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tBiABMCSlOBOFFlCS X fflFADTOCE JOB 0FF1C3. IS BETTER EQUIPPED! THAN ANY EAST OF RALEIGH. ALL OR DERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT AND EEFI- CIENT ATTENTION, TIVZ" TJS. NCE LET ALL THE ENDS THOU AIM'ST AT, BB TOY COUNTUFS, THY GOD'S, AND TRUTHS." VOLUME 18. WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, JULY 26, 1888. BILL ARP'S LETTER. edg' The publi0 acno1 system lished them it was all rilit and l ua.3 tut) muuraeiucuv ui. tuw ilko tut tun uicduiuuvcci -:o:- J'1IA TILES A WAND LEARNT AT SALT SPRINGS. lie Talks of Normal Gatherings . And the Good Work They are Doing. lie Tallin of His School ' Vitus etc I have been to the Peabody Institute at Chautauqa and en joyed toe visit. A man never gets .too oid to learn, and 1 don't know what school he can bo to for a month where he will learn so much as at one of these normal gatherings, where eminent teachers and lecturers instruct and entertain the people Judge Hook has done well iu establishing this insti tute at Salt Sbrings, where everything is so tractive where lovely and at tue air is so pure and the water so healthy Georgia teachers are fast com ing to the front as lecturers and instructors in art and. science, and interspersed with their morning talks or evening es says, they have discourses from Home of the most eminent phil osophers in the country. It is a grand scheme for the diffusion of knowledge, aud every teach er Id the State should eagerly embrace the. privileges offered there. What an instructive feast it was to listen to Dr. Cal houn tell of the eye and all its beautiful and wonderful organ ism or t) listen to Judge Bleckley as he discoursed on evolution, or to Dr. Payne, as he charms us with new and broader views of life and knowl- ege. Verily the people of this day cannot fully appreciate the blessings that are within their reach blessings that were un known and undreamed of in our youth. A thousand times have I wished that I was a teacher a school teacher not that I was vain and thought that I could teach better than others, but I am conscious of losing the youth ,ei- our land, and"I wished to mould' them for usefulness and happiness.. Another reason came to me from observation. The teachers are the taught. They are their own pupils. They are going to school all the time. The scholars are put behind them and press them forward; A faithful teacher is the best student in his school, and every year takes' the first honor and deserves the highest medal. For many years I have noted these teachers the edu cators of the land and they are the best, the noblest, and the most useful of all the eecu lat professions. You can ponder them out with almost unerring certainty. ' You may consider the statesmen, and preachers i ana lawyers, ana editors, ana almost every one who attained Jl.l! Li 1 -m aisuncuon, ana was lovea ana honored by his people, has been a teacher. I heir profession makes them precise, exact. thoughtful. They become the best thinkers,and the best writ ers, and are always prepared to prove their positions on all great questions. Besides this they become paternal, philan thropic, unselfish, and have broad, considerate views of life and its duties. A teacher is a kind of patriarch, and loves the family of which he has charge. He watches them long after iney nave ceasea to De Ms pu pils, and if they succeed he is 3 T m J m. proua. iimey iau ne is mor tified. How many honored sons or this great State can Richard Malcolm Johnston point to aud eay with conscious pride taught that man' in his boy- 1 -a T . . t -m uuuu. i. marsnaiea tne way tV.i V- - t , a ... . iuai ue nuouia go vvnat an honor to have been the teacher of Webster and Clay and Cal houn, and ten thousand olhers who have dignified and adorn - ed their callings. ' But all are not teaehers who profess to be. The art of im parting knowledge is as impor tant as to have knowledge. It is in some 'measure a gift just like oratory, or music, or in- and the nation, but I confess to some lingering prejudice against it: It has many advan tages, but they do not altogeth er satisfy. In some places it has been abandoned. It is like the ejection of our judges. Within forty years the mode has been changed eight times, and still the people are not sat isfied. Three times they have been elected by the people, three times by the legislature and twice they have been ap pointed by the governor and confirmed by the senate. This is not progress but is rotation. In many places the patrons are not satisfied with . the public schools, and it may be because they have been unfortunate in the selection of teachers. I fonnd places in my travels where these schools were very popular, and places where there was general dissatistaction. in one town the principal was not on speaking terms with his first assistant. In another, the complaint was that two mem bers of the board had no cniia- ren and the other was a Sec tarian bizot. In another the subordinates did not . give sat isfaction, And in all there is a f eelingj of helplessness among the patrons.