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? EDUCATIONAL. 'II J- - Thk Hi k\i.A ismuchinterested iii tlit' subject of education. It desires to sec thechildrenof John ston educai <1 so that every one may be able to read and write, at least In order that the cause of education may be advanced the m niapuieiit of Thk Htutw.n lias decide I to devote two or three columns each week to this important subject. All who are interested in this great cause are invited to contribute to this de partment . We think ?ve could begin this department in no better way than to publish a few extracts from the addresses of prominent educators before the Teachers' Assembly at Wrightsville last week. The One Absolute Necessity. By $uperintendcot Hhuck Whitk. The one absolute necessity is something to work 011. Then must be a good average attend ance of those who need the edu cation. From last year's report you can see that the attendance in the white schools of the State was only .'12 per cent of the whole number of school children; that even during the short four months of the term out of 4tif>,000 white children, only 142,0(1(1 were in regular attendance. Think of it, two-thirds of the white children of the State out of school during the sadly short term. This is J really the worstfeatureof all,and I t he remedy in hard to see, so far] as in the power of the County Su perintendent. If we could pro vide better teachers, bet ter houses and longer terms it would help to some extent, but there must! be something radically wrong1 with the people when such a ccpi- j dition exists. It might be helped by a compulsory school law, out that is for wiser heads than mine, and so far as I can see the first! and last cause is found in the in-1 difference of the people to the needs for education. You cannot get better teachers! without more money, you canivot j build suitable houses without! funds, you cannot give longer terms without larger apportion-! inent, and you cannot get these unless the people are willing to pay it. If politicians use schools for their own purposes, it is b - cause the people are indifferent; if committees appoint teachers! for personal reasons, it is because, nobody seems to can*. The Mission of the Teacher. Uy President Vknahi.k. "My fellow teachers, 1 do not propose this evening to weary you with mere platitudes about j your work, nor to indulge in a! complacent summing up of the many excellences of your profes- j sion. I bit ! purpose pleading for a proper perspective, a justerj sense ol the eternal fitness of1 things. "Amongthe false standards by which we and our work are most often measured is that of the money value. It is not surprising that this should be appealed to. The glittering coin has been the arbiter of value for so long a t ime in this slow-learning world that it seem'- impossible for it to under stand In ? the riches of t lie whole world ma v fail to out-balance one common possession of us all,' 1-1 in 11 which some nanuie eareiessiy and the very existence of which is denied by others, so intangible, useless and valueless does it seem. 1 do not mean that the money standard is to be despised as valueless. It has its appropriate place, ami we are forced often to appeal to it, bur the proper per spective must tie maintained and the penny must not be held so close to the eye as to dwarf the stature of a man, blind us to the glories of a sun, or hide from us some of the eternal verities of (tod's kingdom. The choice is put to many of us: Will you use your knowledge so as to secure to yourself ease of living, and a j taste of those pleasures which* wealth -au bring, or will you struggle on, underpaid and un appreciated, deprived Of simple j pleasures or even actual necessi ties. suffering all of this for the sake of some high-strung perhaps mistaken ideal of service. "but I insist upon it, the point ,,, view should be oueof dutyand of s.