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.ools: and. finally, in that edu
cational indifference whioh is the
cbief canne of the small average
daily attendance of 36 6 pupils out of
every 100 enrolled in our present
public sohools.
We believe the future will hold ua
responsible for the perpetuation of
these unfavorable conditions, and,
therefore, we conoeive it to be the
patriotic, moral, and religious duty
of this generation of North Caro
linian to set about in earnest to find
the means by which all our children
can receive that education which
will give them equal opportunities
with the children of other eeotions
of our common country.
4 Viewing our educational prob
lems and conditions in the light of
educational hist ry and experience,
we declare it to be our firm oonviotion
that the next step forward for North
Carolina in eduoati n is to provide
more money for her country public
schools, making possible the consoli
dation of smll school districts, the
professional teacher, and skilled
supervision of the expenditure of all
school funds and of the teaohing
done in the schools.
rl he history ot the adoption of the
principle of local self help by our 35
graded pohool tjwna and cities must
inrely be an inspiration and an ex
ample to every village and rural
community in North Carolina. Those
towns and cities have adopted the
only means at hand for the adequate
education of their children. In ad
opting this principle, local taxation,
they securea : first, adequate sohool
fui.d; second, competent supervis
ion; third, skilled teacher. Lack
lug any one of this educational trin
ity no community has ever yet suo
ceeded in estaolishmg the mtans of
oomplete education for its children.
These 35 towns and cities within
our borders have followed the lead
o! other sections of the United States
in adopting first the means of educa
tion, local taxation The fact that
69 i er cent, of the total sohool fund
of this Union is now raised by local
taxes, while N rth Carolina raises
only 14 er cent. of her funds by that
means, and lags behind all her sister
States in every phase of public edu
nation, has both its lesson and its
,
warning.
5. Remembering that in the last
year nearly 30 communities in North
Carolina, some of them distinctly
rural, tiave adopted the principle of
local taxation for sohools, we think
this time m- st auspicious to urge a
general movement of all our edaoa
tional for. tsin that direction, and,
therefore, we appeal to all patriotic
North Carolinians, men and women
who love their State, and especially
that nart of their State which is
worth more than all its timber,
lands, mines, and manufacturing
plants, to band themselves together
under the h-ad-r(hipof our Educa
tional Governor" and the State Su
perintendent of Public Instruction,
aided bv the Southern Elucation
-
Board, to carry forward the work ot
local taxation and better schools, to
the end that every child within our
borders may have the opportunity
to fit himelf for the duties of citizen
ship and s cial service.
Aad, finally, heartily believing in
the llristiiker.esa cf this work of
bringing universal education to all
the child ren of North Carolina, we
confidentlv rely on the full co-opera
tion of all the churches of the State,
h of-e work is so near the hearts cf
all the people, and, therefore - ap peal
to th pulpit to inculcate the supreme
foty of universal education
Signed: C. B. Ayoock, Governor
of North Carolina ; T. F. Toon, State
Sup. rir.tpnnVnt of Public Instruc
tion-. C. D Mtvpr. State Normal
College ; F P Venable, State Uni-
ver;tv: (ie T Winston, A. os M.
CgIWp-ce Tavlor. Wake Forest
CV.lpe ; Edwin Mima, Trinity Col
lc': H L Smith, Davidson Col
let; c. H MeVine, Catawba C1
leL'p ; L L Hobs, Guilford College :
Lft rawford. Rut' erf ord C liege ;
t (i Varrtell, Red Firings Seminary ;
J . Atkins, Elon College; Robfe
Birba Aabeville; J. A. Holt,
kRi(lg-p:E P M.oes, Raleish ; R.
