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GRAHAM. N. G., THURSDAY, J UtfOQ, 1 897;
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
Attorneyat-La'w,
GRAHAM, - - - - n. c
Practice) fn the State ixt Federal courts.
Office orr White, Moor & Co.' (tore, Main
Street. 'Phono No..
jr. I . KEU?fODLI3.
ATTOTtNEY AT LAW
GRAHAM, - - - N. C
Imir Obat Bymck. -. W. P. Btkck, Ja.
BOUSi & BYNTJM,
A.ttorny) amd Counselors at IH"W
GREENSBORO, N. C.
Practice regularly la the
friance county.
court of Ala
Au. i, W ly.
WHT POPULAR EDUCATION US FAILED.
Bdpt. Logan D. Howell, of Raleigh, before
tne u ni veraitr summer ocnooi.
Pttbltiihed by requeat of North Carolina
Teacher.' Assembly Committee ot Litera
ture or uampaign ioriAcai Taxation, j
Continued from but week.
ATTENDANCE AT OUR SCHOOLS.
With a school terra of only three
months in the year we cannot hope
to educate the body of the people
very highly, even if we had the best
of teachers and every person of
school age attended every day the
schools are open. As a matter of
fact only about a third of them do
this.
DR. Wi
S. LONG, JR..
V Bbntist,
GRAHAM, N. C.
Office in Vestal building.
Oflice hours i 8 a. m. to 4 p
.m.
Livery; Sale Feed
STAPLES.
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" GKAKAM. N. C.
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OUR SCHOOLS ARE DKPRECIATIXO IS
VALUE.
The distressing fact is. that little
education as our Brhools have been
giving, it is becoming less and less
year by year. The attendance at
the schools last year was less by
4,454 than it had been eight years
yeara ago. In 1895 sixty-one per
cent, of the white school population
was enrolled. The next year the en
rollment fell to fifty-six per cent.
The falling off in the colored schools
was even greater : From fifty-nine
per cent, in 1895 to fifty-two per
cent in the next year. The total
enrollment fell in one year from
373,503 in 1895 to 348,016 in 1896,
a loss of nearly 25,000. "
WHAT OUR SCHOOLS ARE DOIXO.
Nt arly half of the school popula
tion did not go innitl of a K-hooI
last year. But what was done by
the other naif? Little more than
learn the A, B, C's. Not half the
children studied arithmetic The
average white teacher in North Car
olina enrolls during the three
forty one chil
dren. But their attendance is ir
regular, and if we should visit her
school on an average d.ty, we would
find twenty-eight pupils present,
only thirteen of these far enough
advanced to study arithmetic, only
seven geography, four in grammar,
and two in United States history.
COKT OF EDXCATIOJf. ,
Let us see what it costs to educate
children in the 'different state. The
average Tor the Limed btates is
$18.98 a j ear for each child. We
pend upon each child only $3.40 a
year. This is less than any other
state, except South Carolina which
4cnds $3.29. The wealth of Mas
otchusettes is five times as great as
North Carolina's, but Massachu
setts s)enda for each child at school
tbout ten limes as much as we do,
i33.98. Seven Southern states
pend for the education of their chil-j
Iren twice aa much as we do: New
Mexico, Florida, Louisiana Okla
homa, Virginia, Texas and Arkan-
OUR EDUCATIONAL POSITION. . ;
Our position among the sisterhood
of states is then this: In per cent
of illiteracy of whole population,
seventh ; in per cent of illiteracy of
native white people, second ; in
length of school term, forty-ninth ;
in amount expended for each pupil,
forty-eighth ; in amount of taxation
in proportion to wealth, lorty-third ;
in salaries paid teachers, forty-ninth.
ARE WE TAXf.D TOO HEAVILY ?
There can&nly he one excuse for
such a condition enormous taxes
fur other things. But taxes in North
Carolina are not enormous. They
are less than anywhere else in the
Union, except in Nevada and Idaho.
The tax rato. for all purposes in
North Carolina is only something
over half the average for the United
States.
LET THESE FACTS AROUSE US TO ACTION.
There is no pleasure in making
public such humiliating facts about
our state except for the hope that
they may arouse to action. For
these conditions exist, and North
Carolina must face them. Shutting
pur eyes to them will not remove
them ; denying them will not change
them. But having seen the cause
of our failure, wo ouht to know
how to make our public schools a
success.
