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"-.. , w i,v,.v, , rm OASTOXIA GAZETTE. . - .'. TUIXDAY, UKB 14, 110. ... . . 66 B The Twelfth Serie .Gattonia Mutual Building and Loan Association Stock Will Open July 1, 1910 You May List Your Subtcription NOW First Payment Due July 2. Get in the "Push" early. S. N. BOYCE, President, E. a McLURD, Sec & Treat. General Merchandise You will And everything in the general merchandise line at my store. And the prices are right. If you are not now a customer of mine give me a trial. Chickens, eggs and country pro duce wanted; highest market price paid tor same. Phone 241-3. D. B. Hanna OZARK MILLS. Beautiful Upright PIANO To be given away to the per son holding the largest value in certificates which we give with each purchase. Enter our contest now and save money by trading with us. Bessemer Mercantile Company Bessemer City, N. C. GASTONIA PRODUCE MARKET. Frys 20c Hens 12 l-2c Eggs 20c Butter 18c Onions 75 to 85c Peas 12.25 Irish Potatoes 75c Sweet Potatoes 75c Cabbage 1 l-2clb Country hams 18c Country Shoulders 12 l-2e C. & N.-W. RAILWAY. Schedule in Effect Sunday, June 12, 1910. NORTHBOUND. Train No. 10 (Passenger) Leaves Gastonia dally 9:30 a. m. Train No. 8 (Passenger) Leaves Gastonia dally, (except Sunday) 5:40 p. m. Train No. 60 (Mixed) Arrives Gastonia daily, (except Sunday), 4:00 p. m. SOUTHBOUND. Train No. 9 (Passenger) Arrives Gastonia dally 4:40 p. m. Train No. 7 (Passenger) Arrives Gastonia daily (except Sunday) 10:to a. m. Train No. 61 (Mixed) Leaves Gastonia daily (except Sunday) 12:25 p. m. notice. All parties indebted to W. H. Del linger will please settle at once, as the accounts will be sold at an early date. B. B. GARDNER. Collector. 17c4. n 99 NOTICE For Your Ice Phone 281 Ice and Ice Coupon Books Strictly Cash Drivers will have a supply of books. Positively No Credit For further information phone 281 Gastonia Ice & Coal Co. Important Word to Advertisers We wish to remind advertis ers that copy for change of ad vertisements In The Gazette must be In this office not later than 8 a. m. on Tuesdays and Fridays In order to be sure of Insertion In the papers of those days. Otherwise we cannot in sure Insertion. When it comes in later than this It Is impossi ble to give it the proper atten tion If it can' be handled at all. Advertisers who get their copy in by noon- on Mondays and Thursdays will secure better dis plays and more satisfactory ser vice In every way as we will then have more time to devote to them. It is as much to the advertiser's interest as It is to ours to have a neat, well-displayed, correct advertisement and to this end we ask your co operation by getting copy in ear ly and giving us sufficient time in which to properly handle it. New business will, of course, be handled as well as possible and as late as possible before go ing to press. Penny column advertisements can be handled as late as 1 p. m. on Tuesdays and Fridays. These regulations are neces sary because of the constantly In creasing demand on The Ga zette's advertising department. Mr. Advertiser: Help as to give you the beet possible results by giving us plenty of time on your copy. RAILWAY MAIL, CLERKS WANTED The Government Pays Railway Mall Clerks 9800 to $1,200, and Other Employees up to $2,500 Annually. Uncle Sam will hold spring exam inations throughout the country for Railway Mall Clerks, Custom House Clerks, Stenographers, Bookkeepers, Departmental Clerks and other Gov ernment Positions. Thousands of ap pointments will be made. Any man or woman over 18. in City or Coun try can get Instruction and free In formation by writing at once to the Bureau of Instruction, KM Hamlin Building, Rochester, N. T. Senator Simmons has introduced a bill providing for an appropriation of $400,000 for a Federal building in Raleigh. The North Carolina Bankers As sociation will be. In session at WrighUvllle Beach, .Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, June 22, 23 and 24. ntrnar. HranOLM IN . ' ' V TIU NORTHWEST. i , 'r - " " , - f . - -v -jr w What BnpC Jcyner and His Associ ate Saw oa Their Vialt to the Vjit ; lie Schools of Pag Cf" I(m (J. Y. Joyner In North Carolina Ed ucation.) There are no cities and no large towns In Page county. t Its popula tion Is rural, and their occupations almost exclusively agricultural. The chief agricultural products arc corn and other grains and' apples; the chief Industries seem to be dairying and raising corn. ' The people are thrifty and prosperous, courteous and hospitable. The lands seem fer tile, are practically all under culti vation, and apparently kept In the best state of cultivation. The farm houses, barns and all the home sur roundings Indicate thrift, prosperity, cleanliness and comfort. The stran ger feels at once that farming here Is the chief business and the best busi ness. The sight or the well tilled farms and the attractive farm homes awakens at once that desire to live the free life of the country that is hidden somewhere