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j)il(cn Jferafd. g ESTABLISHED IN 1895. DILLON. SOUTH CAROUNA, THURSDAY. AUGUST 19, 1909. VOL 15. NO. 29 W mo. NICKELS I MAKES ADDRESS. I His Interesting and lnitrucK tire Piper Read at the j* Edncation^ Campaign I Thursday. | l?l understand aright the pur pose of this educational campaign, I it is that the men of all walks of m life, teachers, trustees, farmers, business and professional men, one and all, might be brought toI get her for a day to take stock, so ^ to speak?of their educational : affairs, and to see what this busi[ ness of educational is doing. In b other words we have come toJj 1 gether to make the proper entry of t the losses, if the business is not > thrving, and on the other hand, if lucic uc gam in tnis Dusmess we wish to declare a just dividend. ^ The purpose of this educational ^ campaign is similar to that which h prompts the merchant to take k stock of his business. He wishes to have the facts about his busi> ft ? ness in figures, so that he may I wisely map out a course to pursue in his future undertakings. He wishes to compare his success of one year with that of former veai-s ' and if he is keeping abreast with competitors or out stripping them k it 16 Q Ctlmil 111" /"* hitn 1 ; >? .W M IV/ nun 1UI IdlgVl effoits. If on the other hand the L business is not prospering it bei hooves him to cut out the unprofitable features and to put into his business new plans and methods in order that success may >llow. So it is our purpose to< ty, not so much to dispense eloquence and poetry, but to make a plain, honest investigations of our school conditions, to express due appreciation of their merits, and to make a frank admission of their shortcomings. It would not be wise for us no note only the progress and development of our schools, and not to take into account those conditions which are nnt Mtisfflrtnrv It has been my good fortune to be a teacher in the schools of Marion county for the past 14 years, and during this time I have been very much interested in watching the growth of our schools. It shall be my purpose to bring to your attention some of the progress and development which the schools of the county have made during these years; also, with the aid of some statistics, show how some of our educational conditions rank in comparison with other counties of the state, and as, I go along note some of the conditions which are far from satisfactory. While the schools of Marion county today are in many respects far trom what we might wish them to be, yet as we look at the improvement that has been made along all lines in some of our schools during the time referred to, it seems nothing less than wonderful. This is an age though of rapid development, large endeavor, and big undertakings in the business world, and it shonld not surprise us to see this spirit of progress manifesting itself in improved ^bool conditions. *L We are gbujl to report that the x eenoolsof Marion county are improving. It is true that some rural communities have undergone changes for one reason and another, and the schools in these districts may not be as good as they once were, yet the loss here is made up many times over by the growth of other neighboring schools. During the pest ten years, either a new school bouse has been built in each school district in the county or the old building has been remodeled and enlarged. As I have watched lhe growth of some of our schools it has reminded me of a rapidly fac growing boy, just entering his ine teens* Before he can feel at home hui in one pair of pants, he is com- wo pelled to discard them for another got pair of larger proportions. The sch town schools in the county for the j past ten years have had the prob- ^ul lem of more topm and a larger ag( teaching force confronting them the almost every year. The Latta fro school, for instance ten years ago cre was run by one teacher in an old po, dilapididated, unceiled frame ter building of one room. In the meantime this was replaced by a ter neat four room frame building of a one story, then shortly a second mo story was added to this, and to day the Latta has a modern brick school we house, with 8 