The News and Obse. ,er. VOL. XXXYIII. NO. 119. TKIE ©ODStBQDIU&UTOKI ®(F /&STO MDBTDfI ©AMQ.DOM IMDUT. WORK OF TEACHERS PRESIDENT DENSON’S ADDRESS BEFORE THE ASSEMBLY AT MOREHEAD. OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM. A Hearty (Greeting to the Great Armv ot Men and Women Who are Fight ing the Powers of Darkness—Differ ence ot the Educational Methods of To-day and a Hundred Years Ago— Great Damage Done to the Public Schools by the Last Legislature. Special to the News and Observer. Morehead City, N. C., June 20. Every train brings new members and visitors to the Teachers’ Assembly now in session here. Among those to arrive last night was Capt C. B. Denson, of Raleigh, President of the Assembly. His address to-day was heard by a la ge crowd and was warmly ap plauded. It was a most care fully prepared paper fillel with facts and recommendations in regard to the schools of North Carolina and the edu cational work of the country. Though no synopsis can do the address justice, the following extracts serve to show the line of thought pursued by the president in his address. Among other things the speaker said: “You, my brethren, in a special sense, are the exponents to-day of perhaps the m )st d licate and difficult labor to which the human mind addresses itself. That is nothing less than the miracle ever re peated, of mind calling forth and har moniously developing mind. ‘•"When we consider the influence of the education of the young upon their future lives, and upon all who shall come after them; when we reflect that this work is the bulwark of the State, the sister of religion, and the parent of eiv ilizat'on; when we recall the associations of the scholastic porch and academic grove, and the mighty forces issuing therefrom to mould the contour of the world’s history, it is not strange that the laborers in this great brotherhood should seek to take counsel of each other from time to time, and should learn to greet with pleasure the annual re union which brings the fraternal grasp, the cheering smile, and the sympathetic word, one with another, in whatever division of the great field our work may lie.” The speaker said that his first words were words of hearty greeting to the familiar and beloved faces of those who had toiled for so many years and of cor dial welcome to the young knights who have donned their armor for the fight with the powers of darkness. He paid an eloquent tribute to youth with all its beauty and freshness, its gol den opportunities and glorious possibili ties. He showed that the development of one age into another, with its characte ristic educative means and processes, is associated with all that remains of the past, and that the school is the mighty helpmeet of all the other agencies of hu man advancement. He spoke of the ignorance of Europe during the middle ages and traced the Sradual dawning of learning, made sud enlv resplendent by the rise of the sun of the Reformation. “The mighty press was born at last; the day of.universal darkness had passed, henceforth began the new era that has reached its utmost biliiancy at the close of our century. Think of the change since the day of Elizabeth, of which period Home, the infidel, boasts, that ‘learning had not then prostituted itself by becoming too common.”’ Capt. Denson then spoke of the differ ence in the educational methods of to day and a hundred years ago and gave a sketch of the college of our forefathers. Books, he said, were few in number and a college in one of the chief seats of learning in Scotland could boast but three hundred volumes in its library at the close of the sixteenth century aDd after removing worthless tomes of school divinity, few indeed, would have been left to f uruiah meat for the hungry mind. It was a necessary consequence of this system and these conditions, that learn ing was the property of the few, and as much the reserved prerogative of the aristocracy as their titles and their lands. It was in 1708, he said, that the great change in college life took place. But it is not more thau ninety years since the relaxation ot the rigid rules for the use of Latin speech on all occasions in the colleges of England. He spoke at length of what education should be, how it can best te reached and what purpose it shall serve. “To sum up the whole it has been well defined, the harmonious development of every power for thought, action, duty and happiness. “Upon this development throughout the American people depends the ulti mate judgment of the world upon the power of self-government by man, and whether the twentieth century shall usher iu the most extraordinary march of the race to the utmost pinnacle of difficulty that man may surmount, or whether the red flag of anarchy or the bhuik emblem of despotism shall be planted among the ruins that shall mark the retrogression of humanity, and the colossal failure of modern civiliza tion. ” The perils that threaten our govern ment were dwelt upon at length and each discussed in detail. “Behind all the activities of the end of the century, and all the aggregation of material wealth, we must seek the forces