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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-20
WOMAN WITNESS
BROWNS SELF
AND BABE
MRS. sEcHREsT, ON HER WAY TO
TRIAL OF HER HUSBANDS
SLAYER, JUMPS INTO
THE MISSOURI.

LEAvENwORTH, Kan. Nov. 1s.-In
the Missouri river near here a ,woman's
straw hat. with the following note, has
been found
ITO Whoever Finds This: Please take
clothes to Journal Office, and they Will
send them to AS North Twenty-sixth
street, Lincoln, Neb.. This is to mark the
place where /. Mrs. Al Sechrest, and baby
have gone to rest In the deep Missouri"
The woman's parents live in Lincoln.
The hat was identified by restaurant
keeper in this city who says. its owner
ate several meals at his place last week.
1t is believed that Mrs. Sechrest is the
wife of Frank Sechrest. who was killed
by DR.. Zorn at Kansas City, three months
ago in a dispute over a board bill. The
river is being dragged.
WOMAN WAS WITNESS
IN MURDER CASE
KANSAS CITY, Nov. 1S.-Mrs Sech-
rest was supposed to have started for
Kansas City to testify in the Zorn case,
which was set for today, but who, up to
this hour, has not been located. The kill
ing OF Sechrest by Zorn was a sensational
affair, and Mrs. Sechrest was the states
principal witness.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-20
Old as the Pyramids

And as little changed by the ages,
is Scrofula, than which no disease,
save Consumption, is responsible
for larger mortality, and Con-
sumption is its outgrowth.
1t affects the glands, the mucous
membranes, tissues and bones;
causes punches in the neck, ca
tarrhal troubles, ricketts,, inflamed
eyelids, sore ears, cutaneous erup-
tons, etc. .- ~.
81 suffered from scron1la, the disease af.
fectine the glands OF my neck. ] did every.
thing was told 10 do TO eradicate il, but
without success. 1 then began taking
Hoods SarsapariIla. and the swelling in my
neck entirely disappeared and my skin re-
sumed a smooth. healthy appearance. The
cure was complete" Miss ANITA MITCHELL
915 Scott ST., Covington, Ky.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-20
Hoods J0rSdp0riLLG
and Pills

Thoroughly eradicate scrofula and
build up the system that has sui
fered from it,
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-20
Personal.

LADIES and men who wish honest home en-
pigment should send. stamp TO S. Q. Harper.
Fayetteville Ga, for full particulars.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
Leadsall North Carolina Dailies Newsstand Circulation
A STATEMENT OF POLICY OF THE GENERAL
EDUCATIONAL BOARD.


should
kindred Objects the
plans .h
is the the
especially rural districts
of
o he
especially
o
institutions
T. To collect full information statistics to educational mat
a
information suggestions and counsel and for
d o be
public n al of
by
To suitable valuable educational
work
Secretary Executive Office
York U Y. 1902
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they would not be willing to undertake
to administer large funds for general
education in the South without the ad
vice and hearty cooperation OF the
Southern educational leaders.
am not a member of the General Edu-
cational Board, but 1 am acquainted
with all Of its members except one. One
who knows them cannot doubt the sin
certify of their purpose or their ability
to accomplish this purpose They have
faith in the Southern people, and | sim
cerely hope that the Southern people
will SHOW the same confidence in them
in return.
1t is not a question of what was done
twenty or thirty years ago, but what we
are doing now, what we do at present,
and how we shall take care of the fu
ture.
"A feeling of mutual trust between the
General Education Board and the educa-
tioral leaders of the Southern people will
greatly facilitate the accomplishment of
the work the South has been undertake
ing to do for a long time single handed.
If wisdom prevails in the management
of the General and Southern Education
Boards, and if the people of the South
will accept the cordial cooperation of
men, anxious to help carry it's hard edu-
cational burdens, the day will come when
| all of us will think kindly, fraternally
and gratefully Of the busy men who are
now giving their time and thought and
money, as we think of George Peabody,
who in 1867 gave $3,OOo,O00 to assist in
the educational work of the Southern
! States.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04