well furnished class pai rooms, and a large auditorium, the the building costing possibly $15000. jor The experience of the other town an, schools in the county has been ier similar to if not quite the same as frc that of Latta. While there is this ho marked improvement in the school sa, buildings in the county, few if any yc of our school houses are as good jrr; in every respect as they should be tin yet in almost all of them the pu- si* pils can be made reasonably com- scj fortable. Just here I might add it that our school house should be mi the most ecstly and attractive a v building in the community. si> Marion countv in 1900 was ex- no pending for school purposes about no 19 9 onn inr?o t ri.i.gwu anu 111 17UO, ill j uc eight years the revenue for school j Qu purposes has over doubled. The mc increase in revenue has been much greater in the town schools q>c than in the country schools. The town schools have nearly four times as much revenue now as they had eight years ago. The efficiency of our teaching an, force we think has increased in a wc similar proportion to that of our Coi revenue. on Marion county has on the aver- tei age about as good teaching force sp< as can be found in the state. lib In the past 3 vears our teacher* laI have shown a lively interest in re< getting: for their school rooms P* better equipments?such as patent desks, substantial black- ne boards, charts, maps, globes, en' pictures etc. Ten years ago I ta* doubt if there was a good set of maps in any school in the county with the possible exception of the Marion graded school. Within * 1 the past 3 years I have sold to the a^! teachers of this county about 30 su' sets of maps, with 6 or 8 maps to SU1 the set, on spring rollers in neat oak cases, and about half as many eir substantial 12 inch globes To c^li the credit of the teachers, it may an' be said that in almost every case thev raised the mnnev or ent o# the school fund with which ot* to purchase these necessary helps. ' While there is marked improve- fal ment here, there are many schools rai in the county that have practi- ] cally no teaching: helps. The tri< good effects of the rural school coi improvement association have scl been felt in our county and one or no1 two of the schools received prizes sp< offered by this association. I qu wish to suggest in this connection the tho' the thought is not mine, that yel the county board of education Ba ought to have at its disposal, a tar fund sufficient to employ a well lev trained competent woman teacher Or for the ett ire scholastic year. 45 l nis woman shoula be required for to give her entire time to the most of backward rural communities, it i She could spend 2 or 3 days, and it ( in some cases a week, with'a teach- the er, and from actual teaching de- up* monstrate many matters of dis- ter cipline and method. She could a c devise programs of recitation so tax that the teacher's time would be po; distributed most economically, a s She oonld point out the oondt- Wi tions moat in need of improve- tio ment and suggest plans by which val the defects could be remedied. In an t she could be of help to the : xperienced rural teacher in a id red ways and her salary ' uld be many times repaid in the ' xl that would come to the ! iooIs from her work. have no statirstics to prove it, t it is safe to say that the averi length of the school term in s county has been increasing m year to year. The large inase in revenue for achool pur>es indicates that our school m has been decicedly lengthen The average length of the schoo ^ n*. for the state is 23-4 weeks or little less than 6 scholastic mths. The average length of : term for Marion countv is 24 eks. Again drawing a comrison there are 18 counties of 1 ; 42 in the state which have a iger average term than Marion, d 3 counties have the same igtli of term as Marion. So >m this we see that Marion Ids exactly a middle position, ving herself from reproach and t having small cause tor conatulation. As the average for 2 schools of the county is only : months, and many of our tools arc running 8 or 9 months follows that there must he iny schools in the county with .chool term much shorter than months. These things ought