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l>r. K. M. Poteat, President of + Kings how t
Furman University, in Bap- Poil pottag<
list Courier. went |ntQ ,
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A thousand facts are in these days pQureti out
crowding upon our attention to em- t.rjetj out ?,
phasize the essential importance of ,jeatj, jn ^
the whole process of education to Jfe inipUre
National Life. Of course homes are p0jSon j8
the primary springs of National Life; tQ the yOU(j,
as are the home so is the nation. onet| Undi
The secondary springs of the nation- a Rreat cj
al life are the schools. It is a scrij,es it as
truism to say tnat tne tuture ot a zatjon Qf Sl
given civilization is determined \er> ( mechanic)
largely in the school yard. advance. It
Take some large illustrations of tpst eXper
this. Dr. t\ S. Gardner, in a recent t0(jay, and
lecture in Greenville, spoke of (.er- reauze that
many as the most interesting socio- groatness an
logical phenomenon on earth. And material
he traced an interesting development tmrr,.nness.
front Luther through the Peasant rloh an(1 ln,
Wars to the present time, showing are many tr
that the civic life of the peoples of (be spiritu
fentrrl Kurope has been only a little wor<j> we j,a
influenced by their personal religion. but lt ls a
When Napoleon had all Kurope at aou\ Geo
his feet the great Prussian minister essayi8t wh<
of state. Von Stein, said: "We will expressed hi
take this matter to the. school room. civilization 1
They took it to the school room anil destroying
nil the world knows now what came (jem,ss Gf m
out of the school room. "We are thfi worl(1
ell soldiers over here." wrote a (.er- i)ar,8m undf
man to a kinsman in America the \ gee
other day. When Louis XI\ was a an(j ardonii
boy in school his copy book carried bringing a
this sentence: "To kings homage is which will
due; they do what they please. *the thousan
1 ,ouis XIV is the author of the in- ]j?>1 y' as n
famous exclamation; I am the laborious a?
state!" blood-drench
A little while ago a book was pub- ,crushing ii
lished under the title. "When Blood ,arism is to |
is Their Argument." Here is a wan, riRht ?
.(notation from it: "The Prussian fornja we
state, cool headed, remorseless and t,ja( cjvjuza
utterly practical, has taken the cut- out reijRi0,lt
ture of the Germanic nations in ThH erow
hand. The logical sequence is in- jjjr oJ. fj)0
fallible. No professor ran make a (|,,ntjv wjlh
areer unless he preaches doctrines (.<)inlorts an
a crept able to the state; no private KP|lco is no
person ran make a career unless he P,| j()M p
holds the doctrines preached by the hv ilsejf ls ,
professors. It is a device for giving n'(ip(, Agai
into the hurnls of the state powers I)erj0(jo of
more disastrous than those ever ;im,e have h<
held by any body of men since the of moral pol,
world began. ness. The t
I need not add here quotations was follower
from recent widely read books of (qjne an,i th
Bernhardt, Nietzsche and Treitscke. sented by (I
all in the tone of Professor Cramb's at tpe pegii
new Beatitude: "Blessed are the aKG Qf Croti
war makers, for they shall be called ]an,i was fc
not sons of God, but sons of the tpe Stewart
Odin, which is better." My only G(]ness of C
point is that the training of the aRP uf KnlU
school determines the character of followed by
i he nation. Reign of Te
The proposition can be illustrated today is thr
right, around the world. Baron a thousand
Sakatani. mayor of TokIo. in a recent mean anythi
address, confessed that Japan had zation cannt
made a mistake in projecting her ed- itself again?
ucational p iicles in disregard of re- great Swiss
ligioti. and that a change was neres- the most f?
