Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-10-21

liua living in other States In lS6U with
white natives of South Carolina living in
suoh States in 1870 shows the number to
havo been respectively I93,3 $3.50 aud I47,.
STA, reduction of $4,000 in ton years,
tctwcon 1860 and 1870.
College Education for Men
Of business.
A few days siaoo, says the Western
Recorder, DR.. Basil Manv placed in our
hands small pamphlet with tho above title
which is full of excellent thinking and
equally excellent practical suggestions.
Although it has been published for somo
years, wo had never before seen it, and We
presume that most of our readers have
been similarly unfortunate. 1t was written
by DR.. Broadus, of this city, and like oil
tho productions Of his pen, is at once
graceful and strong, full of sound common
sense and practical views upon most i'm
apology, even at this late day, for few cx.
tracts thercfrom.
Referring to the immature and ofteu 1b-
snrd Judgments which arc formed both by
boys themselves aud their friends whilo
forming plans for career in life, DR..
Broadus remarks:
1t is said that when Mr.. Moody first
spoke in prayer meeting, his pastor ad-
viscd him not to attempt that again, as he
had evidently no talent for public speaking;
und now, Let the crowds that hear his
preaching tell, and tho thousand Of con-
vcrts. Aud the lad himself will often err
likewise. At ono period of my boyhood
read Cooper's novels, of which my father
was very fond, until became cnamored of
1udian life, and fully resolved that as soon
us became ga man." would go to tho
Missouri Territory Gas they used to call IT'D
among the BIackfoot Indians, get to be o
great hunter and tighter, marry squaw,
the daughter Of an old chief, and succeed
him MS chief of the tribe and live and die
in paint und feathers. Would any sensible
father aud mother have said, tho boy has
got his head on that, it shows the native
bent cf his genius, and so there is no use
in scnding him to boarding school? How do
you know, then, and how does your son
know, though he muy have no such silly
iancics as the boy just mentioned, what is
his destined caNling for life? And cspc-
cialy is this true as to the ministry of the
Gospel. If man must be divine!y called
to this work, that will often huppon much
later in life than the proper time for enter
lug College.
In response to the question "NVhcn can
we say that one is an educated MANI" DR..
Broadus well says:
|. An educated man is one whose mind
is widcncd out, SO that he can take broader
views, instead Of being narrow minded;
so that he can SEQ the different sides of
question, or at least, can know that all
questions have different sides. 2. An
educated man is one who has the power of
patient thinking, who can fasten his mind
on subject, and hold it there while he
plcascs; who can keep looking at a subject
uutil he sees into it and sees through it.
II anybody imagincs it easy to think, in
this steady way, he has not tried it much
3. Again, an educated man is one who has
sound jud ;mcut; who knows how to reason
to right concluSiors, aud so to argue to
convince others that he is right. 4. Aud
fiually-not to speak now of Imagination
and taste, important as they are-an cdu-
Gated man is one who can express his
thoughts clearly and forciby.
Of course there is most important sense
in which all true education is self education
and there arc many among our most promi
ncnt business men who have trained them
selves in the hard slow school of life. This
development of the power Of thinking, aud
that broad equilibrium of judgment which
gives the power of seeing clear through
difficult subject, and Of coming to wise
conclusions concerning it-this gives real
power in the practical affairs of life, und in
acquiring this, DR.. Broadus thinks that
good school is of the greatest advantage. A
college education is of great advantage to a
man in his home life.
If man succeeds in business, he will,
observes Dr. Broadus, naturally wish to
make for himself 20 bright sweet home"
Wealth alone cannot make this. am
not speaking now Of tho ore thing that is
ncedful, but consider how much culture
contribute to the happiness and highest
we'll being Of . growing family. Almost
every man who has financial prosperity
aspires to this. Some succeed notwith-
standing the lack of early advantages, but
very few under such circumstances attain
truo aud high culture. Many worthy
gentleman of middle age, fondly watching
his growing children, and longing to in
spire them with relish for tho delights of
history, poetry, and popular science, to SEQ
them bathe their youpg minds in the sweet
waters Of literature resolves winter after winter
that he will read upon certain subjects, buys
number of books, begins, and next summer
remembers that ho has dono almost noth-
ing, and mourns, again and again, that he
did not acquire rc' ing habits, and basis
&C l.. a. h.>l