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Pickens Sentinel-Journal PUBMSUED EVIRY TH UBSDAY MOnNIN'. --Y The Sentinel-Journal Company. TPOMPSON & RIHEcY. PROPS. J. L. o. Tw)M'sON. Enrroit. Subscription 61.00 Per Annum. Advertising Rates Reasonable. Entered at Piokens 1ustofice as Second Class Mail Matter PICKENS, S. C.: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1907. Happy School Days. How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood As fond recollection presents them to view. The little red schoolhouse on the hill! What fond memories cling around that threshold still! How we strove to master the- three l's "'Readin', 'Ritin' and 'Rithmetic" How we jumped, when the teacher called us by name and gave a word to spell-of course we were soared and missed it. *hen arithmetic kept us in a peck of trouble and the at tempts at writing with teacher stand ing over us witb ruler in hand watch ing our efforts. Our knuckles smart yet, as we grimly meditate on the cracks on our fingers made with the ruler when he taught us to hold the p-m right and shape the letters prop erly. Oh, those good old days, novel to be forgotten! How they crowd our memories still! The foutidation was laid, and we there gained the rudiments of 1an1 ed ucation, from which small beginning aUd noble (Tlbrt we have gained a failN g ( cn1non1 school education, find by) intudy and promiscuous reiad ing wt have stored up a pretty fair amoun1t of knowledge. This, in a nutshellis the tale 90 per cent. of the population of this county would tell if crlled on for an educational epit ome. It is till very well and good, so f as it goes, but in this day and gener ation the little old schoolhouse where every scholar studied a differ entt kind o)f book has given place to the high shl of to da y,where, from the kiindergarten to higher branches is tagtild. with "neatness an(1(d dia patch," where time is money with the teachers, 1111d where each child is graded and lessous heard, but if the child falls behind he goes in the gradIe below-no sympathetic teacher takes it anid snuggles it up to them and patiently "LEAltNS" to it the unlearned lesson WVhile there is not as much seeming favoritism ini the schoolroom of to-day as there was 30 years ago, there is more rush, bustle and business. Everything goes by clockwork-so many minutes for each class, and everything done in time and in order. In fact, some times, in some schools, it looks as if the teachers tried to see how little "TEACIllNG" they could do, and how small an amount of time they could put in without failing to get their salaries. We are glad, however, to say that the above does not apply to the Pickens graded school in any particular. This school opened on the 9th with a full corps of teachers and 160 scholars. Others have en rolled since. It is trute that we all hauve always been warm friends of the schools, but many of us5 have not stood1 for, and been outspoken about, our schools, and lent a helping hand to the teach ers, like we should have done, so let's all resolve to take a deeper interest ill themn the ensuing year. We be lieve it is the bounden duty of every citizen to take a live, active interest in schools, and especially of those in their owni c!ommnunity. D~uring the years that are past Baores upon01 scores, class after class, of our young people have stepped out of schieel life info life's school. Wmd .b1 in1 thIis issue of our paper1 o', coubIt pbac,. b''fore its readeors lte lam. liar face of each dittl everlv one possibilities, for Grim Death, on his white horse, has thinned the ranks, and as "lDeath loves a shining mark," many of the most promising fell be fore the noonday of life was reached, but we can assist in keeping green their memories, Our school house! Whatt words fall upon the ear with so much ca dence as those which recall the scenes of school days now numbered with the memories of the past! In tervening years have not dimmed the vivid colorings with which memory has adorned those joyous days. While we all graduate in much the same manner how different' has the wheel of fortune turned. Some, with plaiative tongues, have had to walk in lowly vales of life's weary way, others, in loftier hymns, have sung of nothing but jov, as they have trodden the mountain top, but no matter how near the summit or base of the mountain of fame you meet with a graduate of our schools, you meet with one who is a credit to society, Retrospectively: As we go through life, as we greedily scramble for filthy lucre, do we ever stop to think and consider to whom we are indebted most materially for the development f our talents? Who took us at the receptive age and molded and shaped us, until, to-day, we stand before the world what we are? Who was it? Not our parents, but the loving, pa tient, over-toxed and under-paid schoolteacher, who took us and from the dross reduced the nugget of line gold. Do we ever think of him with tear dimncd eye and kindly thought? Realize what a herculean task he had to unravel the kinks in our towtley heads and make as much out of ti e material he had to work on as I did? Do we ever wonder how the cruel world is serving him in his de elining years, Nhen hiH vigor has left him1 and his eye is diniued, and his suistenlance is scanty, for we all know the life of a schoolteacher, in the' past, wis a hard and poorlv-paid one, and very little of this world's