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Vol. VIII KALEIGH, N. a. SUNDAY. 9, & 9 0 1 TWELVE PAGES. No. 120 5I18LLPUL EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP SN THE SOUTH Address Delivered Before the Southern Educational Association Columbia, S. C, December 26, 190 Bj Dr. CHARLES I. IQcIVER, President of the Stace Normal and lolaitrlal CoIl?e fhore line never been a time in its ijsiorv, calling for bold, strong leader ship, that the Southern section of 'the T'n:rcfi States has not produced leaders eon;il to the emergency. In peace and ia war, in prosperity anil in poverty, .t has furnished to history statesmen jn-1 warriors of the types of Washing t m. Jefferson, Macon, Jackson, Cal houn. Stephens. Davis. Lee Stonewall Jack son. Hill, Yaneo and Lamar. The leadership of these men has been large- lv in the field of politics and in the field" of war. To be sure they all accom plished much outside their distinctive fields- and the JSouth has never been Ion? without successful leadership In agriculture, at the bar, and in the pul lit. - ' It ha I not. however, in all these years, produced a group of educational lea-iers ' among its great men in high pul.lic place. Naturally this struggling democracy, making its great experiment in a new world, gave its first attention tn war, politics, agriculture, -and com merce. But now the Revolutionary War is a eenturv from ns, Snd the In dian no longer calls us to battle; the war .between the states is to most of us onlv a glorious story of fierce strug gle and heroic bravery on the part of. our fathers and grandfathers; the South has gone-through its forty years' wil derness of poverty with unbroken spirit, and is now in sight of the promised lard of prosperous material independ ence sue "as it enjoyed in the decade from 1830 to 1SG0. May we not hope that such a time and emergency as the present will call forth great leaders who shall live in history,' not merely as successful politicians or military leaders, but as 'etfcieational statesmen? The next ten years will witness the rioveiopment of a group of men who will go upon, tne hustings and fight out for our children tue real battle of lib erty and independence. This battle can be won only by a revolution in popular thought, resulting in a recognition of "the trirainouut importance of securing for every child in the South a thorough, public school education. This group of statesmen will preach with all the fervor of a crusade the doc trines which school teachers have be lieved in for many yeans, and from time to time "have timidly tried to im press upon the public mind and heart. Sometimes we may have been iniatienr; sometimes we have in our zeal, forgot ten perhaps the importance of other questions that were urgent; sometimes we may have impugned the motives of men who, though blind, were honest in their failure to see what we knew to be the great fundamental remedy for many of the evils that tney were' attempting to correct by temporary make-shifts Now, however, we are nfearing the time when a man can make more votes on the stump by advocating the -inv provement of the public school system than he can by advocating the destruc tion of the internal revenue system or the increase or decrease of the tariff tax. Heretofore we have often heard that "We are too poor to support a good system of public education." Here after we shall hear in ringing tones, "We are too poor not to sup-port such a system." In the past, we hae some times heard people speak of the public schools as schools for the poor. Here after, in the days soon to come, a man will no more speak of the capitol build ing, or the postoffice. or the public roads as institutions for the poor. We have iiequently heard men speak of the funds for public schools as charity funds. The"-early -ature "will christen these funds as the best investment that a free people can make. The day has been when education was advocated as a necessity only for the cultured and leisure class, as if education were an ornament or a play-thing for the idle or a means of escaping labor. The new group of statesmen wid fell us that education is not a means of escaping labor, but a' means of making labor more effective, and that it is a universal necessity. We have heard in ancient days that it is robbery to tax Brown's property to ducate Jones' children. In the future o one will question the right of the State to tax the property of Brown- and Jones tp develop the State through its cuildrem We and our fathers have too often thought of a State as a piece of land with mineral resources, forests, water courses and certain climatic con ditions. The future will recognize that people not trees, and rocks, and rivers and imaginary boundary lines make, a State, and that the State is great,; in temgent, wealthy, and powerful, or Is sirsall,' ignorant, povertyi-strieken, and weak just in proportion as its people are educated, or as they are untrained and raw, like the natural material about them. It has 'been too common a politi cal teaching that the best government, is that which levies the smallest taxes. The future will modify that doctrine an- teach that liberal taxation, fairly levies and properly applied, is the chief mark of a civilizea people. The savage pays no tax. -. Two, ideas individual liberty and op position to taxation have dominated our life. There has beeu no politics where one or both of tnese ideas in some form have not been all-controlling. The for mer idea, be it said to our credit, has been dominat over the latter. For in no case have the masses of Southern people seemed to. pay taxes gladly ex cept .when they thought liberty was at stske, m which case they liave been joyfully lavish in expenditure. 