The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01
Their Salvation With Them
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thoughts, feelings and longings, as
to become incorporated Ito his very
existence, to be really an essential
part OF himself He comes to you
| strong in body, clefIr headed and
receptive, self reliant and independent,
| a very child Of nature. fresh from
| the bosom of mother earth. The
teacher who takes this lad by the
hand and leads him along the paths
! of manhood. enjoys a pleasure, a
privilege and a great responsibility,
ISecond only to hers who reared him
and gave him birth. Hers indeed was
| the greatest privilege, the noblest
work, the most exquisite joy that
providence has vouchsafed to mortals.
1.-THE modest unknown mothers of
Shakespeare, of Luther. of Franklin,
lof Webster, of Jackson and of Lin
coin in their humble homes, bathing
and nursing, guiding and training lit
tile helpless children, to make for the
world its leaders in thought, scnti-
ment and action were contributing
more to civilization and humanity than
| all the female artists, orators, rulers,
lagitators, reformers, feminal uoval
| from the days of Xanthippe to the
! era of Susan Is. Anthony. M:fl the
Lord have mercy on them all, with
their nervous, unhappy souls and rest
| less lives!
THE frmcst foundation of man
hood. both national and 1ioividual.
| is agriculture. 1t means youth and
early manhood spent in the open air
and sunshine, in active physical Ia
Dor, in simple regular life, in health
| full habits, free from artificial stimu-
n i,,ly r. n o6
fashion, of ambition and rivalry. 1t
means a life as close as possible to
nature. There is a law in Germany
requiring every citizen to spend three
years as a soldier in active military
service. The purpose of this law is
| to furnish material for great army
! of national defense. 1t would be
bea.er for Germany, and we'll fox
every country, if there were law
requiring each citizen, male or fe-
male, to spend at least three years, be-
tween the ares of IL and 81. in man
ual labor on the farm. If the dudes
md degenerates, the victims of alco-
lhol and, opiates, the weak and the
nervous those who cannot cat and
those who cannot sleep, could all i'll
early youth have lived in the country
land worked on the farm. could have
experienced the joy of fatigue, from
daily la Dor in the open air and sun
shine. tho satisfaction of work &C
lcomplished, the inauguration of natural
sleep, the sweetness of food and
drink taken only in response to hum
ger and thirst, the inspiration of con-
tact with mother Garth. of comml/-
ion with sky, and stars and cuouds,
of sympathy with grass and flowers
and the humblest creeping things of
knowing and loving little animals,
the friends and servants Of men, of
drawing closer to God by living
lcloser to nature the world would be
spared much of the disease, the vice,
the crime and the misery that it now
endures. If the human race in its
degenerate state. is ever to be regener-
ated. it will be by life in the country,
and toll on the farm. The man with
the hoe is the primal man. the fund
amental man, the man from whose
Ioins must spring a vigorous regen-
Grated race.
Eyes, the farmer and the farmers
| sons arc welcome here. There was
time when lads entered college to
escape work but now, and certainly
| here. going to college means prepara-
| ton Cor work.
Labor and knowledge.
1.-THE necessity of labor and, the hon
| sons to be taught the youth of the
ISouth. Our people as a whole can
| not learn these lessons. because we
are still too close to slavery. We
l5till consider manual labor to be
lsomewhaX beneath a gentleman or a
lady. We waste or substance in the
employment Of servants, apparently
| to wait on us, while frequently we
wait on them, and usually they cost
hi
| than they render service. 1t is a mat
ter not of economy. but of supposed
Igentility. a little observation and
easy calculation will demonstrate
that in North Carolina we spend for
| the wages and food and breakage and
IStealage of unnecessary servants,
money enough if saved annually for
thirty yeas, to purchase every acre
of ground in the State. Our whole
landed property is eaten up by SER
wants one time during each genera
ton. 1t is impossible to become
wealthy under such conditions.
Next in Importance to the lesson
of labor, is the lesson of knowledge.
In an age of skill and machinery, of
science and knowledge, of equipment
land organization the farmer cannot
rely entirely upon bone and muscle.
In the markets of this world he must
compete with World-Skill and world
science. He will sell at a maximum
of profit only by producing at a mini
mum of cost. He must SOW seed that
will yield the best harvest, employ
tools and machinery that will do the
most work with the least labor. APP
ply fertilizers that are best adapted
to soils and crops, pillow and cultivate
in the best way and with the best
machinery, drain and irrigate, fight
cattle-tickS and boil weevils from
Texas San Jose scale from California
and nobody knows what plaques from
Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philip
pines. For arc We not now a world
power? a great big world animal, a
regular plesiosauruS, a dinosaur, or d
pteroactyl, at the very least? and
must we not pay for our greatness?
Must we not be bitten, blod and
plagued by pests and vermin-like
other big animals?
1T used to be said that any fool
could be farmer. There was a ira
dition in Franklin county that old
Uncle George Winston said o. his
four sons: Patrick Henri is
genius. | will make him a lawyer;
John Wesley is gentle and tender like
a woman. l will make him a doctor: