The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-04-24
A DAY IN THE COUNTRY.
Editorial Correspondence.]

Editorial Correspondence
YATES ACADEMY, Chatham county,
April %, 189O.-It is always a great
pleasure to me to get away from the
sanctum and run off for day in the
country. This is particularly true in the
spring of the year when one can see the
first flushes of the resurrection of vege-
table life. This morning took the ear
ly Clarksville train for Morrisville-(by
the way that train is great convenience
to travellers and often hear expressions
of thanks to the company for placing it
on)-and drove through the farming
country to the Chatham line, and one
mile beyond.
1t was delightful drive in the early
morning have never seen prettier
picture of rural life. We passed by
the homes Of honest and industrious
fe,mers where happiness, peace and
contentment reigned; by fields in which
the plowmen whistled as they drove
their teams a6eld; by open places
where men were busy clearing
new ground on which to make
a crop of bright yellow tobacco; by
fields where fires consumed the stubble,
the smoke of which curled itself into a
thousand fantastic shapes as it rose
heavenward; by old fields where the
dogwood was blooming luxuriantly, and
where the wild flowers of all varieties
were
"Filling the air with a strange and won
derful sweetness"
The Whit of the country air, sight o.
the "people whom God made" busy a
the best and noblest kind of toll, wa!
most refreshing to me after having beer
shut up in city Office.
The occasion that caused me to TAX
this delightful trip was the closing exer
cises of Yates Academy, Chatham coun
ty, of which PROF. B. D. BARKER,
. graduate of Wake Forest, is Principal
and MISSES MCKOY, of Harnett, an,
PAGE, of Wake, are assistants. A year o
, SO ago ten gentlemen in Williams town
. ship, Chatham Co. determined to emplo
] a competent teacher and open first
: class school in their neighborhood.
!, was the wisest act of their lives, an
: the influence of this school will liv
8 long after they are dead. They secure
Q the services of Mr.. BARKER, a conscien
!. tious teacher and upright gentleman, a
b, Principal, and opened with seyentee
: students. Now the school numbers 7O
and is first-class school in every respect
q present this plan as an object lesson i
o education to the progre. siye men {
y every neighborhood in the State. Not
o few neighborhoods have tried it, an
7. where the proper teachers were selecte
3; it has worked we'll. Here the public
J. spirited citizens carry on the schot
q seven months in the year-three month
+ in the Spring and four months in tt
?. Fall. The public school is open tw
IL months, is taught by PROF. BARKEl
ID and, together with the private schoo
J, gives the children nine months schoo
~ Ing aC MODERATE expense.
It The people are enthusiastic over Il
I'd good work of the school. The childre
c. are anxious to learn-full of The spir
that makes scholars. Their faces a
SO eager, happy and intelligent. They a
lg going to grow into educated and usef
1e members of society, and do much f
!. the development of their section of Il
30 State. To such schools must the Sta
10 look for its future prosperity and glor
find here, as elsewhere, an increAs
and increasing interest in educatio
and willingness on the part of &
people to bear the burden of taxati,
and private contributions in order tn
lis their children shall have better chan
ed in the race of life than they themselv
have had. All honor to them, say
| heard Mr.. COUNCIL say that the fl
teacher he went to school to would S
ast full of whiskey about twice 2 week, a
ais then he- would "make the boys sta
,r. around" He declared that the progrt
-. had been great and that education vast
"'' hope of the country. He has no ct
'at dren to send to school, but he wants
tel give all the children fair chance. T
ed issthe noble spirit that actnates tn
led people, and which lifts them into n
ce. worthy of all admiration. When
the State is full of men actuated by sue
ing spirit, then We will see the State tr
md progressive and truly alive to it's best
ere terests. J. D
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