NORTHCAROLIN A, WEDS
DAY, NOVEMBER 19,1890.
[Klip
PROF. WINSTON’S ADDRESS.
Before the State Educational Meeting
.•During Fair Week.
BI8€USSfeD ABLY ■WITH UNAN
SWERABLE LOGIC THE NECESSITY
FOB POPULAR! EDUCATION AND THE
8UPP0BT OF "HE PNZ mSTTY. I
, state Chronicle, X'''^
in response to the request of the
Com mittee on Arrcfigemettta-'fTofS
Geo. T. WinstoD, or the University,
| presided over t \e Educational Meet
ing Thursday night of Fair Week
in Commons Hall, and made a brief
review of the subject o£ education
and of the gntiye educavidnai system
of the State.
ne spoKe as iohows;, ...
It is not for us in Norte Carolina
to doubt the power of the' necessity
of education; for upon this question •
judgement is already pronounced by
the world*. It is for us to decide
whether we shall enjoy this recog
nized instrument of progress, or.
shall content ourselves with perma
nent and hopeless inferiority. We
shall compete with steam ' and
machinery and educated labor..
Almost as clieapiy as we
haul our crops tit . the barn, the
great rivers of iron are rolling to
| our doom the golden harvest of the
; West.' We have ceased to supply
our1 own demand for meat and
bread and soon we shall be ' driven
from the' cultivation of cotton.
Unless we speedily avail ourselves
of the means of culture that . may
enable us to change our industrial
and economic methods, we shall bo.
crushed by. the multiplied forces of
the age into a poverty and servitude
from which, indeed, we may never"
■■hope to escape.
■Educated labor is our only hope;
; educated labor, to handle . nmchine
f ry, work factories^ develops mines,
utilize cumber, revive ' exhausted’
jiiuids, and develope in every way-,
jto the highest degree, all . the ad
rantages that nature has given us.
iducation Is Our necessity. - Our
laterial prosperity demands it with’
ever increasing urgency. Our sq
fcial and politico! institutions, now
Ibioatened by the greatest evils that
SiaVe ever confronted our people,
prill not be maintained except by
the full development and steady ex-1
eise of all our intellectual, moral
and physical energies.-.: The nest
generation will have burdens to bear
Jand battles to fight which will tax
their manhood to . the utmost ; de
Pgree. It is our duty to seo that their
; ntrasjigth is fortified and multiplied
by all the power that education can
f gi ve. - '
Ilorth y&rotma is. too poor aoi xo
i educate. Every consideration of
; self-interest, as well as of patriotism
| aud philanthropy, requires that she
provide for her children a system of
education incUtding the highesfc cul
ture aud the best training that the
genius of the age has invented.
im WBLIC SCHOOIJ3. • "f .
First and foremost in this system
is the education of the great mass
of people iu the public schools. This:
work is now progressing slowly and
with results most unsatisfactory
The average length of the ‘ school
term is only three months, anji "the
average pay of the teacher is about
$25 a month.; ! The figures speak
for themselves, such wages' will riot
■securecompetent teachers- nor will
terms so short give pupils more
than a smattering"of the,merest el
ements, mush less form good men
tal habits and receive inspiration
from tbo sensation of intellectual
Hut the worst is yot to be told.
There were iu 1888,' 1151 school
districts without school houses,
more than one district in every five;
and in thirty-nine districts no
schools were taught, of the entire
iffchobl population mot three chil
dren in every five put foot inside
’ H school lftmse during that, year, and
a little more than one in three stay
ed the full session.' It is not-:«ur?
prising in view of these facts,- that
our State shows a larger percentage
of population unable to . read and
-write than-any ether State in., the
Union, sure due. J mention thui;,
not to disparage the character of
our people, for many things con
tribute to form character even more
powerfully than public or scholastic
discipline. The abiding influences
of-home life, the strong restraints
of society, the laws and customs of
business, and the enobiing guidance
of religion, ail combine'; to mould
th^ebnraeter dp» - people. ‘ Thfcse
forces are strong in North Carolina;
and, despite the illiteracy of our
people, have kept them pure in so
cial life,.brave and patient in ad
versity, and loyal, not only to the
true instincts of humanity, but- also
to thepuspiriug truths of religion.
