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!V . - '* * r . Graduation Essays of Pupils , ( ONTIM"Kl> F1IC aty, an?l w'-.i ' <t wore succestfnil\ achieved, it. ages, by the con-j tinned and peiseunug exertions of the human intellect. Is there at the present day, then, any ground for desp-ir. that at some future stage of that h-ghcr civilization to which we trust the world is gradually tending, cAttiw hmW unil holder effort of peilillS toward the solution of this great jjLl problem may be crowned with sue cess and compass an object of sucli x vast and paramount utility ? Nothing, indeed, would conduce more directly to bring about a golden age of union and harmony among the several nations and races of mankind th-ri% the ivmor.i of that l-irritr to the interchange ? . hough' a"d mutual g K>d undorsting between man and r :-n. \? i.i.-h is now interjH>sed by ii. * diversify <>f til ;rre-cruiptivp hiii'Mlu Mr L> A lhockiuton, the oilier masculine member of tin- graduating ' class of the graded school chose as his theme, I. "The Nkw South m As we stand upon the threshold of the twentieth century surrounded bvj the hum of industry, viewing the, beautiful scenery of our Southland,! 1 ' everything upon which we gaze evi-1 Ueucing the rapid strides of develop j ineut thiough the past few decades, . it is fitting that we pause and con~ ~ template the vast improvement of our | i Southern country and seek its cause. Seek that cause, where by uight the cotton whitens beneath the stars and _ . _ ?... ? by day the wheat locks the sunshine! in its bearded sheaves, where the I clover steals the fragrance of the, wind, aud the tobacco catches the j quick a:oma of the rain; where the mountains stored with exhaustles.-. treasures, clothed with forests vast and primeval re:ir their mighty heads I to the skies end the rivers tumbling or loitering, run wanton to the seas. In seeking this cause, let us compare the old South with the new. It i is nearly impossible to give an accur\ ate idea of the settlement, development, civilization and customs of the several States which compose the; ?i:? 11- l IUIia section ^eueiauy ruuwu as hjc i Soath" within the limits of a few hundred words and to do it at all satisfactorily. An old Southern farm and fanner presented a type of domesticity which will pas3 entirely away with this generation, and which was one of the v' . sweetest, purest, and most productive types of social life that have ever been known. The owner and master was head of the family in a sense t / A*, which has never been known in mod ern society and which bears rc?; semblance to the head of the tripe in < the nomadic life, typified by the life j of Abraham; the power he had over his slaves and the influence over his wife and children was supreme. The children had no menial duties to perform, but were reared with a certain dislike and contempt for menial labor, because it was performed by slaves and performed for them. In every home the children were trained or taught some trade that was fitting for the time. The farm always yielded a great abundance; but after | a wasteful support of the family and ! farm had been taken out of the year's | produces, the dividends were small. | As the surplus, therefore, was not large, the accumulated capital was) never great. This prevented any great public works of any kind either iu ttie snape or great puouc uuiia- j ings, universities, railroads, or other enterprises. It also prevented marked : inequalities 111 the pecuniary condition of the men of the South. There were none very rich, few very poor? the vast mass being in comfortable ? i ^ circumstances. This also opened but * *-"< few avenues for profit and distinction \^p young men, the learned professions j * ;5id such business as was necessary i in such a simple community being the only vocation for those alio desired to leave the farms. The settlement of the South was! from different natioualties and differ-' ent creeds. The Germans, who came to Georgia under Oglethorpe, the Huguenots who added a certain deli? . I cate flavor to South Carolina life, - ' ' ?v>' of Kinqslieo Graded School. \M l'ACi: TUu. j the Scotch-lri-h, who settled the valley of Virgil ia am! laigt parts of North Carolina, the Pennsylvania Dutch, who