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SUPERINTENDENT'S NOTES. Ol'U NEW HOOKS. Have you noticed the uew classic readers??what excellent pap^r and strong cloth binding? If you have examined their pages you have seen that they are bub bling over with child life?the bright, sunny side of child life? their pets, toys, games ami sports For the lirst twenty p iges, or more, the simple child like words are both written and printed. By the pievious train ing outlined in " How to Teach Heading" the littleonescan write and read writing of the simple words by the phonic system Teachers, have your little ones to copy the words at first, and by association wrth print?by drill in both as you pass along, the children take right bold of the priuted words, and get the happy child-like thought There are three ways hv which a lesson cau he learne :: 1, by at tention; 2. by rsque.itrepetition; 3, by interns: taken. It will be observed r.\ examination of the little readers * ? a; master hands uiade the b...k-- authors who were m ister* 01 i.i Lea long art and whost eouls turilled in chil dren's joys, sympathized with child nature and were aliame with a desire to develop their im mortal minds in nature's way. First, the attention is secured and held by the nature and ar rangement of the subject matter ?the brightest and rarest things in the children s world. Second ly, they continue repeating the words as they are learned, in new lessons. Lastly, the interest is quickened and iutesitied as the new pages are passed over by more vivid scenes. Thus the books insure the greatest incent ives to study. .\t nrst the criua snouia learn to KKAI?, and not read to LEARN merely, as he does at a more ad vanced etatre What can be more interesting to second grade pu pile than "Teen v, Tiny," "Lou don Bridge," "Little Bo-peep," "Tom Thumb," "Jack and the Bean-Stalk," "The Wise Men of Gotham" and the "King's Trumpet"? These are classic stories, and lead the child un awares into the realm of litera ture. For third, fourth, and fifth grade pupils we have readers containing selections from the standard literature by the gifted I)r. E A. Alderman. These fairy tales, stories of animal life, de scriptions of people and homes of other lands, history and bi ography, and stories of adven ture broaden thechildren's minds and lead them to appieciate the beautiful in literature as well as learn to read. In the "Classics, Old and New" third, fourth and fifth readers, the subjects "range from nature and myth and adventure to bi ography and patriotism and ethics." Good literature enlight ens the miud aud uplifts thespir it more than any other power, save the iuflueuces of hoWie. In the hands of sympathetic teach ers this course of reading will not only make good readers and lovers of fine literature, but also will inspire a love for reading? the reading habit which is worth far more than the knowledge ac quired from the books them selves. Especially will this habit result if the supplementary read ers recommended by our State Superintendent be used in con nection. 1 shall have more to say of supplementary reading in a future article. 1 have said more on this sub ject because good reading is the oasis o! good scholarship iu all branches, and because I hope our teachers recognizingthisfact will change to the new reader as early as possible. M v distinguish ed predecessor, Frof. Turlington, has labored hard to get teachers out of the "old ruts'' of poor reading and spelling, and as a result has placed reading and ?teaching reading on a higher plane. Now I appeal to the teach ers to take no backward step? try with the little ones to make a complete success of the phonic system, and often consult your bulletin No. 1, "How to Teach Heading." TliE NEW SPELLER. Foust and Griffin's Speller for use during the next five years is a speller pure and simple, and not intended, as the preface shows, in any way to take the f)lace of the dictionary, or of anguage lessons. It is the work of our distinguished North Caro lina authors. Prof. J. I. Foust, of the Normal and industrial College at Greensboro, is princi pal author. A short examina tion bv any experienced teacher is suflicient to convince him of the superiority of this speller over any we Lave had heretofore Every teacher should read care f illv?the preface to know how to direct the spelling exercises in I I'arts 1 to ?