t so to be brethren. We should t be willing: to do away with edational campaigns untill all of r schools are running for nine rnths each year. Now a word about libraries, n years ago there were not )re than 3 or 4 school libraries the county. Since the passage the school library act Marion iinty has established 56 libraries d enlarged 30 of them. In other ?rds almost every school in the unty has i small library. Only e county in the state has a bet record than Marion in this re;ct and that is Laurens with 59 raries established, and 39 en-ged. Before looking up this : >rd I thought I would have the t'JCIirn of oloimi'nnr .uoiiiv vi. vmiiiiiu^ lUI wirtl 1UII ; distinction of being the banr county of the state in referee to the number of libraries es>lished. Being disappointed re I have tried to find someng in which Marion does excel other counties in the state and hink I have succeeded. In the sence of any statistics on the bject I make the claim and teel re that there is no one here to ipute it. that Marion county iploys more bright winsome, arming lady school teachers, d that more of them get married re during their term of service shortly after, than in any ?er county in the state. Most of the male teachers too 1 victims of cttpid, but in seijie e cases they seem immune. Fourteen years ago Marion disct was the only district in the inty levying a special tax for tool purposes. Marion county w has 26 districts levying a icial tax of 2 to 4 mills. Not ite half of the school districts in 5 county are levying a local tax, ; only 3 counties in the state? rk- v. J ?> lunvu, uioiiKcuur^c unu opar* iburge?have more districts ying a special tax than Marion, angeburg is in the lead having districts which tax themselves school purposes. The subject taxation is sacred ground and s not always safe to tread upon ;xcept with shoes removed, yet s hope of our schools depend an a successful invasion of this ritory. As the law now stands ommunity cannot levy a school : of more than 4 mills with a isible two mills additional where tate high school is established, th property returned for taxan at 25 or 50 per cent of its lue it is almost impossible for y community to raise funds ELLAGRA INTEREST INGLY DISCUSSED. Discription of This Loathsome Disease in its C afferent Stages by Dr. B. Pi. Badger. * lis Causes, F.te. 1'ntil 1^1*7 vi-r littl. was kn< ?\vr. this disease vfteh is now sin;-; so iiyuvh attention ammut all isses^**fi.'iir proolc, professional 11;?r? >fessi ?n.i:. Standard m'd ical 'iternmre 1 ?rit*f describes ihe- disease asorip.inaicr in Span after in t nx hut ion of am* or Indian corn from An\??>*! sufficient to run its school proper-' pj ly. It is true, that more than; half of the school districts in the state arc levying no tax at all for school purposes, yet it is equally A true that those districts which ate " levying: to the limit of the law ;-ouid make the work tl>ne in th^ it* Schools more efficient with a lnrgi r , revenue. The law s h o u 1 ,(\' Continued Next Week. ? ? I ot RACE MEET AT CHERAW. / ? ^ V ^ Mysterious "'Dark Horse'* will Try^To" Beat "Alphonso." ly tit Cheraw, August 15.-Social: M The races in Cheraw ott itvxl c.( Tuesday, the 17th. promise to he ~ exceedinglv .vr<x)d There will 1 e c" more horses on the track than it? have been on any track in the l'< e ci; Dee circuit this year. The foi- ;i| lowing horses are either here now x or on tiie way: Mi", (iibson's Brownie, Mr. Elliott's Sir llcnrv t>;i and Maxine Payne, Mr. Ilugginss ti< His Leige and another horse. M>. pi Drake's King- Alphonso, who h.- ^ S( so far beaten nearly everything hi .^ sight, Mr. Edwards's Margarite and horses of Messrs Stacklmuse. ? Graham, Cannon, MeCall, ('nuiey . tv Exuin and others. Those in'.cn s: cd in these races will be espci!ally interested to know that i ( "dark horse" will be on the tr:u for the express purpose of b> ..: it '' King Alphonso. Si \ handled.!. 1' lars will be given 111 prizes. Tl.? at judges will be Dr. Ileiseand I >. 1,, Vlrdwnr i>t ili.. sitMi.. i.*..;, . .... . 