The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-15
"ram," Teachlng, Tee-cakes,
r~yimgn10G, and o4nor T0pt0o.


"r.m." Teaching, T4A-cakes,
TrImminS, and other ropios.
The following from MrA IN. B. c."
shows that a usual she has something
20 saw when she says something. We
nrint it because we believe in allowing
The public to say its say, be it what il
For ths Farmer and Msahanie.
NEwBERN. March 9th.
81 wish ShotweIl would start . daily
newspaper" said . gentleman Of this
city the other day, and I cordially en-
dorsed the wish for the Dots" rip
pies" News Nubbius," and Items"
Of the Farmer and MecAaasc are % ex-
sctIy the thing, that a daily supply
would be most agreeable. THE best
ae,os paper and most independent one
in the State,,' is the general dictum Of
those competent to judge. Agreeing
with this judgement, l have determin-
ed after reading your paragraph in the
last issue Hare you Daughters to
Tra,n," to write and beg you to turn
YOUR guns on the present system Of Gree
graded schools in North Carolina which
il bresking d0wa or coed old FASH
toned hOn1s schools, and giving US
nothing worth having in their place.
For the greatest good of the greatest
number of her citizens every State
ought to have . free school system and
compel ell parents to have their chill
dren taught reading. writing and arith-
metic as Tar as the rule of three. But,
beyond these ''three Rs" she is no
more called on to give free education
than tree clothing. Like everything
else education is valued In proportion
10 the trouble it gives US to attain it.;
aud when given by the State as q gift
is not valued as it deserves to be, and
consequently the best kind is never OBJ
tanned in a free school.
The salaries paid a public teachers
10 not high enough to induce our best
men and women to devote their lives to
teaching, and the standard of scholar
ship is so low that inconpetents, to
whom the salary is an object teo often
get into place. The mass of parents,
satisfied with the number of studies
their children are taking and the reports
of the teachers as to their progress, rarely
inquire whether they are really learning
or merely reciting lessons. Those VINO
look deeper and wish their girls to be-
come refined and we'll trained ladies,
soon see that the promiscuous inter
course of a mixed pubic school is hav
ing a bad effect on the anner and
also the morals Of their daughters, while
they, though perhaps reciting their
lessons correctly, are not learning any.
thing beyond a parrot like repetition OF
rules and answer to questions.
If rich enough to bear the expense Of
FIST class boarding school, such pa
rents, however unwilling to send their
daughters f.om them, are obliged to do
SO, as they generally look in vain for a
select girls school where they can be
trained, as Southern girls used to be in
a~ntc-beHum days, into refined and we'll
educated if not highly learned ladies,
Most of these schools have been pushed
70 the wall by the mammoth free graded
school.
Some time since, while in Goldsboro
went one evening to call on Mrs.
Chapman and was invited in to tea
rs she did not know l was coming and
there were no other guests, l wa sur
prised at the variety Of breads and
cakes on the table until she explained
that the next day was the annual May
picnic of her schoOl, and those of hei
scholars. who boarded with her, had
been that afternoon at work in the
kitchen preparing for the feast and the
cook had taken q holiday leaving the
young ladies to get supper Every
thing on the table had been made by
these young ladies who also set out
samples of all pies that had been cook.
eo for the next day. that Mrs. Chapman
might pass judgement on their work.
The memory of those light Tolls and
that strong clear coffee has out lasted
in nv mind that of the cakes. Mrs.
Chapman 10 so we'll and SO widely
known as a teacher that it would te
useless for me to speak of her in that
capacity, but that supper, and tue cor
dial sftctlonatc respect with wnich
those young ladies treated her, showed
me that her school was indeed a Home
School, and [ was truly glad to ind
when | visited Goldsboro the other day
that it still houri.hed even under the
shade Of that, Upas. a public graded
school. Long may she live to train
Southern ladies.
see you explode the Ozone frauds
when [ saw you last fall l told you
bronchitis vas slowly killing ne, 1have
been all winter struggling with it and
have derived so much benefit from the
use of Compound Oxygen by inhalation
that [ feel as if / wanted to tell every
fellow sufferer of my good lack in try
ing it. If Ozone" is q fraud Oxygen
i. not. For three winters l have like
Gen Jackson, retired into q state OF
retiracy' and given up society because
l could not talk. A week after [ began
the use of Compound Oxygen | reccv
cred my voice and nav never once lost
it since the middle of January. | pro-
pose sending some of it to Governor
Jarvis to see if it wont give him q voice
in the calling of q special session OF the
Legislature. Judging from the hum
ming and having over it be seems to
ave none. M. d. =.
The GREAT GUSHER UNVEILED
Blaine. pancgyrlc on Garfield has
proved a PICARD Of deadly destruction.
Blaine compllmented Garfield on hi.
adroitnes. IN healing the dissenslons
among the Generals in Rosecrans
Army of the Tennessee Gen. Rose
, -bo 70 now member of Con