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TIIE LEES McRAE INSTITUTE AND
ITS CHEAT NEED.
The m?.st casual visitor to the mountains
of western .North Carolina cannot
help but be impressed with the vast
amount of water power that is going
to waste because it i3 not harnessed up
and put to use. Not on'.y could factories
be run. at a minimum toot, but in
ROmfi 1 OfQ I 11 \tt*Z r.innlrU li?r*%*e? A
.ww..iv<vm vivvii i\ l-feuin cuu1u uc
iattalled *a th homes :m-l made to
light the btiettfc of thj viPages for
many miles.
Many a visitor to the Lees-McRae
Institute at Banner Elk has noticed
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In the event of your death, your life
insurance will protect your loved ones
against want, but if you are permanently
incapacitated for labor what then?
Your earning power is permanently lost.
Your insurance is only an added burden.
To avoid this predicament write at
once to the Jefferson Standard Life
Insurance Company for a sample policy
Form No. 201-C. This is exactly the
pohcy you need to correct the defects
of your present holdings. It provides
that in the event of your incapacitation
for work either by accident, disease or
other cause, the policy immediately becomes
"paid up." In fact, you can draw
the face of the policy in ten annual
payments if you wish. If you regain
health you may resume payments if
you desire. In case of death from accident
this policy pays the face plus onehalf
of the premiums you have paid in.
Jt is the piettlest proposition ever put
out by a life insurance company. Write
for specimen policy stating (late of birth.
Address: The Jefferson Standard Life Insurance
Co., Home Ofllce. Raleigh, N. C.
POTATO SLIPS, CABUAGE PLANTS,
ETC.
From May 20th on throughout the season
I will furnish you Nancy Hall Pota
to Slips at per thousand. Cabbage
plants for fall heading at $1.60 per thousand.
Tomato Plants at $2.50 per thousand
CASH WITH ORDER. Nothing
shipped C. O. D. Remit by Post Office or
Express Money Order. Don't wait until
the very day you need your plants to
send In your order but let them come
NOW and avoid being1 disappointed. I
guarantee all goods delivered in good
condition. Address: The Cureton Nurseries.
Box 817. Austell. Ga.
Tobacco Habit Banished
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of Tobacco Habit In TO to 120 lioura. A positive and
quick relief. A home treatment easy to take. Hundreds
of letters from satisfied patients. Wo iniarantee results
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full Information. Write today, this bour.
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for you to choose from with
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THE PRESBYTER Ij
and remarked upon the magnificent
power that is going to waste in the Flk
river in almost a stone'B throw from
her buildings, and of the great assistance
this power would be to the school
if it were put to use.
Not long since through the voluntary
kindness and l'berallty of a friend of
the school an expert engineer was sent
here to nie;\3ure this power and to make
in estimate <"f what It would cost *j
install an electric light plant. The engineers
report with blue prints of the
proposed plant and careful estimates
of the cost has been received. It has
more than confirmed our original ideas
of the power, and gives us a clear conscience
in laying the matter before the
friends of the school. This report
shows that in the expenditure of a comparatively
small sum of money, sufficient
power can be had for lighting the
buildinsrs. phnrninsr th? milk sawlnir
the wood, operating the laundry, helping
to heal the sick, safeguarding the
property and adding some revenue.
It would save time. It requires no
small part of the day after school hours
for the "lamp girls" to clean and fill
from sixty to eighty lamps.
It would save labor. Under the present
system the oil has to be hauled
from the Stores or rtnnnt in barrels nnH
pumped into a tank, where it remains
until needed. The lamps have to be
filled and the chimneyB washed several
times each week. All of this means
a great deal of hard and disagreeable
and dangerous work.
It would probably save money. It
would not only save the cost of lamps
and chimneys and oil, but the same
power that runs the dynamos at night
could be used to run a motor in the
day, which could be used for many
practical purposes, as indicated above.
I^ot only so, but there would be several
hundred lights to rent, which would
mean a nice royalty to the school.
It would lessen the dunger of fire.
Already, and on more than one occasion,
has the dormitory been near burning
on account of kerosene lamps.
It would give the girls more time for
study. They do practically all of the
work about the dormitory. It will at
once be seen that if an artificial power
can be made to do a part of this, it
will give them more time for the studies.
Life is too short and the world is
too far advanced for muscles to compete
with the great natural powers of
K/V AO V*
It would add efficiency and breadth to
the medical work of the hospital, For
it would then be possible to treat the
patients with all of the modern electrical
treatment when it is needed.
Bes.des these material advantages, it
would be a great comfort to the teachers
and pupils in the school and to the
patients in the hospital.
An electric lighting plant run by water
power is entirely feasible. The
Bohool owns the power, which according
to the careful estimates of an expert
engineer, is sufficient to produce
eighty horse power. This power is
within 200 yards of the buildmgs and
very accessible. An extract from the
engineers report says:
"Figuring on a ten per cent, loss of
power In transmission, the amount of
power you have available will therefore
apply 900 ordinary carbon filament 16
candle power lamps, or 1216 tungston
lamps each of 34 candle power. Since
this Is more light than the Institute Is
likely to ever require, you will have
ample power to operate such motors as
you may wish for churning, sawing and
planing wood, operating a cream separator,
cutting ensilage, etc., and for
medical use at the hospital, and in addition
you will have a surplus to sell
for lighting the streets, houses and
hotels of Banner Elk.
