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Thursday July 18, 1907. 14 THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER TH.E BUGGY ' BUYEK who has grained the Impression, by listening; 10 aeaiera bikuiubu ,i bo soldfor tban &5.00 will jo doubt wonder how GOLDEN EAGLE BUGGIES are sold for 49 Se'eSSrition Is simple, the truth of which will h apparent to any . one who will carefully consider the cumbersome, expensive and extortionate "agency system." Here a th .difference. We " build Golden Eagle Buggies ana sell them direct from our factory to you at wholesale price or $49.00 each. Cut out coupon and mall today for Catalogue No. 21 and full particulars of great Frelgkt rates from Atlanta to all Southern and Western polnU are rery low. Rates Quoted to your station on request. - Mall uus wuay. NAME $49.00 ADDRESS- Leather trimmed. Highly finished. Guaranteed. GOLDEN EAGLE BUGGY CO. 160 Edgfewood Ave ATLANTA, CA. . Station 6. Leather trimmeu. Highly finished. Guaranteed. p A LEIFFEO. EMK1 lUkmrr ON THE PLANTATION 'A -SS "mi hi ii - """'"""" ' i saves a world of labor. Count the little and big jobs you would have for it they run the whole year round. Install one and it's eood for your lifetime. Yon are always sure of power when you call upon it and steam when you need it. Experience has demonstrated that the old reliable Leff el steam engines are safer, more reliable and more satif ao tory in every way than any other style of power for farmers' and planters' use. A variety of style's and sizes adapt them to all needs. Power book free. Write for it. James Leff el & Co., Box 203, Springfield, Ohio 'Ml i7 V CASH DOWN Balance on easy installment plan. "; We save yon 100 to $200 on the purchase of a piano. We have been doing this same thing for over 50 years. 25 Do Not Buy a Piano or Organ Until You. Have Read the CornisK BooK Let us show you how. you can obtain a highest grade Piano or Organ for a year's free trial before you need decide to keep It. "We will Bend you Free the "WONDERFUL. CORNISH ROOK, the most beautiful and artistic piano . .and organ catalogue ever printed, showing the choicest of our SO styles In miniature. Do not think of buying a piano or organ until you have , read this book. Every f m ' Intending purchaser fjl 1 11 CASH DOWN Should have it, for by 1 1 1 Balance on easy following the Cornish fll 1 11 installment plan. Elan you save one- f av one -half -if bay on the Cornish plan. We give you two years credit if needed Let us explain to you how you can buy a first-class piano as low as any aeaier ana why no manufacturer - who sells through dealers can quote you as low prices as we do. r in Washington. N. J. Raleigh Banking & Trust Co. " THE ROUND STEPS BANK." Third Generation of Successful Banking-. Has paid to Stockholders more than a Million and a Half Dollars and hot a dollar lost to a depositor. AN UNSURPASSED RECORD. CHAS. E. JOHNSON, President. W. N. JONES, Vice-President. FY H. BRIGGS, Cashier. How to Make Your District School Efficient s. Virginia Farm and Timber Lands For Sale. Excellent farms from SO to 1000 acres at from $7,00 to $12.00 per acre. Stock farms, grain and grass farms, cotton and tobacco farms. :: :: We have the loamy chocolate soil with red clay subsoil. -No better land in the South. : :: Write for land and timber circular, or call on Jeffreys, Hester & Co., incorporated, Real Estate Agents, Mecklenburg Co: Chase City, Virginia. AND IRON rENCEG. Cooper Bros., Raleigh, N. C. Catalogue free. We pay the freight. Manlove Self-Opening Gate.-Always In order. uperaiea oy any - MANLOVE GATE CO., Chicago vehicle. Adds to value, conven lence and beauty of home. Saves time and acci dents. Used on R. F. D. routes and county roads. 272 E. Huron -St, 1, VTJeDD DBipSBDs For Horse, Steam or Gasoline Power Woll Augers For Horse Power Address LOOMIS MACHINE CO. TIFFIN. OHIO Some Practical - Considerations for t Must be Trained With the commencement of j every school year, we should ask: "is the district school doing all it should do for the country children?" I -: Everyone knows what has; been called "The Best Crop on the Farm.; It is the children. We must admit that the methods of cultivating this most - important crop have not im proved as rapidly as the culture of corn. Most of the changes of the curriculum of the common . schools have been brought about by legisla tive enactment and have never! been properly weighed; interpreted, or supported by public opinion. j. Parents Vital Lack of Interest. In most States 'there is a law requir4 ing that Physiology and Hygiene and the effect of Tobacco and Intoxicants on the human system, be taught in the common schools. Now, we be- lieve in the object sought to be at tained by the teaching of physiology but we do not commend the "mushy" way in which it is ordinarily taught Ye editor has not forgotten the fear ful and wonderful conceptions he formed of the interior of a " human stomach after the owner thereof had indulged in a smoke. He wondered if his stomach would feel like the pic ture looked, if he -should smoke. Suggestion did just what it usually does. -The experiment was made and the boy learned to smoke. 