In every heart, whatever be the occupatkjn of , the man. and that Is perhaps the best ev idence that man was really "formed out of the dust of the ground" -and his heart naturally yearns for his mother earth. As will be seen, the natural condi tions and environment, as well as the occupations of the people, are not far different from all these of our Southern States. The existing conditions are not far different from what they could be made In the ru ral South' by the adoption of similar. means and the application of similar intelligence to agriculture. THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THE VISIT. The main purpose of our visit to the schools of this county was to study the best that had been done In the correlation of the work of the one-teacher rural school with farm life and agricultural occupations. The Bchool houses were plain, in expensive, but neat and comfortable one-room houses. They were all tastefully painted. On the inside they, were neatly papered, furnished with comfortable patent desks, maps, charts, globes and other necessary school equipment. The windows were all furnished with neat shades and attractive curtains. There were an orderliness, a neatness, a quiet, sweet homelike atmosphere that made one feel at once that he had stepped into the Irving room of a well ordered country home. The school houses were not built in strict accordance with the well established principles of school architecture as to light, heat, ventilation, dimen sions, etc., but the charm about these school rooms was that they had been transformed into real homes and filled with a sweet at mosphere of "homyness." We have many better houses in the rural dis tricts of North Carolina; but there is a fine lesson here in- inexpensive house-keeping for our teachers and also a fine, unconscious training for the children who sit daily for years in these school rooms. The school grounds, usually con taining no more than about an acre, were attractive and well kept. In most cases, there were trees and grass and flowers, forming an at tractive setting for the school house and adding to the home-like appear ance and feeling. Careful attention was paid to outside sanitation; scrupulous cleanliness was noticea ble on the grounds as well as in the house. ALL EXPERIENCED WOMEN TEACHERS. The teachers were all women, but women of maturity, training and ex perience. According to my recollec tion, every one of the ten teachers whose schools we visited had re ceived one or more years of nor mal school instruction and, all but one had an experience of several years in successful teaching. Sev eral had been teaching in the same school for years. One had been teaching at the same place for more than twenty years, and had taught the county superintendent, as a pu pil, in that school. The salaries of the teachers ranged from $45 to $65 per month, and the terms from seven to nine months. I do not need to call attention to. the great advant age of trained, experienced teachers, paid living salaries. ... We can have these too In the rural districts of the South If 'we will. We have some, but we need more. . . . : The course of study In the ordin ary education , essentials was little different from onrs. -The lesson .for us here Js .that the , course Jn each subject was well planned, . systemati cally arranged, printed, placed In the hands of every teacher, and required to be followed. .The schools are lim ited to eight grades or years. No high school work la attempted. All high school work Is done In separate county htgS schools. The classifies tlon and gradation arc good: there l no overcrowding. ' As I recollect,' lVitrVet. acre 4!ua Mttx-4!t-. plls la any school and the average number was less than twenty-five. ! FARM LIFE TUB DOMINANT THOUGHT. -V ; i The main purpose of this article, however, is to tell of the work otH served In these schools for the prep-i aratloa of the children In thought desire and practical training for farm life. In these schools a farm Ufa at-i mosphere has been created. . Agrl grlculture and things pertaining to farm lire dominate the thought of the child and permeate the life' of the school. ' This Is fundamental and more Important even at' this time than any formal agricultural in-; structlon. During the first seven or eight (years of a child's school life, most Impressible and formative per iod, the dominant thought In his in struction and his surroundings Jn the school room Is farm life and things pertaining thereto. Attractive pic tures of farm products, farm ani mals, farm flowers and weeds and vegetables, country landscapes and barnyard scenes hang on the walls of the school room; in cabinets there, are attractive collections of farm products and fruits. The reading books contain pictures and stories of rural life; a special arithmetic, dealing almost exclus ively with practical farm problems In Page county, such as the children and their parents need to solve every day, has been prepared by the coun ty