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U%~ rims JEntered April 23, 190.3 at Pickoeus, 8. 0.. as second class miatter. under act of Congrt.ia of MaIrch 3, 1879. VOL. XXXVIL ICK IOUT1I CAULINAI TRURNDATI MA90H 19 1~ Unmercifully Whippd. 'GEORGE EDENS BET ilLACK p Little Boy n First Grade Badly Handled by His Teacher il another Child in Same Orade Exaelled u Last Thursday the town wa:, P thrown into a fever of excite- a ment over the report that a child d had been unmercifully whipped 0 in school by the first grade t teacher, Miss Olive Newton. t The little follow is a son of John h D. Edens and a grandson of Maj. b Gideon M. Lynch. Everybody b who knows the Lynch's and 11 Edens' knows that as good blood a flows through their veins as any body inl the county. George, E the child whipped, bears a good ti reputhtlon at school, and for ti him to be beat up the way he tt 'was is a disgrace to a civilized t) conununity. lie had done tc nothi)g to receiva this unmerci- tI f ul beating; he was accused of S( taking a little magnet from one n of his schoolmates, but he, his ti desk-mate, and others, stated he v picked it up off of the floor, and . he did not try to conccal it. 1-e was carried out and lierally k wore out; his back was as blue t. -is indi-o, and he was a musS of t( bruises from his head to his g heels, and to-day his flesh is all 4L 1 uffed tup and looks like it had c< been painted with 12dine, while E the stripes on his legs can hard- a ly be hid by laying the finger ft over them and are still great si ridges. The children in higher p grades, people who can tell a u connected story. iay it was one J( of the awfillest ceatings a Child i ever got, and was of such long Ik dura'ion that it got oi to the IL It rves of the scholars in Prof. s( Switteuirg's romn. u1 Graiited tie child had stolen the magnet, then that was ii ..'early a U to have boeeii car- o: ried to the parl.ents f-or settle- h mint, and if not carried there, Mr. Swittenburg is the principal is .o!f the scheol and the charge s( shl)d have beon laid before him b :aind he should have taken the p 'This schooll ]s operated under n the graded school system, and b all graded1 schools usually have v printed rules, and all matters A ;are Carried to the parents b~ef ore s1 wvhippings are given. Here the r< school is run in a slip-shod, ha- o rum-scarum way, no ruies, no t self-respect, no nothing, and the p teachers, thirough the p)rincipal, p fly to the trnstees for settlement a iof someI disput e; some~ are settled a by them as they sce fit, while e some others are passed by. Fair- ni nuss, impartiality and an o'er- ii weening desire to do the very a 'best they can by the pupils I should be the aim (f the teach- d . rs, but, so far, they have fallen e far short of the "miark of the b high calling." 't Miss Newvton is still teaching 1' LFlad there is where, in the eyes r of the good people:, she has made t a grave mistake, Knowing, as l1 she does, the sentiment against i her, she ought to have handed p in her resignation, and, as she p has failed todo so, the board of t trustees ought to demnand It, if, e as they claim, they are wantingt good school here and are work- h ig for the best interests of the e :hool at all times. s1 Prof. Swittenburg told Mrs. S dens that the child was whip- t( ed too much-unmercifully 81 -hipped-and he would be glad t they could compromise the p ise on a money basis, as by v OkIng it to trial It would burst p the school. That is all right -lot it burst up the school-If Mishniont of that severe char- . ter can be laughed off, chil- -A ren bluffed out of school on any r d pretext, the teachers do asI u iy please, run things to suit s iemselves, and with a high- h and, and are upheld by the p oard of trustees in everything, i a it right or wrong, then it is Igh time the cards were shuffled na a new hand run off. Burst up the school! Bah! othing on earth could brst up .s school if the teachers do a 1eir whole duty and the trus- " !es would see that they did do S ieir whole duty and would quit (i king sides with them under a ie plea of bursting up the C( .hool if they don't. Give us a e aw deal--new teachers and new c ustees-if we can't get what Y -e want out of what we have o Parents, you have a. right to P now how your children are? mught. The public is entitled > a full knowledge of what is 0 Ding on. There is NOTH1NG in t r*3 a school system that should be a mncealed from the people. t VERYTHING should be known, Ad explained and proved. It is t dir to say that a school system a 1ould be kept before the peo- a C. We's notice, and made conspic- a ,us. The public does not ob ct to spending money freely if i icy can