Too Many Ologies in School
The Washington Post puts a yol
ume of much-needed wisdom in
this short paragraph:
The average boy or girl has no
use whatever for geometry, algebra,
chemistry, physical geography er
ancient history as studied in the
average public school. It is of the
utmost importance that he should
know thoroughly the principal rules
of arithmetic, should bejible to
spell correctly, write a good hand
and read and speak without mis
prdnouncing words."
An assembly of the teachers of
the state will meet soon in their
annual summer gatherings," at
which discussions of important
subjects touching school interests
in the state will be indulged in.
There is not a subject proposed or
yet thought of, so far as announce
ments have been made, more worthy
the serious consideration' of the
teachers than this trend to cram
the public and the graded schools
with those higher studies, which
ought to be confined to higher
0hrn1o nnrT mllecres. and in tool
BWUWaw . 0
many instances with cranky meth
ods, and "sciences" which, in their
preparation lor tne consumption
of the young folks, are more sick
ening than; sensible or useful, ev
en after they shall have been me
ohanically "gone over."
We do not violate the truth, we
dare say, in stating that tur public
schools are growing too rapidly to
be the dumping-grounds for book
and "chart" publishers and manu
facturers of kindrad odds and ends.
A book on "hygiene" must - be
used, when a bath-tub and some
soap and a towel applied daily an
hour being specially set apart for
it as a daily duty would do more
real good in" one week than the
book would do in a year. The Con
stitution of the United States and
of the state must-be "taught" to
those "helpless, inoffensive pupils,
when we see the Supreme court of
the United States, composed of old
men, "learned" in thelaw, reversing
itself within twenty-four hours on
the constitutionality of a tax on in
comes; and the Supreme court of
North. Carolina- perspiring great
globules ot anxiety over the con
stitutionality of the action of an
other co-ordinate branch of this
great people's government in the
appointment of an overseer of the
public buildings and grounds and
servants employed therein.
These "charts" are said to have
cost the people of the state some
thing near $300,000 within the past
two years, when a look at some of
them would painfully, suggest to
over-indulgent grown folks that a
case of delirium tremens was dan
gerously near their immediate tab
ernacle. In all seriousness, this question
of school instruction, and school
methods, with the. new innovations,
are calling for the best thought
and judgment of those who hate to
do with the matter, in addition to
the taxpayers. Reform in this de
partment of our social government
is sadly needed ; and we call the at
tention of the teachers, soon to as
semble, to these thoughts on this
important subject. Raleigh Post
North Carolina Teachers' Assembly,
The 16th annual" session of the
North Carolina Teachers' Assembly
will be held at Morehead City,
N. C., June 13th to 18th, this year.
a nrnorramme of unusual interest
is ready, and a handsome 16 page
folder will be mailed to; all the
schools of the State, and to all wha
xr annlc for it. The railroad
rates for this occasion will be one-
half and even less,and the elegant
Atlantic Hotel at Morehead hat
morlp. nnoeial rate to all who
attonrl nf nne dollar Der day. The
regular hotel rate there is three
dollars per day. "A Teachers'
Bureau" will be run in connection
with the meeting this year offering
an opportunity to all whojiesire to
secure better positions, and change
nf Watinns. This will be free to
those who attend. Every effort
will be made to make this the
greatest professional gathering of
teachers held in the Seuth' tbis
year. Many leading teachers from
beyond our borders have already
written that they will be present
The social and recreation features
will be of the best.
All North Carolina teachers and
their friends should not fail to
attend: all others who desire to
visit the seaside this year will find
this the best opportunity they will
have, both as to cost and enjoy
ment. The officers of the Assembly
extend a cordial invitation to, the
public generally to join them in
this great gathering of the teach
ing profession in North Carolina.
Accommodations will be arranged
for two thousand people. The
Secretary this year is W. T. Whit
settr Whitsett, N. C, from whom
copies of the Assembly folder may
be had. He will also b& glad to
furnish any additional information
at any time. The Assembly will
as usual make special arrange
ments for ladies who desire to
attend. Chaperones will be pro
vided for all occasions. No ex
pense or pains will be spared to
make this the best gathering yet
held, !
The State Superintendent of
Public Instruction has . issued an
official letter . urging all teachers,
school officials and friends of edu
cation generally, to attend this
great meeting. '. v jj
Our Dwindling Timber Supply.
