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1 WINSTON=SALEM, N. C. §j
Crops Looking Well In the Oak Grove
Section--OtherJ News.
Oak Grove. Route 2.-The dear'
old Reporter visits our home
every week, and I like to read it.
I don't see why it should not visit
every home in Stokes, us it is the
best county paper I know, orj
among the best.
The farmers in this section are
wearing long faces, as the wet
weather has put them behind
with their work.
The wheat crop looks well, and
promises a good yield at harvest.
The tobacco crop is about half
planted. Corn is looking well so
far. what the crows left. But I'm
afraid the grass will choke it out,
if the wet weather continues.
The Irish potato crop is good
and coming into use. The cooks
can be seen in the patch every'
morning scratching.
hardbank's Hustling
Merchant has received
Fifty $2.00 Sample Umbrellas, which
he is offering for only SI.OO each.
He has the prettiest line of Samples
and Mill Ends of Dry Goods in the
country and his prices are right.
His line of Shoes can't be beat.
I carry all kinds of Groceries, No
tions, Hardware, Drugs, etc.
Come and see me. 1 will treat you
right.
Yours for business,
W. P. NELSON,
Danbury, N. C., Route I.
L
Mrs. Dr. S. F. Tillotson visited
relatives at Oak Grovo the past
• week.
Misses Laura Powers and Ko
zella Gentry visited at G. \V.
Smith's the past week Also Mrs
M. D. Ha nun and children
Born unto Mr. and Mrs J. C.
Tillotson, a little daughter
Tax listers will soon be
here. Price your property before
then, so it will not take so
long. We have known it to take
half an hour for one man to price
his mule with the help of two or
three others. This is wasting
time, anil hindering others in
their time.
Mr. T. VV. Gentry and'sister,
Miss Rozella, attended commence
ment at Boonville, returning
Saturday night. They report a
nice time.
SORIBBLKR
THE DAN BURY REPORTER.
THE SUBJECT OF FREE SCHOOLS.
A Correspondent of the Reporter
Discusses the Matter At Length
and Defends the Teachers.
Dillard, May 24
| Messrs. Editors .
I As the subject of "free schools'
is being discussed ami our teach
ers are seemingly being abused. 1
desire to say a lew words in their
defense. I have taught some my
self' and my heart is in sympathy
with them.
We are forced to think that "0.
E. L " ar.d young Bowman are
very, very hard on the public
school teachers. They seem to
think that every defect in the
public school system of Stokes
county lies in its poor teachers.
I think that it is a serious mis
take.
Indeed I admit that our schools
are sadly in need of improvement,
but I do think it is so silly in
people trying aiwa)s to tind fault
in teachers Of course they be
long to Adam's family, and have !
their faults like other people.
The teacher who has no failings,
who does everything just right
and never makes a mistake, does
not dwell here ou earth. She is |
| in heaven. (
I think under the existing cir
cumstances that the public
schools are doing fairly good
work and ore improving each
year as any one but a pessimist
will admit. Of course as I said,
they need improvement, but if
patrons would try half as hard iu
all they say and do to help their
teachers and build up their
schools as they do to discourage
them, WM would have better
schools. I wonder how many
people who are bowling about
Stokes schools and teachers ever
stop to consider the inducement
th«?re is iu entering a Stokes
school house to teach a public
| school.
C. E. L. says that most every
| district has good houses and poor
J teachers. I do not know of a
j modern public school-house in the
c iunty. and if there is one that is
comfortable iu the winter, I
,do not know of it. Neither is
there necessary furniture in them.
Right here at Dillard, C. E. L's
post office, there is just one very
: common room and it poorly fur
nished, for two teachers to work
j in, while the censes for last year
! numbered IPJ children, and the
j enrollment for last winter was
IDS.
The principal here gets si{o.oo
! and the assistant $lB 00 per month,
! not enough to pay board and ex
j penses for a year, for one teacher.
I Isn't that poor inducement to the
|girlwhois contemplating teach
ing iu Stokes county! Evidently
! there are a great many incompe
tent teachers in the county, but
they are doing the best they can,
and when they become better
> equipped, as most of them are
i trying to do, they are going to
leave our county and go where
i they can demand high salaries and
work in nice, comfortable, and
well furnished school-houses.
No teacher who prepares herself
as she should be is going to
sit down in a shabby, nou-furnish
ed house to work for $30.00 per
month when she can go to some
other adjoining counties and work
iu a modern school building for
from $40.00 to $150.00 per montn.
But there are scores and scores
of people who will say that build
ing good school houses and pay
ing teachers what they should
have is all a waste of money. It
may be true, but Stokes county
will never have much better pub
lic schools until such is the case,
If we even have good schools like
the sister counties, wo must all
go to work as the other counties
have done and we can certainly
do it. Every one should get his
shoulder to the wheel and push
and no oue pull back. Stokes
county could build up high
I schools, just as other counties are
' doing if she would only try. It is
|to be sincerely hoped that she
! will do this in the near future.