- If you are dis satisfied or aggrieved, what are you going to do about it. Noth ing. You can't do anything. The board are the masters, and the board is much inclined to favor their own appointments. These appointments are some times made from sectarian prejudices, sometimes from family lor political influences, sometimes from school or col lege friendships. They are rarely made from motives inde pendent of all these and solely upon merit. Suppose an appli cant does go through an exami nation; what does that establish as to his or her fitness to teach. The best lawyer I ever knew never made a speech in the court room. He was a master of the scitnee, and we used to abide his judgments on intri cate Questions with perfect faith, but he could never over come -his nervous ; timidity. Nathaniel Macon ranked above all his : cotemporaries in the United States Senate, i He was pre-eminently its counselor and guide, but he never made a speech in his congressional ca reer of thirty four years. We are all a bundle of preju dices, I know, and we old peo ple are inordinately attached to the customs, that prevailed from our youth to our maturity, and hence I am modest about obtruding my opinions, but I must confess that I am not yet in love with the modern system of public schools. The teachers are too independent, ot their patrons. Direct responsibility between the employer and tfe employed is better than to have middle men or brokers. In the olden times the teacher was re quired to board around among his principal patrons some times a week, or two weeks, or a month and so they became acquainted with him intimate ly acquainted. They knew his social and his moral worlh as well as his scholarship. Of course this plan would not be agreeable now, but the intent was good, and in that day had good results. : . But in any system, old or new, tne success or. tne scnooi depends almost entirely upon the Qualifications of the teach ers. Beeman made reputaion and kept it ; so did Richard Malcolm Johnston ; so did Fcuche and George and Long street. These educators paid special attention to the morals and good behavior of their pu pils. In a later day Bingham took the lead and Dr. Haygood and Dr. Battle and Gen.- D. H. Hill. Franklin college once had it through such eminent teach ers as Waddell and Dr. Church but somehow she lost some of her good repute and Oxford and Mercer came to the front. Thewill power of the principal, is worth as much as his schol arship that power that con trols the pupils and gives tone to their ambition, their pride, their morals. I have known boys to go through college and were in his favor, indeed a strict dis ciplinarian was much more popular than an easy going meek tempered man, who per mitted his pupils to do pretty much as they pleased. The rod was considered an essential part of the school furniture. It was no great crime for a boy to resist and fight back, but, if the teacher failed to 6ubdue him and whip the fight he suddenly lost his prestige and was laughed at as a failure. So be sides a competent, knowledge of books a successful teacher had to be fortified with will power and muscular power and the conduct of the boy outside the school was a part of the curriculum. Seventy years ago, my father' was a teacher in Liberty county, and I have heard him tell with much hu mor of the struggles that he had in subduing the larger boys, whose parents were rich and proud. How on one occas ion the biggest boy in school refused to make the usual bow as he retired from the school room at recess and he gave him three days of grace in which to bow as the other pupils did, or to take a whipping or leave the school, and Me swere that he would do neither, and how the collision came and the door was locked and they fought for ten minutes all over the bench es and desks, while the other scholars, both girls and boys, iweie outside peeping through the cracks i of the log- school house with intense interest to see tho result of the contest, It was a regular serugs hattle, but the teacher whipped it, and that settled his dominion for good. 