'the primitive notion is" that any tax as an abridgement of liberty, and so in a sense, it is, but it is, a fixed doctrine or political, economy that not without taxation can the larger and better lib erty of mankind be promoted or secured, in the very recent past a great cry of distress went up throughout the Un5 ted States in behalf of an island with an area and population about the same as the area and population of North Carolina. Moreover, this population, like that of .North. Carolina, was one- third black. ."Let's go free Cuba," was the battle cry, and from every State, and notably irom these liberty-loving Southern States, volunteers swarmed to join the army -and navy. For the pur pose of fitting up the- boats with paint and flags to get ready to fight for the freedom of Cuba, $50,000,000, an aver age of more than a million to a State, was appropriated by Congress. Because this tax is collected, or is to be collect- , i . i i . ea. indirectly, a. cry oi jo. weiu up with the privilege of paying it, notwith standing the fact that any Southern State's part of it is more than Its school funa for a year. How many millions of dollars have' been appropriated sim ilarly in the same cause since the first $."0,000,000 was appropriated I am un able to tell. It is safe to say. however, th,at the indirect tax to be paid by each Southern State because of this war is mr greater than its aggregate school fund for the past ten years. Besides appropriating the tax cheerfully, the States vied with each other to be the first, to frer their sacrifices of men on ii-e oattle field. jn these same years a few teachers havnndertaie7i to teach the people that in their own -midst are hundreds of thou sands of little children Avho, under onr present .educational condition, are doom ed to tt.e tyranny of ignorance and weakness and' poverty. We have look ed our fellow citizens in the face and begged' them to vote a small tax on themselves to free their own children. We have not asked them to double their public school fund inone year, but have plead for a small increase. In 'the ma jority of cases the answer has come back to us. -"We are too poor, and the peo ple are in no mood for increasing their taxes." Others have said, "You im practical school teachers are not safe leaders. Go back and teach your schools. We do hot censure you severe ly, because you are trying to increase the fund from which you get your sala ries, but you do not know what you are talking about., We have neither time nor money to waste on your schemes We must free Cuba." The subject of the wisdom or unwis ,lnm of tho Spanish War is not a mat te-r for discussion here, and the subject is introduced to illustrate the truth that the people always fand money to spend for what they believe to be a supreme necessity. The educational statesman of the near future wm prot-iium uini,j'i better for people to spend a few hundred thousand dollars in educating tneir own children and freeing them from the thral dom of ignorance and inefficiency thnm it is to snend millions to free the m h.ibit.ir..r.s of an island in the sea. He will teach that no community has ever become poor because of large taxes lo- callv applied, but that, amy community must become poor when paying even a small tax constantly applied to a foreign field, and practically none of it applied to improving home conditions. He will teach that a dollar applied to the im provement of our own and our neighbors children Is a more patriotic dollar than a dollar applied to free the people of any foreign country. He will teach in cidentallv that a negro in Cuba is not a worthier object of patriotism or public expenditure than a negro in North Caro lina. We have heard in the past how neces sary : universities and colleges are, in order that men may be trained for leadership in society. These new states men will teach that the citizenship of the state is composed not only, of men, but of men. -women, and children. They ' will teach that woman is the fountain toad of civilization, tfind that what she teaches to children is more important than all that is taught to them in high schools, colleges and universities. They will call attention to the fact that, while there are one million more men in the United States than women, vet the ex cess qf female illiterates over male illit erates is 300.000. and that the Southern States furnish 0,000 of this excess. They will teach that the Southern white woman m the country fixes the ideals of the home and sets the pace of our civilization, and that there are 100,000 more illiterate white, women in the South than there are illiterate white men. They will, teach that the education of a man means the education of a citizen, where as the education of a woman means the education of a Citizen, and generally the guarantee of an educated family in the next generation. They will see and nrake the people see that whereas there are ' numerous colleges and universities ! with liberal endowment for the educa tion of white men, negro men and negro women, there is- not m all the South, with possibly one exception, a liberally endowecU college for women, and that until recently there have been no wo men's colleges receiving annual appro priations" from the State. They will teach that if education and the removal of illiteracy be the chief problem, of this generation, rather'than a 'struggle over tariff questions and mone.y standards, then the most-liberal public and" private policy in regard to