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The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-10-06
100 and Ill North Front Street,
WILMINGTON, N. c.

who has attended district school re-
members the endless routine of selec-
tons in the reader. which must be
gone over time and again until they
could almost be read without looking
at the book. Arithmetic was much
the same. Often there was a new
teacher each term. and she went on
the principle that the advanced class
should be put back to fractions to
start with. History was another end
less circle. Geography was list of
towns and seas to be memoriZed
In the consolidated school the work
is systematiZed and made more thor
ough. The time saved can go to some
of the newer branches which relate to
agriculture. 1t is not the actual agr-
culture taught in these schools that
makes them the most effective. how
ever. 1t is the spirit of the farm that
is injected into the other studies. The
modern arithmetic has lost most of
it's ponderous and imaginary problems.
Instead the problems deal with the
price of corn and cattle, with the fig
uring of a balanced ration and with
the profit on field Of corn. Physiol-
ogy has been broadened. The diges-
ton of animals is studied. together
with the digestion of man. The girl
learns the need of a balanced ration
! for people at the same time that her
| brother is learning the necessity of the
same kind Of ration for stock. The
! principles that underlie both are the
| same.
Geography deals with products more
than with places. The pupils learn
where the various articles of com
MERGE come from and why each coun-
try is adapted by nature to certain in
dustries. The boy takes added inter
est in his class when he learns that
the binding twiue that is used for his
fathers binder comes from the Phil
iDpine Islands or that most of the
sugar he eats on his bread at lunch
time comes from the German bee
fields The details of land forma tioI
are studied in the streams and bill!
of the school district, and study O.
soils is brought in at the same time
These outdoor excursions add to tn
interest of the work and quicken tn
cbildren's power Of observation
Continued to next week.
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BACK TO
THE FARM
XII. Rural Education-The
District School.
BY G.. v. GREGORY.

copyright. 1910. by American Press Asso-
ciation.l
YlNETY per cent of all the coun-
Nl try boys and girls never get
any education beyond that
given them in the country
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LABORATORY.
truer and Saner view of life than
would be possible in a city school.
She mas a greater sense of it's respon-
sibilities and fuller appreciation OF
its pleasures.
While the first aim of the secondary
agricultural school is to teach the boy
to wiring increased profits from the
soil and the girl to use these profits i'll
building up a better home. its func-
ton does not end there. The cultural
side of the students education is not
neglected. He is given something OF
English. for an understanding of his
native tongue and an ability to use it
we'll are essential to farmer who
would be considered educated. He is
given something Of history. for no
study can so broaden and deepen the
springs of human thought as history.
He Is given public speaking and learns
to talk WELL Dame Fortune holds
many good things in reserve for the
man who can talk.
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ischoolboys who won the trophy for the
best corn judging al the short course
at the Iowa State Agricultural college.
1909.
life must be most manifest in the
school. The fault is not primarily
with the teacher. but with the system.
The chief fault with the rural schools
is that there are too many of them
In Iowa there are 27S schools with few
er than five pupils each. There are
1858 schools with an average Of fewer
than ten pupils. The schools have been
established with the idea of numbers
rather than quality. There is a school
house every two miles with monotO-
nous regularity, whether there are any
pupils or not. Under such conditions
large share of the school funds is
used III maintaining the small schools.
The result is cheap teachers, poor
schoolhouses and meager equipment.
The most advanced rural communi-
ties are getting around this difficulty
by consolidation. In some places two
schools are brought together, in others
three or four or half 4 dozen. One
good, we'll equipped schooihouse takes
the place of several poor ones. Fewer
teachers are needed. and the money
can be used to hire better ones. A plot
OF ground can be purchased for Il
school garden. and the schoolhouse
can have trees and a laYn.
Local pride has been one of the OBJ
stacles in the way of consolidation.
The patrons of school district dislike
to have their schoolhouse taken away
even though there are but two or three
pupils of school age in the district.
Local pride is commendable thing.
There is just as much local pride in a
consolidated district. but it is little
wider in its scope. The pride based
upon modern consolidated school has
much more foundation than the pride
that objects to having a dilapidated
poorly attended schoolhouse removed.
The question of getting pupils to anC
from school has been a troublesome
one in some localities. The coming O.
better roads is doing much to solve
that. Even in the largest consolidat
ed school districts the bulk of the pu
pills are within two or three miles o
ahe schoolhouse. Often stables are pro
Vlded near the schoolhouse. where th
pupils from the corners of the distric
can keep their horses. More often tn
children are hauled in covered wagon
at the expense Of the district.
The consolidated rural schools ar
developing a system of education a
their own. They are no longer i'm
tators Of the city schools. They ar
OF the country and for the countr!
Objection has been made to the intro
duction of agriculture into the rurt
schools on the ground that the course
are already crowded. There is som
ground for this objection In the oil
fashioned district school. In the col
solidated school better grading is 20
sible. the pupils learn thing we
when they 90 over It. and endles
repetition Is. unnecessary. Evcry OF
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. " incl per cent OF all the cOuD-
N try boys and girls never get
VI any education beyond that
given them in the country
schoolhouse. Obviously the problem Of
education for country life is the prob
lem of the district school.
The problem of the increasing cost
Of living is not so much to be solved
By raising more corn and hogs as it is
by raising better boys and girls A
crop of boys and girls brought up to
love the country and appreciate it's
possibilities will do much to postpone
the coming of the day when the Unit
ed States will be too big to feed itself.
There are too few real country
schools in the United States TODAY.
There are too many limitations of town
schools Too many of the teachers are
girls from town. They come out on
Monday morning and go back on Fri
day night They have none of the
spirit of the country, and they endure
the country school for the meager
wages they receive They are longing
for the day when they may get posi-
tons in town schools
While this condition exists the rural
school cannot be success. If the
country Is 10 have life of it's own. as
II already has in many localities, that
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BACKTO THE FARM.
Continued from p zee g.