'That yank can fight,' they said, 'and he ain't afraid to do it,' and this ensured him the respect of both patrons and pupils. The times have wonderfully changed since we patriarchs were boys and went to the old fashioned schools to learn the rudiments. We began our work on'the old blue back spelling book that had a wonderful pic ture on the fly-leaf a picture of Mercury, or Minerva, or somebody, pointing to the dome of a temple on a mountain. It was a rough wood cut, but it was very fine to us, for pictures were scarce in those days. The printed lines on the title page almost settled our destiny as we counted them to the tune of rich man, poorman, peddler, tinker. By and by we advanced to baker, and then to crucifix, and then to incomprehensibil ity that word of learned length and thundering sound. In course of time we reached phthisic, th? fifth mile stone, and then our orthography was considered complete. We pon dered all the romances as we went along those thrilling, fascinating romances - one about an old man who iound a rude boy up in one of his apple trees stealing apples aud desir ed him to come dowri. The romance of poor dog Tray, who got into bad com- But he who with patient ana in quiring mind Wonld seek the stream of science to ascend, Must count the cost, and never hope to find Kest to his labors or to his wanderings end. The foundation can be laid, but whether it will be built upon or not depends upon the boy or the girl, bcnoiarsnip acquired from books is but a small part of education. As a man can master the art of music and be no musician, just so can he understand trigonometry and be no surveyor. Practice, experience and observation must all come In to the educa i tion of a successful man. : A long time ago I knew an old farmer who could hardly write his name,' but he was i self-re liant, and his habit of observa tion had stored his mind with useful knowledge. He knew the peculiar qualities and uses of the trees of the forest and would tell 'you i which were tough or strong or : elastic which were good for the axle tree of the wagon and which for the hubs or the spokes or the felloes, which would last longest in the ground or out of it. What vines wound the pole with the course of the sun and what the reverse and what wound both ways and crossed each other. He knew that the lateral limbs of a tree never grew any higher from the ground and the surveyors marks were just where they were chopped half a century ago. He knew that a can' got its full growth in a year and the nuin- bar of rows of corn on the ear was always even, lie Knew that the bat built a nest, bat laid no eggs, and the raincrow laid eggs, but built no nest, and a whippoorwill never set across a limb, but lined it. If he found where a serpent had erossed the road he could tell OUR NEXT SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. mate of the man. The election of MaJ. Finger lis more important than any oiner man on lue ticket. be. cause of the gross ignorance and stupidity of hi oDDonent. It wonld be a lasting disgrace upon the public echool system to have so ignorant a man as J. B. Mason at the head of the ed ucational system of the State. NUMBER 26 Inly 15. crop bulletin signal oflee, I TO ISIS CCXPLSZXCII HAS CC1I2 AT LAST- XT cate that the the past week able for the MAJ. SIDNEY 31. FINGER. THE HEAD OF OUR SCHOOLS. MAJ. S. M. FINGER, SUPT. OF FUBLIC INSTRUCTION. Under His Wise and Excellent Management Our Public Schools Have Grown in Popularity and Efficiency. np. Just as he gave up his school- work, much to his surprise, Maj. Finger was nominated for the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of North Carolina. Of course he was elected by a large majority. f?ro, pany, and the milkmaid who vention. It requires force of ! receive adiploma, who did not character, will power, the gift of speech and a kind, considerate- regard for children and youth. That regard that in spires patience and persever ance that will endure more and suffer more from a dull pupil or a stubborn one than from a bright or willing one that makes Allowance for those whose parents have but little education or who take but little interest in assisting their child ren with their studies. Thin in difference is perhaps the great est embarrasment the teacher has to contend with. This eungy mistake tnat many par ents make who say : I pay ine teacher to teach my child ren and if he was any account ne would do it.' The poorest scholars in shool are those who get the least help at home. By neip, i mean encouragement, Pride of scholarship and, if possible, assistance over the hard places. The world is progressing in ererything, and of course is progressing iu the arts and methods of imparting knowl- Know a sine irom a tanget nor a circle from an ellipse nor why December is the twelfth month instead of the tenth, nor what causes an eclipse of the sun or a change ot the moon, nor what was the Latin for dog or the French for butter, nor who wrote Shakespeare, nor whether the deluge came be fore or after the flood. Such colleges might as well adver tise and say, 'diplomas made easy The school of the olden time was a little kingdom of its own. The patrons, it is true, consti tuted a kind of parliament to emply a teacher but when once employed and installed in of fice they had no control over him and could .not turn him out at their pleasure. He could remain as long as he had pupils and his-control over tnem was supreme. He was king and master and the only ay