The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-04-18

me, country life would be monotonous
1t we did not use our powers to make it
otherwise. So that is why | have called
the Social Chat, Tuesday Evenings
Progressive Club" and it is with pleas
ant anticipation I await the coming of
The Progressive Farmer and am wo
fully pointed if the water courses
prevent the mail reaching our Office.
I think our neighborhood needs a
Farmers Club so there would be some
interest created for our boys in farm
iDg, I wish we had a man, in our midst
Go carry on such a club and * plain in
! tensifed farming, etc.
l think we need such men in our
neighborhood to cause the young men
and boys to love the farm and make it
profitable.
This mountain country is fine for
everything and above all for good
health When I first came here I was
almost an invalid suffering from a
complication of diseases; not able to do
anything. Now I am real strong; do
all the work of a good sized family
with ease; can walk two miles to
church; and have not taken any medi-
cine since / moved here nearly four
years ago. I wish more people would
move here such as are seeking a
healthy climate and are interested in
farming. The scenery is grand. I will
not attempt to portray it with my poor
pen for words are inadequate.
April is here with her showers and
sunshine, making the grass green,
warming the soil, and bringing the
beautiful fowers every where.
I wish Mrs. FIlyaw were my near
neighbOr so we could take a stroll to
gether for wild f)wers. I found %
different varieties when I raj out for
a walk one evening. Some of them were
beautiful. TIE mountain nearest US is
covered with the sweet scented Trail
ing Arbutus. I took with me a peck
basket and brought it home full of it,
and it remained fresh for many days
when placed in water. I have a great
many Cosmos, Redsage, and R ID and
white cypress seed that | would divide
with any one who wishes them.
l am much interested in the debate
and hope it may prove a grand success
for there is nothing to be compared to a
d sbating society to bring the young
folks to the front. I have seen the
good effects in years gone by so I hope
20 see our Chat advance along that
line.-Happiness.
ROLLINS TALKS OF TEACHING N GIVES
SOME ADVICE TO THE YOUNG MEN.
Dear AWnt Jennie:-As it has baen
some time since the date of my last let
ter, l will answer to roll call again.
Joe, I enjoyed your letter 30 much,
because / have taught school myself.
Indeed it is a pleasure to witness a lit
tie child's mind growing and expand
ing, and one doesn't feel that he is
living for naught when he is help
ing these little minds to enlarge. 1t is
an interesting study for the teacher to
of notice and learn the different natures
the children-so many, and yet every
one diff On the whole, I think
teaching is more enjoyable than disa
greeaole.
I feel proud that I can say more
complimentary things about my neigh
borhood than 1 can about some others
I know of. I live in the country where
the scenery is not so picturesque as
shat in Switzerland or along the Hud
SOD, but where every n c%ultivates
mis- own ground, makes a good honest
living, and in general is healthy
happy and contented. Our young peo
ole are bright, jolly, industrious, and,
above all. are very temperate which
is the best thing that can be said OF
any one or any place. To be thoroughly
happy, and to make the m ost Of life
one muat be temperate in all things
1t is the highest and noblest life one
can aspire to, or ever attain.
If we wish to establish the principles
Of temperance in life, and make them
The controlling power through life, we
must begin with the youth. Then they
have high aspirations to be good and
true. They know nothing of the dark
side of life, and naturally avoid it. But
if a boy is neglected to be reformed
after he is grown, it is like trying to
straighten a tree after the sapling has
been bent and twisted, for the tree is
inclined as the twig is bent.
If Aunt Jennie doesn't think me too
silly, l will tell Careless Tom what
kind Of young man, my ideal is, FIRST