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The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-07-01
BOARD SETTLES
SCHOOL DISPUTES
O. CARR, WILMINGTON LAW
YER-EDUcAToR is AGAIN
NAMED ON BOARD.
WAS VERY MUCH DISGUISED
Samuel McHorney Appointed in Cur
rituck.-Poiitics and Personalities
Not up in Hearing.

Raleigh.-Supt. J. Y. Joyner, as Sec
| retary of the state board of education,
dictated the notification to j. 0. Carr
of Wilmington that the state board
has reappOinted him on the New Han
over county school board as the out
come of the bitter fight that has been
HOing on since Inc recent session of
he legislature and brought about the
strenuous and in some respects sensa-
tional hearing before the board.
Asked about statements that had
been made that Mr.. Carr might resign
from the New Hanover board after
the fight was all over, Mr.. Joyner ex-
pressed the view that there is no like
lihood of any assignment and feels
sure that Mr.. Carr and his friends
would realize that it would be unfair
to the state board for him to retire
it has in his support and for the
policies he represents as the chair
man of the New Hanover board.
ALI the contests had their origin in
factional differences, in which the
senators and representatives we're at
odds during the last legislature.
Senator Cooper Ct New Hanover
strove for the appointment of Cuth-
bert Martin in the last General AS
sembly, and his bill was killed in the
house. Representative w. P. Stacy,
on the other hand, introduced bill
for the reappointment of Mr.. J. o.
Carr and Senator Cooper had this
killed in the senate.
The Currituck contest came up
when Representative Pierce Hampton
introduced the name of Mr.. Wilson
Leary. Senator Walter L. Cohoon
from Pasquotank county but the same
senatorial district, made a counter
speech and introduced the name of
Mr.. Samuel McHorney.
The Warren county difference came
with the bill to appoint Mr.. John S.
Davis by Representative P. J. Macon
and counter move to appoint w. A.
Graham by Senator Tasker Polk. The
real difference in this case is over the
election of a superintendent 1t was
no secret that this was the whole |
matter, it being held that Superin-
tendent Howard Jones would lose out |
in the event of appointment of Mr..
Graham, who would hold the balance |
of power in the board.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-07-01
Surveying SheIby-Casar Railroad

surveying Sneloy-CaSar Railroad.
Shelby.-Prof. w. G. Riddick and
son, w. w. Riddick, and Prof. L. c..
Mann of A. & M. College, Raleigh, ar.
rived here and have commenced sur
veying a line for the proposed Casar
railroad to upper Cleveland. These
gentlemen were engaged to do this
work during the summer on a private
subscription raised locally to ascer-
tain definitely what it win cost to
build the road. Outside capital has
been slow to accept the $4,000 voted
in bonds for the 26 miles of standard
road, so local men are having this
survey made with the view to supple
menting the bond money, if the cost
does not appear more than they can
afford, to build the road themselves.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15
cottonseed Flour Nutritious

Flour made from cotton seed is a
valuable food for general consumption,
and an inexpensive substitute for
meat. 1t is remarkably high in pro
tein, which is the flesh-producing sub
stance of meat, and is readily digested
by the gastric juices.
Cottonseed flour is made from the
kernel of the seed after the oil has
been pressed from it. 1t is highly
concentrated food and is in no way
intended to replace wheat flour or 9TH
er cereals. 1t could not safely be
used as such because an excess OF
protein is probably as damaging to
the human system as the lack of it.
1t should be mixed with three or four
parts of wheat flour in making into a
dough.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15
poa Helps Man Make Living.

A dog named Rover, owned by a
gentleman in Carpenteria, CAL, has
been taught to turn the wheel that
furnishes the power for his masters
grinding machine. Rover gets
on the wheel Of his own accord and
merrily treads, treads, while his mas
ter sharpens scissors and knives. The
dog seems to think it game devised
for his special amusement, and when
business is slack he will run to the
wheel and bark reproachfully at his
master until the good man feels
obliged to attach the rope which turns
the wheel. Rover never seems so
happy as when business is brisk, and
he can send his large wheel around
and around for a whole morning. He
will then sleep for half an hour after
he has had his dinner, and be ready
for work again with his master in the
afternoon.-The American Boy.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15
LENDING A HELPING HAND
Teamster Gave Handcart Pusher a
Lift" That Was Something to
Be Appreciated.

