The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-24

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| odist pastor, experimenting the NEW
| $4,000 Methodist church which is be-
| ing erected. 1t is of modern design and
will be an ornament to the town.
Oxford is the centre of what has long
been known as the finest bright tobac-
| co land in the world. Farmers living
in Brassfelds and Dutchville townships
have made more money on tobacco than
ANY other farmers and before the to-
baco trust was organized they were the
most prosperous farmers TO be found
anywhere. Alas and alack! The Tobac-
co trust has taken all the proht-or
nearly aII-leaving the farmer nothing
after an economical living. 4 gentle
man here who knows as much about
tobacco and Granville farmers as any
body in the State tells ME that where
the tobacco farmer formerly got 500
he now gets $1.00. What becomes of
the other $1.50? Does the consumer
get it? Ask him how much. The bal
ance? The Tobacco trust puts it in hLs
pocket, and like the horse-leech clies
Give and every year presses down
the price little more. Redress! No
redress until the people elect men to
office from the lowest to the highest
who neither fear the trusts nor belong
to them.
The fine Oxford tobacco warehouses
are all well managed and the farmers
know that in Oxford they always get
the highest top notch that tobacco
brings anywhere. The. season is later
here than in the Eastern part of the
State, but is opening up well and Ok
ford will sell millions of pounds of the
weed before it closes.
Oxford's pride is in it's schools. This
has Eeen true of this place i'll all it's mis-
tory. There has never been a time when
Oxford was net noted for its good
schools. When the court house was
built (and that has been a long time
ago, for Oxford is old enough for his
tory and tradftionsl Il school house was
built, too, and the people nave always
put high valuations upon education.
They have educated their own boys
and many boys in all parts of the State
and in other States. There are now
four great schools here-Horner's
School for boys, Oxford Female SENT
nary and the Misses billiard School for
young ladies, and the Oxford Orphan
Asylum for orphans of both sexes.
| had time only for a visit to three.
At Horner School, in an ideal location
with plenty of shade, play and drill
grounds. and abundance of e7oow room,
| found Prof. J. c. Horner in his large
and model modern school room with
a class of bright boys around him
drilling after the same thorough style
that made Hcrner School famous in
the days of the founder of the school.
Prof Horner sticks TO the good old
ways, using modern methods only when
they are approved. He has an old-fash-
ioned notion that there is no patent easy
road to learning, and that if boy
learns at all he has to study to do
it. And he still believes, though l
have heard that it is old-faShioned,
that boys are boys and must be held
with rein. 1t sounds very nice about
treating boys as if they We're men,
letting them come and go as they
please. and relying upon their honor, but
as practical fact boys are not ma
tured and need guidance and restraint
of the right kind. discipline must
be maintained is a Motto here that
stands right along with "a sound mand
in sound body and that is the secret
of Hornef's long and successful career.
Prof. Horner tells me that the fail
opening is larger than at any previous
time in the history of the school 4
brighter and finer looking set Of ambi-
tious youth it would be difficult to find
anywhere.
found Prof. r. T.. Hobgood at the
Oxford Female Seminary, with chapel
full of lovely girls, in the best hmnor.
Twenty per cent more young ladies
have already entered this session than
at any previous session in the history
OF the Seminary. lin fact, the plsr
four years have shown steady in
crease Of twenty per cent In the at
tendance upon every previous year, and
the Seminary is in more prosperous
condition now than ever before. This is
gratifying to the people of
Oxford, for there had been suaie appre-
hension that the new Baptist Female
Seminary at Raleigh might decrease
the patronage of Prof. Hobgood's Bap-
tist Seminary here. That it has shown
d large increase shows that composition
in education helps all good institutions
because it increases the number If pa
rents who send their daughters to
school 1t also proves that people who
are pleased with a school stick to it.
Il
fuI educator, and his patrons and pupils
believe in him and in his methods, and
will give him their patronage as long
as he is at the lead of Seminary.
There is as much in the man in teach
ing as there is III the man on the farm
or anywhere else. 1t is brains, charac-
fer and fitness that count. Not only has
DIR. Hobgood twenty per cent more
boarding pupils than ever, but he has a
larger home patronage also.
Every comfort and convenience IS be-
ing secured Recently he has placed
an order with Royal and Borden for a
large lot of oak suits and will refurnish
the Seminary throughout. He has
placed an order for complete set OF
apparatus for illustrating the study of
physics. The latest and most improved
implements in teaching music, such as
the claviers and metronomes have been
procured.
Take it all III all, said Prof. Hob
god, 1.-THE faculty is the ablest the
Seminary has had. 1t is strong in
every part. In the art and music de-
partments Oxford Female Seminary is
as good as any. Miss Sue Hall, teach
or of art. is known throughout the
State net only az an accomplished teach