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EDUCATIONAL, Compulsory Education. The Atlantic E <1 u c at i o n a 1 Journal, a continuation of the North Carolina Journal of Edu cation. formerly published at <ireensboro but now in Richmond, but now in Richmond, and edited by Prof. P. P. Claxton, in a re cent number says: '?The best school will never eradicate fully all illiteracy until there is an effective attendance i law in every State. "To be effective the lavy must, be compulsory, with sufficient penalties to cause it to be obeyed. This has been the experience of all the other States and counties, ?ind we may not expect a differ ent result here. The sooner we profit by their example the bet ter. ? I "At present Austria, France, Kngland, Scotland, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the Swiss Cantons, the German States, British Columbia, New Zealand, l'rince Edward Island, Tasmania, Queensland, South Australia, the provinces of Cana da, and 82 of the United States /lavecoinpusory attendance laws With a few minor exceptions, these laws require attendance six, seven or eight years, from twelve weeks to ten months annually. 1 n all the States in which such laws have been enforced longer than twenty-five or thirty years the per centage of illiteracy has been reduced to a minimum. These States and counties con tain a population of more than two hundred and fifty million people, the freest and most pro gressive in the world?more than SO per cent, of all the people we call enlightened and progressive. Of the 82 having sucn a law only two?Kentucky and West Vir ginia?are Southern States. But what has been found good in all these great States and countries will probably not prove other- i wise for us; and it is noted with pleasure that sentiment in favor j of such a law is developing rapid ly in all parts of the South. "Universal education is essen tial to the materal, intellectual and moral welfare of the State, i 1 Uiteracy is a burden and con- j stant menace to public morale I and civil liberty and threatens the very existence of the State. The State provides schools at public expense, collecting money i for their support by law and by, force if necessary. It therefore has a right to enforce attendance, that its money may not be wast ed and that its interest may be protected. "Individual welfare depends on the general welfare. Having taken the money of one man to j educate the children of another, I the State must protect that man and his children from the oppres sion and dangers of illiterate neighbors and fellow-citizens. "Children have rights as well as parents, and the State must pro tect them in their rights. Chief among these is the right to such education as will enable them to live useful and happy lives and become intelligent and self-sup porting citizens. The importance ?of this right and the necessity of its being recognized increases as competition becomes more fierce, the use of machinery more com mon, the {demand for intelligent labor greater, government more democratic, religious liberty more perfect, and the obligations of the individual to himself, his fam ily, his country, and the world more complex and binding. Espe cially must it be regarded in those States in which the right of suffrage depends on educational qualification. "Such a law cannot interfere with anv right of parents; for no pa rent has a right to make a slave of his child or to rob it of the op portunity of gaining an element ary education. Parents who would commit this crime against their children should be restrain ed and punished. Such a law cannot be a burden to those who would educate their children with out it. As the laws against steal ing are not burdensome to honest men, so a reasonablecompulsory law cannot be burdensome to parents who desire to deal hon estly and justly with their chil dren. "The experience of otherStates and countries lias demonstrated that such laws may be made effective, and that they need not work anv hardship on individual citizens. For character building the first t welve years of the child's life are worth all the rest. If the work of these years is not what it should tie, all subsequent teaching is of the nature of reformation rather than education.?Horace Mann. Concerning Rural Libraries. Another praiseworthy move ment that ouyht to lie considered by every wide-awake community in this State is the rural school