1 In some States the law requires that sanitary science be taught to children. This is an extremely de sirable subject to be taught, I- but again we must criticize the way it is done. Nobody takes a. living in terest the study is . perfunctory the instruction is routine and the subject is generally regarded as be ing visionary. In other words,; the efforts of the teacher .are not sup plemented by the moral support and co-operation of the patrons of t the School. ; ' " - ; - - - - - . . f , What a difference there is between the regard entertained for arithme tic, or for sanitary science. No law is necessary to provide for the teach ing of arithmetic, because public opinion is demanding it. It would, on the contrary require a mighty powerful law to prevent its teaching. . Scholars struggle to master arith metic, reading, and history because fathers and mothers believe those subjects the proper objects of study. The things which the children neg lect are usually the things which their parents neglect. We believe that the improvement of the district school must begin with the parents of its scholars, rather than with the teacher or with the State Legislature - i- Some Pertinent Questions for the School Board. j It is scarcely necessary to say that knowledge is not wisdom, and edu cation is still less wisdom. We have met the "educated fool" and enter tain a thorough contempt for the species. , We also have some, well-defined convictions about the kind of men which the district school ought to turn out. i During the coming year we shall have an opportunity jto discuss the matter with you, and per haps may have the benefit of your thought. In the meantime we pro pose some questions, which should be answered by every school-board in the country. : j Do you believe the course of study in your district school is calculated to best prepare scholars for agricul tural pursuits? : :L Do you not believe that country children would be benefited by in struction in the elements of soil chemistry, bacteriology in its rela- arents of Farm ChildrenChildren for Farm Life. tion to plant growth, -the physiology and habits of , common animals, and the growth of food plants? " Do you not think it entirely possi ble to have these subjects presented, by means of text-books and personal instruction, so that scholars would really learn something of practical value? : - . Do you imagine that a person who is capable of teaching all these things-y-who has t the ability to lead children aright who can make the school a safe preparation for a hu man life, can be hired year after year, for $25 per month? If you were such a person would you continue in a line of employment at such low wages? . Do you think it is a good thiii for the school to lose a good teacher when you have 'one, just because he or she J demands a substantial salary increase? Do you realize that a person to be a goqd teacher must possess every requisite for success in other lines ?, - Perhaps this catechism is long enough for a single month. The an swers to these queries seem almost self-evident. . Some of them will be answered , with qualifications, and it is such1 qualifications that w wish to eradicate. Mistake of Cutting the. Teachers' Pay. The. matter of the teacher's salary is one about which there is constant discussion. -When it Is necessary for a district to" economize," the teacher's salary offers the easiest mark. The voters of a 7 district meeting . will sometimei cut down the tax for teachers' wages away below the point where any self-respecting and capa ble young person can subsist. At the same time, they will go blindly on, supporting a State, government which appropriates ; millions of money for purposes - infinitely less . urgent, or - which allows the . powerful cor porations to escape ' taxation that should provide school funds. ; Such a policy is penny -wise and . pound foolish. ; Successful farmers do not conduct their farms that way. They don't pinch their grocery bill so as to put a flag-pole on the cupola of the barn. 1 The district school is too large a subject for a single article. We shall champion one thing at a time, and we believe that among all the re forms which must come before our Country I schools do their full duty to the people, the teachers must be paid enough to make teaching a desirable profession for the most capable young men and young women of the country. T If you want to get the cream, you must skim from the top. f The Rural Magazine. Acres Fine Land for sale on easy terms. Good buildings; well watered, maca dam road, near good churches, and WHITSETT INSTITUTE. . xjuu v emeu b mi naiuuau auu Postomce. j For full particulars, address, ! : Capt. R. Cm Dick, Whltsett. 1 - - - T North Carolina. tFaiim for Sale '; One farm near Coleralne containing 453 acres. 125 acres cleared. Saw mill, cotton gin and grist mill on farm, all nearly new, In good shape. Store house on farm and a good stand for country store. Nice dwelling and out buildings. An elegant country home. Land adapted to tobacco and all other crops grown in this section. Price $8,000. One-fourth cash, t balance five years The growing pine timber on it will proba bly pay for It in 10 or 12 years. This (arm Is In one of the finest sectsons in Bertie County. : Apply to , i K.J.BAKER, Ahoakie, a, t.
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