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NEWS ANI) HERALD. PUBLISHED 3EMI-WEEKLY, WINNSBORO PRINTING CO. J. FR ANK FOOSH:B, - - - EDITOT .TRnIs, L IAXtE:* One Year,............................St., Six Months... ................... W!NNSBOR(-. S. C. Tuesday. February 12 - - 190: PRACTICAL EDUCATION. Henry S. Hartzog. LL. D., president o Ckmson, in Manufacturers Record. The South is synonymous wit] opportunity. It is a theater o golden hopes for ambitious met The prizes held out to energy ani genius are larger and more varie< iu charecter and more: readil; seized than in any other part o 'the globe. But we should no blind ourselves to the fact that ii most matters of industrial prog jress we are not keeping abreas pf the spirit of the age. .Oar system of education is re sponsible in part for this condi tion of afairs. The popular idea of the schola 1makes him a pale recluse wh< spends. his time in the contempla o tion of timid generalities. H . studies mind as divorced fron entities; beatitudes as divorcei from bodies. The scholar is be lieved to sit on the arid monitaii top.bof scholastic.ism, reading th starry leaves of heaven, feastin ou. the, sunsets, jais souLmellowe< d glorified by high thinking an pain living, bu; without sympa thy for the intersely sordid, prac tical, struggling humanity dow2 in the fogs of the valley. When he condescends to mingl with the peeple for a season he i teMed as the world treat women, for the world believes no so much in woman's rights as i the right woman. The greatest need of the sou.t] to-day is the scholar in practica life. We need more twentieth century education fQr the twent Jeth century. TWO FACTORs OF INDtsTRIAL sUC * - ~CES.. ry mus.. u 'es. u rnst be skilled labo2 lihe natural resources ~cal array of the re the south reads like a ,from the Aralbian Nights, ~ re Klondykes of wealth it miountainous regions, millions *acres of virgin timber on its Iains, inexhaustible coal beds ud iron beds in closg proximity; .short, no. other- portion of the Jaed Sates has anything' like t~ .ntural wealth of the South grar Statis. WEY WE ARE POOR. Why have other less-favored sec tions-surassed us in the race for imitsti supremacy? It is be dansawe~have devoted - ourselves excusivelyi making and selling raw froducts. Such work does not ddmand skilled- labor or tech nical training. We have. been livinag by our muscles, and not by our brains, Permit me to illustrate: The students of the textile department in Clemson College are learning how to make fancy weaves. South Carolina produces an nually 800,000 bales of cotton, which, at seven cents a pound, is worth $28,000,000. That crop ofcotton made into fancy twills wudbrinrg $800, Or made fato mercerized cot ton figures would bring $700,000, Or made into imitation swivel silks would bring $800,000,000. Tow, why not manulacture our rointo finished goods? ucts are close to the we hat&-a conservative aboring element; thelimaic'nu ditiofiis' are unexcelled; w*e have an abundance of water-power, and the people of the south have an inherited genius for managing large enterprises. TECHNICAIL TRAINING NE.EDED. One thing is Lacking. We need more educatipn along~ industrial ind technological lines. Thie main object of such training is to apply science to the material in terests of macn. The object is to combine knowing and doing-to teach common sense in a syste matic manner. It would not have us take less interest in the past, but more in the living, throbbing present. It would not have us know less about the aqueducts of Romne, but more about the water supplynf New York EDUCATION IN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOP MENT. The census of 1900 shows that where the public-school term is longest the average productive capacity of the citizen is greatest. In the United Stites the average school period per inhabitant in 1897 was four and threetenths D years; t'e average sciool period for Mqssachusetts is seven years. The productive capacitf- of '6ch citizen of Massachusetts as com pared with that of each individuaT in the United States is as 66 to* 37. If this be true for *common school educatioi, how much more striking must it be true. for tech f nical education, that. fits a man especially for productiveindustry. I In 1882 England woke up to E find that Germany was competing with increasing success: for the I foreign trade of the world. A I commission was appointed to as r cp"rain the cause. Thistcommis f Oion, after a careful investigation; b reported that Germany's mIdus I tial growth was owing: to her - splendid system of technological schools. Since then England has expended enormous sums of . money is preparing hei -.sons to compete with. the skill of other lands. - In South Carolina it was known y for years that immense beds of . calcareous nodules containing a numeroas fossil bones existed in i t'.ie vicinity of Charleston. In 1 1867 Dr. Pratt discovered, the . large percentage of available phosphate of lime which those rocks contained. A company, i consisting of Dr; Pratt; 'W. C. f Bee, Qobert Adger and (.-G. I business. From this little en&r - Memminger, were chartered-to do - prise has gro*n the great phos I phate business of Carolina, em ploymg in the aggregate millions ) of dollars.-. 