1 Y:itit, Biptit Female Univer
s:tv;T. Brutton, St Mary's Sohnoi ;
M C S N hip. University of North
Csr Mna; D H. Hil, A. & M Col
K": AUx Graham, Charlotte; E. P
Mm .'rim, Wilson ; J. A. Butler,
& Mutt Thomp .n, States villn ;Hngh
M r- n, RtlMgh ; J. I Foust, State
y r ',,.! ; t k Koust, G'ldsboro; J
T ynr, state Normal; F. W
-nrtiH. Burlington; J. B Carlisle,
ttak--. F..ret;H. J Stockard, Peace
Uftitute; E C. Burns, Monroe ; J
L Killer, Biptist Female Univer
j;t? ; C. L. Coon, Salisbury ; E MoK.
oolwin, Morganton ; Harry Howell,
ashington ; J E. Ray, Raleigh ; W.
o. Lne, Alamance county; F. P.
"obgnod, Oxford; John Duckett,
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State News.
raoM (rrEBiTTjcx to chesokes.
msef Interest Gleaned Trom our Conn
, pondonts and Exchanges in ill
Parts of the Suu.
Alexander oounty will have one
free rural mail delivery route to start
up March 1st.
R man Catholics have now begun
the work of building chapels ten
miles apart all over Wake county.
Hon. H. A. Herbert, Cleveland's
Seoretary of the Navy, will deliver
an address at the University com
mencement. Greensboro Telegram : By aotual
count High Point now has 45 fac
tories, including the two in the
course of erection.
Rutherford B. Hayes, son of t for
mer President Hayes, has donated a
hundred volumes of choice books to
the oounty schools of Buncombe.
Judson C. Honeyoutt, of North
Carolina, has been sentenced to a
year in the, penitentiary at hard
labor for desertion from the army.
Smithfleld Herald : A few days
day 8 ago one lot of 1,225 pounds of
tobaooo was soid for over $400,
averaging about 34 cents per pound
Representative W.W. Kitohin has
secured the promise of nine new free
rural delivery routes in his district
on the first of Maroh, three of them
being in Durham oounty.
The case of Long, veisus the
Southern Railway, has been com
promised, Mr. Long receiving $7,500.
He sued for $50,000, on account of
the killing of his son, whirh occur
red at the University Station some
time ago
Littleton Reporter : The shuttle
block factory opens a purse to those
who own dogwood and persimmon,
whioh will enable them to gather in
during the next few months ready
cash to assist in passing over the
difficulties brought about by the
unfavorable seasons of last year.
It is said that the queerest name
in Mecklenburg oounty is "Many
Citizens Carter," a son of Mr. John
Carter. The father says the mother
saw the name "Many Citizens"
signed to a newspaper article and
she then and there decided to name
her son Many Citizens Carter.
Charity and Children.
Columbia College has conferred
the degree of Dctor of PhiloS' phy
upon Mr. Charles Lee Raper, of the
chair of Eonomioa of the Univer
sity of North Carolina. Dr. Raper
is one of the ablest of the young
North Carolina scholars, and has
won his degree as a student of
economic problems. News and Ob
server :
Sinford Express : Mormon Elders
were, until about two years ago very
active in this section, but we have
heard nothing from them of late. A
few years ago they organized a
church near Cameron with some
twenty five or thirty members, also
one near Jones Chapel, but it seems
that these organizations have dis
banded and rt nounced Mormonism.
Anniversary exercises at Wake
Forest, Friday, 14th, were largely
attended. The following question
was debated : "Resolved, that labor
organizations in America and Eng
land have been more beneficial than
injurious." The affirmative was
maintained by Mers. Delos W. Sor
rell and Jame Roy all, and the nega
tive by Messrs. Charles M. Beach
and Oscar P. Dickinson. The nega
tive won.
Washington Cor. Post: Judge
Frank I. Osborne, who is here, will
enter the Senatorial' contest. He
said to-day that he would be a candi
date and he prefers the primary
plan for the nominaticn of Senator.
He is oogn zant of the faot that the
primary has its objecti mabie fea
ture?, but he believes it the best
method of obtaining ti& ohoioe of
the people for Senator Pritohards
huccessor.