LOCAL TAXATION IN THE UNITED
North -Carolina. Its per capita
wealth is tsf less. Over half the
population of that state is black ; in
North Carolina about one-third
Mississippi also has fewer towns
than North Carolina and less per
sons to the square mile. In spit
of these facts Mississippi offers its
children a fire-months school term.
North Carolina a three-months term
Alississippi does this by paying
money for it Its school tax is more
than twice as heavy as North Caro
lina's. As a result there is not half
as much illiteracy among its white
population as we have.
THE TIME FOR ACTION HAS COME.
Let us stop trying to excuse our
ignorance and selfishness and nar
row-mindedness. We are behind
all other states in the education of
the people. The sooner we recog
nize this fact the sooner we may
hope to change it
STATES.
Very nearly all the school tax in
North Carolina is imposed by the
legislature, less than twenty com
munities supplementing this by a
self-imposed local tax. Here again we
are I ehind in educational progress.
Two-thirds of the school funds in
the Unitrd States are raised by local
taxes. Thirteen states, including
Massachusetts, have" no state taxes.
All their school taxes arc local. As
a rule the Statrs that have the best
schools support them mainly by
local taxes.
OUR LARGE GENERAL SCHOOL TAX".
This is our need now in North
Carolina. Our State tax is already
one of the largest, only six other
States having a heavier one. But
when we come to count the local
taxes and the general tax North
Carolina drops to Ion est of all but
six. x
local taxation in agricultural
STATES.
There are objretions that local
taxation inay suit Maine, but it
will not suit our condition as an
agricultural wople. We hear men
saying that good schools cannot be
maintained among a imputation so
scattered as ours. Local taxation is
not peculiar to the North or to cities.
Kansas and Nebraska are great
farming States and settled only
about half as thickly as North Car
olina! Kansas has no State tax.
snd Nebraska only 3-10 of a cent,
but by local taxes Kansas keeps its
schools oen six months and Ne
braska seven. Arkansas is not aa
densely settled as North Carolina. J
Its tax rate for school is two and ,
The Sweet Tie Between Mother and
Daughter.
The careful shelter of the girls of
the stately Colonial days in Amcri
can history is as possible with us to
day as it was in the olden times.
writes Edward W. Bbk, deprecat
ing, in the August Ladies' Homo
Journal, the too great liberty given
young girls by their parents. "Not
in tho letter, perhaps, but in the
spirit But before wo can bring
back those ideal inlluences it is
necessary that we should return to
one or two of the conditions which
existed and made those influences
possible. Our mothers should Ikj
more familiar with their daughters
than they are. The multifarious
outside duties into which women of
this latter day have gone hare not
served to strengthen the tie between
mother and daughter. If anything
they -have loosened the relation.
Tho Colonial mother lived in her
home : The mother of to-day lives
too much outside of it. The daugh
ter of tho Knickerbocker home was
the first thought of the mother ; the
daughter of t j-day is all too often
the lat thought of the mother.
buch changes in home anairs are
noti marks af progress. In fact it
require a reading of old books
sometimes to see how littlo actual
progress we have really made.
More often tho wisest progress
would be for us to go back a bit,
and see whence we started. There
are potent lessons for us in the past
Our grandmothers knew, a thing or
two. Somethings they knew bet
ter than do their grandchildren."
Ignoring the Colored People.
Scotland Neck Commonwealth-
The national administration is
again slowly opening the eyes of the
colored people. Their applications
at Washington for appointment to
places of importance are being
ignored, ami will be ignored to the
end.
The colored people stand no
showing with the Republican party
Lei Va Help Him. - e
Scotland Neck Common wraith.
- The successful man is by no
means helpful to himself alone ; he
helps a great' many people as well.
There isn't a healthy, vigorous, en
ergetic, self-reliant, successful man
whose example does not breed the
same qualities in others, and per
sonal contact with such men is an
active stimulant and direct aid to
success. lie awakens in us new
strength and arouses ambition. He
winds us up and sets us going.
Durham Sun.
The foregoing is woith reading
again. Ihe men who are worth
most to any community are the suc
cessful men. Men who make a fair
success in business conducted on a
plane of strong integrity and by
honest dealing are an inspiration,
indeed ; and wo ought to be very
careful how we throw impediments
in their way.