Our people have just never
I>een worked up to tba great need
of education. They need to get
011 a great educational boom.
There are many parents, and
good people too who think that it
isn't necessary to get much train
ing for life. They never had the
privilege of much themselves and j
have, as they think, been as suc
cessful fis if they had been edu
cated. Hut oh! there is a greater
need for educating the children I
now than ever before. Education
goes a good deal farther than tine
clothes. How awkward it does j
seem for a boy or girl who is so!
careful as to wear tine dressing,
patent leather siloes etc.. and is
completely lacking in refinement ]
and training. They haven't that
ease of manner when they go into
society. They are a bore to those
around t!iem—all because of that
lack of training. Better wear
homespun clothing if one is edu
cated and refined than to go into
society with tine clothes and f un
trained. Education consists of a
good deal more than merely learn
ing to read and write. It is a
broadening of the mind in every
way possible to reach out for
higher ideals of life. What great
things those little '"back-woods''
boys and girls might accomplish
1 if they were only properly trained
and their little minds develoi>ed.
Those little minds are simply
starving for food, but their par
ents do not think of that. If
they clothe them and furnish
i food for their bodies, they think
that is sufficient. How well the
1 poet pictures this :
•'Full many a gem of purest
ray serene,
The dark unfathomed caves of
ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to
blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the
desert air."
The only way for Stokes county
;to improve her schools is to vote
a tax especially for that purpose.
But the word "tax" scares the
people so badly that it isn't safe
ito talk about it much. It has
been said that one can take a tax
book and run every North Caro
linian out of the State. Whether
that be true or not —a North
Carolinian hates taxes. We must
not forget though that we got
.this principle honestly, for we
inherited it from our old fore
fathers of Revolutionary times.
Our State was the first to resist
the cause of England all on ac
count of high taxes demanded by
her, when we had no money at all
to pay them.
So our people hated taxes then
and taught their babes to hate
them. Things are different now
i though and taxes aro for our im
mediate good. People should
stop to consider that the counties
and States paying most taxes
have better schools, bettur reads,
and are more prosperous in every
respect than those which pay less
tax.
When our schools are improved
I there will bo one thing more
needed than improving the
teachers and that is compelling
the people to send their children
to them, if they will not do it
| otherwise.
Our State has always been slow
'to make changes, but when it
: does see its path of duty, or of
progress it is unsurpassed in its
! quiet way of walking in that path
! without faltering.
While we have such men at the
head of our government as we
have, and such an able State
Superintendent, and county
Superintendents, all working for
the great cause of education thore
are sure to be great tilings accom
! plished.
One other factor is that people
must all uuite and help them
selves. "In unity there is
strength." Patrons should be in
sympathy with the teachers and
the children should be taught the
same.
»
Wo sincerely hope to see the
time in the near future when our
schools will be better and that
every little boy and girl will get
> the benefit of them.
A WORD FROM COL. GALLOWAY.
He Surest* Some Reasoas Why |
Hon. R D. Reid Should Be Nomi
nated For Congress.
Madison, May 25.
One word to my brother farm
ers of Stokes county recommend
ing Reuben Reid to their atten
tion as a candidate for Congress.;
It is never a discredit to a man to
come of honored and honorable
ancestry. Reuben's father, Gov
ernor Reid. WHS all his life a true
and steadfast friend to the people
of North Carolina. Party feeling
ran high in his day, but even his
political opponents never charged
him with dishonest or dishonor
able dealings. Ken ben is like un
to him. Not even his bitterest en
emy will charge him with keeping
money not legitimately his.
In his ilrst public service in the
Legislature of l'.tOT he brought
forward a Trust Biil, intended to
benefit the farmers. It was bit
terly opposed, and failed to pass.
It is claimed by its friends that it
scared the Trust and caused them
to put up the price of tobacco so
as to prevent any more such bills.
If this is correct, then every far
mer in Stokes county who got a
better price than usual for his to
bacco, ought to pitch in and work
his best for Reuben.
There is another thing about
Reuben which ought to recom
mend him for the' place. He
spends his own money free. If
he gets that $7,500 salary, he will
distribute it among the people of
the Fifth District as quickly and
liberally as any other man. He
will pay as strict attention to the
wants of his constituents as any
man. What mora do we want ?
J. M. GALLAWAY.
Death From Hydrophobia.
