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Concord, N. C, Dec. 4, 1899.
STATE NORMAL'S TROUBLES.
It uow seems no more a mys
terv is the cause of the ca
lam '-. the State Normal at i
Greensboro. Two wells in the
yarvl .. pro found dangerous, con
taining intestinal bacilli, and will
no lW used again. One is the
one used largely for the dining
roum.
1 ,.o highest testimonials from
parents attest the best of care of
the s: ok ones, and it seems this
has bed a misfortune that will
-.haral.v have a repetition.
1 ) consequences have been
so ..oriou5 that it is next to im
pb.Soible to avoid censure of
soma one whose duty it was to
guard against such an evil by
frutnyiv tests of the water used.
The lesson is very costly in
the lives of at least seven young
ladies beside the intense solici
tude for .so many more, and yet
as we note from the signed re
port of attending physicians
there is room for gratitude that
it was no worse, and the pre
cautions that this incident will
prompt may. avert manifold
greater calamities.
Whether or not there is room
for censure there is unquestion
ably wide room for profound
sympathy, not only for loving
bereaved ones, but for Dr. Mc
Iver and others in charge of af
fairs who doubtless have suffered
as in the bereavement of
many.
It is' pleasing to note that the
college will open the first of the
year with unabated interest. . "
ENGLAND HAS A PRECEDENT.
When it is known that Eng
land hat, armed negroes in Africa
to fight against the wnites she
must lose sympatny among cmv-
alrous people everywhere. It
was bad enough to send-her own
people against the Boers but the
idea of enlisting the semi-savage
Kaffirs in this unholy war is posi
tively revolting. Henderson
Xoldleaf:: v:
Why "has the- Goldleaf over
looked the fact that the same
thing was done against th
South in our great war?;. Eng-
does not lack a conspicuous pre
cedent. But then ."byzones
should be byzones."
PUPILS' SELF-COMROIilSG SYSTEM
No one who follows teaching is
spared some trouble and much;
anxiety along the line of go vern-
We were aware that in some
female schools there have been
introduced, modes of student
control: The plan we believe
works well and a young lady
who unguardedly drops from the
high plane on which young
ladies-are expected not only to
walk but to dwell, is quickly cor
rected by her sisters in official
stations and she is thus trainod
in decorum.
As above said we were aware
of such system and modes in some
schools fci young ladies, but we
were quite unprepared to learn
that in a number of our leading
cities a system of pupil control
has been put into practice so
that some 50,000 children in the
United States are practically con
troling themselves and the hap
py teachers may bend all their
energies to the , real work of
teaching.
There are various names for
the organizations as well as the
functionaries involved. But in
as much as the object of. the
school authorities is two fold,
viz: to educate the pupils in
citizenship and secure good
o :der, the term 'School city" is
popularly applied.
The system as we note it in die
December number of "Review of
Reviews" is something like the
fallowing: The whole school
elects officer scf government, the
different rooms being reckoned as
so many words. A mayor, coun
oilmen, magistrates, a chief of
police and subordnates and some
other, officers are elected. (This
first act creates interest and
pride.) A constitution or charter
is furnished tjhem and necessary
laws are formulpted, the teach-
ei s being ex-offieo members of
the body.
Of course the principal must
exercise the po wer to - over-rule
excessive penalties and give
force and reality to official' ac
tion.," - : " :; . . ;
These penalties are such as be
ing kept after school, being
made to solve arithmetical ; prob
lems or 4o certain tasks yrithin
and about the building for pur
poses of improvement.
The scheme is highly spoken
of and seems the coming solution
of the vexed question .of school
government while' it is a prac
tical education in civil govern
ment. . :
It goes without saying that the
ideas should be - right well
matured . before the attempt is
made to put it into practice.
ticket. I do not see how there can
be any other result.'";-
There was always too much of
the smoke of wrangling-and con
fusion with charges of political
trickery connected with' the G oe
bel campaign to have none of the
fire of truth in it. Dear lessons
have to be learned and it is to be
hoped that -this one will not
be lost to the blue grass Democracy.
Foolhall Game Saturday. '"--On
last Saturday the Univer
sity football team met defeat in a
score of 5 to 0, the same score
our boys put on the Georgia Uni
versity boys the day before.
This game was . against "the Su-
wanee boys. -
On tho same day Davidson's
second team played the deaf and
dumb boys and beat the speech
less boys in a score of 16 to 0.
The Charlotte Observer says
that the deaf and dumb school
sent a number of rooters.
Fr wi- tit.v Tears
Mrs. WinslowVSoothirf; Syrup has
nnen used for oVer fifty years by mil
lions of mothers for their children
while teething, with perfect success. It
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of the world. Twenty-five cents a bot
tle. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. Win
s!ows Soothing' Syrup," and take no
other kind
Millions Given Away.
It is certainly gratying to the public
to know of one cancer in the land who
are not afraid to-be generous to the
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given away over ten million trial bot
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A Word to the 1 's Sufficient.
The angry father strode into
the parlor.
'Girls," he said, who are
these young men?" '
"Papa," replied one of the
daughters, ' 'this is Mr. Young
and this is Mr. Yates."
Whereupon the old gentleman
invitingly opened the door.
."Git!" he thundered.
And they- got, A word to the
Y's was
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THE KENTUCKY MUDDLE OYER.
It now seems a settled' matter
that Taylor and not Goebel is
elected governor of Kentucky.
A dispatch of the 2nd says: '.'Ex-
Senator Blackburn, chairman of
the Democratic State campaign
committee, last; night, for . ihe
first time, admitted that Taylor,
the Republican nominee for gov
ernor, and the remainder of the
Republican ; ticket, had r been
elected, and would receive certi
ficates of election from the State
board of election commissioners.
The statement was made to Ofiu it,
a prominent Democrat, of lu 1 1
way, Ky. , who asked Blackburn
howithe election was going to re
sult: To this Blackburn replied:
'Why, Taylor has been elected
beyond all doubt, and certificates
of election will be issued to the
men on the Republican State
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