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The Robesonian., 1910-10-03
W. j. Prevatt, Lumberton N. c.
ESTATE !



down. million
take $1,000
mill shantes and stables
State for gr mill and cotton gin This property is in Sampson
80 will
miles from Roeboro A. c. F.
be bought for
mil
and barn Can be bought for 81, ,Ooo with terms right
Parkton and Hope Mills strictly
V. stands With
small houses and 30 cleared and 10
soil Reiad amof
L. T. r. with 40 cleared and
miles of am offering this for sale
$3.50 vii! a
Fayetteville
bargain
with
offering
days at the low price OF Sl5OO with terms If desired
25 about Smiles Intz
grown up buildings
lot Of timber suitable shingles
market for the small sum of s,4OO with desired
properly place cheap at SIS but can
than that will this
Ia cash deal
This
to Eizabehown, good mill shops, Prices right.
always got something good specua
Whv these high for land when you get
kind for whole lot less have high land and cheap
land Let know wants and can't furnish what
want buy from other but give chance to show
The Robesonian., 1910-10-03
The Ambition of the Indian.

To the Edit " of The Robesonian.
Please allow me space in your
v ,lua'oIe paper to say a few words
about the ambition of the Indian.
The Indian, regardless of tri-
bal relations, is the oldest Ameri-
can of us all. n an address made
a few years ago to an Oklahoma
delega ion, Col. Roosevelt said:
Give the Indian the ch lrce to
which he is entitled. After all,
gentlemen, ne is the Oldest
American of all Of US.
think that all of us should ad-
mire personal ambition. We
should he proud of our sn:estry
and thauld foster our virtues and
better pre- yare our posteritv. We
should look to these ends sincere
ly, regardless of the complexion
Of our religion or politics. We
sh)uldall strive to help our more
dominant white brother, as we
are helped by him. l often think
of the friendly and courteous eff.
forts of Manteo, once called lord
of Roanoke.
May we all, as links of chains,
be bo Ind together strong, ane
hope for the things that may
await US.
w. w. Coins.
Pembroke, N. c., Sept. 80, 1910
The Robesonian., 1910-10-03
Will Build
Y OH u .
and Make
YOuStrOng

Old people, tired, weak,
run down people, delicate
children, frail mothers, and
those recovering from severe
illness, this is a fact.
Thousands of genuine tes-
timonials from reliable peo-
pie prove this claim, and to
further support the fact and
prove our faith in what we
say, we unhesitatingly de-
clare that any one who will
try a bottle of VINOL will
have their money returned
without question if they are
not satisfied that it did them
good.
J. D. Mcmillan & Son, Lumber
ten. n. C..
The Robesonian., 1910-10-03
Public Speaking.

H,n. IraGe,. Hearts :,epu5.ica' car
j date for C.rgr-3s, vii address the
citi7ers of Robson county or the ooi,c
ical isses Of the campaign at the hollow :
ing times and places:
Maxton, Monday Oct 10 lat light 7:30
Lumber Bridge, tuesday Oct Il. II N.
Red Springs, Tuesday oct. ii (at
night 1870.
Pembroke, wednesday Oct. II, y n.
Rowland, Cat
night 1870.
Orrum, THURSDAY Oct 13, u n.
Everybody is invited to come cut and
hear this distinguished speaker. Mr..
Meares will devide time with
any Democrat desiring a division.
S. 4. Edmund,
Chm. Republican County Ek Com.
9-29-tf.
The Robesonian., 1910-10-03
List Of Letters.

Following is list Of letters remain
ing in the postofHce at Lumberton N.
c., for the week ending Oct. 3, 1910:
Willie Allen, Miss Lrena Baxley, Mrs.
F. NJ. Britt, Mrs. Pennie Britt, Mrs.
Carrie Barker. Mrs. Nellie Bradley,
Henry Bri gman, Mrs. Fannie Brown,
MIS-. Eu a Burge, C. q. Covington,
Sam Deauere, Will Grady, A. F.
Graves, E. K. Gains, Dan Gilmore, r.
l.. Hill. Mrs. ROME johnson, Thomas
Jones, Mitchell Maunssuras, Essex
Mcleod, R. B. McNeill. Haldon Nc
Lean, Miss jamie NJ sdy, Joe Prevatt,
Mr.. Jenever Perry, Mrs. attic Pat.
| 1erson, c. w. Pitman, Mrs Matte
Robinson, Mrs. Mamie Sanderson
] R bert A. Stewart, Miss Lydia Stew
art, J. 7. Saricus, D. A. Simon, Mrs
Lizzie White, J. NJ. Williams, D. F
Waters.
Persons calling for any Of the abov
will please call for advertised letters
(, R. NJ. Norment, P. M.
The Robesonian., 1910-10-03
Tie / Al gest + abroad Station in
the World.

