Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-12-03
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DISREPUTABLE.

The popular mind needs disabusing on
some subjects. In this country, and for aught
we know, it may be the case in other coun.
tries, the position the farmer or the mechanic
holds in society, is not what it should be. The
occupation of the farmer is not regarded as
dishonorable, but as next thing to it-disrep-
utable. Almost everybody looks upon me-
chanics and farmers as brainless set of crea-
lures. Even farmers and mechanics them
selves have more respect for those engaged in
any other avocation of life than they have
for themselves. 1t is amazing the Difference
that staid farmer will show to lawyers or
physicians, or even to the clerks in second
rate dry goods establishment. Even the wo-
men, whose likes and dislikes are generally
we'll founded, show vitiated taste in this
respect. A young farmer or mechanic, it
matters not how good looking he may be, or
how correct his morals are, or how regular
his habits are stands but a poor chance to
win the affection or gain the hand of the fair,
where his rival is lawyer, physician or clerk,
The rush in the South with the young men Of
the country is to get into any kind of busi-
ness that will take them out of the field or
work shop. In fact the workshop is even
more disreputable than the field. This is a
terrible calamity to the country but it is not
to be wondered at. No young man of spirit
feels like selecting calling for life which
will consign him to oblivion. Such public
sentiment is detrimental to the growth and
prosperity of the country. Farmers and me.
chanics may not have as fair faces and as soft
hands as some other classes of men but no
good reason can be given why blacksmith
may not have as soft heart and as clear a
head as any man. The sentiment which OBJ
tains respecting the reputableness of the occu-
patton of the farmer or mechanic, is similar
to the notion which prevails respecting the
difference which exists between the faults and
crimes of the male and female members of
the human family. The current notion is that
man can do almost anything and be for
given, but if woman just turns her head in
the wrong direction, she is ruined for all time.
The public has no pardon to grant her. She
must live and bear q world of shame. Even
those who shared in her faults consign her to
infamy.
The morbid public sentiment Of the South,
has tendency to drive honorable young men
from the field and workshop. The young
man who has no concern whether his trade or
calling in life is honorable or dishonorable,
respectableor disrespectable, is destitute of the
spirit which is necessary to ma kea good citizen.
To draw distinctions between trades and pro-
fessions is wrong. That man who is engaged in
doing what is for the welfare Of society, is en-
gagged in an honorable avocation, and if in 9TH
er respects he conducts himself properly, he is
an honorable man. "Dirt," said an eminent
chemist, "is a good thing in the wrong place. 4"
No calling will make disreputable man rep
utable neither will a calling be made repu-
table or disreputable on account of the kind
Of men who engage it it.
Effects OF VEGETATION ON THE ArMos-
rHERE.-Vegetable growths which do not
give off poisonous emanations, purify the air
BY absorbing carbonic acid gas which is con-
yerted into solid carbon, the principal constit-
uent of vegetable structures, and the great es,
sential element Of vegetable existence. But
while this is the relation of carbon to the veg.
etable world, while it may be called the life of
this world, it is death to animal life. Hence
the beauty of that wise provision of nature
which causes all kinds of vegetation to ab
sorb this carbon from the air, thus purifying
it and making it suitable to sustain AMI lmal
life. Not only do vegetables absorb carbon,
but they also give off oxygen in the daytime,
thus removing poison with one hand, and
supplying the great element OF animal lIfe liIfe
with the other. But light is necessary tor
these wonderful operations; for in the night
things are just the opposite, vegetables then
absorbing oxygen and giving oft carbon. Ho"
important must that subtle agent, light, be tc