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TPIE HEADLIGHT. ISSUED EVERY FKIDAY. A. KOSCOWE't. EDITOK. 7 We are by no means ropoiisthle for Hi opinions eaprsed by our eorrespoud- OllU. Eutered at tl Poet Office in Goldsboro, 31. I'., as eed-aiatur. I'ju ,, Lm jjaMmJU GOLDSBORO, X. C. iaiT BTEfma. Eeh'y. 17th 1888. HOME LIFE. It has growu so stereotyped cus. torn to descant on filial duty that it has come very much to be forgotten that there are serious obligations no less in cumbent on parents towards their child ren. Nowhere is this field so wide and diversified as in the home life. We frequently hear lamentations over the dorelictions of the young ; but how few pause and inquire as to their origin ? Art these always of accidental growth, or are we willing to place the enus of responsibility where, ia so maay cases, it rightfully belongs? The kind of educational life which should be maintained within the sac red precincts of the home is too often neglected or forgotten, and so it be comes matter of little wonder when the youthful members of the house hold exhibit traits of character which, in their development later on, frustrate the hopes and wound the hearts of those who should have been their natural guides in the p:ith of virtue and public morals. Not that all pareats are to blame. Not that the best, in struction the instruction of example conjoined with precept may not some tines fail of producing a salutary effect. Rut as little as we would refuse to sow the furrowed field because it does not always yield a bounteous harvest, so li;tle should we abstain from the culti vation of the character of our children because there are cases where good and judicious education proved insufficient to remove their blemishes of dispo sition or to eradicate the faults which fructify in the hearts of soma of whom betttr things were hoped. JRrigt train ing. as a general rule, produces whole some results. The man or the wman is the logical sequence of the child, who is, in turn, the natural outcome of that which he sees, imitates and translates into his own moral being, according as he finds it in the home life. The examples which forcibly illus trate this proposition are not difficult to be discovered. You observe a young man addicted to gambling. How did he first learn the "amusement ?" Has the fact of the father's habitual ab sence from home evening after even ing to indulge in "a friendly game" not had its shire of influence ia lead ing his tastes in the direction of those dens, where this pernicious vice most flourishes! For the one, it was con sidered merely a kiud of relaxation after the cares of business, which car ried him into the "wee sma' hours;" for the othe, it was an outlet for the temptation which he found himself without the guidance or council to re sist. Many a conformed sot might trace his fall to the potations deep which. ac had seen the concomitant of every entertainment of friend and. visi tor, when wine ceased to gladden the heart, and the cup no longer cheered, when inebriety was condoned under the misnomers of jollity and good fel lowship. We could continue the enameration much f farther; but perhaps what is here set forth, "more in sorrow than in. anger," will suffice to indicate the dangers, which menace our home life. Well for us if we could realize the im portance oi this matter, ana recognize the necessity for careful and diligent vigilance in the exercise of parental duties in the direction indicated. The best and most timely influence is need ed to guard against these crying evils, whose growth must bring forth fatal fruit, as morally dangerous as that "Whoes mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe." o Educated Farmers. No man ought to know so well as tha farmer that like produces like, and that a man will reap what he sows. Every seed will bring forth after its own-kind. We do not gather grapes fram thorns, or figs from thistles. I f you sow wheat you will reap wheat, if you plant corn you gather corn. No man should know so well s the farmer that this law holds good to other things in life. A man's brain, is a soil as capable, of producing a harvest as the land of a farmer. A neglect to plant good seed will secure n corresponding harvest. Plant no seed, and the most noxious weeds will cover the ground. Plant tares and tares will be the harvest. Plant false hood and a luxuriant growth of lies will be secured. If jou want your boys to be men, in the largest sense see to it that their minds are properly culti vated and the right kind of seed is planted. Give the boys tht advantage ,bf a good education. Public Schools. There is room for improvement in the Public school system of North Carolina. The standard of teachers ueeds elevation and sufficient induce ment slwuld be offered to influence thosa who are fully qualified to apply for certificates. As a class, the teach ers in the public schools of North Car olina, are men who see no other way to make $25 per month during the winter