that are to preserve or to destroy the great social fabric. Scylla and Charybdis lie before us in anarchy on the one side and plutocracy on the other. The rising tide of crime beats about the purlieus and suburbs of the large centers of population and overflows annually with its waves of beggary and petty pil lage even the remote hamlets of the most secluded regions. So, too, greed sits enthroned in palaces and stretches forth its hands to diminish the food of the laborer far distant, or render more costly every need of his existence. The only hope is in the rule of the people. “There is before the teachers of America, therefore, a task which tran scends iu importance all that the imagi nation can conceive. We are weighted with the destiny of the generations to come, and with them the hopes of man kind is indissolubly bound up with our success or failure. If after all the sac rifices of the past, and the joyous pre dictions for the future, human progress shall be rudely stayed and liberty degen erate into lawlessness or perish before autocratic power of whatever name, it can only occur through the want of en lightenment by the people.” The public school system of North Car olina was then discussed and many interesting facts and statistics presented. He spoke of the great harm done to the schools by the last Legislature iu- their ignorance of real educational needs. “It is to the interest of ths people of North Carolina, if they maintain a sys tem of common schools, to obtain the the very best results possible with the means available. There can be no rea sonable doubt that with gradually in creasing standards of examination, and a larger percentage of trained or partly trained teachers, and a slowing increas ing interest in the general subject of education, the general average was regularly rising in educative value. “It is to the interest of all the teachers that the common school should be liber ally supported, and maintained in its highest efficiency during the Constitu tional term of four months if possible. But the law enacted by the General As sembly of 1895, possibly with the best motives, abolishes the county boards of education, and another section deprives the schools of supervision by the aboli tion of the office of county superintend ent. “This assembly does not concern it self with political or sec-arian questions. But it is deeply interested in all matters which affect the well-being; I might say almost the very life of the public schools. It becomes therefore my duty, as your presiding officer, to recommend that suitable steps be taken to inform the public mind of the peril to the schools from this retrograde movement, and to seek the re enactment of such statutes as will provide for efficient supervision, and for sueh compensation as will secure the best attainable of ficers. “We have, I repeat, a mighty task before us. There is work for all. Let the teacher in the public school labor to elevate it. May the time soon come when North Carolina shall be ashamed of the pittance of S2O, at the best, for one fourth of the year. So that if em ployed without vacation, all the year, the average compensation would be about one hundred dollars. “In the future school success will be more than ever dependent upon the in dividuality of the teacher. “The great minds of the profession direct our attention as the prime result of our work, not to the attainment of knowledge, the enforcement of discipline or the conscious moulding of cha acter.” The speaker paid a glowing tribute to the teachei and his noble but often un appreciated efforts for the uplifting of the race, and closed with a description of what the true teacher ought to be. THE KNIGHTS OF PYTIIIAS. Meeting of the Grand Lodge of the State at Mt. Airr. Special to the News and Observer. MT. Airy, N. C., June 20. The Grand Lodge of Knights ot Pythias of North Carolina convened yes terday morning in the Mt. Airy opera house, with over 100 Pythians in at tendance, Grand Chancellor C. E. Holton presiding. Thirty-nine past Chancellors received the Grand Lodge degree. All the lodges except three or four were rep resented. Mr. Dixie Gilmer welcomed the Grand Ixxlge in a timely and stirring speech. The reply was delivered by Mr. R. G. Gilmer, of Waynesville. A telegram of greeting and expres sions of a desire for speedy restoration to health were ordered sent to Supreme Chancellor Richie, of Lima, Ohio. Mr. C. H. Webb, of Asheville, was yesterday afternoon elected Grand Chan cellor and Mr. T/* D. Meares, of Wil miDgton, was to day re elected Supreme Representative. Gen. W. D. Kennedy, of Chicago, the Inspector General of the Uniiorm Rank, is present, and, after being introduced to the Grand Lodge, delivered a fine speech. Messrs. A. W. Moore, travelling agent for the South Carolina Pythian’s Journal, and Past Grand Representative J. P. Gibson, of Beunettsville, 8. C., are also in attendance. Reports faom the various officers show the order in North Carolina to be in a tine condition The new constitution was discussed last night. The Grand Lodge body presents a fine api>earaT,ce. The majority are young