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gressed The idea of men with the
gift of prophecy. it grew from the
first with vigor that was astounding.
1t took the place in practice that its
founders imagined for it in theory.
To it hocked the culture of the South.
1t became classic while yet young.
The imaginative craftsmanship which
was able to see through the miSts
of the years worked through the
young institution the miracle of its
faith. From its inception the Uni
versity had the dignity of age, as the
Republic Sprang into being in re-
sponse to the centuries-old impulses
of manly courage and free souls.
There was the emotion of the people,
the ambitions of fathers. the dreams
of boys precipitated and given form
and color. The response came from
ali over the South. Young men fiocked
from the cities and from the far
States TO the Mecca set up in the Or
ange county woods, the few build
men bigger than their time. The
dream became a reality and the State
thrilled with pride university man
became a badge of honor. it carried
distinction, it unlocked doors that were
closed before. Her sons went out into
the world and wrought with
the added impulse of reflect
ter. Greatly they served her. They
went into the counsels of the nation,
they carried to other States the fame
of the University. More men came;
the institution became the child of
the State indeed. 1t seemed, almost,
that there was an idea that had been
born into power and success without a
babyhood. that had sprung full
grown as it were from the mind of
the men who had voiced Il dream
The Period Of Tl,e Great War
Then. at the ilood-tide came the
war, Students ceased to come. cx-
cept some scattering boys. Revenues
fell off. Glasses thinned from day to
day as young men, listening to the
ins:stence Of the call. followed their
duty to The battlefieldS. Still the in
stitution kept open doors showing in
the sadness and poverty into which it
had fallen the spirit of the idea OF
which il was bcgotten. High ana
proud and indomitlblc. the University
met deSoair as it had enjoyed pros
perity. with tho quiet dignity that at
taches to all things which owe exist
ence to the first causes of nature, or
the wcll-sprngs of humanity. That
is a pathetic reflection. that handful
of professors teaching that handful OF
boys out i'm the woods among the
which had swarmcd with
wealth and culture. serving without
pay. With reason daily strangling
hope. preparing fuel for the fires of
war From the front came the news
of battles. day after day. and always
in the news blow at the old Uni
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the head of the common school sys-
tenn of the State. That end il has
gloriously fulfilled Its influence can
be directly traced in the work OF the
men who have made education popu-
lar in North Carolina, from The pub
lie schools to the higher institutions,
separate in themselves and yet in
theory supplemental to the Universi-
ty. which is the mother of the move
ment. Who can estimate the worN
done in North Carolina by E. A. AL
derman by Charles ID. McIver, by j.
y. Joyner, by George /. WINSTON, by
the thousands of Scnool Superintend-
cnts, college professors, teachers In
ruIaI lie, preachers, regis. .ators, doy-
tors and lawyers who have gone from
"aIs .ii.Jued with It's pa. losophy.
keenly .attuned to it's motives. its pIet-0.
...~ .4cata nave touched
woe people. From the University
to, tne SEED OF the Agricultural
and Mechanical College. Of the Normal
ana Industrial College. Yet. as it
~ g., /, IA :, ,fONn. II mas beel an in
....,.4-~ ,,n.cn mas carr. ed increase in
is wake to All lnes OF higher tnOdght
and intellectual endeavor. 1t mas
built up and not destroyed It's COM
petition, if there has seemed to be
SUCH with other institut ons, has help
force beneficent in results in itself,
spreading it's doctrine everywhere, in
spring emulation, creating civilization
of anew sort. The University stands
for universal intelligence; as a coroll-
ary il stands for the morality. the
temperance, the widely progressive
religious thought that mark an epoch
distinguished for the growth of in
dividual responsibility for the whole
YNafyy ifx
stands and has stood throughout its
existence, for higher citizenship.
To this end the University has ex-
panded until it now maintains six de-
partments. to which will be added as
means allow others, tending to fit the
student for such special life-work as
be may desire TO follow:
1st. The Collegiate Department for
a general, broad I'D liberal culture.
md. The Graduate Department.
for those who would pursue their
training further in order to become
scho .ars. teachers and Investigators.