Here is an interesting street scene,
drawn by a writer:
The handcart was of familiar sort
"a pair of high wheels with a long
platform of stats resting on the axle
and a crossbar at one end for han
die. A man stands behind the cross
bar and breasts it to propel the We
hicle.
The handcart was piled high with
big bags filled with waste paper-a
cumbersome, heavy load that would
have been hard to handle anywhere,
and was doubly troublesome going up
the slope from Nassau street to Broad
way. The handcart man had to bend
over the bar and push with all his
might to keep the load moving at all.
Coming up behind him was driver
with an empty truck, drawn by pair
of big horses. When the driver saw
what was ahead, he started up his
team little and skillfuly set the end
of the pole square in the middle of
the rearmost bag on the handcart,
where he could push to the greatest
purpose without disturbing the load.
Thus the horses began to push the
handcart UP the hill.
All the handcart man had to do was
to stand up, hold on to the handlebar,
and keep the handcart straight. The
big horses, guided by the friendly
driver. were doing the pushing; and
so, easily enough, the man got his load
up the rest of the slope and round to
the easy level of Broadway.-New
York Sun.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15

Completion of these two courses
will firmly ground the student in what
are usually known as the classics and
will enable him the better to appre-
ciate the other and lighter reading to
be found in the other lists.
The reading course for parents.
which is under the direct supervision
of Miss Ellen G. Lombard, secretary
of the home educational division, in
cludes number of books dealing with
problems of everyday life in the
home. The volumes on this list in
clude books on practical motherhood,
marriage, development of children.
care of babies. domestic economy,
shelter and clothing, domestic science
and a number of pamphlets and bull
letins issued by the department Of
agriculture and dealing with the can.
ming and preserving of fruits and
vegetables.
The boys course includes few
of the more exciting books upon the
lists of American literature and
worlds fiction, and in addition such
books as Hans Brinker, The Jungle
Book Westward Ho!' biographies of
Lincoln, Lee and Franklin, addresses
by Lincoln and Washington, Cleveland
Moffett's Careers of Dangers and OAR
ing and Bulfinch's Age of Chivalry.
The careful perusal of these books
will, we feel, pay large dividends not
only upon the moral character of the
boy himself but upon the future well
fare of the country at large.
THE girls course includes only one
or two of the books recommended for
boys. but it parallels the other course
in that 1t advocates the reading of a
selected few of the worlds master
pieces of fiction and the more ju-
venile of the American authors works.
Alice in Wonderland, Little Women,
The Mill on the Floss 'Evangeline.
Helen Keller's story of her life and
the four books dealing with house fur
nishing. the preparation of food and
the physical side of girlhood and wom-
anhood are among the other books rec.
commended"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15

There are the 'Iliad' and Odyssey
of Homer, the Divine Comedy of
Dante, and the great dramas of Shake
speare-'The Merchant of Venice,
Macbeth, Hamlet and 'Othello-and
Goethe's Faust
These books should be read by all
who would know the worlds best lit
erature and life. The bureau of educa-
tion therefore has chosen them for it's
first course in reading, and we have
been very pleasantly surprised to note
that the majority of persons who have
evinced interest in this movement
have inquired particularly about the
bibles and their supplements, the Tit
erary masterpieces. We have been
of the opinion that the majority Of
people would find these selections a
little heavy for their reading and
would prefer the works listed under
the fiction heading But nearly every
inquiry which has reached us from
adults has specified that the writer de-
sired particularly to familiarize him.
self with the first two courses.
ITO everyone who inquiries concern
ing the course we send a blank, to be
filed out and kept as a record in
Washington, and list of the books
of the special courses designated. We
advise that the reading begin as soon
as possible and that, when possible,
| the books be taken in the order
named. But this is not essential 70
the obtaining of the certificate of
merit given by the government in lieu
of the usual college or university
diploma or degree when the student
completes the entire course and sub
mits satisfactory evidence of having
read all the books on the first two lists
within three years from the time of
joining the reading circle.
The second course is intended as
a supplement to the first and includes
nine books: Job. Isaiah, Deuteronomy,
'Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus
Virgil's 'Aeneid,' The Nibelungenlied,
Ceramics Don Quixote, number OF
plays by Moliere and Millions Para.
disc Lost
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15
Warrior of Today.