see where it goes, and a nows that itisexpended wisely. | i the light of developments me money is being spent here d n wisely. Gray hairs a. great m any tim's idicate that "gray" matter is i top of, rather than in, the ead. t This matter of child-beating i passing rapidly; the better .hools of the larger cities are eing ruled by love, with cow ent teachers, rather than with f ie rod. The children here are ot such fools, nor are they so ad, that they could not be ruled rith firmness and kind means. teacher that gets on her nerves aould get out of the school >Oml. The schoolroomi is nio lace for nervous people. A yacher to wini the respect of the upils and the ,support of the atrons should be fair and treat 11 alike, with justice, moder' tely administered, and temper I with mercy. Children are aturally fair-minded and resent r ijustice. They are quick to etect and resent favoritism. ' unpatience vents its elf on the nll or the indifferent and appe:r- 1 ntly vicious. If there is one f oy in all the school with which t :1o teacher should be eternally e atient ant) whom they would Lesolve to have at all cost, It is s bie one whom they would most y ke to get rid of. Every child p Sentitled to a chance, and a! i od one. He is entitled to a 1 ;ood mother and a good father. 1f ,nid to a good teacher-but therer re some people who are not fit i' 0 be0 schoolteachers. It is not'l1 i everybody to be a teacher, noi very one has a teacher's in. :ict, nor the toacher's attitude, o those who cannot, ought nol > try. Those who care not, iould not be permitted. Tht acher is but a man, for all hi 3trading about and looking ,ise. If, Like turbanedl Turk, -vith whiskers curled, e, struts aro.und and scorms the. world," ist let him. You have certair. ghts that you should insist pon, and which the teachei iould be made to respect. You ave a right to be treated fairly, >litely, with consideration. If uis is not done, you have re Less at the hands of the trus ,es, and from there to the coun r board, and from there to the bate Board of Education. Those who punish the most :complish the least, especially here favoritism is shown >me being punished, while oth -s are allowed to go scot free, has been the case in the ickens school, in some instan ,s. The rod is a very poor dis plinarlan and force has never t developed a good man out a mean boy. Suspension iould be the RARE EVEXT-cor >ral punishment, NyV. You mn lead but you can't drive v 'ild, and they are quick to dhs. arn the discrim1inations 0: achers toward the scholan nd to interpret their atT i':udt >ward the child. The charge _aainst Miss New )n was assault and battery oj high and aggravated nature, ad a warrant was given on thi. large. Prof. Swittenburg w Iso indicted on the charge (l iding and abetting and bei;1 a accessory. The preliminary 'as set to bo heard 'befort )quire Bramlett. on next Satu av but the preliminary has een waived and the case ha. on(, up to 0hesewsi mui -ichII will conlvenIe i Ju11ne. WO d *eeplV dep'0lore the fact 01 1is havin( o(currud; we sym. athize with the teachers thai anty have this charae againsl 1m and we hate that th( hol is il suich a chaotic stah mnm the occurrenlce. and that il ill cause a diverity of opinior nd a livis;ion of' friendship JL of this could have bee.n pre ente'd ha~d ta(ct and jndgmeni een used. A Protest. I will take a seat over ther< y "Clevie,"' if she doesn't ob act. Hello, you corresp~onden ts Iowv are you all getting alIong bese days? Fine, I guess. Now 4t us -taike some1 subject am trite 01) it, anud (quit writing s< auich about school chaps visit ig. Who car'es about then 'isiting? I'm sure I don't. Suppose we write on drunken ess, the use of tobacco and pro ane language. Any one o: bose subjects would be inter sting, dion't you all think so? So let us all join together an( ay we will not keep compana vit~h any young man that wil et drunk, use tobacco or indulgt ai profano lan:.uage. Maybe vould save some young mai rom a drunkard's grave, ant tight keep him from breaking dis poor mother's heart. Yoi -now we girls have g-reat infln eUce over the young men, if we would just use it. W hat do you all say about it? Don't you all think there would be better times in the old world? What has become of "Papa's Girl?" We would be glad for her to conic again. The Ambler school closed last Friday. B. M. Clark died last Friday morning, af ter a long and severe 11iness, and to rest at Cross Roads church the day following. He leaves a wife and a host of rela tives and friends to mourn his death. We will all miss him frvom our midst- but the Lord sNy fit to take him away. We will all have to follow sooner or later, so let us live that when