to get rid of him was to withdraw the scholars or let them combine to run hi m off. The parents rare ly interfered with his control over their children. If lie pun- tossed her head and spilled the milk, and the lawyer's bull that gcred the farmer's ox These composed nearly the dime novels of that flay, and wish it did yet, tor there was no harm in them, and a good moral was left behind. "We had mixed schools iu those days, and the boys were sorely put to it to keep up with the girls, and they, were ashamed not to, for we all had our sweet hearts, and they -were betting onus. 1 here has been no im provement on that sweetheart business that I know of. We had no steel pens, and had to depend upon the old gray goose ior quins, in memory l see the good 'old teacher standing by the window halL his time, making or mending pens with his little pearl-handled knife that they said came all the way from London. He kept one eye upon the blade and the other upon the boys. A flock of geese was a treasure then, and when the good woman had plucked their breasts to fill her bedtics and the boys had pulled their quills for pens the poor geese were a pitiful sight to behold. 'Where is your pen, my son ?' said the teacher. 'I havtft got any. I couldn't catch the old gander this morning.' We had no desks nor globes nor charts nor blackboards. But the hick ory was there to tingle knowl edge and good behavior into us through the cuticle of the back and the legs. But after all, we had the same foundation to build upon that the boys have now, and we kept apace with the wants and necessities of the age. Three times three made nine, just as they do now. Language was the same, and history J and phil osophy, and astronomy, and trigonometry, and geometry. Our boys could speak Hohen- linden and Bozaris and Patrick Henry and Casabianca about as well as they do now. The modern appliances for educa tion are much improved, but great scholarship is not confin ed to any age or institution. It comes, if it comes at all, in spite of all embarrasments. Where there is a will there is a way, and education is now within the easy reach of all. "Whether the snake that made the track "Was going North or coming back." He had experimented with the supposed influence of the worm on vegetation and found it had none. Illiterate as that man was I always felt that he was fit to be a teacher. What a comfort it is to, have knowledge, to be full of knowl edge. A great poet said, 'Where ignorance is bliss, tis folly to be wise.' But ignorance is never bliss. It cannot be, for bliss is he highest grade of happiness. It is heavenly joy and utterly incompatible with ignorance. Shakespeare says : 'Ignor ance is the curse ot Uod and nowledge is the wing with which we fly to heaven." Bulwer says : 'The pen is mightier than the sword.' And Lord Brougham says : The schoolmaster is abroad in the land and I will trust him against the soldier in full mili tary array.' Lord Bacon says: Knowl- edge is power,' and the Scrip tures abound in injunctions 'to increase our knowledge,' even though much study Is a weari ness to the flesh. Bill Arp. Don't Ezpriaicnt You cannot afford to waste tine in experimenting when your lungs are m danger. Consumption al ways seems, tt first, only a cold. Do not permit any dealer to im pose upon you with some cheap imitation of Dr. King's New Dis covery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, bat be sure you get the geuaine. Because be can make more profit he may tell you he has something just as good, or jaat the same. Don't be deceived, bnt insist upon getting Dr. King's New Discovery which is guar anteed to give relief in all Throat Luag and Chest affeeiions Trial bottles free at A. W. Rowland Drug Store Large .bottles 81. Mrs Cleveland the Inspiration of the Campaign. From Editor Grady's Speech at Atlanta: We cannot let Mrs. Cleveland oat of the campaign. She is at once its inspiration and its argument. I do not hope te de scribe her to you. The pointing out of her excellences is a tasli from which I shrink. Why, if the bees of Hymettus were swarming on my lips and my speech and soul soared as the eagle soars, when, with eye unquailing, he looks into the sun and mounts higher and hioher until he darkens the burnish ed ceiling of ..the sky with the shadow of his wings, I could not hope to interpret to yon the sweet and gracious courtesy ot the first lady of the land. Nothing Equals It Zalaha, Fla June 27, 1887. N. E. Venable & Co.i have been using B. B. B. iu my family as a blood purifier. Having never used any medicine to equal it. , Kespectfudy, Mrs. R. M. Laws. Of my Makes An Old Man Young. Extract from a fetter P. S. I bought 3 bottles your' Botanic Blood Balm from mend 11. D. Ballard, at rtimnn bello, S. C. I have been using it three weeks. It appears to give me new life and new strength, If there is anything that will make an old man young