The new Pennsylvania termi-
nal sta n in Manhattan. which
is the largest structure OF It's
kind in the world, embodles the
highest development of the art
of ira nsportation. | t covers
eight ac res-the space bounded
by Seventh and Eighth Avenues
and Thirty-irst and Tnirty-thlrd
Streets. This fine granite build
ing or beautifully correct archi-
tectural proportions, which looks
less like railroad station than
an exchange OF public library,
has every practical convenience
known to the railroad world and
many new mechanical inventions
for the benefit of the traveller.
The most impressive fact about
the physical features of the build
ing is probably the sharp division
OF incoming and outgoing traffic,
so thct there shall be no con-
flict, i'm fact, no meeting. The
disposal OF baggage by subWays
aud tunnals is one of it's excellent
featur, S. The trunks and bags
remain out of sight of the pas
senger from the time Of being
checked until they reach their
destination.
The general design Of the ar
chitects was to express. in SO far
as was practical with the unusual
condition of tracks below the
street surface and the absence of
the conventional train shed, net
only the exterior design of a
great railway station in a gen.
orally accepted form, but also to
give to the building the charac.
ter of a monumental gateway
and entrance to a great metropo-
lis. From "A New Transporta-
ton Era for New York." by
Louis E. Van Norman, in the
American Review of Reviews for
October.
The Robesonian., 1910-10-03
Ii Saved His Leo.

''All thought I'd lose my leg, writes
J. A. Swensen, of Watertown, Wis. ''Ten
years of eczema, that Is doctors could
not cure, had at last laid me up. Then
Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured it, sound
and we'll. Infallible for SkinEruptions.
Eczema, Salt Rheum, Boils, reverSores,
B rms, Scalds, Cuts and Piles.l
The Robesonian., 1910-10-03
To the Public.

Now is your chance to h5lp &
friend. Call at The Robesonian
office, subscribe and cast votes
for some contestant. It will be
appreciated.
The Robesonian., 1910-10-03
The Secret.

The gateway to the Land of Dreams
Is often dark and low,
Yet past that magic entrance lives
Earth's golden Long Ago.
The Dream and Wonder is denied
To US grown oyerwise,
Unless we wait as children wait
And stand wit childish eyes.
And watch some singing Fairy walk
Our Valleys of Regret.
And learn that Youth knows many
things
The grabbed years forget!
-Arthuc Stringer in Everybody's fol
October.
The Robesonian., 1910-10-03
Notices of New Advertisement:

4NOAfSNS O1 W." INV 81 S1oCA1ICIItS.
Paint your house and save it
Hdw. Co.
Clothes that fit when you buy
them Townsend Bros.
Money talks First National
Bank.
Real estate bargains-J.
Abner Barker.
Notice Of store closing.
Good carpenters wanted.
Experienced blacksmith and
miller wanted.
Don't dress in the cold-Kings.
dale Lumber Co.
Card of thanks.
The Robesonian., 1910-10-03
If You BHE It at STIEFF'S
its Right.
QUALITY
NOT PRICE

is what We empha size in cur
advertisements. Had you no.
ticed it?
W ell. that's our policy from
the very first beginning OF the
construction of cur irstru-
ments. We put in the quality
regardless of what it costs,
aid when the instrument is
finished, it's just as good as
can be.
Now, as any reasonably SEN
sible person can understand,
the buyer Of the piano has to
pay for the material thatwent
into it. But, allowing for. a
Legitimate profit, that's all he
has to pay for.
There's no middleman'
profit to pay, because in the
Stieff way of selling pianos,
there is no middleman-we
sell direct, and cut off the 81
varities of expense (more or
lnss) that The purchaser
through the average dealer
falls heir to.
From the buyers stand
roiiit, which is t.ie iogicai va
of doing business?
The Robesonian., 1910-10-03

Don't sit around and wonder,
CT ask your neighbor. Just put
olyour bonnet now and come to
The Robesonian office and ask
the contest manager. She can
start you out on the winning way
i n a jiffy.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-01
Better Girls Teach Here

