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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-04-12
HOW WE MAY IMPROVE OUR cOUN-
TRY SCHOOLS.
m.-Obstacles to Consolidation and How
to Overcome Them.

Population. 1t is almost impossible
territory, a dense population, a large
school fund and only one system of
schools to appreciate the difficulty of
this problem of larger districts and
schools in a State like ours with a
large territory, a sparse population,
a small school fund, and two separate
systems of schools for two races.
To illustrate: The total population
of North Carolina is 1893, $40. The
average number of white children of
school age to the square mile is nine.
The average population to the square
mile of the North Atlantic division
of States is 1898, the average of
the State of Massachusetts, is 1883
The area of Massachusetts is about
~one-seventh that of North Carolina.
Her school population is one and
s~even-tenths times that of North
Carolina. Her school fund is eight
times that of North Carolina. She
supports one system of schools.
North Carolina must support two in
practically all of her territory. In a
State like North Carolina, therefore,
it is absolutely necessary to have
larger districts in order to have the
necessary number of children and the
necessary funds and the necessary
number of teachers for a successful
school.
2. The Bad Condition of Our Pul-
lie Roads. To make the problem of
consolidation in this State with her
sparse population, large territory,
small school fund and double sys-
tenn of schools still more difficult in
many of the very districts where the
population is sparsest and the need
for consolidation greatest, the condi-
ton of the county roads is such dur
ing the season when the schools are
In session as to render transporta-
ton of pupils impracticable without
greater expense than can be supplied
out of a small school fund, and as
to stand in the way also of requiring
children to walk farther to get to a
school-house in a larger district.
Without better roads and larger
school fund, transportation of pupils
in most rural districts in the South
is hardly practicable. At present,
therefore, as / have indicated before,
consolidation of districts cannot be
carried beyond the point of leaving
the farthest children within reason
able walking distance of the school
house. In a mild climate, any
healthy child can walk over an ordi-
nary road two or three miles to school
without injury and, as / pointed out
in my preceding article, if the aver
age size of the school district in
North Carolina could be doubled and
the number of districts reduced to
about half the present number, the
number of children for each school
would be doubled, the apportionment
to each school would be doubled, the
numhRr of +aoolo,o &c
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-04-12

school-house and the large majority
of the children within less than two
miles. Later when improved roads
and more favorable conditions make
transportation practicable, these
larger districts formed by ~consolida-
tioncnow would probably become the
nuclei of still larger districts and of
township high schools.
3. Lack of County Maps Showing
Townships, Roads, Streams, Centres
of Population, etc. This inevitably
means lack of information in regard
to the size, boundaries, topography,
distances, etc., of small districts and
of proposed consolidated districts.
Such maps are an absolute necessity
for the information of the County
Board of Education in order to carry
on intelligently the work of CONSOLE
dating districts. With such maps,
every County Board of Education
could take up the work of consolida-
ton Systematically by townships
combining the unnecessary small dis
tricts into larger districts with due
regard to the effect upon adjoining
districts, avoiding in this way weak
ening or destroying one district to
make another stronger. Such a map
sufficiently accurate for the purposes
of the County Board of Education
and County Commissioners would
not cost very much and these two
Boards would, 1 am sure, find it a
wise expenditure of money to have
such a map prepared, bearing the ex-
pense of the same jointly.
4. Unwillingness to make a Sacri-
flee of Personal Convenience for a
Better School and for the Greatest
Good to the Greatest Number. Most
men naturally desire a school-house
as near their doors as possible for
the convenience of their own little
family %cirles, and, sometimes, unfor-
~tunately, for the employment of their
own daughters, sisters, cousins or
aunts as teachers. Because of con-
v~enience, profit, love of control, at
tachment to the old school-house and
conservatism in clinging to the old
rather than in trying the untried
new, they are naturally loath to give
up their little schools, when once es-
tablished, for the greatest good to
the greatest number. It is a misfor-
tune that more care and system
should not have been exercised many
years ago In dividing the counties
and townships into school districts
and in properly locating school
houses. The cry of a sch~ool-house at
every mans door is a popular one
and the demagogue, who is always
ready to catch votes or to create
dissatisfaction with any sort of a
promise without regard frequently to
the possibility or the wisdom of
keeping it, is ever ready, upon oc-
casion, to raise this cry for tempo
rary gain. The political sore-head
is ever ready to faunt in the face of
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-12-09
-es,a assanaaG

