Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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teHtrru trera Ru EFtD. ESTABLISHED 1865. NE WBERRS C, FRDAY AUGUST 8, 1902,- TWICE A WE EK. $1.50 A YEAR EDUCATION OUR HOPE. ADDRESS OF L H. HUNT, ESQ, AT LIT "LR MOUNTAIN REUNION, AUG. 1,'02 The Progreasof Edacation and its Influence in the Bauiding of the Nation-NOW Within the Reach of All and it is the Duty of All to Take Advantage of the Op portunity Offered. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle - men: As I stand here and look over this vast audience, I am convinced that the cause of education is alive in the land, and that old Newberry College holds a warm place in the hearts of the peo ple of Fairfield, Richland, Lexington, Saluda andNewberry counties. These annual gatherings of almost four thousand men, women and children have a deeper meaning than a mere picnic occasion, and a broader im port than a day of pleasure and re e&ion; they mean that the minds of the people are directed towards the cause of education, and their hearts towards'that grand old institution in whose honor we are gathered here today for the purpose of paying an humble tribufe to its past, and invok lug a divine benediction upon its fu ture. If there is one educational in : titution in South Carolina that can justly claim the moral, financial and personal support of her citizenship, that institution is Newberry College. For almost fifty years it has weath ered- the storm along with the old tip of State and has fallen and ,risen upon the waves of her pros perity and her adversity. When the wy between the States commenced; ieiry College was a flourishing institution; its halls were full to over lowing, pd its reputation as an in stitution of learning was a pride and pleasure to the people of every de nomination; but its halls were soon deseted that its students might go forth to battle for personal liberty and constitutional rights. When the rod banner of the Confederacy went V* down in defeat, the walls of New berry College crumbled and fell at the hands of northern soldiery; when the dark days ot'reconstruction and vandalism were forced upon our pes pie, the ruins of Newberry College were hedged in by the Federal bayo net. As soon as the alien and the stranger were driven from the State, and the machinery of the govern ment placed ini the hands ot the na tive Carolinian, Newberry College ros from its ruins and stands today a.monument to the love, fortitude ad devotion of the Lutherans of South Carolina and other Southern States. Thus it is, tbat that old in stitution has stood by its people in time of peace and in time of war; it has prospered when they have pros pered and suffered with them in their days of adversity. These annual gatherings bave done much to direct '7 the attention of t,he people to the cause of education, and that is a sub ject that is of vital and personal in terest to every citizen of South Caro lina, be that citizen good or bad, rice or poor; if he has the future welfare of his children at heart, he must be interested in the cause of education, and on that subject the voice of the people should be of one accord. Ii this day of advancement in agricul ture, in science and in commerce, the arm is getting weaker and the brain is growing stronger; in reality the pen is fast becoming ''mightie than the sword." Every schoolhouse and college is a work shop in whicia human minds are moulded into edu cational channels, and opinions and ideas are formulated that will direci and control the destiny of this Stat4 and this Nation. It is within the re cit'tion hall and on the college cam * pus that mind and character i formed, it is there a young man or young woman is made better o made worse; it is there for the firs time a young man sees life outside o his own home and feels that stimu lating independence of mind an< body that makes him realize that hi must think and act for himself, an' for himself alone. An educationi jio:longer a luxury, but an absolut Xeesity, and there can be no sadde sight than to see a young man stai out upon his'jtey of life withot . hea and assistance of a commoi school or collegiate education. With out fault of his own, he is thrown in the arena of life to fight in an nn. equal struggle; without being armed or equipped for the contest, he munst meet hi9 fellows on an unknown field and fight in that great battle of life where no quarter;is asked and none is given. A young man without an education is.like a ship at sea with out a rudder; the inachinery may all be there; the sails intact; the fire smouldering in the furnace; but with out that guiding power it is a help less drift upon the stormy waters of a great ocean. Nature has endowed hundreds of men with brain, charac ter and