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STATE NORMAL COLLEGE. Something About This North Carolina Institution for f Young Ladies. The followibi Is taken from the Gal veston, Texas. Daily News, of 8atur: day, March 18th, last : l..r z l4llas, Texas. March 16, 1899.-(To the News.) The accompanying extract from the report of President Charles D, Mclver to the board of directors of the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College for girls and young women shows what has been accomplished by that Institution. The similarity of the educational, social and economical conditions of Texas to those of North Carolina make the facts stated In this report an unanswerable argument in faTor of the establishment by the legislature of Texas of an Indus trial school for our. girls.- In view of the well nigh universal interest felt in the success of Hon. V. W. GrubbsV ef forts in behalf o the girls of Texas I suggest that you publish the accom panying extract in the News. The ex tract is from pages 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24 of the board of directors of the State Normal and Industrial College of North Carolina for the school years ending September 30, 1898. Very respectfully, E. M.Pace.. The News reproduces the extract from President Mclver's report referr ed to by Mr. Pace in the foregoing communication : 11. Of the 118 young women who have received the college diploma dur ing the past six years, all but sir have taught since their graduation. 12. About 100 graduates of other colleges have been among the students of the State Normal and Industrial Colleger These students usually come for special work in the normal depart ment or some industrial department. 13. There is no section of the State and no kind of educational institution requiring women teachers with ordina ry professional training, from the coun try public school to our best colleges, nhftra at tid n ta trained at the State Normal and Industrial College have not been employed. Of course the lar gest class of teachers trained' by the in stitution have gone to the country public and private schools and, these can be numbered by the hundred. It is a notable fact, however, that every city public school system of the State, from Asheville to Wilmington, has given employment to our students. More than sixty have been employed within the past five years in the public schools of Asheville, ShelbyfStatesvule, Charlotte, Salisbury, High Point, Greensboro, Mount Airy, Winston, Beldsville, Durham, Raleigh, Golds- boro, Wilson, Tarboro and Wilming ton. Four of the six orphanages in this State and several prominent colleges for women, also number among their faonllies ex-students of the State Nor Noraial and Industrial College. 14. A large number of young women trained in the commercial department have been enabled to earn, salaries ranging from $250 to $1200 a year as stenographes, bookkeepers and in kin dred employment. Some have 'secured lucrative government positions by com petitive civil service examinations. "Fnr thft naftt fnnr nr Ava -unarm the proceedings of the North Carolina Med ical convention, the 8tate Firemen's Association and the North Carolina Tea o hers Assembly have been reported. Kiv itannemnhAn train a1 at thn 2 a n a ( - - w Normal and Industrial College. 15. About twenty students each year earn their board and laundry by caring for the dining-room. No servants do l J l FY! At care for it in the forenoon and ten in the afternoon. They all do their col lege work when not engaged in the dining-room. . 16. A student who shows good abili ty or special merit is rarely allowed to discontinue hercourse for want of means. The two literary ocieties, the Alamnae Association, the Woman's Educational Club and a few friends of the institution, who have established small loan funds, lend money without Interest for a reasonable length of time to as many as poesidle of the worthy applicants for aid. In each of the last five graduating classes students were so aided. . - 17. Of the 118 graduates, twenty at the institution since their gradua tion. : 18. In addition to work done by the faculty at the college, considerable work, especially in pedagogics and in the commercial course, is done by cor respondence. Forty-four people re ceived instruction in this manner dur ing the year. Moreover, certain mem bers of thft fmiltir frns4iit Ut l . -' 'j vvuuuv icakucia iii- stitutes in countie in every part of the State during the summer vacation, receiving no extra compensation for this labor. . 