That's it, he affirmed and there's
another thing: the class of girls who
teach in the west is better than in the
east. In Massachusetts. for instance,
those girls have perhaps a choice of
going into kitchen or teaching school,
Conditions are different back there
Here We get a different class Girls
who wouldn't even take positions in
business offices will take up teaching.
They think of the social RECOGNITION a
teacher commands, and when it comes
to marrying, of course, that all makes
a difference. And we encourage the
girls to marry. Not hastily, of course,
but It's every woman's right to marry"
he said, looking at me very seriously.
Its her privilege and her highest duty,
and it pays the state better'-with a
little emphasis on the better-"when
they marry than when they continue
teaching, because what we really need
is more diffused educational spirit. a
more general knowledge among the
people at large of what is required In
the way Of education for their chill
dren."
so that they may know what to de-
IL
Yes" he replied. And to illus
trate what I mean I'll tell you little
incident that happened to me only yes
terday. / was talking with a woman
"a very intelligent woman-who has
seven children and Is worth at least
s15,000,000, and that woman is send
ing her children to private school, a
poor school,"
Now, how can she be so intelli-
gent then, doctor. If she's sending her
children to poor school?"
Because intelligence runs in grooves.
We're not all intelligent in the same
way he returned, rather chidingly,
"and the private schools of Massa
chusetts. and England are better than
the public ones, but here in California
the public schools are best, and I'm
not saying that there are not good
chosen a poor one. That woman
doesn't know" he went on, that her
little children can form bad habits in
learning to read and learning to add
that it will take 10 years to correct"
His face showed the concern he felt.
It's pity! Some one should tell her.
And that's what I mean by saying
that we need more diffused educa-
tional spirit
1 believe the doctor related that in
cident to me, hoping that 1t would
meet her eye, and /, too, hope that 1t
may, for woman worth SIS, 900 900 is
certainly deserving of the best in the
way of educational facilities that her
state has to offer.
And now for the university point of
view, the place where they turn out
the high school teachers l thought. as
ssta ri p.i for Rerke1ey.
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to resign, do you? How do you know
how soon you may be wanting to teach
again? What you really want is leave
of absence And that was what he
gave her"
The doctor smiled appreciatively.
And that member of the board Of
education evidently understood human
nature, because-well, I don't know
whether she's teaching again, but
do know that in little over year she
was divorced.
Not quite SO many of the second
class married as in the first one we
tailed said I, but still the percent
age is larger than expected to find it."
yes, a good many marry But I'll
tell you said the doctor, confdentially,
Il think more of our girls marry than
in most normal schools"
why is that?" asked.
We'll" he returned, with smile, s'we
have a very good looking lot of young
women here-unusqally good looking
and we always have had. I've noticed
it from the beginning"
Wasn't 1t nice of him to be partial
to his own school? But perhaps there
was a reason for it. 1 found out why
he thought so.
"A normal school is necessarily local,
you know" he explained. Ours is fed
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with it, it makes a difference We
have girls here who understand ste
biography in three languages, English
and French and German"
You mean who understand English
and French and German?' I didn't
quite catch her meaning.
No. l mean that they understand
English and French and German stem
ography, take their notes in three Ian
guages.'
why, that's altogether new. is it
not?"
Yes" she replied. "Fn give you an
instance. Some time ago one of the
professors needed an assistant for some
German work he was doing. + found
him girl from Vienna, one Of the stu
dents and she took her notes in Ger
man shorthand. Think of the trouble
she saved him by being able to elini-
nate all that translating. Yes, and
Spanish, too. Last year we sent
young man down to Mexico to fill a po-
sition who understood Spanish stenog-
raphy. Those things command good
salaries. Why, next year the Berkeley
high school will have class in Spanish
stenography.'
You said a moment ago. Mrs. Che
ney, that the average life of teacher
that is, the length of time he teaches,
is about four years. Are there, then, no
experienced high school teacfers?"
Not many. The pay, you know. is
not an incentive to continue in the
work. Did you ever stop to think" she
went1on, that a young man who takes
teaching as a profession will never be
able to own his own home; never be
able to educate his children as he would
like to; never be able to travel; never
own an automobile and she smiled,
never be able to do any of the things
ambitious young people look forward to
nowadays?"
No. I hadn't stopped to think of
that, have your"
1.-THE salary they commence with is
all right; it's enough for their inexpe-
rience. but there is not the raise to look
forward to; it doesn't increase suffl-
GENTLY as the years go on"
What is the average salary of a high
school teacher? %
TT has been $500 year. but since
we have added the extra year to the
teachers course
And how long does that make the
course?" I interrupted.
Five years. The last one for DEM
onstration. training school"
And do they teach all of that last
year,
NO. six months of it. But, as L
was saying, since that extra year has
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been added TO the course salaries have
been raised to 81. 900. The most of
those who take that five year course
get the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
you know. and I think the frequency
of those b. A. degrees is what brought
the raise
And high school principals. what
do they receiver"
Fifteen and eighteen hundred
year. OF course there are cases where
principals get $4,000. but not many
said she, regretfuIly. I'm 1900 we GER
tificated about an equal number OF
young men and women. but 1 have
noticed that since that time the men
have grown steadily less. And so our
young people take up teaching simply
as a means to something better. to earn
enough money for more study. Why.
1 have son doing that very thing
now, in Los Notwithstanding until
he has earned money enough to study
medicine But we think they make
up for their inexperience. They give
their freshness their strength, their
enthusiasm to the work, and we get
better material perhaps in that way
than if the positions were filed by
those contented TO make it their life's
work"
How much does it cost. Mrs Che
ney, to graduate one pupil from the
university
Il can't tell you exactly that. but
I'll tell you what l do knOw-the Uni
versity of Michigan is the cheapest
in the country. 1t costs them $500 a
year for each pupil, and we come
next"
Next to the cheapest in the coun-
try. Well. certainly one couldn't ask
more than that.
And what proportion of the women
who teach marry? Can you tell me
that. Mrs. Cheney"
about so per cent of college women
marry" she replied There has been.
at different times, a great deal of dis
cussion on that subject. 1t has been
claimed that college women don't
marry in the same proportion that
other women do. The Collegiate Alum
nae association has, at three different
times made up statistics. and each time
it has been found that 80 per cent
marry. and, furthermore" said she. in
a decisive little way. "the college
women have their average of two chill
dren apiece-yOu know that is the av-
erage that American women, generally.
have-and the children live and grow
to maturity and health, which is the
thing that counts.
1T is not Of college women generally
who marry, that I wish TO know. but
of those who teach Is there any way
of getting at that?"
Let me see said she reflectively.
why, this might do it, She reached
in drawer and brought out a little
book-"Universit of California Bulle-
tins Graduates 1854 to 1892" IT have
kept track of them in this" said she.
We turned over a page or two until
we came to the class of 1875. the first
year that women were allowed to
enter.
You see / have marked Them" she
said. as I looked over her shoulder a
little cross opposite those who married.
a straight line for those who taught
and a round one for those who have
died.
We glanced through the first few
classes. There were very few women
during those first years after they were
and to my surprise almost al
of them had married. Here and there.
marked opposite a name, / saw ply
sician" or lawyer or writer"
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on English and two on arithmetic.
They must get outside of these"
said the doctor And from the tone
OF his voice and the expression of his
eyes, I felt an immediate conviction
that they did.
There is something about Doctor
Burk that makes one know instinctively
he talked to me; the scholarly shape of
his head; the intense earnestness of
his manner; his absolute absorption in
his work. Here was a brilliant yet
practical mind. A big man in big
place.
Must they go through all of those
books. besides their teaching?" 1 re-
ferred again to the textbooks.
Part they know when they come
here. The rest they must get. We
have had $4,000 copies of these books
printed" he continued, as he turned
over the leaves of one of them. The
Contra Costa county schools have
adopted them-it is not obligatory, you
know"
How long. has this two year course
been in practice. doctor?"
For 10 years"
Were you the originator"
we were the. first to put it in opera
tion. Tho others have gradually fallen
into line
And have all of the normal schools
Of the state now adopted it?"
The Los Angeles and San Jose
schools have, though at Chico and San
Diego they have a four year prepara-
tory course, virtually high school
course. preceding it."
Now, do you think, Doctor Burk,
that 1 can safely take that first class
as a sample of the number of girls
who marry?"
Well, yes" said he; but suppose we
just run over the second class-the
one that graduated at Christmas time
of that same year, 19O1-and see what
it says"
OF the second class, numbering 20
graduates, 10 married. 3 died and the
remaining 16 are still teaching. One
of those who married after teaching
two years went back to her teaching
and is still at it, and one of those who
had remained unmarried taught seven
years and then travelled a year.
Travel" said the doctor, seems to
be the ambition of the young woman
teacher. They teach for a while and
then want to go to Europe"
He spoke a bit regretfully, thought
Perhaps it's hard for them to settle
back to their teaching after that year
of foreign travel.
How do they manage to get away?"
I asked.
Leave of absence" he answered.
speaking of leave of absence re-
minds me of an incident" said l. "A
neighbor of mine in an uptown apart
ment house, one of your graduates who
had been a teacher, told me that the
member of the board to whom she
rendered her resignation after her,
marriage said to her: You don't want
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Brave Girl Pioneers