sary. A pure Secularism in educa- the linest (U
lion has yielded only failure and finds in thr
fear for the future, fivents in Hol- citement to
land and in France and in Korea and and wickedi
Fa India and in Kngland and in our make sharp
i'entral West could lie cited and some guara
niargcu upon, nut tins is not neces- mem. uur
sary. It America lias succeeded at ed by religi
ill in the last fifty years in assinii- he shot thri
lating the enormous influx of for- Christianity,
igners, doubtless this lias been pos- asserting itf
si hie generally on account of the in- ciaim to cot
fluent e of the public schools of the the child,
country; and few more impressive a great mid
scenes could be witnessed than the ing us. that
salutation of the flag by hundreds of from a grei
foreign children in the public schools tions and b
of New England. In this way they tianity as if
have been inoculated with the Am- in a pagan c
erican sentiment and the American the churche
ideals and have been thus worked the universi
into our American citizenship, i catastrophe.
\merica has been called the Melting ed in its li
Pot and the public schools are the. which calls
Crucible. ' sive leaders
Some twenty-five years ago there' "WHAT
came to my study in a New .England First mi
city a grave looking woman with a; Parents can
countenance like George Eliot's for uon Gf t|ie
strength and solemnity. She wanted, children in
to interest me in her effort to put family altar
on the statute books of the state of; getlier the 1
Connecticut a law for the children. cr jn prayer
to teach the effects of alcohol on the .v
human system. I had been brought mosphere o
up in the South, and was in my youth home. I
familiar with the sideboard deranter, high sehoi
and I am afraid I showed too little friend of m
sympathy with the noble Mrs. Mary never see t
Hunt. She got her law enacted, not ing " I a
only in Connecticut but throughout1
the nation. Since that time we have Thirtj
grown a generation of voters, and it ^ King'
is perhaps not too much to say that s,ipp]je(] in
the present anti-alcoholic movement , containing
throughout the states and the great pills, for 2f?
prohib tion wave sweeping from
state to state is due more to the, t
scientific temnerance instructions in cheap and
the schools than to any other one a bottle tod;
rause : yoUr ronHtiI
. h i the morning
Yes. what you put into the schools g|Btg
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ting into the life of the said he, "they teach atheism therd."
He did not mean that the teachers
IN. THK POTTAGK." were teaching directly that there is
nember the story in II no God, nor that they were them:hey
set on the big pot to selves atheistic in their creed. What
?, how a young student he meant to say was that the atiuoshe
field and gathered a phere of the school was not pervadwild
gourds and shred ed with reverence for God. Jesus
the pot. how when they; said: "It were better for a teacher
and began to eat, one that a mill stone be hanged about
Oh. man of God, thore is his neck and he sunk In the depths
te pot." If the springs of the sea than that he should spoil
the streams are impure, ti e faith of a little child."
put into the pabulum fed, When the children go away from
i the nation's life is pois- [ home, where shall they go? To a
:>ubtedly we have grown I school that ignores religion? To
vilization. Kucken de- 1 professors who sneer at religion? To
follows: "It is a civili- a college which ignores their religibarines
and aeroplanes, j ious standing and need, and where
til efficiency and material moral training is no cencern of the
hau fnilpf) to tttlind tho inlhorilioel Vnrv U'aII ITn/lor
ience and is failing again stand that if this course is taken.
men are beginning to| consequences are certain and they
truth. There is outward must he suffered. Fortunately this
d inward pettiness. There is not the only alternative. There
progress and spiritual are schools and schools. Some
There are people vastlv schools are us deeply concerned for
vardly destitute. There the religious standing and needs and
ade unions which are in progress of students as the churches
al fellowships. In a from which they came, not to say the
ve a splendid civilization parents whom they have left at home.
civilization without a There are at hand statistics to prove
rge Hissing, an English that these latter schools furnish
> died some years ago. front eighty-four per cent to ninetys
fear of a scientific j three oer cent of the Christian leadin
these words: "I see .crs of the country.