Asheville Speoial to Charlotte Ob
- . l : a. rt
server, lztn : xms murmug at i
o'clock J H Salisbury, one of thn
best known conductors on the South
ern between Salisbury and Knosville,
was shot and seriously wounded by
Press Dillion, a colored waiter at the
Glen Rock Hotel, where Salisbury
was breakfasting. Salisbury had
slapped Dillon a few minutes before
going to breakfast because the latter
had taken the seat of an old gentle
man and was slow about giving it up.
Charlotte Observer: The end of
the Stanly and Wilkes bond cases
is perhaps not yet. The counties
have the right of appeal from the
ad vers a decision of the United States I
The Progressive Parmer, February 11, 1002.
: 1 ,
Cirouit Court of Appeals at Rich
mond to the Supreme Court of the
United States and the reasonable
supposition is that they will exercise
it. It may take somewhat the course
of the James-Howard case, from
Rowan, in whioh case has been
established the faot that there are
endless ohains in other things than
cherry tree transactions.
Raleigh Cor. Charlotte Observer :
It is deoiced by the auditorium
stockholders to build. A site is
ordered to be purchased by Maroh
1 It is the idea to have a building
with 100 feet front and 84 feet of
depth, to seat 3,000 ; to be one story
in height, of brick and galvanized
iron. The cost of the site is esti
mated a $4,000 and of the building
at $7,200. There is $6,600 in hand
and $3,000 more pledged. The build
ing will be for use solely as an audi
torium and not as a theatre.
Col. Olds: A very interesting
pamphlet is in oourse of preparation
here, giving information seoured for
the first time regarding the private
oolleges and sohools in this State, it
will say there are 18 well defined
denominational college, and that in
all these there are 2,700 students.
There are 325 private sohools, in
eluding high sohools and in attend
ance on these there are at least 20,000
pupils during the year. The teach
ers in 250 of these teaoh public
sohools as long as the money lasts
and then supplement these with
what are termed "pay schools."
Charlotte Observer : Distriot At
torney Hoi ton did well to rejeot the
propi-sition made to him in Washing
ton yesterday by the attorneys for
the Amos O en Cherry Tree Com
pany, that if the indictments against
them were dismissed they would
turn over for distribution among
their victims $30,000. This effer
was made through attorneys who
would naturally have muoh influence
with Mr. Holton, and it is a pleasure
to see that he had the backbone to
refuse to consider. There are things
in this world whioh money cannot
atone for, and the orime of these
cherry tree fakirs is one of them
Durham Cor. Charlotte Observer :
W. T. Oaks, of Wake oounty, has
entered suit against Register of
Deeds Suitt, of this oounty, to re
over $200. On November 6h, last,
license was issued for the marriage
of Thomas F Bradshaw and Miss
Mary Elzabeth Oaks, daughter of
W. T. 0ks, of Wake county. The
age of the young lady was given at
18 and the young man said he was
21. Shortly after the license was
issued the two were made husband
and wife by 'Squire W. A. Avent, in
East Durham. It was a runaway
affair and the father of the young
lady, who now asks for damages,
says that she was under 18.
Greensboro Reoord : A man who
purchased some of it last evening
to k a sample pt shlpstnff to police
headquarters to be examined. In
appearance it looks like finely ground
saw dust. A match was applied to
it and it smelled exactly like corn
cobs when burning. It is the opin
ion of those who made only an ex
amination with the naked eye that
it is composed of corn stalks, cobs
and saw dust ground together, with
perhaps a few grains of oats to the
bushel. It was purchased from a
groceryman in Greensboro, and will
be ohemiotlly analyzed. Not long
ago G. Will ArmfiVld had a horse to
die after eating stuff like this, and
he is satisfied this is what killed
him.
BIO MONEY FOR A NORTH CAROLINA
NEGRO SCHOOL.
Brooklyn Woman Wil's an Fdgecombe
County Itstimuon the Bulk of a Large
Fstate.