followed the lime-stone with its rich soils from Pennsylvania down thio gh Virginia. Tennessee and North Carolina, were each as marked a people with as marked characteristics as those who are sometimes callel the Cavaliers who settled the tide-watei regions of Virginia, or the Puritans who civilized New England, and those chir acteristics survive to this day. Vet the characteristics which distintiuguished these people, closely re lated as they were, were minute; hence the people ot the South grew more alike as time went 011: and it is not too nine 1 to say that the) were the 1110-t homogeneous people of any part of the country The political develop si/oni the Revolutionary war to .10 can only be explained with a full understanding of 'he influence of slavery. From the discovery of the cotton gin, which made slave labor so valuable, in l^bO, it became necessary to put every possible barrier to protect the institution of slavery from extinction. Its labor being worthless in the Northern States, it was easilv perceived that the conflict would ari?e and that antagonistic legislation could be prevented by only such defensive measures as would give to the Southern States power in the national congress sufficient to prevent unfriendly legislation. This long contest soliditied the South, gave it a succession of trained leaders, made it intense in its advocacy its principles, caused it to study deep ly and closely constitutional,political and economical questions and gave it that compactness which gradually formed it into one body and caused it to be named the South. But while this was true there were three distinct Souths contained within the boundary of those States, all of which are now being rapidly developed since the institution of slavery has been destroyed. These are: The farmiug South, the planting South and the mountainous South The desiruction of slavery put an end to the investment of Southern profit in slaves. Some other vocations than agriculture had to be found for the active, vigorous and energetic. Twenty years were needed to place the South in a coudition somewhat like that in which it was when the war broke out. The ravages, injuries and destruction caused by the war and the years which followed were so enormous that they have not yet been entirely repaired. Mississippi, in 1SG0, was the third wealthiest State in the Union ; it will be many years before slie will be enabled to resume that place. This changed condition has produced its natural results. The great Appalachian range, with the bosom of its mountains covered with timber and inexhaustible minerals buried in the soil, with quite a number of large streams and an equable and pleasant climate, has been the fiuitful field of new developments. That intelligence, energy and capital which formeily opened new plantations in the Mississippi valley and other Southern States, have lately been in the main devoted to opening new mines, constructing new furnaces or building factories, either within this range or close to its foothills. This development has gone on an lis going on to an extent which is scarcely realized; yet it does not cripple, but aids in the development of the agricultural resources of the South. Now, before going into the rapid growth and development of the - 'New South,' let us first see what condition the South was in at the close of the war. As the sun peeped over the eastern horizon, there hung over this section a dark and treacherous cloud, which made the few remaining Southerners tremble with gloomy forebodings. Men who had leit their homes in glossy gray suits,trimmed with shining buttons, were now either dead, or if alive, heartbroken because of ? 7~~ 7 i the sad coiuii!:iin whieh they found j their le-lowd South. Few indeed! were the tii< n lh:it kis*ed their wives! i and !o\'ed one* good live and I ff th-ir! fi nies aglow with all the beauty of I peace and lo\e and happiness who j <1 ill not find upon their return their ] homes in ashes. And, as 1 itave said.that dark and treacheries' idond, which hung over tlie Soui ^"^ates, brought about . a serious ritieal pifod for the > T Sontherne t No had? i on 1 v t^^gdsustrons j ' march of >u man's .'