; all simplicity and gen-! But there is still the larger and
fe and all the beauty of i more difficult question of how to inI
see it restoring har- j ject into the whole educational pro r
the mask of civiliza- cess, the saving salt which is so
it turning men's minds abundant'v applied in the distinctig
their hearts. I see it ively Chri'.tian schools. This is a
time of vast conflicts question which we have not yet
pal" into insignificance. squarely faced in this country, and
ils of wars of old" and as! our doctrine of the separation of
i0t will whelm all the' Church and State most seriously comIvances
of mankind In plicates our handling of the matter,
ed chaos." This fear is But the experiences of other counltellectualistn
and Secu- tries warns us that we cannot build
:io seen from Japan west-' a permanent social order apart from
icross the world to Call- religion. Meantime, it is the duty
are discovering afresh of all the forces of Christendom
tion is not secure with-, homes. Christian men and women.
Christian churches to project the
tli of crime, the debas- principles and the spirit of the remoral
currency coinci- ligion they profess into the total life
advances in material of the times, and particularly into
(1 the spread of intelli- tin- educational process. Only so can
t an argument against the nation be saved for its missions
ut proves that education to the nations.
lot suflicient to meet the
n and again in history Strong for the Future.
great intellectual brilli- Columbia Record.
eon succeeded by periods We have been looking forward to
lapse and of mental dark-, the coming of normal times, and here
ige of Pericles in Greece | we are right in the midst of them
rl by the intellectual de- The fact is that we were not llve
moral tlahbiness repre- ing normally before? the European
reek and Roman society war. Hut this crisis has been like
ining of our era. The the cleaning out of an old well. Tht
iwell and Milton in Eng- lower the cleansers descend, the
illowcd by the return of more mini that Is stirred up. Hut
s and the abysmal wick- now the bottom has been scoured and
iueen Anne's age. The limed and the water is wholesome
thtenment in France was and invigorating. There was a lot of
the Revolution and the mud and some stagnant water that
rror. And the Kurope of had to come out.
owing away the gains of| The South had a lot of stagnant
years. If these tilings credits and sour paper in circulation,
tig, they mean that civili-, Everything was ail right and unob>t
in and of itself secure served until something got wrong
it Rarbarism. Forel, the with the pump which Kept up the
Savant, says: "Man is circulation and flow. The source of
rocious of beasts;' and the Smith's troubles has been cor)\ver
or European culture, reeled. The old well of assets has
provocation of war in - J been cleaned thoroughly. Many a
unimaginable brutality j worthless note has been paid or put
less. It is not enough to'im,, bankable condition And the
tools; we must secure value of the assets did not shrink
nteo of the right use >1 appreciably. Today the potential
schools must be buttress- wealth of the South is vastly greaton;
our education must <r i?y reason of this readjustment,
jugh and through with The South is not worried today.
Thus religion is again \ year ago there was dread, const or;
ancient and irrefutable j nation. This was because the money
itrol the development of j renters themselves were nervous.
Here is the president of They knew not how much collaterals
die state university toll-j would shrink, nor how their bora
student may graduate rowing capacity would be affected by
it many of our inHtitu-j rates of interest, all changed by the
io as ignorant of Chris- sudden accident of a world at war.
he had been brought up Hut today the South is upon a
ountry; and he implores more substantial basis than ever,
s to come to the aid of The assets out in the growing (it Ids
ties to prevent such a, are here to make good every adThe
situation conceiv- vance that has been received,
iroadest outlines is one The credit of the South has been
for a definite and aggros- sav,.,j an(j u Was done by such oxhip
in education. pedients as the "Huy-a-Hale" moveTO
I>0 ABOUT IT." ment. Had the South been forced
iltiply Christian homes, to sell cotton at distress prices, there
never shift the obliga- would have been a crash that would
religious training of the, i)ave swept away assets and would
the home. Ftestore the| have rendered credit negligible.
the family reading to-i The crisis of last year was needed
[tlble and Joining togeth-'to stabilize the credit of the South,
The parents must also| to clean out the old well, to get rid
emselves about the at.- j of some of the old paper cluttering
f the school as well as; up bank vaults and to put clean,
knew of a certain city' fresh, attractive securities in place
>1 concerning which ai thereof.
ine said: "My son shall -p^e new crop year finds the farhe
inside of that build- mf.r with a plenty to eat and with *
,sked why. 'Because, plenty* of cotton to meet h.s obliga
tions as soon as a price is fixed upcn
r-SU for 25 Cents. ? rational basis,
s New Idfe Pills are now The South is stronger than er.
well-corked glass bottles. ?