place in the secondary school AS the
boy. She is taught the art and the
science of homemaking. She gets a
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Virginia & Carolina Southern Railroad e.
Time Table No. 10.

In Effect II. Oh am, May17th, 1910.
Between Lumberton and Hope Mills.
NORTHBOUND
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Between Safety fre DsrRer
The wise man secures the protection OF
FIRE INSURANCE.
When Ere occurs, the most valuable pa
per man has is policy in good com
pany. We represent some OF the oesf
com panies in existence. They pay
promptly and honorably all losses Incur
red. Some day you may be sorry yor
didn't let us write policy to-day.
o T. WILLIAMS.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-10-06
CORE OF THE EARTH.
One Of the Enigmas Of Nature That
Science Cannot Solve.

One Of tho Enismas Of Nature That
Science Cannot Solve.
Human beings know only mere
skin Of the surface Of the earth. not
more than thirty miles deep, while the
globe Is 5000 miles In diameter. There
Is probably no oxygen at all below
thirty miles. and it is difficult to guess
what are the elements within. Prob
ably the heaviest elements form
dense core near the center.
1t is in some respects astonishing,
most alarming, that we are so COM
pletely devoid Of any direct knowledge
Of the constituents of the vast mass
of globe beneath us and really only
know the merest film. A skin or men,
brane one-twentieth of an inch in
thickness the thickness of kid or
brown paper spread over a ball lit
tie more than a foot in diameter repre-
sents the proportion between the
the known crust Of the earth thirty
miles thick and the great globe, itself.
We are dependent on inference and
speculation for our notions as to the
constitution of all that is beneath the
mere skin of thirty miles thickness
on the globes surface! Even what is
thrown up by the biggest volcanoes
does not come from below this depth
or tell us what lies hidden there.-Ex-
change.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-10-06
STATE Will CARRY
ITS own INSURANCE

Jackson, Miss. Oct. 6.-The trustees
of the Mississippi penitentiary have
decided to carry their own insurance.
The money that has been paid out in
premiums heretofore will be laid aside,
instead of paid over for policies.
The last legislature enacted law
allowing the State institutions to carry
their own insurance, and the peniten-
tiary trustees have taken advantage
of this. Several other State institu-
tons decided some time ago not to
take out fire insurance policies, be-
lieving it would be the part of econ
omy to carry their own risk.
The University is one of these insti-
tuions, while the A. and NJ. and l. l..
and c. are included in the list. The
legislature did not make any appro-
priation for these institutions to pay
premiums, and the State will carry
the risk instead.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-10-06
Heller Shelter.