New York, May 21. William
H. Marsh, the Brooklyn man con
demned by his gentleness to a pet
bulldog to die in the convulsions
of rabies, has passed his agony,
and the death which he had
known in his lucid moments dur
ing the past twenty-four hours to
be inevitable came at 5.:{0 o'clock
yesterday afternoon. Part of the
day he was conscious, but the
most of the time he was under
the influence of opiates. He had
asked the physicians to make his
end as easy as they could.
For the last twenty-four hours
the patient, who tossed and burn
ed on his bed at bis home, 74
Ocean avenue, suffered a double
tortne. Dr. Henry M. Cullinam,
the physician who had been in
close attendance upon Mr. Marsh
since first he went home with the
knowledge that death was coming
to him, said that up to yesterday
morning the man bad been able
to follow, step by step, the course
of the disease that was racking
him through knowledge he onoe
acquired in a full course in med
icine that he had taken.
Like a man sitting in the con
demned cell and listening to the
striking of the clock that brings
the dawn nearer, Mr. Marsh
diagnosod the advance of the
plague during the intermittent
periods of consciousness.
CAMPBELL.
Campbell, May 20. —Quite a
large crowd attended servioes at
Snow Creek Sunday. Rev. E. M.
Barnard and others tilled the ap
pointment. One admission to the
church, and will be baptized in
the creek near Mr. Joe Robert
son's the fuurth Sunday in June.
We are glad to learn that Mr.
Corn is slowly improving from a
protracted case of measles.
Mr, Bob Martin visited Mr. L.
V. Foddrill Sunday,
The people in this section are
behind with farm work owing to
so much rain.
Mr. Joe Martin purchased
a tine horse recently from Mr. J.
T. Lawson.
Mr. Joseph Dunlap, of Snow
Creek townahip, was here Friday.
The Italics Of the Wilt aad Mother.
Written for the Woman's Deftt.
Being a wife is a privilege
which we, as women, choose for
ourselves. In this country wife
hood is not thrust upon us.
Given the man who appeals and
pleases snd satisfies, we walk de
liberately into the yoke. Then
having accepted the position, it is
the part of every wife to lift up
and ennoble and eanctify by
thought and act the maritial re
lation. If there has been suffi
cient thought beforehand, and the
man is the right sort there should
be no trouble. A man will go
great lengths for the woman he
loves and has made his wife.
Much depends on the woman
and too many women miss their
own best happiness by failing to
use their powers and exertions to
keep love in the heart and the air
of "loverness" in the home. No
matter what a woman's life has
been up to the time she accepted
a man in marriage from that mo
ment there is fresh incentive to
good living and a new inspiration
for happiness.
With the beginning of wife
hood is the beginning of another
: life entirely different from the
maiden one. Being a wife ought
to be a joyous and tender respon
sibility, and even the little wor
: ries and cares must be taken as a
| part of it. The sanctify and
I purity of the home is the salva
! tion of a nation, and from the
1 homes where love and tenderness
| and consideration abound will
I come the best citizens of the fu
ture. To the woman who be
comes a second wife and assumes
charge of children not her own
I want to say you have a charge
to keep which is doubly respon
sible and you should have con
' sidered the question well before
casting the final vote. Then be
ing a wife, do not complain of
things that cannot be helped,
j Don't say this is a dreary old world
and but for the next it could not
be lived. It is very true that the
; hope of a future experience in a
purified land of light and love
is something which helps us to
endure, but this is a good old
world full of blessings which we
may get if we lift up our heads
and seek them. Be queens even
l if you must slave to keep things
bright and clean. Demand obe
dience with gentleness and hold
fast to love by the laying out of
tender bands. Strive always
for some degree of self improve
ment by reading a little every day
and learning to apply what you
read. If your early education
has been neglected and you feel
i your limitations, there is certainty
|'hat the very knowledge of the
fact will help you to study to im
prove. Surprise your husband
! every day by telling him some- *
j thing of interest and value which
you have read. See that your
; children get better advantages
than you had. Put your experi-
I ence to use in the rearing of your
i own children. Ones own life
t and family affairs, even the if trials
and troubles are hard to endure,
which we all will have in some
measure, should not be talked
about to outside neighbors and
friends. Home affairs are sacred,
and not to be discussed with every
passing stranger. There is an
| old cruel ssying, "laugh the
! world laughs with you, weep and.
you weep alone." Which is per
fectly true. But the Almighty's ear
hears, and the divine voice says,
i "Cast your burdens on "«ie." I
know that this is true. So be
j happy by the very force of yodr
| own will. Will to be happy, and
: you will be surprised how you
will bend things that way. A
part of a woman's business is to
;be cheerful and happy in the**
home. It is the reflection of that
cheer and happiness which keeps
the world going and binds men
to right doing. If you have a
good husband thank God for him
snd be true to your trust.
• MRS. DR. W. P. WILSON.
ObwlotU, Ns 0.