men. The Blue Ridge Lodge will enter tain the Grand Lodge to-morrow by giv ing a big picnic. The delegates yester day evening visited the famous White Sulphur springs and the granite quarries. Fayetteville and Asheville will endeavor to contest for the next Grand Ix»dge, with chances in favor of Fayetteville. RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1895. IN A BLAZE OF GLORY. THE GREAT CAN AL CONNECTING THE BALTIC AND NORTH SEAS OPENED. IMPERIAL POMP AND CEREMONY. The Weather was Perfect ami the Naval Display was Successful--An Immense Crowd Assembled to Wit ness the Magnificent Spectacle--The Emperor Greeted With Enthusiasm-- The Steamer Kaiser Wilhelm Runs Af.r aund—But no Damage was Done. Kiel, June 20,— With imperial pomp and ceremony, and amid the plaudits of thousands upon thousands of people, the great canal connecting the Baltic and North Seas was opened to commerce to day. The weather was perfect, and the inauguration ceremony was highly successful save in one particular, the grounding in the canal of the Nofth German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm II She took bottom near Levensau, near the eastern extremity of the canal, but she got off without damage. At 3 o’clock this morning the despatch boat Grille entered the lock at Bruns buttel, the western extremity of the canal, and went through as a scout, ex amining the banks and locks, and taking soundings in order to prevent, if possible, the occurrence of an accident when the great parade navigated the canal to Kiel. Long before the hour set for the start ing of the parade every available space along the river front was preempted by eager crowds, all anxious to see the Emperor, the German Princes and the other royal personages, than which a larger gathering has never been seen in this part of the empire. The scene as the Emperor and four of his eldest sons drove along the river front last evening to embark on the Im perial yacht Hohenzollern was one to be long remembered. Everything capable of being decorated bore masses of flags and vari colored bunting, and the crowd, filled with holiday fervor, cheered inces santly as the Emperor and Princess passed. The Hohenzollern passed into the wes tern water gate at 3:45 o’clock this morning. As the Hohenzollern passed into the canal, the entrance to which was be flagged at every point, a salute was fired by a park of artillery stationed a little distance from the entrance to the lock, while the soldiery, composed of cavalry, infantry and pioneers, lining both banks, presented arms. At the same time a military band played the German Na tional anthem. The approaches were crowded with military students, visitors and residents of the vicinity, who cheered loudly. The Emperor was on deck, and he bowed in response to the ovation he received, exhibiting much emotion. The Hohenzollern at 4 o’clock cut the thread which had been stretched across the entrance to the canal, and began her passage through to Kiel, the bands on shore playing national airs and the crowds cheering. The other vessels in the procession fol lowed in this order : The Yacht Kaiseradler, having on board Prince Luitpold, Regent of Ba varia. the King of Saxony, the King of Wurtemburg and Grand Duke Alexis of Russia. Then came the North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser with the German Princess and the foreign Ambassadors and Ministers; the Lensahn, with the Duke of Oldenburg; the British Royal vacht Osborne, with the Duke of York, representing Queen Victoria; the Italian yatch Savoia, with the Duke of Genoa, representing King Humbert, the Aus trian torpedo Catcher-Trabut, with Arch- Duke Charles Stephen, representing Emperor Francis Joseph; the Hamburg —American line steamer Augusta Vic toria, with the members of the Bundes rath and of the diplomatic corps; the same line’s steamer Columbia, with mem bers of the Reichstag; the North Ger man Lloyd’s steamer Trave, also with members of the Reichstag, and the Prussian Laudtag, and the Hamburg American line steamer Rhaetia, wi h members of the Reichstag and Lan tag. The warships steamed through in this order: Grille, Arethus, Sureouf, Grosiastchy, Marques de Ensenda. Edda, Viking, Marblehead, Mirsea, Hecla, Alkmaar. The rear of the procession was brought up by the Turkish yacht Fevaid. At 10:30 o’clock last night every one who was expected to go through the caual on the American cruiser Marble head, was on board that vessel, though she did not leave her berth until this morning. Among those on board were Admiral Kirkland and staff, Captain Evans, Captain Shepard, the Lieuts, ensigns and Marine officers from each ship of the American squad ron, the Rev. Mr. Tripp, Ohaplaiu of the cruiser Sau Francisco; Mr. Louis H. Moore, representing the United Press, and the Fleet surgeon ard fleet paymas ter. The Marblehead sailed slowly down the Eble and anchored at Bruusbuttel at six o’clock, awainting her turn to go in to the canal. The marblehoad is very popular, owiug to the fact that her officers have shown every possible courtesy to visitors, and she was cheered last eveniug by the oc cupants of