>, inclusive. Since spelling and reading are in most I respects one subject, the words! ) are carefully selected from the "Course of Stud v for Elementary I Public Schools," and are there fore thoroughly practical, every day words. THE NEW AKITHMETIC Colaw and liuke's Intermediate j Arithmetic recently adopted tills a much needed space between t he Primary and Advanced form erly used una re-adopted. This proposition goes without ques tion as the mental step between the last t wo named was too long for the child's mind to take. It worked discouragement to both I teachers and pupils. Arithmetic I is a very importanr, and, 1 may say, difficult st udy. Children need not learn to dread it, however; if proper steps are taken it becomes one of the most interesting stud ies. .lust here I recommend to the teachers not to try to teach the "Exercises for Advanced Classes" in the'Advauced Arith j metic until after the Common [ school course is gone through | with. (Hea I the preface of the book and see what the author intended.) This supplementary work is necessary for complete arithmetic and can be done more easily as final review of the book. THE NEW LANGUAGE HOOK. Smith's Our Language, Second Hook, is adopted to come be tween Hyde's Hook 1 in English, and Muehler's Modern English i Grammar,' both the latter re adopted. It requires extensive ( composition work, treats in a thorough but simple way the parts of speech, the classification and analysis of sentences, and | most happily couibiues with the! study of language uu(j grammar that of literature. l?r. C. A. Smith, the author, is also one of North Carolina's most scholarly j sons and stands pre-eminent \ among the great scholars in English. His treatment of the language subject renders it no longer a dry subject but one of the most interesting, and like the intermediate arithmetic, the Hook Commission placed it just where it is needed. I have commented on the above named books because they have been adopted for use in the schools for the next five vears. The new Readers displaced Holmes' Readers, and the new speller displaced Harrington's Spellers. The law requires the new books to be taught, yet as stated in my article last week, a reasonable time will be allowed to make the change Having personally examined these new books 1 the more earnestly ^ad vise where it can be done tirjjex cbange the old books for the new and so have the advantage of the new ones this session J. P.CANadav. Mr. Hearst's certified state ment oi his campaign expenses places the amount at $250,370. As candidate of the Independence League he spent $198,870, and he gave the Democratic state committee $50,000. His travel ing expenses were $500. What he paid Murphy to get the Dem ocratic nomination and his friends nomiuated for the judge ships could hardly be called cam paign expenses, and, of course, were not included in the return made to the secretary of state ? Wilmington Messenger Weak Lungs Need VINOL its cod liver oil elements heal and strengthen the lungs Many people Inherit weak lungs which are likely to be attacked by consumption. So also are lungs weakened by disease or by a stubborn hacking cough. Vinol, which is a real cod liver prep aration with all the useless oil elimi nated and tonic iron added, strength ens weak lungs and Jives one the power to throw off wasting diseases. We ask every person suffering from weak lungs, stubborn hacking coughs or any wasting disease to try Vinol on our guarantee. Hood Bros., Druggists. NO MAN 15 STRONGER THAN MIS STOMACH. # Let the greatest fttblete have dyspepsia and his muscles would soon fail. Physi cal strength is derived from food. If a man has insufficient food he loses strength. If he has no food he dies. Food is con verted into nutrition through the stom ach and bowels. It depends on (hi strength of the stomach to what extent food eaten Is digested and assimilated. People can die of starvation who have abundant food to eat, w hen the stomach and its associate organs of digestion and nutrition do not perform their duty. Thus the stomach D really the vital or gan of the body. If the stomach Is "weak" the body will lie weak also, because it is upon the stomach the body relies for its strength. Ami as the body, considered as a whole. Is made up of it* several mem bCfft and organs, the WSilfnaSg Of the body a consuluenee of "weak" stom ach will be distributed among the or faM which com post the body. If the ody is weak because it is ill-nourished that physical weakness will be found in all the organs?heart, liver, kidneys, etc. The liver will be torpid and inactive, giving rise to biliousness, loss of appetite, weak nerves, feeble or irregular action of