The shortage of the timber
supply in, the forests of the United
States is not a matter , of guess
wora. we nave so reduced our
weoded areas that the question of
future supply and the means of re
production and replenishment must
be seriously considered. Even the
great forests of the Dominion must
dwindle before Continental de
mand. The supply is not measure
less. A late report of the United
States Consul General at Montreal
on the Canadian lumber output
enters into detail. It shows that
Ontario has 102,118 square miles
of woodlands Quebec 116,521,
lintish Columbia 285,554, the
Northwest Territories 696,952, and
the remainder of Canada enough to
mafce a total of 1,248,798 square
miles. The quantity of white pine
in Ontario is estimated at 19,404,
000,000 board feet, in Quebec at
15,734,000,000, and in other provin
ces at 2,200,000,000. Some of the
best cedar areas are north of New
Brunswick. British Columbia
contains the largest compact timber
area in the world.
Two hundred years ago we began
the attack on a breadth of forests
quite as extensive, and it must be
remembered that as the trees have
gone their destroyers have multi
plied. Many old soldiers now feel the effects
of the hard service they endured dur
ing the war. Mr. Geo. S. Anderson, of
Ks8ville,York county, Penn., who saw
the hardest kind of service atthe front,
is now frequently troubled with rheu
matism. -I had a severe attack lately,"
he says, "and procured a bottle of
Chatnbenain's Pain Balm. It did so
much eood that I'wouM in- f vnA
wnat you would charge me for one
dezen bottles." Mr. Anderson wanted
it both for his own use and to supply
it to his friends and neighbors, as every
family should have a bottle of it in
their home, not only for rheumatism,
but lame back, sprains, swellings, cuts!
bruises and burns, for which it Is un
equalled. For sale by C. E. Holton.
The Biblo and Early Rising.
Dorothy Drew, Mr. Gladstone's
little granddaughter, according to
the Young Woman, one morning at
Ha warden, refused to get - up.
When all othei means had failed
to coax her out of bed her. grand
father was called. . "Why won't
you get -up my child?" he said.
"Why, grandfather, didn't you
tell me to do what the Bible says?'
asked Dorothy. "Yes,, certainly.''
"Well, it disapproves of early ris
ing; says its a waste of time."
Mr. Gladstone knew his Bible
better than most men, but he was
not equal to Dorothy. For once
in his life he was nonplussed as to
his scriptural knowledge. "You
listen, then," went on Dorothy in
reply to his exclamation. of aston
ishment, and, turning up the Bible,
she read the second verse of the
one hundred and twenty-seventh
Psalm, laying great emphasis on
the first-words, "It is vain for you
to rise up early."
Rudyard Kipling had an experi
ence of his own with the same girl
one day when he was on a visit at
Hawarden. Being left alone with
Dorothy by her mother, the poet
jexerted himself to entertain his
little companion as well as possible.
Upon Mrs. Drew's returning and
asking Dorothy whether she had
not bored Mr. Kipling, Gladstone's
grandchild replied: "No, but he
did me."
A Touching Soene.
There was a touching and pa
thetic scene enacted last . Wednes
day on the battlefield of Chancel-
lorsville, Va. The occasion was
the dedication of a monument to
the members of theH4th Penn
sylvania Regiment who lost their
lives in that battle. - This regi
ment, which was under the com
mand of Gen. W. H. T. Collis, lost
in the dashing attack made upon
the Union forces by the Confed
erates, under command of Gen.
Stonewall Jackson, 38 killed and
200 wounded out of 400 men taken
into action, being a loss in killde
and wounded of nearly 60 per cent
Before an eloquent dedicatory
address by General Collis, the
Union veterans present proceeded
to the monument of - Stonewall
Jackson, near by, and placed upon
it a beautiful wreath of flowers.
General Collis paid a splendid
tribute to General Jackson as a
Christian gentleman and a soldier,
and the Union veterans gave three
rousing cheers for the Southern
hero. The incident was in the
highest decree creditable to the
gallant Pennsylvanians. Balti
more Sun. -
Discipline; of the Wood-Pile. llonnon Senator a Mother.
