Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1877-11-22
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sSs IS .s,fus e0hreIy BucC.
oessi ssvolaIIy, industriolly aud financially.
Next year,it will be still larger as an oxhi-
bition, and tho number Of visitors, civil and
military, will inorenso." The Register
publishes the list of premiums aud we
notice that several Of our Anderson friends
have boen successful exhibitors 10 tho stock
department. From tho number of premi
ums awarded and the accounts of crowded
trains going and returning, we presume the
exhibition in oil departments was complete
and the attendance of visitors largo. We
are glad to loarn this as it shows reviving
interest on the part of our people in all the
departments of agriculture. Last year the
fair suocumbed to matters of greater in
terest, the redemption of the State from
misrule. Political excitement aud election
interest swallowed up every profession and
avocation for the timo. Now that tho flu
ture OF our State is politically bright and
promising, it is cheering to 500 revivng
interest in the walks of wealth. This
being our first fair since honest reoonstruo.
ton, and being success, wo may we'll argue
an annual improvement both in the exhibi-
ton and the interest of tho people.
Agricultural fairs arc beneficial, both for
the eye and ear instruction obtained at them
as woll as for the spirit of generous rivalry
they inoulcate among the farming GLASS.
No obseryant person can attend fair
without receiving valuable information, and
being stimulated in his agricultural efforts
In viewing tho improved machinery and
products of farming, the avocation gains
dignity, and riees from tho common accep-
tation of being mcnial occupation, to the
position of complicated scionce, requiring
for its proper management both thorough
education and experience. Farming being
the loading avocation aud the ground work
of all earthly pursuits, reminds US, in its
adaptability to all classes and conditions of
men, of religion, which is tho great end and
a'm OF the hereafter. The plan of salvation
is so simple that he that runs may read, and
the most illiterate can find 10 the Bible that
peace and consolation which passoth all
understanding. While this is true, educa-
tion opens out in its fulness the wisdom
aud greatness Of Deity as manifested in the
works of creation, and His goodness and
mercy as exhibited in thorcdcmption of man.
Tho educated Christian thus finds an mex
haustiblo field for his mental and moral
powers, from which he can draw daily SUP.
plies of happiness and peace. Farming US
livelihood and support is SO simple that
the most uncultiyatcd mind can by bodily
excrton secure certain iucomc, but ir its
profitable pursuit, education is mono the less
D 'Ss!rable and necessary. Tho educated
+ a.,,aalii2Rds his soil and sees what elements
directly .v it needs and provides them
'''I IT, nasn" Its surface and subsoil aud cor
Q cabin, His eatho value and benefits of deep
vcrinc, under ouenderstands its constituents
rs looking spot J he should plow dust and
managed to removGhe same is true of the seed he
- .o1e'n T. rhu waetl5h understanding Of its
he x,vs,ar, m os mos ''nrbling him to mako tho
led into false cabin land and labor. Infor
,cly. A wonderful d labor saving implo
!: -Four females, youngable to him, and he
discovered. The mission to improve his soil
Osed. kidnapping on Il income IN NJ, tho
ho object of her comi 'uuo"o ~ az the
purpose we will but leave 1t would be os
'miso. But Us sho had cooutf not necessary to
'taf port, and was bound f6c Word, because
yes are purchased in certain asably, as to sar..
as slaves were once bought arba to tl...
he ultimate object can be readily, ~ rs.:0 lar'
aag tho four maidens was the :n make corn
but not Lucy Palmaac-. industry These
Pon the .d1eck,:ngs nearly concerning our
temporal and eternal nteliccss!!a. are adapted to
al olaaBes and conditions, bit neither can
yield their richest and fullest fruits withou:
mental culture. God has SO arranged these
great pursuits, that there can bo 10 excuse
Tor begg ary, on account Of ignorance, and
no excuse for dying as sinners because of
tho want of mental culture but while thi,
is true, mental culture is none the less
valuable and mono the less imperative duty.
SlnaAIs ana CardOZo.