George Wharton Pepper said at a
luncheon at the Plattsburg training
camp for officers:
THE methods of warfare have
changed enormously in the past year
The sword. for example, is no longer
carried. The sword has quite disap-
peared from war
"A story comes from the Argonne
about French chasseur who took .
German officer prisoner. The ,chasseur,
a boy. tyro. said to the officer:
"'Give up your sword
But the officer shook his head and
answered:
"'I have no sword to give up But
won't my vitriol spray, my oil projec.
tor or my gas cylinder do as well?' T"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15
Conservation Reains At Home.

The child is our greatest national
asset. Conservation should begin at
home. Pure, clean food and proper
feeding are necessary for the infant.
Statistics prove that one breasted IN
FAINT dies to every ten artificially fed.
The physician, the midwife and the
mother must be taught the necessity
of breast feeding. The child must not
be. deprived of this hereditary right
on the least protest. The expectant
mother in the last stages of pregnancy
should be taught the proper hygiene
of this period.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15
sulnhur Minlnn in Texas.

Near Freeport, Tex, sulphur is pro-
duced from beds approximately 1000
feet below the surface. The sulphur
is melted in place and can then be
raised to the surface by means of an
air lift. Superheated water at tenn
perature of 336 degrees Fahrenheit,
and under high pressure is forced into
the sulphur-bearing formation The
water penetrates the deposit and melts
the sulphur twhose melting point is
239 degrees Fahrenheit). which then
flows to pipe from which it issues at
the surface and runs into bins. These
bins are constructed of boards which
are raised as the mass increases, the
bins finally reaching a height of thirty
to thirty-fiye feet. The sulphur prompt
ly congeals on exposure and after a
few hours assumes the true sulphur
yellow.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15
HAD REAL IDEA OF ECONOMY
Jap Explains How Family Was EN-
abled to Use One Fan TWO or
Three Generations.

Among the Japanese economy is
held to be high virtue. Two old mi
sers of Tokyo were one day discussing
ways and means Of saving.
Il manage to make fan last about
twenty years." said one, land this is
my system: l don't wastefully open
the whole fan and wave it carelessly.
! open only one section at q time.
That is good for about year. Then
! open the next, and so on until the
fan is eventually used up
Twenty years for good FAM" ex-
claimed the other. What sinful ex-
travagance! In my family we use a
fan for two or three generations, and
this is how we do it: We open the
whole fan, but we don't wear it out
by waving it. Oh, no! We hold it
still, like this, under our nose. and
wave our face!"-Everybody's.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15
LOOKING ON The SUNNY SIDE
Anything Is Better Than to Give
Oneself over to Pessimism That
viii Spoil Everything.

Since we all have more or less mis-
fortune to meet let us strive to meet
it in the right way. Why sit down
and bewail the i'll luck that is ours?
Why turn our sorrow over and over
in our minds, seeing in it ever new
phases of misfortune? No! Let us
stand up beneath its weight. no mat
ter how heavy the load may seem,
and, with our eyes fixed on the glim-
mer of light, let us walk swiftly out
Of the dark paths into the sunlight.
Once we have learned to walk on
the sunny side of life darkness will
have no further terrors for us, for we
will carry our sunshine around with
us in the depths of our hearts. The
sunshine of the mind is far warmer
and brighter than the sunshine which
we see and feel with our physical
senses.
Once we have gained the true sense
of real mental sunshine we will have
the means to pull ourselves out of
every Slough of Despond without any
outside aid. For just as Bunyan's Pill
grim's Progress was mental, so it is
with all of our Journeys through life.
What we really accomplish must first
be worked out in mind.
Learning to pick out the CLEAN of
light from the dark path. learning
how to avoid the sloughs of despond
and how to walk in the sunshine is
not easy, but even the attempt at
learning these lessons brings it's re-
ward of happiness and peace. Every
little effort in the right direction
brings such beautiful returns that the
only wonder is that so few of us make
the effort. Dispatch.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15