anal who engage to leach with out having the slighest adaptation to the work or necessary qualifications. They do not care to improve them selves since it is to be a secondary call ing through life a something to do when other work is scarce. The Coun ty superintendent should visit every school in the eounty often enough to satisfy himself that the teacher? undar him are doing their duty, and are the men for the work. And for this he should receive a salary which would be sufficient to enable him to devote all of his time to the duties of the office. The people pay their taxes to build school-houses and pay teachers, and they have a right to demand that only these who can teach, be placed over their children. There is an opportua ity for reform on this line a reform that will be seen and felt in the men ! and women of future years, ' Let the politician, who wants to advocate a measure that will briag him credit and do him honor, devise some means whereby the school system in this State will be unproved; that will secure only competent teachers and pay them salary surhcient; that, will requ;re the superintendent to devote all of their lime to the work of examining the teachers, holding Normals, visiting schools and devising plans of improve ment, that will do away with the in competent teachers who have no am bition to rise in their profession, and that will provide assistant teachers whenever the number of pupils ex ceeds the limit of one teachers abilitv to do good work. The Public schools will prove a hinderance rather than a real benefit if they take the place of private schools without conferring equal advantages in the branches taught. Netcs aiul Farm. j ne aoove is so tuoroujiniv in ac cord with the views we have expressed before in these columns, that we give it our strongest editorial endorsement. Sincerity A Refreshing Policy. What honesty is in deeds, sincerity is in words the best policy. It is a policy, however, to which the artificial habits of society are not very favorable. The forms of politeness, with all their utility, have this disadvantage, that, in teaching to restrain the real senti ments and ideas which cannot, conven iently be expressed, they are apt to lead to the expression of others which are not consistent with the truth. In sincerity, however, arises from many sources in the human character. In some cases it springs from the genuine love of concealment. In others it is prompted by a dread of the consequen ces which it is supposed would result frsm the disclosure of the truth. In others it arises from a false love of approbation, the flattering of others seeming a sure way of gaining that object. One of the most refreshing things in this life is to encounter sincerity. In this dianiond-cut-diamond age one rarely meets with the real article. At least nine tenths of the people who seem to be frank and candid are mere ly humbugs. Those people who pro fess to lay open their whole hearts be fore you frequenty do so to throw you off your guard, hoping in this way to obtain an opportunity of looking into your atlairs. The sincere man can deal with such people effectually with out resorting to anv kiud of strateev. Let your answers be straightforward truths. Nothinj; puzzles and discom forts them so sorely. Hear what they have to say of themselves, and cive your opinion of in as plainly as lauou- age will convey your meaning ; but give tiiem no lniormation oi youi atlairs in return. Ex. The Folly of Flirtation. If young ladies, who pi ide them selves on their skill and tact in the art of flirtation, could only hear all that is said of them behind thiir backs, we think they would rtnounce their mere tricious blandishments forever, and blush, if not past that wholesome indi cation of shame, for the false part they had so far played in society. The practical flirt is looked upon by all young men, save those green enough to be her victims, merely as a frivol ous piece of human trumpery, with whom it may be well enough to while away an idle hour, now and then, when nothing better in the way of amuse ment offers. She is freely discussed in club-room conversation, and her tricks of fascination are the subjects of the coarsest jests. Instead of the respect with which all honorable men regard true women, she earns for her self their contempt, while the good and amiable of her own sex look upon her with loathing. Of obtaining a desir able husband she has not tha slight est chance, and the probability is that sue will either die unmarried, or ac cept, as a last resort, some wretch who will avenge upon her, by his brutality, the deception she has endeavored to practice upon better men. In either caie she will deserve her fate. We would advise any young lady who is in clined to flirtation, to ask some old jilt, who has been through the mill, wheth er she thinks, tint sort of thing pays in the end. X. Y. Ledtjer. We do not believe it is true that the people of North Carolina desire to have capital punishment