heart, palpitation, dizziness, headache, backache and kindred disturbances ana weaknesses. Mr. Louis Pare, of Quebec, writes: "Foi years after my health began to fail, my head grew dizzy, eyes pained me, and my stomach was sore ail the time, while everything 1 j would eat would seem to lie heavy like lead on my stomach. The doctors claimed that , it was sympathetic trouble due to dyspepsia. I and prescribed for me, and although i took | their powders regularly yet I felt no better, j My wife advised me to try Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical IMsoovery?and stop taking the doc tor's medicine. She bought me a bottle and we soon found that I began to improve, so I kept up the treatment- i took on tlesh. my stomach became normal, the digestive organs worked perfectly and I soon began to look like a different person. I can never cease to V* grateful for what your medicine has done for me and I certainly give it highest praise." Don't l)e wheedled T>y a penny-grabbing dealer into taking inferior substitute* for I>r. Pierce's medicines, recommended to be "Just as good." To gain knowledge of your own body in sickness and health?send for the Peo ple's Common Sense Medical Adviser. A book of 1008 pages. Send 21 one-cent stamps for paper-covered, or 31 stamps for cloth-bouud copy. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, W3 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. A Magazine for the Blind. Through the beneticeuce of a wealthy good lady in New York City, Mrs. William Ziegler, a monthly magazine of some fifty pages is soon to be published in raised print for the blind of the United States who can read, to Oe sent to the blind fuek of charge. It will be on the order of the regular monthly maga zines tor the seeing and will con tain general news and literary matter of interest to the blind, us well as a correspondence col umn for the blind. The magazine is to be publish ed in the Ntfw York Point print and in the braille, so as to ac commodate the blind who can read either. For the purpose of reaching every blind person in North Caro lina who can read, it is earnestly requested that the full name and post-office address of any bliud citizen in any part of the State be sent at once to John E. Ray, Principal of the State School for the blind, Haleigh, N. C., statiug the preference of the person be tween the New York Point and the braille print. This request should receive immediate atten tion. Republican Majority Is 54. Washington, Nov. 17.?Con gressional statisticians who have been here the past few days fig uring on the status of the House of Representatives in the (iOtb Congress, have reached the con clusion that the Republican house majority will be fifty-four. This is as near final as the esti mate can be made uutil the clerk of the house has received certifi cates of election and will stand as correct, probably, until all contested election cases have been finally decided. HAS STOOD THE TEST FOR 25 YEARS The old, original GROVE'S Tasteless Chill Tonic. You know what you are takiug. It is iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure, No pay. 50c. Bachelors. "Bachelors can be found roam ing at large iu all parts of the world. They inhabit apartments, j clubs, opeu fields, bodies of water ; and music halls. They are also j seen behind the scenes. They j hover at times near front gates, | and have been fouud iu back par lors with the aid of the search- j light. "Bachelors are nomadic byna-! ture and variable iu their tastes, never going with one girl long j enough to he dangerous. "Bachelors make love easily, but rarely keep it. Kich bachel ors are hunted openly and shame lessly, and are always in great danger. Those who finally es cape are, as a rule, useless ever afterwards."?Tom Masson, in the December Delineator. Your stomach churns and di gests the food you eat and if foul, or torpid, or out of order, your whole system suffers from blood poison. Hollister'S Rocky Mountain Tea keeps you well. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets.?Hood Bros. Cornelius Vandcrbilt, Yachtsman CORNEI.ll'S VANUEUBILTS yacht Rainbow Is n feature of the yachting season this year and U sailed by Captain Char Icy R trr of America's cup and kaiser's eup farm- In the abaence of boats of tile ninety foot sloop class the seventy fc?)ters. like the Rainbow. have the principal claim ou attention. Tlie lead hut yachting event of tlx- season, the annual cruise of tlie New York Y'acht elilh, of which Mr. Vnnilerbllt Is com modore, occurs In Autrust. The start will (hi from (lieu Cove, N. Y? on Auk. 3. On tin* Stli the race for tlie king's cup. offerisl !y King Edward VII. of England. will lie sailed. The fall races for the autumn cups will t>e sailed in September. In some reajiects it ts bet ter for the yachtsmen when, as tills year, there is no International cup nice to excite public Interest, for the ab sence of a contest 1?etween ninety foot yachts representing different nations 1 gives more <>p[M>rtunity for attention to the contests between owners of snmller craft. The interest in yachting this season In uil parts of the country where ctutn exist has so far resulted in unusually large entries for races. Commodore Yamlerbilt's Uulnbow has a long record of victories and Is one of tlie jirettlest sloop yachts afloat. The commodore himself Is recognised as one of the beat and most sports manlike of yachtsmen and as a sailor who can design a boat us well as ban die It on the water. Mr. Vanderbllt's career has won him more popularity t with tlie general public than Is usually attained by the son of a millionaire. Not that he has striven for anything of ; this kind. On the contrary, he shuns ! publicity. But he has always shown a disposition to travel on his own mer Its, to curve out a career of his own t and tn make himself of use to the world Instead of being, like so many CORXELItTS VASUElillliiT ASD HIS YACH1 KAINHOW. rich men's sons, a more Idler and socl ety favorite. He is democratic lu his ways, and he married a girl. Miss Grace Wilson, whom he loved well enough to tivtht for, even though It was his own fatlicr with whom he had to contend, and Iris act cost hhn that father's tfi will and a loss of many millions when the family fortune was tianded down to the next {feneration. When Commodore Vanderbilt was a hoy, even liefore he entered Yale uni versity, from which lie graduated in 1SD5, lie became Interested In yacht ing. The fondness for boats. Indeed. I runs In the Wood, the family fortune having originated In the success which the first Commodore Vanderbilt met with In the sailing of vessels and the j operation of steamboat lines. The present Commodore Vanderbilt Is j known as Cornelius 3d. The original commodore, Cornelius 1st. when only sixteen years old. tiegan sailing a small sloop between New York city and his Staten Islam! home. In which he con veyed passengers. Cornelius 3d was about the same age when he took up the study of naval architecture and designed a boat which was built for his use. But it is as a designer of locomotives rather than of ; boats and as an inVentor of railway | appliances that young Mr. Vanderbilt ] lias won most fame. He designed the locomotive which about four years ago j made the record run on the Harlem | rood. Most of the railroads of the j country have now introduced the pat- I ent fire box Invented by him Ills papers on scientific and technical subjects command the attention of the leading scientific societies, something : which they would not do in spite of ' his wealth unless they were of real value. He is only about thirty years of uge, but for the past ten years at least has been hard at work on mechanical lines. There Is something unusually ; picturesque in the idea of a man who owns millions and lives in a palace I working in overalls. Young Vanderbilt j used to do tbls not for effect, but lie cause It was pert of the profession which he had determined to learn from j the bottom up. He Is modest and sen- i sible. as was Illustrated one time when he spoke of an engine he had designed. | "The main thing Is thnt the locomo tive works well." said he. "not that I Invented It." I I The Kiud You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has borng the signature of ?rt - and has been made under bis per /j? . Bonal supervision since its infancy. Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and "?Just-as-good" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children?Experience against Experiment. 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Call on Acme ff\ tyt tTrocery Co.. and see their display of Heavy rf\ and Fancy 1 es. All kinds Pickles, ff\ ff\ in bottles and barrels; Preserves, catsup, (f\ Pepper Sauce. Stuffed and plain Olives, and all kinds of canned poods. Boueless Ham. M lfj\ Breakfast Bacon, country Hams and western fj\ meat and anythiup pood to eat. Chewing M j|\ Tobacco from 23 to 50c per pound. f\\ iiAcrae Grocery Co., j ff\ fft ffl Phone 12 ^ Smithfield, N. C. 'f* vW, f jn
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