WHY BOSTON LEADS.
The Importance of Education is Rec-
; ognizea.
On his recent trip through New
England. Prof. MartinH. Holt, of
-nir Ridee Institute, saw and heard
much of interest. The following
letter, which was written by mm
hilfl in Boston to the Raleigh
News andbbserver, contains a few
of his observations: -
"Few North Carolinians visit
Rriflton. It is not in our commer
cial or educational beat, and the
radical differences of opinien be
tween these people and ours on
various subjects, have not made us
break our necks to worship at tne
shrines of her great men. I went
to hear the great Dr. Lorimer (a
Kentuckyian by birth) preacn bun
dayJ The "sermon was great, but
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we could not nair way listen 10 it
for looking at a negro man of tne
missing linlr variety who sat in the
nhnir The few of tnem wno are
in the schools here are general
favorites, we are informed. At one
of the greatest schools inNewEg
land, at the dinner table last week,
. we saw a negro girl sitting between
a young white man and a young
white woman, monopolizing the
conversation of both. r
But notwithstanding these radi
cal differences of opinion on a so
cial question, when we travel
through this poor rocky state, and
see the large number of great
schools, built upon the basis of a
splendid publio school system, wq
no longer wonder at their great su
periority over us educationally and
commercially. When we think of
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natvaiUi x uiia,auiU9tBit 1 1 vuoatvj ,
Smith, Williams, Mt. Holyoke, and
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a score 01 otner colleges lor uutu
sexes, with their thousands upon
thousands of students, the vast
public" libraries of every hamlet,
nillooA fnorn am1 nlftr tltA anlanr)r)
public and private schools, both lit
erary and technical, we may expect
to see trained heads and trained
hands ; we may expect to see man
ufactures, commerce, and we need
not wonder at the fact any longer
that i Massachusetts has given us
the best we have in literature and
mental culture." We looked over
the books on sale by a news boy
upon the cars a day or two since,
and found not a single book which
was not standard literature. La
boring men, clerks, railroad men
have a good book at hand and spend
all their leisure moments reading.
Jjo we wonder that Boston and its
vicinity have produced Longfellow,
Holmes, Lowell, Emerson, Prescott,
Motley and scores of other scarcely
Jeee brilliant in the world of letters?
uWe went to the old State House
yesterday. We -found it full of
statutes, portraits and mementoes
H)f the Otises, Adamses, Franklin,
Hancock, Winthrop, Endicott,
Washington, Webster, Paul Revere,
Warren tind others. All over the
city, in every publio place, stand
monuments to her great colonial
and revolutionary periods. We saw
a hundred monuments today in
Charlestown, in Cambridge, Bed
ford; Lexington and Concord, keep
ing alive' the traditions celebrated
in song and story, of those who
made the first armed resistance to
King Georgs III. "r
"If out of such soil, and breath
ing such an atmosphere, great men
in literature, art, science, politics,
and war did not arise, it would be
unreasonable and unnatural.
The taste of the people is evi
dent in the pictures which adorn
the walls of the homes of the un
pretentious classes. They may be
nothing but prints, but they are the
prints of masterpieces; the pieces
of sculpture may be only plaster,
but they are copies of masterpieces.
With these before th avp nrn afvnll
v J J if
not be surprised to learn that the
beautiful statue of the "Minute
u.iau vuuvuiu uuu(q was toe
work of a Concord boy, Mr. French.
It was Mr; Beechtr who said fifty
years ago: "We must educate or
we must perish." This is what our
state must do, or Massachusetts
and other states will continue to
produce the poets, the philosophers,
the painters and the sculptors. In
the futura An in ttiA rtaat .it
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ous deed of our heroic ancestry
will remain unwritten and unsung,
the niches in our state capitol will
remain unfilled, and the public in
stitutions of our state and gardens
of our cities will still be destitute
of the eloquent voices of bronze
and marble to point out to our
youth that, "The Path of Duty is
the Way to Glory." -
"Prof. Goodwin and I stood to
day in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery at
Concord. Within a radius of fifty
feet slept all that was mortal of
Thoreau, Hawthorne, Emerson and
Louisa M. Alcott. But what an
imnrata nai . -4 - 1 1 1 U l
kucu luiiuuiiai uuuk.0 nave
made upon humanity! To the
north of us the "Minute Man" stood
guard over Concord Bridge, and
the "old Manse" near by, with its
sacred associations of Hawthrone
and Emerson dozed in the mellow
sunlight. On the Lexington road
to the south of us the stately home
of Emerson, the "Orchard House"
home of "Little Women,' and the
"Wayside," home of Hawthorne,
surrounded with a halo of sacred
memories of the great souls who
once occupied them, added inspira
tion to the scene. Near the banks
of the Charles only a few miles
away, in "sweet Auburn," sleep the
bodies of Lowell, Longfellow,-Agas
six and scores of others known in
science and in literature as the im
mortals. Would- that every son
and daughter of our dear old North
State could drink deep. the inspira
tion that comes from these sacred
surroundings. So much of pur
history remains unwritten, so much
needs rescuing from the mists of
tradition, so many great heroes
need to be perpetuated on canvas
and in bronze and marble ; so many
songs of the heroism of our fathers
need to be sung. Let us press on
until the spirit of our people is in
spired and uplifted by the power
of universal education, and these
things will be done."-
Wars and Rumors of Wars.