superintendent and is in use in the schools. Selected bulletins of the State and National Departments of Agriculture, relating to agricultural pursuits and farm problems of that county are displayed and kept with in easy reach for reading and refer ence. It is easy to understand how a child living constantly in such an at mosphere with such surroundings and such instruction during these impressible years of his life, would j have his attention turned to the farm and agricultural pursuits, would have his love of them cultivated, his desire for them stimulated, and would be given a finer conception of the dignity, the importance, the profit and the beauty of life on the farm and of agricultural pursuits. The creation of such an atmosphere and environment is of easy attain ment in every rural school in the South. The dominant thought of the first eight years of a child's life is more than apt to De the dominant thought in shaping his Ideal of life and his selection of a vocation. In addition to the creation of a farm life atmosphere and a farm life enviroment, much of the instruc tion of the school is related to the everyday life of the farm and the everyday work of the farm. In one school we found the children making a simple experiment to illustrate the porosity of different sorts of soil and deduce therefrom the best method of plowing these different sortsof soil, the effects of such plowing upon moisture and air, in the feeding of the plants, etc. The entire outfit for the experiment consisted of three lamp chimneys, a handful or two of sand, loam and vegetable soil, a ba sin of water and some hits of cloth or rubber, and cost not more than fifteen cents. PRACTICAL LECTURE FROM A SCHOOL BOY. In another school a 'boy about four teen years old gave a most interest ing lesson in corn judging. It was an object lesson, in which the boy il lustrated all that he said with the corn itself, of which there was a var ied collection in the Bchool room. What that boy did not know about corn was not worth knowing. It was first-hand knowledge that had been directly applied in raising corn on the farm and brought Into the school room by the boy and given to other children. They were Intense ly Interested as well as Instructed, and so were the Southern Superin tendents. First-hand knowledge is always fresh and. Interesting. , The boy knew, and knew that he knew. He was, therefore, Vertectly self possessed, but not in the least self conscious.' The same boy told us all about how he raised corn, for, as a member of a boy's corn club, he had cultivated most successfully an acre in corn this year. . He began , his story with the preparation of the soil and ended with the gathering of the crop. When I asked him how and where he had learned so much about corn and its cultivation, he said: "I learned , most of it from mly father on the farm." His an swer rather disconcerted and em barrassed the -teacher, but greatly pleased me, for to me it was an Il lustration' of the superiority of first hand knowledge and of, the practi cability and the success of bringing in all Its freshness the best.knowv ' edge of the farm and farm life' into the' school through the child, In stead of depending altogether upon books and teachers. This boy had learned to do by observing - and doing, and was simply telling what therefore, as one having authority; ha commanded attention , and ' la-, structed. : 1 ;;" v , V:. ; - , In - another school' we found the children testing milk with a Bab cock milk tester. The milk had. been taken from the udders of the cows the evening before by the children's own hands and brought to school by them for ' the test. ; The test wa made in the presence of the school by a boy and a girl, pupils of the school, every step In , the test de monstrated and explained by tljem; and at the conclusion the calculation of the per centage of butter fat was made and explained.-. The applica tion was then made to the respective milk cows, with a view to determin ing whether or not they were pay ing for their feed, . or whether It would be best to turn them into beef cattle. ... v : In one of the schools we beard a prize essay read on "Farm Life and Why I Like It" In another we heard a simple little composition on "The Oak Tree." The children are con stantly led to think and write about their everyday life -and experiences on the farm and In the country. In this way their 1jguage and compo sition work is related to country life and experience. PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS. Let me .recapitulate briefly the valuable and practical suggestions derived from my observations and study of . the work of the rural schools of Page county, Iowa: 1. They are real rural schools, not city schools in the country. They have been made such by the creation of a farm Ille atmosphere in the school room, by bringing into the school room pictures, charts, bulle tins, collections of the best farm pro ducts, by correlating so far as possi ble