New York, Feb. 11 Mrs. Elma
Brewster Brick, who died at the age
of 80 in her home in .Brooklyn,
February 3rd, bequeaths in her will,
whioh was filed to-day, a great por
tion of her estate, whioh i said to
be worth nearly $1,000,000, to chari
ties in which she has been interested
for 50 years.
To the St. Joseph Brick Agricnl
tural Industrial and Normal School,
n Elgeoombe county, N. C, the
bulk of her property goes. The
American Missionary Association is
o take charge of this bequest, the
exact value of which could not be
learned to-day. This sohool has
been one of Mrs. Brick's particular
cares. It. was named in memory or
her husband, who died a generation
ago, and is for the education of
negro boys and girls.
The President's decision in the
Schley appeal will be made public
within a few days.
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7XAT THE DISPATCHES TELL,
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The Fasti Boiled Down and Presented i
, Convenient Form foilr Buiy
Readeri.
The President did not go to Charles
ton, being kept away by the illness
of his son, who is now, however, out
of danger.
Governor Mc Bride of Washington
State has made a new movement in
his war on the railway lobby. He
has announced his intention to dis
miss any State employe who accepts
a pass over a railroad. He declares
he will crush out the lobby.
A bronze medallion memorial of
of the late John Ruskin was unveiled
in Westminster Abbey last week by
Mrs. Arthur Severn, Raskin's cons
in, in the presenoe of a distinguished
gathering. The memorial is in the
poet's corner, above the Sir Walter
Soott memorial and beside the Oliver
Goldsmith medallion.
A favorable report has been au
thorized by the Senate Committe on
Pensions on Mr. Pritohard's joint
resolution construing the pension
law of 1890. The resolution is in
tended to give a pensionable status
to those who served in the Confed
erate army and subsequently joined
the United States army who are
now denied the benefits of that
aot on the ground that they gave
aid to the rebellion.
The Director of the Census recently
made a statement in regard to the
increase of population of places of
less than 4,000 inhabitants, east and
west of the Mississippi river, show
ing that east of the Mississippi river
suoh towns had grown more rapidly
in the last ten years than during the
years 1880 to 1890. A study of the
population changes shows that the
regions whioh in the previous decade
lost population are now regaining it.
The President has approved, with
one notable exoeption, all the reoum
mendations made by the army brevet
board of whioh General MacArthur
was president. The exoeption noted
is the case of Theodore Ro savelt
who was awarded the brevets ot c Lio
nel and brigadier general for distin
guished services at San Juan, Santi
ago. The nominations will be sent
to the Senate this week but the list
will not contain the name of the
President.
A steamship that has just arrived
in Now York broke the reoord for
having the longest communication
with the land by meats of the Mar
coni wireless telegraphy. On Satur
day, the 1st of February, the steam
ship was at 12: 15 p. m., a few miles
off the Lizrd. Messages were then
exchanged and the telegrapi ing was
kept up until midoight of the f ol
lowing day. The last message was
sent when the Philadelphia was 150
miles from the land. This is the
longest distance in whioh wireless
communication has ever been estab
lished between vessels and the shore
We clip this brief report of the
Pater son fire from an exchange : A
conflagration exoeeding the blaze
whioh reoently wiped out a large
part of Waterbury, Ct., swept Pat
terson, N. J., Sunday. It destroyed
25 entire blocks in the business cen
ter at a loss placed at $8,000,000 by
early estimates. Doubtless final es
timates will out this down oonsid
erably. A gale fanned the flames
into irresistible fury. Eight
city building, five ohurohes, ix
banks, five olub houses, seven ofiioe
buildings, one theatre, two newspa
pers, nearly 30 stores and as many
dwellings were destroyed Many
persons were injured, but there ap
pears to have been small loss of
life.
The Youth's Companion gives the
following information of interest in
connection with our treaty with
Denmark purchasing the Danish
West Indies: 'The treaty transfers
to the United States absolute sover
ereipnty over the islands of St. Croix
or Santa Cruz, St. John and St.
