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Education Column For School Teachers, School Committee men, Patrons and Friends of the Public Schools. Conducted by Supt. Ira T. Turlington. A DOUBLE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. The Story ot a Teachers's Mistake. "Fritz, you uiay stand on the platform." The boy looked up from his book, but did not move. "Fritz Avery, I request you to step to the platform." The boy addressed raised his head, anil looked his teacher full in the face, but remained seated. Miss Dunham was rather un der medium size, but she had grit. Walking quickly up the aisle, she grasped the boy by the collar. Fritz allowed himself to be lifted from his seat and stood looking calmlv down upon her from his five feet seven. As she attempted to move up the aisle with her charge, he gently passed his arm about her, and placed her in the seat he had just vacat ed. Then taking the book from her hand, he placed himself in her chair at the desk and called out the primary class to read. The frightened cuuaren uoi knowing what else to do, were about to obey, when Mies Dun ham, having recovered a little from her surprise, walked quickly up the aisle. With eyes blazing and voice trembling she said, 1 "Fritz Avery, you are expelled." ? The boy gave his teacher one 1 searching look, then bowing politely he left the room. There were examples to correct after the pupils were gone, and so the purple shadows had begun to gather before Miss Dunham left the school-house. Her head ached and her heart was heavy. Fritz Ave ry was among her most promising pupils and one in whom she had always 1 felt a special interest. Together with the feeling of disappoint- 1 ment in her pupil struggled a feeling akin to remorse. Why could she not have kept her tem per'' Why have allowed the ' whole school to witness her fall into the fault which had been the bane of her life? How could she ? ever correct any fault of her pupils now that they had seen her own weakness? but it had been such a provocation! In spite of all her reasoning she was conscious of having lowered her own standard. The 1 high hopes she had held of being a power for good among her pupils seemed to fade away into I the purple shadaws which were ' fast taking the place of the gol den glow of the sunset. It seem- ' ed now as if they would never lift, as if she must live henceforth amid their purple depths. She was obliged to pass the ' home of the Averys on the way to her boarding place. As she ' neared the house she saw Fritz coming down the walk. "Miss Dunham," he called,- ' "will you wait a minute, please? ! I would like to speak with you." 1 "1 did not act the part of a 1 gentleman," he said, stopping J before her. "1 have taken time ' to think it over, and am now ready to tell you that I am sorry. My father has taught me that all women are to be treated as I 1 would like other boys to treat ' my mother. ?'1 shall tell the whole story ' to-night after the children are in 1 bed, and I know that my mother ! will grieve and my father will 1 condemn. I will not ask you to f forgive me, Miss Dunham, for such beha vior does not deserve ' forgiveness. I would, however, j like to say this for myself. You no doubt thought I had broken your rule about communicating, ' but I had not." Miss Dunham opened her lips, , but she could not speak. A great choKing in her throat seemed to bar the way. ' Fritz continued, "I am not going to pretend that I do not ' care about being expelled; I do care a great deal." He stopped and gazed out into i the west where the purple t shadows were gathering. When ' he began again, his voice trem- . bled. , "I feel the disgrace, not for my- ! self alone. Father and mother ' have always trusted me, and lit tle Tim?will never believe in his big brother again." J The words came slowly, but ' there was more to say, and he made himself go on. "Miss Dunham, 1 have never ? told you. but if i had got along <> well this term my uncle was go- " ing to send me to the city to J school in the fall. There are not f, many of the boys about here o who tret that chance, but uncle has plenty of means, aud he knows how ambitious father aud mother have always been for me. "It is all over now, aud 1 am going to settle down and forget my ambitious. Ambitions are not for such as 1." He was about to turn away when Miss Dunham placed her hand upon his arm. "Fritz,you shall come back to school you must come. 1 was in the wioug, and?" Very gently did the boy dis place the hand, as he said. "No, Miss Dunham, 1 shall not come. 1 have disgraced you and the school. I can never face those little ones again. I, the oldest pupil, should have set the an ex umple of defereuce to the teacher, but instead I insulted you before them all. No, Miss Dunham, my school days are over. To-mor row 1 shall go to work with the farmhands. Maybe I can behave myself well enough to be with men all the time." I "Fritz you shall not give up school. 