Every human male man, wha State Senator Mattie Hughes
possesses even a lingering taint of Cannon, who received votes of sev
temper, should keep an axe and a eral of her fellow legislators for the
wood-pile handy, that he may rush high position of United States Sen1,
out and work off his wrath when it ator, has demonstrated to jthe antit
jwaxes fierce. There is nothing in polygamists that Mormons can
this vain old world that wilt send practice polygamy. Last Saturday
a man back to his appointed work she presented her husband, Presi
with a wilted collar and truer ap- dent Angus M. Cannon, with a Jit
prehension of himself tbanj thirty tie daughter. - j j
minutes' wrestling with f a full- She is the fourth wife of the
flavored axe. He can use it so great ecclesiastic, the three former
fiercely in the wood. All the fury ones being alive, her husband hav
bf his nature, all the hate he feels ing six wives is all. j I
tor his enemy, he can infuse into Dr. Mattie Hughes, as her pro
the axe-handle; and how. the chips fessional sign reads, is the most
will fly! Not even artistically, prominent woman,1 politically,! in
probably, but they will-fly. And Utah. She has served the state for
presently it dawns upon the man two terms as 'senator, and during
that he is feeling more calm. Evi- the session just adjourned occupied
dently he is experiencing a change her seat every day and voted for
of heart. Ho does not hate his the millionaire candidate, A. M.
enemy at all. He changes Ms McUune. Toward the close of the
stroke, and begins to chop on the term she talked of taking a trip to
Italian system of penmanship the Honolulu, for her health, and three
up strokes heavy and the down rweeks later notified her friends that
Strokes light. At last he puts all she was about to leave for San
his failing strength in one terrific Francisco.
blow. He misses to tip with the I Her plans miscarried,1 and she
axe, and smites the chopping block found it impossible to go into hid
with the handle. A tingle as ding.- Her -little girl was born
though he had swallowed ah alarm right here in Salt Lake City. The
clock goes from elbow to hip and story became public, and President
back again, the axe drops from his Angus M. Cannon is receiving con
powerful nands, and a limp, nerve- gratulations of his friends.
less, perspiring, trembling, gasping There is a , great indignation
thing, he staggers to the house, breaking out all over the state,! as
lies down on the first thing that one prominent church official after
looks like a lounge, and is ready to I the other comes out in this bare
die. There isn't a fear or a fault faced way and serves notice that
in his heart. Death has no terrors, be intends to live his religion.
and life has no temptations cor bait Lake Dispatch.
him. He has chopped out all his
baser nature, and he is lust as John Fisher was placed in the
ethereal and spiritual as he can be penitentiary last week to serve flf-
on this side of Jordan. It is-a
great medicine. Burdette.
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New Editions of the New Testament.
There will soon be on the market
The Marked New Testament," an
edition of the authorized version in
which certain passages are under
scored, and certain others, consid
ered still more important,' will be
brought out by wHe lines of red
ink. The author of the idea of the
construction of the new edition is
Mrs. Stephen Menzies. The par
ticular markings made by Mrs.
Menzies have been submitted to
and approved by fourteen clergy
men of England and an equal num
ber in the United States represent
ing the evangelical denominations.
The line of Biblical thought fol
lowed by Dwight L. Moody has
been followed, and.it has his in
dorsement. ! These emphatic marks have been,
placed against 200 passages, with
the view of presenting what is
called "Christ's plan of salvation."
All controversial doctrines are
sought to be avoided. Another
novelty is to be called the "Twen
tieth Century Testament." The
editor is W. T. Stead, of London,
who will be assisted by William
Hudson Harper, of the University
of Chicago. It is to be rewritten
into plain, correct, but vernacular
English.
There Will Be Large Crops.
A dispatch from Americus, Ga.,
says: "Despite the lateness of the
season and unfavorable weather
this spring, farming operations in
this section are well advanced and
the outlook is encouraging. About
the usual acreage is planted in
corn and cotton, and there will be
large crops of both these staples.
Four-cent cotton has few terrors,
however, as the farmers here are
generally well fixed in the way of
supplies. Not in thirty years has
more home-raised corn, hay and
meat been brought in by the far
mers and sold to local merchants,
as in every grocery store here can
be found pyramids of country-
raised bams aud bacons, represent
EUREKA!
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As von travel through southeastern Kan
sas aoout one hundred and twenty -five
mnes bouuj or rope it a and eighty -five
miies east Of Wichita, the hraVeman
Sticks his head in the doorwav and vella :
Yreeky ! " and a couple of minutes later
iac nam puns imo eureka, tne prosperous
county seat of Greenwood County.! j
One of the happy inhabitants of Eureka
is Mrs. Sarah B. Taylor, and the reasons
for her present happiness are set forth in
xne iouowmgr jetter addressed to Dr. R. V.
Pierce, chief consulting physician to the
"Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute."
vi xtunaio, IN. X.
