H ii The Home and Farm and The Eastern Reflector. THE HOME and FARM and EASTERN REFLECTOR Published by MIX COMPANY, lac D. J. Editor. GREENVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA Subscription, one year, Six months. rates may be had upon application at the business office in The Reflector Building, corner Evans and Third streets. All cards of th inks an of respect will be chained for at sent per word. Communications advertising will be charged for at three per line, up to fifty lines. as second class matter August at the post office at Greenville. North Carolina, act of March 1879 FRIDAY, JUNE 1911. PRAYING FOR of comment on the streets during the last few days that in these ices the preacher prayed that it might not rain on any tobacco field before the 15th of June, by which time, without rain, he expected all the tobacco plants would die. The 15th of June is nearly here, and there has not been any rain of consequence yet. Greenville does not need the and those who do not want to see the Sabbath desecrated with the carrying on of such business, should be equally ac- as are the advocates of the meas- -o LADIES SHOULD HE RESPECTED. Who opposes praying for rain Bishop of Albany, urged his clergy and people to pray God to a joyful rain upon his and refresh it. since it is dry, to the great comfort of his worthy servants, and to the glory of his And the next day it News and Observer. This reminds us of something that happened in Pitt county some years ago. It was in the midst of a severe drought, and at several churches the people assembled to pray for rain. In one neighborhood there were two churches not very far Baptist and Methodist. The Primitives gathered one day in their meeting house and prayed for rain. It did not rain that day, and they quite naturally accepted it as so fore- ordained. A day or two following this the Methodists met In their church to pray for rain. Before they got back home there was rain sure enough, a regular downpour that filled ditches and washed away the bridges. The following the Prim- preacher came to town, as he usually did on Saturdays when he had no preaching appointment. Bunches of folks gathered here and there discussing the big rain and the condition of crops. A friend who did not mind joking him said to the preacher, the Methodists seemed to beat you on praying for he answered, just look what a rain they got. They ways overdo everything they go Another thing this calls attention to is that there is now in Greenville a tent, on the lot on Fifth street be- tween and the School campus in which what are called preachers have been holding services every night tar last few weeks. It has been a sub- What has become of the manliness of the men The man who is a gen- in all that term implies will lot be unmindful of the feelings of ladies, nor will he do anything that will cause them embarrassment One thing going on in Greenville that is occasioning much complaint, and should be stopped at once, is the con- of men at Five Points, es- on Sundays, to watch the la- dies of the Training School as they pass going to and from church. It is really like the ladies were having to run the gauntlet of inspection, and not a few of them have stayed away from church on Sundays and remain- ed in the dormitories at the school rather than face such embarrass- The men thus congregating and watching the ladies pass may be more due to thoughtlessness than the intention of being disrespectful. The ladies are entitled to every respect and courtesy, and these should be accorded them, but it is neither res- nor courteous to congregate on the street to watch them when they pass. The real gentleman stands ready at all times to both respect and protect an unprotected lady, and the ladies at the Training School being without the protection for the time be- of their fathers and brothers, makes it more upon the men of Greenville to accord this. We believe this mention of the matter will sufficient to remove the cause for complaint. Every time in recent years that there has been a change in the board of aldermen of Greenville, there have been renewed efforts to get repealed the ordinance relative to business on Sabbath and permit places sell- cold drinks, cigars, etc., to have In view of the be- ginning of a new fiscal year on the first of July, when several new will be on the board, those wanting the change have already be- gun an active campaign for the Mrs. Carrie Nation, who made much reputation as a and had quite an eventful career died Friday night in Kans. She was as known as any man in the country, though her was not the kind that most women would envy. Talk about a mixed up affair, or one that is likely to get mixed in the long run, a double marriage that took place in Austin, Texas, Sunday, is it. The brides were twin sisters, of Texas, and so much alike that their most in- friends cannot tell them apart, while the grooms are twin of Missouri, and as much alike as two peas. At the marriage the brothers were dressed exactly alike, as were the sisters, and the only way the latter could be was by carrying different colored bouquets. As the brothers had only known the sisters about a year, if the two couples live near to- they may get so mixed up as to be unable to tell from A Boston school who has followed the profession of teaching for forty-nine years, and in all those years never landed a man, may be that she did not want in de- livering an address to young women school teachers said that flirting do much to rest a tired mind after the arduous duties of the school Yes, and it sometimes brings about a state of affairs in which there is no rest at all. You do not have to look far to see that great changes have taken place in Greenville and in Pitt county in the last few years. While progress has been made morally, socially, ed- and commercially, cultural has kept even with it, and farms and country homes have shown wonderful improvements. And all this is but the beginning of an era of progress which the next few years will show. Just keep your eye on Pitt county. The Charlotte News talks like it wished Editor Caine had smuggled some of that Asheville booze and took it over to the press convention at Lenoir. Why, he couldn't have got one of the boys to touch it. Every one of them would call for butter milk. .