the education of girls and women is demanded.? They will teach that this is true not for senti-. mental reasons, nor because women are essentially better than men or, deserve more from the government, but because the most important part" of the State's population is its children, and wTomen are nearer to the life of children than men are, and determine their future by the atmosphere they create for them in the home and in th? primary school. You have heard frequently that educa tion is not good for the negro, and that when yon educate one of them you spoil a field hand. The coming .statesman vill teach that the proper kind of educa tion hurts no one, .and if it pays to-J train a dog, a horse and all other ani mals that walk on the face of the earth, the negro is not the only exception hi the animal kingdom. He will also teach that in our civilization a field hand is a burden ofteuier than a support; that a field hand is a mau whose head Is of so little consequence that he is all hand. You must do his thinking for him. You must direct him from daylight to dark. and then the product of his labor, with all your direction and care, when placed upon the markets of the world, is worth twenty-five cents a day, andout of that small product must com? the compensa tion for your pains and the dividend on your investment. This new type of sV'tesmtaii will teach that it is better to lltivate a garden at a net profit of $10 than to cultivate a field at a net loss of $10. He will teach that it would be a good thing" for tikis country if we could con vert half of our field hands into artisans, who could erect our build ings and convert our law material into more profitable products. Moreover, he will teach that mo community can ai ford to doom its own white children to mental starvation because of ira willing ness to provide even a - scant supply of intellectual food for the, negro chil dren 'dwelling among them ' He wdl tench that the white race is the thoroughbred among races and stands among inferior rtiees as the thor-; oughbred animal stands among scrubs. At the same time he will teach that Every efficient State superintendent In the South knOws that, under the present condition, his particular work is in the field , and not in his office ; yet many of the . best siipa-Satendents - are handicapped because they cannot remain in the field and labor where labor is most, needed,- unless they are willing to do so at ; their own expense out of theiir meagre salaries. It is exceedingly poor economy, on; the part of the -State to limit, by inadequate provision for necessary traveling expenses, the State superintendent's work. But let us now r direct our attention to the county superintendent. He ought to be the livest man and the most in fluential leader among his people. This is exactly "what a few county . superin tendents are. but such men are very rare, and it is no wonder they are rare. Nothing is Uo indicative of the low ebb of public education as the pitiable price we are willing to pay for the services of the county superintendent. The se curing of a competent and capable man for this great work, is almost an acci dent and is of rare occurrence. . The c?ty superintendent of schools, while not paid extravagantly, still Js able to support his family, and. in addi tion, spend a small amount of money each year gaining, general and profes sional culture. As a rule, an ambitions county superintendent with a family could not live on the salary of his posi tion. And yet public thought needs to be stimulated most just where this man touches the fife of the people. His work, more than any other public work in his community, needs a man of great power, tact, and " energy. He should bo a man -who can win the confidence of the intelligent, lead the ignorant and illiterate and give 'hope and inspiration to plodding men of mediocre ability and position. Iii au . argument on general questions,; he should be able to hold hisown with the strongest professional or commercial men he may chance to meet: and in the discussion of educa tional questions he should be more than a match for them. lie ought not to be a' mere examiner of teachers or a gatherer of statistics. few clerks in the office of the State superintendent could send out all the written examina tions necessary, and pass upon the ex amination papers. The chief work of the local superintendent now should be to snow, tne county commissioners uuu ''the powers that be" in politics and business whatr educational necessi ties of 3hii? couijty are, and how thes necessities can be supplied; and he ought to1 be able to help secure proper support from the people I Tea Table Tattle X By TEBE 5 Pop! Whizz! Snap! Bang! Boom! Did Christmas bring any such noises to your ears ? No? Well, that is be cause you are deaf or do noflive in Kaleigh'. , , ' i Pen of miiiie was never intended to go into raptures over angelic anthem or seraphic sonnet; and although concord of sweet sounds charms my ear and thrills my soul, it is .not my part to please the fancy with fine phrases de scriptive of theiT raptures. liather lot me try to place on paper my impres sions of the medley of noises of the street. " ; Days before the dawn of Christmas mom the dulcet motes of the he-hoo horn, as piped by the small hoy, wake the gentle echoes and afford a foretaste of the hub-bub coming on . later. As the glad day draws nearer the noises in crease in variety and volume until the culmination . some hours before Santa Claus makes his round. Then the terri ble grumble and rumble and roar is on sure enough, and any one who has" the aawmood, to