The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-08-19

forms, the broad field OF biology.
In the vegetable world we have the plants
both useful and noxious and the ways Of
/ nursing the one into thrifty life and stlt-
ling the other to an untimcly end. Then
come the various methods OF propaga-
tion Of plants, where their life aud rapid
multiplication are to be desired, by seed,
by budding, by grating, etc. In these
practical arts Of the delds the farmer
boys will indeed feel at home. Their
growth in scientific thought will 60 hand
IN hand with the applications in the field
itself. If they learn to bud and graft,
for instance. they will learn 1t in way
that vii! enable them to use it practically
and to transfer their knowledge from the
College field. to the home orchards.
Thus they will be the mediums for the
transfer Of the sciences and arts taught
fat the College to the people in heir dis
tant homes.
MISSIONARIES OF PROGRESS.
Ii six hundred boys return from col
lege to their homes each year, think
what missionaries Of progress will be
spread over the State To brighten all
the ideas of these homes. These farm
er bows will have heard with quickened
pulse the lectures on agricultural science
that will brighten as on a background
all The dark ages of their past life.
THE MAKING OF A NAN.
Let US follow one typical farmer boy
from field TO college aud through It's
courses. He loves the dear old home,
with its tender-1aced mother and gran
ite-soulel father. He passes along the
countryside where war has perhaps left
its cruel stains, and by the cities where
silent streams proclaim the absence OF
the genius of progress. He sees In the
distance the blue hills that mark Caro-
lina's western boundary. He reaches
Fort Hill and is on The ground once hal
lowed BY the tread OF the great Calhoun.
He Joins his cadet com rades, already a
noble six hundred. In all the stir
around him he notes ealnestDess in the
features and bearing Of those who adj
dress him. There are echoes OF the
Psalm Of Life" in the air he breathes.
Other ht mes IN Carolina, as sacred as
his, have sent their jewels most precious
TO the States shrine of the new educa-
tion. lie feels the quickened pulse of a
new life. He begius to grow with a
new growth. His letters home tell the
dear ones that the separation which
brings such opportunities is robbed OF its
panss. Noble buildings buoy up his
aspirations. Ardent, thoughtful, re-
sponsiye natures in teachers and COM
rades bear up the burden of home-slck-
ness. lie enters his classes and begins
The great work of his life, the changing
of an unthinking man into machine Of
Intellectual power. He loves with a
new love the uuselfish hearts at home
which may have planned through great
privations for the hope of the house.
From year to year the same home sacrl-
fees keep the boy, Of whom they grow
but prouder, amid the scenes chat nur-
,ure high intellectual and moral growth.
Finally the man, no longer boy, re-
turns to the old homestead. II he Is
still farmer, what a power for good to
the old people at home. If lie has bud
ded into splendid development along
some OF the high lines of archaeological
education, who will regret the money in
Shaping the rude country mind into such
new powers tor usefulness?
THE NEW EDUCATION.
The new education will be scholarly
in it's own line, and will breathe with
new hope and endeavor. The man is
made scientific farmer, but learns to
use his brain according to the methods
of reason. We will not search the pages
of Virgil for farming directions of today,
or turn back to even more recent times
In the South for experience that Is to
direct US in the future. When we turn
to the pathetic past, with its recent PIC
lures of atrectlonate loyalty on the part
OF our late slaves, we are touched with
a feeling of sympathy for the " eaknesses
of these our old helpers IN the old way.
Necessity is upon us with harsh changes,
and we must find new substitutes Tor the
old dull serfdom that encountered the
cultivation of lhe soil in turning to the
new agents which are claiming the mas
terv of the world and opening new
realms Of enchantment. Slavery Is gone,
and, whilst thert still remains IS its
product that master race which has won
the admiration of the world and forced
the respect OF its enemies, We know that
the South must look to its youth, filled
with the inspiration and ambitions OF
the now education, to sustain the Old
name.
a FORTUNATE LOCATION.
Fortunate was it for the youth Of the
State that il came into the mind OF TIE
owner OF the old home of John &. Cal
houn to dedicate that spot OF all others
to the use that would m IKE 1t forever
the most affective agency IN marking
the character Of the States noblest son
on those who were to bear the burden
O. sustaining her name in the world OF
thought and action. His was the lie OF
The farmer of that day with al! the dis
advantages Of slavery upon It. While
il ruined the soil we see that II might
make the noblest Of men.
THE MECHANICAL ARTS.
With the agricultural trust as its Ilr>t
aud highest the board has properly
placed It's emphatic impress also upoa
the second department Of the College,
which calls up in the resources OF the
mechanical arts for that mental dlscI-
pline and training which are to make a
race of most useful men to cooperate
with those Of the field to press the State
to the foremost ranks ofsuccess. Aerl-
culture and manufacturing should always
20 hand in hsnd. The field and lactnrr
must 60 operate where the best condi-
lions for prosperity are sought. Tie
tendencies of purely agricultural he"-
Die to concentrate on the trade connected
with the raw products Of the fields are
to be striven against By educating the
whole people INTO two great in,!astrli'
lines of human effort. The resulting ac.
,inp U,,,l raor;iOD hot yyaep thp two tUrJeS