hundreds of steam and elec tric launches and thousands of people on the shore. At 11:30 p. m. the Hohenzollern was iu sight of the Holtenau locks at the east end of the canal. The immense crowd of people who had assembl ed on the Holtenau Festplatz to witness the spectacle, set up a mighty cheer as the imperial yacht was sighted. Five minutes later she had steamed up to the locks, which she en tered at 12:35. The Emperor stood up on high bridge behind the main mast, attired in the full uniform of an Admir al of the German Navy, suggesting the well known picture “with full steam ahead.” The bands of the regular and veteran troops struck up “Heil Der Riegerkranz,” which the Emperor ac knowledged by a salute. At 12:40 all of the ships in the bay fired an imperial salute. It was a grand spectacle. On each side of the lock was drawn up a company of the first foot guards of Potsdam, with a band, and a company of the Kaiserins Flensburg reg iment were located on the north shore in front of the harbor office, with the marine band. The admirals and generals stood upon the centre rampart which di vides the sections of the lock. The im mense crowds kept up continuous cheer ing as the Hohenzollern passed through and went to her anchorage, followed by the Kaiser Adler. The harbor was teeming with pleasure boats of every de scription which swarmed about the war ships, the American vessels receiving their full share of attention. As the Kaiser VVihelm was passing a point near Levensau, she ran aground, compelling all the vessels behind her to stop. She got afloat later and arrived at Kiel at 5 o’clock followed at short in tervals by the other vessels taking part in the procession. A large number of British and Ger man sailors were given shore leave this evening and are enjoying themselves hugely in the fashion of sailormen. EPWORTH LEAGUE PICNIC. The Charlotte People Spend a Pleas ant Day at Rockingham. Special to the News and Observer. Rockingham, N. 0., June 20. The Epworth League picnic from Charlotte, held at this place to-day, was a most decidedly pleasant affair and the visitors freely expressed themselves as having hugely enjoyed the day’s outing. This afternoon a game of baseball was played and it was by far the prettiest game ever played on the home diamond. The visitors turned out en mass to wit ness the game. It was called at the seventh inning in order for the Char lotte players to meet the train. The score then was 9 to 8 in favor of Char lotte. Brilliant playing abounded on both sides, but the work of Ourlee, short stop; Steele, pitcher, and Brewer, cap tain, surpassed anything ever seen here before. TO INSPECT NAVAL RESERVES. Assistant Secretary McAdoo Will Ar rive at Wilmington Saturday. Washington, D. 0., June 20. —Secre- tary Herbert received a telegram this morning from Assistant Secretary Mc- Adoo announcing his arrival at Charles ton with Lieut. Niblack. They will in spect the South Carolina Naval Militia there this afternoon and the North Carolina battallion at Wilmington Sat urday, rejoining the Dolphin at Fortress Monroe on Sunday and proceeding thence to Philadelphia. RAN INTO A FLOATING BRIDGE. Seven Persons Injured by a Railroad W reck in Texas. Houston, Texas, June 20.—Missouri, Kansas and Texas pesseDger train which left here at 9:50 last night ran into a floating bridge acress a ravine about seven miles north of this city. The train reached the bridge at 10:12 o’clock when within twenty feet, en gineer Henry Garrett saw a “swag” in the bridge and immediately ap plied the brakes but not in time to stop the train, and as the loco motive went upon the floating bridge, the engineer felt it was going. He stuck to his post, and was not injured. The fireman was shovelling coal, aud after crossing the bridge when the tender fell to the left he fell to the right down an embankment, but was only slightly bruised. The engine and baggage car where shoved across the ravine by the motion of the train and was piled in a wreck on the opposite bank. The smoker was jammed across the track with both ends torn out. The second class coach span ned the ravine taking the place of the bridge. Two chair cars and the sleeper kept the track this side of the washout. There were passengers in both the smoker aud second-class ear and how they escaped death and more serious in juries is a mystery. Conductor W. J. Johnston walked back to the city and immediately took physicians and a relief corps. No lives were lost but the baggage agent, T. D. Renfro; Engineer Garrett, Fireman J. W. Slocum, Section Foreman J. Graham and two colored passengers were slightly injured and brought to the hospital here. The track will be cleared tonight and traffic resumed. “SOUND MONEY” MEN MEET. A Club Organized at Wilmingson to Study the Currency Question. Wilmington, N. 0., June 20.