The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-02-12

lotner line Of industry, and agricultur.
list take the rank to which he should
be entitled in tho social scale? Not
until she farmer is educated for the
farm and takes pride and glory iu be-
ing q farmer
/ Very wisely, the Roanoke Times
says:
There are comparatively few city
hega who drift ia il the country, while
the number which find their way to
the city is large. A minister address
Ing . large audience 81 Buffalo the
other day said that very. great per
cent Of the successful men in the
oities were those whose early lives had
been spent in the country, and who
had drifted I'd the city in search Of
fortune. # this is true, aad it is
true, as most anyone will admit, all
the more credit is due. these country
boys who find so much Of temptation
and glitter awaiting them when they
come to town. There is no doubt
about the hardships the country boy
has to put up with when he reaches
the city. He is usually q very lonely
individual. He lives in dingy
boarding house, follows regular rou.
tineof work and has little comfort.
When he gets through with his days
labor there is nothing for him to, do
but to go back to his lonesome room
and go to bed. He arises the next
morning and goes over the experience
Of the day before. Every day is the
same. Il is email wonder that many
of them yield to the allurements that
the city presents at night and find
ss0npsnionphip among those VINO are
not good for them. Yet those who DO
stick to the determination thai brings
them to the CITY always succeed.
They have to struggle harder than
they would in the country, but their
opportunities are larger and the fruit
OF their labor more valuable. Bring
ing with him the freshness and vigor
OF the country atmospher- the coun-.
try boy is able to impart more energy
to his work and to give more careful
attention to his duties.
'.The CITY bred boy going to the
country to live usually finds it bore.
He is used to excitement and SOME
thing to occupy his mind when he is
not at work. His evenings are more
OF burden to him than those of the
country in the city. He rarely stays
long, and If he does remain he is often
heard to complain of the hard fate
that has condemned him TO such a life.
The urronndings may be comfortable
TO him, but they are differentfrom
those he has had in the city, and they
do not appeal to him. Getting up
early in the morning apd retiring early
atinight are new to him, and furnish
q revolution in his habits that he is
unable to adapt himself to without
much Inconvenience. OF the two
Glasses the country boy coming to the
city is the more contented. Itisto be
ideplored ti.at 80 many should leave
the farms and seek living elsewhere.
The country needs, not the boy who.
comes from the city; bnt the boy rais-
Ted in the country. It would be better
If his vigor and fresh energy we're di-
rected in building up the resources Of
his native neighborhood. This is his
natural heritage, and ono that he is
better fitted to develop than the boy
from the city. Yet the cities would
soon miss the country boy and hia inn
Fpress upon their affairs were he stop
Joining forces with them. IS
The changed conditions FOR the boy
in the South are sketched by the
Charlotte Observer, with the addition
4 Of some good advice, as follows:
In the time before the civil war it
was not necessary for parents to worry
about what their sonsfwould do when
they grew up. Outside the profess
Isiona the great occupation was raising
cotton, and the average youth got :
most excellent training on the planta-
tion OF farm. This training together
with e common school or college eduoa-
/ tion. turned nut . young man at twenL
lty:one pears Of age who was capable
fgoipg Immediately TO work planting
and producing cotton or tobacco, ocou-
lpaticns that were amply respectable,
and when attentively followed, rea-
Isonably profitable. For those who
had no taste for The professions q
! lllaW, medicine and the ministry there
Il v1aa alyyavs this unism;fefi ay,an;nr,