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VOL. IV., NO. 13.
PJNEHUIiST, X. C, FEU. 1, 1901.
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VICTOKIA.
K upland's ideal Queen ! Queen of our past age
Which long will bear the name Victorian;
When arts and science and the rights of man
Were written on a new and larger page;
-Vhen humble toil received a juster wage;
When famous English bards their song began,
And to a purer strain their music ran
Lifting the thoughts of men a higher stage.
Now sleeps the great Queen in her well-earned rest,
Secure of fame and love's proud offerings;
Secure that jewel in her coronet,
I lor private virtues,-to her country blest;
Tarnished too oft by ancient queens and kings
Hut in Victoria's crown again reset.
J, A.
North Carolina Notes.
The state is sometimes d is purged on
account of its small number of cities, by
the last census standing lowest of all
the states in this respect, and having
none of the first rank. Wilmington, its
largest city has n population of about
24,000. Raleigh by the late Federal cen
sus had 13,G43 inhabitants. It did not
please the authoiities of the capital city
and the)' ordered one on their own
account which gave them just 31 more
than the United States census enumera
tors. There appears to be a general
sentiment of dissatisfaction in the state
at the slow growth of the population in
comparison with some of its neighbors
and especially that it cannot boast one
big city.
On the contrary we think the state
should be congratulated. For great cities
nurse great evils. They overshadow the
rural regions and control legislation and
are apt to dictate the policy of state and
national representatives. As a rule the
smaller states with no large metropolitan
centers are to-d.ij' sending abler, wiser
and cleaner men to Washington than
great states like New York, Pennsyl
vania aiid Ohio. Look at New York City
with fifteen representatives in the lower
house and not a single one of them hav
ing any power or influence except for
the most. The growth of North Car
olina is slow but it is healthy and on the
lines of its natural resources, the cotton
crop and its manufacturers; tobacco, in
which it stands second among the
tobacco states; lumber; fruit, which is
becoming a very important industry;
and lastly the state from the sea to the
great Smoky Mountains, is now n winter
resort and must grow to be more so as
fast as its climate is better known, the
wants of northern travellers understood
and met and the railroads oiler better
and cheaper facilities for reaching all
portions of the state. There ought to be
a Pinehurst in every county. Comfort
able houses and hotels at moderate prices
would make North Carolina as popular
hi winter as New England is in summer.
It must be owned that the state in
some respects is in a very backward' con
dition, notably so in education, due no
doubt in part to the scattered population,
!"id in part to the necessary economy of
tate legislation on the"1 subject. Just
iow also the agitation of the franchise
question is hurting the interests of edu
cation, as well, in our opinion, as the
industrial progress of the state. There
are in the state thirty-six educational
institutions, all but six of which are
under denominational religious control.
In addition to these there are eighteen
schools for the higher education of the
negroes. There are forty-nine libraries
in the state with a total of 210,000 books.
But examining the list with some care
we find only 22,600 books in nine public
libraries. All the remainder belong to
colleges, to law courts and the state
library which latter, the largest of all,
able monument of the close of the nine
teenth and opening of the twentieth cen
turies. It will be a mournful mark of
separation between them, and not less a
hopeful promise of the continuity of
England's history and her past and
future destiny as the bulwark of consti
tutional freedom and' the leader of
European civilization.
Victoria's reign has been the longest
of any modern sovereign ; it has been the
freest from . mistake and scandal and
profligacy of any in the world's history.
She was the intellectual ieer of her
own greatest peers and ministers; the
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22,618, is, if, like other collections in state
eipit ils, made up largely of documents
and law books. The religious sects in
North Carolina are probably greater
than in any other state, if we except
New York, whose chief city appears to
have more faiths than any other one
place in the world. In this tedious busi
ness of statistics we will leave the readers
in good humor by mentioning one sect in
North Carolina of which we doubt if
I hey ever heard. It is called "OW Two
Seed" It- has somewhere one church,
one minister and ten communicants.
Victoria, Queen and Empress.
The death of Victoria will be a memor-
competent mistress of the affairs and
interests of her own empire.
Beside her remarkable political sagac
ity, acknowledged by a long line of par
liaments and prime ministers, she had a
woman's intuitions and sympathies
which made all her public actions sel
dom fail to strike a responsive chord in
the hearts of her subjects.
But beyond and above these, like some
precious casket containing untold wealth
within the smallest compass, were her
private, domestic virtues which were the
proof of a great, pure and wise heart,
setting an example of high social moral
ity, elevating its tone and the whole
moral fabric of her empire, and in its
effects extending to all nations.
Nfafe Emblems.
Twenty-two States have adopted cer
tain flowers or trees as State emblems;
eight of them by act of legislature and
fourteen by the vote of public schools,
rnfortunately the Golden Hod has been
selected by four states. North Carolina
has made no choice as yet. When it
does it should be the Long-leaved Pine,
the most fitting representative of its
conifers. There is a strong effort being
made, backed up by a society, to hare
the United States adopt the Columbine
as the national flower emblem. One
State, Colorado, has it already for its
crest.
Table Unit with Tlddledy.Wlnks.
Several kinds of table or parlor golf
have been invented and put upon the
market. But about the simplest device
of the kind originated the other evening
when some young folk wearied of the
usual indoor games and cast about them
for something new and novel.
A box of tiddledy-wink chips was
lying on the table, and a boy present had
a sudden inspiration.
"Hey, boys?" he cried, "let's play golf
with these chips !"
"Well, what's your scheme?'' asked
one.
The inventor milled up his forehead in
a thoughtful frown. Then he said :
"Why, we will lay out the dining room
table as the course. We will go around
by the left side of the table, so we can
always play with our right hand. Four
holes one for each side of the table
will be enough."
This caught the fancy of the crowd at
once, and there was a wild rush for the
dining room. The tablecloth had been
removed and a dark heavy cover had been
substituted.
With a piece of white crayon borrowed
from the school-room, the inventor,
Ralph by name, marked out a 2-inch
square at a left-hand corner.
"That will be the first teeing ground,"
he said.
About three feet from that square he
placed two small books upright, the cov
ers opened a couple of inches to make
them stand upright. These were about
two inches from each other, so that by
good playing one could pass between
them and so escaje the hazard.
"If you go plunk against the book,"
explained Ralph, "why, of course, you'll
have to play back so as to loft over. You
can't lift the tiddledy-wink out of a haz
ard and lose one, as you do in regular
golf, but you must play it over every
time, no matter how many shots are
required."
A small saucer about two feet farther
on constituted the next hazard. If you
played over it all was well, but if you
landed in the saucer you would be obliged
to lift the tiddledy-wink out and place it
back with a loss of two strokes. Near
the next corner of the table was the putting-green,
designated by another square