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Educational Notes, In the coming summer or fall, at time* to suit the teacher*, I intend to hold several teachers' institutes of one week each at different places in th# county My intention at present is to hold there institutes at public school houses in the county. 1 wish to emphasize methods of teaching children?esjteciullvchil dren just beginning. The 'meth od now used by so many of the teachers?the alphabet method has been discarded by the best teachers all over this nation for a half century or longer. I want our teachers to learn a better method. Also 1 want our teachers to learn more about teaching reading to second, third and fourth reader classes. YVe will study methods of teaching arithmetic and language to chil dren also. A. A M. COLLEGE SUMMER SCHOOL EOlt TEACHERS. A proposition has been made by President Winston, of the A. & M. College, to take all of our more advanced teacbers into the summer school for teachers at that college if the board of Education of this county will make au appropriation for the school. Now, it is needless to say that our board will make an appro priation if the teachers can not or will not attend. The summer school will open about July 4th and continue four weeks, lloard will cost $10 00 per month. This, I understand, will be the total cost. The summer school will teach all the public school branches and especially ugriculture. The little book on tbis subject adopt ed for use in the public schools will be taught by the authors and all the experiments made. This will be of great benefit to the teachers. The teachers can come and teach it in the schools and the whol" county would be bene fited. So many men make their living by farming that it seems to me highly important that ag riculture should be taught in tiie schools. Now, I want to know how many teacheVs would attend the sum mer school at Raleigh if arrange ments were made for them. Please let me know when you fill out your special report. If any teacher in the county does not get a special report blank this week you may know that it has gone wrong, and 1 want you to write me for an other. u A Useful List of Books for Children. A strong bond for holding a family together is the habit of reading aloud for an hour or two several evenings during the week. Information should not be the object of such reading, but cult ure in one of its finest forms will be gained if the best books are chosen. Roys and girls who have been studying the greater part of the day should either read or have read to them books inter esting, amusing or pathetic. Rooks of travel, well written, biographs of interesting persons, historical and literary essays by men of letters all afford delight ful reading. Among the best books for children are the follow ing: "Gulliver's Travels," "Alice in Wonderland," Hawthorne's "Wonder Rook," "Tanglewood Tales," "The Arabian Nights," "The Water Rabies," "Tom Rrown at Rugby," "The Jungle Rook," ".Esop's fables, "fnele Remus," "Pilgrim's Progress," "Robinson Crusoe," "The Swiss Family Robinson," and the Waverly Novels.?From an arti cle on Reading for Children, by Mrs. Theodore W. Rirney, in the March Delineator. When a man has lost his itrip, on the affairs of life, feels incapable of perform ing the ordinary duties that business re quires Body languid, brain dull. His liver is out of order. Kydales Liver Tabletf are what he needs. One dose usually will, two always will restore nor mal condition of body and mind, and tit a man for the duties and pleasures of life airaln Uvdalos Liver Tablets arc easy to take, pleasant In .effect, satisfactory in results, economical. 50 chocolate coated tablets in a convenient box. 35 cts. Hood Bros , J. N. Led better, Princeton, N. C. An Experiment in Road Making. "There are only about 10 miles of good road in my country," said a man from southwest Mis souri, "to about two hundred ol bad, nnd when a roail is bad in my country it is so bad that the recording angel blots out the word that must be used to say how bail it is. VY'e have had the ten good miles for a year or sd, now, and they are beginning to exert, their influence. Already work is tinder way on the public highways find within a few years we will have a very fair showing. j It is all the result of good exam ple, too. How? Well, I'll