Occasionally wo find a man who
is so small as to envy others who
exeel him and discount him in the
race ; and not infrequently this en
vious person endeavors to impede
the progiess of his more successful
competitor in the world by unfair
insinuations and questionable com
ment on tho successful man's course.
But such effort to injure a true man
novcr fails to come as a boomerang
upon the head of the ill-disposed
person who sends it forth.
Let us ever rejoice in the real suc
cess of true men about us ; for the
successful ones are the only solid
things for any community to de
pend upon.
i Hfata.
Out Thi Out and ,Paate Upt
From the Poultry Keeper,
If you wish to remember soma
things, here are a fetf rules for you,
under the decimal system. Though
not exactly correct, they are about
iyhat should bo the case :
Ten bens in a house 10x10 feet
are enough.
The yard should be at least ten
times as large as the floor of the
house.
Ten weeks from shell to market is
the time allotted a chick.. '
Ten cents ir pound is about the
average price of hens in market for
the whole year. '
Ten cents should feed a chick ten
weeks, and it should then weigh two
pounds, if highly fed, the 10 cents j ' -
covering tho greatest abundance of; From then until evening keep thfcbi
Absolutely Pur
mat leavening; air
Celebrated for IU
and haaiuruln
rr ite great leavening etfwnirui
iraa. Aaeurea the food analMt
alum and all forma Of dultrrtltioo hoBinioa
to me rbeaubranda. KUTAL.1IAK1NU lOW
DBUCU, New York. . . -
a half times as grtat as ours, andj' l'lces of emolument. They
2.68
$232
Sayings
X little calculation for you. It's
an 'Hustration of what happens
when you bay '
' and the only proof that they're
not $j pants is the $2.J2 in
your pocket
roc sal at
ONEIDA STORE CO.,
Graham, N. C.
tAflTED-AN IDEA
r aee4 1 Pretert JworWnM: thrrmT
riTn tcw write Jiin.i wkudkiv
H K" OK. Pawat AltflTBrrl.
U C far taeat Mu vim. eab
ARE WE TOO POOR TO EDUCATE?
We hear it said that North C'aro-
na is too poor to do more ; that we
re in fact spending as much upon
ur schools in proportion to our
oeans as tho wealthy states "up
N'orth." This statement can be
nadc only by men whoaregnepsing
it what they hare never examined
into, and when only iho wish is
father to the belief that our com- j
iDonwcalth is acting as nobly in her
lbverty as others with more abund
ance. Ihe train is we are taxine
ourselves for schools Icrs in projior
tin to oar means than all the other
states but six Wyoming, Arizona,
Alalwma, Texas, Nevada, New
Mexico. But all these states except
New M xico have income from in-
I vestments, which goes to Uteir
two-thirds of it comes from local
taxes. Arkansas' school term is
nearly twice ss long as ours.
None of the following states are so
thickly settled as North Carolina
and they raie all, or nearly all, their
school hinds by local taxes, and all
have an average school term of from
five to eight months: North Da
kota, South Dakota, Montana, Wis
consin, Wyoming, Florida, Minne
sota, Louisiana - - -
Compared with other states south
and west North Carolina is well
populated. Scarcity of population
cannot excuse our illiterate condi
tion.
THE NXT.RO L XO EXCISE.
Nor can we plead the negro as an
excuse, ceven states rwutn Caro
lina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Geor
gia, Florida, Virginia, Alabama
hare a larger share of negro popula
tion than North CaroIiruvand they j
all bate larger "clwail term than
ours, ami all but Alabama hare a
heavier school tax. Georgia has
800,000 more negroes than North
Carolina and a avhoo) term ten weeks
longer. Mrjdnia has 75,000 more
i scho J fund, and amounts in some
aae to as much as the tax collected.
Twenty-three states, including Ken
ucky, Arkansas and .Mississippi,
hare over twice as heavy a echoul
ax a North taioliua. 1
negroes than North Carolina and a
school terra twice as long and a
school tax nearly twice as great as
ours. .
r. fxnnx or efsrrfir
Muaisiiii U a poorer sUU tbau
may sweat and scak and sweat dur
ing every campaign ; but when
comes to appointment to important
places the Republican memory
just as treacherous towards colored
men as is the Democratic memory.