it is B. B. B. I am willing to seli it. I earnestly and honestly recommend Botanic Blood Balm. Blood Balm Oa, Atlanta, Ga. We present to our readers a picture of Maj. Finger, present Superintendent of Public In struction in North Carolina, and nominee of the Democratic party for re-election to the same office. Maj. Finger had the compliment of being re nominated by acclamation by the biggest Democratic Con vention held in Raleigh since the war. He has been so good an officer that our readers doubtless desire to know some thing of his history. Sidney Michael Finger was born in Lincoln county, N. C, on the 24th of May, 1837, and is now fifty-one years old. His father was a farmer and a tan ner and in both of these occu pations he caused his son to en gage until he was eighteen year- old, sending him to school four ' months in each year. His son worked assidu ously eight months and went to school four. This gave him physical and mental training, and gave him the foundation for . future usefulness. His father was an earnest supporter of the public schools and was nearly always a committeeman. He exertel himself to secure the best teachers that could be had by getting private sub scriptions in' aid of pnblic schools, and generally was suc cessful in prolonging the term to four months. Fortunately for Maj. Finger good teachers were secured from Catawba College md other Institutions that sprang np in that section of the State about 1850 ; and under these teachers in the public schools, in addition to the common school branches, he studied Latin, Greek and Algebra almost to the extent of a good preparation for the Freshman class in college. Hav ing thus obtained his prepara tion and training from the tub- lic schools he has good reason to be a friend to the public schools. Apparently , little things not unfrequently deter mine the course of a man's life. Maj. Finger says bnt for his father's providing, indeed at very small cost, for his getting in the public schools a taste of Latin, Greek and Algebra, he doubtless never would have found his way to a collegiate education. At the age of eighteen young Mr, Finger entered Catiwba College where he remained as pupil and, part of the time, in structor in some of the lower branches for four years. He then went to Bowdoin College, Maine, and graduated with A. B. in 1861 (A. M. 1865). He entered the Confederate army as a private in Co. 1, 11th N. C. Eegiment (Col. Leaven thorpe.) At the camp of in struction he was made Quarter Master Sergeant. After the battle of Gettysburg he was promoted to Captain (Assistant Quarter Master), and assigned to collection of Tax in Kind with headquarters at Charlotte, and in charge of that, the 6th Congressional District. In 1864 he was promoted to Major and put in charge of the collection of Tak in Kind for the whole State (in each Congressional District there 'was a Captain Quartermaster in charge). He was serving in this capacity, and making a faithful and ef ficient officer, when the war closed. After the war closed Maj. Fjnger, in partnership with Rev. J. C, Clapp, conducted Ca tawba High School at Newton, having charge of the property of Catawba College which had lost its endowmenc during the war. Ill health necessitated his abandoning teaching in 1874. This was a matter of the greatest regret for Maj. Finger, because of his fondness for teaching. It was his profession and he had made it a success and he was reluctant to give it lie was elected to the Senate from the counties of. Catawba and Lincoln in 1876, and was again elected to the Senate in 1881. As a legislator he was conservative, wise and pains taking. He was especially- in terested in legislation that af fected the school system, the settlement of the State debt, and railroad developments. No man more faithful to his duties ever had a seat in t: Legisla ture. In 187 1, when Maj. Finger quit teaching, he en gaged in merchandizing, and later, in cotton manufacturing, devoting his personal attention to these branches of bnsiness. In 1882 Gov. Jarvis appointed Maj. Finger a member of the Board of Directors of the West ern North Carolina Insane' Asy lum. This was the first Board appointed, and upon it devolved the ereat work of makinz all preparations for opening that magnificent institution for the reception of patients. Maj. 