venture into the street cannot hear his own ears. The single tin horn has to its kindred thousands grown, and more cow bells are drageed over tne sidewalks at one time than were ever engaged in legitimate business in the whole of Wake county, while tin pans enough to stock a kitchen utensil store are beaten and battered until a billy goat - would esteem them tender and juicy morsels; all combining with myriad other frightful sounds to swell the clamor and clangor, confusion and din until nervous people with one nccord wish that the celebration of Christmas was one of the lost arts. We all know that the fundamental necessity is t more money for the public schools. A fheap-John business will al ways mean cheap-John management, anu the output will be cheap-John pro ducts. It is .ancient and current his tcry that-as! soon as a community votes ft-liberal t'ax-f or public education lead ing men in that community who pre viously ignored or openly expressed contempt for public education. begin a race to secure the privilege of serving n the school board. Suddenly there develops the ambition to have the best superintendent who can be employed ! regardless of where he comes from and if vou feed the thoroughbred and scrub i . t-.A. it. i- Mi rr 1 .-. ou poor flier, me -sauu win fimn t. j? . r,. it. .m. than the thoroughbi-ed; that only wnu ."sa"f,L there is a liberal provision of food and; te every wnere wnen eacn rurai commim care will the thoroughbred's blood fully j ity of 'the South decides to do what assert itself: and that similarly on a ; nearly every town and city of the South starvation educational diet an inferior , has already done, and votes a liberal race has a comparative advamtage, while . local tax for the schools. A Laa oil f i nr this now (TAiin nf ' uur iKUUUiuiua iour. ntr kauuxji. nyjf, statesmen will teach that the education i of children is greater than the waging of war or the prosecution of politics; that the school teacher is the most im portant agent of human society; that he I however, for an early general adoption of local taxation with our present sys tem employing county superinten dents, most of whom must, in the na- ! ture of tne case, spend a large part of TwXn hp onnune nf this dav flf ' tion of it to Rational work. . o:Aoi cf,,,,!, hnnPil? ent the school fund is not 1 is theseed corn of civilization, and that tDejr tme to make their living 'in some nme- but the best and strongest js fat I hot. n riT-;nr nnlr a smnll nnr- At pres- arge, ana The inauguration of a' movement for the probably it is not practicable to increase betterment of conditions in any field of materially the compensation Of the human activity mu-st be made primarily county superintendents. If this be true, by the lalMrers in that field. Thysiciians the only possible remedy is to combine have not expected lawyers to lead in jwo or three counties into one district. and instead of having two or thi-ee, six leieiided uixm farmers for judicial legis lation; farmers have not bettered their condition except where the representa tives of their calling are able to lead or teach others to lead, jso more can we except or( eight hundred dollar .men, one for each county, have one eighteen hundred or twenty-four hundred dollar man who will give one third of himself to each great educational advance of the three counties. It will be better movements except under the leadership of teachers or U-.iJers who have been instructed and in.-pi red by teachers. We must lead our own movements so far as we can, and in addition we must often furnish a brief of fact and argument. to those in high political place for a quicker and more influential leadership. ,-The school teachers can educate public sen timent to see the truth in regard to public education, so that it will be im possible for those who are indifferent and hostile to the cause to be elected to positions of honor and power. It is worth a great deal to a county to have sheriff or a judge or a county com missioner who is, in time ot need, a fighting friend for the cause of public education. When the masses of the people, educated and uneducated. re brought to the realization of the highest interests of themselves and their chil dren, they will not be slow to develop political educational leaders from their own ranks. The most important officers in the South today .are the State superintend ents of public instruction and the county superintendents. Unfortunately the sala ries vpf our State superintendents and their allowance for traveling expenses are not sufficient to. secure the most effective service. It is of more. -im portance to any State in the South to have a State superintendent of towering ability than to have a jrovemor or 'a congressman of towering abilitv: In most of the Southern States we. pay. our estate superintendent of public mstruetion a salary of from $1,500 to $2,000. We pay our governors from $3,000 to $5,000. congressmen are paid $5,000. In spite of this some State superintendents . are superior in point of ability amd effi ciency to some governors. Yet it is not to be supposed, that the mjiioritv of the strongest, most efficient and mwt ambitious men, however, patriotic they may ie, and however important the field may be. will choose for public service that field which offers the least reward. to have one-third of a two of three thousand dollar man in any county than to have all of a seven or eight hundred dollar man. These men might be call ed division superintendents or deputy State superintendents. Their ""salaries "would amount to no more than we pay for our present system of