ability, and the world has thrown golden opportunities and ad vantages across their path, but for the want of an education they have beeu dea* to the call of fame and fortune, and have gone down to their graves unknown, unhonored and un sung. There is no earthly limit to the breadth and depth of the human mind, it is as broad as the universe and as deep as eternity; the trained mind has already bridled the winds of heaven and made them do its bid ding, it has harnessed the lightning's flash and made it a beast of burden, it has fathomed the mystery of the mighty deep and made it the resting place of a hundred cables; the edu cated eye has penetrated beyond the stars through the milky- way to worlds above, and with its mighty telescope it reads the secrets of the twinkling stars and tells the story of worlds unseen by human eye; and yet, we are but standing in the gray mist of the early morning; what shall be revealed to us when the sun of education shall have reached its ze nith, God alone can tell; but this we know: the coming generation shall face problems and possibilities that are now as far removed from our idea of realization as was truth fr,m the mind of Shakespeare when he made Pack say that he would "put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes." This is a transition pe riod in the world's history; new in ventions and new theories follow eaeh other in rapid succession, and it will take a quick mind and an eda cated brain to keep from being a teggler in this great army of bread winners. There is another, a broader and less personal reason why every citi zen should be interested in the cause of education, and it is because the very existence and welfare of this state and nation depends upon the intelligence, integrity and moral ad vancement of its citizenship. That great factor was realized and acted upon by the founders of our national government as far back as the days of the revolution; for almost before the smoke of the cannon at Yorktown had cleared away, the sound of the pick and the spade could be heard dig ging a foundation for a school house within the shadow of almost every legislative ball of that young repub lie. They cast their bread upon the waters and it has been returned to them a hundred fold, for since that time, down through one "hundred years, that republic has grown and prospered, and today European nations are sending their children to drink from the spring of knowledge that flows from those 'same educa tional institutions; and that young republic has long since thrown aside its swaddling clothes, and now chal lenges the world to- meet it in the marts of trade and in the arts of war. The elders of this republic builded wisely and builded well. They' planted the church on the hill-tops and the school-house in the valley, -and from them they garnered a har vest of peace and plenty; the fruit of their labor was the benediction of a grateful people and the birtb of a gaant nation. SOar schools and colleges have done -as much towards making this country jgreat and prosperous as has the Sflashing sword or the belching can Inon. But a single glance at the his story of the world will convince you Sthat the nations thbat have established ad fostered education and educa 'ttional institutions are rhe great world tpowers of today, and the nations Sth at have withheld the lamp of know. ledge from their people, are the na- b tions that now live only in the flick- at ering shadows of their departed glory. A Our own Spanish American war fur- w nishes a vivid and glorious illustra- ht tion of the power of education vs. hi ignorance, for in that war it was a it contest between the educated mind ni of-the American gunner against the bE trained hand of the Spanish sailor, sb and the result was inevitable. th Spain's proud bEnner went down to pl defeat in ignomy and shame, and she fo now has one of her fleets lying be. el neath the "ocean that roars" and in, another at the bottom of the "ocean of that sleeps." Our victories were th won, not upon Manila Bay or at Saa- sti tiago Harbor, but withii the recita. th tion halls at Annapolis, where young th Dewey, Sligh and Sampson were se, taught the art of naval warfare, and W at our training stations, where the fr< "man behind the gun" was taught to wi shoot with mathematical accuracy. wE Thus we see by example, if we ex- vi< pect to keep the beacon light of civil sti and political liberty burning bright lig and untarnished we must turn our - eyes towards our educational institu- siE tions and from them recruit the fu- tb ture citizenship of this state and be nation. There has never been a time in the history of South Carolina when edu- Tr cation was as free and as open as it F is today; and the young men of this generation have opportunities and