Fifty miles, SlNiA Mll'S' seventy il''rs
81 Ncllty three miles. Inc l~ndieato1s
in The roadmaSter's ear attached to the
overland dyer showed that the train
wa making swift time across the lcve}
pIaiuts Ahead. in the Pullman, pas
sonaa,l sclrrrlv rntircd the speed.
,rhev were wishing Inc long winter
,,ie5t v.,e ,1a;. and were 1hinbine of
ragv Glesidos Back cast.
Erank Martin left thei Indicator with
mn a word 10 tho roadmaSter. whose
aliesT NE was loi. The i,i, to his ranch.
1.e,,t forns'ra fot. iao tenth time t}lat
~. nia.y IA lnnE.a a~9xiouslv mn the
iste of ,hp Pullman. There She was
,a,itn o~a3.k -baire4 7,onsiye. alone.
Aftr. = nol@ent of indccision he ap-
ro,ch45 hs, Me. 4 isfina you some
,hi,,.- r,a+, tbe 15,,in, ,.,,a"
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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-12-09

of the chain arranged to fit. This shelf
will hold anything one desires. and If it
is in the way it is easy to range it
so thai 1t may be taken down when not
in use by putting a screw eye in the
outer edge of the shelf and a nail on
the side of the barn to hold the SHELF
when it is not wanted. This shelf. or
q number Of them would be found very
useful and Will cost but little. How
many conveniences we might have
around the farm home II we would take
q little tim to make them and put
them in place. Why not use up some
Of the spare time this winter in this
way3
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-12-09
a Friend in Disquise.

New York World. Crawford Il don't
see how you can have a good word for
the christmas crowds.
Chabshaw-Why, old boy. | under
took 10 accompany my Wife on her
shopping tour. and if it hadn't been
fol the crowd ! could never have lost
her n the first store we entered.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-12-09
There is n Difference.

Town Topics: .Christmas shopping
tsn't like other shopping, contided MIR.
Gazzaal to MI. T~enspot.
What is different about it,
When The Women 90 Christlnas
shopping they actually buy things,
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-12-09
SEPARATE HOMES
FOR THE CHILDREN
Charlotte Perkins GilmanWoulJ
Have Them Brought UP
Scientifically
WORK FOR TIE MOTHERS
They Ought to Sc Free 10 Contribute
to Worlds Wealth-No Cooking
Would Be Allowed in a Really
Civilized Household.
WORK FOR THE MOTHERS

chiea.o Tribune: srhildrcn should
mo-, ~. 1,,.al ron in the homo. \ pgI-
"N r.
Nate hplse lot ""u.'s uo'9 10y
good place iol them. They can be cared
for better outside OF the nome. Sepa-
,ato Eo,ens shotll he bril, for Them
II Il ~, ~ ,,,,. of NIGH salar,nd
esner,s tbey cam he fed scieutihosuiy
~ n, ~, .,,,ai {"
'i .rhf s'l l. ,rt,,t NJ ,SolIottr ~pcrlslns
rI = 49, 49, ~ tafd M ,Iar,l..rs
~ NJ, ~ tll.'N.ie e., i,a, nnirk In see. me
~ - ~, ~ i,ia ~.
.ooNs - "o'4i1e' t.t' "a nc niIicls 10
'"Ves "i hei - H ~, w.
''e@i 80 1i32el'@i ,.o,,i i 3t.,,t ~ ,,G.,
aellleq l'Al' Ste NDu.. 80 go
-ioll US 't@.:i - ~
"->ot ;hat' s-.e sald. Tor W"ai,t 'i@'
'2DJetl 20 Nlc hl"tie! ltotH''l, ~ -
'aht IN tlef a.in9 t9' ~ i'o,i' " li.t,
aay' put .o' y ".t.t ~ w. ~,
! WoG"i ih--3t NAAt 'te p3rS ~ ~
under a separate laof. Ahd u! Ih's ~
afAte rouse 't'e tll@4t Siiol4-' - -
Ana liiiS MS 'lpt an IN@t - -
man told The chicago club Moinsh. one
declared That the "omtll VINO SpeIlG8
precious louis preparing her AuS3aiHs
meals has nol l sen above t1e s@Ntse
state. she urged that the home kieA-
en-. the !l0nte laundry, and the h"ltte
nursery are out OF harmony With civil
lizatiol.
YOU think home is the right place
for In ,.Iilj =" she said. "helI tISA We
favn afosIvs ,honpht So ,That's what
every a,irIal dors@cares for is Young
ana feeds its yoj,pp In the home. cam
We do noihinT better? Because eaon
animal ,notbar gives her life to her
offsprillg is ii rIgh, that we SHOULD
We are dcine lust what the lower ami
mails are doing, lust What the hons
mate doe. The savage mother is the
,ame as you. What has made the
difference in the children? Civilization
and education have made the cilange.
not mothers care. The school has
lifted the children up. and who built
the school? Man. Man has made our
civilizations While woman has Jagged
centuries behind. Every step in hu-
IMAM progress is made outside of the
nome
The club women who throneea the
.estry rooms OF Sinai temple to listen
20 the New Yorker who last mn
stunned Berlin we're prepared to hear
present day customs raked over hot
Goals. But the raking Was more Wig
-
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-12-09

