. Review of reviews and world's work. r country roads, rural mail delivery, ruraltelephones, public school libraries, agriculturalteaching, etc. To describe these new forces asthey appear in one Southern State, and to picturethrough them the remaking of a rural commonwealth, is the object of this paper. THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Let us glance first at the work for better pub-lic schools, for the school is tin bidex of a peopies progress. Six years ago, a distinguishedNorth Carolinian, now editor of a magazine ofinternational reputation, said, in a public addressdelivered in this S
. Review of reviews and world's work. r country roads, rural mail delivery, ruraltelephones, public school libraries, agriculturalteaching, etc. To describe these new forces asthey appear in one Southern State, and to picturethrough them the remaking of a rural commonwealth, is the object of this paper. THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Let us glance first at the work for better pub-lic schools, for the school is tin bidex of a peopies progress. Six years ago, a distinguishedNorth Carolinian, now editor of a magazine ofinternational reputation, said, in a public addressdelivered in this State : The doctrine that we are loo poor to maintain schools has kept uspoor. It has driven more men and more wealthfrom the State and kept more away than anyother doctrine has ever cost us—more even than the doctrine of secession. This lesson we havenow learned, and all the better because it has been taughi by the stern old master whose school is yet as dear as it was m Poor Richards daw We have found that the lnetlicienc y of our. GOV. CHARLES II. , OK NORTH CAROLINA (The sturdy advocate of improved (list rict schools for whitesand blacks in his State.) schools is a two-edged sword, which both impelsemigration and repels immigration. And whilefrom the days of the Revolution until now therehas been handed down from sire to son a deepand abiding dread of taxes, we have at last cometo see that the indirect tax levied by ignoranceis more burdensome than any direct tax everlevied to maintain schools. The last Legisla-ture found it necessary to issue bonds in orderlo free the State from debt, but it did not dto reduce tin1 school tax rate of 1 !> cents on each$100 worth of property, or to repeal the spe-cial appropriation ol $200,000 for aiding theweaker common schools. On the contrary, largeramounts for the States educational work wcheerfully voted. Within the last live years, theaverage length of school term for both whiteand black races has been increased more than,1
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