The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-02

For some time the Christian church
has been seeking for a site for an or
nanag for its orphan children In
Virginia and North Carolina n 1T
now appears hat Raleigh will be the
location chosen A committee is TO
meet here In a few days To arran-c
matters. A very excellent site. fmme-
diatly upon both the Seaboard and
Southern railways is in view.
At Dol today the teachers summe
school, at Agricultural and Mechani-
sal college here ended its four weeks
term 1t was the largest ever held iu
the State and was extremely success
ful- All the members of the faculty
did excellent work. The school Is so
large that more teachers will have
10 be provided next term. and il IS
said there ought to be two or three 10
look after the matter OF what may be
termed primary instructions in Eng
fsh. Professor d. II. Hill gave ad-
mirable instruction in higher English.
but many Of the teachers have not
vet reached this point.
Next week the farmers of the state
are expected to be here in great num-
bers. They Will be quartered III Wa
tauga hall and other buildings at the
Agricultural and Mechanical college,
which have been for a month so full
Of lady teachers at the summer school.
Many Important questions are to be
by AlC IcESs HOl III.
east of which is regarding labor.
The Raleigh public schools are 10
have a new feature in the shape of n
special building, In which cooking and
sewing are to be taught. Labor Is
getting so scarce that people will have
TO learn to do for themselves It is
n happy return to the good old days,
when everybody worked. In those days
far more was known about haniicraft
of every kind. by both sexes. than is
dreamed of nowadays. Good cooks
are scarce, and daily getting scarcer,
very few people know anything about
making clothing. and there is really
extremely little general knowledge of
any sort of handicraft.
1t is very noticeable. after a look
over the summer school juSt ended
here that North Cardinals education
al dependence is upon women as
teachers in the public schools. 1t is
stated that not a tenth of the teachers
are men. Now there are two things
to be done. One is to get better
teachers and to pay them more money.
If the money is offered, the teachers
viii be secured, for the alarieS are
now so small that few men can be
found who are willing to teach. The
question was asked by a prominent
: |cato-, How many men do you
! low are prominent who are teaching
IL :he public schools? I do not mean
superintendents. but teachers" The
salaries of teachers are declared to
be much too low.
National Democratic Committeeman
~Josephus Daniels has returned from
Esopus, where he went as one of the
committee to notify Judge Parker Of
his nomination. When asked how
Judge Parker looked. he said not &c
bit like his pictures, as the latter rep
resented him expression and
with a. im~perturbable face. He has
a. very ruddy mOustache. rather gray
is very ruddy in complexion, erect.
springy and fine Of figure. He is a
who,e-souled sort Of a man and a fine
politician too, we'll informed, and
knows the political conditions as well
as anybody. Out Of the 81 members
Of the committee to notify him. he
could hardly have known a dozen. and
Yet he had something to say to each
one about the committeeman or his
state. 1t is really wonderful how we'll
informed he was. Committeeman
Daniels said that leaders in New York
all nick Parker as a winner and say
he has the political sagacity of Sam
uel j. Tilden. They say he will GER
tainly carry New York. The editorial
in the New York Herald favoring Par
ker, which has attracted such general
attention, was telegraphed entirely by
James Gordon Bennett from Paris.
This editorial has had a powerful eff
feet in New York and New Jersey.
The Herald being very influential n
not being accustomed to declaring for
candidates in such a way. Commit
teeman Daniels a Thomas Taggart
and other leaders from the west said
aS to Indiana, that while 10000 gold
Democrats there voted for Mckinley,
these are now for Parker.
A thousand tons of rail are begin
ming to arrive here to be laid on the
Raleigh and Pamlico Sound road.
will begin within ten days. The
treStling for the bridge across Crab
tree creek is nearly ready. This will
be used for putting in place the steel
bridge there.
N. L. Spence and w. J. Adams. of
were here today in regard
to the Mcneil damage case, this BENZ
the one in which Editor Mcneil was
given $4,000 damages for an injury
received while riding on an expired
pass. The case is singular. because
it asks for the r~e-hearing of a re-
hearing. This is said to oe unique in
this state.
State Secretary T. B. Parker, Of the
Farmers Alliance. has letters from
Mr.. Gates, the organizer. that h
farmers in Cumberland are joining
the order in large numbers and that
the outlook is very fine.
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