They were unsual women, weren't
they?" I asked. 1T took courage for
a woman to enter the university in
those days?''
Indeed it did," was her reply.
There were only two or three in
those first few years who had become
teachers. AS Mrs. Cheney glanced at
the little straight lines opposite their
names, she said, with q little sympa-
thetic. regretful note in her voice:
They are still teaching. I'd go over
more of this with you only it takes so
much time" and then added, but you
may take It home with you If you
like" And I did.
And do you think it pays the state,'
from the practical point of view. Mrs
Cheney. to educate it's teachers?'
"Oh, from the economic? Yes. YO1
tell your editor that it pays better
when they marry" Her voice was
soft and she looked down as she spoke.
and 1 seemed in that one little sentence
TO hear all that a higher education
might mean in a wife; to her home.
to her husband and to her children.
and through those children, to her
state.
In looking through the little book
she had loaned me I found that the
number of women graduates was small
until about 1891. or 1892. / commenced
at 1890 and tailed for four years.
sIn the class of 80 eight women grad
uated. OF those, six are teachers, one
married, and one went into business.
In 1891 six women graduated. One
married and five are teaching.
In 1892 is women graduated. Four
married. IL are teachers. one is a law
yer and one a journalist.
In 1898 10 graduated. Ten married.
eight are teaching and one is doing
newspaper work.
OF those who became teachers I'm
those four classes only one had the
cross marked after the little straight
line. signifying that she had married.
Thinking I must be mistaken in the
marking in some way 1 rung Mrs.
Cheney up and asked her about ii. but
I proved to be right. The cross stood
for marriage, quite evidently. as the
book gave their married names. and
she said the straight line meant those
who had become teachers. / looked on
through and the number of those who
became teachers and afterward mar
ried was appallingly few. OF course
she may have lost track. more may
have married than she knew of. but if
that little book tells the truth. then
it isn't question of docs il pay the
state to educate its teachers?r
1T is, on the contrary, a question if
the state should not pay a bonus to
every woman who gives UP 95 per cent
of her own chances of having a home
and family of her own to teach the chill
dren of other people
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Half the Class Married