tell - you. Six years ago uay brother ; aud ', with some mouey we in herited, went down iuto that ?, part of the State aud bought ; farms adjoining one that had t beei left to us by our father sev- , eral j iurs before. W'e had about i a thousaud acres in all lying for j a mile along the county road, < four miles front the county seat, < our nearest shipping point. Our I farm was a good one. as were the i others about us, but the roads t i were something fearful. W'e be- i gan early to make a tight for im- i provemeut, but the old farmers :i had become accustomed to bad j roads because they had never:; known what a good one was,and < they wouldn't give up a cent for i road making. 1 did everything I could to work up some enthu- < siasm, even going so far one year aa to run for the legislature on a |' good roads ticket, and 1 was i i snowed under so deep that Ire- i tired f#bn? politics. 1 "My brother and I, finding i politics and persuasion both use less, concluded to try another i plan. Our land lying along the road was level, and we turned in ) on it and built a mile of road paralleling the county road only a fence width away from it. It wasn't the best piece of turnpike ever built, but it cost us fifteen hundred dollars and was hard and smooth. W'e made a good connection with the county road j i aud set a tollgate at each end of our pike. Our gatekeepers were our farm-hands, their women folks looking after that part of it. When everything was ready we opened for business, making a general charge of one cent for anything the gates had to be opened for. We began in Octo ber, when the mud road was di y and good going, and all we got for our efforts was the laugh from every passer-by. W e used our road but nobody else would. We said nothing. Along in No vember the bad weather begau, and the mud roads everywhere began to get in their work, the stretch in front of our place be ing about the worst there was.as it was so level that the water wouldn't run off. The farmers tried it for awhile, and the more they weut over it the worse it got. Then one day a farmer with an extra heavy load and a ! team of tired horsesealled up the gatekeeper and handed out one j | cent for passage. He passed two ; or three other teams stu k in the mud on the parallel road. They looked at him moving along so nicely, and they didn't give him the laugh, lie grinned at them I though. That evening those; same chaps paid their coppers to ; get a mile of good road on their; way home. That started the ? rest of them, and six month: later that piece of county road looked like a last year's bird's nest, and we had made money on our investment, besides allowing the gatekeepers a percentage. "The following summer they got together on good roads and built the three miles between the end of our piece and town, allow ing us what ours had cost to build, though we got nothing for the laud it was on. Hut we could spare it very well. The next year tne farmers beyond us took the matter up and added three more miles,and next year the ten miles; of good road in the county were completed. Now they aresaying they don't see how they ever stood the bad roads, and the same feeling is growing all over the county. A farmer's life isn't j the easiest, but it is a good deal f easier when he has roads he can haul his stuff on and get around now and then for a change and company."?Comfort. apportionment of 2nd $100,000. The apportionment of the sec ond #100,000 of the public school loan fund has just been complet-, ed except for the counties of i Chatham and Stokes. These counties have been delayed for ( further information. Fifty-eight counties get aid this year, a* d j the total amount apportioned is I #93,000. The smallest appor-j tionment to any county is #232. 