The Home Advocate. (Jefferson, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 8, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 13, 1869 Page: 1 of 4
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THE HOME ADVOCATE
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.A. Weekly Journal Devoted to Christianity, IGdncatioiij Homo Enterprise, and General Intelligence.
O. A. KI.M.Y. Proprietor.
F. J. PATIJLLO, Editor and Publisher.
JEFFERSON, TEXAS, MARCH 13, 1869.
VOLUME I.
NUMBER flu
Telegrapliio,
From tlie Jlmplccute's Special.
HIGHLY IMPORTANT !
Washington, March 7 th.—Grant,
wife and son, with a small party, en-
I tered the Metropolitan Church, and
walked nearly to the Altar, but find-
ing no special preparation made for
them, departed. An apology was
made from the pulpit, to the effect
that hereafter space should be reserv-
ed for the "resident.
Shades of Washington and Jack-
son, defend us ! What royal apes wo
i are.
For the Home Advocate.
From Marshall.
Mk. Editor: I notice in your val-
uable Advocate that you invite
Communications, provided they are
adapted to your columns. Under
•that restriction, this may be ruled
out; if so, all right. But taking
>the risks, I will venture to furnish
you with a few items from this point.
The Rev. R. S. Finley has arrived
and is at this time regularly install-
ed in the Marshall station. He is
evidently a man of marked intellect,
and is preaching with great accept-
ability to the chuch and community.
We predict for him a year of brill-
iant success. The Sabbath School,
for a winter session, is in healthful
condition, and bids fair to attain
.grand results under the superintend-
on cy of Capt. J. G. Nebhut, "the
right man in the right place ; " which
lean be seldom said with truthful-
ness of many that are occupying
[this responsible position. It is an
admmitted truth that the future
hope of the church and its success
rests upon the moral training of the
roung. And how sad it is to con-
template the stoical attitude of our
>eople in reference to this impor-
tant trust. Prompted by my inter-
ist in the cause, by your permission,
propose in some future numbers
^of your paper, propounding a t-eries
>f questions to the Sunday Schools
,jn Jefferson, or any other within the
tounds of your circulation, that I
hope will be calculated to inspire
4he children with renewed diligence
1 *in the investigation of Biblical
|truths. Marshall is also favored
(with the able pulpit ministrations
of the Rev. Thos. W. Rogers, a
a preacher of deep piety, and use-
fulness to the church. The Rev. Mr.
f
Nottingham is faithfullj' engaged
pon the Harrison circuit, and is
much beloved by his people. Surely
jl
the blessings of God will follow the
labors of such eminent divines and
Jioly men as are sent to minister to
1 Jbs the present Conference year.
ITherefore let us look to the holy
fulls of our Zion, and to the moun-
tains of the house of the Lord, for
rondcrful displays of his grace, in
the upbuilding of his church and the
salvation of the people.
The Home Advocate is highly ap-
| jpreeiated, and I hope is calculated
[ to do good. J. H. J.
Marshall, Texas, March 8, '69.
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Poor fences are a temptation to
Rattle, and induce bad habits. Look
^especially to those around grain
fields, which will l>e attractive.
Our Correspondents.
Dr. J. II. J. can hardly expcct to
hide himself behind his initials. He
is too well known as tho greatest
Sunday School man in the State. Our
little readers will wait with impa-
tience for tho Doctor's questions.—
Suppose we will have the first of the
series next week.
We have au interesting communi-
cation from Geo. Wootten, of Chirks-
ville, which will appear next week.
Rev. John Adams is a very accept-
able correspondent, though he takes
issue with us on some grammatical
points. It has been charged against
us. by our intimate friends, that we
evince rather a relish for opposition.
Well, fire and light are both often
produced by friction of two hard
substances. We have taken the lib
erty of making a "division of the
question," so as not to occupy too
much space in our issue upon one
subject. *
The communication of Mentor, to
the " Little Folks," is very accepta-
ble. She is a lady of fine attain-
ments, noble Christian sentiments,
and abounding in love for the chil-
dren. She can do us and them a
service by becoming a regular con-
tributor.
" Who is that Coelebs ? " we have
heen asked. Well, he is a young
man whom we judge to be fond of
literature, and has rather a poetical
turn of mind, though making an
henest living by labor.
Little J. Abner Coppedge, of Coffee-
ville, sends us a very nice compli-
ment, and promises to send us some
subscribers soon, and a short letter-
Thank you, Abner, we like to hear
from the little folks.
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Labor and Food.
The lands of the South are natu-
rally as rich, in the element of fer-
tility, as those of the North. We
have as much rain, more sunlight
and heat, and {longer growing sea
sans. We ought therefore, it would
seem, to be able to raise as much
food to the acre of land, and to laiso
it as cheaply as the Northern farmer,
but so far from this, we are buying
flour, meal, corn, hay, meet, lard,
cheese, butter, potatoes, onions, etc.
produced in the North, which have
been speculated upon two or three
times, transported a thousand miles
or more, and which in many instan-
ces, we have to haul forty or fifty
miles over the most execrable roads.