1 ^ .i and Mr. \V. L. Clement s. of Greensboro, N. C. The rules of the National Tmtlinji'Assoei:'.?i? n w will be observed, ami evervthin/ will he clean and fair. nl d. Death of Miss Nancic Edens. v ...... ti Miss Naneie Edens. dauyhti r of Mr and Mrs. J. 1*. Edens died at her home in llennettsville Sun- ,: day afternoon at 6. o'eloek. Mi s Edens was twenty two years of age, and was a yonn;; woman of t.( many christian traits of character. She leaves ten sisters and broth 1 ers besides her sorrowing parents tl> and a host of relatives to mourn a her untimely end. Miss Edens a; frequently visited relatives here ic the McDonald and Edens-family ))( who have the sympathy of the , community. __ b: Hot Shot for Mary. 1) Here's an obituary notice taken from a Missouri paper, which isn't afraid to call asoade a .nark "While it is almost a crime?to hi speak ill of the dead, we feel it di our duty to tell the truth about tl Mrs. Mary Buyer, who died last night. She never spoke a decent word of any person, livingor dead, and slander was the joy of her M life. If she goes to heaven, we A don't want to be there, and we t;, believe we voice the sentiment of j, every man, woman and child in this town. NVe will gladly eontribute a quarter for ice for Mary, tli She will need it." cr of Not Excempt. ^ An evangelist was exhorting his hearers to flee from the wrath to come. "I warn you," he thun- st aerea, mat tnere will be weep- w ing, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth!" j0 At this moment ai: okl woman j in the gallery stood up. "Sir." she shouted, "1 have no teeth." t'1 "Madam," returned the evan* si gelist severely, "teeth will be pro- c< vided." m la The County Board of education at met yesterday at Marion to hold D] the examination for the Citadel ()J scholarship. For this examina(iaii ar?1tf f uron a m UVII um v iiuvv iV|/| tii v.u , Gilchrist, Legette and Kastcrling. It is not for a lack of appreciation til of the high standard of the Citadel 1K and the thorough work being done , there, that so few compete for these scholarships, which arc worth a $250.00 a year. But there is a re- at quirement that the applicants so- ai cure a permit from the Citadel an- je thorities before they can strnd the ni examination. Many boys who would like to compete for these P' scholarships over look this require- th ment and consequently are debar- id red from competing. d, Tha Dillon Herald $1 .50 a year. f< : sp-ea'inyr iln'iu i- LJ.iU.dv^rmrl | TintncT~Tirt\leriii:y on tin. Mnl . rranean Sim where the corn was iltivuteti ami largely used as an most exclusive article ot diet, ml the tact of this loathsome disise he in it strictly contined t<> seems where the com was their ineipJl s<mice of food supply, on estahlished the theory that iere was mietliMi;; more than > im idence in the relat'on < >f the 1*0. Only two years aip> tile inetvas1 nuinh t -t eas? of a new tvpe di -ca t inti?'thit t tl in the Stale os;>ital I" r tlie it: at e. Mdnetd T. J. W. I'.ahct ? 1. ii> pay speeial t< at i'ai t i nialadx wliit'll was new > tun r-actio:!, ami evidently on le inereasi ; his . out ihi tions to ie literature on the su'd-a : uv e iii; i> distributed and ?.!< veloped ? much intei'-st .hue ii*v tiovernlent sent ;.n expert. I ?r. Laven r . invest ante th matinr. This as J'??ii\n;;.;"hly dotic, l)r Lavender lrnishin; valtiubu sctcniilie data i a tc< huieai way t<? the departi-ni "I Public Health and Marine rviec <>i tlte 1 nitcd Slates. 1'raetieaiiy \vr\ little was aemiplished. There is no absolute i lainty as to the eause ami sad,-st i>1 all. no known remedy for disease that bids lair to become n n't'eat a svourane atnonn lis as j>n?sv was anions tno ancient .topic of the orient, in tact it is town in Kuropc as the "Loinird\ Leprosy." Dr. Habcock accompanied by r .1. J . Watson visited Italy last . ar t'or the purpose of studying iu disease and as a result ??f their .inibari'/.in't themselves with its iffere.it stages, they have sir.ee leir return to this country found > dillieultv in id.mtifyin.vr it in irious localities: Wilmington, orjranton and Charlotte. N. (*., u^usta, Milledjtfeville and Allan, (la., and in man> places in lis State. There are and have ten over two hundred eases in ie State Hospital under Dr. Hab>ek. A few weeks ajjotlu writer this paper was at this institution id was kindly shown by Dr. hompson