"Helter SHELTER" has been sugges-
lively defined as a jingling expression
vaguely initiating the hurried clatter
of feet rapidly and irregularly moved.
Most dictionaries. however, led astray
probably by the ordinary photography.
have missed the true etymology Of this
phrase. 1t should be ''helter keller"
"Helter" is an old word for hang"
probably connected with halter, and
"kelter" is used by old writers in the
sense of "order" or the proper state.
Thus Barrow. the divine. says, eff the
organs of prayer be out of keller how
can we pray?" "Helter SHELTER" there
fore, is literally "hang order" and
means, "Oh. hang order; let us do it,
or let 1t take its chance" Ben JON
son in Every Man In His Humor''
writes. "Helter SHELTER, hang sorrow,
care III kill a cat" and Shakespeare,
using it to express rush and hurry.
says, "Helter SHELTER have | rode to
thee"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-10-06
Horseradish as a Vegetable.

In Germany horseradish is frequent
ly made into an excellent cooked vege-
table which goes particularly well with
boiled mutton or chicken fricassee. 1t
is made as follows: Crate as usual
and stew till tender in butter; mix we'll
with grated Parker House rolls, one
cupful of the latter to three of the
horseradish. and boil up once more.
adding heaping teaspoonful Of sugar.
Served with very firmly jellied cur
rant jelly, scooped out with teaspoon
and laid in solid little ovals like a
wreath round the white mound of
horseradish. this delectable dish looks
almost as good as it tastes.-Subur'
banite.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-10-06

cotton. We know whereof we speak
when we say that profitable crops can
be grown in the worst infected dis
tricts. We tell you with all the earn
estness of. our soul that every farmer
who carries out the governments in
structions will grow profitable crops
of cotton in average seasons. OF course
those who will not carry out the gov
ernment's instructions are advised to
go out of the cotton growing business.
The government says: First, destroy
the weevils; second, force the plants
to early maturity.
Destruction Of Boil WeeviI.
The destruction of the weevils is &C.
complished as follows:
l. Burn the cotton stalks early in
the fall and destroy all the rubbish in
and about the field which might serve
for alternating quarters.
2. When the weevils appear in the
spring on the little cotton, pick them
off and destroy them.
3. The punctured squares must be
picked up and destroyed for about six
weeks.
To Produce Early Crop.
The production of an early crop of
cotton is accomplished as follows:
1. Cut the cotton acreage to five or
six acres to the mule, in order that
cultural methods may be closely fol-
lowed.
2. Plant only the warm, quick.mak-
ing lands in cotton.
8. Where the soil responds to COM
mercial fertilizers, use fertilizer that
hastens maturity.
4. Thoroughly pulverize the soil be-
fore planting. Work the soil until it
is like an ash heap for several inches
deep.
5. Plant early, rapid fruiting, pro-
life cotton seed.
6. Plant as early as the season will
permit in rows a little wider apart
than the cotton usually grows tall.
7. Use a section harrow across the
rows before planting, after planting,
and as soon as the cotton is up, to
avoid crust and grass, the great enc
mics of cotton.
s. Commence to work the cotton as
soon as possible and never let crust
form or the field become grassy. Use
rapid, shallow cultivation. Continue
until the cotton begins to open.
The farmers who carry out the
above instructions will continue to be
prosperous, and there is no other way
to be prosperous in boil weevil terri
tory.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-10-06
ROYAL ACCOUNTS.
Methods Of the King of England In
Transacting Business.