supervision. We would, perhaps, lose a little in local management, but we would gain at the great all-important point of having a maste of h.s business an a capable, inspiring leader of public thought repre senting in every county, every year the cause of public education. If each coun ty could 'be induced to have such a man so much the better. What is needed, is wis,-tactful, aggressive, local agitation by one man who krnows the truth and who can speak it and write it effectively. Such a man cannot be had unless the public is willing to give 'sufficient com pensation to enable him to prosecute the work, and at the same time make a liv ing in that work. A superintendent cf this kind would be able to. train teach ers in institutes, guide school officials in their work, and, by writing vind sneaking.' influence the thought of the people on all educational matters. He would so educate the public that the day of the educational statesman would not long be delayed. Our profession would furnish some of these .educational statesmen. Some of them would be f odnd among the very men spoken of as division superinten dents or deputy State superintendents. Bait wnerever the leaders might come from, whether from among lawyers, preachers, doctors, farmers, or teachers themselves, the South would be bene fited by its new leadership. Instead of a constant fighting merely for securing Continued ob Pas EIYa Since Maclay has been made the scape-goat of the . disgraceful naval clique" that has done its utmost to down Admiral Schley and has ,since been spitting venom at the. peerless Dewey, it would be In accordance with the eter nal fitness of things if he were to blab on the people who inspired his "his tory" and encouraged his inexcusable at tacks on a man 'who has won the grati tude .of the American people and is en shrined in their hearts as a hero. The disgraceful coterie ought to be exposed and Maclay is the man to do it. What more. heOught to do it. : Gineral C- is a dreffle smart man: He's ben on all sides thet gives places or pelf; Burt .consistency still was a part of his plan, He's ben true to one .party, an' thet "is himself, v These lines from the Biglow papers call . to mind what was said the other day- of Senator Teller 'of Colorado: "He has been a Republican, a Silverite, a Populist, and is now an out and out Democrat." Contemplating the kaleido scopic changes in the political associa tions, not to speak of convictions, on the part of the distinguished statesman from the Centennial State, I have been slow to reach the conclusion that considera tions of "places or pelf" were responsi ble for the series of shifts that finally landed him on the minority side of the Senate chamber. But upon spanning the political history of Colorado since 1876 wlien the State was admitted to the Union and Mr. Teller -was commissioned her first senator, I observe that she has drifted from her Republican moorings and now holds out no hopes to a states man identified with the "g. o. p. So I am reluctantly compelled to admit that the late Mr. Hezekiah Biglow had Sen ator Teller's measure down mighty fine. But the "Gineral C. type of states man is not monopolized by the wild and woolly west, nor by the Bay State -where Mr. Biglow-lived and wrote his exquisite verse. Ile is not unknown even in North Carolina where we are all actu ated by considerations of principle with out a thought of possible advantages to be gained from turning our coats. As I said, he is not unknown among us; just enough of him, by way of exception, 'bo piove the rule. One that I have in mind at present is a shinmg example that, never fails to command my admiration. With the readers kind indulgence I shall draw n pen sketch of the individual in question and leave to others the pleasure of naming it. . j A convention hall in Raleigh rises be jfore my mental vision.. A figure of commanding presence and voice to match is the centre of a tumult. The central figure is one high in the councils of the Populist ' party. He is trying to have the delegates to Sioux Falls instructed for Bryan because he represents "'Popu Ustic principles," and, to make good the professions of" the convention of loyalty to the leader, he proposes the adoption ef a resolution endorsing the Democratic candidates for elector at large, already committed to the support of Bryan. The outcome of the tumult is neither here nor there. You catch the central figure? Very well. . Lawyers whose statues -have found places in the Farmers Alliance Temple of Fame are. few and far between, but the hero1 of this sketch is -one of the few thus favored who, after discovering that., they were better Democrat than the rank -and file of the Democratic par ty, proved their devotion to "Jeffersonian principles" by moving their baggage into the Populist camp. One more move completes the boxing of the political com pass: but that has been made, and the erstwhile vehement, supporter of Bryan is now a third degree member of the Republican . inner circle.. - It is not necessary to hint that the hope of securing a Federal office had any weight in detqjrmining this latest change of heart; but i is a long" way from Bryan to Roosevelt, and Mr. Big- low is a poet of nature. -Do you recog nize anybody, who resembles- Gineral C ? . . - The idea of a lot of men, calling them selves Democratic leaders, meeting. :n secret to . pick out a presidential candi date savors - too match of Tammany methods to please my fancy. It has alwas been-: the popular theory that the party through its accredited dele It was the only heart it found, The only heart 'twas meant to find