.sojf^ed j Soiith. ru j y lit that lor. J t WIS a|>e frm who was >. master of t) v llltsltls of If 1 ( (fcisappeuretj ^ shadow fei t he black stored to the Sold* bog -lich ?. cause it ?'e\v ; South ^ the j world, a Ten tiessee, North'Ja. . ,.d South Caro- f litia home farm ^fe is a thiug of the 1 past; the domestic plantation life of f the South ha^ come only a mem- ' cry. And the old South has become ^ the "New South," devoting itself j iiihut cnangei -volitions to new v )c:itions;havin? vese new vocations found occ on for the same ? qualities which 111,. e former pursuits profitable, some were formerly onehorse fanners of the Southern com, munity, have become by virtue, skill, intelligence, iudustry and-"'?urage the foremost lawyeis c orld; others by virtue of the sa juali ties, have arisen to the hea. so:"' of the largest industrial enterprises of the world ; while he who was his father's pet has become the gieat banker of his community. The streams that flowed across the Southern States, disturbed only by the fisherman, famishes the power mat now turns tne wneeis 01 eottou | factories and numerous other enter- < . prises. t Places that were once hills and valleys have been leveled* and are now the seat of industrious cities which | contribute largely to the financial 1 aud commercial world. The typical old Southern cities, like Savannah, j Charleston, and many others, which j made life so quiet and happy with } their elegant hospitality, have now c become among the grrattst centers of ^ 1 the world's commerce. But now, with all these natural ^ advantages, the "New South" has a j future that no one can easily foresee, t The prosperous future of the new ( South depends largely upon the right ^ solving of the negro problem. We are told by jealous and fanatical in- ] dividuals that all men are equal. We c know better. They are uot equal ; ( a common brotherhood teaches us uo * L t 1!._ 1 .1 f ^ sucn aosuruity. a meory 01 uuiver- j sal physical likeness is no more t absurd than this. Now, as in all f times, the strong go to the top, the weak go to the bottom. And so, if the white man is the strongest, which > he is, he will coutinue in power and t the new South will become even I more prosperous than it is today, j On the other hand, if the negro f gains the ascendency, the new South 11 a i i ji n ill i l win cease to ue, ana tins ooutnianu i will again have to suffer as in the * dark days of '76. If the new South | is to continue its rapid' strides this j problem should be carefully weighed. For this hovering cloud must be dis- t pelled from above us. All fear must be banished from the bosom of our region and let fearlessness and purity j. again reigu over our land. t "Land of the South?imperial land; ( How proud thy mountains rise; IIow sweet thy scenes on every hand; How fair thy covering skies: But not for these?oh. not for these, I love thv fields to roam: Thou hast a dearer spell for me. 1 Thou art mv native home." I S a A Grand Family Medicine. c "It gives me pleasure to speak a * a good word for Electric Hitters,' j writes Mr. Frank Conlan of No. 1 430 Houston St., New York. "It's * a grand family medicine for dys- ^ pepsia and liver complications; while for lame back and weak kidneys it s cannot be too highly recomnieded." I 1 Read the Farmers & Merchants } Rank's ad. this issue. c STYLES IN WRITING. t/aricus Ways of Telling the Story o1 rn Accident. THE Ii.AIN STYi.E A 1;: ly op some oran-rc > ('1 iii School street yestM.la) ami her ley. THE STACCATO STYLE. It nas a job for a >itryeoa. Oranye peel <1 i<! it. There v.a- a elide, a scream anc i dull thud. The atmosphere was full of 1 inrerie, frou frou, hairpins ami brie. 1 i-onir. It was laughable. But only t.? a few. A douei men r :.-!ied gallantly tt ?yv rr-cvc. it was a wroiin wiio had fallen. Ilnrror 1 A nether lirui? broken. She \va> in agony. A?nl all be*-ause of somebody': areiessnc&s. Saul has slain bis thousands. Orange peel has slain its tor ;hou sands. THE FI.ORID STY I.E. Tripping lightly down Sehoo trcet ye.-terdav afternoon, her fact ill aglow with health and even muscle, nerve, win and artery it lannony with tiie invigorating at uo.-phcre, a representative of tlx ;oftcr sex was seen suddenly to do dect from the | orpoiidieular, and iY mother instant this ore of heaven' ast and best gifts to man cann .vith crr.