No advertisement is more valuable
to a British tradesman than the royal
warrant. which allows him to place the
royal arms over his place of business
and describe himself as "purveyor by
appointment to his majesty the king"
Each tradesman who has the royal
custom must send in his bill at the end
of the month. 1t is compared with his
ledger account kept at Marlborough
House and If correct is paid in the
first week of the month. No discount
is asked on any of the royal accounts.
A tradesman who receives the royal
custom is Informed that he must sup
ply goods at the lowest reasonable
prices, and there is never any attempt
at bargaining by the official Of the
royal household. If a tradesman is
thought to be making extortionate
charges he simply loses the royal Gus
tom.
Coal is supplied to Marlborough
House by contract, the contracts be-
ing made for three years and the con-
tractors paid in equal half yearly pay
ments. Window cleaning. carpet clean
ing and chimney sweeping are all done
by contract. and the glass frames Of
large pictures are also kept clean by
contract.
Servants wages are paid monthly.
the upper servants being paid by check
sent to each from the treasurer's de-
partment The kings accounts for
clothes. cigars. theaters, newspapers,
books and other personal articles are
sent to his secretary. not the treasurer,
and are also paid monthly.-Toronto
Times.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-10-06
WARNING
Hattiesburg People Must Recognize
and Heed It.

Kidney ills come quietly-mysteri-
ously.
But nature always warns you
Notice the kidney secretions.
See if the color is unhealthy
If there are settings and sediment,
Passages frequent, scanty, painful.
It's time then to use Doan's Kidney
Pills.
To ward off Bright's disease or dia-
betes.
Doan's have done great work in this
locality
]. j. McElroy, Oak street, Laurel,
Miss, says: II had been suffering
from a retention of the kidney secre-
tions when I began using Doan's Kid
ney Pills. This remedy soon restored
my kidneys to a normal condition and
improved my health. l am glad to
give Doan's Kidney Pills the praise
they deserve"
For sale by all dealers. Price SO
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-a
take no other.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-10-06
NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE.

I, R. J. Bishop, trustee, under the
provision of and by virtue of the
authority conferred upon me in a GER
tain deed of trust made by Eartha
Parker to Hawkins & Company on
the 14th day of December 1909 to
secure a certain Indebtedness men
toned therein to the said Hawkins &
Company, and which said deed of
trust is recorded at pages 16, II and
IS Book 5 of the Record of Mortgages
and Deed of Trusts on Land in the
Chancery Clerks office of Forrest
County, Mississippi; default having
been made in the payment of said in
debtedness at maturity, l will on the
31st day of October, 1910, offer for
sale and sell to the highest and best
bidder for cash, at the front, or Main
street door of the court house of For
rest County, Mississippi, within legal
hours the following described real es-
tate to-wit: Lot 81, in Block 1, less
20 feet off the North end, according
to the B. c. Hemphill survey and ad.
dition to the City of Hattiesburg, Mis-
sissippi, as per plat of said survey
on file with the Chancery Clerk OF
said County and State.
The title to the above property is
thought to be good.
This the 9th day of Oct, A. D., 1910
y ID T nICIrOn rr..-4
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-10-06
TO The PUBLIC

We have discontinued the retail ice
business for the summer, and our
wagons have been discontinued, but
we will reopen next spring. During
the absence of the manager, the neces-
sity for this notice to the public was
overlooked. All outstanding coupons
will be redeemed and the money re.
funded upon presentation at our of.
fice.-HATTIESBURG ICE & COAL
CO. 3-6t
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-10-06

ords and property Of compliments or
either Of them. And the marshal is
hereby directed to publish this order
in four public newspapers, one at
Jackson, one at Vicksburg, one at Me-
ridian, and one at Hattiesburg, Missis-
sippi, and to post copies of the same
at all of the stations of, compliments
in the state of Mississippi.
And the application for an injunc-
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-10-06
The Attraction.

Tourist must confess that I can't
see why so many people want to come
here-no scenery, no amusements. no
good things to eat, absolutely no at
fractions. Innkeeper-Ah, signor. zey
come because we ave re gran label
to stick on re luggage.-Mexican Her
aid.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-10-06
UNITED STATES MAR
SHAL'S NOTICE.