Thomas. The three islands have a
combined area of 127 quare miles
and a population of 32,000. They lie
not far from Porto Rico, and com
mand one of the main entrances to
the Caribbean. A treaty for their
purchase was negotiated more than
30 years ago, but was r jeoted by
the Senate. Should the sale be now
completed, the easternmost point of
the territory of the 'United will be
the eastern tip of St. Croix, 64 34'
west of Greenwich, and the western
most the western extremity of the
island of Balabao in the Philippines,
117 3' east of Greenwtob, about 12,-
000 miles distant."
WHAT CONGRESS IS D0IHG.
Our Washington Correspondent Gives a Sum
mary of Last Week's Work.
Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
The events at the Capitol this
weak might almost be summed up
in two words, Philippines and butter.
The Senate has devoted almost its
entire time to the consideration of
the Philippine question that is to
say, the Democratic side has devoted
the time while the Republican Sen
ators have smoked in the oloak
rooms and committee rooms.. A bril
liant debate between Senators Hoar
and Piatt of Conneotiout marked
the proceedings on Tuesday and
filled the chairs in the chamber.
There were no new ideas advanced
by either Senator, but their oratory
was brilliant and eloquent and proved
a welcome relief from the monotony
whioh had marked the previous ses
sions.
The House has thought of little
but butter and oleomargarine all
of the week, and, although the
chp.mber was not divided upon strict
party lines, the preponderance of the
opposition to the Henry bill was on
the Democratic side. On Tuesday
and Wednesday the bill was oonsid
ered under the five -minute rule and
the debate was highly entertaining
if not instructive. The Demoorats
approaohed very olose to filibuster
ing in their attempts to amend the
bill so as to render its defeat inevita
hie and quick and sparkling repar
tee was indulged in by both sides of
the House. On Wednesday the bill
was carried, having been amended
to include provision for the inspec
tion and branding of renovated but
ter.
The introduction in the House by
Representative New lands of Nevada
of a resolution whioh invites Cuba
to become annexed to the United
States has been the occasion of much
gossip and speculation in the lobbies
and committee rooms and there seem
to be a good many Representatives
who are desirous of seeing the
island an integral part of the United
States although it is doubtful if the
present H 'use would be willing to
take the action on a Democratic
initiative. It is held at the other
end of the Capital, however, that
the Piatt Amendment perpetually
bars the way to annexation and that
all talk in that direction is idle spec
ulation.
It is difficult to predict to what
the House will turn its attention
with the oleomargarine bill out of
the way. There is a desire on the
part of the Republican leaders to de
lay aotion on the Cuban reciprocity
question for the immediate present
and, in faot, until some measure can
be arrived at whioh will not be ob
noxious to the representatives from
Michigan and California. The Demo
orats are trying to force the issue
with a view to embarras ing the op
position. G. G. Hill.
Washington, Feb. 14.
A SLOW TO 8P0ILSMBIT.
Places of Country Postmasters to Be Hade
More Secure.
Washington, Feb. 15 Through
Mr. John L. Bristow, Fourth Assis
tant Postmaster General, the Post
master General has announced what
is intended to be a gradual, but nev
ertheless a deoided, change of polioy
as to fourth olass postmasters. In
the future, ; so far as the department
can effect such a change without op
posing everybody in Congress fourth
olass postmasters are not to be re
moved from offije exept for inefn
oiency or misconduct. Those posi
tions are no longer to be regarded as
politioal prizes to be awarded every
four years.
Postmaster General Payne ex
plained this polioy to Mr. Bristow
several days ago, stating at the time
that no intention existed to make a
hard and fast rule. It was reoog
nized that manv Representatives
and Senators had already pledged
certain postoffice appointments in
their districts, and that any fixed
rule must work to the great disad
vantage of such Congressmen. Those
pledges were acc rdingly to be ob
served and fourth-class appointments
were to be made in accordance with
the old custom whenever such agree
ments existed. But Mr. Bristow was
to make it plain to all his Congres
sional callers that the attitude of
the department is against the old
politioal method, and that hereafter
fourth-class postmasters who serve
satisfactorily can expect to hold office
without regard to the old four-year
service rule.