There are other communities where
public schools .hare flou’rishcd and'
education" has flourished through
successive generations jiud yet vice
and crimes unhappiness and uiiser
ry have so increased therein, that so
cial life, .is impure and . religious life
a mockery. . But these things have
not come from education. Tne
public schools are in. no wise . res
ponsible. These results-have been
reached because those other guard
ians of civilization, the home, the
church, the court house and society
have been false to.fcheir trusts. Ed
ucation's hot omnipotent; but still,
of all the forces that combine to
produce the culture demanded by i
modern life, and to -fit a people for
the best exercise of their po wers,
the verdict of the century is that
the cheapest, the most easily up-1'
plied, and the most efficient is edu
eatioji. . What contribution to civi
lization do we export from.Spain or
Turkey,C from ftussia, or Boath
America or Africa? What inven
tion of mechanical power? Wlntt
inspiration to freedom? What lof
ty, ideal, of life? For those we look
to Germany or Britain or the United
States, to the lands of free’ schools
and universal education. Prince
Bismarck was great because Ger
many was behind him; in Egypt or
Spain he. had been .a fanatis ,i>i>
dreamer. ' ■ . ' --
The human spirit of the age de
clares that no man is fiurff started
in life Unless he is educated; and
governments h .re come ltd regard
public education noj; as a charity^
but as a somco of strength to- tFe
Stale and a right inherent ia citsen
ship along with life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. Education is
the process that prepares a' map to
become the most that ho is eapohle
of being; and surely that state is
strongest, and greatest ia which
the most possible is made of. all Its'
citizens. - - . i
A reasonable increase of taxation
will provide the money necessary Co
make our public schools efficient
and popular; to secure a six months
term, erect school houses in each
district,' and provide competent
teachers. Let the step once be ta
ken and everybody will wonder why
it was so long neglected. Who
would have believed ..tweuty years
ago that the children of «the best
people of Ealetgh would bo enrolled
to-day as pupils in the public
schools? Who would have believed
ten years ago that the Goldsboro
public'schools would send to the
University of the Stale a pupil who
for eight years would maintain the
first rank in a large and talented
class,hind would afterwards at West
Point, maintain the same high rank,
in eompetion with youths from eve
ry state in the Union? , The success
of the graded school has already il
lustrated the possible development j
of the public school. . ■ . |
. THE GIwVDEi) SCHOOLS.
A graded school is, in reality,
nothing hut a public school supplied
with money and competent teachers.
But the limit of usefulness has not
yet been reuched even in the graded
schools. -The high school depart
ment, which iu some, has achieved
most remarkable results^ in others
is weak and undeveloped, and •still j
elsewhere has been crushed out of]
existence by publiu or private opposi- !
tion. This department should be
fostered and developed in all. The
course of study should include not
only Lathi, as furnishing an indis
pensable basis for higher literary
culture, but also the simpler scien
ces, in order to develop study of na
ture; add well equipped workshops
should provide opportunities for
the development of mechanical tal
ent and for stimulating ambition in
the direction bf industrial no less
than literary and scientific .acliiev
ment. As early as possible our boys
and girls should acquire manual
dexterity and be taught to honor
manual labor, ■ *
When graded schools of this char
acter flourish in all our large towns,
and free schools are muintuined - fur
fwjuonths each year in the jural
disVrioU people” will will enter upon
agrand career of ' intellectual and
industrial., power. The Southern
intellect, which for nearly a eeqtury
coutrotkd thelSnc trines of our coun
try, and the' Southern, character,
which neither victory nOr defeat,
neither War nor peace has, subdued
or tarnished, will again assert their
power and : achieve ascendancy in
science ond literature, in trade, ehm*
mere;: and mynufactu* ies. Let y*
•net be deceived 'fey false prophets
who caution us against Yankee
methods of education. The Yan
kee teaches Latin, science, and free
hand drawing and manual dexterity
iu the public schools, not from sen
timent or fanaticism, but in order
to maintain his literary and mechan
ical power. Shall we wait for a
Connecticut school master’to invent
us a cotton picking machine? Shall
\ye forever send to the educated la
borers of ffew England the raw ma
terials of wealth that nature has
placed in our hands, and allow oth-j
ere by educated skill, to enjoy the’
wealth that rightfully is; ours.