The General Education Board with
headquarters in New York is composed
of ten men, five Of whom have lived in
the South. VIM. Fl. Baldwin, Jr., Chair
man; Geo. Foster Peabody, Treasurer;
Wallace Buttrick, Secretary and Execu-
tive officer; ]. l.. NJ. Curry, Frederick
T. Gates, Daniel C. Gilman. Morris X.
Jesup. Robert c. ogden, Walter Fl. Page
and Albert Shaw compose this board.
All except Messrs. Gates, Gilman and
Jesup are also members of the Southern
Education Board. DIR. Curry and DR..
Gilman are members of the Peabody
Board and the Slater Board, and Messrs.
Baldwin and George Foster Peabody are
members of the Slater Board. The Gen
eral Education Board will make an ef-
fort TO cooperate with the Peabody, the
Slater Board and the Southern Educa-
ton Board so as to aid in Southern edu-
cation, and to prevent duplication of eff
fort.
con this page we print in double col
umn measure the statement of the policy
signed by Secretary Buttrick.-Editor)
The General Education Board opened
its offices and began work April 1st.
with more than million dollars at its
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disposal. It's first gift of money was
made to aid the rural public schools of
Guilford county, North Carolina. This
gift was made through DR. Buttrick at
the Greensboro Conference on April 4th,
ard was a gift of $4,000 to duplicate the
81 eco raised by private citizens to slim
ulate local taxation and better school
houses in the rural districts of Guilford
county. At the Charlotte Conference it
gave $4,000 to duplicate similar amount
raised by the citizens of that community
for the promotion of public education in
tho rural districts of Mecklenburg and
Henderson counties. The General Edu-
cation Board gave about $4,000 20 the
State Normal School at Athens, Ga, on
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL BOARD
A Concise Statement of the Plans and Purposes of
this New Educational Movement.

They command the respect of Northern
and Southern people, and none of them
counts failure in their undertakings
among the possibilities 1t is difficult
for those who do not know them to ap-
preciate how earnest and single is their
purpose to be of real service to ali The
people of the South, and how thoroughly
they appreciate the magnitude of the I'M
dertaking and the difficulties i'll their
way. 1t is certain that they do not wish
to engraft upon Southern civilization
new and radical ideas. They Go not APP
pear to care to establish new institu-
lions; but they wish to build rather upon
the public school systems already begun
and in control of local authorities, and
their greatest desire seems to be to aid
those who are carrying burdens so ex-
cecdingly heavy that progress though in
the right direction is necessarily slow.
Many of these men and those compos-
ing the Southern Education Board are
Southern people: some of them born here,
and some having resided here
for several years. Having seen the heavy
load we are carrying, especially in main
tanning a double system of public
schools for two races, and recognizing
the necessity for continuing this double
system, they would like to aid US III car
ryibg that burden, exactly as the Pea
body Fund aided nearly every town and
city in North Carolina to carry its bur-
den when the latter were establishing
their graded schools.
The Northern men of this board frank
to
ciate all the difficulties in the way, and
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cation is studying conditions and prepar-
ing documents, including Educational
Notes. sent to any newspaper in the
South that wishes to have these notes
and to use the matter contained in them
for publication.
All the campaign work of the South
<rn Education Board is under the i'm
mediate direction of the Southern men,
bers of the Southern Education Board.
Tie field work is in charge of three dis
trict directors, Doctors Alderman, Fris-
sell, and McIver. DR.. Charles w. Dab
Eey is Director of the Bureau of lnves-
tigation and Publication. His chief as
sistant is Professor p. p. ClaXton. and
he is also aided by Professor j. d. Eg-
gleston and an efficient corps of clerks
Rev. Edgar Gardner Murphy, of Mont
gomery, Ala, is the Executive Secre-
tary and personal representative of
President Robert C. Ogden, wherever his
services may be needed, whether in New
York or in visiting the various offices in
the South.
Or. F. s. Dickerman and DR.. Book
er +. Washington are doing special work
for the board as field agents, the latter
being the special adviser in regard to
educational matters relating to the col
orcd race
Hon. j. L. M. Curry and Messrs. AL
derman, Dabney, Frissel and Nciver,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
he Southern Educational Conference
A Sketch of the Personnel and Plan of Work of the
Great Organizations Formed to Aid the Cause
of Education in the South.
dent chas d. McIver tary Southern Education Boar