It is estimated that so per cent of
che 1.75O,OO0 automobiles in use in
the United States are owned by farm
ers and the percentage is increasing
each year. 1t is estimated that 60
per cent of the 1915 output will go to
the farming communities.
A meteor which fell recently In
front OF the home of Charles Solmon,
who lives near Prescott, Mich, went
to an unknown depth and water came
up to the surface in the hole it made,
although Solmon had been unable to
! strike water at depth of so feet.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15
Just as He Had said.

you remember selling me some
hair-restorer when i called the othef
day to get shaved. you hoaryheaded
old theft" roared the indignant Gus
toner. You sold it under false pre-
fences. sir. You said it would restore
my head to it's original condition.
well, didn't it work." asked the
barber.
Work? No. It's taken off what 1T
tie hair / used to have. and | am as
bald as the pavement now"
That's quite right, sir. NO ialse
pretence about that. ! said it Uouiu
restore your head to its original conui,
ton. and you know, sir, most Oh Us
are born bald
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15
Period of ROMANCE Ended.

No more shall hear his footsteps
on yonder walk just as the clock
strikes eight
Gracious, Jeannette!"
And the old parlor light will never
burn low for him again"
You don't mean it?"
Il do; and, furthermore, he will new
er sit on this sofa three nights a week
and call me pet names, as he has been
doing for two years"
Il am astonished!"
"And tonight l am going to burn all
the old love letters in my chest OF
drawers
"B-but why? Are you going to dis
card him?"
Discard him! Why, you goose,
am going to marry him!"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15
TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES

Damage to American crops by in
sects yearly amounts to $5S0,00O 600.
Standard clocks in the Paris OBJ
ssryatory are kept 30 feet under
ground, where the variation in tenn
perature has been less than one de-
gree for several years.
Members of the Chicago Craftsmen
Chapter of Operative Masons are Ma.
sons in two senses of the word. They
are bricklayers and stonemasons and
ere members of the Masonic order.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15

Hick Colgan, the famous wolf
catcher. who lives near Atchison.
Kan, has captured total of 72s
wolves. He receives a bounty Of five
dollars for gray wolves and one dol.
lar for coyotes. Since the first of the
year he has captured 80.
a Cairo correspondent writes to the
Manchester Guardian that, owing to
the falling Of the Nile Egypt will have
to import nearly all her rice this year.
The Nile has not been as low for near
ly 100 years. and the facilities for wa.
ter storage have been insufficient
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15
BOOKS RECOMMENDED BY THE GOVERNMENT

The Great Literary Bibles.
The "Iliad" and Odyssey"
THE Divine Comedy"
THE Merchant of Venice"
Macbeth"
Hamlet"
"Othello"
Faust" (Goethel
Masterpieces of Literature
Anna Karenina"
with Fire and Sword"
The Three Musketeers"
"Pere Goriot"
"Clarissa Harlowe"
David Copperfield"
Guy Mannering"
Henry Esmond"
''Ivanhoe"
Lorna Doone"
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel"
Pride and Prejudice"
Robinson Crusoe"
Tale of Two Cities"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15
EVIDENTLY NOT AN ARTIST
'uoo'nS FROM Comment, RiIkIns H.a
a Good Deal to Learn Abou, az
Photography.

Young. Bilkins is an enthusiasm !,
voice OF amateur photography Haa9
ways insists upon taking" his tan.s az
and friends posed in more or las s,,1.'y
tistic attitudes. '' at
Not long ago there was an exb,h,
ton OF the work of local photogranh
&c club to which the young fellow ~
longs. and where were displayed tha
results OF certain of his efforts 10 ~
mortalize his family and friends IN
one corner hung a group of fgpras
twisted into the most extraordinar -
positions. the general effect being thai
OF persons in various stages of mar.
alysis.
VINO in the world are those queer.
looking people?" asked someone
oh, those are some of Bilkirs,
strained relations" said a bvstando~
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15
speakIna FROM ExperIenoe.

"Pa, what is the first line OF 09
fence'?"
THAT depends on the circumstance 80
son. If this country were at war 'n0
first line of defense would be the nav,
When mans married, it's usually 'uo
telephone line, by which he tries "
square himself before he comes nome
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15
carefuI DIAGNOSIS.

