The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-03-14
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week this community has been very quiet
and peaceable. Gossipers, slande:ers,
liars, loafers and thieves must have the
grippe" as their favorite haunts seem to
be deserted. The bread makers are busy.
Birds have begun to sing sweet spring
carols and trees have begun to bloom.
The smell of fertilizers still monOpolizes
the breezes that sweep through railroad
thoroughfareS, whistling to the tune
Dixie" more cotton and less corn. Ye
farmers! Why will you listen to the au-
gury of the winds? Is it the voice of a
siren?
Mr.. Editor, the big and the little are
very busy this season. Those accustomed
victims of drink are seldom seen on the
streets. Even the school boys have more
to do. The limit of their ambition just
now is 'bat and ball, fuss and quarrel"
Books haunt them. Recess intoXicates
them, and when deprived of the pleasures
of this period it is so strange to see them
begin to swell like toads and the lips to
rival in beauty and shape the famous
Macbeth. Of course the teachers use
''toadism" also or else the scenes of
school life would become so very merry
and funny. Just three more months and
the school will close its doors for happy
vacation. Many bright boys and girls go
to this school. Many good ones and
many bad ones share the pleasures of
greater and lesser companionship. All
in all, this school is remarkable in all
particulars, because all types of South
Carolina youth are represented. There
fore, it is typical South Carolina school.
The progress made by these types of
bovhood and girlhood during the past
year has been truly wonderful. The eff
forts of varied brain capacities have
brought to the teacher waves of revela-
tions, which paint the beautiful pictures
of accomplished manhood and pure wo-
manhood. 1t is such pleasure to eXpe
riencc the seasons of childhood's devel-
opment. The growth of character is like
q rainbow. 4 teachers heart throbs
with Joy as lie sees this powerful element
guiding the principles of child. This
branch of study, taught without the aid
of a textbook, is the most important
ideal that emanates from the school
room. Blessed is that teacher, who takes
Young men of to-day are answering the
call. wanted, a young man of force,
energy and purpose" Thousands get
positions to do just one thing. but the
specialists are out Of employment; hun
dreds of thousands are in the biting jaws
of idleness. Everywhere business men
are making inquiry for servant, polite
and efficient clerk, an honest cashier,
good stenographer who can parse sim
pie sentence, spell and punctuate with
some degree of correctness. The great
business houses tell us that it is impossi-
bic to find efficient help for any depart
Lment. There are scores of applicants for
e vacant place, trained too by EEK
perts" in business colleges. 1t takes a
boy these days ten years to complete a
common sohpul c1ufsc. 4 business col
lege can make him a specialist a profes-
sor in three, six or ten months. Your
correspondent has in mind scholars in
sixth grade of public school who have
entered business. colleges Immediately
after the completion of designated class
and receive from that famous institution
diploma within the limit of six months.
Those graduates have entered upon their
quickly acquired professions, but all of
them have failed. They were book-keep-
ers but not thinkers: masters of system,
lust one, of the numberless systems; lack
ing in general education and even igno-
rant in the Interpretation and usage of
simple Engligsh. No wonder they fail.
The head of one large business establish
ment says that the blunders and mistakes
of it's employees cost $4,000 a year to
correct, notwithstanding his utmost yigi-
lance. Our young men must learn the
lesson at once that specialists are mas
terly equipped only when a general edu-
cation has been the basis Of all aspira-
tions.
Capt. J. E. Steadman has rented the
slope House" recently purchased BY
Mr.. J. G. II. Guess, and will in q few
days be prepared to Accommodate l0ca!
and transient applicants for board and
lodging. Mr.. Steadman is a gentleman
of fine qualities, and his very excellent
family is additional evidence that the ac-
commodation which he will offer will be
in every respect up-to-date.
Capt. Jno. Black, Columbia, S. c., WIS.,
tied his wife, the daughter of Mr.. j. A.
Walker, this week and returned to Co.
lumbia Saturday evening. His dwelling,
which was recently burned, was partly
insured.
Alarge freight engine was derailed near
the A. c. L. crossing yesterday evening,
which under similar circumstances when
in more rapid motion might have been a
very serious catastrophe. Just as the en-
CINE was leaving the siding, the block was
thrown open and the engine and several
cars rolled off on the ties. The engineer
claims that the A. G. L. agent was to
blame, as it was six minutes before the At
lantic Coast Line train was due. The
agent, Mr.. James, is a business young
man and probably has a plausible sx-
planation to make to higher officials. The
engineer claims that his engine was with:
in three feet of the block when it was
opened and it was Impossible to work
his machinery in time to avoid the accl'