The Southern Education Board consists
of twelve members. They are Robert =.
Ogden, President; George Foster Pea
body, Treasurer; Charles ID. .MclVer,
Secretary: f. A. Alderman, w. H. Bald
win, Jr., Wallace Buttricll, j. L. NJ Cur
ry, Charles w. Dabney, H. B. Frissell,
II. II. Hanna, w. H. Page and Albert
Shaw. The board was created and or
ganized last November in accordance
with the platform and resolutions adopt
ed at the fourth annual meeting of the
Southern Educational Conference at Win
ston- Salem a year ago last April. The
work undertaken by this board is that
of agitation and stimulation of all eff
forts towards universal education in the
Southern States. 1t does not make any
gifts to any educational institutions
whatever. 1t has sufficient funds to aid
in q campaign for local taxation and for
the bctterment of public school facili-
ties in several of the Southern States.
So far its chief work has been done
in Virginia, North Carolina, and Louis
lana 1t began to arrange for contiuu-
ous campaigns in these States in jan
uary. 1T has also done some work in
the state OF Georgia, and is planning
to aid in public educational campaigns
in South Carolina, Alabama and Miss
issippi.
In addition to the field work of the
campaigns in these States a bureau at
Knoxville for investigation and publ
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04

condition that a similar amount should
be raised to establish scholarships, and
for other purposes.
The executive officer, DR.. Buttricll, is
making a careful study of the field, in
order that what money is entrusted to
the General Education Board may be
wisely invested to the greatest adVant-
age to the cause of general education.
The character and position of the men
composing this board is such that no one
can doubt their ability to succeed in what
ever financial undertaking they begin
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04

Each OF our moral, intellectual and
physical powers must depend for its de-
velopment upon itself alont and not or
any artificial external influences. Faith
must proceed from faith; thought must
proceed from thought; love must proceed
from love; art, too, must proceed from
actual art and skill. and not from end
less discussion about them. And this
return to the true method OF nature for
the development of our powers requires
the work of education to be subordinated
to the knowledge of the various laws
which control those powers.-pestalozzi.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
OLD TIME COUNTRY
SCHOOLS.

Those who are accustomed to see only
t he we'll equipped and excellent public
SC hools that have been built up in the
eli les of North Carolina have little con-
Ger ton of the primitive cabins in which
the former generations of North Caro-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04

1t is recorded that God opened the
heavens to the patriarch of od and
showed him a ladder leading thither
This ladder is let down to every descend
ant of Adam; it is offered to thy child
But he must be taught to climb it, And
let him not attempt it by he cold cal
culations of the head, or the mere i'm
pulses of the heart; but Let all these
powers combine, and the oble enter
prise will be crowned with success
PestaIoZzi
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constitute the general campaign COM
mittee. and have direction of all the work
of the Southern Education Board.
The plan and work of the Southern
Education Board is merely an extension
of the campaign work that has been done
for many years in the towns and cities
of the Southern States by the Peabody
Board under the guidance of the General
Agent, Dr. j. l.. NJ Curry
1t proposes to furnish speakers for
important public occasions where
speeches can be of service in stimulating
public sentiment and arousing public
enthusiasm for universal education.
1t cannot make gifts as the Peabody
aboard has done, but the General Educa.
tion Board, after proper investigation,
makes conditional gifts to various com
munities in the South, as the Peabody
Board has done for the past thirty years
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04

conveniences, men and women did obtain
a good education in those old cherries
school houses, but comparatively few of
the children attended except when it
pleased their fancy, and the poor school
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04

linians dope ndent upon public schools
we're edl scaLed. Below we give an
extended view of one of the worst of the
old time school houses in a mountain
county. wi eere the population is widely
scattered. We also give an interior view
of this sch DOL house.
In spite of the lack of comforts and
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04