1 will apologize. I will tell the children that I was too hasty, that you did not whisper." He put out his hand deprecat ingly, but spoke as calmly as before. "No, but I will go to morrow morning, if I may, aud make an acknowledgment before the school, and, if you will let me I will finish the term. Unless i am greatly mistaken, you will have no more trouble with me." Miss Dunham saw thatit would be useless to reason with him, so mentally resolving to carry out her part of the humiliating pro cess, she bade him good-night and went home, to spend many sleepless hours in the attempt to overcome her chagrin that a boy lifteen years old should set her, a teacher of as many years, an ex ample in nobility of character. It was with some surprise that the pupils of Miss Dunham's school saw Fritz Avery walk up the aisle the next morning and take his seat as tho nothing had happened. When the opening exercises were over, he raised his his hand. Being granted permis sion ne stepped forward to the place assigned him the day before and looking down upon the as fonished faces befors him, spoke as calmly as tho reciting an ordi nary lesson. "You all saw my misbehavior yesterday. I have apologized to Miss Dunham but I do uot feel that I have done my duty until 1 repeat before you all that I am heartily ashamed of the whole matter, and I intend to become what, as the oldest pupil I ought always to have been,?a leader in all that is good and right. I want you to watch me closely, and if you see in me any want of defereuce to our teacher, I will thank you to remind me of my duty. 1 am old enough to know that our parents send us here to learn, and that Miss Dunham is doing her best to help us become noble men and women. The least we can do is to show her due respect." At this moment Miss Dunham stepped to bis side. "Children," she said, her voice trembling, with suppressed emotion. "Fritz is not wholly to blame. I spoke too hastily. He had not been whispering as I thought. He had broken no rule, and I aggra vated him beyond endurance and without cause. Before the school I ask his pardon, and promise that 1 will try to be morepatieut with you all." Miss Dunham was still teach ing, when, ten years later, his jollege course euded, Fritz came to bid her good-bye, beforeenter ing upon his life work in a distant state. A 8 she looked into his race and saw the strength of character, and steadfastness of purpose stamped upon it, she felt exceedingly grateful that the berter part of herself had con quered in the struggle between ?onscience and pride.?By Husie K. Kennedy, Rhode Island, in teachers Magazine. Better than a Doctor's Prescription. Mr. J, W. Turner, of Truhart, Va., Jays that Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets have done liirn more good than anything he could get from the loetor. If any physician In this coun try was able to compound n medicine that would produce such gratifying re mits in rases of stomach troubles, dlliousness or constipation, his whole ime would lie used in preparing this me medicine. For sale by A. H. Bovett, imithfield, Selma Drug Co., J. W. lien mn. It is a good sermon that stajs vith a man when he is swapping; lorses. The Famous Little Pills, "Tiarly tlscrs." cure Constipation, 9irk Ilead clie, Biliousness, etc., by their tonic ffeetion on the liacr, They never gripe r sicken, yet they cleanse the system lioronghiy. Tlicy cleanse, tone and trengthenthe stomach and bowels and mpnrt the kind of energy that makes ne feel like rising early, | Let It Hurt and Let Ttiem Howl! We are surprised at the desper ate tactics of the oppoueuts of prohibition laws in Charlotte and Greensboro. The Charlotte Observer, whose pages for years have been devo ted to most loyal praise and enthusiastic faith in the Queen City, now comes with dismal croakings?of the dullcitv, of the dead and dyiug city. We could not believe it but for the pages before us. That is not like the Charlotte Observer, and in all friendliness we say so. We re spect that paper's convictions, and we hope it will repent of its unworthy way of expressing them. The want of bar-rooms never yet destroyed a city. But croaking