Pt'BMC EDUCATION ESSENTIAL TO
u,, ,, UXEEATUBB. < l -S*F £
But our humiliation is not ended
in lack gf material prosperty. Lack
of popular education means lack of
literature; lack of historv, of poetry,
of novels, of all that presevers and
(transmits the intellectual life of a
people. A people who do not read
will not stinnilatue suthovship \£
by accident they produce literary
talent, it is crushed by lack of ap
preciation. or forced to go else where
and sell itself to theory, too often
seeking profit and .honor by dishon
oring-the kud of its birth. Long
and bitterly have we paid the penal
ty of our illiteracy. The story, of
pur State has been told by aliens
raid enemies with such cunning and
persistent calumny that even’ the
virtues of our ancestors have been
received .by the, world as . vices, - -
THE PRIVATE SCHOUts.
• Since the establishment of -the
graded schools, our best private
schools have made decided improve
ment in the quality of their instruc
tion. At-ad'time id the hMory of
.the State has private education been
so successful, so profitable, and so
honorable as now. -Our best schools
may not fear comparison with those
pf othCr states; and one is . bringing
into Korin Carolina ever 100 pupils
annually from abroad. There • will
al ways-be people who arc able and
willing to buy a better culture than
the pubrie schools can fttmish ; and,
as Hio privato schools preceded, so
will they outlast any System of pub
lic education. They arc indispensa
ble to the highest culture, and the
espe-rienee of Other Stales is that
they fiournish best w her \ the public
schools are most efficient.
v:, a nokjlAteainino shool..
The estimation in which teaching
and public schools are held in our
Stale, or rather the lack of estima
tion, is ' manifested from the fact
that the State contains not a single
training school for teachers. Qur
neighbor and daughter, Tepnbssee
has $100,080 invested- in toachers’
training schools; our neighbor, vir
gin has $180,000 similarly i ivest
ted, not including the Iianipton In
stitute. The progressive State of
Wiscouiiioa has five nor mal schoolsj
with property valued at $350,0001
and a permanent endowment fund
of $1,300,000, whi’e Pensyivania, j
the banner State, has thirteen teach-j
ers training schools,, of which--the;
poorest own buildings and grounds
valued at $100,000, end the finest
at $300,000" As long as we practi
celly declare that no special training
is needed for teaching, do we .not
thereby declare that any kind of |
teaching will do for us? For people j
who. like that sort of teaching; very !
likely that is the sort of teaching j
that will be supplied for that sort of j
people. It is idle to build school
houses and lengthen school .'terms, j
if the living utilizing power is ab-j
Seht,-- . - ;
A MASUAI, TRAINING FOE TEACHERS
ASD BUSINESS COLLEGE FOB
, WOMBS'. ’ -
■ ITbe Establishment of the Agricul
tural and Mechanical College sup-1
plies a needful link in our chain of!
education; and the intelligent mail -1
agement of that institution strictly j
along the lines of industrial eduea- i
lion will gradually produce benefi-j
cial results, effecting a change , noil
only in the spirit of our people, S but!
also in our industrial life, Thefe is
in my opinion equally , as / great a
nbcossity, for' a mangel • training
school and business College for
woman, where girls may be trained
in such industrial arts as they are as!
they are capable of learning, in cut
ting, fitting and making clothing, in
typewriting, telegraphy, stenogra
phy, book-keeping, proof-reading
and newspaper work- generally, as
in the proper Unon-iffc ificth.