Farmers here are paying for labor
every cent they can afford and yet
they are paying but little more, than
half the average wages throughout
the North and West. Is it not idle
then, to expect labor to come South
where its price is much lower, and
the price of living much higher than
in the sections mentioned? Is there
not danger even of losing the labor
we now have?
Now, here is a cluster of anoma-
lies, which it may profit us to pon-
der over awhile.
Southern farmers produce crops,
for the most part, requiring a great,
deal of labor in their cultivation and
manipulation, and partly on account
of the nature of these crops, make
but little use of labor saving imple-
ments; While Northern farmers pro-
duce crops which in the main require
comparatively litile labor, and avail
themselves to a considerable extent
of labor-saving implements.—South-
ern Cultibator.
From the Maine Normal.
The Teacher as a Gentleman.
The old expression, " Ho is a gen-
tleman and a scholar," is often ap-
plied to a person as a high compli-
ment. Of no one ought this to be
said more truthfully than of him
who assumes the responsibilities of
the teacher's vocation. Older or
younger, in the district school or the
college, tho " instructor of youth"
should possess those qualifications
which entitle him to be regarded as
a gentleman and a scholar.
The ordinary means of training
employed in fitting young teachers
for their profession have principal
reference to their becoming scholarly
teachers. To acquire a correct
knowledge of tho branches tc he
taught in their schools, to learn the
best method of communicating that
knowledge, and the art of governing
well, are regarded as the objects of
chief concern by those who are
about to enter the school-room as
teachers. There is no danger of
overestimating the importance of
this class of qualifications. But
there are others of scarcely less val-
ue to the young teacher. Chief
among these qualifications, I will
call them secondary, is whatever
contributes to make tho teacher a
gentleman.
Our lady readers, claiming of
course an "equal right" to be con-
sidered in this discussion, will please
reckon themselves included in the
number addressed.
No apology is needed, I trust, for
presuming that such a discussion as
this is not uncalled lbr. The fact
that good manners is not one of the
statute qualifications, and that com-
mittee-men do not often examine
teachers in this respect, is only a
stronger reason why it should re-
ceive attention somewhere. What
the law neglects to require, for this
very reason, demands the more earn-
est attention.
A coarse and clownish young man
may teach our children arithmetic
and geography; but if he must, at
the same time, leave tho impress of
his coarseness and want of culture
upon their susceptible minds and
forming characters, we may well
feel that the balance, in the loss and
gain account, is against the children.
If to many children home itself is
not a school of good manners, then
is there even more need of their
finding an example worthy of imi-
tation in the person of tho teacher.
Allow me, then, to say more defi-
nitely, that the teacher should be a
gentleman in his language, in his
manners, and in his feelings; in the
school.ioom, in the families of the
neighborhood, and everywhere.
First, in his language. The defi-
nition makes English Grammar the
art of speaking and writing the Eng-
lish language with propriety. There
are some teachers who pride them-
selves on their grammatical skill,
who, if judged by the propriety of
their own language, would be found
but pitiable grammarians. I have
known scores of young men to go
into the school room as teachers who
could not stand before their classes
a half hour without most uncivil
treatment of their own mother tongue.
But mere grammatical blunders are
the smallest improprieties of lan-
guage, as considered from our pres-
ent stand-point. There are coarse
expressions, unseemly vulgarisms,
which escape the criticism of ordi-
nary grammar, but which arc whol-
ly unpardonable in the language of
the teacher. They may be, to be
sure, the language of common life,
and have come to the teacher along
with other defects of early educa-
rion. Hence, the gaeater necessity
to be eve r on the alert, lest they cb-
cape his lips in unguarded momenta.
I remember some of these peculiar,
semi-vulgar expressions, as uttered
by some teachers of my boyhood.
But, instead of quoting them, I will
leave the reader to recall his own
illustrations from a liko experience.
Let mo hero make a distinction be-
tween vulgarisms and mero collo-
quial expressions. There are cer-
tain conversational forms in every
languago not used with propriety in
written discourse, but allowed in
speaking. Some of the common
contractions, as don't and can't, are
in point. I would not introduce the
stateliness of tho pulpit and plat-
form into conversational discourse,
nor fashion the speech of tho parlor
and schoolroom upon classical mod-
els.
Let us use with freedom our good
Saxon tongue, with all its pliancy
and power, with its peculiar struc-
ture and idiomatic forms. But let
us use them as not abusing them;
carefplly discriminating between the
legitimate and the vulgar.
There is a still grosser doparture
from propriety of speech sometimes
noticed in those who assume the of-
fice of teacher; language which
ought not once to bo named as be-
coming the instructor of the young.