29, and the greatest amount re ceived bv any county is #4,100. i These amounts seem large, but the facts show that the counties which have received this money, i he cost per capita is less for this | four months school than in those i counties which have received no aid. In counties which have re ceived this aid no teacher receives i mote than #28.50 per month, though they possess first-class certificates, while the counties not receiving aid .rom this fuud pay I i instructors more than this i amount ?Haleigh Tunes. | A STOFY WITH A MORAL ' There Are Ways and Ways of Adve^ tiling One's Business. Tin re wa- <>ncc ui< advertising igcm mho cwlle^ on a * . -iiiess man 0 prove to him that advertising in 1 newspaper was more effective than idvertisjng on billboard-. The bus: less man was skeptical on this j joint. He had been in the habit of j listributing his business signs all iver the face of the landscape, and le regarded this sort of exaggerated a'looiug as no less wise than pic aresque, as perhaps it was. Ilis idea of the picturesque differed from :hut of the ilarbizon school of paiut ng. The agent said, "1 will prove to C .,1 that a sign painted on a doad trail is of very little practical val Je." The business man said, "If you :an 1 will advertise in your paper." The agent made out his contract. Then he said: "There is an adver tisement seven feet ly four painted in large letters on the wall of a sev t:ri story building which you pass on your way to your office every | morning. Can you tell me what it , is?" | The business man racked his ] memory in vain. He could remem- | ber that there was a sign there in white letters on a blue ground, but though he had seen it every morn ing for many years he could not re member anything more. Then the agent led him out and showed him that it was an advertisement of somebody's liver pills. This story carries its own moral. When the lirst advertisement was painted on a wall for those to read who never read newspapers it doubt less did attract attention. But when a dozen brass bands are tooting at a time, it would puzzle an expert to tell what tune any of them is play ing. In passing along the street the brain can only take in a certain number of impressions and instinc tively rejects those not of immedi ate interest. In reading a newspa per the attention of the reader is given to the spaee before him for several minutes, perhaps half an hour. He sees things which lie would not notice in an instant's sur vey. If he happens to want some particular kind of goods he cannqj go out on the streets and scan the buildings for the sign of the dealer. He looks in the paper of in the di rectory. Any one who wishes to test the comparative value of the street sign and the newspaper need only make the experiment described in the story. The chances are that he cannot tell the names.of three of the numerous firms whose goods lie has 6een advertised on walls and fences between his home and his place of business. ? Washington Times. A Matter of Teeth. He was a Cornish miner, and he went to the local dentist to have a troublesome tooth drawn. "1 want a tooth held out," he announced, with a fine air of unconcern, taking his scat in the chair of torture and opening his mouth for inspection. "Which one is it?" asked the den list. "Thicky there, I reckon," he replied, pointing a coal grimed fin ger toward the one which seemed to him to be the seat of torment. There was brief silence, a long, sickening wrench, and out the supposed of fender came. "Why, this isn't the one, man. It's perfectly sound," said the man with the forceps. The miner looked at the tooth gravely, returned it, leaned back in the chair composedly, gripped its arms ready for the fray and quietly remarked, "Well, 1 reckon ye'd better go straight on till ye come to uu." When She Waked. Mildred was just three months old when we took her to a friend's to show her off. This lady's little boys, four and six years of age, were very much interested in the slewing baby. They asked many ,questions, such as "Can she eat?" and "(Can she walk ?'" eto. On disoowering that she had no teeth, that she slept much of the me, that she could neither talk nor walk, Herbert, the younger boy, said somewhat pitying ly, "Well, when will she be alive?" ?Ohio State Journal. Getting Along. "I suppose a fellow ought to hnve a good deal of money saved up be fore lie thinks of marrying?" "Nonsense 1 I didn't have a cent when 1 started, and I'm getting along line now." "That so? Installment plan?" "Yes, and we've only been mar ried and keeping house for n year, and I've got the engagement ring all paid for now." Aunt Ann's Doubt*. "Sometimes," remarked Aunt Ann i Peebles, "I almost doubt whether Sister Hinkles'oy is even a Christian. She's so busy looking after the souls of other people an' gettin' donations for the poor an' helpin' nil sorts of folks ont of trouble that I don't be lieve she's ever stopped to see whether she's got her own soul saved or not."