library plan proposed by the last 1 .legislature. It ought not to l?e necessary for us to repeat that it provides simply that when the patrons of any public school raise flO or more for the establish ment of a public school library the county and State will give an additional #10 each for this purpose. Hut only six schools in each county now have this privi lege?the first six that make ap plication for this8rate and coun ty aid. In thefollowing counties this quota has been reached: An son, Beaufort, Bertie, Durham, (luilford, Iredell, Nash, Ruther ford, Union and Wake. Persons residing in any other county, if work is begun without delay, may take ad vantage of the opportu nities afforded by this school library plan. The official figures given us last week bv Superin tendent Toon show that at this time applications for State aid have bten received from the fol lowing thirty counties, the figures following the name of each show ing the number of libraries to be established: Gertie 0, W ilkes 1. Yancey 1, W ake (3, Alleghany 1, (iasto'n 2, Buncombe 1, Anson (J, Rowan Watauga 1, Onslow 2, Bruns wick 1, Dunlin 1, Lincoln 1, Co lumbus 1, Orange 1, Franklin 1, W llson 4, Mecklenburg 1, Cald well 1, Bladen 1, Henderson 1, W arren 4, Greene 2, Guilford 0, union 6, Nash 6, Beaufort (5, Durham 18, Iredell 6. Ruther ford G. 1 he ten counties having six or more applications are the only ones m which State and county aid can no longer be given, if yours is not one of these, there is no reason why you should not raise fit) among the patrons of your public school, get the #20 additional from State and county ? funds, and give the children of your neighborhood the benefit of a library of well selected books, such as will be recommended by the State Board of Education.! If the money cannot be raised privately set a "library day," as suggested by (Jen. Toon, get the patrons of your school together and raise the #10 needed.?Pro gressive Farmer. Summer School at Chapel Hill. On Monday, June 16th, I left home for Chapel llill to attend the Summer School. ( hapel Hill is K very beautiful place. The st reets are all shaded by pretty trees. There are a great many handsome dwellings in the town. The people are so kind and social to everybody, (especially the Summer Girls')' and if you board at the "Best House" in tow n you are in the boat. They have electric lights and were putting in the pipes for the water system. When you get very warm just j step m the drug store and take | one of those nice ice-cold, sugar-1 sweet drinks and you will be ready for those lectures. The bell rang at 8:80 a. m., and J you finished morning's work at j 1:80 p. m. The lectures were 45 minutes in length. You just march from one lecture room to another until you were some what tired, then came the long looked for hour, (dinner). There was a lecture from 5 80 to 0:30 every day on Historv. W e had a lecture nearly every night. Some of those who lect ured at night were Prof. Collier ( obb, Rev. J. W illiam Jones, Mr. Holmes, State Geologist, Prof Sledd, and Dr. Hume. Thev were all fine lectures. Those who had work in the | day were Professor M. C. ?S. Noble, of the State University t he Graded School at Wilming ton. on Arithmetic, Pedagogy and Algebra; Mr. Moses, Super intendent Graded Schools at Raleigh on Primary Work and Literature for Children; Mr. McKie, of New York, on Express ion: Mr. Gore and Prof. Collier Cobb on Geology; Mr. Pearson, of Greensboro Normal College on /oology; Prof. Mangwm, of Wil son, on Geography; Mr Atkinson of Cornell University, on Studies m Nature; Mr. Graham, of Char lotte, on Physiology and His tory; Mr. Lulcr B. Smith, Super intendent ofMJraded Schqolat Athens, Ga., on English; Mr. jlane. Latin: Prof.Lustrat, on r rerich. There were some others. If you want to go to a place to learn something go to the Uni versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I went to school every day I was up there, not even excepting Sunday. .J.11? library has more than ; 20,000 volumes besides all good magazines and newspaj>ers. AH the good literature you ure look ing for can be found there. The principal buildings of the college are the South Building, Chapel, Memorial Hull, Com mon's Hall, Carr Building, New Hast, Old East, New Wtst, Old West, and the two that are Hear ing completion, Alumni Hall and the Students' Building. It was was real amusing to see every one asking which the