'Fin ger during the last year of this service was president of the board, and gave much of his time and thought upon the da ties which devolved upon him. He held this position until he was elected State Superinten dent of Schools. In brief this is the record of Maj.' Finger's life, with the most important event omitted. That event was his marriage in 1866 to Miss Sarah Hoyle lihyne, of Gaston county, to whose practi cal common sense, genuine worth, and lovely christian character Maj. Finger attributes much' of his success in life. They are both members of the (German) Reformed church. "It is said that Hon. George W. Stanton, Republican nominee for Secretary of State, never votes for a - negro. In the second convention at Weld on he refused to vote in common with the delegates from the Southern counties. A colored gentleman from Warren who was not a delegato.inaiated that Mr. Stanton should vote. He finally arose and voted for Cheatham, as no other name was before that august body. We have often read of negroes feeing made to vote by white men, butthis is the first instance in which a white man was made to vote bya negror Which rail is on top now, eh?" Newborn Advocate. Alas poor Stanton. We knew him well in days gone by when his boast was, although a Republican, that he never had ana never wouia vote ior a ne- But Stanton is a candidate for Secretary of StaU and it would not do to offend the negro vote. He tried to dodge the terrible ordeal, bnt the negroes were watching him. They had heard of his boast and were determined to put him to the test. "A colored gentlemau" in sisted that Stanton should vote. Visions of an exasperated negro vote cast against him flitted before Stan ton, and he sacrificed his pride and voted for a negro. Well may the Advocate, which is edited by negroes, boast that the negro is on top now. They have got the majority in their party and they drive their hap less office-seeking white as sociates with a steady hand a lash that 'writhes and quivers and writhes' over them. Stanton did not want to vote for the negro He nor his white asso ciates want negroes in office. But in the presence of the over whelming negro majorities they are powerless. They love office better than their -pelf respect, and so they sacrifice the latter for the former. In doing so they prove tbat they wonld sacrifice the interests of the State for the sake of office; for any man who will yield his self-respect cannot be trusted. If the negroes rule in the Republican party, then Repub lican success must needs mean negro domination. If they do not rule in its council?, then Republican success must mean the rule of a small minority. The instincts of the white people are against the first: the theory of our Government and tne hope oi civil liberty are against the latter. Argus. Washington,' The weather issued by the says: lie ports irom the corn and wheat states of the central valleys of the northwest Ladl- weather during has been favor- growing crops. especially corn, potatoes and grass which have doubtless been generally improved by the recent rains. Reports from Kentucky and Tennessee luJl- cate the weather daring the past week has generally lm proved the condition of corn, tobacco. The staple crops in the southern states have been very much improved by the favorable weather during the past week, and the late condi tions are favorable for cotton in South Carolina, Alabama . . ana Mississippi, . ana ior cane and rice in Louisiana. Rains in the middle Atlantic states daring: the past week slightly delayed harvest work and has greatly Improved the conditions of growing crops, "especially corn and potatoes. New Eng land, the rainfall and tempera tare were below the normal during the week, and the deficiency in the rainfall will doubtless reduce the yiId in the hay crops. In Tenessee and Arkanass local storms and heavy rains injured the crops in the same section. The harvesting of oats and flax in Kansas, wheat la Illinois and southern Michigan, and of hay in southern Mlnneasota has generally been attended by favorable weather. 13 BETTER EQUIPPED THAU ANY EAST OF RALEIGH. ALL OR DERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT AND EFFI CIENT ATTEHTIO, TR"Z" TJS. NEWS OF A WEEK WHAT 13 HAPPENING IS IMS WORLD ABOUND VS. A eomtensed report tXt mti as VUKrA frm Ik tot mm n f NmHonaU An Available Mia- 'Let me see you a moment said the governor of Kentucky, spotting a man in the street aud drawing him aside. Yoar name is Gribble. I believe?' Yes eir.' 'Well, Mr. Gribble, I have decided to appoint yon etite treasurer.' 'Why, governor, you astonish me. lou certainly do not know my record. Don't you know I was tried some years ago for stealing a horse apd that 1 nairowly escaped the penitentiary? T Vni all Hnnt V,t M Gribble. I know your record.' Then why do you wish to appoint me?' '' 'Because no one has called you honest. My dear Gribble, a man's downfall date from the time Honest 111, or Honest Dick, or honest anything else. Is thrust upon him. The thief deceive no one, Mr. Gribble. It is the man who prides him self upon his honesty that leaves the treasury of a state as limp as a dish-raj?. I must appoint you, air.' From the Arkansas Traveler. Iu every issue in the present campaign the Democrats have the advantage of their oddo- nent but in none of them is the advantage so great or so potent as on the public school ques tion. The contrast is sharp and well defined. When the Republican party was in power