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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-10
OBITUARY

Died. at her home in Wamenton. on
July 6, Mrs. Fanny Green Somerville. wild
ow of James b. Someryille. The death of
this most excellent and estimable woman.
who was well-known in this community in
which she had, at various intervals, passed
much Of her later life in the home of the
oldest and almost nearest kinsman, Col.
w. j. Greer, will carry deep sorrow to
the hearts of her widely extended ac-
quaintance throughout many States The
writer can say that he has never known
human being more free from guile or re-
plete with Christian charity. She departs
in ripe age, and the assured consciousness
of a life well rounded and well spent.
Truly may she claim fellowship with that
most favored few: blessed are they who
die in the Lord. Fayetteville Observer.
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intelligence and Refinement
of the Pupils.
WORK OF PROF. SPRAY
Some Remarkable Results Of His Training---
Surprising Ability Shown by the Pupils ia
Performing Their Tasks---ldeal Si,-
ua.ion for School.
ua.ion for a School.
(staff Correspondence.l

Yellow Hills, or Cherokee, n. c., July z.
1t has been my desire ever since |
heard OF this place TO make visit here
tc Learn by contact with them something
about the Cherokee Indians Here is the
Government School for the education and
alevation OF the tribe. There is no deny
ing that much more good has been ac-
eomplished in this section and by this
school, since it was established, than the
outside publis has any idea of. Now,
leader, let me say to you if you have
termed The idea that this place Is lacking
in intelligence and definement you are
very much mistaken. Both the Indian
boys and girls from to II years old will
surprise the visitor with the good be-
havior and refinement taught them
by Professor Fl. w. Spray, the princi-
pal OF this school, and his competent corps
OF teachers. Professor Spray first came
here IN 1854. He remained years, went
away and after six years, returned again
in 1898. He is the right man in the right
place and enjoys the absolute confidence
u not only the Indians, but the people OF
ibis entire section.
J be school is located in one of the most
picturesquly beautiful spots / ever saw.
Tha buildings are upon high hill, all
solnmodious, modern structures, convent
ently fitted up. Nature seems to have
lranged the place for this institution.
Down at the foot Of the Hill, is located
4 large two story building for the boys,
md the barn and stable Winding its
say on TO the Tuckaseegee, at the bottom
Df this lovely grass carpeted mound is
lie pretty little River, Oconalufty. In the
Cherokee language it is Aquonulty, and
based upon best information obtainable
means merely, the water.
This reservation comprises about one
hundred thousand acres of land lying
Il ostly in Swain county, with some small
racts in Graham, Cherokee and Jackson
counties. The tribe consisted at the last
census. which is taken every year, of
thout 900 full blooded Indians and about
100 of mixed blood. The appropriation of
the Government for this school provides
for $50 pupils There are 143 here at the
closing of this session, and while / was
here the closing exercises exercises were
leld.
The skill and intelligence of these little
indian children displayed in fancy needle
work, drawing composition. and (by the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-10
Rev. C. E. Maddrey Reelected.
Especial to News and Observer. )

Especial to News and Ubserver.)
Hillsboro, N c., July 9.-The Board OF
Education met here this week. Among
the business transacted was the unanimous
re election of Chas. E. Maddry. superintend-
ent of schools of Orange county for the
tern OF two years. The board was very
much pleased with Mr.. Maddry's work, he
having served for one term. So are all
the people Of the county it having been
said with truth that in an educational
way that he was the Aycock Of Orange
county
(Mr. Maddry graduated at the Univer-
sity in June and received the Wiley p
Mangum medal.-Edltor)
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Taxable Increase in Moore.
Carthage Blade.)

We are unable at this time to give the
increase in the taxable valuation of tn,
property in Moore county as a whole, but
can give it for three townships, which
we presume is an index to the remainder
of the county. The townships referred to
are Carthage with an increase of about
$50 900; Deep River with increase of 1922
300 and Rocket with increase OF $4,000
Some of the townships will hardly show
so much increase as these, but Sanford
and Mineral Springs townships ought ia
show greater increase even than Car
thage.
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Increased $50, 600.

Oxford Public Ledger)
Oxford is still growing as the assessed
value of property has increased 100000
over last year-making it now 81 ,005,000
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SPECIAL RATES VIA s. A. l.. R'Y TO
BALTIMORE, MD, AND RETURN.
REUNION OF ELKS, July 81 TO 22ND.
$1,000 FROM RALEIGH, N. G.
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EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.
CATONSVILLE, Maryland
MOUNT DE SALES

ACADEMY OF THE VISITATION.
Buildings and grounds extensive and at
ractive. Situation healthful; and view
If Baltimore, hills, river end bay beau
tiful Accessible by electric car routes.
Thorough work in English. Science, Music,
Art, and Languages Illustrated cata-
logues sent, on application to
THE DIRECTRESS.
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To Improve Court House.
Cspecial to News and observer.)