Here and there a colored man get
elected to some county office ; some
times they get to Ihi legislature
and one in the whole nation last
year succeeded in getting to Con
grras; but ordinarily tho colored
race ays a thousand prices for every
office it gets,
-Their remuneration is not half
worth their effort, time and oilier
txpenditures ; and their great long
ing for office and craze for "repre
scntatation" have much to do to
wards keeping them poor and shift
less.
It would be much Letter for the
race as a whole if LI try would let
politics alone for alwut fifty years
and go to work lor themselves in
earnest and make for themselves
foundation on men to stand as
citizens.
John Griffin, of Zanrerille, Ohio,
says: "I never lived a day for thirty
years without sufferinsr agony until
a. box of Witch Hazel Salve cured
my piles." For piles and rectal
troublf-s, cuts, tff-uiaes, sprains, ec-fc-trta
and all skin trouble DeWltt's
Witch Hat I Halve i urtequalled.
Suuomsu the Druggist. a
Fara
Philadelphia Record.
Unclean seed has more to do with
the distribution of weeds than all
other causes combined. These are
brought uKn our farms in garden
and field seeds from foreign coun
tries. Russian flaxseed is responsi-
sible for the introduction of the Rus
sian thistle, which first appeared
upon a single farm and now covers
I over forty thousand square miles in
the United States. Alfalfa, beet,
tumip and other field and garden
seeds importer! from Europe are the
potent cause for the contaminatioi
of our lands with farm weeds. Nor
are the farmers of this country stall
particular in saving their seeds,
fields containing weeds often beini;
set apart for seed crops, insuring
the foulest seeds in many cases.
And then in the purchase of seeds
the farmer is not careful to buy pure
seed only, but plants whatever the
dealer offer him. Until these
methods are done away with we
roust expect to have new pernicious
weeds constantly appearing among
our crops.
Tlie wheat field after harvest may
be glvenlup to sheep and oultry..
Sheep will do excellent service in
destroying young weeds as fast as
they shoot up oUtof tho ground,
hiiu .in uiuiu win inj Hivrc ur icsi
train left on the ground the fowls
will utilize it
It is better to defer trimming
trees until fall tlian to do so now,
as there will be less liability of injury
after the sap begins to go down.
Summer pruning of jieach trees
is recommended by many advanced
orchard ists. . It should le remem
bered that peach buds live but two
years, and the utmost care should
1)0 token, therefore, not to so trim
the trees as to preclude the possi
bility of bearing from a dearth of
buds. -A careful system of pinch
ing back in summer from the early
growth of the tree will generally
effect good results in keeping the
tree near the ground and well sup
plied with good, strong branches
aide to lear and properly mature a
heary weight of superior fruit
They don't make much fuss
alaiut it" We are sinking of De-
Witt's little Early Ki-era, the fa
mous little pills for const ioat ion. Wl
iousnex and all stomach and fircr
troubles. They never gripe. Sim
mons the Druggist
food.
Ten months in the year is usual
ly the highest limit of time during
which a hen will lay.
r Ten hens with one male is about
the proper proportion.
Ten quarts of corn or its eqtlU
valent should feed a hen two weeks,
if she is of a large breed, but ten
quarts, in three months is about a
fairer proportion.
Ten pounds is a good weight for
males of the larger breeds, ono year
old.
Ten eggs is the average number to come and go at will.
each pound. season's pullets are
Ten flocks, each consisting of ten
hens, are enough Ibr an acre.'
Ten chicks, when just harched,
weigh aliout one pound.
Ten hens should lily about 1,000
eggs during the year. This allows
for some laying more than 100 eggs
each, while others may not lay so
many.
busy scratching for wheat thrown
in lifer.
A littlo oli meal rriixed with tb
morning meal every other day will
greatly facilitate the moulting. Add
a few drops of Douglea. rhlxture to
the drinking water, and see to it
plenty of shade is provided.
Guard the fowls carefully during
rainy weather, and do not under
any circumstances allow tHerii to re
main out At niglit. If the house
appears too hot, opens the doors ami
windows, and leave them free t
Most of ibis
late hatchesi
therefore those who are lucky
enough to get the old hens to laying
early, will find good prices and
ready salesi
You may hunt tne world brr -
and you will not find ariothef modi-
cine equal to Chamberlain's Coli(
Choleiaand Diarrhoea Kelnedy far
howl conlplnlrits. It is pleasant;
safe and reliable. For sale by T; A;
Albright & Co
Asheviile iiad a dog show in tit
nection with a bazar recently, and
the Citizen says it was a bowling
success;
Subscribe for The Gleaner, only
; Vl.oU a year in advance.
