?? * j Home and School j WHERE SHALL WE LIVE? Paper Presented to the Johnston County Teachers Association at Smithfield, Saturday, March 13, 1909. Shall our home be in the pure green stillness of the country, where we can hear and feel the pulsating heart of Nature, or shall we live in the impure atmosphere of some crowded city street, where we can hear and feel only the throbbing heart of man? Our great and wise Washington once said: "The great Searcher of human hearts is my witness that I have no wish which aspires beyond the humble and happy lot. of living and dying a private citizen on my own farm." What a noble aspiration and how much better a place would earth be in which to live if there were more people who would think as Washing ton did. He, who was our first Pres ident and might have become a King, and remained one during his lifetime, realized that life on a farm is the only natural life, the only real life, and, therefore, the only life worth living. William J. Bryan, the great orator, and claimed by many to be the greatest living American in most respects, is never happier than when at home on his farm. The truly great find the greatest contentment and happiness in quiet and humble places. The birds that soar the highest build their nest lowly on the ground. The humble and happy lot of living and dying on one's own farm is, indeed, a more enviaoie one tnan trying to half live in a crowded tenement in a city and starving to death at last. What is it that makes the farm a nursery of character? Many things. We are not able to name them all. In large part it is purity of environ ment. The pure air and invigorat ing sunlight have their effect spirit ually as well as physically. The green grass and the blue sky suggest purity of mind and conduct. Isola tion leads the soul to commune with itself in the absence of companion ship. This trains the powers of thought and intellectuality is en couraged. In another way farm life develops character. Its exacting nature de velops strength of will and the power to endure. It encourages invention and resourcefulness. It makes a boy a stronger man when he has to mend his harness with a string or a piece of bark as he plows in the field or drives his wagon through the woods. We perceive how such training makes strong men as no other pos sibly can. They are trained to over come opposition and conquer diffi culties. No other training is worth more when one comes to do battle in the great struggle of life. No ar tificial work like the gymnasium and football contests are necessary to teach the farm lad endurance and successful endeavor. His muscles are hardened with honest and productive toil. No man in any walk of life ever regretted that he was brought up on the farm. In the midst of his greatest success in business or statesmanship his mind goes back to the happy days spent on the farm, and his absorbing desire is to own and embellish the old place of his boyhood days. Nor is he ever satis fied till this desire is gratified. U.'Knn n.n (Kinlr ? Vw? tiucu nc iiiuja ui mc iciilulc ditions surrounding the thousands of country girls working in cities and living in boarding houses and of the thousands more of innocent lit tle children starving to death, we cannot help but say give us the green stillness of the country where there is plenty of food, proper shel ter, clothing and fuel for all. We say also, give us the enduring and substantial pleasures and joys be gotten of rural scenes and occupa tions. Give us a quiet home in the country whose attractions outrival the whirl and bustle of a life in a city. In the country our boys and girls are placed beyond the wiles of sin and folly that everywhere present themselves in a city. In the coun try they become truly refined not with the refinement that is purchas ed with money, but the refinement of purity and virtue acquired only < b/ living near to the heart of >::ture. In a city, if the parents are poor, they cannot shield their children l from the low and vulgar rabble that i must of necessity everywhere sur- < round them, but in the country the i humblest cot gives them a shelter i and seclusion that enables them to i guard their precious little ones from the degrading influences of the vile. 1 We who live in the country may I not dress as smartly, and salute each I other with as much < ase and grace I as our relatives and friends who live < in the city, but what docs that mat- i ter? The only thing that matters is that we be natural, real and pure in thought and deed. The truest hearts are often found under the roughest exteriors, and the brain un der the broad hat of many of our most humble and unassuming . far mers often contains more real cul ture and is stored with more valu able information than that of many a merchant prince. Think of the peaceful, quiet homes in the country, where is pure think ing and right living, and contrast ' i them with the cold, dark homes in 1 the city where the thinking and liv ing are Impure and all wrong; think | of the many ruined characters in ; our cities as picturesque, no doubt, in many respects, as ruined castles, ! but what an unenviable thing to possess; think of the aching and breaking hearts filled with deep, dark abysses and wide gulfs, too v. ide to ever be bridged over, which would cause our cheeks to blanch could we but look into their depths, ! itnd then ask where sl'till we live? Under the same conditions human i nature is necessarily the same wher ! ever the home is. Everywhere will j be found the same phases of char acter from the shiny, slippery, crawl ing and repulsive reptilian to the aerial or bird type; from the low, dark, plotting and destructive to the noble, pure, open and generous; from those with Cod-given powers, devoting them to the purposes of detraction, dirt-slinging and indul gence of a spite grown from a rule or ruin policy to that of trying to help others whether they be friend or foe, generously overlooking their faults and praising their virtues with a spirit of kindness and broth erly love akin to that of the Saviour, in short, the spirit of hate against the spirit of love. The country ap peals to the good that is in people. They see around them everywhere nuritv cleanliness beautv and neo pie attending to their own affairs, people who realize that they must work if they wish to eat and that they must work in order that oth