ode of prepi.riitg foodfi and casing
for tlie sick. \Ve have already, ,;or
soon shall have, Cniple facilities fm
the higher literary: and social edn
| cation of oar girls. What \ve great -
!y heed is an institution for wlpte
girls conducted similarly ,,lo Jithe
Hampton Normal and ,Tfaiiimgff|> i
stitate for .negroes and Indian.--. (J
lithe doors of the Agricultural Ctlid
. Mechanical College Cannot be ofjhvJfed
to hoth seics, I. scoaieeive it t&^Pte
one of the highest duties of ■ the
State to establish a similar . institu
tion for women. The changed con
ditions of life demand th|t women
shall lie fitted for m ore - de pa rim » n ts
.'of actine work than heretofore; and
it is wise statesmanship as well as
true philosophy to assist by educa
tion any moverneut demanded by
the necessities of life.
, UUtt CUJLXJ20J5S.. *;:•=
The good work of our ceiieges is
already aspotent factor in promoting
the education of our people. The
more active,6f them are rapidly ac
cumulating large endowments; and
the munificent endowment bounty
of Maxwell Chambers, Washington
Duke, H. S. jllostwick and Julian S,
Carr, is proof that men of wealth
will give for education with open
hand, when they see definite objects
to be achieved and certain g,.oA to
be realilized. The time should not
be far far distant when the doors of
the sectarian colleges will lie oped
f n 11, /* *,^•.11. i 1- —1.. . 'll, I
w wj»c jwuvu ut iiitM fespecw
ive denominations. May God speed
the day t We shall then see a bel
ter educated'clergy, a more - general
diffusion of culture and refinement,
more liberal, views of life and infcei
fectua! activity, producing higher
ideals of happiness and greater ma
terial comfort.
i Xllg: L'MIVKRilTY.
The most important frctor, after
the common schools, in the educa
tional system! of a people is their
UiHversity,-f©e hereshealfl herfeorrt
the highest culture, the freest
thought and the noblest, aspirations
which the State is. capable of pro
ducing. ' "-.it was at the Uu versify of
Wittenburg that Martin Luther he
'gaii the'Protestant Reformationi" it
was ir. the University of .Glasgow
that Walt invented the steam en
gine; it wiis in the University of the
-City of New York that Morse cre
ated the electric telegraph; and it
was a university professor who for
mulated the principles of trade
which have already revolutionized
industry and commerce scarcely less
than the steam engine; and which
will yet enable alt the nations of
the earth by unrestricted commerce,
tc acbiove'ciie brotherhood of man
and realize the sublime teachings of
Jesus.. ’ ' ; •
t - A- u lii v eisity: ia a aa iuspirati oh of
all that is-best and n,‘blest iu man.
it guides t!;■' enthusiasm o£ youth
into paths of noble ambition. It
fills tho young heart with the joy of
moral and intellectual activity,* and
drives out the brutality of rowdyism
and rottenness of vice with the in
spiration after maety endeavor. Its
faith is unbounded litt the possibili
ties of youthf for it knows that tho
genius and enthusiasm of youth are
more potential than the wisdom aiid
caution of age. - As each genera
tion of students comes to its hails,
it recognizes in the longings of their
youthful sou Is and the energies of
tlreir buoyant bodies and the -infin
ite activities of their restless aiinfisj
new and untried: powers- -which—in
the providogee of God may yoV be
enabled by statesmanship, by oaafo*
ry, by literature, bv scientific in
vention, by philanthropy, or byotb
dr exercise of moral, physical and
intellectual power, to lift humanity
on a higher plain aud io leave the'
world better than they found it. 1
Itis not enough that the internal
life of a university be pare and iu*
spiring. It should guide the moral
and intellectual life of the Slate,
recognizing and fulfilling its lofty
mission as the highest teacher of its
people. Its., active sympathy end
wise counsels and helpfnl. power
should be. constantly exerted in be-;
half of educational progress; and its
guiding hand or ins, iring example
should influence . every institution,
of learning in the. Stale, especially
should it labor for public education,
recognizing it-only as essentia! to-|
full development of the-university
itself, but also an indispensable fac
tor in popular progress. It should
boa leader .and not a follower.