The object of the common school sys-
tenn is to give to every child a free.
straight, solid pathway, by which he can
walk directly up from the ignorance of
an infant to knowledge of the primary
duties os a man.-Horace Mann
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04

educators of the State and the public
spirited men of all parties. His name
will be remembered among those who
wrought periodically and we'll for the
upbuilding of the public school system
Of North Carolina.
Mr.. Mebane believes in compulsory
education and in his last report he said:
Il believe that it is right to force the
people to pay taxes for schools, and that
it is also right to force the children to
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04

If God is Truth-if God is Love teach
the child above all things to seek for
truth, and to abound in love.--Horace
Mann.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04

Catawba county has furnished the State
two superintendent during the past
twenty-five years-the late Maj. S. NJ.
Finger and Hon. c. H. Mebane, who serv-
ed from 1897 1901. Mr.. Mebane came into
the office animated by the high purpose to
advance the educational interests of the
Commonwealth, and no other considera-
ton weighed with him. He was indus
trios, capable, resourceful, tactful, and
wise He enjoyed the confidence of the
receive the benefit of these taxes.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04

houses may be said to have been ID part
responsible for the poor attendance. Inc
educational revival is removing these ola
log houses, but there are still too many
that are a reproach to the State.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-11-06

The earliest mention of shoes is in
an Egyptian papyrus, about 1900
years before Christ.
Cleveland has signed blacksmith
named Lundborn as pitcher. He
throws a horseshoe curve.
The possibilities of wireless teleg-
raphy were predicted by James Brown
Lindsay, of Dundee, Scotland, in 1884.
The Texas authorities are about to
establish a system whereby 1000 con-
victs can be employed on 5000 acres Of
sugar cane land.
An immense 12.000-ton hydraulic
forging press is to be erected in the
Carnegie armor plate plant.
In the German empire the percent
age of persons living in cities of over
100000 inhabitants has increased from
IA per cent. in 1882 to 1917 per cent
in 1900.
A canal is being agitated from the
Mississippi river, along the coast of
Texas. to the Rio Grande, six feet deep
and 90 feet wide, at an estimated cost of
100000
New York state farmers are buy
ing potatoes for their own con-
sumption, a situation unheard of
there for years.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-11-06

influences at work to cause an unusual
influx during that period; but that the
exodus from Russian Poland at that
time was largely due to religious OPP
preston cannot be doubted. The
Greek Catholic is the official religion of
Russia, while two-thirds of the Poles
are adherents of the Roman Catholic
faith. Antipathy between the two is
always keen, and at this time culmi-
mated under Alexander III. in almost
incredible persecution, for this day and
age, of all Roman Catholic believers in
Russian provinces. In many instances
the Roman Catholic Poles were driven
from province to province, along with
the Jews, whom the Poles pretty gen
orally despised. Then, too, the failure
of the crops and the resultant famines
may have swelled the total outpouring.
AS to the destination of that portion
of the II, 900, 900 persons who speak the
Polish language, which reaches Amer
lea, it may be stated that fully $4,000
Russian, German and Austrian Poles
are to be found in Pennsy Iva mia; New
York comes a close second with about
10000, and Illinois follows with some
thing like 81 900. These are the ban
ner states in this regard. Wisconsin,
the next in order, has something under
10000, and Michigan something under
10000. The remainder are appOrtioned
in much smaller lots among the states
Polish immigrants cling together in
large settlements in the cities except
where mining interests separate them
as in Pennsylvania. Thus the largest
settlements are found in New York
city and Chicago. In Illinois, German
Poles are in the majority, while in New
York state the Russian Poles outnum-
Der the others. Austrian Poles are APP
portioned between the leading cities
more evenly. In the cold country" the
Russian Poles are, of course, in the
great majority, there being doubtless
four times as many under the car as
under the Austrian or Prussian rule.
Neither the Polish national spirit nor
their race integrity will ever be lost
sight of. The Poles will ever remain,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-11-06

