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The clever modern mother has
come to take anything but a boast-'-ftil
view of the precocious infant.
Despite newspaper jokes, she has
learned the truth of that old saw,
"Forced fruits fail in flavor". '
The place of children is the nurse
ry, not the limelight; little ones who
are allowed to emerge early from
their seclusion are robbed of their
rightful heritage of childish joys.
The child who is brought up in
the city must of necessity see life at
an early age. Its daily walks on
the streets cannot but be an eye
opener to an observant youngster,
while the more formal pleasure of
dancing classes and matinees fore
stall grown-up joys in a way that
is not always beneficial. Therefore,
there is a growing belief in the coun
try as the place to raise childrea.
There is the fresh age to be lived
through, tryiug as it .is, when boys
and girls get "smarty." Mother
ofum have themselves to blame thai
the dreaded freshness becomes con
stitutional rather than sporadic
The forced witty child becomes tht
bre ot later years who thinks he
was born to be a humorist.
In trying to avoid forcing, . it i
well not to err on the side of ultra
exclusiveness. There is a mother
of a charming debutante who cau
nt understand why her daughter i
in close touch with the girls of hei
age. It is because the girl was
brought up without young compan
ions, was taught to dance by private
tutors and was permitted to hav
girl chums.
It i a temptation to mothers tc
yield to persuasion of the overgrown,
clever daughter to go with girls old
er than herself. The mature irirl of
fourteen sees no reason win- she
should not so to the dunces ofgir's
sixteen and seventeen, and o'ten the
mother weakly yields.
Leaving the health side out of th
question, the social . expediency is
doubtful. Trie forced ."sweet-six-teener"
iVan old story when other
girls of her age are ready to come
out. At twenty-five she is reckon
ed among the ''lias beens." She
cannot carry a certificate of birth on
her lall gowns, and men judge only
bv the years she has "been around."
It is a sad thing not to have be n
a real girl or boy. Too main child
ren nowadays are minerature men
and women from the cradle Never
to have hung on behind "butter
boxes," yelled through "prisoner's
base," oi jumped from the highest
rafter in the hay-mow is to have lost
the choicest memories of childhood.
Grown-up jays have all the better
flavor for not being tasted, too soon.
Forced mental fruits are even
more apt to fall in flavor than the
social hot bed plant. The building
genius rarely bursts iuto bloom and
the best fruits of scholarship are of
ten on the so-called stunted growths.
Educators understand that each year
a child is held back before seven
means that much more progress
later.
While keeping a girl in ignorance
of life is to be deplored, forced mor
al growths are even less desirable.
For this reason parents should
know the books their children read
and the plays they attend. A course
of the modernproblem novel and
play may do worse, shan effect the
navor ot a girls lite, it may taint
it at the heart.
Young people can even be forced
physically The body cau be built
up injudiciously. Girls especial lv
have been sufferers for life because
. parents have not understood that
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gjuiuaMics auu pnvsicai culture
should be guided and guarded.
Bryan on Way Home.
Pensacola
Fla , Feb.
9. After
delivering an address tonight'at the
court-house to a crowd of
thousand, Wm. J. Bryan left at 10
o'clock for his home in Lincoln
Neb.
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GEORGIA NEGRO
Attacked Young Girl Is Put in
Jail by Posse.
Bainbridge, Ga., Ft 9. Ex
citement is intense here tonight over
the attempt of Ike Jones, a negro,
to criminally assault the 16-year-old
daughter of Joe Spooner, in the
western part of i the county this
morning. The negro was captured
by a posse and placed in the town
jil at Iron City, being later remov
ed to the county jail at this place.
Many citizens of tke section of
the coufity where the crime was
committed have come toTJainbridge
and there are rumors of an attempt
being made tonight to take the ne
gro from the jail and lynch him.
Miss Spooner identified the negro
and he has also been identified as
having attempted to assault the
daughter of another white man in
the same community several months
igo.
Killed by His Own Gun.
Kinston, Feb. 10 A telephone
message was received in this city
late yesterday evening from Fort
Barnwell, staling that Mr. W. B.
Pierce, ex-Representative from Cra
ven county, who lives near the Le
noir county line, was found dead in-
his field yesterday morning. Later
information brought to this city is
to the effect that circumstances point
to Mr. Pierce's being killed by his
own guu an I strongly supporting
the theory that it was accidental.