A; advantages that were denied their parents. Forty-two years ago when Ti the tocsin of war was sounded, and the rattle of the long roll and the winding of the bugle was heard from At the Potomac to the Rio Grande, the college boys of '61 threw aside their Sh books and rallied to the defence of the "stars and bais" of the new born , Confederacy. They no longer studied history-they began to make it,; and for four long years they fought an fie unequal struggle, adding a new chap- da ter to American history, and giving a ch bloody meaning to valor and patriot- G1 ism. When the flash of the last gun Al at Appomattox had passed into his, at tory, they turned their backs upon n the battle-scarred hills of Virginia, of furled forever that flag that had pc floated over a hundred fields of vic- cia tory; turned their faces towards their te: homes only to find them a mass of la smouldering ruins, their country a pa political and financial wreck, and a sh~ few blackened walls and cracked ru chimneys marking the spot where at once stood their Alma Mater. Those la soldier boys of the Confederacy were ac overpowered, but not conquered, and p~ with zeal and determination they pc grasped the plow handles and se brought order out of chaos. They te had no thought of books, no time for hi education, each one had a man's p1 work to do, and he did it; and those sii gallant men have restored to us a ne white man's government and with it Tl a heritage most glorious. They ty abandoned their hope of education lei at their country's call, and most of wl them have come on down thus far re with their education incomplete, not M as a matter of choice, but as a matter wi cf .duty and patriotism. The young ac men of this day and generation have M no such reason or excuse, for peace pI is abroad in the land and plenty is in m our midst: our acres whiten with cot- ve ton and our fields are golden with bi grain; the whistle of the locomotive E may be heard anywhere from Oconee di to Hilton Head, and a higher institu- ot tion of learning can be found in t almost every village. The children ln of this generation have no reasonable excuse for not accepting an educa- di tion; thbe state offers them one with- "] out money and without price; the latch string bangs on the outside of the door of' every denominational college, and an education is now within reach of every young man or a young woman in South Carolina, and al if they go through life without the at beneit and advantage of an educa- y, tion it will he a matter of choice and y~ not of necessity. a We are now entering upon a nsw u era in the history of our State. An it era of advancement and prosperity, r and I believe that our people are go- p ing to prosper within the next dle- C cade as they have never prospered be-a fore believe the horn of plenty will| f 3 ours and the day of our political id national vindication is at hand. [though our State has been tried ith fire and sword, and. her people we suffered as no people on earth we suffered, yet she has risen above all, and the victory that was de ed her on the field of battle will hers in the days of peace; what .e failed to do with the musket and e sword has been done with the ow and the factory. We have reed many of the northern mills to . >se their doors, and are now flood g New England with the product our manufacturing industries, and e sons of the northern and western ites are turning their eyes towards e south, realizing that it is to be e greatest and most prosperous tion of this American Union. hile our State has been assailed )m without and betrayed from thii, yet from our crown of thorns - shall pluck the laurel wreath of Atory, and South Carolina shall mnd before the world in her true ht, and be known for what she is the greatest and best of all in the iterhood of states; and "the stone i at the builders set at naught shall come the head of the corner." (es, give me a land of the wreck and the tomb, tere's granduer in graves, there's glory in gloom, ir out of the gloom future brightness - is born, after the night comes the sunrise of morn; ie graves of the dead with the grass overgrown, iy yet be the foot-stool of liberty's throne; id each single wreck in the war-path of might, all yet be a rock in the Temple of Right." e Say a Word For Our Neighbor Onnter. At the campaign meeting in Edge Ild Mr. W. F. Stevenson, a candi ,te for Attorney General, made a arge against his opponent, U. X. inter, Jr., the present Assistant torney General, and reiterated it Saluda, to the effect that his oppo nt was using the stationery of the ce at the expense of the State for litical purposes. This was emphat 11y deniisd and atNewberry MrGun r produced a certificate from a Co bia printer that he had personally id for all the stationery used, and owed