Mrs. Taylor says :
" I had been a sufferer for fifteen years and in
August 1896 was taken with- severe cramping
pain in my stomach. A hard lump about the
size of a goose egg formed in my right side. It
ucrame so sore
I could scarcely
walk about the
house, and I had
no appetite. I
consulted two
of the best doc
tors in town and
they said medi
cine would do
me no good. I
gave up all hope
of ever getting
well again. One
day I thought I
would write to
you telling you
of my condi
tion. You told
me I had en
largement of
one of the lobes
of my liver and
the gall bladder,
and advised me
to take your
Golden Medi
cal Discovery
and Pleasant .
Pellets.' I had not taken more than half a bot
tle of each when I began to feel better, and my
appetite came back, and for a litUe over i year
since, I began to do my work." 1 1
a medicine that cures on rational, scientific
" I consulted two of ths best doc
tort in town. ,i I
. . . , , 4 . principles, it is the discovery of a regu
mg 8 portion OI ine Surplus above larly graduated, practicing physician of
Coughing injures and inflames sore
ungs. One Minute Cough Cure
OOSensthe COld. allavs rnntrhlntr nrt
heals quickly. The best
for. children. Howard
what is needed for home consump
tion. Very little Western corn is
shipped to Americus, as is shown
by railway receipts, and thousands
of bushels could easily be spared
and sold by the prosperous farmers
of Sumter county."
A Baltimore jury has declined
to find a woman guilty or murder
in the first degree, although, it is
said, all the members believed her
guilty, because some of them were
opposed to tne idea or nangmg a
woman. The sentiment against
hanging as a punishment for mur
der is widespread, but as yet no
wholly satisfactory substitute for
it has been proposed.
Well Enough.
Do you love me well enough to
be my wife?' be tenderly asked the
Toledo girl.
j "That's the capacity of your
well?" she inquired, with sudden
seriousness. -
For he was a young oil producer
who had just struck it rich.
high standing. It tones up the stomach.
stimulates the liver and regulates the bow
els. It brings all the digestive organs into
healthy activity. It neutralizes and eradi-j
cates all poisonous, effete matter in the
blood and fills it with the rich, vital, red
corpuscles ot health and vigor. j I
The ' Discovery " is a temperance, medi
cine. It contains no alcohol in any form.
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Tied down tr
housework, to
the scrubbing
brush and
bucket, to the
dish pan and
housecloth, is
the condition
of the woman who still uses soap in
her cleaning. - On the other hand
the woman who uses Gold Dust
has her work all done by noon, Wacflfnrf Di.,,J
does as she pleases in the after- TTaaillliy rOVVUer
noon. With Gold Dust she does her cleaning with half the Vt.J
in half the time and at half the cost as with soap or any S
Cleanser, ror greatest economy uuy uunaxge pacKage.
THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY chiMg suiouis
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for Infants and Children,
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Cantor Oil r
goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is 1m-i ut?
contains neither Opium, Morpliiuo iior otlu-r vVr !
substance. It destroys Worms and allavs 1-YvrriUm c
It cures Piarrluca and Wind Colic. It' relic v! s t,. k
ingr Troubles and cures Constipation. It n-Mii -u.vif
Stomach and Bowels, givintr healthy and naniful
The ChUdren's Panacea The Mother's Friend h
The - Kind Tou Have Always 3ougk
teen months Tor perjury. He
swore in a United States pension
case in tbe Federal Court at .New-
bern that the husband of a woman
i ' . i
wno appneu ior a pension was
dead and that he saw him die, and
also saw him buried. As Fisher
aid these words tbe so-called dead
man walked into the courtroom.
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THt efWTUW COMMWT, TT muiit twcct,
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irw vor otv.
I nave been a sufferer from cbropic
diarrhoea ever since the war and have
used all kinds of medicines for it. At
last I found one remedy, that has been
a success as a cure, and that is Cham
berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy. P. E. Grisham, Ga&rs Mills,
ia. or sale by u..i. Holton.
Robert Gatling, of Raleigh, com-
mitted suicide last week by shoot'
ing himself through the head. He
was twenty-five vears old and had
been in poor health for some time.
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THE GUILFORD ROLLER
! Mr. S. A. Fackler, Editor of the
Micanopy (Fla.) Hostler, with his wife
and children, suffered terribly from
La Grippe. One Minute Cough Cure
was tne only remedy that helped them.
It acted quickly. Thousands of others
use this remedy as a specific for La
Grippe, and its exhausting aftereffects.
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