Very streuous war is on in South
Africa, with serious menace of the
"black peril" to add to its horrors.
Rumors are rife in Europe of a
combination for interference with
Britain's program.
Japan is excited over Russian
aggression in Corea and China,
and rumor has it that she is seek
ing European and American al
liances to' check it. Meantime, a
great American fleet is concentrat
ing in the South Pacific for what
purpose nobody knows though
our government Is actively de
manding the "open door."
France is hurrying troops into
that part of China which she con
trols. Italy, in spite of her strained
finances, has decided not to send
her fleets to winter quarters this
year, as she usually does.
The British Channel fleet sailed
for Gibraltar in strict war forma
tion, and the ships there keep their
men night and day at the guns,
with ammunition ready and search
lights in operation, as if active war
were on.
Russia, Germany and Spain are
reported to be in consultation with
a view to the occupation of Ceuta
opposite Gibraltar a thing that
would mean war, instant and terri
ble.
These are the facts. "The times
are out of joint."
A Custom at Bryn Mawr. ,
A cherished custom of Bryn
Mawr College, which has become
an annual feature of the college
year, was followed out one evening
last week with due pomp and cere
mony. Although not so fierce as a
bowl fight, nor so destructive as a
rush, the lantern ceremonies mean
as much to the girls of Bryn Mawr
as the annual struggles between
freshmen and sophomores do to
college boys. . Each member of the
freshman class at Bryn Mawr-is
presented by one in the sophomore
class with a lantern, which is sup
posed to light her way through the
devious ways of a college, course, j
Elaborate ceremonies marked the
presentation this year. Early in
the evening the fair freshmen gath
ered on the campus, and in solemn
procession the sophomores, each in
eap and gown, and carrying a lan
tern, marched from the Pembroke
Arch. They sang a Greek song as
they marched, and each freshman
was handed a lantern. Cheers
were given by both classes, and the
freshmen, proceeded to visit each
hall. Cheers and songs greeted
them, and the ceremonies ended on
the campus, where all the under
graduates joined in the Bryn Mawr
hymn. Philadelphia Record.
Wreck of the Charleston.
The disaster of the valuable
cruieer Charleston off the coast of
the Philippines, while engaged in
the prosecution of our new policy
of expansion, recalls the loss in
March, 1889, of two of our war
ships and 51 men on the coast of
Samoa while engaged in a similar
enterprise. A .storm drove the
Trenton and Vandalia on a reef
and destroyed them and beached
the Nipsic. - The vessels and lives
lost on that occasion were worth
more to us, it will be conceded,
than our one-third interest in Sa
moa will ever come to, and we fear
that our luck in the Philippines
will be no better. We have already
lost the cable ship Hooker there,
and there is said to be little hope
of saving the Charleston. To be
added to the long roll of lives lost
in the Filipino war is the name of
Major Logan, killed in action near
San Jacinto. Such melancholy in
cidents mUst be expected, but they
would be more easily borne if the
war were clearly necessary. ,
For Over Fifty Tears.-
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allays all pain, cures wind colic, and is the best
remedy for Diarrhoea. It wiU relieve the poor
little sufferer immediately. Sold by Druggists
in every part of the world. Twenty-five cents
a bottle. Be sureand ask for "Mrs. Window's
Soothing 8yrup," and take no other kind.
NEWS NOTES.
! Canada has spent $90,000,000 to
"build her waterways.
! The Baptist state convention of
North Carolina will meet in Ashe-
ville December 4th.
i The crand lodge of Masons of
North Carolina will meet in Golda-
boro December 1114.
! China and Japan are said to
have reached a full understanding
and to be now on most friendly
terms.
j The boring of a tunnel through
the summit of Chilkoot Pass has
been begun for a 37-mile - electric
road to cost $750,000.
The Uniyer8ity of Pennsylvania
has fitted out . another expedition
to excavate in the ruins of the an
ctent Nippur, in Assyria.
' Orders from Aguinaldo found In
Filipino trenches instruct the na
tives to harass the Americans, but
not to oppose their advance. '
The origin of Roentgen rays and
Becquerel rays has not been ascer
tained, though a hundred scientists
have been tormenting nature to let
the secret go.
The New York Journal has de
serted the free coinage of silver at
16 to 1. It was the leading free
silver paper of the country during
the campaign of 1896.
A mammoth tug is being built to
crush ice on the "Soo" Eiver. It
will be 115 feet long, 20 feet wide,
and plough- through .12 inches of
solid ice at six miles an hour.
The great industry of tinning
in which housewives are now tak
ing special interest was known as
long ago as the days of Pompeii,
and our system is practically the
same as was used at that time.
- Preliminary steps have been
taken, it is said, to transfer to Mrs
Dewey the title to the Dewey home,
1747 Rhode Island Avenue, waich
the American people presented to
the Admiral in recognition of his
brilliant naval victory at Manila.