Kinston. N. c., July 9.-The county com
roissioners OF Lenoir have awarded the
contract for improvements to the court
house to Mr.. John Rhodes for $3.50. Mr.
rhodes, contract embraces general repair
ing Of the court house running stairway
from the back part Oh the building VI
into the bar and putting a thirty or forty
foot cupoIa on the tower This work
will begin soon and be completed as soon
as possible.
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Graded School for Carthage.
especial to News and observer.)

Carthage, N. G., July ga special cleo
ton will be held here on the eleventh OF
August for special school tax to estab-
I.sh a graded school here. The Blade is
strongly supporting IT. 1t is believed it
viii carry. Carthage is going along in
every way and needs only good school
to invite a larger population. The tax
returns show an increase of 900 in
Carthage over the last assessment.
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For Whooping Cough US.
CHENEY'S EXPECTORAN1
SPECIAL RATES VIA THE SEABOARD
AIR LINE RAILWAY.


$64.75-Raleigh to Los Angeles or San
Francisco, CAL, on account of the
National Encampment Grand Army
OF the Republic, August 17th-22nd,
1908. Tickets will be on sale July
31st until October 10th 1908.
Grand Fountain United Order
True Reformers, Washington, d.
c., September 1st-Sth. 1903. Tick
cts on sale August Both, September
list and 2na With final limit Sep
TENDER 10th, rate to be one first
class fare plus % cents for the
round trip.
s 950-PIus $1.0O to Baltimore, Md, and
return: all rail or via Portsmouth
and Bay Line, account of Annual
Meeting Grand Lodge B. p. o.
Elks, Baltimore, Md, July Dist
23rd. Tickets on sale July 18TH
10Th and 20th with final limit July
25th. This ticket may be extended
until July 31st by depositng same
with Special Agent and depositing
s1.0O.
~osoV = ius 20 CtHtS3 itdlclSu 30 ASHCVfiIe
and return account of the National
Dental Association and Adjunct So
ciety, Asheville, N. c., July oath TO
S1st Tickets sold July 22nd 23rd
and 9th. Final limit August End.
SPECIAL RATES VIA s. A. l.. R'Y TO
BALTIMORE, MD, AND RETURN
REUNION OF ELKS, July 81 TO 22ND.
$40 20 FROM UATTTGII nj
Special Elk train from Charlotte, Will
mington, Raleigh and Durham, July goth.
composed of Pullman Sleeping Cars and
Vestlbule Day Coaches. Train will
leave Raleigh about midnight Monday,
July goth, arrive Baltimore early follow
ing morning. For full particulars apply
to G. II. Gattis. G. p and r. A., II. s
Leard, 7. p. A., Raleigh, N. G.
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Plenty in Surry.
-
inf. Airy News

The Wilkesboro Chronicle says the world
is growing better because the Chapel Hill
News has discovered man who "volun.
tarily by himself" worked out some bad
places in the public road. Pshaw! We
have several persons near Mt Airy who
have not only worked by Themselves on
the public roads but have spent money
on them.
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Caught As Rats.
(Duplin Journal

Mr.. Frank Bell. of Poplar Grove. caught
n large rats in his barn one day last
week and after the big haul, he caught Is
more at different times making a total of
45 These were all caught in hollow log
which Mr. Bell placed in the barn for that
purpose. The rats were all Of the largest
kind.
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No Sowpaw Factory in Wilson

Especial to News and ObseIWer)
Wilson, ~ c., July 9-The county com
missioners refused to grant license to Geo.
t. Morgan to operate whiskey still in the
corporate limits of the town Of Wilson
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New-York tribune., 1903-08-29

