The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-01-31

specific remedies is regularly iocreas-
ing. aud new worlds epeuing to the
physician
3. h education. the same holds
true. The spirit of the age was. foa
centuries, opposed to education. Fred
erick the Great caned his sons instruc
tor for reading to the bog story in
Latin. Harvard College was at first
sapporsed BY the fees taken 10 at
ferry across the Charles River. and the
people we're called upon to give 70 its
support ct least one bashel Of corn pet
annum. The idea of muni6cen,
endowment had never occurred to men
Our Puritan foref.thers believed that
an education which enabled one to read
the Bible, was sufficient. The writings
Of George Washington had all to be
revised and the spelling corrected
before they were given to the press.
When Washington wrote for ''rheam
Of paper" '.beaver hast." or ..pair
of satin" shoes, there was 40 Webster
unabridged at hand. The entire
number Of days tia. Abraham Lincoln
spent at school hardly exceeded one
whole year. His mother sought to
teach him, but the neighbors dispar-
aged her efforts, and said education vas
of little value.
Fifty years ago. schoolmasters were
tyrants and executioners, and schools
were jails and prisons. Martin Luther
said be got fifteen lashiugs in one
morning. A hundred years ago. the
children of English nobility were
taught dancing. fencing and riding,
aud when a certain Burnet suggested
that they be taught history aud geo
grsphy, he vas ridicaled. In the days
Of Charles II, the heir to an estate had
no better teacher than his fathers
groom or gamekeeper. He vas only
expected to know how to sample grain,
grade pigs aud test wine. Sir William
Berkeley, coloaial Governor Of Vir-
ginia, said .'the ministers should pray
efteuer, and preach less; learning bas
brought disobedience aud heresy and
sec.s into the world, and printing has
divulged them - John Bunyan cosld
neither spell nor compose properly.
hare seen it stated somewhere that a
large proportion Of the baroue who
signed plea for the Magma Charta
could not write their names, bat simply
made their marks before witness.
We have lived to enjoy better things.
Church aud State are now the patrons
Of education. The free school idea has
swept over all the States. The church
which is not engaged in education is
the church that is dying. The colleges
aud universities are daily becoming
heirs to large estates. Our own denom-
inatiou has received over three millions
from Mr.. Rockefeller for one school OF
late. The boy Who does not receive fair
English education in these days is the
boy who does not want it. The appli-
ances for teaching. for the comfort Of
the scholars. and for meeting all possible
demands, are increasing year by year.
aud the world, 10 its mighty rounds, has
come to the blessed age Of books and
schools.
g.. Of agriculture the same is true.
who invented the reaper
and other machines, is justly regarded
as the worlds great benefactor. In
for centuries. six bushels OF
wheat per acre was an average yield.
Draiaagewas unknown. and thousands OF
acres of the best lands we're regarded as
worthless Rotation of crops was never
thought of. and if man did not make
enough to feed his cattle by single
it never occurred to him to
plant again for winter use and harvest,
but the cattle were left to perish. Up
to hundred years ago, an iron plow
was unknown, and the face of the earth
was barely scratched With little piece
Of wood. The horse was cruelty fasteu-
ed to the plow aud compelled to pull BY
his tail. The fields which now support
a million people were once unable to
produce food for hundred thousand.
With the present appliances, and with
out clearing another acre, America
could welcome to its shores. and give
bread aud meat to every nan living
upon the habitable globe.
4. Concerning manufactures, | know
not where to begin The work that
cannot now be done by machinery is
hardly worth the doing 1t is uot very
long since the cotton picked from the
field by day was separated from the
seed BY hand at night. around the
family ireside. In 1854, when the
Bostonians gave an industrial exposi-
ton. it was composed of three hundred