Whenever its ideals are not loftier
and purer and grander than those
of men in common life, it indicates]
its noble sovereignly and becomes a
menial. ' a""','’'!;
juje.over-stmnnua of-fateiieeiuai
'culture is too apt to 'produce corres
ponding neglect. of moral and pins
sical training. ‘ This is thi| evil of
modern education. It is Said that I
100,000 students are now at the
Tdinrersittos of t he world, of whorn
one third will die of iil-heuli.li from
jovwstuely, cue-third from vice,
j and the-other third will rule the
j *orid. The power that is wasted
I is (oo great for that which is ntili
i zed* sind the results achieved are
j correspondingly deficient in ay me- 1
, trieal adjustment. Character . is
! greater than intellect, and health is
] l tie basis of both. Every university
j. houkl not only maintain well equip*
i pel departments of ^physical culture!
j buMhould' cbi-feet vicious habits of
j life, and inculcate perfect physical
I health as a noble ideal for youthful
j aspiration. The development of
! moral and also of humane instincts
| should be included in university ciil
I ture; and a portion of the life of
every university student should be
devoted to the active exercise of
j some sort of charity and to the
| practical consideration of the prob
lems of poverty, intemperance, il
literacy, and of olhes; factors in
vice, crime aud social disorder.
X v. .uyi 1 UK 1HS J/JL ATE TO THE
■' j UNIVERSITY. .
v Such are the duties of the univer- j
sity to the State. How great there- j
fore is the duty of the state to fos
ter and develop its university! The
public sentiment should guard it as
a fountain of learning and virtue;
-the schools and colleges, should re
vere it as the source of the highest
literary culture and of scientific
progress; the churches should hail it
as a coworker in the ta3k of puri
fying and regenerating life; ’ and
philanthropists should recognize it
as affording the best am} surest in
strumentalities for ameliorating the
condition of humanity. Each suc
cessive legislgture should rejoice to
examine its work and perfect its
equipment. Neither the penlten
I tiary, nor the insane asylums, nor
| the various asylums for the deaf,
| dumb and blind, no, not all'fcombin
ed are entitled to the same consid
erate care and fostering love from
North Cavoliaa-fis-her^University,-—
BENEFACTORS OF THE UNIVERSITY.
But even the State cannot supply
a pereci equipment for the univer
sity . Private philanthropy must
.'testis'-perennial stiewts --to enrich
fhie sacted soil. Much has already
been done. With reverence do I
call the names of those, who have
placed upon this holy altar bounti
ful gifts for the blessing of their
people, the names of Garrard, Smith
and Person, formerly, and among
recent benefactors of Mary Ruffin
Smith, Wm. H. Vanderbilt, Julian
S. Carr, Janies Grant, Paul C. Cam
eron and Bartholomew F, Moore.
THE SEEDS OF THE UNIVUSIXY.
But the culture demanded by the
age becomes ever broader, - deeper,
more compleix and more; expensive.'
car more b to be done than has yet
beeti accomplished. The Uuivesity
is alive.to the responsibilities of the
hour, and her alumui are answer
ing her call for help. Twenty-five
t housand dollars were raised at ilic
hist Commencement to eutbiish a
Chair of History and doubtless ten
thousand dollars.additional will be
, provided, before the end of the year.
The needs of fhe Unlvei-sity are
many and great. She lias only be
bogun her growth. Her buildings
"cel to be provided with the com
forts of beat, light and water deman
ded by modern life.
They greatiey need a buildiug-for
•the Yoring Man's Christian Associa
I .on, where the moral and religious
'iitlmsiasmof the students may be
strengthened by constant cssoeia
. :;i in noble ESpirailous and useful
endeavor sad by the confidence that
I comes from permanent and honor
able establishment. Such a build
ing would multiply the moral for
tes of the university and mark an
era in student life. A well endow
ed professorship of Christian philos
ophy and ctittuie, filled by a man
who would lead and direct the reli
gious thought of the university iuto
ever nobler fields of activity,* would
produce results so certainly benefi
cent and inspiring that the Chris
tian people of.the State ought to
consider no duty more urgent or
Igor? hohoiable than the establish
ment of this i.hiw. . ■ " ;
? wMu , u.ussoi'.'tiips are
needed to ucutu new departments
suit strengthen those already csisl
hig- i'ermaaeiTt- eMowimints are
badiy needed for the library and the
gymnasium. ■'
An astronomical observatory
would be uerouwiug glory tj» the
sciettic equipment cif:tlie Univsity
and a grand memorial of private
munificence and philanthropy.