—A mass meeting of citizens composed chief ly of business men, was held in the court house to-day aud organized under the name of Democratic Sound Money Club. Article three of the constitution as adopted says: The object of this organ ization shall be to promote the intelli gent study of monetaay and financial questions, to foster a loyal support of the Democratic administration and to endeavor to pr&serve the integrity and ascendency of the Democratic party. NO ACTION TAKEN YET REPUBLICANS AT SPRINGFIELD STILL AFRAID OF THE SIL VER QUESTION. THEY TREAT IT LIKE A HOT STONE. The Committee on Resolutions is not yet Ready to Report—A Delegate From Massachusetts Wants Woman Suffrage Endorsed—A Flood ot Other Foolish Resolutions Poured in—Gen. McAlpin Elected President—No Sec retary has yet Been Elected. Cleveland, Ohio, June 20.—The Con vention of Republican League Clubs was not called together until 11 o’clock this morning. As the committee on resolu tions was even then not ready to report ex-Senator Warner Miller, of New York, was invited to address the convention. Resolutions being next in order, Mr. Blackwell, of Massachusetts, called for an endorsement of woman suffrage, which called forth loud cries of “no, no.” He then offered another resolu tion, arraigning the Democratic party for not taking action in regard to the Armenian atrocities. Then resolutions began to pour in like rain, as fast as the clerk could read them. They provided for sympathy with Cuba, for pensions, for the workingman, for free silver, and for almost everything else which con ventions discuss. Frank H. Bier, of Oklahoma, wanted 16 to 1 coinage and a tonnage tax. S. E. Jones, a colored delegate from the District of Columbia, offered a reso lution approving of suffrage in the Dis trict of Columbia and incidentally refer ring to the United States as a monarchy. W. A. Schultz of New York, offered a resolution that the gold standard should be maintained. At this point J. H. Gains, of|West Virginia, arose to a point of order. He asserted that the conven tion had no right to adopt any platform or any resolutions on the currency ques tions because it was organized for the sole purpose of promoting the interests of the Republican party and not for mak ing a platform for the National Conven tion of 1896. President Tracy declared the point of order not well taken. A silver reso lution was presented by State Senator Varnum. An effort to stop the flood of resolu tions precipitated a discussion. Congressman Robinson, chairman of the committee on resolutions, protested against the further presentation of reso lutions which were only duplications of ones already introduced, until, he said, the committee would never be able to consider all of them and make its report within the allotted time. The convention wished to report to the con vention to-morrow morning. This turned the tide in favor of the advocates of suppression of the resolutions and the convention voted to do so. Then took a recess until two o’clock. At the opening of the afternoon session letters and telegrams were read from prominent persons de clining the invitation to be present. All had politics in them. Another flood of resolutions was turned on and then the convention ratified the choice of Mil waukee as the next meeting place of the League. The vice-presidents for the re spective States were announced and the convention proceeded to elect a new President. Gen. A. E. McAlpin, of New York, was nominated and elected without opposition, although a dozen speeches were made seconding the nomi nation. For Secretary John F. Burns, of Den ver and Wm. Grant Edens, of Spring field, 111., were nominated. The pro ceedings were interrupted by a speech of thanks from General McAlhin after which the convention adjourned until to-morrow without reaching a vote on choice of secretary. The Silver Men Beaten. Cleveland, Ohio, June 20.—A few minutes after the convention adjourned the committee on resolutions completed its labors, and was ready to report. The report was not a surprise. As was predicted it leaves everything to the next national convention. Neither the money question nor the tariff question are even referred to. The report is based on an old article of the National League of Republican clubs, which provides that the league shall not mix in any way with affairs which pfioperly come within the province of the party convention. BALDWIN WAS DISCHARGED. The Jury Says He Did Right to Shoot His Wife’s Seducer. Jacksonville, Fla., June 20.—The jury of inquest investigating the death of Andrew Yeoman, who was shot by P. M. W. Baldwin on the morning of June 7th, while in the bedrooom of Bald win’s wife, and who died shortly after 12 o’clock last Monday, met this morn ing to continue the investigation. After hearing ali the evidence, the jury rendered a verdict to the effect that Yeoman came to his death from a gun shot wound inflicted by a ball from a pistol in the hands of P. M. W. Baldwin, and that from the evidence produced, the jury was of the opinion that Baldwin’s act was justifiable. Justice Willard dis charged Baldwin from custody. A large crowd was present to hear the evidence which was very sensational. The verdict was applauded. Mrs. Blad win was not present. Her physician re ports her as being still prostrated. The Emperor, through a cabinet order, has placed Grand Duke Alexis of Russia upon the staff of the German navy. PRICE FIVE CENTS.