3rd. The Department of Applied
Science for those who would learn to
apply their knowledge of Chemistry,
Physics. Geology, Biology to the prac-
I cal uses Of daily life, and would fit
themselves for useful positions in
these sciences.
4th. Inc Department OF Law 80
that the state may be properly sup
piled with lawyers and judges, and the
average citizen may get Il knowledge
uf law which will be useful to him in
his life work.
5th The Department of Medicine
for the training of skilled physicians.
9th. The Department of Pharmacy
for those who would become skilled
in the dispensing of drugs.
The Student Democracy.
Included in the study Of these de-
partmcnts OF the University are over
six hundred young men who conSti-
tute almost an ideal Democracy. There
are rlen Of rich parents, highly pre-
pared at expensive preliminary
schools. boys in moderate crrcum-
stances getting an education as a fin
ishing touch before the real labor of
life, other men of broader opportunity
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war had made many changes UniVer-
sity men did mot have the prestige
and the influence that they had pos
sessed before their wealth was
mostly departed; they, too, were al
work for bread and meat; the men
who passed the appropriation bills had
many of them never dreamed of a
college; they were the graduates Of
adversely and experience. That they
should have listened as they did was
a tribute TO their patriotism as il
was an evidence of the earnest elo-
quencc Of the diminished number OF
the graduates Of the University who
never forgot to labor and to speak
in her behalf. When the University
began its instruction for the secono
time in 1875, it's largest support was
in the future; it had to manufac-
ture its sons to public life and to
faithfuncss to the institution which
sent them out into the world. How
that great work has prospered the
sequel Of the generation, the last
chapter Of the serial which appears in
the current year, vividly portrays
The E'uIiiImcnt of The Dream.
Il must not be forgotten that the
University idea was that it should be
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thorities with great anxiety. When
the tramp of the soldiers was heard
the President of the college, accom-
panied by the mayor of the town.
met the general some miles from
Winston Salem and after surrender
ing the place asked protection for
the school. A guard was sent and
SO sacred was the charge consider
ed, that not an act of violence was
committed. not even an unkind word
was spoken.
Among the many historical events
which mark the passing years none
stand out in clearer light than the
fostering care given TO the oftentimes
homeless daughters of the South in
the dark days Of the Civil War. The
number thus cared for reaches far
up into the hundreds; they represent
ed the leading families from every
portion of the South, and when the
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From these homes came the dauSh-
terS to be trained intellectually and
to be instructed in the accomplish
mentS of music, art and kindred sub
jects. They came in the great family
coaches, with liveried drivers and Il
retinue of attendants. They came at
times from across mountains and this
journey must needs be made on
horseback, as only hunters trails ex-
listed. They came from north and
south. from east and west. during
these fifty years. and the lists ran into
the thousands.
During the months following the
call of the first president in 1902 the
time was used to make the proper
preparation for the reception of pupils
from a distance, the day school hav-
ing been established as early as 1870.
May 6. 1904. the first boarding pupils
arrived, four in number. Soon four
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dark days were over it could be said
With thankfulness 1.st not single
one Of an these many precious young
lives suffered narm of any kind.
ZebuIon h. Vanc" ~as Governor of
our state at this time lie took this
conpanv of helpless children, the
flower Of the Southland, under his
cspccfai care, and many were the
offciaI acts Of kindness which he
showed TO the school. About fifteen
years ago he visited the college and
the ovatiom~he received seemed to
touch him deeply. When Governor
Vance departed this life one of the
graduating classes placed a beautiful
memorial window in the school chap
ell. = loving tribute to the memory
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vide even the plainest food for the
many pupils, little being produced, as
the men of the surrounding SCI ton
were in the army Wiille lieid ana
farm We're untitled Mally uhie
the principal would ride all night 70
secure a beef or a sheep ana Wen
d1d he perform his dlli'cu,t TASK,
for during all these tfoupi9a thleS
no one suffered want Witiilh the
school
Perhaps one of the most crltlcal
epochs of these years of the civil war
period was the time when the hostile
army encamped in Wlnston-0alenl. /.
Inc fact that so many towns ana
citles had been DESTROYED naturally
hlled the hearts of the scnool au-
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more followed and two were added
from Salem. The names of these
ten boarding pupils will be interesting
to the general reader since many of
the descendants of these first pupils
will recognize the names of their an
cestors. The first ten boarding pupils
were:
Elizabeth Strudwick. Hillsboro. =. G.