ers may eat. Ii is the idle who get into mischief aud make trouble for themselves and others. Then there is less chance, less desire and less occasion for wrong doing if we live in the country. We need to know something of the heart of man in order to better appreciate the heart of Nature, but the elegance and refinement of a home in the country is preferable to the luxury and fashion of one in a city. WILLIAM PITT CAMERON, Pine Level, N. C., Feb. 13, 1909. EDUCATIONAL NOTES. The County Teachers Association. On March 13th the Teachers As sociation convened in the Court House. There were present approxi mately seventy-five teeachers who were gathered from the rural, grad ed and high schools of the county. It was a fine representative body of teachers and showed well for the interest they take in their exalted work. There was also present quite a number of citizens, and the boys in the corn contest. The exercieses began at 11 o'clock A. M. by County Superintendent , Canaday's introduction of the prin- j cipal speaker, Dr. F. L. Stevens of the A. & M. College. In the intro- ] duction it was stated that by agree- j nient it was to be an Agriculture day; that essays by the teachers on , agricultural subjects could be hand- j ed in after the address; that a num ber of boys had agreed to enter the Corn Contest and that some county premiums were being made up and i ? 1 J l- .1 I.. ,U..? I .. 1. I t huuiu ue uuuuuutcu mici , tutu uuun v ston county has untold agricultural j possibilities, but in order to have a r fitting climax to the day's program c that Dr. F. L. Stevens, of the A. a c & M. College was present to deliver an agricultural address, who would j then be heard. v Dr. Stevens' Address. Dr. Stevens spoke some over an j hour during which he held the keen- j est interest of the audience. He is H one of the most profound thinkers and scholars of the State. He does not strain after effect, but express es deep thought in simple language; his exposition is thoroughly practical, t plain and applicable and he has the * happy faculty of saying things in a b pleasant way. It is but just to say S that he ranks easily with the great est of those who are advancing the " cause of scientific training along the C line of industrial education. In his vision of the future North Carolina " he sees a great wealthy State with n fertile fields, with beautiful orchards b and flowers, with the finest stock of farm implements, with the vast Btore of minerals and water pover g utilized. Only cultivated brains and " skilled hands are needed. To attempt even a synopsis of " his address would be to do him an .j. Injustice. However, he showed that g by evidences now manifest over the State a more progressive industrial r-ra is being ushered in; that thrtj ji indent mode of abstract and aei''? c< \ thetic education is being superceded by the concrete and practical; that the State and Nation are anxious to aid the teachers in teaching agricul ture; and that test (arms and (arm demonstrators would accomplish much in a (ew years by teaching the best methods. Dr. Stevens especially en couraged the Corn Contest among the boys. He said this movement is taking iibld all over the State; that premiums are being o((ered by Hoards o( Education, by County Com missioners, by fertilizer dealers and merchants and individuals. He as sured the boys that if any inquiries were written him or the Agricultur al Department concerning seed, plant ing, fertilizers, etc., all inquiries would receive prompt attention and would be answered. He said that agricultural knowledge could be taught in the schools to great e((ect if the teachers understand the sub ject. His speech covered too wide a range of subjects to report here. It was an able and instructive ad dress that will do much good. At the conclusion of Dr. Stevens' address Miss Etta Spier, of Greens boro. delivered a very interesting lec ture. She represented the movement (or the Mclver Loan Fund o( the State Normal College. Miss Spier explained that the (und is made up by counties and that worthy young ladies of each county would 1 e al lowed to borrow as much mo: / for college attendance as the coui. had contributed toward the fund; that the fund would continue to gi w as those who borrowed would pa. oack the amount (with G per cent in > vst after graduation. She said th.u al ready about $16,000 Lad bei n do nated by the Alumnai and fr. .. s, but that Johnston county, as .. .. .y other counties yet, had 110 p;. in the fund. Several Alumnae \ .e present and it was agreed that ..1 y would try to raise at least "J as the Johnston county Fund, i or ganized plan is to work throuj-.i the Alumnae. Mrs. T. J. Lassiter was made president and Miss Fid< .ia Le May was made Secretary, ll is In tended to have a representative in each town in the county. Those sub scribing to this fund either pay cash or give notes payable in one or two years. Miss Spier represents a worthy cause which will surely suc ceed in the end. A good subscrip tion started at the meeting. She said that more than 700 applicants were made to enter the college; that numbers had to be turned away for lack of accommodation?that funds not members were now need ed. Miss Spier's address being end ed many essays on agricultural sub ject and betterment reports were handed in. Thus closed the program of a large meeting of the teachers. C. It Saved His Leg. "All thought I'd lost my leg," writes J. A. 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Guill and wife Martha Guill, on the 28th day of December, 1905, and recorded in the Registry of Johnston county in Book "T" No. 8, page 244, the bonds se cured by the same having been trans ferred and assigned to J. W. Vinson, and the conditions in said mortgage having been broken, the undersigned, will, at the Court house door in the town of Smithfield, N. C., at 12 o'clock, M.t Saturday, April 10th, 1909, expose to sale, at public auc tion, for cash, to the highest bidder, the following lot in the town of Smithfield. N. C., on which in situ- < ate the late residence of W. B. Guill and wife, and bounded as follows, to < wit: That lot in the town of Smithfield 1 oa which is situated the dwelling ( house late occupied by \V. B. Guill, ] said lot being No. 25 according to a ! plot of the Oakland Heights property < of Jas. H. & E. \V. 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