$50 ~ N8A "ENH It.E .lL.
So ~ 5 B}}s5tsta
Ia "NN5.i4!!4.
sss{s 4 ,~e184i!s
-. - Win
~ 80 .lag9S
So .tsassSX IA, N s!tHTNj
s.I = N ~ft3aaHit T3YaHMT
go. JI41B
49, .s.L.4sF s14
1880
-
wNo have ttied y clalnl thal IT ~ "{,
the ~introdNcerS say ~ Is. I'm d Stitsi.t
plot Tic writer found that II Was eili5S
and that It's q&aItN MAS uil5ui i"aoeS.
the productiNenesS hoWsNSl' W. -
iug, although 1T is rot 70 pc Go!taS3ii.ea
on this small test, only hait a 4o2eil
tubers being aNall1bie. We SEAN yes,
1t more extensively announcer S.s2oii INV
can recommend It TO any po'aIo sf1Me.
for testing on MS own sfoullaa' IN
N our limited test II showed RoS ~.
tiles which prove IL worthy % '@i.
S"'' wATcH THE pilllETs.
- a.. - ,.,a,s b.s
MANY a iist GIisS lloeh ot $3.50 Ha2
me llltIe ullI!ss. W. 9 =, y ~ a,,
spfihs iiatciea paliete W. pSs+t W g
shd III IS worth coilaiGela pte w. 80
rack OF the olies VIZ ny ~ "i..oii5
l rs - roo5 hi,as IN ofrer resnects
~ s,1o,l15 No ,narled in some way so
,he.. tbeir eass may be used for hitch
ing at the proper season and th9s lay
tAe ~uhHa'lo 10. d s.lal!, y eaiiS )" .
ing fowls. Conversely, the pui!ets OF
the same 1876 which are the last to pc
sin laying should also be i~ndentlfled
50 that the eggs Will not be used fol
Matching and also that some record
may be kept of the number or egg
lain by such a pullet during the year,
so as to determine whether she should
be carried through a second winter OF
turned onto n carcass market. Ihe
man who intelligently studies his youns
stock will learn a surprising lot about
poultry in n year even though ne
thought he knew it all before; he VII
also find a number of ways by whicf
he can increase the value of the flock
If raising poultry for the money return
is worth doing at all 1t is Worth doing
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-12-09
HANDY SHELF FOR BARN.

Nc need to tell a farmer how often
q shelf in the barn would be found use
full. Try his plan of making ONE at
very small cost. Take two pieces OF
iron chain or of rope and fasten the
two ends to strong hooks screwed to
the side of the barn. In the loops of
the chain place the shelf. which should
be OF The desired width and the loops
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-12-09
Luck in Mince Pie.