conclusively that he was not uning at the expense of the State, .d that he employed that illustrious wyer, Gen. Leroy F. Youmans, to t in his stead in his absence, and id for the service out of his own cket, and denounced Mr. Steven n's statements in no uncertain rms. Kr. Stevenson then retracted s statements and professed comn ete satisfaction. The part we de :e to call attention to is the unfair iss of that style of campaigning. e charges were made in one coun and retracted in another. Thus aving the people of this county 2 heard the charges but not the" traction urider the impression that r. Gunter had done a wrong. It is th this view that we publish the taal status not gnly to vindicate r. Gunter, but to denounce such -actice in politics. Such unfair ethods will hardly help Mr. Ste nson; but will receive a just re ike at the polls. The people of gefield are drone to resent unfair saling in politics. Mr. Gunter was r neighbor-a Lexington man of e very best and highest aintecedents. e is an able lawyer, and an abso- C tely perfect gentleman. We hope I at Edgefield will give him her in- f vidal vote. --James T. Bacon in i ~dgefield ( ironicle." clI. Johnstone's Point W.iI T4ken, 3 [Orangeburg Patriot, 3th.] ( The point that Col. Johnstone akes on Congressman Latimer Dout starting with the Republicans McLarniu did, by the "get-all ou can" tuethod, is well taken. ~henever the Republicans find a ian ho is in for the "stuff" they ually manage to find his price. It our duty to send men to Congress ot to hear off their part of the under, buft to stop the plunderers. hr representatives have no right to cept any patronage that comes ro. th acritice of principle. J Big Cost Sa Nothing Ev SNEWE DAY BY DAY the c should we not do tl irst place I can show yc my three stores in the t< >ought for SPOT CASH 4merica. My New Yor ne - 50 pcs. Colored Org 50 lot that's not wot iome worth 15c. We p1 )nly one price 5c. yard. All Odds And Short Lengths p Half Price. One dollar e Miwnagh' Will Do The ALL GET Fl SJoin the MIMNA The Birthplac Corset Way In RoaniaOI. Why en: The outbreak which threatens~ [Spartani ~oumania has been caused by thbe Personal popi 3inister of public instruction forbid- great deal in ele ig girls in the higher and secondary ficiency is added ools to wear corsets, and in case thing. That is 'frefusal directing the forcible 1is going to be e] emoval of the offending article. The eral. He is a uture mothers of Roumania, remem- of the people, a ering that the ancient Romans, from not turned his om they claim indirect descent, testing some of yore a kind of stays (does not Martial tested cases the nake fun of fat women, and does not in, in a manner )vid tell us that a big waist kills credit on his off ve?) and that the corest, with a; that "public offB hort interval, has; been worn ever Stevenson is a ,ince, are naturally up ina arms started on the v gainst the arbitrary decree. It is a ase of war to the whalebone, and it --- is pretty safe to prophesy that the Hesvrde ;chool girls will win. H's. vryde ---- "Yes. The Stella-What do you think of Ma ness doesn't se el's bating suit ? all." Bella-I should judge she is a girl j"What do yo who doesn't care -iuch for clothes.- "He wants mi Exhage .Grace." le Continues. ERR Y. rowds increase. WHV he business? In the. u more new goods than >wn. All new clean goods from the best houses in k buyer has just shipped andies, not a yard in the th 10c. and 12 1-2c. and ace the big lot on sale at and Ends aced on Centre Table at it s Cost Sale Worlk Of Two. LEADY AND Crowds. (UGWHS, e of Cut Prices. iter Will Wio, Straight on the Dispensary. [Orangeburg Patriot, 5th.] >rg Herald.] While the dispensary is not dn is llarity counts for a sue in the present campaign, Hon. tions, and when ef Cole L. Blease, candidate for Lienit. I, it counts for every Governor, continues to sbow up tbe why U. X. Gun'er fact that both his opponents were cted Attorney Gen until recent.y opposed to the dispen enial fellow, a man sary or in favor of local option. ~He d promotions have claims to have a better record .than head. While con- the other candidates on this subject. Statemhs engge "He has had an interesting career, to reflect the highest hasn't he?" ce, he did not forget "Well, rather. He has been e is public trust.'' through two fortunes, three Wives. good man, but he 'and a sanitorium."-Laife. rrong foot. "What made you seem so upset _________the day we became engaged ? You knew I was going to propose-didn't oted to Grace Hark- you ?" "Oh! dear me, yes! But I had no ordinary rule of buisi- idea I was going to accept you." em to suit him at Brooklyn Life. ,,ea ? Neptune-"See here, little girl or tan ?he dyofyou must stop crying in my ocean; :>r thn treeday ofit's salty enough as it is "-Harper's Maazine.