-rvice, and not one of money uml ease. The pculptor models in plastic clay, or carves by sharp incision in t he \ :ci ling stone the vision of grace and "beauty which has filled his so'"'. There is one vision, however, and it stauds immobile mid immutable through the ng*-s. The painter haw hi* colored oils and canvas, and fixing there a beautiful conception, leaves it for generations of men to admire. The teacher deals with a more wonderfully delicate and receptive material. Plastic young minds can Is* moulded into nobility and beauty itself. Truth and honor can be instilled into the child. * * "In this hurry to grow rich our young men go into business or some ot the professions with the scant iest t raining with which they can possibly get along. As for education they have none. Of literature, languages and history of the world they know nothing. The future holds nothing unless it can be turned into dollars and cents." The Press and Public Education. By J. w. Uailey. "Carlyle reckons the new birth of time from the beginning of the loth century. There was one birth, but many children; and the end is not yet. Two of those children were born each with a torch in one hand and u sword in the other and a trowel somewhere about them. One was Printing; the other wus the School. Since then, these live centuries, these two giants have held high their torches and fought nobly1 with nil darkness, and they are yet fighting. Meanwhile they have do no a wonderful amount of building. From Printing we at length arrived at the Free Press. From the schools were brought forth the Free Schools. These two make the Free State and the Free Church?whence snail come your tree man. anu hip free soul; in no mean freedom,! but free as yonder ocean would be, were there no continents to defy it. This is (Sod's most de sired thing. The stars in their courses tight for this. "The press is not directly so powerful as it once was. Multi plication of papers has dissipated both energy and power. An opposition paper is easily estab lished. A corrupt paper is easily set up. "But the press is still powerful in disseminating information, in expressing life and opinion, and in discussion or agitation. "in these thiee aspects we shall find its present opportunity with regard to the free schools to lie. The people need information. Who here knows the status of the free schools? Who can tell me how many bovs are in our free schools and how many are not? I warrant the statement that there are HO,000 white boys in North Carolina who cannot read and write anfl who have not been reached and will not be reached by the present system. They are coming to manhood, unless they shall be qualified by the free schools for the ballot, there will be a mighty impeachment. "Here is the word tir the press: We must improve our free school system. The people must be told of its ineffectiveness. We must have a special relief to save these HO,000 white boys; and we must have a general improvement of the whole system to do our duty bv the other 000,000 boys and girls in North Carolina. "Finally, this is the great work for us all. All the rest of creation is done, in horse and tree and body of man, natural selection has done its work. But onething remains unfinished; one thing is in its infancy. That is the mind of man. We are building for it Widening its doors, opening its windows, making way for God " WIhw dwelling is the linjif of setting guns. The wide air, the round ocean, and the mind ? So then this cause of the free schools is not simply politically paramount in North. Carolina: it is the paramount call?from every point of view?upon us all." Ol Interest to Teachers and School Committeemen. For the convenienceof teachers desiring schools and school com mitteemen desiring teachers we have decided to devote a column of Tiik Hkkalh, oranore if neces sary, for this purpewe. Any teacher desiring to teach in the public schools of Johnston county may advertise for a posi tion without any cost. The ad vertisement must be short and legibly written and the advertiser musttie a regnlar subscriber to !Thk Hkkalh. School committeemen may also advertise for teachers, free of I charge, under the same condi tions. No advertisement will be in serted free unless the advertiser is a subscriber to Thk Hkiiad, or is a meinlter of a family that takes Thk IIkhai.d. Others will lie charged 2." cents for each week. Hoses. Bed mm tlx* wine of forgotten Mire*. Yellow us the if<>1?1 of the NUfiU-jiinr? npun; Pink mm the gowns of Auroru'b pages. White a* the rol** of a sinless one. Hweeter than A ruby's winds that blow. Hoses roses. 