?Chicago Tribune. RUSSIA'S MINISTER OF WAR. The In tad of the cur's army is u vet eruu soldier uinl a master of tlie art of general kchol'atkin. war. He has served thirty-five years Id the army and commands about 6,400,000 men in time of hostilities. You Know What You Are Taking When you take Grove's Taste ess Chill Tonic because the for mula is plainly printed on every bottle showing: that it is simply Iron and Quinine in a tasteless form. No Cure. No Pay. 50c. Lost His Grip. A RUSSIAN STATESMAN. Count Lauisdorff, Russia's minister of foreign affairs, is a veteran diplomat V-. V0> COUNT LAMSDORFF. and lias boon very conspicuous in tlie negotiations between his country anil Japan. DO YOU GET UP WITH A LAME BACK ? Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable. Almost everybody who reads the news papers is sure to know of the wonderful cures made by Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder remedy. It is the great medi cal triumph of the nine teenth century; dis covered after years of scientific research by Dr. Kilmer, the emi nent kidney and blad der specialist, and is wonderfully successful in promptly curing lame back, kidney, bladder, uric acid trou bles and Blight's Disease, which is the worst form of kidney trouble. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is not rec ommended for everything but if you have kid ney, liver or bladder trouble it will be found just the remedy you need. It has been tested in so many ways, in hospital work, in private practice, among the helpless too poor to pur chase relief and has proved so successful in every case that a special arrangement has been made by which all readers of this paper who have not already tried it, may have a sample bottle sent free by mail, also a book telling more about Swamp-Root and how to find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble. When writing mention reading this generous oner in inis paper ana send your address to Dr. Kilmer 8c Co., Bing- Bl hamton, N. Y. The regular fifty cent and Home of Swamp-Root dollar sizes are sold by all good druggists. Savannah, Ga., Thursday, had its first snow-fall for four years. Tom Wilkinson, a negro, aged 94 years, was found frozen to death in an alley. To Cure a Cold in One Dav Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. K. W. Grove's signature is on each box. 2bc. The city of Concord, N. C., has decided to put up an electric light plant, to cost $14,000 or $15, 000. The best physic. ' Once tried and you will always use Chamberlain's: Stomach and Liver Tablets." says William A. Glrard, Pease, Vt. Ti.cse Tablets are the most prompt, most pleasant and most reliable cathartic In us. For sale by Ilood Bros.. Sraithfleld; Benson Drug Co., Benson, N. C.; Selma Drug Co. War in the Far East has al ready affected silk goods to the extent of an advance of 10 per cent., as announced by import ers. When you feel blue and that every thing goes wrong, take a dose of Ch"m bcrlain's Stomach ami Liver Tab c They will cleanse and Invbr r"< \our stomach,,regulateyour bo? i>c on a re'ish for your food am' > n fee, that in this old world Is ii to live- For sale by Hood - s iili Held; Benson Drug Co . liu.? ii. t' . Selma Drug Co. fHEALTH I L* MI don't think w? could keep Kfl house without Thedford u Blark 9 Draught. vVe have used it in the ? family for over two yaare with the beat of remit*. I hare not had a doctor in th< bona? for that length ?9 of time It ie a doctor in itaelf and la Widj to make a p raonu u y nonville, 111. B Heoause this |nat rii?M 1 icirve S B nlitTCi ad pains frees tba fl constipat?sl howtjls ami invigor IJ atcs the torpid liver and weak fl ened kidneys I Ho Doctor j i" n<w*?rr in the home whera i hedfor.l s Slack-Draught ia B U' kept. Kami lie. living in tha I ,-i country, miles from any physi- g fl cian, have been kept in health I ? for years with this medicine as H P U th.clr ?n'y doctor. Thedford'a H f| Black - Draught cures bilious ?r.,, dyspepsia, colds, chills and I fcrer, had blood, headaches, diarrhcBH, constipation, colic I j? and almost every other ailment because the stomach, bowels liver and kidneys so nearly con trol the health. TKEDFORD'S BLACK PRAliCHTl MULES AND HORSES. Please remember we keep a large lot of Mules and Horses on hand during the entire stock selling teaton. WE KEEP ALSO Wagons AN !