In some parts OF rural England every
mince pie partalsen of under a different
roof during the Christmas season ENSURES
Il happy month during the coming year,
Every housekeeper has a stock of pies or
hand to offer her friends. and no excuse
for not eating is permissible except,
''rhanke: ] have eaten my -"
Holiday Town Topics: Crawford-Diu
he tel, you he lived in a nat?
C~rgbslaw-No; but l met him looking
around for a dwarf Christmas tree,
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-12-09
Nearest She Got to It.

chicago Record-Herald "Ilave YOU
ever. the girl from Boston asked,
mad a critical study of Paradise
Lost
No replied the lady who was Up
from st. Louis. but l lived in Para
disc. TEX. once for three months
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-12-09

Even in a community so small that
IT numbers only twenty families, l
would have a separate house for the
abies In a village large enough to
boast of a blacksmith shop and a post
Office there should be a laundry, a
cooking shop, and a place for babies.
During the time that | would have
every adult woman working, | would
have these babies cared for in this
house of heirs. Children should have
some human creature to take care OF
them. and not merely some one whom
they call mother"
The speaker urged that when all
women 60 out into the world and work
they can make their own terms.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-12
BUSINESS LOCALS.

Send to or Immediately notify the
Board of Health of all rats found dead
from nnknoaVn causes.
See VIII E. Fishers flag for auction
advertisements.
Step in the Columbia at noon to-
day and have chicken lunch.
Lowney's celebrated chocolates in
fresh supply at Lewis &, Co.'S
Auction sale of furniture today az 10
O'Clock at James F. Morgan's auction
rooms.
AS usual the columbia" is up-to-date
and will have Primo Book beer on draft
Saturday.
Proposals will be received at the Of
fee of the Superintendent of Public
Works for constructing new abutments
for the Waikane bridge in Koolaupoko.
A residence on Young street, near Ka-
piolani. will be sold under foreclosure
of mortgage tomorrow at one o'clock at
the salesroom of Will e. Fisher, the
auctioneer.
The Hoffman Saloon with fixtures and
leasehold will be sold tomorrow noon
at public auction by VIII E. Fisher.
The sale will take place on the premises,
Hotel and Nuuanu streets
w. j. England. of the w. j. England
Co, wishes to state that he IS in no
way connected with the arrest made a
few days since at the Brunswick Bill
lizard parlors. The party arrested was
c. T. England.
Arriving in the Alameda this morn
ing for the Metropolitan Meat Co are
fresh California fish, crabs, poultry
Crystal Springs butter, ETC. AT the
vegetable stand are all California fruits
and Vegetables in season.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-12
Market Opens with Music.

The reopening of the Public Market
as the official name of the establish
ment has been from its starting-on
Saturday will be signalized with pub
lie concert by the Territorial band from
to D. m. It is not known as yet
whether Bandmaster Berger will have
ready the new march-"The Anchor
Bearing Pilot Shark of Kona he Is
certain to have lively program. The
japanese fishing bosses viii have the
yaulted arena beautifully decorated.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-12
SEE THOSE BLACK LUsTRE
SATEEN
PettiCOatS

They look just like silk. Hold the
skirt we'll and unusually seryiceable-
81. so to SO. 75 each.
Ladies' eolored cotton petteoats with
rutfies at 75c. and s1.00 each,
Ladies alpaca skirts in black. blue,
and grey. Just the thing for hot, dusty
weather. Prices, $500, $3.50 and $500
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-12
REV. C. |. PEARSON
LEAVES on SIBERIA

Rev. G. L Pearson leaves today on
the Siberia and will be assigned to a
new charge. He has been in HonoIu-
lu for several years as presiding elder
of this conference and as pastor of the
NJ. E. Church, and has done a broad
and thorough work, winning the re-
spect and good will of the island public
as well as the affection of his own peo-
pie.
Mr.. Pearson will have two successors.
one to be pastor of the local church and
the other superintendent of missions.
A man, who can speak Japanese and
Korean is wanted for the latter post.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-12
Farewell to Fitch.

A farewell dinner was rendered Col.
Thomas Fitch last night at the Moana
hotel. the occasion being Col Fitch, $
departure on the Siberia today to take
part in the coming campaign. Those
present were Messrs. Fitch. Peacock
Bliss. Hays. Prince David. Hertsehe,
Humphreys. Robertson. Boyd, Johnson
ana Thoropson. There was fine menu.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-12

a little rusty: THE bride seemed
onite nervous. didn't she?" remarked
the first Chicago girl. Naturally re-
piled the other; she's somewhat OUT
of practice It's the first time sne-s oeeh
married since last year."-Philadelph
Public Ledger.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-12
P,neaDples to the Coast Prepaid.

Tropic Fruit Co. will deliver a box
of their fine Wahiawa Pineapples TO
any address on the Coast. all charges
prepaid, for less than the freight alone
would cost you. See Byron O. Clark
Manager. or leave orders with f. c.
Enos, agent for Wells. Fargo & Co..
Masonic block.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-12
Observation-Disclosures.

