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NEWS AND HERALD. Car( all i FUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY, cepi -BY- exa WINNSBORO PRINTING CO. nev J. FRANK FOOSHE, - - EDITOR. TEEMS, IN ADvACE: On Year..................$t.50 the Mx M oth.. ............... .. .7 eve cur WINNSBORO, S. C. tio: Tuesday, March 19. - - 1901 COI tli The County Fair of Fairfield u County should be a decided suC- fo cess. 'To this end let all pull to together. ta The township committees ap pointed by the Fairfield Agricul- th( tural Society should make as CO earnest canvass as possible be- an fore the next meeting March 30th. M The sooner all get to work, the to greater will be the success of the fa fair. gr, The meeting of the Fairfield th Agricultural Society called for sa the last Saturday in the month- in the 30th-is a' most important ul one, and should be largely at- fr tended by farmers and others in- cl terested in the industrial develop- o ment of the county. The de- tl termination of this society to have tl a county fair is a most important til step-one that should be fully t( crowned with success. Several tl other counties have decided to e hold county fairs. Let Fairfield's county fair be second to none. Ten millions is a sum so far above the conception of- those I who count their wealth by the I thousands, hundreds, and dollars. s that it is almost impossible for them to conceive of its magnitude 1 or possibilities. And yet this. is the sum, stripped of a few sur plus thousands, that Carnegie the great steel nragnate and greater philanthropist, gave last week for the betteament of human society. Five millions of it goes to the city of Pittsburg, partly for a library fund partly to a pension fund for the old and worn-out miners. The other five millions go to New York for a public, library. -Carnegie is disposing of hiswealth, hbich-#is 'a el Ina git, he has ginen thousan in the last ewdays for the establishment of public libraries. TWO DEFECTS. Two great defects in our school system are forcibly presented whenever there is a general fund to be divided among the counties of the State. In the distribution of money for school purposes from the State treasury, it is necessary for the .comptroller eneral to have certain statistics. Tese have to be furnished by the county superintendents of education. On account of either their inability to give the required figures or their inattention to the matter, the comptroller general usmallyfi nds it a most difficult task to get the necessary data on which to base the distribution of the money. Some of the super intendents usually attend to the matter promptly, but others are so slow in making their returns that the payment of the money is often delayed weeks and months. This is only an illustra tion of the inefficiency of the school supervis'oa of the State. These officers have not the time between their various duties on the farm or elsewhere, their du ties as auditing officers and their duties as book store clerks, to attend to the most important duties that belong to their office. The other defect is in the mat ter of enrollment. It is clearly shown that the enrollment of the .schools is wholly out of propor tion with the population of the counties. The school population of the United States over aver aes about 20 per cent of the pop ulation. The general average for South Carolina is approximately the same thing. But in some counties in which there are no towns and in which the school facilities are wholly inadequate, the average is considerably larger, while in other counties in which school facilities are better and in which the population is far more compact, the enrollment falls far below the general average. These diffierences are so great as to shaow a discrepancy that must be in the count rather than in the cousted. We are not surprised at this showing. for we have called attention to the matter re peatedly before. The whole of the present system of keeping tsk ool- satistics in South )lina has. been condeied by No he States in th M e- peop1 five (this we eve i the pape t number.) Accuracy can road: r be had by the present .s is on with districts overlapp: I wii ricts and terms overlappi l is. chap Vhat is needed is the school- rm sus method, which is simply r a taking of a school census I ry year for the purpose of se i fairness in the distribu of the school money.from the te treasury. There- is of Lrse an expense connected with 13 s method, but the increased soff aber of poll taxes, which al- f rs go to the schools, has been Wh nd to be more than sufficient cer defray the expense incurred in Pit ing the census. [he greatest irregularities in )se counts as at present are in mection with the negro-schools, i this is due in- a very large ,asure to what, amounts almost pri a bribery. It' is. a matter of qui :t that many negro teachers are the id so much per capita. The a eater their numbers therefore, b9 e greater the amount of their :h lary. They offer all sorts Qf ducements to secure attendance c, on their school, and this plan n quently' resultd . in a negro ild being counted in more than e enrollment. As trustees get e benefit of this fneshowing in e way of