The body was fouud on one side
of a fence anil the gun on the other
side, the load having been discharg
ed. It is thought that he had put
his guu through he feuce and wheu
he started to egawl through the gun
was discharged aecidently. The load
ot shot struck Mr. Pierce on the
right side of the head just above the
ear and earn d away tne top of the
head. A portton of the brain was
found 20 feet away and with it
wadding corresponding to that used
iu Mr. Pierce's gun. No tracks
were discovered in the vicinity of
the shooting after a diligent search
and though it is known Mr. Pierce's
life had been threatened, the people
iu the section are reasonably siire in
m
view ofthe ounpunding circum
stances that it was not a case of
murder.
The body was found about a halt
mile from the home. Mr. Pierce
was a well-to-do farmer of his sec
tion and highly esteemed. He rep
resented Craven county in the Gen
eral Assembly of 1899 and was
promineut in county affairs
Tries Laudanum Route.
Mebane, Feb. 10 This after
noon about 2 o'clock Bunn Pope, a
well knovvu white man of this place,
attempted to commit' suicide by
drinking laudanum. Pooe had been
drunk for some time and was yes
terday discharged from the South
ern Railway depot, where he had
been employed for some time past.
Today about dinner it is said that
Pope told a young man of this, place
that he was tiled of living and that
lie was toing to kill himself and a
short time later was found in the
rear of a store here. Dr. Wells was
imm'Miiately summoned and worked
with him for several hours. He is
now practically out of danger.
New Line to Cuba.
Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 11.
Governor Gilchrist to day signed
the charter of the American and
West Indian Steamship Company
and the line will be inaugurated at
an early date, with regular sailings
for both freight and passengers be
tween-Jacksonville and the Port of
Cabarien, Cuba. Dr. Edwiu South
ers, president of the company, has
called a meeting to be held her
next Tuesday, when options on ter
minals will be closed.
AS RURAL LIFE SHOULD BE
Baltimore American.
President Roosevelt ges down
into the furrow rn his message to
Congress transmitting the report of
the County Life Commission. Here
he is evidently happy and his views
on the improvement of country con
ditions are least likely to arouse a
controversy. The President has ab
solute confidence in the American
farm and the American farmer, in
cluding the farmers wife. He com
plains thaf the farmer does not
magnify his calling and would have
discussion of farm topics more
general and wider associations
among the representatives of grange
interests. He points out that the
process of organization in other iu
dustrial and economic callings has
been carried to a far point, and ex
horts the agriculturalist to emulate
the co-operative system found in
European countries.
The social side of country life,
Mr. Roosevelt remarks, call for the
development of social interests
among country residents and in this
connection he points to the sections
of the report that lay emphasis on
churches, schools and roads. He
advocates extension of the Young
Men's Christian Association work
in rural communities. He evident
ly has in mind the three fold aspect
of mau, the physicial, the social and
the religious, aod be is satisfied that
by the development of these co-or
dinately the material interests of the
faimer would be advanced. He em
phasizes the position taken by the
report that the government, whether;
state or national, cau only show the
people how they may go about tin
tasks of organizat'ou and communi
cation, with the best and quickest
results.
The improvement of the system
of agriculture is held to be the most
important task to which the senti
ment of rural Communities can ad
dress itself. So he holds up the
ideals of good farming by good
farmers. He adds a warning to tht
effect that the great recent progress
made by the cities is not the full
measure of American civilization,
which rests on the wholesomenes
in i attractiveness of life iu the
couutry. Mr. Roosevelt might have
pointed to the return to- the laud,
found iu the recurvation of aband
oned farms in New England, as evi
dence of a growing perception of the
elements of superiority in the farm
life over the conditions under which
many farmers' sons have tp work in
cities.
The competition between city and
country must be determined in the
issue by the ability of the farmer to
euter into the general channel of the
country s development, do many
questions are arising that border 4
closely upon the farmer's vital in
terests; questions of wastage, of
foresty, of transportation, of recla
mation of inundated areas, of water
front exploitation,, of summer at
tractions for city residents. There
can be no doubt but that such fac
tors are gradually revolutionizing
the conditions under which the
farmer will carry on his vocation in
the future.
Killed in a Quarrel.
. Winston-Salem, Feb. 12. Chas
Fodrell, the nc-gro who shot and
killed his wife last Friday eveniug,
was convicted in Forsyth Superior
Court this aftemeon. The jury af
ter deliberating forty-five minutes
returned a verdict of murder in the
first degree. The defendant was
sentenced to be executed on Friday,
April 30, bet ween the hour of 11
and 1 o'clock.
At a sawmill in Surry county last
night, 1- arvey Nester shot William
Johnson three times, which resulted
in his death today) Both parties'
are white'and were intoxicated when
the crime was committed.
Nester has not been arrested. He
was the defendant in a big slander
suit in his county last year; : ,
The Crime of Idleness.
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