The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-03-01

u county newspaper, and the editor
of tho Carrolltor paper says that the
children read q great deal moro than
their fathers did and keep up with
wars and politics and murders and
suicides.
Then what is tho matter Bishop
Gambler wrote an excellent and in.
structivo article recently on "Thc
pas~ing of great men," Ilo novcr
writes anything that does not give us
food for Thought, and am thankful
that h" has not passed. Yet tho da,
of great mon has passed, not only
in Georgia, but the South. IIlo
| quonco in tho pulpit, the forum and
the councils Of the nation forty and
fifty years ago was our pride and our
bo"st, when we had a;uong our
preachprs such noble and true men
as George Pierce, DR.. Means, Long
street, Jesse Mercer, Nathan Craw
ford, Dr. Tucker, Bishop Elliott and
Bockwlth, Joseph Stiles, DR.. Nixson,
DR.. Goulding, and such lawyers and
statesmen rs Forsyth, Troup, tho
two Conbs, Jenkins, Toomb-, Step
hens, johnson, Walter Colquitt, and
Ben Hill. There arc twenty names
given, and many moro might be
added, and it. is Il lam mentablo truth
that their equals do not exist in
Georgia to day. This decay Of groat
men is appar"nt in every southern
state. and as for tho north there ia
nothing there now but Ilutocracy
who buy their way into public Office
and defy trial or criticism. Tho
struggl" for money is the curse OF
the ago. 1t has smotherod tho no
bio aspirations of our nature. "Grt
money, get money honestly if thou
cnnst, but ut all events get money!"
isLDH the motto. The common people
want some, and the plntocrats want
moro. Tho masses Of the people arc
on a strain. [ am ono Of them, and
! know how it is, for have boon on
Il strain ever since the war. 1t is
hu 'klo and tongue to keep in huiling
distance Of society. SO many Of our
class have rich mans ways and
poor mans purse that we havo to
hang on to the ragged edge of gen
tillty. There are SO many things
nowadays that We aro just obliged to
h"7e--things that did not exist ia
our antebellum days. Our boys
must go to college to get a smattering
Of books and Il full text of athletics.
Our Girls must go to get polish and
mako college friends and receive
visits and return visits after they
graduate, and it takes money for
clothes and money for railroad
fare, and ever now and thon n
girl gets married and chooses her
college mntes for her attendants, aud
that takes more clothes and wod-
ding present, and 80 forth, and so
fifth and sixth, and so on.
Oh, my country! When will this
strain atopY There ought to bo
miser in every family, or rich
bach eor uncle who carried big life
insurance, and would die just at the
right time and leave fortune to his
impecunions sisters or his nieces!
Why, if | had good bank account
to draw on, | could write a moro
cheerful letter and tako hopeful
view Of things and keep calm and
serene; but as it is, find myself
lampooning those West Point CADETS,
and want those ringleaders--Burry
j and Dorkery aud Duval--handrd
down to pos'erity as tho champion
bazers and their names put in Il
catalogue alongside Of the dnko of
Alva to illustrate human brutality.
But / didn't moan to say anything
hard about the Tech boys who have
been suspended. I have great hopes
for that Institution, and admirntion
fortho manor in which the boys re-
ceived their discipline. Nobody
thinks any less Of them, for thore
was nothing mean or crnrl in their
thuughtless conduct, and every out
side father sustains Mr.. Lyman Hall
and tho faculty. Of course their
mothers arc deeply aggreved. They
alway arc when their sons arc pun.
| ishrd: Il at is u natural and btantiful