Ann Kirkland. Hillsboro n. G.
Elizabeth Kirkland, Hillsboro, \. G.
Mary Philips, Tarboro, n. {.
Anna Norfleet, Scotland Neck, n. c.
Felicia Norfleet, Gates Co., N. G.
Anna Staert, Fayetteville n. c.
Rebecca Carter, CasweIl Co, n. G.
Anna Pauline Shober, Salem, \. {.
Mary Steiner, Salem, N. Z.
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The Iimc or the Civn war.

ne tlttC t8 ttfc NiND " Stb
After half a century of uninter-
rupted usefulness the period of the
Civil War approached. Large build
ings had been erected and these were
filed with busy workers When the
hostile armies were manoeuvering in
Virginia and Tep1essee. in Georgia
and the Gulf states, when homes were
being burned and fields devastated,
the daughters Of the families. in many
instances were sent to Salem. The
school buildings were filed to their
utmost capacity, and during these
terrible four years hundreds found a
safe home in Salem after their own
home had been destroyed. and quietly
and happily they pursued their
studies,
An interesting story could be writ
ten in regard to these years. when it
was indeed a serious matter to pro-
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to contribute TO its support as the
ward of iI.4pGre rule
The re-opening in 1915 marked the
victory Of the University idea, served
notice of its aims. Sloritied it's pur-
poses. Again there was poverty once
more struggle and makeshift; stress
but never despair. Confidence thai
is born of courage held up its head,
met adversely met encouragement
halfway. Then did the University
prove itself; then did her sons show
by their fidelity the reason of her be-
ing then. in the hour of a sublime
Indifference to hardship did She show
the germ of her Immortality.
Rc-Opening. = Rebuilding.
The re-opening was in reality re-
building. The foundations had been
weakened. A civilization had gone
into the depths emerged with wounds,
was yet struggling for its freedom.
III WAS almost academic to tell Il
man that tho University stood for
what had been lost; he had lost "a
home. EJucltiong I was bread and
meat Culture" 1t was 10 put down me-
gro domination. In such conditions the
mere re-opening of the institutions
was a triumph for its friends. The
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SALEM FEMALE ACADEMY:
ITS INSPIRING HISTORY
Great Educational Institution Which has Educated
Thousands Of the Souths Best Women.

which it eXe;ted in the past, and is
exerting DIT the present time.
Ihe Pounding of the School.
To properly appreciate the infu-
ences which have united to give
Salem this uninterrupted period of
prosperity. extending over more than
a century, it is necessary TO under
stand the relation which the Mora
Wan church bears to education. Four
hundred and fifty years ago, in the
old home lands of Moravia and Bo-
nemia the seed was sown which has
borne fruit all through the succeeding
generations. The ancient Moravian
Church had it's we'll known schools of
higher learning which numbered
among their leaders men like the
great pioneer of modern education.
the
Norayian Bishop. John COmenius.
The parishes in Moravia, Bohemia
and Poland all had secondary schools
which in excellence and numbers re-
sembled the modern common school
system.
If the reader is acquainted with the
history of the Moravian Church he
will recall the fact that it is a dis
tinctly missionary church. One of the
objects of the boarding schools in
England, in Germany, in Switzerland
In America, wherever Moravian
schools are found, is to supply
school-home fo.- the children of the
missionaries. who must needs send
their sons and their daughters to
home lands for educational advan-
tages. Hence when the children of
these devoted men and women came
from Greenland and Labrador, from
Ceylon and the West Indies. from
South Africa and from Thibet. they
found the schools modelled after
home in their arrangements and in
charge of consecrated men and wo-
men, In other words the Moravian
schools of a century and half ago,
were in reality home schools in a par
ticular sense.
Salem was of course fashioned af-
ter this manner and soon the fine
educational advantages, coupled with
the home happiness, attracted the
attention of an ever widening circle
and the unbroken confidence which
1t has enjoyed is shown by the fact
and College last year had more than
four hundred names gathered from
twenty-four States and foreign lands
Salem'S Earlier History.
