The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-16

ing his lungs and p%erfecting himself
in oratory in natures school of>elo-
cution. He develops ever and sym
metrically, and he is free from per
version and abnormality.
with a sound body, he has also a
sound mind, and his observation
being confined to a few things, he
knows these few things we'll, be-
cause he has learned to particularize.
He knows all about sheep and goats
and rabbits and horses. And here
is something that the omnivorOus de-
vourers of information forget, and
which the modern system of cram
ming ignores To know any one thing
we'll, to know all there is to be known
about it, is Il liberal education in it
self. Beware of the man of n
book, says the sage. That is, be-
ware of the man who knows any one
thing thoroughly, because every par
ticular thing, in its larger relations,
has to do with all other things and
a thorough knowledge of a particu-
lar thing means an intelligent con
ceptiOn of all other things. And this
explains the pathetic inaptitude of
the mere scholar whose head is full
of books. He is a semi-Solomon.
He half knows everything, but knows
nothing thoroughly. No matter
what he undertakes, some specialist
knows more about it than he does.
He has always looked through some
one else's eyes. Education is re
Numbering, and the mere scholar
has no memory. His head is filled
with learned lumber, thrown to-
gether in a chaotic heap, but he is
eve able to lay hands on the piece
he wants when he wants it. The
gOurmand who OverlOads his stomach
derives no nOurishmment from his
food. The mind can become ~surfeited
as we'll as the stomach. From all
these evils the country boy enjoys
immunity. His source of infOrma-
nation have been meager, and he
has thoroughly mastered such of the
facts of life as came to him. He has
seen the sun rise and go down he
has eel the seasons come and 90:
he has e in the clouds strange
forms and figures he has heard in
the night-winds or in the silences
strange voices, and he has watched
the stars and has yearned to know
the infinite mysteries behind them.
but he has also mastered a few tan
gible facts, and he has taught him
self to investigate other facts as
they came to him.
When this healthy product goes to
town he may not at first be attrac-
tive to persons who judge men by
appearances, but he learns, and he
learns what there is to be learned
about everything that he studies.
His mind is not confused. He is not
content to remain in a subordinate DO
sltlon, and his energy and brightness
OF mind, and his habit of going to
the bottom of things, makes him a
natural leader. As the Commercial
Appeal says, 'he will succeed. as the
records show he has succeeded, be-
aus he must build from the grOund
up. He will succeed because life's
realities have always been made bare
to him, and he meets them un1incb-
ingly and masters them h~eroicallv,"
A colOred woman of WASHINGTON
went to her pastor the other dav TO
complain of the conduct of her hus-
band, who, she said, was a Glow
down, worthless, trifess niger"
After listening to a long recital of
the delinquencies of her ~neglectful
spouse and her efforts to correct
them, the minister said:
"Have you ever tried heaping
Goals of fire on his head?"
NO." was the reply, "but I done
tried hot water."-New York
Tribune.