19. The State Normal and Indus trial College stands for a publio educa tional system that will educate all the people. It teaches its students and urges them to teach others the doo- trlriA nf nnirortol A r y . mi authorities of the institution regard the college as a part of the public school system of the 8tate and believe that it has a duty to discharge, not only to those who -studywithin its walls, but to tlat great body of people who, for one reason or another, will not enter this or any other school or college. The greatest amount of edu cational opportunity to the greatest number of people Is its motto and its aim. Without reservation members of its faculty stand for local taxation for pnblle schools and for every move ment which tends to secure to the State effective teaching for every child, preparing him for productive labor and intelligent citizenship. " 20. This institution undertakes io empbasfxe In every legitimate way that any system of education which re-! fuses to recognize the equal educa tional rights of women Is unjust, un wise and permanently hurtful. It Is the privilege and duty of your board to lead the educational thought of North Carolina inthis direction. . , j I respectfully submit that there is no part of North Carolina's public edu cational system from' which. , she, can expect more in proportion to what she has expended than she may reasonably hope to 'reap from the work of, this colleger As you know, It Is the only college In North Carolina for women of the white race, which has an appro nrintfnn from the State and no woman college has a large endowment fnnd. lation is composed of-women and girls of the white race and the opportuni ties given to this class of our popula tion will determine North Carolina's destiny. The chief factors ? of any civilization are its homes and Its primary schools. Homes and primary schools are made by women rather than! by men. No State which will once educate its mothers need have any fear about its future illitera cy. An educated man may be the father of illiterate children, but the children of educated women are never illiterate. -Three-fouths of all the edu cated women In North Carolina spend a part of each day educating their own children or the children of others, whereas, three fourths of the educated men in the State spend a very short time daily with their own children, to say nothing of educating them. j; Money invested in the education o! a man Is a, good investment, but the dividend vjbich it yields is frequently confined to one generation and is of the material kind. It strengthens his judgment, gives, him foresight and makes him a more productive laborer in any field of activity. It does the same thing for m woman, but her field of activity is usually in company with children, and, therefore, the money in vested In the education of a woman yields a better educational dividend than that invested in the education of a man. My contention, therefore,! Is that the State, for the sake of its pres ent and future educational interest, ought to decree that for every dollar spent by the government, State or Federal, in the training Of men at least another dollar ought to be In vested in the work of educating wo mankind. . , It is claimed that woman is weaker than man, then so much the more reason for giving her at least an equal educational opportunity with him. If it be admitted, 3s it must be, that she ia by nature the chief educator of chil dren, her proper training Is the strate gic point in the universal education of any race. If equality in culture be desirable, and if congeniality between husbands and wives after middle life be important, then a woman should have more educational opportunities in youth than a man ; for a man's bus iness relations bring him in contact with' every element of society, and if he have fair native intelligence, he will continue to grow intellectually during the active period of his life ; whereas, the confinements of home and the duties of motherhood allow little opportunity to a woman ior any culture except that which cornea from living with little children. 1 This experience which comes from living with innocent children is: a source of culture by no means to be despised, but how much better ! it would be for the mother and the father and the children if the mother's education in her youth could always be such as will enable her in after life to secure that inspiration and solace and power which come from familiari ty with the great books of the world, which are to-day a possible possession in every home. 1 - Murder at Ash-pole Church. I Last Friday morning a negro man who had been murdered was found lying at the door of the Ash pole Presbyterian church. He had been shot and clubbed in a terrible manner and subsequently investi gation showed that he had been murdered in the swamp near by and dragged to the door of the church. A certain negro woman living at Ashpole was, at the time, cooking for Key. Mr. Craig, pastor of the church. Failing to come on time that morning, Mr. Craig went to her house to see what detained her. Upon his arrival he found her asleep, under the bed and her cloth ing and the floor stained with blood. She was placed under arrest, but positively refused . to make : any statement. The presumption lis that -she and a negro man com mitted the murder. Laurinburg Exchange. j What the Nicaragua Canal Means. The distance from San Francisco to New Orleans around Cape Horn is 13,052 sea miles, but through the Nicaraguan Canal it would be 4,04 7S miles, or a difference of no less than 9,005 miles. From San Fran cisco to New York around Cape Horn is 14,840 