The early history of the school pre-
sents many features of interest. 1t
covers the period from the beginning
TO the middle of the century. 1t was
the time when cotton was king,
when the cotton growers lived like
the nobility of the old country and
dispensed their hospitality with law
fish hand, backed by well filled purse.
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versity which had 50 labored for the
South. There an honor man had fall
len; yonder general, Chief of the
Commencement Ball perhaps, hemmed
in by foes had cut a path for his
troops TO glory; read today in Chapcl
a list of men in the ranks who had
fallen in a last desperate assault; to-
morrow rumOur of some great victory;
always in all the news, running the
personal touch between the men in
the field.the old buildings. the handful
of students waiting, waiting for the
chance to leave the mother. serving
her at the front, to break her heart
with tragedy.
Closed But Not Di.honorcd.
The tine young men who had Braccd
ii in the days Of its prosperity, who
had touched with elegance the insti.
tuition in its youth. who had continued
to come to its doors when it Travelled
i'll poverty ana struggled for the
Scant right To live preserved the
purity Of its traditions when they re-
fused to come 10 il when il was at
tempted to give ii To diShonor. The
finest illustration of the nobility OF
the University is the fact that the
popular heart of the people refused
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Il must not be forgotten that tht
University idea was that it should b'
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which it eXe.ted in the past, and is
exerting at the present time.
The Pounding of the School
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FACTS AND FIGURES.

st. Louis butts into the procession
with a tax assessment roll of $780,
100000, an increase of 100000 900 over
1904.
Only four per cent. of the men of
the British army have a chest meas
urement of over 40 inches, and 20 per
cent between SO inches and 40 inches.
New York state is about to receive
from the federal government $11S,.
1854, interest and principal on an in
vestment of $4,000 in equipping troops
for the war of 1912.
At Cheboygan, Mich, is the largest
sawdust pile in the world. 1t is a
hill, 1850 feet long, 875 wide, 1926
in circumference, ranges from 20 to
so feet in height, and covers IL acres.
1t is the accumulation of one lumber
company since 1877.
Camille Flammarion's new perpetual
calendar starts the year at the vernal
equinox, March 81. Every quarter
should contain two months of 80 days
and one month of 81 days. This would
make 354 days. The same dates
would occur on the same days of the
week, and one calendar would last q
lifetime.
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The Barber County Index.
PAINTER q HERR. Publishers.
MEDICINE LODGE. KANSAS
Poisons in Foods.
KANSAS

Look you. prudent housewife, have
. care. Use circumspection when
you purchase any macaroni. or any
noodles or lay in stock of catsup or
canned tomatoes; it may happen that
these noodles and other things are
colored-yes, doctored up with po-
tons that are dangerous to the stom-
ach. Thus runs the note of warning
sent by the state dairy and food COM
missioner to the board of directors of
the National Retail Grocers' associa-
ton and to other responsible sources
warning them to be careful about
what they purchase in the line of the
products mentioned. 1t is asserted
that there are at present on the mar
ket some dangerously adulterated
canned products containing poisons in
troduced for the purpose OF obtaining
the natural appearance of the genuine
product when the material used is
either adulterated or inferior in quail
tty to what it should be. Horace
Ankeney is the dairy and food COM
missioner at present for the state of
Ohio and the recent notice sent out is
the third he has issued on this one
line of products. The discovery Of
numbers of fragrant cases OF artificial
coloring has demanded the fire.
quent notices. The commissioner and
his force of helpers are taking strin-
gent steps to locate and punish the
offenders, and the retail grocers, in
order to protect themselves, are de-
handing a signed guarantee with
every consignment of goods of that
nature in which the manufacturers
agree to stand sponsor for any action
which might be brought against the
goods by the dairy and food commits
siOner
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the unique that was showing us around
saved dads life by pushing him along.
before the woman got chance to
brain him with the dashboard.