This attitude is supposedly in ac
cord with the President's views.
HISS STORE TO BE RELEASED.
Constantinople. Feb. 14. 4:15
P. m The ransom of Miss Ellen
Stone and her companion, Mme.
Tsilka, has been paid The limit of
time allowed for the release of the cap
tives has not yet expired, but their
delivery is expeoted hourly,
COST OF THE HA VT.
Washington, Feb. 12 The Sec
retary of the Navy has sent to Con
gress a statement showing the cost
of the vessels of the modern navy
of the United States to have been
99,803,328, and $7,343,235 additional
has been expended for renairs. The
total number of vessels included in
the list is 76, whioh does not include
those undar construction. The de
tailed figures for the battleships-Illinois,
Wisconsin, Alabama, Kentuoky
and Kearsage are not given. Of the
others the Oregon he ids the list for
greatest oost $6, 575,032...
LAW TO PEOTECT THE PRESIDES?.
The Senate Committee on Judi
oiary has completed the bill "for the
protection of the President of the
United States," and has authorized
Chairman Hoar to report it.
The bill provides that any person
who shall wilfully kill or cause the
death of the President or any one in
line of succession to the Presidency,
or who, within the limits of the ju
risdiction of the United States, shall
cause the death of the sovereign or
chief magistrate of any foreign coun
try, shall be punished with death.
Instigation, advice, counsel or con
spiracy to kill suph officials is to.be
punished by not exceeding twenty
years, imprisonment, and a person
aiding in the escape from punish
ment or any one guilty under , this
aot is to be punished as if a princi
pal. Washington Dispatch.-
THE DEPARTMENT OF C0HXIE2CE AUD
LABOB.
Creation of a Few Cabinet Office That is to
Wieid Considerable Power Separate La
bor Department Wanted.
Senator Nelson's bill to create a
Department of Commerce has passed
the Senate, but not in its original
form, nor even in the form described
in our columns last week. The
Patent Office and the Coast and
Geodetic Survey are no longer in
cluded in the new department. The
Census Bureau, however, has been -restored,
and the department has been
made almost distinctively a Depart
ment of Statistics. The only bureaus
not statistical included within it
relate to shipping, suoh as the Life
Saving Service, the Lighthouse
Board, the Marine Hospital Service,
eto. Apart from the Census,, the
most important statistical bureau is
that of Labor. Before the act was
voted upon one of the Democratic
Senators who had favored the crea
tion of a new Department of Labor
with a Cabinet representative moved
that the name of the department be
changed from the Department of
Commerce to the Department of
Commerce and Labor. This amend
ment was promptly accepted , by
Senator Nelson, and the bill was
soon after passed in this amended
form. The change thus made was
designed to give satUf aotion to the
representatives of organized labor;
but it is doubtful if the concession
will prove satisfactory to them.
Their object in demanding a Depart
ment of Labor was that they might
have a representative in the, Cabi
net who would present the interests
and the sentiments of the wage earn
ers with the same zeal that the Sec
retary Of Agriculture presents , the
interests and sentiments of agricul
turists. They claim that mos of
the present Cabinet positions , are
naturally filled by reprentativep of
commercial Classes, who will have
still another representative thrqugh
the Department of . Commerce, !(and
they now fear that the consolidation
of the Department ot Laoor .with
that of Commerce will mean jihat
labor interests will be subordinate
in the naming of the Secretary and
m the oharacter of his report. .The
other criticism made upon the. new
department is that it does not 'con
tain the Inter-State Commerce Com
mission, though this Commission
deals with commercial questions
affecting public policy more directly
than any other branch of the Gov
ernment service which has now a
Cabinet representative. But whether
the Inter-State Commission is to de
velop into an administrative cr a
judicial department of the Govern
ment cannot- perhaps now- be deter
mined. New York Outlook.
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