build ings were, then ^get lost before they reached the one for which they were looking. Oh, well, we learned them after awhile. Mr. M. C. S. Noble, Professor of Pedagogy at the State I niver sity, superintended the Summer School. I think every person who teach es or expects to teach should at tend the Summer School, Teach-; ers' Institute and Association. The session was only three weeks long, the expenses were small and the advantages very great in more respects than one. If the teachers will attend all the meetings they will be more accomplished, better qualified, therefore should be able to do better work. Mauy MAO DA I. KMC STAI.UNUS. Clayton, N. C. The Kaiser and the Child. During the late residence of the Austrian Emperor at Budapest las attention was attracted to a small boy who always awaited j the royal carriage at a particular spot in the Albrecht road and enthusiastically waved his cap as it passed him. The Emperor be came so accustomed to the fer vent loyalty of his little subject that he always looked for him at the same spot. It happened one day that the police formed aj cordon down this street, and the boy was backed into the crowd, j The Emperor noticed his absence, j and even looked up to the wind- j ows of the house above in the hope of seeing him, but in vain. The next day a royal equipage stopped at this house and an official sent by his Majesty in- j quired of his mother, the pen sioned widow of an offict r, as to the child's whereabouts, and was evidently gratifie 1 to hear that { 110 evil had befallen him. The boy is now a pupil in a distin- j guished Government Academy at j S'ieuna.?London Telegraph. A Confederate Negro. "1 had an unusual application for a pension the other day," said Mr. A. B. Strouach, chair man of the Wake County Pension Board. "It was from" a Wake | county negro?Kadar Morgan, from Auburn?and I'm going to I get him on the list if I can. He's | an old-time darkey, and he came | into the store with his hat in his hand. I asked him what his war record was, and he said he was in | Capt. Bryan's company, from Auburn, with the Thirty-first North Carolina regiment, of which Gov. Fowle was Lieuten ant-Colonel. He went to Roa noke Island and was there cap , tured, and with many others of the regiment taken North. Never once would he agree to swear; allegiance to the Lnion but took his parole with the rest, came back South and again joined his old regiment. "And, he went on to tell me," | added Mr. Stronach, "that he remained with it until the seven teen-year-old boys were conscrip 1 ted and brought into the army. This included a young son "of Kadar's master, and so Kadar was then sent back home to care for and suport the family. This, I understand, he did to "the best of his ability and was always faithful to everj' trust reposed in him. Isn't such a man as that entitled to a pension in his old age when he can no longer sup port himself?"?News and Obser ver. Speaking of how baseball start ed a confirmed Fan says: "The devil was the first coacher. He was on the line and coached Eve | when she stole first, and then Adam stole second. Rebeka was walking with a pitcher when Isaac met her at the well. On meeting the Philistines Samson struck out many times .and some of the runners died on their way home. The first run that Moses made was after he slew the Egyp tian. Cain earned a base hit when he killed Abel and Abra j ham made a sacrifice. Theprodi | gal son made a home run. David was a long distance thrower, and Moses shut out the Egvptians at the Bed Sea."?Ex. An Australian fortune of forty million dollars is to lie divided among heirs of the lateJosiah Tyson, residing in Georgia and | Alabama. The Vision. It rained misfortunes: he but smiled. He lost his wife, his babe, his throne, laist ordeal, through the sandy wild He crawled, a leper and alone. There God in His compassion gave A palm for food, for drink a spring. For roof a cave. Beside the cave A dervish found the fallen King; Gated long on that untroubled l>row. Those eyes serene: then murmured low, " Lord, what hath this man done that Thou, O Merciful! shouldst use him so?" In sleep the dervish saw that night The King asleep; and o'er him grew A tree; and from its boughs of light A child strewed roses drenched in dew. -G.'D. C. In Good Words. On the Boardwalk. ''What a otid old dog Fantas tic* is to be sure." '"He'd feel mightily flattered if you tole him so. dotes on such a reputation." ''Oil, 1 don't know; lie seemed rather put out when Caustique told the flirtatious old beau lie was rnorecurthan puppy."