He shall come for us we may be ready to go to live with our Savior and loved ones that are waiting for us on that bright shore. DAISY. Five Children in One Year The attention of President Roosevelt has been called to quite an extraordinary occur rence in South Carolina-the birth of five children fomi one imother in one year. The fol lowing extract copied from the letter sent to the presi-dent tells the tale: "Ir. and Mrs. Efird Baling tol, aged 30 and 33, respectively, who were born and are now liv ig in Lexington county, S. C., Ihave had five pretty, healthy chl he born to tlemv within tle last year. Mr. and Mrs. B;alino-ton are a white, respect able family living on a small fJarim in vcry nmderlate circum "The swce little baby girls (triplets) were born sonetime inl Januay, 07, a:d beal the naMeS of B B-i' i3enlah, Lessie Loulh an Esso Enah.They Ia a year ld, well devel oped0i .6mi noyn good he(alth "Theo :win e1e hor!n the lat h-r pr p Iof l.st mniithi, and the -" p'a'ns IIave every belief that they will raise them. "The hoy of ( he tvins hears the ditinguishe 1nanie of 'Theo dlore Rooevelt Balilgton, and tie baby gir is. equally distill guished by Iaving the given names of Mrs. Roosevelt and "Lex iigton (county is in the district which H-on. A. F. Lever represents i i congress, and racial suicide is; foreign to its inhabit - IThe facts of the letter are ver ified by several prominent citi Plostmiaster Bodie, Mvrs. J. C'. .K.inniard anid olihers. Although nothing has been learned as to what thle presi~dent thinks of the incident, it is cer' Itain, that it meets wvith his many times repeatedl v'iews on the race - suicide question. -Four Mvoro Years of Theodore. Somec fool lio ws)pper, puliish I ed out in California, has st artedl. r~a sort of "endless chain'' peti I tion, asking the Hion. Theodore01.( 1 Roosev'elt to ''save the country," e,~ by ccepting a third( termii as president. IWe are~ in rece'jt of a marked Scop)y, askinlg us9 to join1 in the 1' petitioui-hnt we are not a - "jinnr." And, nyen if we wern 0 od forbid that we should join a movement calling for "four more years of Theodore." That the country has survived a little over seven years of him already is the best evidence of its strength and greatness-but four more would be tempting fate too far. True, the gentleman may need four more years-or four hundred, as for that matter-to enable him to accomplish what ho has started out to accomplish. But the Lord, Himself, didn't undertake to make everybody honest; and we don't believe Theodore Roosevelt can do it even if he were made "first con sul for life." In his bombastic effort to do so, however-or, rather, his ef fort to make the world believe that the majority of people in this country are dishonest-he has slandered American citizens to such an extent that the devil, himself, wouldn't have any thing to do with them. He has utterly destroyed our credit at home and abroad, and replaced general prosperity with univer sal panic. If he has done anything ex cept upset !conditions-and par ticularly precedents-during the seven years and more that ho has been in the White House, we have failed to discover it. Hie evidently went in to make a name for himself-and, God knows, he 'ias done it. But at w\-hat pi it to the country at large; botL in respect to its rep utation, its peace and pros perity! ''Four more years of Theo dore?" No-not nless the Lord is still mad with us. A theorist, like Theodore, may be just the man for president of .-omei socialist colony, like New Zeahmd; but a. great big, live, throbbing nation like the United States of America ne(eds a nor mal mian at the helm. True, it caI sIurvive most anIy sort-ut that's a tribulte to the coultry itself, not the man. And seven years or so of "rough riding" ought to be about enough to last even this country a generation or two.-['Augusta Chronicle. Some children act as if it were a constant surprise to themi that their parents had the excellent taste to pick them out.-[Nan tucket Inquirer. Mi\rs, Ogden Mills will import a royal fashion to Newport next season when she will take her daily ride beOhind( a pair of cream colored horses. In order to have a pair of animals ready for any occasion she has obtained half a dozen of the finest money can buy. Thley are perfectly match ed( andi of far more striking ap pearance than the whitest <f white horses. Find your purpose and fling your life oui, to it, and the more lofty your purpose is the more sure you will be to make the wvorld richer with every enrich ment of yourIself.-rERev. Philip Brooks. "Is he a great doctor?" "Well, his patients are always at the head of the procession.'"-[Nash-' villa Amnricn.