-o- China is demanding six millions dollars in gold from Mexico as in- for the slaughter of about three hundred Chinese subjects in that country and the destruction of their property. This is a time when it is best to be careful about what you eat or drink. The warm weather and proper food make a combination dangerous to health. In Georgia experiments are in on a cotton plant. The idea is to develop a cotton plant that is and bearing bolls filled with large seed which will be much richer in oil than the regular plant. We are not kicking about base ball enthusiasm, but just suppose the were as enthusiastic for securing manufacturing enterprises. There would be something doing. Four thousand bottles of liquor, re- captured in blind tigers, were emptied into the French Broad river at Asheville on Wednesday. Guess the fish all had a spree. is going to reap a big harvest off the Americans at the coronation. and and J. Johnson will not be the only there. Do not be boastful over the man who appears to be beneath you today. He may be above you tomorrow. come often in life. In a horse hitched to a brewery wagon bit off the ear of a man who was standing near on the street. Another case charged up to near-beer. With all Central America about to become involved in a revolution, there seems to be little prospect of peace and rest in the countries south of us. The weather makes one feel like packing his grip and going where it is cooler. But with most of us, it is too far to walk. The last few days have been cool enough and with sufficient breeze to make Greenville as delightful as the seashore. o--------- They used to call Colonel Bryan the but the Wash- Post has changed it to less It is rather premature to call a man the next president, when it is not even known that he will get the nomination. ---------o Even if you should like knocking better than boosting; people will not think so much of you doing it. The way not to have a dead town is to continue bringing something alive to it. Possibly the earthquake down in Mexico may help some to stop the disturbance. It has to be done, whether you want to or not. So go on and list your taxes. They are about to go to the Root of it in the argument over the matter. It takes all kind of people to make a town, yet every town has some that are no good to it. m . . The fly is ever present, but his room preferable to his company. o--------- They had Senator going to resign some weeks ago, but he holds right on. There are other people who might learn the lesson from Mr. Bryan of sticking to his job. J. P. and Jack J. are both there for the coronation. Also and The ice man is one you do not hear complaining about the weather be-v warm. Give us a red head every time In preference to being bald with so many flies around. ---------o The mountains must yet be full of liquor, if we can judge from the way they have been finding it in Ashe- ville and Hendersonville. A million dollars endowment for Trinity College sounds good. We hope it will be a certainty, and that con. terminal just opened in Chicago. How to get there to look at it is the ob- in the way. Mr. Roosevelt now says they told it on him too quick, as he has not pledged himself to support Mr. Taft nor any one else for the next nomination. Oh, well, if any- body has lied, he should remember that he once headed the list of the Club. If The Greenville Reflector is to be believed that newly launched Pitt county fair should be a wonder when it reaches maturity next fall. Won- of the Training School girls will add to the ornamentation of the Observer. Yes, they will be right there, and worth coming miles to see. You need not put any on about believing us. time in local affairs to put the re- The Henderson Gold Leaf is for the you ever observed how lit- talent and standing it takes to be a first class You will find that in about nine cases out of every ten the fellow who has accomplished little for himself and done less for the community in which he lives is the one who wants to every- body and every thing. When you find that you are just bound to give vent to your pent up feeling by do- some get you some sort of an implement and go to the field and knock make but natural the slight over- sight complained of, Noah, did his duty as commanded, and he was or- to preserve rather than destroy. If the present generation is equally well there would not be a fly left to tell the story in a fortnight. It is useless to attempt to burden down the shades of the departed for sins of omission of the pres- News. If a man is really opposed to good roads, he ought to think a long lime before letting anybody else know he is in such a back-number class. If some of the Americans who have gone over to the coronation could be kept there, this country would not lose anything worth speaking of. When the senators are elected by the direct vote of the people, they will be more careful how they vote on matters affecting the interests of the people. A New Jersey shoemaker fell heir to a quarter million dollars, and forthwith dropped his last and awl. Possibly his first investment will be in an automobile. It is all fixed now so far as the Republican nomination for president is concerned, ex-President Roosevelt having announced that he will give his unqualified endorsement to dent Taft for re-nomination in 1912. What the colonel says goes. Indiana must also have some medal seeking reporters. An item comes from a town in that state which says that during a storm a church, filled with was struck by lightning and a prayer book held by a woman was burned out of her hand. It was very kind of the Chicago North Western to send us a ticket cf admission, with the vices of a guide promised, to make an Inspection of its new passenger Those towns that want to swing around to Sundays and let certain lines of business be done on the Sabbath as on other days, ought to take a day off and memorize the Fourth Commandment. Some men want to do business on Sunday, but doth it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own The sight of a dollar makes some