will injure any place. How ill it becomes Charlotte! At Greensboroafurorehasbeen raised second only to the ancient Kdentou Tea Party. A blunder ing Judge, of pitiful notoriety, sat on his bench, denounced the law and the men that had the respect for the State and their oaths to enforce it, and sum marily declaired it unconstitu tional. The calmness of the bench seems never to visit him. The Greensboro law simply pro vides that "when an affidavit is made that an individual is selling whiskey contrary to the law, and a warrant is issued, the officer serving the warrant can go upon the premises and search them, and if he finds whiskey can seize it, and upon conviction of the person the whiskey is confisca ted." A man's home is his castle? but not to break the law in. The King cannot enter the home of a peasant?save with the due process of law, say, a warrant as above. All this talk apropos of Greensboro, with regard to the home as a castle, immemorial rights, etc., etc., is the merest moonshine. By the same im memorial rights the blockader may claim protection. And by the same unconstitutionality so rashly proclaimed by the fam ously wise and just judge?whose record so adorns the ermine and the dignity of the State?the United States Revenue law, giv ing officers the right of seizure, is also unconstitutional. The plain truth is, the oppo nents of temperance laws declare that they cannot be enforced, and when we enforce them they howl. No doubt it hurts. But let it hurt; and let them howl.? Biblical Recorder. Makes digestion and assimila tion perfect. Makes new red blood and bone. That's what Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea will do. A tonic for the sick and weak. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets. Aj_H. lioyett, Selma Drug Co.. A Message Worthy of A Spartan This State has in its Hall of History one of the most patnetic and at the same time interesting relics of the Civil War, this being in the case devoted to Gettys burg. It is the dying message written by Colonel Isaac Erwin Avery, the commander of the Sixth North Carolina Infantry, and beside it is his war-time photograph. He was that day commanding a North Carolina brigade and was shot, the ball injuring the spine and causing paralysis of the right side. His sufferings were increased by the fall from his horse which followed the injury. His ordinary pen manship was beautiful, but his dying message was written with his left hand, while he was suffer ing acutely. It was addressed to Samuel McDowell Tate, who was the major of the Sixth, and is in these words: "Major: Tell my father I died with my face to the enemy.?I. E. Avery," The message, thus scrawled and ir regular, is upon a little piece of dingy brown Confederate note paper, along the bottom portion of which are spots made by the blood of the writer. When he was found the paper was Hear his hand.?Raleigh Correspondent to Charlotte Observer. - ?? ? The leading story of Lippin cott's Magazine for July is "An Orchard Princess," by Ralph Henry Harbour. This is almost enough to say in its commenda tion; for those who read his other Lippincott, novel, "Kitty of the Roses," will be sure of au idyllic treat in picking up a second tale by him. The "Orchard Princess" is wooed, as she sketches the orchard day by day, by a very persistent man and an unyield ing bull pup; and how it all turned out the reader will want to discover for himself. , Rome people think to redeem a bad day by dreams of heaven at night. No Admittance. This is the epitaph written [ over the door of a young man's future who tampers with strong drink. Every high and worthy position is c losed to him, and he is as one who faces the midnight darkness and storm without the lantern. Society repudiates him and the commercial world close her portals against his entrance Railroads will admit him to no responsible position, business houses of all kinds vote him out, and the great world which at heart is kind aud sympathetic, scorns and rejects him. This is a dark future pictured for the man who iudulges in in temperate habits but there is no falsity in the coloring, there is uo exaggeration iu the outlook it presents. And the records of history aud the sad stories of wasted lives confirm and prove its truthfulness. Intemperauce tends toward weakening the human will. To every young man sometime in the course of his life comes a de termination and a resolution to rise to sublimer things. The intemperate young man wastes the years of his best and most powerful energies of the body and will, and