it gave the people no schools, but squandered a large permanent school fund. ine Democrats have main tained a system of public schools which increase in effi ciency every year. This is the contrast squarely presented between the two par iies in the campaign. The Re publican attitude is : We favor the education of the children. but when we had an opportuni ty of educating them, we gave them no schools but stole part of the school fund, and paid part of it out to corn- field hands, termed legislators, at $7 per day. The Democratic attitude is : We favor educating all the chil dren in the State. In proof, we are spending over $650,000 a year to educate them. But the contrast is still more striking if we have regard to the men whom each of the par ties have named as the head of the Public School System. The Democratic party have named Maj. Sidney M. Finger, the sub ject or this sketch, who has held the office four years. A wise, discreet, conservative, pro gressive man, he has made so good an officer that he was re nominated by acclamation, and in the Republican Convention a speaker said that the State had never had a better officer and he told the truth. Maj. Finger knows the value of public schools, for in them he received his training. But who is the Republican nominee? And what fitness has he for the place ? J. B. Mason is the nominee. He is a fourth rate lawyer. He knows noth ing about public schools, and he hasn't sufficient capacity to learn anything about them. He has no single fitness for the po sition for which he has been named. e say this not be cause he. is a Republican. We say it because every man who knows J. B. Mason will agree with us that it is a correct est! Why Bcyi Leave the Fans. If there is a hoe on the farm weighing fourteen ounces, bright as nicle-plate and sharp as a razor, and another hoe weighing somewhat less than a breaking plow, with an edge on It like a hammer, and a sapling with the bark on for a handle, the hired man takes one and the boy gets the other, and every man in America knows which is the other. Did you ever stand with such a hoe in your hands away down in a corn row on some airless, etlll, hot summer day, twenty acres of corn blades and tassels wilting about you, standing fourteen incheshlgher than your head, shutting out every last trace of breathable air, and then hear a locust down in the edge of the timber strike up his long, strid ent, monotonous call to make it ten times hotter ? Well, then you know why some boys leave the farm. Bnrdette. - Cazfaign ooil It reports are correct Nation al Democratic Commit ee will enter upon the coming cam paign well-healed financially. Representative Scott of Pennsy lvania, has put his name down for $1,000,000, to be paid In installments of 8250,000 as . the Committee may require; Brlce of Ohio, is down for (500,000; Herman Oeiricbs of New loxk, for a like sum; Edward Cooper for 100,000, and the rich men of Tammany pledge $500,000. . The New Yerk County Democ racy, .to vie with Tammany, pledge as much money as the latter organization may give, and it is said that half a million dollars will be sent to Indiana by the time the canvass opens there. New York Democrats say they can carry their State without any more money than the Committee can raise. Washington Critic "A Zzzzi Legal Opisica. Tho Grange Ei: amp sent. W. R. Williams, Master of the State Grange Patrons of Husbandry, has issued his of ficlal notification to the gran gers of the State in regard to the encampment. The docu ment is as follows: Master's Office P. of IL, Falk land, N. C, July 6, 1888: To the Brothers and Sisters of the Grange of North Caro lina: We have accepted -in behalf of our encampment this sum mer the libera! offer of the citizens of Charlotte and Mount Holly to hold oar second Grand Summer Encampment at Mount nolly.Gaston county ten miles west of Charlotte on Aug 14th. 15th, 16th, and 17th, 1888. Oar meeting at Mount Holly last summer was both pleasant and profitable. Let us make this one still more success fuL We desire to see a large turn out of grangers and a Jarge ex hibit in farm products. Also works of artlstia beauty by the sisters. Write immediately to Broth er J T Patrick, Raleigh, N. C, for terms of transportation which will be very low. W. R. Williams, Master of State Gtange,P. of U. E. Baiabridge Maoday Esq., County AttyClay Co., Tez, says: "Have used Electric Bitters with most happy result. My brother also was very low with Malarial Fever and Jaundice but was cured by timely use of this medicine. Am satisfied Electric Bitters saved his life." Mr. D I Wilcoxsoa ot Hore Cave Ky adds a like testlnoov saying: lie positively behvea he woeld have died bad it not been for Electric Bitters. This great-remedy will ward off as well as care all Malaria Dis eases and for all Kidney, Liver and and Stomach Disorders stand nneqaaled. Price 50c and 11 at A. W Rowland