?New York Times. Got the Information. The great criminal lawyer was questioning the witness 111 the murder trial as to the exact loca tion of the wound in the murdered man's body. "You witnessed the shooting, you say?" he asked. "Yes, Sir; I did." " Where was Brown shot?" "On the second floor, Sir."? New York Times. The Power of Niagara. If every able-bodied man in Greater New York were working together turning a crank they would not equal the power to be developed in the two stations of the Niagara Falls Power Com pany; and they could work only eight hours a day, whilethegreat current there flows forever.? Worlds Work. Hoax ? "I see Rocksie, the gambler, is going to retire on his fortune and sell out his place. There's a chance for some fellow with a little capital to get in the swim." Joax?"Ah! Takea dive to get into the swim, eh?"?Ex. Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small they gall and pinch us, but if too large they cause us to stumble and trip.?Colton. The census figures, just issued, give the District of Columbia 101,532 whites, 87.180 blacks; total population, 278,TIN. Flori da has 297,333 whites, 231,209 blacks; total population, 528, 542. Georgia nas 1,181,109 whites, 1,035,222 blacks; total population, 2,216,333. ,1. M. Bairie, author of "The Little .Minister," is to make an other visit to America, but does not intend to appear in public to any considerable extent. He has a strong dislike to lecturing. "It is reported here," says the Paris correspondent of the Lon don Daily Mail, "that John 1). Rockefeller and J. Pierpont Mor gan have decided to establish a banking house in Paris with a capital of ?10,000,000." ? V*v WINE OF CARDUI ? ? has brought permanent relief to a mil ? lion suffering women who were on their ? way to premature graves. Mrs. Mitchell ? was fast declining in health, when Wine ? of Cardui performed a "wonderful cure" [fl in her case, fche suffered with the ago ? nies of falling of the womb, leucorrhoea ? and profuse menstruation. The Weekly ? appearance of the menses for two months ? sapped her vitality until she was a phys ? ical wreck. Her nervou8 system gave ? way. Then came the trial of Wine of ? Cardui and the cure. Mrs. Mitchell's ? experience ought to commend Wine of H Cardui to suffering women in words of ? burning eloquence. |WINE'C\RDII ? is within the reach of all. Women who ? trv it are relieved. Ask vour druggist ? for a fl bottle of Wine of Cardui, and do ? not take a substitute it tendered you. f j Mrs. Willie Mitchell. Fonth Gaston, N. C.: jH "Wine of Cardui sn<l Thedford s Klnck ! ? Draught have performed a miraculous cure ? In my case. 1 had been a great sufferer ? wl h falling of the womb snd leucorrtnea, I and Ml mcnn>s cmno everv we.'k for two I months and wore ul. My hus ? band Indueed me to try Wine of Cardui ? and Black-Draught. and now the lenoor ? rhosa has disappeared, and i am restored to ? perfect health." , In cases requiring special T \ directions, address, giving a symptonis. "The Indies' Ad- ? SS$v? J ? e -w/ Chattanooga Medicine Co., / fK r ^ Chattanooga, Tenn. f . It Dazzles the World. No discovery in medicine hus ever created one quarter of the excitement that 1ms Iteen caused by Dr. King's New Discovery for t onsumption. It's severest tests Itave been on hopeless victims of consumption, pneumoniu, hemor rhage, pleurisy and bronchitis, thousands of whom it hits re stored to perfect health. For coughs, colds, asthma, croup, hay fever, hoarseness and whooping cough it is the quickest, surest 1 cure in the world. It is sold by Hood Bros., who guarantee sat isfaction or refund money. Large bottles ,">0c and if 1.00. Trial bottles free at Hood Bros.' 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 JJntry Ledg ers on hand at low prices. BEATY, HOLT & LASSITER, Smithfiki.O, N. C. guaranteed i ? jgrwfc-m under a a $5,000 DEPOSIT X R. R. FARE PAID I 200 FREE Scholarships offered. u-_ ? w write quick to CA.-ALA. BUSINESS COLL EC E, Macon. Ga. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. THE MEAD of the State's Educational System. ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT, LAW, MEDICINE. PHARMACY. Eighty Ave scholarship* Free Tuition to teachers anil mlnlsteia sons. Loans for the needy. 527 Students. 