then when tbe desire comes to enter the realities of life, he finds that his assets are insulicient to carry out his inten tions. The thriftlessness of younger days have thwarted his success and when he might have become a man of responsibility, he is forced to stop on the very threshold of success. Young men little dream of the clinging power of evil habits, how they eat out the fibre of the will and destroy the energy of the mind until it has little power of rcsis tence. Then this waste of moral fibre carries with it also a waste of reputation and the loss of a good name in the community. A man may be respected by his associates for his family's sake, or if he has inherited a fortune he may be respected for a time for his money's sake, but the inebri ate is a discredited man and can never rise in the scale of decent society. To rise here necessitates a possession of a higher degree of manliness and morals than the intemperate manhasiustore, and therefore he is rejected by those who would otherwise honor and associate with him with pleasure. The greatest failures in life are ofttiines traceable to these habits of early life. Failure to achieve distinction in those fields where moral force is essen tial is often due to a misappro priation and misuse of those energies in the years when their development would haveguaran teed success. The dreams of life are shattered through the follies and thoughtlessness of youth. The world moves on to grand achievements but the man who drinks is left behind.?Charlotte News. Thrown From a Wagon. Mr. (ieorge K. Babcock was thrown from his wagon and severely bruised. He applied Chamberlain's Pain Balm freely and says it i?the best liniment he ever used. Mr. Babeoek is a well known oitisen of North Plain, Conn. There is nothing equal to Pain Balm for sprains and bruises. It will effect a cure in onp third the time required by any other treatment. For sale by A. H. Boyett, Sniithfield, Selma Drug Co., J. W. Ben son. We wish to commend Congress man K. W. I'ou of the Fifth Dis trict for his boldness in announc ing his views at this juncture on the question of strengthening the Navy. He is reported as say ing: "The United States must do one of two things, either relin quish her colonial possessions, which is so highly improbable that it might be termed almost impossible, or increase the size of the American navy." Mr. I'ou, on this question, is not in accori with his party, or at least with the platform of his party?a platform constructed at a time when "issues" were rather scant. Hut the Congressman shows him self to be a man who is not afraid to express himself even when the expression runs counter to his party. We need more of such men.?Raleigh Christian Advo cate. (I We like best to call (I I SCOn S EMULSION J (> a food because it stands so em- (, () phatically for perfect nutrition. j) 0 And yet in the matter of restor- i (0 ing appetite, of giving new 4 t? strength to the tissues, especially <* <' to the nerves, its action is that < J '. of a medicine. J I ^ Send for free sample. 5 # SCOTT A BOW NIC, Chemists, ( 1 A 409-41 $ Pearl Street, New York, j ) k 50c. and Ji.00; all druggists. ' . WON FROM DISASTER 6UCCESS AT TIMES FOLLOWS SEEM ING ILL LUCK. lion ll??- Baku IVt roft-u iu l)?*|?oalta Mere rre?l?t Dying S?-mI Ilia ?*l?a???l Cape XomeVi (iold Secret. The Origin of Tinted I'tiper. The Itaku petroleum deposits, which have yielded millions of pounds' worth of tine oil. are situated in Russian Cau casus. Years ago a number of cattle were placed on several tracts of land well covered with herbage. The animals, however, refused to feed at tlrst, but later, in their hunger, they ate up the grass ravenously. All of them were taken 111, and a number died. The cause of their death puzzled the owner for some time, in the long run he discovered, with the assistance of an Englishman, that la-low the meadows were rich oil springs which caused the grass to be poisoned with paraffin. The loss of his cattle brought a fortune. A summer or two back a sea wall on j the Suffolk coast was blowu down dur ing a strong gale, and when the tide rose uiauy acres of low lying land were flooded by the sea. The farmers wbo rented the laud were lu despair, aud in order to save their crops they started draining the water off. Two days later the water sodden meadows were a sight wonderful to be hold. They were one thick carpet of flue mackerel! A big school of the flsh hud swept In through the breach iu the embankmeut aud beeu carried to the fields by the incoming sea. The farmers hired