3 For 200 years these roeks -were looked on as useless excreseences b of nature, but the application of I science opened- up avenues of opportunity that led to fortunes. BREAD AND BUTTEB TRAINING. I would not have you think - that- I am" applying the "f1lul dinner-pail" argument for -iore technical education. I . do not believe that the ability to mabe money is a true-test of an educea on -an for- the duties and respon bilities of citizenship. The-logic of circumstan~ces enipels the graduate in practicallik to divide his time between buseuits and books. It is between the Scylla of biscuits and the Oliarybdis of books -that the praetical man must sail.. It is easy enough to sneer at a so-called bread-and-butter educa tion, but I submit~ that brea& and butter are eicellent articles to have in, abundaince. When .our .country wakes up without i breakfast in sight I fear that even the parsuasive accenitsof D'emoil thenes. and Cicero, in the most finished Greek and La. pTh tionci, could iiot'give comfor~t to the multitude. Technical education helys to 'produce wealth,. which' insures endowments for- colleges. Col leges are not self-sustaining. They must depend for their existence and growth upon government aid: or private beneficence. A calcu-: lation made. from the catalogues of twelve leading universities shows that the average cost of maintaining a student over and above the fees he pays is $245 per annum. Very few colleges in the Southern States have attained a genuine leadership in American education, for the reason that the south is comparatively poor, and has not' been able to furnish'the money to meet the requirements of a great modern university. Industrial education, therefore, that promaises to enrich the south will be watched with the nriost affectionate interest by all inter ested in. higher education. CULTU~RE IN TECHNICAL EDUCATION, Techhiical education has 'a cul ture valu4 not inferior to that of other lines of education. It trains, strengthens and energizes the fac-, ulties of perception, reason' and observatio~.= The system'is sub jective and objective.. To adopt;: an' illuatration. from 1 Garfield: A man may' read in Xenophon's best Attic Greek that Apollo flayed the unhappy Mar- ] syis and hanged up his skin as a trophy, but he never examined< the wonderful structure of his I own skin. Men are looking so a eadily away from themselves < that they do not observe the won derful things around. Copernicus discovered the circulation of the stars a hundred years before Har vey discovered the circulation of ,the bloodL We study the story of the forges of Cyclops, where the mythical thunderbolts of Jove were fashioned. Ho'many have read the lifegf gessemer?. A few Y-ars ago Bessemer, Mudying the nice affinities between carbon and the metals,'discotered that a sin gl -dhaige' of coinliiaton would produce a metal possessing the ductility of iron andthe compact ness of steel. One 'rail of this metal will outlast fifteen rails of iron, and'it cQsts but little more. That invention saves -the country $800,00000 every year, and makes railway traveling much safer. 1s there not as much culture iliis in.thi'-story of Bessemer as in that of Cyclops? Culture is an incident of ordi nary . thinking.- Culture results not so much from the subject handled as -from the method. Consecutive and systen:atid think ig along an.line will produce culture, -There-is-no reason why culture - and. wtilitarian en'ds should be separate4 in -any scheme of education, A sul ect should not be barred out. of the curriculumr- becise it- nas -'an ecoionic beariig. A DANYOE, OF TECHNICAL TRAINING. There is-one danger'in techni cal tiaining that ushoid be "'very carefully guarded against. There is dangereof acentuating.opecial ization. An educated man "should know something of everyhing and ev~ieriiig bf ,Ant - TheWadh . je abroad.-fo e tion of geneial knowledgey' and npon that should be erected a sItrsti-icture of 1'dcial c enswl edge. Theedagated man should take, a. telescopic view- of all knowledge and a microscopic view of one gubject. -- ' -M id N ift" sowM CAROLbA HEORAH Clemson Coege, Febray nf. n te physcal n dfistiies fo - A -would bo glad tq a e o who a be interested i~ be graphs or- char acteristieviews of any ~tof-tbe tate, paiicu~ayly suhas'show he relations of'4ndustries-to eo graphicalconditions. Prof. Ue'i would 'also - 5ile to .have 'thie names ind i~esses of p tog raphers who-offer views forL sale. It is a notorioi fadt "thit, for generations 'pist;'geography has been one 'of'the worsitruight sub jects in. our . public school cur ricula. It is only witbin the past decade that scientific methods nd principles have besn some-i what general applied to the gtuay and tea' 'ng of this sub ect. Educators are also coming to rea~ze: more,- and .more the fundamental importance of geog raphy assitfoundation for-the best work, in history, languages, and the "'hum'anities"' in 'genieral, as well as the sciences... In this awakening a revolution is being wrought -in bethods of beaching. Instead of the empiri al statement of a vast array of acts to be memorized, and to be straightway forgotten, the true eacher now appeals to~the pupil's reason and understanding. In this work, the next best thing to tra eling and seeing 'the world itself s to see . faithful representations f it. in photeg tS and stereop ~icon views. .u it;- -'an be shown graphically bow thre most lementary' knowlege df r eon urnihes- a Ikey to ~the 'unme standing of its physical f~atures; md' these, in tarn, account mi a arge.measure for the: geograpgi :al distribution of; resources and ndustries. It is this larger .conception of outh Carolina that .Prof. Lewis iould' set before the sehools of he State by the aid of photo -aphs and lantern / slides; and his, it ,is hoped, will pave the way for. the preparation of a rati mal geography :of -the" State for ise in the schools. * The-work of' a ge-ological suE reyin dealing -with the .kniot4 robema of age .and structure, vo'uldgieatly facilitate this u Lertaking in many ways, and it is ioped ~that such a survey may .oon be organized and put io iperation. D. W. D. ... I a .. 