The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, February 12, 1913, Page 7, Image 7
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We speak often of the uneducated
man's limited earning
power, of his inability to be a
' 1 leader of his fellows or to keep
abreast of the times, of the loss
that comes to the state and the
community from his lack of
knowledge and ability; and all
these things are indeed worth
considering. There is, how
r ever, another question of equal
importance with any of these
to consider?what must it mean
to a man to be unable to share
in the thought of the world, or
to commune with other men,
only in so far as he can talk
with those he meets?
Must he not feel at times almost
as if he were among beings
of a different class who
have powers and pleasures of
which he can know nothing?
It must be so. The illiterate
man, no matter how fine his
character, or how strong and
clear his mind may be, is, by
virtue of his inability to read,
placed, to a certain extent, in a
position below that of the men
who have this ability, and worst
of all, is doomed, as long as he
is illiterate, to remain in this
position.
Perhaps no stronger statement
of the position such a man
occupies can be found anywhere
than iii Charles Dickens'
account of Jo, the street sweep
er, in "HiacK House:"
"It must be a strange state
_ to be like Jo! To shuffle thru
* the streets, unfamiliar with the
shapes, and in utter darkness as
to the meaning of those mysterious
symbols, so abundant
over the shops, and at the
corners of streets, and on the
doors, and in the windows! To
see people read and to see people
write, and to see the postman
deliver letters, and not to
have the least idea of all that
language?to be, to every scrap
of it, stone blind and dumb! It
must be very puzzling to see
the good company going to the
churches on Sunday, with their
, y books in their hands, and to
think (for perhaps Jo does
think, at odd times) what does
it all mean, and if it means anything
to anybody, how comes it
that it means nothing to me?
It must be a strange state
* * * to see the horses, dogs
and cattle go by me, and to
V know that in ignorance I belong
to them, and not to the superior
beings in my shape."
Is not this tragedy, real
tragedy, this deprivation from
any reasoning person, for all
his life, of a source of strength
and delight shared by all those
about him? The burning words
of grim old Thomas Carlyle
might have applied dircetlv to
Jo:
"That any man should die
ignorant, who had *he capacity
for knowledge?this I call
tragedy, though it wore to happen
more than twenty times in
the minute, as some computators
sav il docs."
And they apply, gentle render,
to that boy and girl of your
own community who are growing
up illiterate, shut in by the
darkness of ignorance from all
the light struck out in the great
world by the thoughts and
uic<uii? itmi ueeus oi an men
whom they do not personally
know.
It may seem to you a thing
to be sorry for that some parent
you know neglects to educate
his children, but it is more
than that. It is tragedy?deeper
and more pitiful than would
be any material loss that could
come to them. Under your
very eyes, those children are being
doomed to a life in which
there will be no chance for them
to develop to the full ability
that, that God has give nthem.
Right there beside you, those
boys and girls are being denied
the privilege of ever being what
other boys and girls mav be.
Many persons fear compulsory
education; but is not compulsory
education better than
compulsory ignorance? And
compulsory ignorance it is, because
it is idle to talk of children
from six to ten years
choosing for themselves whether
or not they will grow up illiterate.
This choice is made
for them by others, by their
parents or society.
Men and women of the South,
these boys and girls of our
homes and our communities are
lucation?
>r
w ^
sory Ignorance7
our richest possessions. It is
the duty of every one of us to
see, so far as is in our power,
that each and every one of them
is given a fair chance in life.
We are not doing this?we are
doing the very opposite?if we
willingly or carelessly permit
one of them to grow up into an
illiterate man or woman. There
is none of us who would turn a
hungry child away unfed, L 'I
it is not less shameful for us to
idle and see the minds of children
starved.
These boys and girls do not
know ? cannot know ? what
they are missing except as it
comes to them in some blind,
helpless wonder such as came
to those in the back row.
Concentration.
(By George Matthew Adams.)
With steadiness, courage,
dare-determination ? burn a
hole into things. No matter
what the thing at hand may be.
Concentrate.
The wheel of action and of
business moves by steady turns
around one central hub. In
success, rim, spoke, hub hold
tight together, and as though
human, think, plan, move as
one.
Concentrate.
Results come always to the
persistent. Opportunity goes
out of its way to get hold of the
hand of tho rrv?"
uoivnvi . Ill*; fJfC <) 1
the boss is drawn irresistibly
to the desk of the doer. Concentrate.
Concentrate.
Draw the details together.
Formulate your day's plan.
Strike a pace. Make every minute
and every move count. Concentrate.
And the finished job
will be the day's goal?twentyfour
hours of life well worth
I while. 1
to little Jo. Often their careless
parents do not know. But
we more fortunate ones who,
through our ability to read,
have the key to the world's
great treasury of knowledge, do
know. Can we be selfish enough
to permit any child to live and
die with we know not what
latent possibility in his mind
and soul undeveloped, to live
and die shut in from the great
aspiring thought of the world,
to miss the happiness and the
chance of service that rightfully
belongs to him?
Surely we cannot, for it is not
a small thing to cause one of
these little ones to stumble or
to require that he walk in darkness.?Progressive
Farmer.
JURY CLEARS BEACH
OF ASSAULT CHARGE
New York Millionaire is Acquitted
in Aiken Court?