abolished. We have no doubt that four out of five whites oppose abolition. Once do away with hanging by law and Judge Lynch will uot be able to get around fast cuouji. WUniivf oH Star. W.'ie.i To Adverlise. When business is dull. When you have nioe goods, and want people to know it. i When you have a poor stock and want to sell it to get a good one. When people that advertise have a good trade and you have not. When you have a good trade adver tise to get a better one. When you are busted and want to sell out. o As Others See Us. The New York Evening Post says : 'One may say that no other State in the Union deserves attention from Northern people more than does North Carolina. In climate,, in resources of varied character, in geographical situa tion it is surpassed by none. What it needs and. what other Southern States need is a better class of labor. It is undeniable that the new generation of colored peoplo are as laborers and as a people considerably deteriorated from the former generation of freednien. The reliables are the old ones. The Tuxxel. at Lidby Prisox. The March Century will contain the story of "Colonel Rose's Tunnel at Libbv Prison," told by ne of the one hundred and nine Union officers who escaped on the nijiht of February 9, 1 864. The successful construction of this tunnel, dug from a dark corner of the cellar of the prison, through fifty feet of solid earth, the only tools be ing two bri'keu chisels and a wooden spittoon in which to carry out the dirt, was one of the most remarkable in cidents of the war. Colonel Hose, to whose indomitable will and perseverance the success of the scheme was due, is now a captain in the lGth United States Infantry, and of the feurteen meu who assisted him in digging the tunnel, eleven are still living. The narrative in the March Century, which is illustrated, forms one of the untechnical papers supplementing the War Series, and it is said to be one of the most romantic records that The Century has ever printed. o It is being generally remarked in the North, now that th statistics of tie Southern cotton goods have been made public, that there is really some grouud for boasted success within the past few years. We think so, too. A section of the country able to boast of an increase of lift cotton mills, 18, 784 looms and 781,li6 spindles in eight years has some right to talk about growing prosperity, and it appears to us as if it had some right also to invite enterprising men ta take shares in that prosperity. It is about time for some people in the North to open their minds and hearts and extend the hand of genuine, warm friendship to those ho are doing their best net only for them selves, but for the Union, of which they form a part. Ask Will Hunter. Amid the toil a:.d anxiety of mana ging a hotel, a landlord has an advan tage over members of any othar class in the business community. He sees human nature in all its phases and, without leaving his own threshold, has all the varities of mankind and woman kind present their peculiarities of na tionality, sex and disposition before him, so that what others have to travel across continent to see he beholds in the ceaseless throng which passes through his house. The world travels to him. He sees men and women of genius in their hours of leisure, when they are minded to enjoy themselves and when in many ways he can render services and impart information of ap preciated value. He sees the weakness of the hero at home, where no man is a hero. One world famous guest proves to be a drunkard, another never pays the odd cents on his bill, another is so fussy as to report the difference in temperature of a dejrree and ha'f between the dining room and the par lor. Tales of sin and shame are told him by fugitives, deceived husbands and wives, bereft and heartbroken parents. His house may, if iin the metropolis, be the scene where railroad and man ufacturing magnates consolidate these monopolies, where balls, wedding breakfasts and weddings fill the circl ing hours. If he be a hilosopher, he fattens with informalior; if a cynic, his pessimism blackens by constant con tact with fraud and weakness; if he is a sharp business man he turns to fish all that comes to his net. If he is a progressive man of a modern spirit he learns better and better the art of keep ing a hotel that is up to the times one whose guests will advertise it as the commercial travelers and others always do advertise the best houses with some such sentiment as this (a la Harrigan). "How are you, Mr. Marrow flit? So you are going to Mobile. Take my advice, and hang your Lat On the pegs in the Hotel Veal." Says one of our exchanges: A good advertisement in a newspaper pays- no fare on railroads; costs nothing for hotel bills ; drinks no whisky under the head of travelling expenses, but goes at once all the time aboat its busi ness free of expense. Prince Rismark predicts that war will not take place in Europe until 1802. 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