The women mostly had on these
ybaggy Turkish trousers, like the
Zouayes wear, and a jacket, and
a cloth around their heads. and
they acted as though if the next
meal came along all right they would
be in luck. We saw a few women
pretty white, and they were Circassian
slaves. with big eyes and hoops in their
ears, and a little different clothes on
but there were none that dad would
buy at an auction, or at bargain sale
if they were marked down to 80 cents
We passed one woman running an
American sewing machine. and dad
said he'd bet she was an American
and he went up to her and said: "Hel-
10, sis!" She stopped the machine
looked up at dad with sort of Bowerv
expression. and said: "Gwan, Chauncev
Depew, you old peach, or I'll have Won
pinched," and the unique took dad nv
the arm and pulled him along real
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O1r First Washdav

The Mayfower drifted into Massachu-
sets bay and lay at anchor outside in
q little sheltered cove. The fathers had
gone ashore to see if there was place
suitable for landing. The morning was
Monday, and it seemed that the old
fashioned desire to tidy up came over
the hearts of the good housekeeping
women of the little band. The women
were rowed to shore, and in the cold,
salty water of the bay this Monday in
November. 1920, the first ladies in
America washed and scrubbed in the
good English fashion, too. Fires were
built, water heated and clothes spread
out on the trees and snow. When all
was finished to the satisfaction of the
women they sighed with pleasure, AMI
said: Cleanliness is akin to godli-
ness" Do you know this is history
Yes, it is, though not as dry as history
sometimes is. Anything is history that
shows the spirit of the times, and this
washday in America showed the spiri.
of the first arrivals.
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Summer DroWnings

In nine cases out of ten of the numer
GUS cases of drowning which sadden the
summer season the fatal accident may
be traced back either to ignorance of
few simple rules that should be known
and observed by bathers, or else to q
rash and reckless disregard of them
when known. In the cases of the drown
ing of good swimmers, the fatal cramp
is generally due to their having gone
into the water too soon after eating or
when overheated, and therefore with
their strength, unconsciously to them
selves, beelow its par value. Here are
the cardinal rules for swimmers: Never
go into the water when overheated or
soon after eating. The careful physi-
clan would probably insist upon an in
terval of at least two hours between
the meal and the bath; one hour is a fair
compromise between zeal and prudence,
and half hour the absolute minimum
for safety. Finally, don't enter the wa
ter timidly and by degrees, but boldly
and with plunge, wetting the whole
body at once. If one is not able to dive
in, he should wade in to knee depth, then
wet his head thoroughly and plunge in
bodily. These rules have been repeated
often enough to be familiar to every
body, but they are continually disre-
Garded.
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BY HON. GEORGE W. PECK.


Ex-Governor of Wisconsin, Former Ed
itor of Peck's Sun. Author of "Peck's
Bad Boy" etc.)
Copyright, 1905, by Joseph B. Bowies.)
Constantinople, Turkey. My Dear
Grocerpasha: When 1 wrote you last
thought you would be mourning for dad
and l before this, as there seemed moth
ing for the Turks to do but to kill us
after we had stampeded the sultan and
all his soldiers by giving them a uni
'versity yell, but after we had been con-
fined in a sort of Jail over night, dad and
had heart to heart talk and my diplo-
macy saved us for the time being. l
told dad that what we wanted to do was
to tell the Turks that dad represented
the American people, and had a commu-
nication to make to the sultan person
ally. which would make him rich and
happy.
Well, say, they bit like a bass, and
the next day they took us before the sui
tan, ct the palace. Dad dug up pack
age of blank gold mining stock, in
mine that he was going to promote,
though the mine was only small hole
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The little village of Kentontown
boasts Of having the oldest negro wom-
an in the state of Kentucky. Her name
is Mary Harding and she was born in
1897 in Georgia. Her mind and eye
sight are good. Aunty, as she is called
all over the county. is being cared for
by John Gamer and his family. Her
age has been traced back to 1897, so
there can be no doubt as to her age
The old woman, with all her children,
she says, was sold and she was separ-
ated from the flock and has not seen
her children from that time. She said
she would like to see them once more
and then the good Lord could take her
away.
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cinnati have. for time at least, given
up their summer holiday and are work.
ing to make hot weather tolerable for
their less fortunate sisters. Particu-
larly are Jewish women taking active
part in this work. Their efforts are
now being directed specially toward
making success of settlement home
and vacation school located in Cler-
montville, where, according to local
information, nearly 200 young wom-
en- are now enjoying their vacation
II q cost not beyond their purses.