>hing force to the hard, un ridding pavement. The immedi ite caiue of the unfortunate lady's lownfaU was the greasy envelope ol hat tropical fruit, the orange vhich some thoughtless, if not niali ious, individual had oast upon th< public pavement. The victim o ;his carelessness or worse had sus :ained a fracture of a limb, and ii rill be many weary weeks ere sh( rill again ho able to walk erect ant stately as heretofore. THE FACETIOUS STYLE. She will be careful how she tread: in orange peel hereafter. She lidn't know it was loaded. But il shot her off. It is only a broker eg. Not much comfort to her, bui i good thing for the surgeon riiere's money in it. People whe ;hrow away orange peel should he ?areful to throw it so that it wil and with the slippery side down mless thev are in league with the xine setting profession. In tha' lasc, of course, it is different.?Lon Ion Tit-Bits. English Legend of Tailed Men. 11-1 TI^ll J \? lien a iiuuanutrr waun iv ouun tiis contempt for an Englishmai ic refers to him as a "steert man' ?in other words, "the man with ? tail." The old legend says thai Thomas a Becket cursed the Kent shmen who spitefully cut off hi: lorse's tail and that the entire gen ;ration of Kent wljich followei vore tails like horses. John Bale Edward VI.'s bishop of Ossory nentions the legend, but givesfeome rariations as to the cause of the junishment. lie says on the aa hority of John C'apgrave that "foi astyne yshe tayles at St. Augustine Dorsetshire men had tayle: ;ver after that." Polydorus, how?ver, applies the legend to the \entish men of Stroud "forecuttinc >lf Tomas Becket's horse's tayle.' )ne account says that only those iving in Kent at the time the curse vas pronounced "were afllicted with arge drooping tayles like brutes heir posterity beving not so afected." " Might Have Been Worse. In a foursome competition al ilachriliamish one Scotchman ol lie party, a man of optimistic ternlerament, always remarked, <4It night have been waur," whcnevei ic put the ball into a peculiarly dificult bunker. His irritated partner determined o rouse Macnab from his imper* urbable serenity and said to him rhen next they played, "Macnab, 1 lreamed last night you were in nades." '"It might have been waur," came he reply, pat. "How waur?" said the Englishnan. ''it might have loon true," redied Mac-nab. "1 might have been hero." The Scotchman ended at least fone up."?London Globe. The Size of Alaska. Alaska contains 550.000 square niles of mainland, 7,000 square niles of the Aleutian islands and 12,000 square miles of other islands, i fnfol <vf 579 000 snuare miles, or roe-fifth of the area of the rest of he United States. It requires the irons of California, Oregon, Washngton, Idaho, Montana and Xew fork to equal this. The area of \'e\v York, Pennsylvania, Ohi<?, Inliana, Illinois, Virginia and West Virginia equals only one-half of Maska. It equals the combined irea of Great Britain and Ireland, Vance, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. It stretches from lattude 51 degrees to 71 degrees and 'rom longitude 130 degrees to 188 legrees. $ fWWW#' That hacking c Because your s your powers of res Take Scott9si It builds up and streng V .. ^ it. ^ ^ it contains Loa Liver I oQ, prepared that it is easy t< A ALL DRUGGISTS; . Winlhrop College Scholarship and Entrance Examination. The examination for the award of vacant scholarships in Winthmp College and for the admission nt new students will be held at the . con ntv court house on Friday. Julv 3 1 ' 3, at !? a tn. Applicants must not lie less than fifteen years of age. j When scholarships are vacant after J July 3 they will be awarded to those i ni'il'iiirr fhi. hitrhpst arnpooi. ;it tlii? I ?ft"?- I Iexamination, provided they meet the , Jconditions governing the award.! . j Applicants for scholarships should j I write to President .Johnson before ; the exanntatioii Inr "examination j blanks. | . Scholarships are worth $100 and , free tuition. The next session will i . opeu September 10, 1908. For fur , tlier information and catalogue, ad-1 [ dress President D B Johnson, Rock Hill, S C. 5?7-8t; i ?. . f , j Read the Farmers & .Merchants - j Rank's ad. this issue. 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