36 sugar coated white _ ., . .
c. One pill with a glass Di"ly ThouBht*
ore retiring is an average e,,d an'1 F,url?<?se work is the
and pie: sant to take, development of the body, mind and
md positive in results, character, not success
econom.cal to use. Oet lovigoraitiat to the Palo and Sickly
ay, take a dose tonight?
?i tion will he relieved In The Old Standard general strengthening tenl<
? "it CROVK S TASTKI.KSH Chill TONIC, drive*oi,
36 Tor 25e, at all drug- Vnlnrin.enrichrMhr Mood and t>ulld? upthe*?>
1 - tem. A true tunic, for adults and children. V* I
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Artit'KT 24. 1915.
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> IMKX'TS KOIt ("OTTOX GIU>\V
? BUS OF THK SOUTH* ?
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Manufacturer's Record. jJBP
Don't be misled into selling your jtjg
cotton at live or six cents a pound. I *
as you were last fall, by political and *V||
other pessimists. | ? .
Don't get frightened and rush your J
cotton to market except to the extent
that you have to sell it to meet your
financial obligations, for the undue'
crowding of cotton on the market
plays into the hands of the specu-|
lators, who by the tactics now being
employed would break down the
price of your cotton and enable them
to buy it to their profit and to your
loss, as they did last year. 'VHjL
Don't expect either this government
or any other to buy your cotton. ^
The government has no more right
to buy cotton that grain or hogs.
Don't look for any uneconomic and
impossible legislation in behalf of;
cotton, for most of the theories advanced
ha\e bordered on astnity. and
some of them have ?juite reached that1
8laBP 5c. tl
Don't for a moment think that you . *
can barter your honor and your soul CCFlt
and shape your convictions as to
right or wrong in world affairs for V
the price of a bale of cotton.
Don't seek to blackmail other
countries by threatening retaliation
.ecause their work may interfere
with the temporary selling price of
your cotton.
Don't permit politicians or others TI |P|
? ? UfxlA ?r/x.. 4 -1 -?
XKt IIUIU U|l UCIUlf nit? w uriu u? I
willing to accept a bribe, and to 136D
shape your Judgment of right and .
wrong in human affairs by the price ??
that this country or that might be
willing to pay for your cotton. f Don't
forget that though you have Ol I
raised more cotton than the South _ _
ought to have produced, there is an W^Oli
intrinsic value In cotton which can-1
not l>e permanently destroyed . xy r
Don't rorget that you can carry ffflCt
vonr cotton for years without its dc ram
terioration. and that tIn* time willl CV61
Dine, unless the South continues to I
grow more cotton than the world de-l
mands. when every bale of cotton
will he needed at a good price. 1/VVt.
Don't defraud your creditors by
refusing to sell cotton to meet your
obligations, but when you have sold How lw y
enough to pay your debts, don t for-1 Darlington News
get that the balance is yours to hold Work, and ket
until doomsday if you please. &n(llmake every act c
await the time when the world I higher and better
pay your price for it. I feel.