people for- get that God yet rules the universe. That awful tragedy in Tarboro, Wednesday, shows that men in of trust where the handling of money belonging to other people is involved, cannot filch this money and apply it to their own use without their misdoings being discovered sooner or later. When men do such deeds they not only waste their own lives, leading to as with one of the parties in this case, but they also bring misery and suffering upon others. Oh. that men would think of these things and not permit themselves to be led into acts of dishonesty. Even if the is a long one, keep cheerful. Rain is coming after a while, and crops will be better than many anticipate. Nobody hereabouts is going to starve for the lack of something to eat. Let the farmers keep the grass out of their crops, and the business men hustle for more business, and the fall will find you all getting along as well as ever. Don't waste the time grumbling, but keep busy. Mayor Gaynor, of New York, paid a handsome tribute to the Southern- who attended the Cotton Seed convention in that city. In delivering the address of welcome to the delegates, he took occasion to have votes of South- people, who now live here. Let me tell you they are the best votes we have. They have brought with them the pure political sentiment of the South. They vote right every The poor man holds in his power that which is most important not only to himself but to the rich man for he helps himself and makes his more fortunate neighbor richer with- out increasing the burden on either when he votes for good roads. How is this It is an old tale; we have told it over and is by the increase in values caused by good roads. The bonds voted in every community for good roads have never cost a cent, the increase in valuation have more than paid Courier. Would Make a Good Governor. Ex-Governor Glenn has been ten- the editorship of a paper to be established in Texas and asked to name the salary at which he will take the place. Should Mr. Glenn decide to enter the newspaper field North Carolina would afford him a better opening than Texas. Reidsville Weekly. There is one man essential to the welfare of this or any other town. The average every day citizen who lives within his means, cares little for social functions or society shin- who pays his debts, is the man after all who is helping most to build up this and every other town. He is not only the kind of man who is making this town but he is the man who will keep it going. This fellow about whom we are talking is the salt of the earth. Sometimes he is a store keeper, a shop hand or day laborer, sometimes he is a pro- man. No matter what his station in life; he is always on the job and can be depended on. Asheboro Courier. A Turtle Years Old. Four hundred years ago, according to estimates, Indians, with their crude fishing devices, might have tried to catch a large turtle that appeared at times in the Bay, but it eluded generation after generation of red men, white sailors and oyster fishers until a few days ago, when it was finally captured and sent to a fish merchant in Homestead. It will make soup for persons or more. The turtle, weighting pounds and measuring nearly five feet in across its shell was captured in the river, near Md., and created a sensation in that town. According to the owner, there are barnacles on its shell. Post. Noah Attacked. The Wilmington Star invades the realm of forgotten years to shower forth anathemas upon the head of Noah for not killing the two flies he carried with him into the ark. There are, as the lawyers, say, ex- which should weigh with the jury in the case. In the first place Noah was years old when he took charge of the Ark, a fact in itself which should excuse him from the ignoble task of slaying insects. Besides, with such a cosmopolitan jumble of fowls, fishes and beasts on hand it is but natural that the very multiplicity of detail work should The School. We have been attracted by an contributed to The Carolina Union Farmer, by Mr. W. T. Swanson, describing a model school which he has discovered at George, on the Tar river, in county. It is called a high school and Miss Han- Starr is the principal. But it is of the work of Miss Margaret Brown, an assistant, that Mr. Swan- son chiefly talks. Miss Brown, he says, knows what the world, wants, people who can do things and do not mind doing them. He tells us that she has laid off the back ground of the school plot into thirty- six gardens, about by feet, and numbered them. She has left a narrow walk between the gardens for the pupils to stand and work. A narrow walk is laid between the tiers of the gardens for a passage. Each of the thirty-six children is assigned to a garden corresponding to his or her member on the plat book. Each pupil is left to choose such plants as desired, but the teach- carefully inspects all seeds brought. The little gardeners are shown how to fertilize the gardens with barn manure. The ground was previously plowed as deep as stances would permit. The manure was thoroughly mixed with the soils, then dug and hoed, till the surface was as fine and smooth as a salad bed. Each pupil was required to do his or her own work. When the seeds were presented she told the gardeners how far apart to plant the seed and how deep to cover them. She is not a boss, but a mild cheer- sweet director. Then there is David H. Brown, a graduate from the West Town cultural School of Pennsylvania, who has charge of the Ear Row Contest among the large boys. His field lies still to the rear of the garden de- The rows are laid off about as usual. The plat is heavily manured and well plowed and rowed. Each boy has his own row. All of these rows are fertilized with the fertilizer ingredients just alike. Each boy chooses his own variety of seed corn, and the plat is to be just the same all over. The same number of stalks are to be left in each row. Strict account is to be kept of everything, and the boy who gets the most, pounds of shelled corn takes the prize, and of course, his corn to be considered the best variety. It seems to us that through Mr. Swanson, The Carolina Union Farmer has discovered the model school. Charlotte Chronicle.