The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-06-01

And yet there are thousands OF demo-
crats, men and women, in Atlanta who
gave him welcome and threw him
flowers and shouted "Ali hail Nc
kinley!" I've no respect for them.
either. want to live long enough TO
see a man In the presidential chair who
is far above such machine politics
They say they want to break up the
solid south and yet they do the very
thirgs to keep it solid.
But my wife is calling me again.
She says it is about time for me to
begin 70 water the roses. 1t takes
about fifteen buckets Of water every
evening, but the hydrant is near by
and don't mind it. The little chaps
try to help me with little buckets and
they get their clothes wet and OF course
! am scolded for it. II they get dirty or
take cold or run a. the nose it's all my
fault. They say that I spoil them so
nobody else can do anything with them.
l don't care. They shall have q good
time as long as l live, for there will be
trouble enough after am gone.
Now about this thing that is called
education do not wish to be mis-
understood. Millions are wasted on
it to no good purpose. Every; mother's
son and daughter should be taught to
read and to write and multiply. Good
reading books should be placed
within their reach-books that
teach q good man moral lessons, books
that exalt virtue and condemn vice
but work, toll, industry is q bigger
thing than books. Modern education
is confined to the head, the intellect,
and is mixed up with training the
hands to play ball and legs to run, and
the boys tramp all over the country to
play match games and the old mans
money is spent for something that is
not worth a cent to the young man
when he settles down to the business
of life. The average boy has no more
use for algebra or comic sections or
calculus or astronomy or Greek or
French than wagon has for fifth
wheel. It is valuable time wasted
Outside of the profession have never
found but one college graduate who
could translate line of Greek or solve
problem in geometry. Perhaps one
in q thousand shows fitness for these
higher branches, and that one should
have chance at them if possible, for
the world needs astronomers and
mathemRticians and scientists and
linguists, and will have them, even il
the requirement has to be hammered
out at the anvil as Elihu Burritt did.
Work is the big thing in this prac
teal age. To make living is imper-
alive, and it is struggle. But to be
a great orator or poet or preacher is 6
gift, and like Patrick Henry or Henry
Clay or John Wesley. will come tc
fruition with or without higher edu
cation. To read we'll and to read
wisely is the best part of an education.
It is strange that our schools do not
teach their pupils to read-to read
with emphasis and tone and accent.
Not one preacher in ten can read q
chapter or hymn in an impressive
manner. It was his happy faculty Of
reading we'll that made Bishop Beck.
with a great man. It was a solemn
feast to hear him recite the litany OF
read hymn or utter a prayer. Why
Go not the theological seminaries teacf
the students to read and also something
of elocution? 1t is an imposition OF
o congregation to have to listen to tn
singsong, childish, unimpressive read
ings of our preachers.
But this is enough on this line.
fear am getting hypocritical.-Bil
Arp in Atlanta Constitution.