Don't above all else, permit your-l sa%e your nic
self to be misled into believing that I Ravlng, and accu
your cotton is worth more than your I pavt, enough of tl
honor; that your cotton must set I HPe you comfort
your standard of morals in studying I That, too. is gone
world affairs. I Up kind, and
Don't forget that he who poses theI ,.ratP to the mem
cotton grow ers of the South before I know ledge tl
the world as beggars asking alms, orjtj\em happy will
as regarding a bnle of cotton of morel C\*en bullier thai
value than human life, or the price <;tve the little
of a pound of cotton more to be con-1 pat when you nn
sidered than individual and national I pxprcssions of d<
honor, is the worst enemy which the I quintessence of b
South has ever had or ever can have Qe jiumane it,
I dumb brutes, foi
t Mir New Man of Business. I not talk with the
Darlington News and Dress J will speak the ?
for generations throughout the An(j apain you >
civilized world the farmer has been foully feel,
regarded simply as a farmer?noth- Sp<>aK genl,y o
tng more. forgive his faultf
He has been classed as a farmer, j(jJn yQu ,n the
rated as a farmer, and treated as i spread the g<
farmer, apd all because there are ^ ^ hQme
none so blind as those who will not an<) ft| (
80?" satisfaction of k
Hut all of that is changed today. wejj ,jone wlll ad?
The farmer has come into his own, fPP|
and stands before the world in the j Up tjie fa|
twentieth century as the most solid. to lrPa(j the path
substantial ami reliable class of peo- yOUr ,jPod of lti
pie on the face of the globe. glorify your bull;
He is a man of business -of tre- "Bully" is a n
mendous business?the one man fpej an(j n |H qu
without whom the people of the UH aj|t for wfo,
world would cease to exist. a (.)pan will pre
Men go out to the great cities, and ,jeP(t wni j)P on,
many of them rise, and fail, and are a|j
heard from no more.
But the farmer moves onward, and
upward, always to better and greater T ought
thitigs 1 s ill say that
He is our new man of business?- have been, in fav
our greatest man of business?the r>r jurors of ncgi
man upon whom all the world de- ing them to hold
ponds for the vital sustenance of life, marry with whit
?????? say in addition t
Righteously Indignant. a physical difTei
Head of the Arm (discovering that white and the bit
his apprentice and his young daughtei lievo will foreve
are corresponding)?Well, well, it's races from livlnj
love letters the rascal Is writing to 0f 8Qcial or poll!
my daughter, and on my typewriter. , __ miirh ah an
ioo! Munich nwi?..tter
ion assigned to
tale of Oblo. Cltjr of Totr.l.-. Lucas Coanty. ??. Vhrnham I.lnnAl*
rrann a. ? oeney tniifc.t uilh thnt be I* rnlor
riartner of Hip Brm of F. J. Cheney St Co., do- 1858.
ng twdni'M In the City of Toledo County and
fttate cforoMld, and Hint Mali] flrin will pay ???
the a mn of oNK IIIINI>RKI> fMFlXARH for
each nml ovi-ry oaae if Cifarrh thnt ennnnt be Pltl(flC6
cured by the u*> of Hall'a Catarrh Cure.
FRANK J CIIKNKY. **? ?? ? HO Ca
ftworri to before me d nnbHcrlbeil In my CRn no 6 mac
presence, tbia ?lth day of December, A. !>.. IW4, patlflnCB, Of a (ft
Heal. A. W. CI.P.nrtON. dano.lr
N??tnry I'lihlle.
flair* Catarrh Cure li taken Internally and Tm Utaaiwd lndt Ut
irta directly uimn the M > it and mneoiw aur n>r>lli( r.| li. innir i
acea of the ay mem Hetnl for t. .tlrnonlnla nv" BMOMO QUINI
F J CHKNKY St CO . Toledo, 0. Julnlne and <!<> "<
?. .. a ..m luring In nenn. Rer
Sold by nil 7.*\ jok lor the stgnAtur
Tike (lairi Fsollf Plllf f ir const I p?t too.
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EUV s|v ^Vttsflr j^BdlBf^B
tever Chewed} J/f
v Bobs"
he packet or two "Bobs" for a
at all the better stands and stores.
ITARM hearted
little things?
se"Bobs"! All the
and the mint of the
aermint, all the chew
he gum?with fine
te coats of candjr, and
le heart shape 'cause
ybody loves them so.
give yen real flavor
eel "Bully." A Boy's Kssay on the Kditor.
and Press. Kxchange.