at least in measure, distinct people;
yet it is surprising how many agencies
are conspiring to the gradual weaken
ing of the bonds existing between the
various portions of their politically di-
vided race. The Poles as race do not
take kindly to commerce or trade. AS
a result their factories and manufac-
lures are gradually falling into the pos
session of the industrious Germans,
while their trade has been seized by the
Jews. The Poles enjoy agriculture,
mining, the pursuit of the fine arts, and
the cherishing of a fine national spirit.
In the educated classes the men are
often geniuses and the women beauti-
ful-both winning distinction in Rus
sian, German and Austrian society as
well as in that of othernations abroad.
1t is the Polish lnguage, more than
aught else, that will preserve the ma
tionality of the race. 1t is true that in
many parts of Russia its use is pro-
nibited, and that IN some of the Rus
sian provinces it has become grossly
corrupted with the German, yet 1t has
a literature of its own and will always
have standard. DR.. Rldpath, the ms
tOrian, says of the language: ut may
be regarded as the finest and most COM
plete development of the Slavic speech.
The evolution of form and utterance
has been so perfect that Polish is re-
garded by scholars as a favorite com
petitor for the first place among the
European tongues. Few languages,
ancient or modern, have surpassed 1T in
flexibility of structure richness of ele-
ments, power of expression and har-
mony of utterance."
The Polish race was undoubtedly
''cut out" for literary and artistic
rather than commercial attainment.
Captivity has not wholly thwarted this
tendency, although it has imposed
some happening conditions. Polish
literature and Polish religion are,
then, the chief and common bonds be-
tween the Poles in whatever quarter of
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the globe these people are found. As
for political bonds there have been
none since 1868. From the time Of the
defeat of her armies and her popular
hero, Thaddeus Kosciuslio, and the
death of her national life, early IN the
century, down to 1868, her liberties had
been gradually curtailed. During this
time the proud spirit of the Poles made
itself felt in instructions which, being
quickly put down, acted simply as the
means of Fastening the final crisis they
reached in 1868. Russia issued an inn
perial ukase taking away the last of
the liberties she had allowed the cap
tive nation since it's downfall and alb
solutely Incorporating the government
of Poland into that of Russia-and pro-
viding for the division of the territory
into ten Russion provinces for better
convenience in the administration of
strict Russian rule.
Neither in Russian, Prussian or Aus
trian Poland have the Poles wholly es-
capped the admiXture of foreign blood,
and particularly in the two latter divi-
sions the signs of the decadence of the
original people and speech are mani
fest. In greater Poland foreign disin-
tegration agencies cannot work to snch
advantage; yet after all perhaps had
been better if the partitions had been
more evenly made, for while there have
been numerous Polish instructions
in Russia only one has occurred in the
Austrian empire-something which
would seem to indicate that the latter
are better satisfied with their condi-
ton. Austrian Poles have become more
thoroughly at heart part Of the Aus
trian empire, and have taken more in
terest in the government than could
ever be the case in Russia under exist
ing conditions. Yet the Poles and the
Russians are peoples of a common
stock and fraternize extensively. The
bitterness Of the Poles is directed not
against the Russian people but rather
against the ruling house of Romanoff,
upon whom the curses of all the OPP
pressed of Russia are heaped.
MILTON MARKS.