I have known teachers to be
grossly obscene and shamefully pro-
fane ; coming to their duties with
certificate's of good character in
their pockets, and words of ribaldry
or profanity on their tongues, ready
to escape on tho slightest provoca-
tion ; ii' not in the schoolroom, at
least in places of low gathering—
the store, the street, the loafers' cor-
ner—in the neighborhood ot their
daily labors.
There is another fault of language
into which the teachcr is prone to
fall: There is a danger that his
position, his official superiority to
those under his charge, may beget
in him a habit of addressing them,
and others, perhaps, by a natural
transition, in a manner not merely
expressive of just authority, but
often transgressing tho bounds of
politeness. The teacher has no
more liberty than any other gentle-
man to be harsh and abrupt in his
style of address, or severe and
sharp in his replies. The well-be-
haved child, however young or dull,
has a claim upon the teacher for
mild, courteous, and gentlemanly
language, in all tho intercourse of
the schoolroom, as well as at the
fireside and on the street.
The language of proper authority
the teacher may use in the school-
room, of course ; but let him re-
member that when lie has passed
into the society of town or village,
and left the schoolroom behind, ho is
among his peers. Like the ship-
master on shore, ho must remember
that ho has left the quarter-deck, and
avoid the language and bearing of
the commander.
So much, at least, in the matter of
language is required of the teacher
who aims to be courteous.
EDWARD 1'. WESTON".
Farmer's Gardens.
In new countries fanners are so
much occupied with cutting down
the forrest or breaking up tho prai-
rie, that they do not find time to
cultivate gardens, and on this ac-
count their families are deprived of
wholesome and nutritious small
fruits and vegetables. Every owner
of ten acres of ground ought to de-
vote a portion of it to the growing
of fruits and vegetables. The length
of time which fruit trees take before
they come into bearing, is " the lion
in the way " of orchard planting,
but this pretext docs not apply iu
tho caso of small fruits and vegeta-
bles, for they como in rapidly.
It is a great mistake to plant
small fruit bushes or canes in well
skeltered or shaded nooks and cor-
ners about tho homestead, as they
will do much better with plenty of
oxposuro to the sun, away fr >m the
overhanging shade or shelter and
placed in rows, so that tho spaces
between them can be worked with
he plow and cultivator. Two or
hree acres of land near the home-
stead, well inclosed, will bo useful
for many purposes. Unless near a
good market it may not bo advisable
for a farmer to raise more small
fruits than ho needs for tho use of
his family, but a large garden will
admit of sevoral varieties of crops,
some of which will be very useful
for foeding hogs cattlo or sheep.
Large patchos of early com, beets,
parsnips, carrots, turnips, cabbages
etc., may bo raised in drills in this
garden, without tho application of
the manure that is needed for field
crops; a little economy in saving
those mammal liquids and solids
which are usually allowed to go to
waste around the house, being all
that is necessary. Few persons aro
aware of tho large quantities of ma-
nure that can bo obtained in a year,
by giving daily attention to the
collection of substances and liquids
which do not appear of any impor-
tance. Bones make a valuable
manure when ground or dissolved.
Wood ashes, soot, decayed vegeta-
bles, green weeds, offal from tho
kitchen, poultry manure, etc, alt
mixed together and saturated with
liquid manure from the tank, will
form a fertilizer which will be very
useful in promoting tho growth of
vegetables or any crop in the garden
or field.
During the rigors of winter when
very little out door work can bo
done, increased attention should bo
given to tho collection of manme,
the procuring of poles for beans,
bush for peas, stakes for tall flowers,
making boxes for choice plants, hot
l>ed frames, etc., also to the prepara-
tion of the manure for hot-beds,
placing tho manure iu heaps and
keeping it from excessivo fermenta-
tion by layers of dead leaves. Every
farmer should have a hot-bed and
raiso plants for his own use.— West-
ern Jlnral.
Melon Growing.—0. L. Barber,
Upper Alton, 111., does a largo busi-
ness in melon raising for the Chicago
and other Western markets, lit?
communicates to Coleman's Rural
World some of his experience in the
busiuess, which may bo of interest,
to others tho coming season. The
soil for growing melons is not made
extremely rich—in fact is but scan-
tily manured; but a deep prepara-
tion and pulverization of it is deemed
requisite of success. If the ground
is naturally wet it must be under-
drained, as melons are averse to wet
feet, and will not grow under such
circumstances. The practice of
digging holes for the seed is not.
approved of, surface planting being
preferable. Planting is done in
hills five by eight feet, leaving but
two, or at most, three plants in a
hill. One pound of seed is amplo
for an acre. The pinching process
is deemed impracticable on a large
scale of culture, but clean cultiva-
tion is an indispensable condition of
success. Tho cultivator is run be-
tween the rows twice every week
as long as it is practicable to use it
among the vines. The ground is
sometimes stirred in this way
before the melons show above
ground, as this facilitates vegeta-
tion and keeps down the weeds.
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Patillo, F. J. The Home Advocate. (Jefferson, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 8, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 13, 1869, newspaper, March 13, 1869; Jefferson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth235533/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.