The result I found 10 be that one
less than half OF that first class of Sc
pupils married. -Four never taught, one
taught six months. one died and the
remaining l3 are stiIl teaching. Those
who married averaged four years of
teaching.
And what is the cost of graduating
one pupil. doctor?7
President Norris Daily Of the San
Jose normal has written a book on that
subject" he said, and if YOU viii drop
him a line 1 have no doubt he viii be
pleased to tell you"
AS the doctor continued talking, how
ever. he told me the very thing 1 was
after.
1T costs US $500 for each pupil we
graduate-it's a Two year course, you
l1now-s25O a year. And that is rather
a high rate, because we are still young
At the san Jose normal. for instance
an OLDER established. larger school, it
can be done at cheaper rate; $500 a
pupil it costs them. Our class this
year numbers So he continued. Next
year it viii be I25, the year after that
$50 and when We reach the $50 mark
we. too. can graduate them for $500
apiece"
And do you think it pays the state,
doctor?"
yes. 1t pays, if and he paused
and then said impressively, IF we turn
out good teachers.
why. the normal school graduates
have always been considered the best
they have always been given the pref
ereace have they not?"
No" he replied, they are only just
beginning to be- Under the old sys-
TEN, the four years course, one year
was given to trial teaching. That is.
girl would in reality teach-let us
signature study for perhaps three
months and think she was equipped
TO teach anything. IT hurt more than
It helped her, because besides being
Incompetent she was conceited. she
thought she knew. Under the pres