>' Buggies of several makes, and can suit you in style and price. We Want to Buy Cattle and Cotton Seed. Call and see us. J. D. Parrish & Son, BENSON, - - North Carolina. GRILLS. If you need a nice grill for your church or residence let me know i it. At my shop we are prepared to do all such work. .J. T. Holt, Wilson's Mills, N. C. BICYCLES! WK SELL THE R M /V\ B L E R And Other Leading Bicycles. . . WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF Repairing, And ask that you bring or send us your wheels for repair W6 do all kinds of repairing. H. WATSON & BR0? KENLY, . N. C. Wood'sSeeds. Twenty-five years practical ex perience, and the fact that we do the largest business in Seeds in the Southern States, enables us to supply every requirement in GARDEN AND FARM SEEDS to the very best advantage, both as regards quality and price. Truckers and Farmers requiring large quantities of Seed" ere requested to write for special ?rices. If you have not received .. copy of WOOD'S PI ED LOi for 11)04, write for it. Ther:l',i> >t another publication wh.re 1 t hat appro' . . ,;s> tui id pr ict I i >i) i ll that | " giver, tc ' Mthern farmers jj id gardeners. H rVood'u Seed Rook will be moi'td free i on request. Write lo-tliy: do not delay. ?5 ".W. Wood&, Sons, Seedsmen, Htrnoso, ? tinnim*. f % A Golden Rule of Agriculture: Be good to your land and your crop will be good. Plenty ot Potash in the fertilizer spellsquality | and quantity In th?* Mar- *jJ vest. Write us and \ , we w ll s n yotj, Ye* free, by next mail, our money winning books. NA OFRJUN KALI WOPKS, tj.| New York ?J Nimju St. fflk / V #Y J. M. BEATY Sole Agent in Johnston County for the Domestic and New Home and Other Sew' ing Machines. Smith fl?ld. IN. O. HOUSE MOVER, ? = moved at reasonable rates. People want ing that kind of work done please let me know. Satisfaction ppiaranteed. Mr. J. M. McLamb, Benson, N. C., i? with me. J. N. CREEL, Dunn?N. C. Houses for Rent If you want to rent any kind of a house in Smith field please let me know it. J. M. E EATY. SMITHPIBLD 1J C. C. TALTON, Watchmaker and Jewe!er, 8ELMA, - - N. C. Dealer in Railroad l Watches | 17 and 23 Jewel. I have several - bargains in 15 and lT.lewel tine adjusted watches. Careful attention given to Fine Watch Re pairing and Adjusting. Treasurer s Card. Alex. Wiggg, Treasurer of Johngtcv County will be in Smithtleld ever? Monday and Saturday and Court Weeks Office in back room of the Bank of Smith field. In his absence county orders will b? oaid at the Bank THE WINTER RESORTS SOUTH REACHED BY SOUTHERN RAILWAY. The Southern Railway announces the huIc of round-trip Winter Excursion tick ets to all the principal resort* of the South, beginning October 15, 1903. '1 lie winter resorts of North and South Carolina, (ieorgia and Florida are espe cial y inviting to those in search of health or pleasure. It these States are such noted resorts as Pinehurst, N. C., Camden. Aiken, Summerville S. C.. Charleston. S. C . Augusta, Savannah. Brunswick. Jekyl Island and Thomasville, (la., Jack sonville. St. Augustine. Ormotid, Bay ton, Palm Beach, Kockledge, Miami and Tampa Fla.: also the resorts of Nassau and Cuba, best reached via Southern Railway. Tickets on sale up to and including April 30, 1904, limited to return until May 31. 1904. Southern Railway affords elegant train service, with the latest Pullman Drawing Room Sleeping Cars, operated through between principal cities and resorts, ele gant Dining Car Service and everything for the comfort and pleasure of the traveler. Ask nearest Ticket Agent for further information and descriptive liderature. THE GULF COAST RESORTS. MO BILE. NEW ORLEANS, MEXICO AND CALIFORNIA SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Winter Tourist tickMt now on stile to the noted resorts of tb? Golf Coast and Mexico and California. Tickets on snle via Southern Railway tin to and ir ' fl ing April 80, 1904, limited to M. , 1904, for return passage. Elegant train -e>vi ,? The nut' f the **\ rMhitiurt' ftft!*?Southvc*btt-ri' in* Aft* Tiel.et Afctlif I. r lift. l? l f rti ??!?'?.tjv?* mutter. 1LISH ' '? JN t 5*?* Ifkl. Irtr.L I 4 -' Orlfjlnul wwtl Only WfU'tinr. ?vl,. I utile*. "? I * .. . fur ClUt Hl>? Kit's I N1tl.i I s ' ' ? 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