The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-09-14
No. 81.

Most Of these State schools, sup
ported by legislative appropria-
ton, have beside the collegiate. a
medical, a legal and an agricultural
department. 1t will be remem-
bered that Senator Lamar was
professor IN the law school Of the
Mississippi University when he
was elected to Congress in 1872
The States of Georgia and Missis-
sippi have large number denom-
inationa! colleges as we'll as the
other States I have named, and
nearly all the southern common
wealths are equally we'll endowed
for furnishing higher education.
1t was possible for me to do little
more than mention the fact Of the
existence of these schools, but the
bare mention Of the fact will help
dissipate the supposition that it is
impossible for the young men of
the South t" be mentally equipped
for the struggle of life at home.
Much attention is beng paid to
the training Of young men tor in
te!ligent farming, and not a few
agricultural colleges flourish in
the South as separate institutions,
and, in those States where there
is no separate school, agricultural
departments are found connected
with the regular universities. Per-
haps the most hopeful of all these
schools is that over which Gen.
Stephen D. Lee, an ez Lieutenant
General Of the Confederate army,
presides. 1t has been established
only about three years, and al
ready has more attendants than
any other institution Of learning
in the State. 1t is regarded as an
experiment, indeed, but is very
literally supported. The Legis-
lature appropriated at its last ses-
sion the sum of $4,000 for an
additional necessary building, for
apparatus and for salaries. In a
conversation with Gen. Lee he
expressed himself to me as being
sANGUINE OF SUCCESS,
and of demonstrating that it
| meets a want in the State. He re-
CARDS it as a question of only a
few years before having as many
as 1000 students learning to be.
come good farmers. 1t is usually y
supposed that anybody can farm
But the failure of 80 many men is
teaching that one must learn how
to plant 10 order not TO impoverish
himself and his friends, if they be-
come his creditors, just as one
learns to conduct aoy other dif6
cult business by study and ex
perience. And the method of the
agricultural schools combines both
of these. l have painful memo
ry of a young man who, after
graduating at college in 1866, at
tempted to farm without any ex
perimeDtal knowledge of tb'
science of farming. After gather
ing his crop aud selling it for a!
be could possibly get, be fount
himself some $500 out Of pocket
and it wasn't a bad year for farm
ing either. Not a few of hi
neighbors, over whose ignoranc'
be was disposed to smile com
placently, put money in thel
pockets that very same year
When intelligent and trained mel
devote themselves to planting il
the South, you will see a rs7ivs
of the old times when countr
gentlemen were men of suostar
tlal wealth.
Interest in the education of tn
young women is rapidly increa'
ing in the South. When the f.
theirs of the land we're rich an
servants were abundant, the
daughters were reared with th
t notion that their. main bushes
was to get married. They wei
:, therefore polished off at SON
e boarding school that aped tt
style and claimed the title OF
r female college. They learned ho
a to play on the piano, to mai
d wax flowers, to speak Frene
d with a noticeably bad accent, an
e if not religious, to dance; the
) they returned to. their homes
J. await being wounded by the Il
e ing arrows from Cupid's bow, {
9 what was much TO the purpose,
s directing the playful little god
t shoot some youth of the stern
t sex. And, if all the arrows mi
P, ed the mark, they calmly accel