The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-05-23
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which test the ability and personal equa-
tion Notwithstanding examinations are
very essential They are good things as
mental exercises and are doubly useful
as an antidote to vanity. Children know
much of the ina aginary world. The real
is always too real. 1t is good for them
to learn the distinction while they are in
life's preparatory school. The greatest
leveler of human affairs is personal
cognizance of the weakness the thought
of deficiency brings to us. A very sue
cesSful wears work will soon close.
Teachers are indebted to their patrons for
the general progress of the year, although
| it has been year of revolution. Every
new ideal must meet the critical test. At
times the demands on children were
honorably exacting. But few, if any,
mistakes have been made. This COM
munity owes its teachers debt of graft
tudc 1t is very seldom that teachers
please everybody. Such is not the case
even with the present corps of teachers,
but their work for the past year with its
waves of successes and progress, will
ever be an appeal to all patrons and they
will leave Denmark fully conscious Of
the high appreciation of the great major
ity of patrons. Their places will be hard
to fill, because it is very difficult to select
a number of teachers qualified in every
respect to teach and to mould the charac-
ter of boys and girls. Our lady teachers
are exceptionally endowed with the large
ness of true gifts given them by nature.
The school child of to-day will, when he
shall have taken on the maturity of
youth, declare greater praise for them
than that which he willingly bestows
now in his exultant youthful enthusiasm
The commencement exercises will be
very attractive. On Wednesday evening,
May 80, at $50 o'clock there will be a
musical entertainment at the school
building under the personal supervision
of the accomplished Miss Connor, who
has been teaching large class of bright
young ladies. Thursday evening, May
80, $50 o'clock, President Henry S.
Hartzog will deliver the annual address
before the school. Friday evening, May
81, $50 o'clock, the closing exercises will
be rendered by various classes of the
school. Sunday, June2 II a. m., at the
Baptist church, Rev. A. G. Wilkins,
Batesburg, S. c., will preach the annual
sermon. The public is cordially invited
to attend these exercises.
Mr.. Herman Walker has secured a posi-
ton with the Telephone Company, filling
the vacancy caused by the promotion of
Mr.. Geo. Riley. A true young man is a
useful supply in the vastness of COM
mercial and business life, which is assum-
ing larger proportions than ever. The
Young man seems to be the leader of it
ALL
Your correspondent had the occasion
few days ago to write to the President of
his Alma Mater and received in reply a
beautiful letter and in addition tract en-
titled, ''The choice young man." Every
line is philosophy. I beg that you print
it for the benefit of your large number of
intelligent readers 1t reads as follows
| THE CHOICE YOUNG MAN
Money to the simple, healthy sense, is
but the representative of energy and
power. 1t is to pass from man to man
only as the symbol of some exertion,
some worthy outputting of strength and
life Save in the way of charity, it is not
to be given or taken without something
behind it which it represents. With his
mind full of this simple, honest truth,
feeling himself ready to earn his living
and to give an equivalent for all that he
receives, the young man ought to have an
instructive dislike and scorn for all trans
actions which would substitute feeble
chance for vigorous desert, and make
him either the giver or receiver of that
which has not even the shadow of an
equivalent or earning. do not say that
| gambling and betting are admirable or
respectable things in grayheaded men. 1t
is not of them or to them that | am
speaking now. I do say that in young
men, with the abundance of life within
them and around them, gambling and
betting, if they be not the result of mer-
est thOug ghtlessness, are signs of pre-
mature decentralization which hardly any
other vice can show. In social life, in
club, in college, or on the street, the will
ingness of young men to give or receive
money on the mere turn Of chance is
token of the decay of manliness and self
respect, which is more alarming than
almost anything besides. 1t has an in
herent baseness about it which, not to
| feel, shows base soul. To carry in your
pocket money which has become yours
by no use of your manly powers, which
has ceased to be another mans by no
willing acceptance, on his part, or its
equivalent-that is degrading thing.
Will it not burn the purse in which you
hold it? Will it not blight the luxury
for which you spend it? Will you dare
to buy the gift of true love with it? Will
YOU offer it in charity? Will you pay it
out for the support of your innocent
children Will it not be Judas-treas-
ure, which you must not put into the
treasury because it is the price of blood?
So rank high among the signs of q
choice, human youth, the clearness Of
right and the healthiness of soul which
makes man refuse to have anything to
do with the transference of property by
chance, which make him hate and despise
betting and gambling, under their most
approved and fashionable and acceptable
forms. Plentiful as those vices are among
us, they still, in some degree, have the
grace to recognize their own disgraceful-
ness by the way in which they conceal
themselves Some sort of hiding and
disguise they take instinctively. Let even
that help to open our eyes to what they
really are. To keep clear of concealment,
| to keep clear of the need of concealment,
to do nothing which he might not do out
| in the middle of Boston Common at noon
day cannot say how more and more
that seems to me to be the glory of
young mans life. 1t is an awful hour
when the first necessity Of hiding any
thing comes The whole life is different