over the Pellagra wards, here were a great manv in every age <if the disease and new eases ere coming in constantlyThe disease begins very insidnsly usually in the spring, pains i the limbs and an eruption on le hands, arms, face and feet like inburn, the skin afterwards bemiing rough these symptoms, ore or loss varying in intensity, st till July or August, then disipear tooeeur with increased vience the next Spring, and thus 1 and on for several years, with >re mouth and gums, diarrhoea id great wasting <>f the htidv tin II the |iaticnt presents the ap arenee of one iti the last stay.es consumption. The suffering is most unbearable, running sores id festering lx?ils, skin cracked ul bleeding; ami, with all. an obet of loathing; and pity. The lind under stress of the great Itvsical suffering: gives way, and ie creature becomes a drivelling' liot 01 a raving; maniac, until eath comes as a relief ; a relief and closes the scene>r very few ever lecover. While it is not absolutely certain that the disease is due to the use of corn there seems to be sufficient reason for caution along: this line. The most careful investigators declare, aftir exhaustive experiments, that if corn is the cause, that cause lies in the condition of the grain, flood sound corn that has been allowed tc stand, ripen and fully mature in the fields betoi'e harvesting is not onlv a valuable and nutritious food product, but abso luiely harmless as shown by the fact that for more than a hundred years it was the staff of life, not only among the slaves of tile Soutn, where it was the exclusive bread or cereal ration bur, a Is i among the whites, v:\iere no dinner table was considered complete without its corn pone or the morning meal withoul its hominy or jfl'its and the delicious corn mnllin. When the corn however is cut down in the lield before full maturity shocked and dried, then I shucked, shelled ami stored away 111 jjfreat bins or vrranaries, it easily develops a iter in which is pois? nous to man or beast-it is then shipped South for bread or ii it is too far june, the distiller buvs it and converts it into cheap whiskey appropriately called "r >t rut " In either form it is a death dealing ajtent. Science luivni- ui-covereti tnai me toxin ?>r poison which -ks in tne bread is wry soluble in alcohol. These fa-. an* significant; the disease being unknown when sound corn was used so extensively without a single case of pellagra ever bein..; heard of. but becoming alarmingly common now with the use of shrivelled and musty corn there being over one thousand cases in tlie Slate- the indication is plain. I'lant and mature our corn in the good old fashioned way, grind it into meal and grits at home as our fathers did and let western corn and man whiskey severely alone. benjamin >1. Badger, m. D. TIM MONSVILLE ENJOYS GREAT DAY OF SPORT Races and Baseball Games Furnish interest for Summer Stay-at-homes and Visitors. Timmonsville, Aug. 11.?Timmonsville has never experienced a greater clay of sport and enjoynienl in her history. Fullv 1,000 people witnessed the base ball nami and races today. At 10 o'clock an exciting game of ball was played by the flats club and Timmonsville club, which resulted 5 to 1 in favor of Timmonsville. At 2:30 O'clock in the afternoon the races started. First race, free-for-all, purse $200-Entries, Alfonso, owner, Drake of Benncttsville; Alberto, owner, Cannon of Florence; Maxine Payne owder, E. T. Eliott of Marion; Hazelhurst, owner M. B. Huggins of Timmonsville: Belle of Darlington, owner, W. W.Cooley. Alfonso won three straight heats; Alberto second; Belle of Darlington, third. Time. 2.16. Second race. 2.24 class, purse $100?Entries, Trilby M. owner, C. F. Moore Postman, owner, M. H. Muggins; Brownie, owner J. B. Gibson; Dolly Dillard, owner, Rxum& Drake, Trilby M. won in straight heats; Dolly Dillard second, Postman third. Third race, $100 purse, 2:30 ; class?Entries, Big Joe, owner nu^ffins 01 rtmmonsvuie; Bessie (ienlrv owner, Cannon of Florence; -j Black Joe, owner Dupose of Timmousville; Virginia Deer, owner, Truluck of Lake City. The race v>as won by Big Joe; second Bessie Gentry, third Virginia Deer. J (Time, 2:37J6.?Florence Times.>