life as the of farmer. attending district
school in a rural region. had been fortunate
in having excellent teachers, both women and
men, the former in summer and the latter in
winter. and my parents had kept me steadily
at school Before I was twelve 1 had finished
the study of arithmetic. being able to solve the
most difficult problems in the University Arith-
metic,' which the highest published at
that time and had taken up algebra. I followed
this with Latin. getting a good start before I
went away from home. Then my parents de-
cided that I was old enough to venture out in
the world. and I sent TO a big boarding
school
1T was there that the direction of my whole
future life was fixed. Fortunately I fell under
the influence of an instructor in the classics who
persuaded me to take the college preparatory
course. had then no purpose of going to col
lege and, in fact. desired to continue my Latin
and add to it the study of the sciences. but he
urged to take up Greek also. saying it would
do no harm to have it. and if I should decide
TO go TO college that much time would be saved.
To the influence of that professor can trace
much of the inspiring influences which have per-
meated my after career. recall how he used TO
quote from Milton;
Far Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth urge
TO scorn delights and live laboriOuS days.
literary allusions that he stirred up TO read
and follow up the stories OF which he gave
hint. He himself wrote ma ga zine articles show
ing close observations of nature and much skill
in detailing results; his breezy. Offhaud descrip
tions of persons and places were most enjoyable.
while the little sermons he would give in the
guise of ia lks in chapel and ClasSroon2s were
Veritable inspiration.
'As the result OF what that teacher did for
1 started on the road TO college and
secured a liberal education the advantage OF
which l have never ceased to appreciate The
same inspiration which l felt was cOmmuni-
Gated by him to many other young men and
women. and they all hold in the highest respect
and esteem that instructor. whose influence
both direct and indirect, such a source Of
inspiration and encouragement to putting
forth every possible effort to achieve success. I
shall always remember with the grea test de-
light and satisfaction my Oldtime instructor and
rejoice that I came within the scope of his N
f1uence."
Many similar testimonies to the personal iufiu
ence of teachers who have the power TO inspire
and arouse the best in their pupils could he re-
corded, but all would only confirm the Conclu-
sion that for direct effect on the impTessiOnable
mind of youth there is nothing more powerful
than the influence of a decided personality and
a strong character, when combined with the
forceful energy and power Of a teacher Of
ability.
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INFLUENCE OF TEACHERS.
Examples of Hoe Helpful and In
spring 1t Has Been.

The direct practical benefit Of schools where
individual attention can be given to pupils and
their especial incliaatons in any direction be
carefully studied is shown in the particular ad-
vantages many persons have received in after
life from the help given TO them in youth. The
influence of wise counsel at turning point is
almost tmmeasurable. and who so we'll fitted
to give it to pupils as those who have had the
time and opportunity 20 carefully study natural
tastes and incIinations?
Many boys and girls have received the i'm
pTessions which led them TO take delight in
nature study in all their after years from the
wise words and the inspiring example of some
favorite teacher. The reading Of the best books.
with delight and profit has often been caused
by the counsel Of an instructor whose words fell
on good ground. or who stirred hidden springs
by apt quotation or illustrative alluston.
Many a career has been started by the force
of example or the lesson Of life devoted
selhshly and devotedly TO the daily round of
duties. Nothing makes deeper more per-
manent impression the plastic mind of youth
than the chance word dropped BY the wise
leader at the right moment Many a lasting and
lifelong impression remains from some appar
emily trivial incident in early life. How much
is due the surroundings and associations
which the young enjoy can never be told, for
many are so subconsciously received that the
person who is the recipient Of them cannot trace
for himself their source
And, while the influence of good example and
teachings is lasting. it is equally true that the
lack OF these has produced disastrous results.
and that evil associations are as harmful good
ones are beneficial The best foundation upon
which a stable character can be reared is that
afforded by the control Of wise parents and ju-
dicious teachers. One Of the successful men Of
the day in this city has this to say OF the effect
produced on him BY the influence Of a wise
teacher under whose instruction he came when
a boy:
= had passed through the early years Of my
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fishing an academy in his native town. He de-
sired 70 found a private institution and be the
head of it, and to this end he induced his father
70 set apart the portion of his fortune he would
inherit and his Uncle John 10 cooperate in
the plan This was changed so that the nsti-
tuition was established in Andover instead of
North AndoveT. and opened on April 30 17TS, in
an old carpenter shop. The elder Samuel Phil
lips was president of the board of trustees. 1t
vas incorporated in October of the same year,
being the first Incorporated academy in Massa-
chusetts. The gifts of various members of the
Phillips family amounted to S71 600 Judge
Phillips is regarded the founder. although
he made no direct bequest TO it. OF him il has
been said. The efforts and sacrifices by which
he contributed TO its endowment. superntend-
ence and prosperity justly rank him among the
greatest benefactors of mankind" He was the
grandfather of Bishop Phillips Brooks. whose
mother vas his daughter Mary Ann. President
Washington was a guest of Judge Phillips in
17S9.
At the Phillips academies in the course of a
century and Considera BILE more thousands of
students have matriculated, and on the rolls Of
the alumni of all the leading colleges of the
East are many names of men who spent their
preparatory years IN these Institutions which
have always had friendly rivalry and cordial
cooperation in the work for which their found
ers set them apart Each institution has had a :
its head eminent educators, and the respective
faculties have been composed of men adapted
TO the work for which they were selected Al
Andover there has been the advantage of prox-
unity to Boston, twenty-five miles distant and
the presence in the town itself of the famous
theological seminary. which, with great en-
dOwment and a faculty of brilliant men, has
drawn TO itself students of divinity from all
over the country, and has been the centre Of
more heated theological controversies than per
haps any other place in the United States
Phillips Exeter, on the other hand, has the
advantage of more rural surroundings in the
foothills of the White Mountains but easily ac-
cessible. being only fifty miles from Boston
At the time Of the foundation Of the school
Exeter was the capital Of the State.
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DIFFICULTIES IN TRANSLATION.