The cost of harnessing thjs power and
of Installing the light plant. According
\ N OF THE SOOTH
to the carefully itemized estimates of
the engineer referred to above, the total
cost, including 500 lamps and everything
else, is $4,100. This means in
every respect the very best materials
and the best workmanship that can be
had, also twin turbine wheels so that if
one should get out of order the other
could be used. Add to this $900 for a
motor and some pieces of machinery to
be operated by the motor and we have a
sum total of $5,000. Once installed the
cost of keeping it up would be almost
nothing. These figures could be very
much reduced by putting in cheaper
equipments. But in view of the great
future that is before this mountain
country in general, and the school in
particular, we do not feel that it would
be wise to do this.
Our plan for developing this power.
It cannot be done from the income that
the school derives from fees and scholarships,
for 'these barely cover the expense
of running the school: So we
are confidently looking to the friends
of the school for the money. Two years
ago a new dormitory was needed. This
came as a gift from a gentleman who
has never suffered his name to be made
public in this conection at a cost of
nearly $5,000. One year ago the school
needed a splendid farm that lay adjoining
to its iproperty for maintenance
and expansion. This came as the result
of many small contributions from
mday people in many places. The
school now needs the lighting plant.
It needs it bad. Not only would it do
an uiai is indicated above, but it would,
we believe, show other localities In the
mountains what can be done with water
power, and thus indirectly be the means
of materially developing other sections
of the mountains.
If the friends who helped us to buy
the farm last year, which by the way
is proving a very valuable asset, will
duplicate their contributions for the
lighting plant, it will soon be installed.
But we know that there are some who
cannot do this. So we are appealing to
all who read these lines to lend a helping
hand. Think of it: the average cost
of installing the BOO lights, with the capacity
of putting in 400 more when
needed, to say nothing of the motor
power and its valuable accessories, is
ten dollars. Think again: the light
that you will be responsible for may
be the very one to take the place of
a lamp which if left might cause the
destruction of thousands of dollars
worth of property.
Send contributions or pledges as soon
as possible to Rev. Edgar Tufts, Banner
Elk, N. C.
The Chandler Building Fund: In the
Synod of Mississippi. Some sixteen
years ago, there was started in Mississippi
what has become familiarly known
as "The Chandler Church Building
Fund." It has become a household
word to so many that the writer feels
like he is "thrashing old straw" to call
attention to it again; but while the subscribers
have gradually grown from
less than a hundred at the beginning to
the neighborhood of 275, I think very
many of our members, good men and
women, have either not had their attention
called to it, or they do not realise
what a worthy cause they are overlooking.
It is hard to believe that we
AGNES SCOTT ,
COLLEGE ;
\
Decatur, (? ?ii?? fr*m At)*?u) Ga.
STUAR'
Formerly Virginia Female Inst. Founde
of Va. Academic course. Two years c
and Art. For catalog address: Maria I
[May 29, 1912
should not have had at least one thousand
subscribers in these 16 years. As
it is the "Fund" has done a noble work.
How many churches have been aided,
who could not have built without the
help they received from this wisely conceived
and well administered fund, I
have no data at hand to tell; but it haB
' made those who have responded to every
call in all the years of its existence, feel
that their money has been well invested.
the amount is so small for each call
that we would easily have the 1,000 subscribers
if our people just knew and
would think of the good to be accomplished.
The idea is that each subscriber
will send $1.00 whenever a call is made;
and the committee who have it in charge
guarantee not more than three calls a
year. I knew one of our elders got so
much interested that he would sometimes
write to the Secretary to know
whon ho TV*a a frnin cr 4/\ malrA ?
f uw t?mh QViug cvr uiunc UUUIUC1
call, or that he had not had a call for
bo long that he thought he had been forgotten.
Now we MissiBsipJjians have a
reputation for doing things, and the
Question 1' want to ask is, "What are we
going to do with the Chandler Church
Building Fund?" If it has accomplished
so much good in the past, and a
greater demand now than ever before
should we not rally to the support of
such a good work, that we may feel that
we are making real progress, l^et us do
something that will make us smile (and
sigh), as we look back.
Men of Mississippi, and women, too,
shall we have a Forward Movement that
will start now, and culminate at Synod
next fall, that we will have 1,000 subscribers
ere this year closes? Will we
do it? I will be one of the present
members to get five new ones.
Some one has suggested that instead
of giving the amounts we have hereto
tore given, that we lend to the churches
and in this way create a permanent
fund. I am not going to discuss that
now, but I do insist that we do more
than we are doing. For information address
Rev. R. Lt. Walkup, Brookhaven,
Miss. A Subscriber.
Carrollton, Miss., May 14, 1912.
VALUE OF TEMPTATION.
Did you ever must upon the chances
of temptation??
"I think of temptation," says George
Morrison, "as a noble penalty, as the
price I am bound to pay for my free
will. Therefore, when temptation
comes, I say, 'God help me. This is my
opportunity. I suffer this strain just
because I am free. Sanctify it in me.' "
Any one of us with a purpose in life
is a Efhining target for temptation, and
its long, long train of opportunities.
Then let us pray, "God help me not to
<iss the chances of my temptation."?
Ex.
THIS WILL INTEREST MANt.
F. W. Parkhurst, the Boetos pu*>"
Usher, says that if anyone afTllcted with
rheumatism in any form, neuralgis or
kidney trouble, will send their address
to blm at 701 Carney Bldg., Boston,
Moon k. mill ^ I ?1 ?- -
UC "ill U1ICUI L11DUJ IU K j;o?tcv
cure. He has nothing to sell or give;
->nly tedls you Ijow he was cured after
years of search for relief. Hundreds
have tested it with success.
Letters, Science Philosophy,
t Home Economics
Resident students limited to 300
^ For catalog, address
F. H. GAINES, D. D., LL. D., Pres.
f HALL
d 1843. A school for girls In Mountain?
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'endleton Duval, Box 91." Staunton,