43 Instructors. New Dormitories, Water Works, Central Heating Systen . f 120,000 sp< nt In improvements in 1900 and 1901. Fall term begins September 9, 1901. Address, F P. VENABLE, President, CHAPEL IIILL. N. C. TRINITY COLLEGE offers on?' hundred and twenty-five grad ate ami lindcrgraauatc courses ot study. Twenty-three teachers in academic courses. Eight latMiratories equipped with modern apparatus. Large library facilities. Host gymnasium and athletic ap|M)intments in the State. Scholarships and Loan Funds. Attendance nearly doubled within tbe past seven years. Expenses very low. The best college is the one that offers a student the best advantages. Bend for catalogue. PRESIDENT KILGO. Durham, N. C. Practical Education IN Agriculture. Engineering, Mechanic Arte and Cotton Manufacturing: a combination I of theory and practice, or study and man ual training. Tuition $20 a year. Total ! expense, including clothing and board, $125. Thirty teachers. 302 students. Next session begins September 4th. For catalogue address George T. Win ston, President N. C. COLJ.KGK Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, I RALEIGH, N. C. Horner Military School, OXFORD, N. C. Securing perfect ventilation, sixteen new rooms for two boys each to bt added for the fall term. Engagements should be made early. Annual attendance up to the full capacity and many turned away each session for lack of room. B=st athletic field with quarter mile track In the South. Faculty of specialists with special work Curriculum preparatory to the best College or University education. An atmosphere of high ideals sur rounds the school, as students not preparing for higher education are excluded. Fall term begins September 3. J. C. HORNER. KENLY ACADEMY, CO-EDUCATIONAL. I Situated lu the growing town of Kenly, Johnston county, on the Atlantic Coast Line ten miles from Selma and fifteen miles from Wilson Noted for healthfulness, cheapn-ss, and sound, practical instruction. ADVANTAGES. El-gant new bui'dings. Literary Societies, Library and Reading Room, The Kenlv Stucent (a semi annual school journal for which students do composing), four denominations, three church buildings, perennial Sunday Schools, weekly prayer meetings, double daily mail, express and passenger service, telephone and telegraph connections with all parts of the Union, Athletic Association, Calisthenics, School Octette and Band, etc , etc. COURSES?Collegiate, Normal (tree), Business and Music. Tuition, $1 to $3} Board, $5 to $7,50, DORMITORIES and boarding houses for young ladies and young men under control and management of the principal. LARGE AND INCREASING PATRONAGE. 150 students, representing 13 counties, 2 States and 7 denominations. Stu dious habits and strict attention required: thorough drill and continuous practice is exafcted; complete satisfaction and healthy progress guaranteed. Faculty of ei. ht graduates of best colleges, conservatories, business uni versities and high schools. 8IX SCHOLARSHIPS to Kenly Academy and others to the various higher educational institutions of the State. Four medals given For further information or catalogue, address W. A. HARPER, A. B., Principal, KENLY, N. C. THE NORTH CAROLINA State Normal and Industrial College. Literary, Classical, Scientific, Commercial, Industrial, Pedagogical, Musical. Annual expenses $100 to $140; for non-residents of the 8tate $160. Faculty ot 30 members. Practice school of about 350 pupils. To secure board in the dormitories all free tuition applications should be made before July 15th. Session opens Sept. 19. Correspondence invited from those desiring competent teachers and stenog raphers. For Catalogue and othe r information address President CHARLES D. MclVER, JuneSl-dw GREENSBORO, N_C. The second session of Twenty weeks at PRESTON ACADEMY. BEASLY, JOHBSTON CO., N C. lOLD BENTONVILLE Will begin August 5th, 1001, Miss Daisy Taylor, of Durham, N. C.. Teacher. Miss list tie Beasley, of Beasley, N. C,, Assistant Teacher, Patronage Solicited. DIRECTORS. J. II. LAS8ITER. J M. BEASLEY. 8. M. WEAVER. E. T. WE8TBROOK. JOHN STEPHENS, Sr. The first session wa? a success, and we are thankful to the patrons and the public generally for their kindness toward us. We trust that out efforts will be a blessing to the youth of the land In the future and the caute of many happy homes. Respectfully, , .1 M. BEASLEY.
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