?p on workiiiK. and , , ... , .
I don t know how newspapers
ount for sontethinp . , . .. . , ^ .
. , . ,, come to he in the world, and I don t
It leaves a bul.y , ,
think God knows for He ain't had
nothing to sny about them in the
>ney. and keep on I think the editor Is the missmulating.
until you inK link we n,a)| about and stayed
liis world's goods to (n ,jie bushes u..tu the flood, and
ably through life, jben eamo out a;.d ./rote the tiling
e bully feel. up alHj j,as been here ever slnee. I
gentle, and eonsid- (jon-t think ho ever died. I never
bers of your family. Baw a dead one, or heard of one gethat
you are making |lnK m-ked. Our paper is a mighty
cause you to feel ROO<j one, lint the editor goes without
1 bully. underclothes all winter and don't
ones a smile and r vvear any socks and pa hain't paid
set them, and their subscription since the paper
elight will In* the started. I asked pa if that was why
ully to you. tlie editor had to suck the juice out
your handling or of snowballs in winter and to go to
p though they may ( bed in the summer when he had his
> tongue, their eves i shirt washed.
gratitude they feel, j Then pa got mad and took me out
vill experience that tlit* woodshed and licked me awful
| hard. If the editor makes mistakes
f your neighbor and folks say he ought to be hanged, but
i. that he. too. may jf the doctor makes any mistakes he
bully feel. buries them and people dassent say
ispel of loyalty to anything because he can read and
people upon all oc- write Latin. When the editor makes
ill places, and the mistakes there is lawsuits and
nowing 'tis a dee 1 swearing and a big fuss, but if the
I spice to your bully rloctnr inuiroo /?*??? ?**
who nine i? m imicrai,
' rut flowers and perfect alienee. A
len and assiHt them doctor can use a word a yard long
of a bettor life, and without him or any one knowing
intan kindness will , what it means, but if the editor uses
y feel. one he has to spell it. If the doctor
nighty good way to Koes to see another man's wife he
Ite within the reach; charges the man for a visit, but if
m a right mind and i the editor should go ho gets a load
jcedes a deed, that of buckshot.
? of the bulllest of
NO LACK.
for the Week. If you're looking for something to
I am not, nor ever non't think that your chance is
or of making voters small,
roes, nor of qualify- j>on't wander away and get blue, son,
office, nor to Inter- For there's labor that suits us all.
te people; and will If you're built for fight, there's a
0 this that there is i .fc.Ch^nCj ,
In the lands that are far away,
rence between the| {f jor peace yOU yearn, you can take
?ck race which I be- your turn
r forbid the two In the eloquent display.
1 together on terms .
. ...... Von can march to the battle line,
leal equality. * ' ' gon
ly other man, am in you can teach If you're learned
the superior post- aright,
the white race. Vou can toll where the grain grows
i. at Charleston. 111., "J1?' son'
And study your hook by night,
Thorn are tasks that wait till the
~~~~~??? hour grows late
and Drupair An<* nevt*r a taBi< that's through,
lamlty so great that I>on,t ,lo,,bt an,! BiKh a* the hour8
le a little lighter bi m. ,K.? by. ' .
. . , , . . There s plenty for rou to do.
eat deal heavier b" " J:WllHh,nKton Star.
wt Mot Affact THa Haad 'jk ' ion pm wis tuy *^x
ind laxative effect. LAX A- ?p n o> v u| ?>IM aaIPni?01?Hr> 'pn||g
NKU better then ordinary -Suitjai jo Ana ?jns oi ||?| .1 MHNXMIO
>t caune nervouaneaa nn< CZVrf || Ajuoiu pnnj*4 |||?& )?|SSiup jnoji
nemlwr the lull namcan<. , __f
e of v.. w. OKOVK. 2Sc. *A,(1 M OJ g U| pwnj *9|ld