scores of carts to collect the mackerel, aud within twen ty-four hours the flsh had been packed Into boxes and were en route to Bil lingsgate, where they were sold for over Starring, 111 clad and bootless, Robert | Hyams, a homeless Jew, wandered to the top of a lonely bin 011 tbe Yorkshire moors. There was a strong gale blow ing from the east, and to protect him self from the cold blast he entered a big shed of wood and gorse on the sum mit which was used to store fodder for j the sheep. Stepping through the door, which opened to the eastward, he was aston ished to find inside over sixty wild ducks, half stunned, but quacking vio lently. He slummed the door to and started catching the birds and wring ing their necks. The shed lay right in the flight lines of the myriads of wild ducks that come to Britain from the north, and, flying low in tlieir hundreds, some of them had entered the door of the shed, which had been left open by the shepherds, and stunned themselves on the rear wall. Hymns sold the lucky haul for a sum exceeding ?8, and with this he was ablo to clothe himself respectably and thus find employment. On the beach which fringes the preci pices below Cape Nome there is now a prosperous city peopled by 40,000 min ers. but at one time, and not so very long ago, the spot was uninhabited. The discovery of the gold In the dis trict and its ultimate prosperity was entirely due to a seal. Two American hunters had wounded the strange creature, and It led them a pretty danee across the ice and Into an unknown bay, where the seal was killed after badly wouudlng one of the hunters. In Its death struggles the seal flung up the ground, and the hunters, to their agreeable surprise, found themselves on a golden strand?the richest one In the world. The death of a mule brought great wealth to Frederick Butler, a Klon dlker. who took part in the memorable "rush" to^he gold fields of Yukon. He left his mule standing one day on a plot of land far away from the "claims," and another miner who had a grudge against his fellow digger shot the nnimnl in the neck with his re volver. The mule fell and in Its agony kick ed up the ground with its hoofs. When its owner returned he found several "pebbles" of strange weight and shape lying around the dead animal. He cleansed the supposed pebbles and they proved to be nuggets of virgin gold. The dying mule had struck one of the richest veins in Klondike. A similar cuse of gold being discov ered by an nnimnl occurred In Scotland in 1868. A dog, badly wounded by a shot from a gamekeeper's gun. scratch ed up some gold on ground which was afterward known ,-fs the Dunrobln gold mines, near Golspie. Over ?20,000 worth of the precious metal was wash ed out of the mine by the owner of the fortune bringing dog. The Tatorl silver mines In Spain were also discovered by n wounded dog, and It la Mid that thp famous dia mond mlnps at Klmberlpy were first revealed to a wide awake Boer by a sow which he had shot. Oolil to the value of some hundreds of pounds was dug out of a portion of the ground belonging to a Mr. Ireton of western Cumberland. A fowl chased by a boy throw up a nugget of gold with Its claws as It fled from Its pur suer. Subsequently It transpired that where the bird had been was a dried up stream and contained gold dust and small nuggetsWn large quantities. Kninsgate harbor was once flooded with a mighty shoal of mullet, and when the dock gates were opened to al low n ship to pass Into the Inner basin the flsli followed, and the basin became thick with them. When the tide went down the author ities had the dock sluices opened and the water drained off. Over twenty cart loads of mullet of two pounds weight and upward were taken away from the Door of the basin, &a4 thet* ?ale brought to the coffera of the Ram* gale council nearly ?.VtO. A piece of blue dropped by accident lutu a vat of pulp wan responsible for the production of blue tinted paper, anil to this slight disaster the foun dation of a great industry U to be traced. The wife of William East, a poor pa per maker, dropped a blue bag Into ona of her husband's pulp vats, and as a result the pulp assumed a blue tint East considered the paper to be n grave pecuniary loss, hut when he sent it up to Eondou it found a ready mar ket. Indeed, it became so popular that East was asked to supply more. He did anil eventually made a great for tuue out of his "blue bag" paper. A chemist of Nuremberg was pour ing out some aquafortis from a bottle when a few drops fell upon a pair of gold rimmed spectacle*, which he bat