Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1893-10-12

had ample opportunity of using
nv field glass | xish To- speak
Of some things / have seen.
A PROBLEM
From every quarter comes
the cry .'hSrd times,s -iuancial
stringency,v difficult cOllec-
tions,, aud ve know that all
these expressions express more
truth than poetry. We see il,
we feel il. ut.tkeF problem. what
is it'll Tt 10 this: How Is il
that the schools generally,
Throughout the state have open
ell better shts year than ususI ?
The attendance At the Universe
ty is considerably in advance of
" hat it Was at this time last year
the Unicn Female College open
eu better than for several years
in the past. l have been inform
ed. The Warren Institute soon
ran ahead Of the limit fixed by
the principal, and, a. TO the Ok
ford Graded School, the brats.
kids, young ladies' and young
men always number up into the
hundreds. So much for tue
schools of Oxford-
have turDed0y glass in 9th
er directions, and l see more
boarding pupils at the Able
vile Normal than at the open
ing last year. The news comes
from Mississippi College that
there we're at the opening 1875
against 60 or 70 Last year. The
Burgess Normal Institute has
had n far better opening than
last year. There has been ma
circulated an average Of one pu
Dill a day since the opening. The
total enrolment is 101 and 60 of
these are bombed boarding pm
pills, not including families who
have moved to the school No
doubt what has been said Of the
above named schools may be
said of most of the leading
schools throughout the State.
The problem is, how shall we
reconcile the above facts with
the almost universal cry ''hard
times | can account for IL on
ly in this way. namely thar
money is pot as scarce as peo
pie generally seem 20 think, or
il has gotten into a few haEds
and is being used by these in
The education Of their children.
or people, they are sacrificing
more than ever before in order
tina: their sons and daughters
may enjoy the blessings of a lib
eral education. Doubtless, q
larger number of young men apd
women than ever before, are
working their own way through
All honor to suci heroes and
h~eroines.
ANOTHER PROBLEM
If il be true, and everybody
seems TO think il is true, that
money is scarce, harder 10 ge'
and worth more than for many
years past, why is It that while
there has been a reduction in
wages in almost every depart
ment of business and industry.
that prices in certain depart
ments have been steadily main
tanned for many years. in spite
of the general financial depres-
sion and poverty of the people Z
For example: a poor cir,
wishes to accomplish herself In
music, with a view TO teaching,
in order to maintain herself and
perhaps a widowed mother, and
younger brother and sister, and
the same price that her grand
father paid for her mothers mu
sic when times we're flush. is
new exacted Of the poor depeL-
dent girl.
Perhaps, there is no branch
Of instruction where 80 little
time and labor is given for the
price charged.
The physician still charges
just as he did when the South
blossomed as the rose
The mechanic wants for infe>
ri0r work and material, as much
per day as when work was done
tn last aud not merely tor pay
l might go on and enumerate
other professions that are run
on the idea, seemingly that ev-
cry Is rich and able TO pay ex>
tortionate charges.
What has been said above
will not apply everywhere, nor
to every one engaged in the
professions named ; for l rejoice
G., know that some in all these
professions are capable Of ap
preciatlng the difference in the
present times and the palny
days of yore, and are willing to
let live as welt as live themsel YES.
Ii.
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