That the greatest need of the uni
versity rj a special endowment for
the aid of poor ''studonti~5f$0,000
would- establish fifty scholarships
and maintain at the University fifty
students' amraaily, who are now
compelled by poverty to abandon
their education. - $50,000 more
T.aTddWlaidishOem-feihiwahirisfmd
sijj'^rVir the usvversitv _ annuaijy I
ten graduate students who, have lie
come inspired with a love ' of learn
ing and research, and who desire
special training Beyond the regular
course. Specially trained scholars,
thinkers and workers is the great
need of the South to-day, men who
will lead intelligently and bravely in
education, ill science, in literature,
in mechanical invention a.ad in all,
sorts of soclaLaudmorak and-poftti
cal reform, ■■■■:■■*
And finally the University must
be endowed. A,permanent endow
ment fund of a quarter of a million'
dollars will be necessary ; to; estab
lish it upon the smallest basis of se
curity. A begining must be made.
It is a matter that concerns the en
tire State. Men of wealth should
remember its necessities. Our own
bounty will attract the bounty even
of strangers, hot this endowment
be reaised, and let tuition bei .prac
tically free to every boy in North
Carolina. .. . 1 j
OUF. EDUCATION a;, SYSTEM IN BliUEF.
Such should be the eductions! sys
tem of the State. Free schools
within reach of every child, taught
by competent, teachers say sis
months a year; graded schools in the
larger towns, with high school de
partments and with workshops for
manual training; private .schools
and academies furnishing better
culture than the State can provide
in the public schools; an Agricultu
ral and Mechanical, College for
young men; a similar institution
for young women, unless the Agri
cultural and Mechanical College be
opened to both sexes; a Normal
Training School for the special
training of teachers; sectarian col
leges for boys and girls, stimulat
ing cureh .cal and directing it in
educational channels; and finally as
the Lead of the system a University,
where truth and humanity are en
throned a bove sect and party, where
ever noble , ideas of conduct and
I character are moulding each gener
jation into more perfect types of
|humanity; aud where the broadest
iculture, the freest science, the pur
est religion tha. profotmdest
philosophy may commingle and
biend liapily together in harmonious
perfection.
Tne Lesson of SgoH’s Life.
Constitution. *»
The inside history of Sir Walter
I Scott’s tremendous struggle during
the last seven years of his life has
just been given to the public. .The
whole is told m certain portions of
Lis diary, now published for the
first time.
After the failure of the publish
ing firm with which he was con
nected, Sir Walter found that he
was liable for debts amounting to
$750,00. At that time lie was past
middle life.. He had an expensive
family. He had fondly hoped that
hi.- working days were over, and
that lie would spend the remainder
of ;Vis life in elegant leisure.
Under such circumstances many
a 'aan would have compromised
with his creditors. - Some men
would have left the country carry
ing with them all that they save
from the wreck. But Scott was im
bued with the high notions of hon
or and chivalry that were woven
into all his poems and romances. It
was a hitter fate for his family, and
it ent him to the heart to give up
comfort and ease and attempt the
gigantic task of w orking out of
debt. —
xjio rumen mar was equal to trie
occasion. He lived ill the simplest
manner, nod-worked day and night.
To his family and* friends he 'made
no complaint, but in his daily jour
nal he wrote down his heart secrets.
Theije were times when he felt that
he must give up, but honor spurred
him on and gave him strength. He
produced hook after book, and at!
tho euiLof seven years he was more
than even with the world again.
Then the giant Jay down as helpless
as a little child, and died with a
happy smile on h's face, “My
dear,” he said to kinsman as be
drew his last breath, “be "a good
man.1' X, ’ } . ‘
In these days when men shrink
out of their debts, or, failing to do
Ihut, blow out their brains, every
young man should read the-life story,
of this golden-hearted gentleman.