recently purchased. "That's a catastrophe," he called to his wife. "I've upset some aquafortis on my new s|>ec?." "Has It spoilt them?" was the reply. "Well." said the chemist, "the glass Is corroded where the lluiil touched IE" Then an idea struck him, and, getting a piece of window glass, he endeavored to etch thereon. He succeeded after many failures. By drawing designs on the glass with varnish and applying aquafortis he made them appear as on a gray background. For many years he kepi his secret close and made a small fortune out of his designed glass. ?Pearson's London Weekly. THE PRICE OF TORTURE. Elitktcriilh Ontury II, 1.11 th?l Cost" Thureof. Amoiw (bo monuments of suporstl tlon wliich exist to this day, the travel er sees the "witch towers." the torture ehaml>ers and ttie collections of Instru ments of torture in various towns on the continent notably at Nuremberg. Uatlsbon, Munich and Tin; Hague. But perhaps nothing brings the system more vividly before us than the execu tioner's tariffs still preserved. Four of these may be seen In the library of Cor nell unlversit; and among them espe cially that issued l>y the archbishop elector of Cologne in 1757. On four printed folio pages, it enumerates in Bfty-tive paragraphs every sort of hid eous cruelty which an executioner could commit upon a prisoner, with the sum allowed him for each, and for the Instruments therein required. Typical examples from this tariff are the fol lowing: Thalers. Ulb. 1. For tearing asunder with four hors, * 5 28 2. For quart ring 4 6. For b.'heading and burning ..5 28 7. For strangling and burning.. 4 S. For heaping the pile of wood nnd kindling 12 9. For burning dive 4 LI. For breaking a man alive on the wheel 4 13. For setting up the wheel with the body twisted in it 2 52 19. For cutting off a hand or sun dry finro rs and for behead ing?altogether 3 28 20. For burning with a hot Iron.. 1 26 22. For beheading and placing the heau upon a pike 3 26 24. For behei-dlng. twisting the body in the wheel and plac ing the head upon a pike? altogether 6 28. For tearing a eriminal before his execution with redhot pinchers ? each tearing of the flesh 26 31. For nailing a tongue or hand to the gallows 1 28 42. For the first grade of torture 1 26 44. For the second grade of tor ture. Including setting the limbs afterward, with salve for same 2 26 and so on liirough fifty-five items and specifications.?Andrew D. Whito la Atlantic. A Hanging Bridge. When the Denver and Bio Grande prepared to build through the Bockies engineers sail the canyon of the Ar kansas could never be penetrated its entire length. There was one spot In this awe inspiring chasm where there was not room for a roadbed on either side of the stream. The wails of the canyon cuuio down to the swift current of the Arkansas without foothold for a man on either side. But an engineer suggested a hanging bridge suspended: between the walls of the canyon. The. bridge was built with supports im bedded in the solid rock, and across it the heavy transcontinental trains flit daily, with nothing but the slender Ironwork between the river nnd the top of the canyon, 2,000 feet above. . Great Iron braces, which look almost spldor-llke in the vastness of the can yon, have been thrown across the gorge, being anchored securely in the sheer sides. Huge cables depend from these braces, holding a long iron bridge, which extends not across but parallel with the course of the river.?New York Tribune. . ?? -A-V The Cl?r of I>. ' ***' Tou might exhaust yourself looking In atlas am] gazetteer for the city of Is. because It Is purely legiridary. Ilete' Is a brief statement of the legend "The magnificent city of Is was slto a tod on the coast of Brittany where now Is the bay of Douamene*. It was built l>elow the level of the sea and surrounded by massive walls. Here In the fifth century was the? court of the pious King Gradlon and of Ills wicked daughter. I ihut. nho had a pleasant habit of tlir wing her suitors Into a well wli i their society became tiresome. One f her favorltc* asked her to obtain for h'.ui the sliver key whleb fastened the sluice gates la the city wall. Iiahot a cordltigly stole the key. f.-om lier father's neck white he slept, the lover unlocked the _? d< ami the sea rushed In and overwhelm I the city and Its Inhabitants, tnclu ltug tl ?> princess. Only the king esc ped Tlt-e Breton peasants say that the spirit* of the drowned still ha"'- s|>ot. ar><| the bells of the ?' city are Often heard rli.. , . ? ??."
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