goodM were they ever able to lay up, Dc we kindly remember them at tlh hIapPY Yuletide and of our bounty send themi a gentle reminder that the 'a'I)tss of auhl lang syne should ne'er he forgot?" The brightest dlys of the child's school life was, when, as a beginner, it eorned a smile and a pleasant word from the teacher for a perfect lesson or good behavior? This happy lay is never forgot and it comes rushing upon us as fond memory brings it to "As the twvig is bent the tree's in clined,'' and habits we formed under the moulding powver of a moral atmos phere which seemed to permeate the schools of Our sectionf which stays by one through life. Our school life is, indeed, the golden link that binds youth to age, and he is still but a child, however time may hay fur - rowed his cheek or silvered his brow, who can yet recall with a softened heart the happy' school days he has passe~d, Then let us be up) and doing. Let us do the very best wye can to help to keep and maintain a good school in our midst, Let us each, one and all, decide to help the teachers in every way we can, to give to our children an education -that priceless hxeritage of which~ they cannomct b)e robbed. But while we make this resolve let us demand of our teachersq full time, faithful perlformance of a duty Care fully and lovingly' done, andl a true love for the work they are engaged im, and if, p)'eeance, any are follow. mng this vocation simply for the pecumiary' considertationi attached thereto, then let us demand of the trustees their instimut removal.. WVhen this condition of affairs is reached this paper, while it has al ways been a wvarm advocate of the schools, will take a much deeper in terest in them than ever before. l'~ leatoionj is the bulwark of our e)uIt'a~ safety and pr'osperity. To it, hv' i nmi throg,.,.os u government expect t.o get governing timber. Without education you can do nothing. Colton ts King. With over 1,000.000 bales of cot ton to be marketed in South Caroi na this year, at the existing prices, baled cotton will fall little short of $60,000,000. In addition to this, if all the seeds are sold, an additional $8,1500,000 will be paid for that pro duct to the farmers of the "Palmetto State" This means much more for the South Carolina than most people think at first glance. It means first W 'of all, a prosperity never known to a hardworking, striving people. It means also the forging ahead of the ti State now leading in many other branches of industry. It means a great stride for world-wide recogni tion of the South's greatest product -cotton. It may truly be said with Henry Grady: "Cotton--What a royal plant it is The wor ld wsits in attendance on its growth; the shower that falls whis pering on its leaves is heard around the earth; the sun that shines on it is tempered by the prayers of all the people; the frost that chills it and the dow that descends from the stars are noted, and the trespass of a little worm upon the green leaf is more to Eigltid than the advance of the Russian army on the Asian outposts " Atidi as a writer has recently said: "You get up in the morning from a bed clothed in cotton; you step on a cotton rug; you let in the light by raising a cotton window shade; you wash with soa) mado partly from cotton oil; you dry Your inoo on a cotton towel; you array yourself chiefly in cotten clothing; the 'sik' in which your wife dresses is pr.ob ably oiurcerize~d cotton; at break fast table you do not get a way from King Cotton; cotton oil has probably taken the pLee of lard in the biscuits you eat and even these may be imide! of cot'.on seed flour; the beef and the mutton are probably fattened on oot ton seed iual and holls: your 'im ported olive Q.' is more likely from a Texas cottoni farm than from an Ital inL villi; your 'lbuitter' is probably a prodoct of Southern cotton steel meal, aId ik crtainly improved if about '20 per cent. of cotton oil has been added in the churnin- ; the coal that burns in the fire may have been mined A by the light of a cottm oil lamp; . sheep from which your woolen cloth inig camne were probably fed on cot- a ton seed meal; the tonic you take may contain an extract of cotton-root bark; the tobacco Sou smoke not un limcely grew under a cotton cover, isu put uip in a cotton bag and naay be adulterated wvith cotton seed hulls; a your morning daily may he printedp on cotton waste paper -and even in the war it tells about in some far country the contending forces were II probably clothed in cotton duck, slept under cotton tents. Cotton was an essential in the high explo. sives which were used, and when at last war had done its worst sur gery itself' calls cotton into requisi tion to aid the injured and dying, until they are laid away in a cotton shroud.'' Both Disappointed. Tie-i suppose, then, we may as well b~reakc the engagement and say we have1 both been dIsappointed in love. She There seemns to be no other conclusion. - You thought I had money, and I cer tainly thought you h)ad.-Judlge. He Told Her. She-I wish I knew how I couldl make you extremely happy, cdear Karl. H~e-Well, write to your fathcr ando ask him to double your dowry.-Meg gendorfer Blatter. What He Said. "I once gave a waiter a two dollar tIp." "What (lid he say?" "To me lie expressed his thanks, but I heard him say to another waiter thatc I couldn't have real good sense." 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