Wen, you did you succeed with
your first diagnosis? Did you profit
by my advice?"
The Young Doctor think did.
sir. / told the patient that he was
suffering from combination of liver.
stomach. heart, lung and brain trouble
Old Practitioner--Goodl No chance
of a mistake there.-Stray Stories.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15

"Cloister and Hearth
Vanity Fair"
Vicar of Wakefield"
'Romola"
The Luck of Roaring Camp
THE Last of the Mohicans'
The Scarlet Letter.
The Pilot"
Treasure Island"
American Literature
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Ia
ble'
Two Years Before the Mast"
Emerson's Essays
Poe's Gold Bug"
Henry James The American"
o. Henry's -Four Million"
"Ben-Hur"
Tom Sawyer
"Huckleberry Finn"
The Man Without q Country"
The Marble Faun"
Reign of Law"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15
Aotinn in One lesson.

do you think l could learn TO 00
moving picture actor?"
Sure you could. Just remsnig g.
this one thing: A heaving chest ~
notes surprise, fear, hate or any oln1I
emotion. louisville Courier-Joaii1''
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15


business and at
tending to thou
sand and one other Jobs which he
has selected for himself, he has
decided to become professor OF
literature in the University of the
Common People. To this end he
has just instituted one of the
most novel schemes ever inaugu-
rated--a course in literature for
the benefit of all the people OF
the United States and its insular
possessions.
The bureau of education is at
the head of this university of lit
erature, a university where the
sole cost Of tuition is to evince
interest in the lessons, a univer-
sity which confers certificates of
merit in lieu of degrees and guar
antees that all students will re-
ceive benefits in direct ratio to
their application.
DR.. P. P. Claxton, commission
er of education, is the man who is
at the head of the literature
movement, and from all indica-
tons the course will be an excep-
tionally popular one.
We are receiving scores of APP
plications every day from persons
who desire to share in the bene-
fits of our reading courses" Doc.
tor Claxton told me when | in
CURED as to the response which
the movement was meeting with.
II the applications continue to
come in at their present rate
and there is hardly a day that
does not show an increase over
the day before-we shall be hard d,
to handle all the correspondence a
sached to the courses, and congress
will have to make additional Apr
priations for the betterment of the Ii
erary taste of the people.
1t was in order to bring about TIL
betteEment in the state of the readin
public" continued Doctor ClaxtoI
that the bureau of education deci,
ed to institute this series Of course
in literature. At present we have tie
divisions of the main course mappe
out. These are:
The great literary Bibles.
Masterpieces of the worlds liter
ture.
A reading course for parents.
Miscellaneous reading for BOYS.
Miscellaneous reading for girls.
Thirty books Of great fiction.
Some of the worlds heroes.
American literature.
Biography.
History.
Seven of these courses have bee
completed, and we are engaged in a
swering hundreds of queries concer
ing them. The other three will be fl
ished in a short time, and then II
government will be in position to 4
most humane thing-to tell person
OF every age what they ought to rea
II they desire to improve their mind
That, of course, is the primary O
ject of this literary course, and v
firmly believe that if only fraction
the persons who have already evinct
interest in this movement apply ther
selves to the work which we ha,
mapped out. the improvement in IL
literary taste of the country at lars
will be marked"
IN discussing the first of the.
courses Doctor Claxton said: amor
all the books of the world few al
so pre-eminent for content and sty
that they deserve the right to /
called the great literary bibles Il
foundation stones upon which res
the entire literature of the world.
whatever language or age.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15
Testimony From One Who Knows

Dorothy Dix says girls ought to
know what their beaux make. Don't
they? Unless times have changed the
girls get three-fourths of it during the
courtship and make a clean sweep
after the wedding.-Houston Post.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15

The silk hat falls too often in'o 70 -
hands of those who are strangers y
the art of scenic investiture
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15

Canada's mineral production in 1914
was valued at $12S.475,49 9.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15

Politeness Is like an air cushion;
there may be nothing in it, but it eases
many hard jolt.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15
A Relation With Him.

what is your fathers religion?"
Golf, / guess. It's the only thing
he does on Sundays
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15

The girl who doesn't use slang may
be more attractive than the one who
does, but she is less numerous.