miles, but by-way of the fccanal, 4,760 miles, a differ ence of 10,080 miles From San Francisco to Liverpool around Cape Horn, 14.690 miles: through the Nicaraguan Canal, 7,508 miles, or a difference of 7,182 miles. I ' ' - J " ' . ' " ' J i 'f ' I ' I Was reading an tvorMiAmanf t Chamberlain's Cellc, Cholera and Diar rhoea Remedy in the Worcester Ed ter Pfjse recently, which leads me U write this. X can truthfully say I never used any rcmedtr nni t it f it dlarrhosa. I have never had to use mors than one or two doses to cure tho worst case with myself r chlldren. W. A. Stroud. PonomV f!!tv IM TV Ml.b7CE.IIolton. copper Lanza at gold hill. The Mine to Be Worked by a Com pany With, $3,000,000 Capital, j Salisbury is on a tear. She is all: excitement over . the discovery of a Gne vein of copper ore at the Gold Hill mine property, about fif-i teen mile from here. - And if Salis bury does not become one of the greatest mining centers of the world, it will not be the fault of Messrs.' J. J.Newman, of Salisbury, and Walter George Newman, of NewYork.r Both claim that tho vein of copper ore at Gold Hill will make the state famous as a copper producing state. v For years and years Mr. J. J, Newman has written articles in Northern and Southern newspapers and trade journals proclaiming his belief and faith in the old Union mine ac Gold Hill as a copper pro ducing mine. I His appeals V were read and laughed at, his theories were ridiculed and he was looked upon as a crank, a false prophet and a fakir. But he never faltered in his efforts to interest men of capi tal; nor did he for one minute lose faith in his theory, i For. sixteen years he has watched over the mine,' hid only interest being that of a mining engineer. . In 1840 the old Union Mine was worked for gold. It was just after the time Gold Hill was first discov ered. The mine was worked until iron pyrites and copper ores began to flow in so heavily that the gold could not be saved. Then it was abandoned as a gold mine. About 1861 It was worked a few months as a copper mine. But the war be tween the states and a fall in the price of copper caused the. work to stop; At that time a Baltimore company owned the property. The same company kept it up until De cember 31, 1898, when W. G. New man, against the protest of all his business friends and mining ex perts, bought the vein for $25,000 and began to clean out the shaft and prepare to work the mine. He was willing to risk , his money on his brother's judgment. The work has been pushed rapidly on since the trade was made and now Mr. J. J. Newman claims that all his hopes have been realized. When the workmen got 150 feet below the: surface they found, Mr. Newman claims, a very fine vein from 75 to 100 feet thiok, showing native cop per in a burst of the vein 60 feet high and more than 50 feet across.1 The ore is fine quality and will yield 1,000 pounds of native copper to the ton of ore. ; Mr J. j. New-! man says now that everyone is will ing to admit that he knew what he was talking about and doing. Prof J Carmichael, a confidential expert of the Calumet and Hecla mine,' the richest copper mine in the world, has just left here. He and other experts from the East and West have told Mr. Newman and others that any wild or visionary statements that had been made about the mine are more than veri fied by the copper ore now being taken from the mine daily. Sever al weeks ago when the bottom of the shaft was reached, copper was found hanging on the sides of the shaft and in the cracks in the tim bers used for Various purposes. The copper bad been precipitated and leaked out of the quartz. Since as the work has proceeded,' copper has been found in all of its forms. The dip of the vein is almost verti cals In the property of the Union mine there are 450 acres." .' The concern that recently bought it is styled the Union Copper Min ing Company chartered in New Jersey and capitalized at $3,000, 000. Mr. Walter George Newman is president of the concern. He is a Wall street broker. The directors are: Walter George Newman, Hon. William B. Butler, of Boston, Mass., President- of the Massachusetts Senate and attorney for the Stand ard Oil Company ; James Phillips, Jr., of Boston, president of the Wool Trust, and promoter and owner of the billion dollar copper trust; Lieutenant Governor Crane, of j Massachusetts; J. J. Newman and other large capitalists. , j Mr. W. G. and Mr. J. J. Newman own the Gold Hill and Honeycutt mines, at Gold Hill, and with the above mentioned gentlemen have formed the United Mining, Devel oping and Construction Company, under a charter granted by the last legislature of this state, with a cap ital stock of $250,000,000. V Besides they own 12,000 acres of land ad joining the property. The concerns are going to put in a complete outfit of mining ma chinery to smelt and refine the cop per at the mine. I These same gentlemen will orga nize during this'month a loan and trust company for banking pur poses.''