The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-01

Never in the history of this State has the
call been so loud, so earnest and entreat-
ing. Fathers: the noble ancestry OF the
South were anvironed with conditions
such as did not promote the highest type
of humanity, because their condition
created the necessity for disobeying the
principle which says: Call no man mas
ter for one is your master even God.
But that day in our nations history with
the unexcelled manhood of its time has
passed away, Our State and nations con-
stitutons make the citizen sovereign,
person endowed with the highest privi
lege of man on earth.
The type of citizenship that brings him
into the occupation OF industrial pro-
duces in any or all of its branches, at
once honor5 him with the highest earthly
commission ever extended to man, and is
embodied in the words keep it and
dress it,
Young man of North Carolina. do you
seek an occupation so honored by great
Ell sovereign? There is none Do you
want a commission from a higher ruler?
There is none DO you want a position
more prolific with promises? II can not
be found. DO you want a place Of more
certain results to the faithful perform
ance Of duty? Human life can not find it.
DO you want an occupation pregnant with
more abundant soul gifts which lift the
ambitious man to the highest sphere of
human intelligence, position and fame
Verify all history has not recorded it.
No wonder then that the sign post ON
every farm reads. "A Farmer Wanted"
for INDUSTRIOUS energetic and intelligent
as any have been, yet none have reached
the highest round of possibilities offered
by the occupation of agriculture to the
husbandman who will but open the doors
to her unbounded resources and wisely
use her riches.
The young man who enters on the ex-
perimental study Of industrial science, for
winter even win find that in the spring
i. grows and N the summer and fall it
yields fruit, and as his knowledge and
industry expands, so does their reward.
At no time in the past has the State Of
fered its young menisu true help to edu-
cation and self-growth as she now offers
at the Agricultural College. A faculty is
there eminently able to teach and give
direction to all who will attend. | regard
the winter course as the most practical
provision yet made by that institution.
| wish | could reach the ear and heart
of thousand young men and boys in
North Carolina with this article and in
duce them to attend this winters course
at the A. and M. College 1t is you and
your parents l now address. Do not wait
till you get surplus laid up in bank.
Sell some thing or borrow the money on
the next crop and get there
Better go in debt for that instruction
year or two than even for fertilizers It
will fill your mind with fertilizing in
struction for home use that will last life
time and grow in usefulness as you grow
older. My word for it, that a thousand
North Carolina boys attending that col
lege this winter will be worth thousands
OF dollars within q year to the families
of such boys and tens Of thousands to the
State at large
1t is pleasing to note how rapidly the
agricultural institutions are forging
agricultural institutions are forging to
the front rank among the institutions
CT learning in the United States. Whether
North Carolina shall keep pace with the
foremost depends now upon the young
men and their parents in the State
If all the farm laborers who hire out on
our farms were graduates of the A. and
NJ. College they could at once answer the
advertisement "A Farmer Wanted" and
get five dollars month more for their
labor. All the best farmers would be
glad to give it. What then is such in
struction worth to the young growing
boys, who are soon to own the farms all
over the State? Those should be thus
prepared, not only as directors of indus
trial production, but trained as well for
legislators in the State, and for statesmen
in the nation 1t would be worth hun
dreds of times what it costs. Then the
growth of intellect and expansion of sui
would be worth more than all else
SAMUEL ARCHER,
Statesville NJ c.