The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-12-17

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/ 80 for boyhood's painless play,
Sleep that wakes in laughing day,
/ Health that mocks the doctors rules
| knowledge never learned of schools.
Whittier's dreams were over that url
which holds childhood's past untouche'
by the hand Of oblivion when he wrote
BLESSINGS on thee, little man,
Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan
With thy turned up pantaloons,
And thy merry whistled tunes"
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"Ah, that thou couldst know thy joy
Ere it.passes. barefoot boy"
For lie must learn in manhood tina
life is struggle, that no wealth, or dis
tinction shall fiji his cup of joy so full
but that in all its dregs will be found
many. many, bitter disappointments
This lesson he begins to learn in child
hood as Whittier so sweetly pictures ir
his poem. School Days, of the pretty
little childish heart that loved him a
school, and who, spelled word an6
passed above him in the class, she said
"Tm sorry that spelt the word
hate to so above you,
Because-the brown eyes lower fell
Because, you see, love you."
And then pathetically the poet tells
how, when the grasses had grown forty
years above her grave.
"He lives to learn, in life's hard school,
How few who pass above him
Lament their triumph and his loss
Like her-because they love him."
But no other boys on earth are pre-
sented with so rich an array OF noble ex-
ampes in their country's history to en-
courage and stimulate 70 heroic exertion
in lite's great battle.
Turn leaf after leaf of your counlry's
history and priceless lessons from the
lives of Americas illustrious men and
devoted women arc presented. No mark,
no hereditary title, places one man
above another. The most exalted posi-
tions within the gift OF our people are
as accessible to the child OF poverty as
to the heir of wealth. The log cabin is
next door to the Senate Chamber.
franklin steps forth from the printing
Office to the midst of revolution to gain a
name in the world Of letters and OF phil
osophy asimperishablo IS the lightninghe
chained. From the slashes Of Virginia
rises one of her humblest children whose
eagle eye dashes and whose clarion tones
ring along the corridors of our nations
capital and the name and fame of Clay
are fadeless as the stars. From howell
in his mountain home there comes boy
who never enjoyed day at school-could
not read at twentyl But Andrew john
son, the tailor's apprentice boy, was a
gifted child of genius, and walked proud.
" up to the. Presidents seat at Wash
ington. In the. far West boy Injured to
the stlngs of want and the burdens OF
toll keeps his eye undimmed until he is
the chosen ruler of the American nation,
and Lincoln, the war president, holds a
most wonderful place on the almost un-
paralleled historic page. From a rude
log hut in Ohio to canal boat, O car
penter's bench, legislator, q congress
man and then President, thus step by
step, the lamented Garfield becomes the
foremost man of the land of Washing
ton. But the pages of history TEEN With
examples to emulate. True, a century
only offers twenty-five chances for a
President, but in political preferment
alone is not found the avenues leading to
usefulness, independence and true glory.
Not with the sword nor in the forum
alone shall our brows be bound with
laurel wreaths that shall never be un.
twined. The broad field of scientific
agriculture, the work shop, where the
ring of hammers keeps time with the
cheering music of progress, upon these
boyhood's hopeless eyes may we'll be
fixed Eager millions thirst for knowl-
edge, then why not fit yourselves for
teaching? The pulpit, the press, the
school.room, the opening mines every.
where, every moment, nature, learning,
religion, science, have opened wide their
spacious portals. and bid you welcome to
enter 10 carve upon their firm tablets
names that shall live in song aud story.
Therefore, boys,
"Be up and doing,
With heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn 10 labor and to watt
Ere long the men who are now active
in life must bow to that sceptre upon
which is written passing away" and
the boys of to-day are to be the men of
tomorrow. Young America seeks re.
cognition early.
In your turn you, too, my boys, must
take windowless palace beneath the
clods, sometime, somewhere, God knows,
but the boon is not denied you, for like
Franklin and Webster and Clay and
Lincoln and Johnson, and Garfield, and
thousands of others, who from the halls
of Congress and the sacred desk, the
field aud the bar have transmitted death
less names to posterity-names more en-
during than the grandest monuments
ever reared since the age of the pyra.
mids.
Cheer up, boys, drink deep draughts at
every fountain whose bright, clear,
sparkling waters contain the heayenborn
nectar of truth, patriotism, and undying
devotion to right. But, beware. boys
"touch not, taste not, handle not that
bowl which steals away mems brains and
souls. Shun it as you would q deadly
viper. Don't take the first drink and
you'll never quaff the last, and then
when the trying hour of your last sunset
approaches you will not be want to utter
"For all tho sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these 1T might have
been.'"
To the American youth Of to day is
spread out grand arena rich in oppor-
tunities. Then by every sacred memory
of our country's past, by the kindling
emotions of the present bright hour; by
the beckoning hand of cheering Hope in
the unveiling future, let the boys of to-
day grid on their brightest armor To
achieve for themselves glory and honor
that they may richly merit the thanks OF
millions yet unborn.
Tie BarrOOms Must Go.
The movement against the whiskey
power is not frenzy of day; it is not
q moral spasm. II is religious n ove-
ment, aud it has in it the energy and
conqueriug force of the Christian religion
For nearly two thousand years Christian
ity has crushed what would not be right
ed. And it must be 50 until the end oi
The world. This movement does not de.
pend upon local committee; upnn Ger.
tain temporary organizations. upon the
notions of any set of nm bare or there
Its heart is the heart of he Church its
power the conscience Of !hc Church.