The following amusing blunder: occurred in a
French translation Of J. Fenimore Cooper's novel,
The Spy" The author. describing scene in
Westchester County wrote OF one Of the characters
IL the story that ne rode up in front OF house
disnounted and tied his horse 10 a large locust
meaning. OF course, the tree indigenous 10 that
region
The French translator. ignorant of any such tree
and taking the word locust literally translated il
by the word ''sauterele.'' which. when again rem
dered in English. read that the officer tied his horse
10 a large grasshOppeT
Welsh rabbits always puzzle the French. In
variably they translate these dishes into animals
Callings them '-lapHs du pays de Gales. or rao-
bits OF the land OF Wales
Where Shakespeare makes one Ot his heroes Sds
that renouncing his inheritance. he viii carve OUT
for himself q fortune with his sword french
translator renders that IA,
What care I for iardse With my knlfe VIII
The Firth of Forth was once tTansiatea p zee, e
ciuuu{ame de quatTieme' dfIh OF the IoUIth
Victor Hugo rendered -peajacket paietot "a
puTse de Dois- -, -,
-Sortcz cands!le.'' Candle. gc away
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ing their facilities. while new ones are beng
added to the number already in existence. Whlle
there is no accurate census Of the number OF
children in the private schools of New-York, 1t
is safe to assume that fully 10 per cent Of the
children OF the age for admission TO primary
and grammar grade schools are in the private
institutions-if not, in fact. larger proportion,
as the percentage OF pupils of the whole coun-
try in private schools is about that. 1t is not
the lack of public schools that causes this, for
the public school facilities are based upon the
entire school population, but the conviction OF
parents that better and more enduring results
are 10 be received from the private educational
institutions And this is in the face of the addl-
tional expense incurred. in many cases running
up to hundreds of dollars year. OF course
when the expense is prohi5itive the best possible
Is made OF the existing conditions, and public
school privileges are as highly priced as if they
cost as much as the most expensive of the pri-
Vate institutions. But the fact that the latter
are maintained is positive proof of their excel
lence and the satisfaction caused by what they
accomplish.
All that has been said in regard to private
schools only serves to show that their place in
the progress OF the community and in the ad-
vance Of enlightenment is only the legitimate
outgrowth OF the needs of the times and that
they can only continue TO command the conf
dence of those to whom they look for support
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TRAINING Secuted.

The well managed private school affords the
best possible facilities for securing the most
complete and valuable liberal education. The
competition to which they subjected. not
only by another, but by the great public
schools, tends constantly to raise the standard
of instruction and results. The best private
schools afford a most valuable training in both
manners and morals The manly and the
womanIy virtues are developed there as they
can be nowhere else. Unselfshness, devotion,
energy. honesty. temperance. knowledge, cour-
age nanIiness and uprightness taught by
precept and example, and the utmost care is
taken by teachers TO prevent any undermining
Of the cardinal principles which form the best
character. The disfavor with which anything OF
an unworthy nature III word or deed Is received
is sufficient to secure ITS extrpation, and the
democratic character of the associations OF
pupils in the Well managed private schooi tends
directly TO develop those standards OF manliness
and honor which prevail in the best circles. The
coward the liar and the sneak find favor
and short shrift in the orld TO which the pupils
OF the high class private school-an no other
can maintain itself-are introduced, and are
speedily reformed find place outside
The opportunity 10 stand on his or her own
merits gives pupil in a private schoo
knowledge Of what is lacking, and with the OPP
portunites afforded there are usually remedy
ing Of deficiencies and the requirement OF that
well rounded symmetry Of character which is
The ranks of the pupils Of private schools
are in the main recruited from the families or
the we-to-do, intelligent, prosperous part OF
the community and they are endowed by nature
with the advantages of good breeding. excellent
antecedents and personal traits that tend 10
ma Ike them that part OF the community whom
the burdens Of the future must fall Those who
are thus thrown together in preparatory educa-
tional work are pretty sure TO be associated in
later years in the conduct Of the many impor-
tant interests of the communities in which they
live
Those who become leaders in the little world
Of school are apt to become leaders in the larger
world outside, and develop more fully the
same qualities displayed IN earlier years 1t Is
therefore OF especial Importance that the guild
ance received in the formative years OF life
should be OF the sort that will bring out the
qualities which tend 10 make leaders in the
world OF thought and action.
NUMBER OF PUPILS INCREASING.
l. the face of these considerations II is not
surprising that the number of pupils in private
schools. in this city especially. is steadily in
cTeasing. ard that older Institutions are enlarE-