The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-01-28

Some Sensible Thoughts by "a North Car
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especial Cor STATE CnEoxIcLE.I

HERE AND THERE, Jan. 30 'sG-What
IS laughter The phyaioiogist can answer
his sid Of the question, after learned
and unsatisfactory fashion: but the psy-
chologiat, while equally able 10 show his
technical learning. is hardly competent,
up to date, to reply even 10 his own salts
faction. But it is not very difficult to dis
cover the philosophy Of the snckcring Of
young people in churches or other places
III which all properly civilized folks are
We!lmannered. OF course real Ladies and
gentlemen never talk and laugh when it is
rude and disreputable 70 do 50. Hence,
to decide the philosophy Of the offence we
are to consider what leads to unladylike
| or ungentlcmanly conduct in public. Well,
| some are ignorant of tile simplest rules Of
| prOpriety y-have bad no opportunity to
| learn those rules and are therefore to be
| pltied, though rningling III cultivated so
ciety, have been trained by parents want
| nag III common sense and true culture
Some are simply weak minded and ridicu
! louslv vain. Some arc conscious of the
need to act strangely that they may be
| sure to attract attention. Some are over
| anxious to be courted and to marry Some
are thoroughly frivolous or dcpraved. Are
not All of them t. be pltled
| Cannot the friends Of Prohibition see
| that the prospect Of success is many times
| brighter, through local option han through
! the policy OF an out-and-Out Prohibition
party? Would not the Legislature grant
| petitioners the right to hold an election III
every county as III Georgia Nearly bal
/ aIced as the two parties are In this State,
q third party on a single issue may us well
/ have its shroud bought at tie same time
with It's swaddling bands. Let the tenn
perauce people memorabilia the Lcgisla
| n t,.l4 local tl,ttf .tnI yrarl- n
| arouse and direct tho masses.
If I were editing paper and had SO far
wandered from the path of moral decency
is 10 be aiding and abetting the Louisiana
! Lottery and like abomnatinns in the in
famous work Of corrupting and robbing
my own friends and patrons, | should
think this u good time to wash my hands
| OF the dirty. guilty business; for should
be ashamed to be forced by law to cease
doing what is dsrcputable and immoral.
| hope the CHRONICLE will advocate the
movement in Congress to exclude from
the mails the papers that prostitute their
| influence by advertising and drumming
for the lotteries Many people in this State
are fooled out of their money by the cor
rupt business and some Of the papers that
claim most respectability are largely, per
haps chiefly, to blame What right min
ded person does not pity those who are so
unfortunate as to draw a so-called prize
III lottery How can any one afford to
receive and use money obtained in such q
way
viii the CHRONICLE please answer this
question: If | should be employed local
editor on q paper, would it be my duty to
fill Il definite measure OF space with some
thing or other or should be required to
prepare for the paper only such items as
would probably interest or profit some
body In other words, is local editor
gwen q fair chance
Our opinion is that local editor ought
to write local news. The managing editor
ought to be held responsible for the con
tents of a paper, and the local editor re
garded as Il reporter. He ought to write
whatever may be of interest to the public
from a runaway to the local needs Of an
Industrial School. He ought not to be re
Quired to fill detiEite space. Quality
not quantity ought to be required. Ed. ]
|
A FABLE: Once upon a time a people
were anxious to have more animals i'll their
land. So they sent out agents and brought
in all the animals they could induce to
come so, it turned out that the land had
few more horses and COWS and sheep:
but, also. great many more wolves and
hycnaS and cougars and lions and leop-
ards and dogs and snakes. And the last
state of that people was worse Tran the
first.
a DREAM: 4 crusade from down East
to force the poor benighted people of Nortk
Carolina to become civilized Don QulX
ote, this time, is moving chivalrously, not
against q wind mill, but against the fry
ing pan He stands with lean face anC
dyspeptic palor before the door of a stur
, dy mountanecr whose muscular arm Is
moving with native confidence to wipe the
heavy lips Of a healthful face The Dor
espics the frying-pan amid a group OF fat
and hearty children. away with lt.' ht
; cries. There's death in that pan Don
; murder yourself and your family, Ea
, ONLY what is whOles0me-eaS of digestion
Rise to the dignity and wisdom of th
Il progressive age Do as we do III New
: England
- ''Stranger.' said the mountaneer 'lv
= learned something about the New Eu-
landers on this subject. They don't al
. LOOK as if they had good victuals; and lv
heard tell that they fry dough nuts tha
would be good pson for young alligator~
and that they Use cod-iSh--inaking EN- int
goldfish balls that are enough to destro
the constitution of the United States be
lore IL was proheu "o"li III I'o colllict VIZ
the political quack-doctors; and they mi
up their materials for pies into a sort c
coniumblement of all the indigestible MOI
stroslties Of this enlightened age and ca
% the mess mlnce-meat-a regular shot gu
Il concern that would wound any stomac
% that isn't cased in sheet iron. No, stral
ger, if we are somewhat out of the bes
! way in eating our fried baGon, we don
; want you to teach us and We don't wal
# to do as you northerners do. Take it a
N in all, ! reckon our ways are about as goo
to as your ways
70 Now AND THEN.
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THE ENPERIMENTAL FARM.
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an Eve Didn't Get an Industrial SchO,