preston freely. Her mother, as is
well known, was not the present Mrs.
Theodore Roosevelt, but Miss Lee,
of Boston, of family of no little dis
tinction and of notable ancestry in the
modern Athens.
When Theodore Roosevelt was left
widower by the death of his first wife
there was some question as to what
should be done with the baby daughter,
the upshot of the matter being that
little Alice was handed over to an I'M
married sister. This maiden sister,
who is now the wife of Commander
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-06
AN
EXASPERATING
BLUNDER

hXATHY, Oliver. what possessed
wv you to think that Cousin
Berta was engaged?" exclaimed Edith
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-06
Course of Human Life.

Like mountain road, life has its
ups and downs, but it's general direc-
ton may be either upward or down.
ward, according as we seek the top
or the bottom of the mountain.-Well-
spring,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-10
INTRICATE INJURY STORY
PECULIAR MANNER IN WHICH WILL
LIAM RHOAN WAS HURT.
The Description Recalls Visions of
Nursery Rhymes-High Court
Cases-LOcaI Courts.

William Rhoan. colored. was injured in a
most roundabout way some time ago and
placed the responsibility on the street-car
company He brought suit for 5000 dam
ages, and yesterday the case was heard by
a jury in Judge McMaster's court. At the
time OF Rhoan's alleged injury he was
working on a sewer on North Illinois street.
The excavation was close 10 the street-car
track, and some one had left pick lying
with the point across one rail of the track.
The wrecking train Of the street-car COM
pany came down the track at a rapid rate
and struck the point of the pick. A heavy
piece of timber was lying across the handle
of the pick. and II was thrown into the air
and against the car. The board rebounded
and struck some other boards, breaking
them. and one piece of a broken board
struck Rhoan in the face, decorating it and
injuring him otherwise, he says. The suit
makes the street-car company responsible
for running over the point of the pick, and
thus starting the flying debris.
The Marion county courthouse is not
very long. Judge McMasters room is in
one end, and by the time the story of the
complaint reached the other end of the
building ii was almost az contorted as the
intricate manner in which Rhoan was in
jured The story told in the east end OF
the courthouse was that a street car struck
a pig that was on the track, threw IL
against a board and knocked the board
against Rhoan.