Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-09-15
II Aust FOLLOW as THE NIGHT THE Day THOU oANsr nor
sOUTH OARol4rNA sEPTIahTBHIs IS, 1905


practical value is evident to ALL
Last year insects destroyed in the
United States and Canada crops to
the value of $175,000,OOo. Ento-
mology, therefore, is worth teaching
because Of its practical value. Book
keeping, dairyingy electricity, forge
and foundry work, wood-turning,
chemistry, botany and the kindred
sciences are intensely practical.
But this system has o c;@;!!:;;::::oo c;;!:;;::o :
value, not inferior to other lines of
education. 1t trains, strengthens
and energiaes tho faculties Of por-
ception, reason and observation. 1t
produces practical minds. The sys-
tom is subjective and objective. 1t
comes not to crowd out or to sup
plant the old education, but to sup
plemept and complete.
To adopt an illustration from Gar
field: "a man may read you in
Xenophon's best attic Greek that
Appollo tlayed tho unhappy Marsyas
and hanged up his skin as a trophy,
but he has never examined the won
derful structure of his own skin.
Men are looking 80 steadily away
from themselves that they do not
observe the wonderful things around
us. Copernicus discovered the cir
culation of the stars a hundred
years before Harvey discovered the
circulation of tho blood. From the
beginning of time, twonty pounds of
blood had made tho circuit in man
every three minutes, yot it was not
noticed"
We study the story of forges of
Cyclop where che mythical thunder
bolts of Jovo were fashioned. How
many study about Bessemcr? A few
years ago, Bessemer noticing the
nice afliniLies between carbon and
the metals, discovered that q
single change of combination would
produce metal possessing the due
tility of iron, and compactness of
steel. Ono rail of this metal will
outlast fifteen rails of iron, and it
costs but little more. That inven-
ton saves the country eight hundred
millions of dollars every year. Let
us study Bessemer as we'll as Cy-
clops.
BY studying matters of current
interest we can find the hidden
beauties around us. We throw a
perennial halo over the common
things of life. We Chamber towards
God by studying his works. Every
secret that we wrest from nature
enlarges our conception Of the Crea.
tor.
| DlGNlflES Labor.
Industrial education dignities la.
Dor, and thereby hormonizes with
the teachings of the Bible, Con.
tempt of labor leads to a contempt
of the laborcr and this in turn leads
to social disintegration. In every
community there are young men toe
lazy to work and too proud to beg
Idlcncss leads TO moral corruption
Evil thoughts intrude into the unem
ployod mind as naturally as worms
are generated in stagnant pool
Cities arc centres of vice because sc
many of the idle congrcgate there
to live by speculation. The nobility
of Europe are proiligate and disso
luto because they are taught thai
labor is discreditable. The worlt
will be better when it realizes tha
that the only disgrace attaching tt
honest labor is the disgrace of doing
it badly.
The history Of the world is optic
mizcd in the early history of James
town. The first settlers of James
town wero idle, improvidcnt an(
dissolute. OF the one hundred an(
five who came in the spring of 160'
only twelve were common laborers
There wore four carpenters and 81,
or eight masons and blaclsmiths, bu
the lack Of mechanics wao compen
satcd for by a long list of forty
eight "gentlemcn." The prospects
of planting a colony on the banks O
the Jamestown were not at all en-
couraging and Bancroft adds: "On,
half of the colony perished before
autumn"
Woe unto that nation that get,
too lazy or too proud or too rich t,
work. Some people imagine that E;
gentleman is ono who does not work
According to that idea tho distinc
tlon betwoon loafer and gentle
man 10 so exquisitoly graduated tha
you can scarcely tell where the on
begins or the other ends.
| SOCIOLOGICAL BEARINGS.