When first its accents wok. gates selects its candidates in the na- It reached that gentle heart 'at last, tional convention: but if the story given j And that it broke. - out to the press Friday night indicating 1 ranees Sargent Osgood such a purpose as is herein suggested. is true, then conventions are nothing more tnan ratification meetings and the "leaders" are the whole push. As be-; fore remarked, I do not like that way ' of selecting candidates.' Do you? " " - ( The exciting pleasures of hunting in ' North Carolina have been pleasingly presented to President Roosevelt by Col. John (S. Cunningham, whose engaging manner , and persuasive powers ate known of all men; but all without avail. The President would have been delight ed, but pressing official engagements made such urgent demands upon his time that really well you know the rest. We all feel for Colonel Cunningham in his disappointment, and make no bones of telling ' the President "that he doesnt know what he has missed; for. the gnial colonel would have given him a roval good time and shown him game worthy of his trusty rifle or fowling piece. By the way, I, am thinking of sending Col.' Fred Olds to Washington to invite the President down to Raleigh before" the close of the holiday season, while. Congress is not in session and politician: are not looking for jobs. We are having some . exciting sport hereabouts thes days. It was only the other day. that a hunting party of a dozen or more men with as many guns and dogs went out' to chase the fierce cotton-tail in the un trodden wilderness of Wake county. - It is not necessary to mention the nam&s of the high . dignitaries composing the party, for that might prove a severe shpek to their modesty. It is sufficient to state that after several hours spent in the exciting chase our huntsmen re turned, bringing three rabbits by actual count. The President should not miss such sport as this. Let him make haste to pack his grip and come. We (that is, our local sportsmen) will, do the rest and foot the bills. It is not enough that people who leave little children locked up in houses' while they go off to meetings or frolics have to endure the lashings of guilty conscience when their little ones fall ra the fire and burn to death. They should! be punished as criminals that their evil; example may become a terror to others inclined to commit -like acts of cruel . negligence. Three deaths of children in' one week when all might have been alive, andwell today-through-the exercise of " ordinary parental care, is the record for one North Carolina city this winter. Tt- is simply frightful, and the sooner the law takes cognizance of such cases the better. - . v " . The vicissitudes in the life of a country. editor have been the subject of much thought upon the part of the tattler, especially as he has spent several years m the school of experience and knows how it is himself. Recently -his sympa thiies have been enlisted in behalf of th Backwoods Bugle vchich has been dis playing signals of distress. In a late .issue the editor manifested much anxiety to climb down from the tripod and shift the cares and anxieties of his occupation to broader shoulders. He offered his outfit for about one-half what it cost, and proposed for a small additional con sideration to close out, lock, stock and barrel, and vacate the premises; but in the same breath, with courage worthy of a martyr, he declared "If we can't get our price we expect to make it hum." After reading that note of "hopes tri umphant o'er our fears" I was more than half inclined to wish that ithe ed itor could not get his price. It was with a feeling of relief, therefore, that I . turned to the editorial page (printed two or three days later than the offer to sell out) and read the joyful announce ment that the editor had .secured a posi tion as school teacher, with an accom plished lady assistant and "over GO pu- pll.3, ail sizes and graaes irom six years old beginners to those 17 or 18 in latin, aljebra. General history, etc." I felt like telegraphing my congratulations af ter reading "The principal receives a salary second to none of the public school teachers" No mercenary publisher he, far instead of salting down his school room earnings the self sacrificing editor definitely announces his purpose to make his paper hum, saying: "We wish to say that in accepting this position it is not our purpose to neglect the Bugle, but to strengthen it by having -a good steady income. Any courtesies , shown our printers will be duly appre ciated by us and by them. We regretted to leave Backwoods, but liked th offer here which r came unsought by us. and was accepted by telephone." And so the Bugle continues to blow for hum. as the editor has it) week in and week cut. and the dollars earned by teaching the young idea how to shoot are devoted to paying the wages of the printers in the hope of building up a great purveyor of news and moulder of public opinion. That is what I call heroic devotion- to a cause that holds out no immediate promise of reward, whatever the future may have in store. - -s . ; - CALFMMY A whisper woke the air, A soft, light. tone, and low, , Yet barbed with shame and woe. Ah: might it only perish there, Nor farther go! But no! a quick and eager ear Caughtup the little, meaning soundi Another voice has breathed it clear; And so it wandered round From ear to lip, from lip to ear, ' Until it reached a gentle hearty Thas throbbed from all the . world apart ' And that it broke!. t ( I ( "If t tegpe- p.y ft e- t f r: Sr VV' ""
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