The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-20
YOUNG FOLKS.
Letter From Moore County.
BENsALEM, N. G.

BENsALEM, N. @.
Mr.. Editor:-Seeing my puny letter
in the glowing columns of your valuable
paper bearing the date of February
165h. L, for the second time, humbly
beg leave to submit this poorly con-
structed letter for publication in the
columns of your paper, provided you
deem it worthy of its space. Seemingly
of late the young folks, or cousins I
should have said, r growing tired Of
or not interested as much as they ought
to be in their department, nor trying,
as we see it, to make it as interesting
and instructive as they could.
Cousins, wake up and behold the
place where you standl Especially
those Of you who are in school. You
cannot, most a~ssuredly, engage, or
rather, devote a portion of your time
to a better thing that will exercise your
minds more than writing letters, pro-
viding you study your letters carefully.
or purse it requires independent
thought and your own mode Of expires
sion. But we oftimes do ourselves
more harm than good by writing in a
careless and Indifferent way. We
should take into consideration style,
material, condemnation, and last, but
not least, and that is to select the very
best words to convey the idea intended.
Let each and every one endeavor to
do his very best and, that each succeed
ing letter may be better than the pre-
vious one. Then the day will not be
far distant in the future, when, all the
juvenile contributors to this paper can
compose an intelligent letter. Strive
to out strip your fellow writer's in writ
ing the best letters, which will create a
liveliness among your competitors,
which will, undOubtly make III col
umns more interesting and instructive
to both old and young.
Don't reiterate your by gone letters,
which, if done, will render the columns
monotonous or rather create a same
ness. So let the cousins go to work
and augment, but not to extremes, the
columns of this inestimable paper with
letters glowing with interest. Don't
put your candle under the bushel, as it
were, but let it shine even if it should
shine dimly, for by exercising u faith
we grow stronger.
AS has been stated in my previous
letter, we are still having a good
school at this place. Although the
school at present is mourning the loss
of it's excellent and efficient music
teacher, Miss Eta s. Monroe, Of Far.
mer, Randolph county, N. O., who
boarded the train on last Tuesday
morning bound for Asheboro, N. @.
Miss Monroe is en- accomplished young
lady and was educated at Farmer In
stitute in her native county. But we
hope to have the vacancy filed in the
near future by n who is just as com
petent.
The days of our school will soon be
numbered from the fact that the end is
drawing nigh to hand. We all are
looking forward to have an enjoyable
affair, which we generally do. The
day for our exercises hea5-4othean
fixed yet, but will be some time in
May. We will Commence practicing,
and, also, have our invitation cards
printed soon Tor distribution. We will
let. the cousins know later on through
the young folks columns of this paper
the day Oh which it will close and
would like for as many as can make
it Convenient to attend to do so. We
win endeavor to make it as pleasant as
ne can for you. AS the old saying is;
when you ere in Rome do as Rome
does" So as long as I am connected
with the young folks columns OF this
paper I will have to try to do as they
do. And that is to answer and pro
pound questions, at which I am but an
expert, especially at answering, l will
answer Miss Dora F. Braswell's ques
ton, was something like this: "Whc
invented the telegraph" It was brought
into being by nj named Morse.
will give you cousins n or two
for your consideration at spare mo-
ments.
What city is called ''The Gibralter
Of America9" In what Presidential
campaign was "hard cider" a political