1 love you no! Crowning the altar where vows are spoken. Cradling the form that is still and cold, Symbol of Jov of love's last token. Telling the story that never grows old. Clusters of beauty whom none eau debar. Know ye. I wonder, how fair ye are? Blooming for monarch in palaces royal, Queenllest charms in all the palace. Blooming for yeoman, tender and loyal. Stopping to kins his toil-stained face. Hoses, roses, born but to bless. Yield me your secret of lo\eliness! ?Julia C. H. Dott. Birth ot a Song;. From a fact that the national anthem, "The Star-Spangled I tanner," wan written by a Ma rylander during the trying hour* of the British attack on Balti more, in September, 1*14, and inspired l>y the bombardment of Fort Mcllenry, it is u matter of proper pride to refer to the inci dent of the birth of the song an 1 to the flag itself. In Maryland State pride is re garded as a civic virtue and Murylanders have much to be proud of in song, in science and industry, as well as in deeds of urms on land and sea. Francis Scott Key, the author of "The Star-Spangled Banner," was a prisoner on a cartel ship under the guns of a frigate, and was compelled to witness the bombardment of Fort McHenry. huring all the day and night of September 18, 1814, the shells 1 rained upon the fort from the British vessels. The tradition is L'*v... ?,:.u ? , nidi I*",} v> i u ic nit: nviu^, t?iiu ti \ pencil early on the morning of | the 14th, on the back of a letter | lie had in his pocket. His "desk" was the head of a barrel on the deck of the vessel where lie was a 1 prisoner. The fiag itself which was the source of inspiration was 40 feet long and 20 feet wide. It had 15 horizontal stripes and 15 five pointed stars, two feet from point j to point, arranged in five indent ed parallel lines, three stars in each horizontal line. The flag of Fort McHenry, or in other words the flag which Key watched in "the dawn's early light," was made in a brew ery by a committee of ladies of Baltimore. Mr. Key, the poet, was a nativeof Frederick county, Maryland, a graduate of St. John's College, Annapolis, and a lawyer of high standing at the Maryland bar. There is a hand some monument to his memory in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Md., and a statute to him in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, cost ing #(it),000, devised by the late James Lick, the California mil lionaire. Law was Mr. Key's pursuit in life and literature his relaxation.?Baltimore Sun. The Right Material. The valedictorian at Wake For est this year was Mr. Itooke, a poor boy, who could not afford | to board at a boarding house, but brought his rations and did | his own cooking. We have heard that his record as a student was the best ever made at the college. ] The world wid hear from the j young man if his life is spared.? | Raleigh News and Observer. Education is a means of pro- j during wealth, and must precede wealth rather than follow it. It is difficult to get an agricultural j people to realize that' ideas are j worth more than acres, and that j the man of ideas is able to hold a j mortgage on half the acres of j every community.?C. I). Mclver.! You may us well expect to run a steam engine without water as to find an active energetic man with a torpid, liver and you may know that his liver is torpid when he does not relish his food, or feels dull and languid after eat ing, often has headache and some times dizziness. A few doses of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets will restore his liver to its normal functions, renew his vitality, improve his digestion and make him feel like I a new man. l'rice 25 cents. Sum i pies free at Hood l?ros. drug store. Life goes from test to test; it is ; like any other business?the more von know, the more is put upon von.?Mrs. Humphrey Ward. " The Doctors told me my cough was incurable. "ne Minute Cough Cure mademea well man." Norris Silver, North Stratford, N. H.?because you've not found relief from a stubborn cough, don't despair. One Minute Cough , Cure has cured thousands and it i will cure you. Safe and sure. ,1. It. 1-edbetter, Hare & Son. Hood llros. I BAD BLOOD, BAD COMPLEXION. The skin is the seat of an almost end less variety of diseases. They are kncwn by \arious names, but are alf due to the same cause, acid and other poisons in the blood that irritate and interfere with the proper action of the skin. To have a smooth, soft skin, free from ?11 eruptions, the blood must be kept pure and healthy. The many preparations of arsenic and potash and the large number of face powders and lotions generally 1 used in this class of diseases cover up j for a short time, but cannot remove per manently the ugly blotches and the red, | disfiguring pimples. Eternal vigilance is tho price of a beautiful complexion when such remedies are relied on. Mr H T. Shobe. 