increased funds for ieir district they make no effort get the wrong righted in fact e whole matter often has their itire sanrctio. GOOD ROADS. Mr. Editor: I notice in your ighly prized paper something eing said about good roads. It eems that the people are at a rant to know how to start about t. I would suggest a little change rom the way they are being rorked now. Have fewer over eers and give them more road, ;ay, give one overseer what three >r four have at present and di ride the county up by school dis bts and allow the people of heir district to elect or appoint fheir overseers. I suggest this for the reason that they should be more able to select suitable men for the place as. this is a most important matter. They presnt system oworkg isdue change being made the sam~e tools will give all good tools, by di viding the hands up and working twelve or fifteen at a time. That is about as many as one man can manage successfully. Those over seers should be paid a reasonable price for their services with-~ the exception of four days, I don't know if it wouldn't be right- to pay them for their whole time as they will have to keep the tools up. Sometimes I think every one' from sixteen to sixty oug'htto be~ called out on the road. 7By hay in the chaingang to work the worst places over the county weeit is necessar to blast, we will soon have .goo roads or at least better if this plan is taken. Now Mr. Editor, a few words of criticism and I will close. This is the white people's country and we can have it just as we want it. We can have a second paradise and there isn't anything that will raise this country more in 'that direction than good roads. The white people are to blame for all the lack of goodness. I have heard the darkeys-say that they had no right to work the roads. If I can see straight there is more hauling over thiem for their use than any other people. . As the writer went to Winnsboro the other day, he overtook eight wagons all tog ether, all renters. Well, we can't blame the negro when the whites open the way. I know white people that hav. paid one dollar to keep off the road and live sixteen and seven-. teen miles from, the railroad and have all their'corn to haul to fur nish their places both for stock and hands, and haul cotton to pay for it. Mr. Editor, as I feel deeply interested in the roads I ask the question how this comn putation tax is going to beap plied to the roads. One dollar is not enough; two was little enough. A hand is worth a dollar per day. Mow, brother farmers, let us put our shoulders to the wheel and see if we .. can't have better roads-roads that instead of hauling four loles of cotton or a ton of guano over them with four mules, we will baul twice as much and always haver good mules and wagons. The best way I know to have good roads is to work them :etter and make plenty of ot this year and every year and w, Mr. Editor, I. hopet e of the county will fill your Bars - with suggestions as to the Let every one speak if it Iv, to say by the help of God do all I can. Now I refer ho may read this to the 25th ter of Matthew. Some one s&v that must be a preacher sa'nctified man, - not .so, but that bases all his doing on >ible. Corn Bread. D -It al It Saved His Leg. Natt A. Danforib, of LaGrange, a gtru reintensely for six maiths 41tb gans ightful running sore on his le2, can Wr1Is that Buck'en's Arnica Salvi stan IlVly d it in ten d-tys. For U!- D I, Woulws, Burns, Bois. Pain or Fiat esit's th' bet salve in the world Sic e guarateed. Only 25c. Sold.by allo 'daster Co-> lIruggit4. Price -400.smal Pre THE 'RIS1ARY Pn. onday was an ideil day for the mry, which Pas-ed off in a most et ouuner.' TIP Co ~nagerd opemsd polls at the appoin ted h.nr of.9, Ai I qaietly watched ihe y ,ling tij1he r for closing arrived. AC4/clcck polls were promptly elojd. The I list@ stowed that 116 \ers had A their votes for the offiers to be minated. The voto was rapily tab- (p ted, and was as follows: FOR INTEIDANT. Thou. H. Ketchin......... 116 FoR WARDENS. A. W. B-own- --............. 91 A..B Cathcart ............. 85 Ja. F. D.vis..........---- .. W. D. Danglass... ....... 43 Jno. H. ,McMaster......... 100 B Jas. M. Sm-th....... ..-.. 69 FOR SCHO L TRUSTEl S. D. Duin........... 116 The count as presented by the man gets, of course, will have to be de ided upon by the execu'iYe commItte e at as no contest* will be made, no hange in the count made by the man gers is likely to occur. The fl)9 g bave therefore been nomiiated as be notninees of. the Deimocrati', Club, obe voted upon at the general e'ec ion Apail 1it, at which Ims their iominatiou will be co:.firmed&. T. H. Ketchin, intendant; Jno. H. acMaster. A. W. B.-own, A.. B. Cbth at t a9d Jno' i. Davis,.warde1y; S.D. Dnn, school trustee, This sea;on there is .a large death rate among children froIm cronu.and Iung troubles. Pro - .ibn -will svs the-litie og' rib~e 1iaae5.-- * thing - ertaitoC ras Minute - It -ca afso relied upon a nippe -at d pil, r bro. and lnng tronbies of adults.., P'esnt to take. Mc~Iaster Co. IGood, : Pretty, N ew U'f D ga Satisfaction guaranteedi Samplles for stamp. . H. CADEf *CO., PROvI DEKtE, R. I. 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