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Multitudes of country people, all prosperous and happy-look ing, many of whom wore the old gala costumes, cherred the State carriage, with its rea and white liverned postil were aligned, six on each sid.e, .iting their horse. pro.udly wi'h. lands at attention. Fifty Dutch Haire oede ahead, then came a handful of cour:t officials, with t' e grand master of ceremonies n horseback, then a soach with the Queen anid Duke Henry. Their mother's coach came after it, and t ben the chief military officials of the palace, te Governor of the city, t wo auija tat. en horseback and lastly a group ofiafty mounted artillerymen. At. 11 o'clock the marriage party emerged from the palace to proceed to the Palace of Justice. Queen Wilhel mina passed dow n the step. on the arm of te uniformed Duke, with her gr. at white wedding dress sweepiag behind ir,pnd the Queea mother in purple id the 'Orand Duchess Maria andi af a dozen ladies of the Court follow ngin gltoups, the generals and ad mirals, fairly gleaming with gold lace ad iedala. standing at the salute on bothi aides, making a truly regtl pie Cure. The scene when the wedding guests asembled was moit magnaificont. There was an acre of many colored unifoims and beautiful gowns with ising jewels and glittering orders of he r .yal persona gea and nobility, and the feathers and iowers of a thousand wonderful bonneis in the centre. Beore tbe procession entered the great congregation arose and the choi.r of one hundred voices sang, in six parts, to BIillidacks music, the words of the sixteenth and seventeenth verses of the llet chapter of Ruth. The blue urtains were held aide by the Court oficials a:d to this music at half-p tt 12 the party slowly marched down (be aisle. - Firt eabme a dozen couples of royal nd noble rela:ivea of the bride, men in spectacular uniform', women in rich colored gowns with a great array of jewels. Then on the arm of Duke Henry walked th~e Queen, in white, silver and green, a heavy 'diamond tiara on her head, a rich neckl-.ce of diamonds on hey neck. wi:b a big dia mond brooch on her bosom and white gleves 10 the elbows. In both hands Pile eld a bouquet of lillies of the val ley anrd green, red and long white atin ribbmn S. Ten, as the chaplain raised h'a armi in th" at titude of ble'sing, the couple sank on their knees alid there was a great rusie of re'ief. The invocation was brief. At its onlnion the Duke started to rise and was 'almost standing whotn the chaplain motioned him back, and ho dropped on his knees again. turning very -red and remaining tcaeling While another hymu was sung, with iad bowed low. Taking a large, blue-bound bible, the couple wa kel back to their chair.. The chap;.ain spoke briefiy. His text was from th' 4th Psalm-: "L->d, lift Thou up the ight of Thy countenia ce up -n us ' "Thie union," he a-tid, ' has alres dv demanded sac ilcer. The tadband has hd to leave his cu ry and p > p!e, and the bride has had to leave thbe side of a dearly loved mother. In the filture,.too, be sure, the reverses of ife will fall to your lot. In your< aitual relations fulfill the duty of love.I Man is the head and woman is the er. 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At the shar, clicking a photograph camerat in dhe press gal lery the royal sextette looked aanno.ed The Duke fidgelted nervously anm blushed under the gaze of t he eltgre galion. The choir then sang anoth~r bymn during which the congregation .ttod according to Dautchi custom, as 'h s presenit did duri'-g all the hymns Atfter this the Queen buid Duke rose and the Queen remioved her righ gove, discloiing an immense j-we~ie< bracelet on her wrist. The uinistei stretched out his arms and the coup! stepped forward a few paces, directa in front of the altar raising, standing on the embroidered arms of thei: familie'. linke Henry took the brides righ hand itn his left hand, while the chap lain repeate d the marriage service. rhe Qiee' s'n i very erect. blush. ing. Duke Hebry acted UerVonshl Teir r espoz.scs conit~d n' t be beard Fially the minister beid out a gok plate. from which the Duke took ring and placea it on the third fingei of the Queen's righ~t hand. The Queet took another ring, with a slight fumb ling, and slipped it on the same finget of the Duke'. right hand. The Queen and Prince Consort thit afternoon took a special train for L ac Palace, and it is rumored that thi Queen later contemplates a Europear tour. WILHELM1NA'S WEDDING TO-DAY The Hague, February 6.-Fifti workmien's societies witb bands of music, and five triumphal cars marched past the palace this afternoor in honor of the approaching marriage of Qeen Wilhelmina. The Queen azut her future l-usband, Duke of Mecklen brgSchwerin, reviewed them. The civil marriage will occur in ?h( presence of the nearest relatives at the palace at I1.50 a. m. tomorrow The royal party will proceed to the churct in procession, and after the religious marriage will returni to the palace, where Queen Wilnelmina will hold Court a' d receive congratulations. A ga'a luncheon will fel'ow and at 15 p tn. the couple will depart on heir honeymoon. Teachers' Examination. 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