Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-10-11

these students are compelled 10 spend
stated hours each week in the HOtan!-
cal Gardens and take instruction from
among the trees. plants and shrubs.
1 vas Impressed with the wisdom of
this procedure by visit To the medi-
cal and pharmaceutical section of the
Gardens today There are seen grow
ing every plant and tree In the world
from which medicine is obtained and
the student is made familiar with the
growing plant. lie then is required
To take portion of the same and
with his own hands dry or otherwise
prepare the crude or commercial
sperium. Thon later prepare in the
laboratory the different drugs up 10
the standard which in every way
equals that required by the pharma.
copea. For instance. opium Is studied
first in the growing poppy. The pods
are pulled. dried gum or crude
opium is still further prepared into
the powdered drug. then into the eN'
tract OF laudanum, then into the tine
ture. as paregoric. etc. The idea of
the Hampton, Va, Institute. or learn
ing by doing is carried out. over
seeing all this is the faculty of the
un versity. which is indirectly the
head of not only the Board of Schools.
but the four or five hundred schools
or all varieties in the vicinity. This
university is said 10 be the wealth
lest of all Europe, employs the best
men and pays the largest salaries
The professor of the unimportant
chair OF zoology alone gets eight thou
sand dollars per year. Large sums
are expended in medical research in
the mammoth laboratories each
year. These sums are met by an
equal amount from Mr.. Andrew Car
negie. MIR. Carnegie pays the tuition
and board of thousands of liighlant
students each year.
find there is much resentment OF
Col. Roosevelts reference to Eng
lands government of Egypt. An old
Scotchman said last week, He is
mighty taum smart to 'er larnt more
bout Egypt in two days than we
'orns ha larnt IN twenty cd year o
occupation"
Before forgetting the subject uf
flowers / wish to say something OF
the Fiowered Clock. This is indeed
a great curiosity. II is in Princess
Street Garden, is of course fiat on
the ground and is not only a thing
of rare beauty but an accurate time
piece. The dial is eighteen feet
across, the hands, face. figures and.
in fact all markings are in different
colored flowers OF rare beauty. The
real works are underground. the
mainstaff corner in view, the hands
being a net work of flowers of vari-
Gus colors are changed each morning.
This is. OF course, possible by having
several hundred hands in the green
house growing the flowers within
their wire meshes. each when COM
plete to replace its fellow who did
duty yesterday on the staff. The face
and figures are in separate bucket
dovetail sections and are renewed
each morning from the green house
The climate here is strange indeed;
wooden underwear and socks are worn
all summer. yet frost to Kill grass ana
flowers makes its appearance Just
about Christmas. have worn with
comfort. winter clothes and overcoat
all this month, the thermometer rang
ing between 40 and So. many days
damp and misty; yet there are in
bloom in all the parks. thousands OF
flowers, such as lilies, geraniums,
along side of chrysanthemums, sweet
peas and pansies.
The Saturday halfholiday through
out Scotland is a most meritorious in
stitution. All places of business with
a few exceptions. close at IL O'Clock
One to two hours later one sees thou
sands in the parks playing golf. crick-
ct. tennis and such games This no
doubt adds much to the national con-
tentment which impresses one so for
chilly of the Britons.
There are yet many thousand Amer
leans here, but the ranks are already
thinning.
The papers here print little Ameri-
can news except railway wrecks:
these reports are given wide space
The Daily Press is constant visi
tor to me, and next to reading letters
from my home folk it gives me the
most pleasure
Yours very truly,
CADENCE PORTER JONES