Corrugated, galvanized sheet
iron is the almost universal build
ing material of South Africa. It
is used in the immense buildings
at the Kimberley mines, and in the
buildings of Johannesburg, as well
as In thousands of dwelling houses,
barns, warehouses, fences, etc.
NThe Southeastern Tariff Associ
ation, which includes the principal
fire insurance companies doing
business in the South, has in
structed its agents in North Caro
lina to reduce rates from 25 to 33
per cent, on dwellings, school
houses, churches and court houses
in this state.
An endless chain has been form
ed by the good people of Salisbury,
and other lovers of the cause, for
the purpose of erecting a monu
ment to our Confederate dead. On
receiving one of these letters you
are expected to make three copies
and mail to your friends, returning
the letter you receive and 10 cents
to Mrs. W. H. Overman, Salisbury,
Ni c.
The Supreme court of this state
has decided against the American
Tobacco Company in the test case
brought to ascertain if cigarettes
could be sold in Tennessee under
the Rogers' Anti-Cigarette Law .of
1897. The court held that the law
providing for a revenue tax on the
sale of cigarettes could "not stand
and was contrary to law prohibiting
such sale. .
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The Great Chicago Drainage
Canal, which has cost millions.
and which, as an engineering feat,
has attracted the engineers of the
world, has run against another
obstacle. The courts have inter
fared and prevented the opening of
the canal until suitable provision
is made to keep the water at a
level with the sources from which
the water is drawm "
I An automatic telephone com
pany, in New England, on the
penny-in-tbe-slot system, operates
1500 telephones in county districts.
The thing is a small iron box, half
bell in shape, .containing coil and
receptacle for five and ten-cent
pieces. The toll is deposited at
the time connected is given, and
the rate is $18 per year. The
charge is made according to dis
tance.
1 1 The newly founded town of Tri
angle, Tex., promises to be one of
the most unique in the -United
States. It is laid out in the form
of an equilateral triangle; its lots
are triangular in shape, and the
ground plan of each of the twenty
three houses . which have thus far
been erected there is three-corner
ed. The three principal streets
are named Equilateral, Scalene and
Isosceles, and the residents have
even carried their curious idea into
the local government, which con
sists of a so-called Triangular
Council haying three members.
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I Lieutenant C. C. Wood, a grandson
of President Zacharr Tavlor. is reDert-
ed to have been killed in battle near
Belmont, Cape Colony. He enlisted
In the British army from Canada for
service in India, afterwards going to
bontn Africa.
WILL TRAIN NURSES.
Colored School for tho Pur-
; poso to be Established
in Winston.
Superintendent Mebano .has been
notified that Mri R. J. Reynolds. O'
Winston, has offered to give 15,000 to
establish a hospital and nurses training
department for the colored people in
connection with the Slater Iodustria
and State Normal School. This is con
ditlonal on the proposition of Prof. S
G. Atkins, Superintendent of the
ocntiolMand his associates that they
raise a like sum for the same purpose
If Prof. Atkins and his associates sbal
fail to raise the lull 5,0C0 then Mr.
Reynolds offers to give dollar for dol
lar, provided they raise not less than
$3,000 This money must be raised by
January 1st, 1901, and Mr. Reynolds
holds bis offer odcu until that time.
Writing to Mr. Mebane Prof. Atkins
says that he entertains no doubt that
the sum can be raised without difficul
ty. Other citizens of means of VVin
Wtonare understood to stand ready to
give liberally and a representative o
the school will probably be sent North
to aid in raising the full $5,000. j
This, it U said, will be the only
school of the kind established in the
South, the colored people being de
pendent entirely for training along
this line upon Northern schools where
botb races are admitted. The - project
is in keeping with Winston's progress
ive news and Mr. Reynold' generosity
in other matters. Raleigh Observer.
Electric Express Trains, i
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According to the Railroad 'Ga
zette, electricity is used to some
extent in Europe to propel trains
on standard gauge railway tracks.
In 6ermany,between Dusseldorf and
Crefeld, a distance of 14 miles, an
express train is run by electrioity
at a maximum speed of 37 miles an
hour. Each car has a motor on the
axleand takes the current from an
overhead trolley. Some 50 persons
are carried on a car, but freight is
also carried. A decided advantage
over -American electric cars lies in
the fact chat air brakes are em
ployed. Add to this that the cars
are heated and lighted by electric
ity and elegantly furnished and it
will be understood that the Father
land is forging ahead.
Saved His Wife.
Mr, C. E. Henderson, Pool ville, Tex.,
writes us as follows: My wire bad been
troubled many years with constipation.
She bad used nearly all kinds of reme
dies, but failed to receive any benefit
until she tried Ramon's Pills and Tonic
Pellets, sold here by W. I. Bulllogton.
She is now In better health than for a
longtime. We use no other. !
w. I. BuIIineton. Druggist, Poolville,
Texas, JulyJ.7, 1897, says : I sell more
of your Liver Pills and Tonio Pellets
tban of all others combined, and I han
dle fifteen or twenty different kinds of
pills. For said by Howard Gardner.
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