SHAL'S NOTICE.
The following restraining order has
been granted by the United States
court, bond given and restraining writ
issued. The matter is now pending in
the United States Circuit Court at
Jackson. Be CAREFUL
Alabama & Vicksburg Railway
Company, New Orleans & Northeast
ern R. R. Co., Vicksburg, Shreveport
&Pacific Ry. Co., compliments, in
equity. VS. Brotherhood of Railway
Clerks, ct al.
Upon application of complainants
and showing made, 1t Is ordered that
restraining order be and the same is
hereby granted and the same will be
issued by the clerk of the United
States Circuit Court in and for the
Southern District of Mississippi, at
Jackson, upon compliments executing
bond conditioned according to law in
the penal sum of $4,000 to be ap-
proved by said clerk, restraining the
defendants, the Brotherhood of Rail-
way clerks, w. R. Draughn, S. s. Ca
rothers, L. Bell, of Jackson, Miss, G..
N. Smylie, B. H. Ledbetter, w. j..
Jackson and H. B. Langford of Merid-
ian, Mississippi; D. H. Newton, Jesse
Goodman, M. c. Davis, and John May
of Vicksburg, Mississippi, and also
]. ]. Carrigan, temporary in Vicks-
burg, Mississippi; E.. L. Russell, OF
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and all other
persons now or hereafter aiding, abet-
ting or cooperating with them in the
conspiracy mentioned in the bill,
from doing any act whatever in fur
therance of any conspiracy or COM
bination to restrain compliments, their
officers or employees in the free and
unhindered control of their railroad
business and from ordering, directing,
aiding, assisting or abetting in any
manner whatever any person or per-
sons to commit any or either of said
acts, and restraining the said defend
ants and each of them, their agents
or attorneys, aiders or abettors from
congregating at or near the premises
Of compliments or any or either of
them at any point on their line or the
line of either for the purpose of in
timidating its or their employees or
coercing said employees or any one or
more of them from rendering service
ito the said compliments, or either OF
them in their said railroad business
and from inducing or coercing by
threats the said employees or any one
of them to leave their service OF
employment as employees of the
compliments or any one of them
from in any manner interfering
with the compliments or either
of them, in carrying on their said
business In the usual and ordinary way
and from molesting any person seek
ng employment by the complainants o.
either Of them in the operation o.
business as common carriers, ant
. from collecting upon or about the
premises of the compliments or eitheI
of them and from stationing them
selves on or near the premises o
compliments or either of them 10
the purpose of intimidating their EN-
ployes by persons seeking employ
ment by said comflainants o
either of them, and generally from in
terferring with the, business of com
s'E.sss5 hon carriers, an,
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-10-06

ton is hereby set to be heard at Jack
son, Mississippi, on the 9Th day Of No
vember, 1910.
Ordered this September 81, 1910.
H. c. NILES, Judge.
All persons are notified and warned
accordingly.
F. w. COLLINS,
United States Marshal.
September 81, 1910 2S-tf
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-10-06
'ENT Afford
IHE FARMERS
4 ANsAuO

W soou mich COWS to SUI ply all the
nv III niiih and butter necessary for home
perative use and Soma T.. snono.
''''Sipp' gardens in all kinds of vegetables:
D'e'S' put some of the best land in oats in
W, 00''oer 10 be followed by peas, pea
/ VIM We NUS, Iespedeza, sweet potatoes or
0e'" GU corn and peas; plant a big acreage in
! banker corn-in March Anru and Nov - a.
Professional to hit the seasono. roiso nhto,.a,,r
'o"oeiDeu turkeys raise sheep and goats; grow
o"' Every some mules, horses, and beef year.
'o" ~ con hhgs Tor home use and to sell. All
P''o VI the are going to pull together with a
mighty pull until the readjustment
erent. We takes place and all are IN tbe biah
seriousness road to genuine prosperity.
III" Iully Three Important Points.
y energetic Just at this time we desire r. ON.
5 invaded phasize three points:
l. We must keep the aborers We
le descend cannot do business without labor This
s, Mexican means that the credit merchant and
not going banker must supnlv the laborers +be
little Dug actual necessities of life for year or
10 90 bust two. The credit system is the curse
Inc DanK OF the South, but such chronic dis
ng 10 con- ease cannot be cured in one year.
the actdal 2 Every farmer must produce all
y are able food required for the men and ami.
OF going to mails on the farm and enough to snare
hour of to feed the town people and their
are going stock.
raise their 3. The boil weevil does not pre-
plenty OF vent the growing of profitable crops of
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-10-06

Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has
become famous for its cures of cou CHS,
when in need. 1t contains no harm
full substance and always gives prompt
relief. Sold by HAYS & FIELD.