a. Zsii Ibn to Sciod 72 Et ' L larsa Hsw to Vnta The CnC bale ef cotton of thecro ot l)vv, wm biped 2iew York Mil sold lor 12 cents per ioand. The Prohibitionists of 1 in fort county hv called a county txii vention to assemble Atfu Cri they will nominate a ioll ticket. The office of the Secretary of Stste dm moTed -into new spirt -meats la the rooms formerly oc cupied by the SaprrmeCoart ia the Cspitol. There is to be a shooting tourna ment at Mdrebead City, com mencing Joly 31t and conrmuitij; four ds..a. KeJaced railway fares can be bad. . This Is season of vstermelon. and the largest one on thit j ear's record wss a 73 pounder, grown at Melon City, Gs.ll wss sent to Mr G rover Cleveland. Many farmers in riit isjeaK, psringiy of their cror,ajioc they are the poorest for several year. . It ia thought titst the general average will not be as good a la-t year. A very fatal diseast bas attacked the borves in-the vicinity of (iarts barg, N C The symptom are inflsmed eyes, blind stagers aud lockjaw. Several nave died nd others have the disease. The Grangers of Jorthamptoa coontv had a big time last Tues day, lion W. It. Williams Mi'tt-r of the Stale Grange Patrons of Husbandry, delivered an addreK. We were shown this week wome clover raised by J. W. Cook, .f Sew Garden, messonnff five tw t and eight Inches. From a six arre field Mr. Cook tells as be caihered Id tons. Greensboro Patriot. Edward A. OMbam writes the Raleicb Chronicle that there U an error oa oar monument to (ov. Casell. That be was six tjmes elected coternor of 'ona Caro lina instead of four times a t? inscription on the monument state. Owen McLean, a colored mw will hnd la the employ of WiU . kinson & Fore, Msxton N. C a killed i but week by a fainter Irota the lath saw striking him ia the eye. it pentrated about two inches reaching the brain it is upied. Northampton dots: Crops ate generally clean though small, they growing however, and with Uv.: able sesaona will yield a jood bar vest. We had a good rain lt Mk sad the rroKpeci are tuorli better than fbi several jearA. The oat crops Is good but the reaping is oot qaite over on the kw ln is and la somewhat re'vIM by recent rains. The fruu . js f all kinds are good. Cotton mill buiMinc n the . South Is being pah-d i a almost blind teaL Within two months announcement have been ma-le of alxty new mills. One at Ath n Is to double Its capacity Jrom 3,0 J to 10,000 spindles. A thread factory is to be boilt near Harnett s.Au n A Merchantville. N J, projector will pat np a lr?e amosnt of knitting machinery at, Monbo, X. C Sparuni.burc. S C is to have a 9 100,000 mill Mr. E. H. Pharr, says be baa an acre lot of cotton that is now ia fall bolls, the bolls I-in,: almost matured. Tti cotton planted last March. It is aural of anything yet reported. Mr.. Pharr ssys the crop or com ana cotton in bis section cf Cabarrus are onnsnally fine, being, in frt, far superior to any known wjtl lo tea years past. lie asvs tbt the crops have been more tboruichly worked this year liu ever beforew Charlotte Chronicle. The Board of Trustees or Waks Forest Coilee at a meetinj la M t the college oa the night ol the 1" b elected ProC A. L. rurintoa of West Virfinia to the' chair of Chemistry, made vacant' by the death of Dr. Doecan and fi'.i-d temporarily by Dr. Ileese of Johns' Hopkins Cnivermty. Prof. J. a Carljleof North Carolina was elected Adjunct IVoC or Ancient L&nrnagen. Additional appliances were ordered for the new Laboratory building which Ls already bee a made one of the fin est ia the Sooth. A mettmj was called to meet August ?th, for the purpose of electing a professor of the English language and modern angoages. Extract from letter of accept ance of J. B. Mason Radical candidate for Superintendent of Schoola. 'In furtherance of this great end by many good men. I heartily endorse tha Blair Educational bill, not only to re Have their distress and hard times' from additional taxation on property and poll for adaci tional purposes-, but enable them to advance the cause of education that in the rank and file has been long and so much needed in a great and renown ed Stale.' :;ct2iii5s:tei. A republican was talking to a democratic oQcial yesterday at the treasury department and the new ticket was up for di. cuwlon. What do you think of Jtr asked the oQcial. It's a very good ticket,' re plied the republican, "a very goo ticket. Indeed.' 'Will It eor Of course It will go.' was the enthusiastic reply; 'I've been talking all around anions our people and I haven't eeen a ditlnfected republican yet Washington Critic. The first cotton was raised La the United states in 1C2L We call Judge Clark's at !-&:.a to the fact tbat JuJg EiJ:", Nashville, has charged the Gr:l J cry to indict all forjis of lottery at church fairs. ow, sister. li oat. ir there is a law In this Hut to stop gambling in the name of religion, Jadge Clark win End IU Gospel Herald.