Undoubtedly, Some business misfor
tunes assume the proportions of
calamities, and it is not strange
that they paralyze the energies of ,
tlie.r victims or drive them ' into ,
c rooked put Us. Still a resolute J.e*
termination to face the worst and
make the best of the situation, will
nine times out of ten get a good ar.
true man out of his diSrjulties,
When Scott first learned the appall
ing sum of his indebtedness, he did
hdt think, it possible that his p
•would be able to pay -it and-irtlpr* ‘ %
his family, but he felt that It W%
his duty to do his best in that direc
tion. Most men when they .see
their fortunes swept away feel that
it is hopeless to begin life again,
and yet the plucky oiieh that ukV
the trial frequently succeed, at leant
in a moderate degree, 1 r\
Our youngsters are too reckless hi'
business, and too ready to believe
thafe'life is not worth living unless"'
they can seize and hold its golden
prizes. Disappointment and debt
drive them to despair or to som>
thing worse. Let them read this
story of what a man of honor did,
and profit by its lessons. :
Born to Be a Lawyer.
Seitf Tovfc Sit»i- ... ■'
One of .Colonel ‘‘Bob" Irigersall’a
stories is that he found himself
alone in his'office one day . while
a young man he was studying law
with a firm out West. He .s in
terrupted by the entrance Of a raw- ,
boned, sliarp-featnred country wo- '
man, who ambled into the room
leading a freckle-faced, watery-eyed
ten-year-old boy by the hand.
“Air you |the lawyer?” she began.
On being answered in the affirma
tive she went on to soy that she
had brought her boy Jim to town
for the purpose of binding him out
at the “lawyerin’ trade.”
She was morally -certain, she ar
ered, that Jim was a born lawyer,
aH'l tliat all be needed was,a chancer
■‘But, madam,” objected the Colonel
“he is entirely too young to begin
to study law. ’ “Too young, in
deed,” sniffed the found mother,
eontemptously; you don’tkaow Jim.
He was jest born for a lawyer.”
Much amused, the Colonel asked
her on what grounds she based her
hopes for future greatness at the bar
for her dar!ing child. “Why,” said
she, when lie was only seven ’
years old he struck wt rk and swore
he wouldn’t do another lick if he
got killed for it. When he was
eight he got sassy, and put on more
airs than a prize horse at the county
fair, and now Law bless me, he jest
feezes onto everything1 he can lay
his hands on.” ■ ■ --
Dr. Abernethy has succeeded in
raising $3,000 in two mouths for re
building Rutherford College and will
commence work at once.
There are 2,170 sub-Alliancea in
th*s S.ate. There are now 98 coun
ty Alliances, Dare being the last or
ganized. Secretary Beddingfield
says, there-are about 92,000 mem
bers, male and female.
The superintendent of the Silver
Valley mines in Davidson county
reports the finding of the richest
deposit of silver ore ever found in
the South, a large vein of carbonate
of lead carrying 70 to ICO ouaces of
silver and 30 per cent, of lead tothe
ton of ore. x. : y : ' ■
The Raleigh correspondent of the
Monroe Register speaks of a novel
industry in Duplin county—tuhe ’
rose farming. There are over 1200
acres in the county in these 3owers.
There is, says this correspondent,
another rather odd industryin Dup
lin—tiis caring for choice roses dur
ing the winter. The roses are sent
when young from the New England
Middle and Western States and in
this kindly North Carolina’ soil and
air thrive all the winter. -
A Washington ice-cream dealer
refused to serve two colored women,
government clerks, with ice-cream
at a private table in his saloon use
day last week. Thereupon he waa
arrested and fined $25,- Hie coun
sel took «ui apdeal. ,, • • . ;v.
The Smallest baby on record wets,
born in Newark, N. J., August
I5tii. It was boy bahy and
weighed but three quarters of a
xuiiid. It was a premature birth," ‘
jut much to the amazement of the
getting atogg ~
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