.' ;r ' ' v; The above story was given me by one of the gentlemen interested in that stupendous enterprise. It is to be hoped that all of his predic tions will be realized. North Car olina can stand just such prosperi ty. Staff- correspondence Char lotte Observer. A Religious Paper on Good Boada. The following extract from an editorial in last week's Issue of the North Carolina Christian Advocate is sound sense: ! "The winter of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine will long be me morable in our history, j Neither city nor country people will soon forget it. The intensely cold weather, the heavy freezes and, the abundance of ice and snow; but above all will be remembered the almost impassable roads, j jj MFor two months people who were obliged to travel through the country in middle and western North Carolina found it necessary to trudge through mud up to the axles of their vehicles, while the horses struggled to keep from mir ing and fallings j i ''What it has cost the people fin ancially can never be estimated, but we are quite sure if the damage done vehicles and animals, with the losses caused by travel being sus pended and delays, enforced, could be accurately computed, and that amount had been spent last summer for wisely directed road' Improve ments, we would today have a very different state of things with very little additional cost. 1 1 'Among the many economic and material problems now pressing for solution, there are none j of more importance to the country and to the whole, people than tho road problem. Every good citizen ought to begin now and continue to agi tate this question until a great rev- oiution is caused, and until every oounty adopts a measure similar to the Mecklenburg county road law, and all needed facilities j are sup plied for carrying out fully all its provisions. Such a policy will prove a paying investment at any reasonable cost. It will open up the country, enhance the i value of lands, bring much now undesirable property into market, and greatly increase travel by private and pub lic conveyances." "A word to the wise is sufficient" and a word from the wise should! be suffi cient, but you ask, who are the wise? Those who know. Tho oft! repeated experience of trustworthy persons may be taken for knowledge. Mr. W. M. Terry says Chamberlain's Cough Rem edy gives better satisfaction than any other In the market. He has been In the drug business at Elkton, KyM for twelve years; has sold hundreds ! of bottles of this remedy and nearly all other cough medicines manufactured, wnicn snows conclusively that Cham berlain's is tho most satisfactory to the people, and is the best. For sale by C. Is. Holtou. X ' He Wants Boberts Expelled. Dr. Thomas C. II iff, of Salt Lake City, addressed the Methodist preachers' weekly meeting in this oity today on "The Present Situa tion in Utah." He has been su perintendent of the Methodist mis- sion in utan lor zp years Dr. II iff is making his present trip as the chairman of a committee rep resenting the evangelical churches of Utah, members of which are prying to prevent the admission to the House of Representatives of Brigham H. Boberts. In the course of his address Dr. Iliff said : "If Brigham H. Roberts is per mitted to sit in Congress it will be interpreted in every Mormon ham let as the fulfillment of Brigham Young's prophecy, and also as na tionalizing polygamy. The Mor-I mons will redouble their energies. Already they may be said to hold the balance of power in Idaho and Wyoming, and they are very strong in JHevaaa. Arizona anu in bouiq- west Colorado. I ! : "We ask that Congress shall ex pel Roberts. At first we petitioned that he be not received, but afterj conferring with Senator JEdmunds and others we think that the proper procedure is to expel him." New York Dispatch. ; t Late to bed and early to rite, pre pares a man for his home in the skies. But early to bed and a Little Karly Riser, the pill that makes life longer and better and wiser. Howard Gardner, To Extend a Tennessee Railroad. Contractors have begun work on a twenty-eight-mile extention oi the Bristol and Elizabethton Rail, way from Elizabethton to Moun tain City, Tenn. It is also stated I that the same company will build a road from Cranberry to Lincoln ton, N. C, a distance of sixty miles Some Women Doubt Many women think the bearing of chil dren is a necessary period of great pain and distress. They doubt whether any medicine can relieve their sufferings. Veil may they hesitate about taking those injurious internal mixtures so widely sold. But they may place Implicit faith Jn j J JS jt MOTHER'S FRIEND ! - . . . ... . , . . , 1 which is a softening, relaxing and sooth ing liniment for external use.. Doubting women should get a bottle at the drug store for 51, and test it. There Is no possibility of its doing harm, and there is every likelihood of its saving them many Honrs 01 pain, j n J J fl jt THE BRAD FIELD REGULATOR 00. r r ISrsTcvvU ; Iatw tckAc of tb worMi bnt demnser S QcSA for a nJckeL Still jrrter economy in 4-poand V I I P K fef nXC"-f A. ! lctS. Ancrocer. lmd only by 04J L JilMl 11111 VlUkilT I THEf W. K. PAmilANIf COMPACT. 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