! i sssaa-aj
I t't i .1 ii . If.' nili
I ii nun iii iirrai i a iini iimrv.uk
AP Hmniitk Klifti.it in fit! anvtttivM.
September. Fowls with free range j in tIl9 Bftrber ft'fri will do wolj
seem to gather exactly " what is -to call at my shop in the Vestal
needed to promote tho new growth ' Building. ovcrT. A. Albright's drug
of feathers, and many pass through ' Btore- M7 8hol w
the period so easily that the change j rerJr PI'tnt
The Moulting Meaaon.
W. H. Cam born, id Home and Farm.
During July and August . the
fowls, if in healthful condition, will
begin to moult, and much of the
fall and winter's success will depend
on the care shown (lUring this time.
With prnjier attention they may be
carried safely through the trying
time is from sixty to seventy daysi
and should be in condition to shell
out eggs by the first or middle
is scarcely perceptible.
Not so though with those that are rTtlj a 1 TTtilTTATiai4Tr
denied their freedom. v w"Awi T
The terrible strain on the system1 . .7T7T' , . ,0 .
.. . ... i ii- 47 Teachers, 413 Students, (Sum-;
must be met with most favorable mer gchool ir,8) Totill 541, Wnj
care and attention, otherwise th $3 a month', 3 Brief Courses, 3 Full
birds will begin the winter season Courses, Law and Medical Schools'
with onlr a nartial coat of feathers, and School of Pharmacy. Graduate
and
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evcil
1 only a jairtial coat or feathers, I an" ocnooi 01 1 riarmacy. urauuaie
are sure to furnish ntf epjrs, 1 "f" to Wji, Summer'
. .. .. . .. School for lenchcrs, Scholarships?
1 should they live through the ,nd fl,r vlv. '
cold months of December and Jan
uary. Do not wait until the old plum
ago begins to fall out. Begin now
and feed just what is needed for this
one special purpose. Tor the morn
ing feed a pronrtion of wheat bran
and corn meal, about two parts of
the former to one of the latter;
slightly scalded, and made into a stiff
dough. Not a full feed, but just
sufficient to allay tho hunger.
and Loans for tho Needy.
Address,
President Alderman, .
June 10-6t. Chapel Hill, N. C
Wanted-An Idea
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TONHOK1AU
When you want a nice hair-cut
or sliafe, call on me. My shop is
at the southeast corner of Court
House Square.
Ellis HraroavE.
p.j ti.: iu -ey
urn mi!) uuii cs3
The burden of labor is constantly
being lightened by new inventions.
but walling new has yet Iwrn dis
covered to brighten the hours taf
labor and make life worth living like
Simmons liver Regulator if-vs.
It's the King of liver Medidr.r.
luorish liver depresses one's
iiirit and rauscs bnguor, besides
upsetting the wmae system But
Simmons liver Iteuulator tones up
and iCrengtbeu Ibe body.
We xiish to become personally acquainted with every mar
young and old, who buys bis clothes in Greensboro. We are iH
the clothing business and must have your support if we succeed.
We are confident that if you will give us a trial we will make el
cu .tomer of you. Our expenses are small, onr stock is nil new. we"
make no bad debts, we do business 00 our own capital, bene wi
can sell you
GOODS FOK LESS MONEY
than any other bouse not similarly situated. As a mea'ns of adV
vertising, and to induce you to give us a call, we will
Givo You ii 5 per cent. Discount Ii l
on any purchase you Make of as ; provided yon present this ad -vert
ie men t. la order to prove to yon that we will not take aajr
advantage of you, yoo may present the advertisement after yon
have made your purchase.
MATTHEWS, GIIISIIOUJ & STROUD,
Leading Low-Priced Clothiers.
Lock Box 1 1 7. GREENSBORO. N. C.
SxiXfUiX :-Jolm W. Crawfcd, Jhn F.Shaw, Will II. Kees,
WILL IL MATTHEWS, Manager.
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