Mr.. and Mrs W. F. Frear have re-
ceived a cablegram announcing the
marriage of Miss Marion E. Diiiing-
ham to Rev. John P. Erdman on We'd
nesday evening, the tenth of August
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-12
GDv, CARTER MARCH
/ WILL Be FEATURE

A public concert viii be given by tho
territorial band, starting at 1880 o'clock,
this evening at the Alexander Young
hotel. The following program will be
rendered. including Capt. BergeTs new
governor Carter march:
PART l.
overture Festival ............ Bach
Introduction-.Ca .......-.. Bizet
Selection American Melodies $3.50.
....-.-.... .....--........... Conterno
Vocal Selections
(a) "Hooheno."
(b) .Lihi Kai Ohele.'
(c) "Wai Mapuna."
Id eOiwi Mani"
Mrs. N. AIapai.
PART II.
MISUNDERSTANDING Carter" (new).....
............ -.........-.......... berger
selection-"My Old Kentucky Home
....--..---.-..- DalDey
Intermezzo-t'TheG ondolier'' -. Powell
March-"United Flags" ........ Gabriel
Aloha De-
1.-THE Star Spangled Banner
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-08-31
$100 Reward. 500.

The readers of this paper will
be pleased to learn that there is at
least one dreaded disease that sci
ence has been able to cure in all
it's stages, and that is Catarrh.
Halls Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cure now known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being
constitutional disease, requires
constitutional treatment. Hall S
Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system,
and giving the patient strength by
building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work.
The proprietors have so much
faith in it's curative powers, that
they offer one hundred dollars for
any case that it fails to cure.
Send for list Of testimonials. Ad-
dress F. j. CHENEY & CO.,
Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-08-31
A Promising Oil Country.

The Creek, Usage and Cherokee
nations in Indian Territory are
receiving wide recognition as a
promising oil country, and capital
and development have so far
brought handsome results. The
oil is of superior quality; the ter
ritory is reached directly by the
Frisco system, who issues free of
charge, a booklet, giving full data
concerning the country and it's
possibilities. Mailed to any ad-
dress upon request to Sidney Van
Dusen, 706 Park building, Pitts
burg, Pa. 4,1-tf'
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-08-31
INSANITY CURED.
{ Was Losing Control of Ny
Mind and Could Not
Remember persons.

was losing control of my mind and
,ould not remember persons or names,
:aused by female weakness. Chronic
Inflammation @! the liver, kidneys anc
bladder, scalding Of urine and nonre
;ention of the same, had troubled me
.or years, making me very nervous.
All the medicines l used only relieved
ne for q time You don't know how
delighted I am to think | am so much
better and stronger all through my
system, and Thompson's Barosma
Backache, Liver, Kidney and Lumbago
Cure dio it. l used six bottles. 1t was
worth more than money to me, for it
Iave me health and strength, for
vas very weak and miserable before
MRS. NJ. A. COX,
Titusville, Pa.
Thompson's Barosma is $L00; sir
bottles $500.
Sold by Hill Brothers.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-08-31

Eli Wells, 50.
Samuel Nissan. 50.
Charley Morris, $3.50.
T. B. Lysle, 81.
J.B. Dancer, s..
L. Thorn, 3Sc.
A. j.. Montieth, 1928.
Jas. Mckay, $5.08.
Lizzie Lady, $l.25.
Jas. B. Stewart, $3.50.
J. E. Cornell, 96c.
J. P. Alkire, soc.
D. NJ. Dancer. $4.06.
J. R. Eddy, $3.50.
D. G.. Smith, $3.50.
Theodore Ross, So.
Clerks office of the County
Court of Tyler County, West Vir-
ginia.
I, J. W. Duty, Clerk of the
County Court of Tyler County,
in said State, do hereby certify
that the above and foregoing is a
true statement Of the finances OF
the County Of Tyler, including
the various district road funds,
upon settlement by the County
Court of said county with j. W.
Grim, Sheriff, for the fiscal year
ending May 81, 1904, as shown
by the records of said County
court.
In witness whereof, I hereto
subscribe my name and affix the
seal of said County Court, this, the
18th day of August, 1904.
[seal J. w. DUTY, Clerk.