| Show i inn mi IN Till MIUTJI Proto Charles W Wabnev of South Caiotlnn has nn article In the Southern States Farm magazine In which he I dwells upon resent condltloni of farm life In the South Ho Inds that the pecuniary circumstances of tIe rUlnl population arc Improving but In a melancholy vein observes Hut the thing which disappoints and sadden tin I thoilKhtfur student of southern socletl at tho present time I 18 that the Intellectual and spiritual life of the people eomprlslng all then thIng which nnke life higher holler 1 dud happier tins not Improved with the hnpovlI1ont In matrlnJ condition Tito IUtloll 10 earely dholallo IIIIWIII ttoni vhIL know the old bout and I know t he new All that belong to the higher civilization Imi stood tlll or I < ono bnek Tlw charming lio > ilt Aide 1 old home are olundonl the lnrslcn academies ore closed and file churches oliere once u culllvntpol aulI 1 Mice upiembled to hear a learned dIA course from a scholarly mlnlMer nr now rleaeol 10 n vey diff rent congregation gllllon only once a Vmontlie The de Moinnt of the lordly old planters ha removed In the eillpn And town slid 10 n great degree th t7rilliclitteni nce the mot civilised and enllghtenei In the toulh are left now to omall Iron rx nowcomr still ooro who hough falrlj Industrious live 1 cry hard and have very little desire or hope o it an > hlng better The war left an atmosphere of pat ho hanging over the defeated Im poverlshed and humiliated South which has not been dissipated by the lape of jinn and vvhleh must continue to Pervade per-vade social conditions there for it long time 10 come 1oI0re than on generation genera-tion l must pass awn y before the conge iiuences at the disruptions and up leavals resulting from the war will boo bo-o from society In the Southern South-ern States |