2704 Lucas Avenue, St L^uta Mo , My??: " M. daughter wan atrlicted lor year* with a disfiguring eruption ou her lace, winch resisted all treatment, she was take.i to twe celebrated health springs, but received no bene fit. Many medicines were prescribed, but with out result, until we decided to try 8 s h , and t>y the time the first bottle w as fi rush'd the eruption began to disappear. A dozen bottles cured her completely ana left her skin perfectly smooth. She is now seventeen years old. and not a sign of the embarrassing disease h^sever returned." S. S. S. is a positive, unfailing cure for the worst forms of skin troubles. It is the greatest of all blood purifiers, and the only one guaranteed purely vegetable. Bad blood makes bad complexions. Am /fifittk nunhes and invigo irH rates the old and \*V makes new, rich blood that nourishes the ^1^^ bodv and keeps the tkin active and healthy and in proper condition to perform its part towards carrying off the impurities from the body. If you have Eczema, Tetter, Acne, Sal Rheum, Psor asis, or your skin is rough and pimply, send for our book on Blood ?nd Skin Diseases and write our physi cians about your case. No charge what? ever for this service. SWIFT SPECIFIC COMPANY. ATLANTA. GA. I Tobacco Flues Come and see me if you want the best ffues for the least money. ] have them. I have the Cotton King and Elmo COOK STOVES, (the world's beat ) Fine Breech Loading Shot Guns, AH at factory prices. Come and see th> m if you want to get the hest goods for the least money. Respectfully, S. B. JOHNSON, Smithfield. N. C. Apr & 4m Bill Files Letter Files, You file your bills? Then you need a Bill File. We have them in two sizes?for long bills and for letters. You wish to Keep Letters You receive? Then buy one of our Letter File Books. With one of these books you can keep every important letter where you can Find it in a Moment, Without any Trouble All the above goods on hand at reasonable prices. We also ! ? have a few Single Entry Ledg ers on hand at low prices. BIOATY. HOLT & LASSITER; L ' n Smithfield. N. ('. FCCORSETS Make American Beauties, We have them in all styles and shapes to fit every figure, and every I corset is sold under this most liberal warrant? "Money refunded atter tour weeks' trial if corset is not satisfactory. Look for this Trade Mark on , inside of corset ' and on box. KALAMAZOO CORSET CO. Sol* Maker*.. Kalamazoo, Mich, FOR SAI.E BY YA/. G. Yelvington, 8MIT1IFIEM), "N. C. Treatment Horses?Pneumonia and Colds, (live White's Fever Medicine every half hour and apply White's IMnek Liniment. Colic ami Kidney troubles,pive White's Colic and Kidnev Cure. Staffers: Give White'sPurpa tive and White's Fever Medicine. Worms: Give White's Purpa tive and White's Worm and Con dition Powders. At.i.en Lee, Hruppist. m J. 1 IM1WIW.IM. Preserver of health. i Runs so light. " So easy to learn. Sews so fast. Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Rotary Motion and Bail Bearings M(hEW HOOKV /If/, SIMPLEST// II-ft BEST I 1*1 EVER i\ W^JNVENTEDI r? i rurcnaseis bay ; "It runs as light as a feather." " It turns drudgery into a pastime." "The magic Silent Sewer.'" Life istoo short and health too pre cious to waste with a slow, hard run ning, noisy machine, when you can have the New Wheeler & Wilson. manufactured by Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. Co., Bridgeport, Conn. Send for Catalogue. FCCORSETS Make American Beauties. We have them n all styles and ihapes to fit every igure, and every :orset is sold inder this most iberal warrant? r "Money refunded after four weeks' trial if corset is not satisfactory." Look for this Trade Mark on ? inside of corset and on box. 4 KALAMAZOO CORSET CO. Sole Makers. Kalamazoo, Micb FOR SALE BY C. T. Johnson I SELL THE ABOVE. Also a full line of Dry Goods, Notions, Clothing, Hats, Hoots, Shoes Trunks, Valises, Millinery Goods, etc., at greatly reduced prices. Don't fail to call before purchasing. Yours for business, C. T. Johnson, BENSON, N. C. NOW READY. A MODERN FOUNDRY AND MACHINE WORKING PLANT IN DUNN. Metal Working in all its Branches. Ten thousand feet of floor space, crammed with brand new and ponderous machinery direct from the manufacturers. WE ARE AGENTS FOR , THE EAEQUKAR, ENGINES BOILERS Of all Styles from ^,.4 to 000 horse power J ALSO Threshing Machines, Saw Mills, Etc. WRITE FOR ? Catalogue and Prices. All Kinds Steam Fittings Constantly on Hand. TOBACCO FLUES. ALT. STYLES. Everything Guaranteed. Freight rates equalized with other points. We are in it. Don't forget us. The John fl. ]VlcK,ag JVI'fg Go., DUNN. N. C.
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