The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-04

education, with the soul regeneration
and moral elevation left out. Horace
Mann, the greatest New England
educational power in his day, regard
ed education of the intellect as COM
plete moral transformation. But Mr..
>. II. Young a Northern Missionary
TO PARKWAY Alaska is witness
against education of the mind ta<lnS
the place Of religious regeneration
and soul purifying. He is quoted III
the papers as saying:
I know many college bred men,
some of them educated in oxford ana
Cambridge. or in Yale. Harvard,
Princeton, who are now saloon>keep-
ers barkeepers, superintendents Oh
q faro table, or the mere hanSers-oi
ana stokers for saloons and CAMPING
hells. The worst savageS have ever
knoWn+the most filthy, hopeless, II
reclaimable saVages-Were educated
college-bred men from Christian COM
munities."
What he bears witness to can be
seen everywhere. Many highly edu-
Gated men in Europe and this country
break into penitentaries. Some or the
opinions that emanate from Harvard
ana doubtless from some other Now
England higher institutions of learn
ing, are of such a dangerous character
that it would be better for Southern
youth to never be educated in hlgn
sense than to take the chances OF I'M
bibing poisonous philosophy and false
religion at the hands of many teach-
ers who's know not Christ, and are
practically Pagans or scofferS. The
best Southern Institutions are ample,
arc good enough, surely, for southern
youth, for with few exceptions there
are no fools or fanatics, sceptics or
derders, literary profligates or easy
going sappers and miners, who are IN
charge OF institutions of learning or
have chairs therein. DR.. McKelway
says in the Charlotte Presbyterian
Standard of 10th inst:
cit is an all important matter, often.
| in the life OF a young man what col
| Iege he attends anj what circle ha
gets into in college life. Happily in
our Southern Institutions, practically
ali the professors and teachers are
Christian men and women, and their
influence is all for good. SO may it
ever be-"
The devoted North Carolinian never
tires of facts concerning his STATE,
whether in peace or in war. 1t is ever
new and ever attractive. l never
make an apology for referring to my
own great State in the dark and
testing days of the War Between the
States. when the South was bravely
defending itself against the vandals
and devourers. The losses of all the
Southern States are interesting and
instructive. / have before me list
only partial in eXtent-of losses of
some brigades. the strength OF the
commands and lthe actual killed and
wounded, with the percentage of
losses. OF course there were many
other commands that lost just as
much perhaps as those included in
the list at hand. A friend years ago
furnished me with the list ana said
that he did not know what tina
strength Of other brigades was, and
hence he could not tell the percentage
of losses. If it could be ascertained
accurately what was the precise mum
Der of men each brigade carried into
action it could be then seen what
losses and percentage the variOUA
commands sustained The following
tells an interesting bit of history az
to some briga deS-strength losses and
percentage of losses. 1t is a noble re-
cord, and greatly eXcels the losses Ia
other great modern wars. The bat
ties are also stated in which the men