The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-10-30
4 Slight Talk on Education.
Editors Abbsvjiie Hsl!5ienai

| EDITORS AbhsVIiie Ietr5ienal
! In riding over your. ctnutrv last
week / vas n,uch struci, with its
general appca.,ance Of fertility and
aQaptuniilty 10 al kinds OF agricul.
,nral purposes, ] saw everything
( that goes to mako MP fac country,
excerl--whas Is it? ti'he school
house. B, soa,e strange oversight
for ovcrslgh: ii 'nuat ie--ti,at mos,
important ageut of civilization mas
been left out. Is it through inten.
tional neglect and Indifference, or
is it as | said Gu oversight brought
on ny the general out Of doc. life
| which you lead.
1t can not be the former, for q
people more devoted 10 their chill
dren is hard to Gnj. ilinca,ion has
simply been forgotten il the general
hurry. You mus. ,eaurrect it.
Bring it before yoursei. .es as al
important subject to discuss and de
bate. Don't atop here; carry it
through to something morethan al
air castle. Help yonr school boards
by larger appropriations. Don't
'mi. them to paItry sums. Parents.
5nu know that it is hard for you to
see Jenr children. just entering man.
hood, 20 out INFO the world without
tn 5elp hat education gives to fight
the own way. rhoIly by brute
fctoa. Thie is the point l wish to
ruka."
WHAT good Goes education Dc
yon, any way? You are stock
raisers, Or planters. you say, and
save no need for education. Such
q useless accom- plishment is not il
yonr line. Education won't drive
your horses or cnitic. All the hooks
in the world will not tell YOU how
70 pick n good norge. Will they I?
But don: you tai2a it-would be an
extremely NICE thing to be able to
take your newspaper 1T night, sit
dcwn by a iatap and read OF the
changes, ard events going Oh around
yon. and in fnct, all over the world.
Would i sloi be very nice thing
to he ak;a TO tell what is taking
place in the money markets. aud to
anticipate be changes. Msny nice
little SUN Of money could be made.
You get This through reading, l.
i aota very conyenient thing TO be
aS;e to say the multiplication table.
and 20 coant your money correctly,
80, know titt gou are correct.
s'4en it cos.tes 20 Won. It gives
msa great satisfaction ;o know
.'at no one can cheat h.!n--liiat
way, at least Yes. it il cery coz.
vesient, not to say.essen,iaI. WHY.
a case of lis lack came under M
notice this very day. "A genileman
al my acquaintance pfcchased some
horses aud paid the cnrrect SUN il,
them, IS he agreed. IL . few min.
u.ss III seller came running to him.
saying that he had made a mistake.
tie hal four twenty dollar bills, apd
wanted seteaty-eiG-ht dollars oat OF
it. Fer taa lite Of him he couldn't
get it through his head that two
from eighty left seventy eight. and
this fi'oa q white man iorty-tive
years Of age. Will You let The ne
gro leave you beh;nd in s!iia recc
for life and supremacy? He is eau
eating himself. DON: let him Guido
you. No, | am sure you VIII NJ,
If we must move. let lis pat some
system into the Increment Yon
can't raise cotton, cane, or even
cattle, without soms system.
The world does not reyolye daily
without system. Everything 20 he
successful must have system, aud |
system means regularity. Il 7on
cant raise your comnon craps with |
out system, how muci sc&a %ca :loyc |
u human mind in it's course of edu- /
cation without it,
You can't get at a child who y a-4 I,
of school two days and in ore, out /
of school one day in two. He can't |
make any progress. What hea ai-ay !
would a cotton crop make witt. such !
treaimen: as that. Yoa can't mi or- :
est a scholar where one ", aa.p
one kind Of book, another, with aa.
other book. and so 90. Deranse. |
what reOuler le there -ra Q |,