the Instruction in arithmetic, reading, language and composition with things pertaining to farming and rural life, by introducing simple practical instruction about farm life and things pertaining thereto which the child can take home and apply In his every day life, by bringing in to the school room from the farm, through the farmers and the chil dren, the best knowledge about farm lng and farm life. 2. Children surrounded by such an atmosphere, with such Instruc tion, during the most formative and Impressible period of their school lite cannot fall to have their Interest in it stimulated, their love for it in creased, their desire to live it and excel in it awakened, their concep tion or its dignity, its. necessity, its profit and its pleasures enlarged. The dominant thought In the school room was farm life; the school was, therefore, educating these children toward farm life and preparing them for it Instead of educating them a way from it and unfitting them for It. 3. The means adopted for the crea tion of such an atmosphere and the instruction give 1n these schools are so simple and practical as to be of easy application in the rural schools of the South, even 'by teachers, with out special agricultural training. None of the teachers in these Page county schools had received any special agricultural training. 4. The dominant directing., vitaliz ing force in all the work of these schools was a county superintendent fitted In scholarship, special training and practical experience for her work, consecrated to that work, de voting all her time, thought, atten tion and energy to it, endowed with a rare power" of leadership and a fine gift of Inspiring others. What an object lesson In efficient super vision! ,5, The farmers and their wives, realizing that their schools were farm life schools, that their children were Interested and were interesting them in everyday life and problems of the country and the farm, inevitably felt and' showed an Interest and pride In the school that made it easier, to secure co-operation between the school and' the home and to bbtaln the financial support neces sary to make', the school what It ought to be. Many 11 farmers . and their Wives, patrons of the school, were present at every school that we visited and manifested pride and in terest that were beautiful and In spiring. :" ' v ' ' ... (5. , The Interest of the children in agricultural and farm life .was stim ulated by township and county boys' corn duos, by prize contests deter mined and awarded In annual town ship and county exhibits. The direc tion of these" corn clubs and contests and the Instruction given through them were a part " of the extension work of the Agricultural College of Iowa. 1 Members of -the 'faculty lot this college attended .these contests and gave' personal Instruction to the boys," What an .abject, lesson for emulation. In '. making' the college serve and stimulate the whole peo ple! ,.; V II. T. Gage, of California, Is the new American , minister to 'Portugal. salts.' It does aay'wlta. bed wet ting, - and . Is also recommended for use after measles and scarlet fever. J, II. Kennedy 4 Co. ; ,;" '". 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There are 2,100 tele-l graphers on the Southern system and the increase in pay amounts to ap-l proximately $40 per man per anJ num. The hours of office work were shortened from 13 hours' to 10 hours. SCARED INTO SOUND HEALTH. Mr. B. n Kelley, Springfield. Ill writes: "A year ago I began to be troubled with my kidneys and blad der, which grew worse until I be came alarmed at my condition. ' if suffered also with dull heavy head aches and the action of my bladder! was annoying and painful. I read of Foley Kidney Pills and after tak-i ing them a few weeks the head aches left me, the action of my blad der was again normal, and I was free of all distress. J. H. Kennedy & Co. The commencement exercises .off WInthrop College, Rock Hill, 8. C. began Sunday and close today. The! sermon to the Y. W. C. A. ; was? preached Sunday morning by Rev, A. J. Bowers, of Newberry, and thq annual sermon by Rev. James I Vance, of Newark, N. J. This mnrn-l ing the address to the graduating class was delivered by Dr. Henry N Snyder, president of Wofford Col lege. Ninety young ladies graduate this year, the largest class in the history of the college. The Conservation of Nature's ReJ sources. Applies as well to our physical state as to material things. C. J Budlong, Washington, R. I., realiz ed his condition, and took warning before it was too late. He says: " suffered severely from kidney tron ble, the disease being hereditary Iri our family. I have taken four bot ties of Foley's Kidney Remedy, and now consider myself thoroughly cured. This should be a warning tcf all not , to neglect taking Foley's Kidney Remedy until it is too late.' J. H.. Kennedy & Co. Brodie L. Duke and Miss Wylantaf Roschelle were married Saturday in Camden, N. J. 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