"Nothing Against You," Declares
the Foreman.
Aiken, Feb. 7.?Acquitted of
4.1 -1 m * ' *
I me cnarge 01 committing a
murderous assault upon his
wife, Frederick O. Beach, the
wealthy New Yorker, enjoyed
the additional satisfaction today
of hearing from the lips of
the jury foreman that there
was "absolutely nothing against
him." Beach was not in the
court room when the jury filed
in at 3 o'clock after being out
just one hour and 45 minutes.
Judge Spain had declared a recess
for dinner when the first
half hour's deliberation had
failed to produce a verdict and
Beach, with his wife, had gone
to their hotel. Every one of
Beach's lawyers was in his seat
scanning the faces of the waiting
jurors for some sign of their
favor. Two minutes passed
and Beach didn't appear. Then
the court directed the clerk to
poll the jury and ask whether
they had agreed upon a verdict.
Foreman A. H. Mc Carroll, who
is a cotton mill superintendent,
merely handed the clerk an envelope
containing the verdict.
As the words "not guilty"
reached the ears of those in the
packed court room there was a
slight stir, but no applease, not
a sign of. a demonstration of
any sort. An instant later the
familiar figure of the New
York society man appeared in
the doorway, his face beaming.
The good news had reached him
in the hall. Without pausing
even to greet his lawyers, Mr.
Beach walked over to the jury
box and shook hands warmly
with every juror in his reach.
He waved and bowed his thanks
THE LANCAST]
HAS YOUR PUBLIC SCHOQ
A FIRST-CLASS LIB
No public school can
duty by the community
it has a good library; and
there is one, the teacher
encourage both pupils ai
rents to use the books
utmost.
About the main busin
the school anyhow is to ci
the reading habit. It i
enough for a teacher mei
teach the child how to rt
must teach him to readjoy
reading. The teache
teaches only the mere p
ciation of words and th
servance of punctuation
is not really teaching r?
The teacher should be {
direct a child to deli
books and magazines and
papers that will give him
for reading and so cause
utilize the mere mecl
process of reading that 1
acquired.
"I confess," says TI
somewhere in his "Wi
"that I do not make any
distinction between the
ateness of my townsma;
cannot read at all and th
erateness of him who has
ed only to read what is fc
dren and feeble intel
How much narrower,
should be the distinctio
tween the "illiterateness (
who can not read at all" a
illiterateness of him
training has been such t
regards reading only as
to be shunned! People
where are now beginning
the mistake pointed out,
ago, by President Eliot
essay, "Where in Populai
cation Has Failed." He s
<4Wp h n \'p ovpf nf avn r
t t v. >iit v v/ iivi vvvyi ui v/ jJ
much confidence in the
acquisition of the arts oi
ing and writing .After
arts are acquired, there is
to be done to make them
tive for the development
child's intelligence. If h
soning power is to be dev
through reading, he mu
guided to the right sort o
ing. The school must tea
only to read, but what t<
and it must develop a tai
wholesome reading."
And for the purpos
Eliot has in mind, the
nothing better than a
school library, a treasure
of the world's best litei
If your school hasn't a 1;
ask your county superint
how tr? crpf nno Tf
? o~~ ?
library, try to raise at le
to $20 a year to buy more
for it. Keep it live and
ing?getting bigger and
useful all the time. Ge'
children to bring home
for reading these long
nights. See that the cl
get the reading habit, i
who reads is going to sch
his life.?Progressive F
Advice to Students,
(W. J. Bryan in The
moner.)
Mr. Earl Cranston, Jr.
Side High School, Denvc
Dear Mr. Cranston: Yo
quote me as saying: A r
from a student to one wl
passed middle life can b
granted by a response
will be useful, and the <
tion to make such answer
greater, when, as in this
it is to reach a large num
students.
I need not dwell upon t
eessitv fnt* ii-iti
assumed that those to
these words are address
ready appreciate the vit
portance of mental tr;
They need rather to he v
against the temptations
come with education, and
are two which most d
consideration:
The first temptation is 1
get God; the sin of the fir:
in the Garden of Eden grt
of a determination to tru
head instead of the heart
could not see why limit
were placed upon them,
therefore they resolved
disr?hprH#?nr*o T'Kn
w~WM*^>IVV| A IIC 1 1 I 1 I 111
not think of itself too h
it is not the commander-ir
to man's destiny. Fai
greater than reason,
truly says that "the heal
reasons that the reason ci
understand, because the
is of an infinitely higher a
Learning is good, but r<
bei always that "the f<
(iod is the beginning of
dom.'' Religion is the
practical thing with whicl
has to deal, because it
gives him a conception o
and furnishes a foundatit
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)L on which a moral code can be
R ARY?
The second temptation is tc
put selfish interests above the
do its CQrnmon t??od?the temptation
I to regard education as a moans
where of ?etti"P ahead of others
should rather tha" 'Is f means of larttnd
Da- er servlce- Let not the train.
Pl " ing of the mind wean you from
sympathy with your fellows.
f Education will make you
ess of stronger; put that larger
levelop strength at the service of those
s not who are weaker and learn a lesrely
to soil of naramnnnf o
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* i way, as has been pruned beyond quesil*
Col. tion to be the snivel and quickest remU
may ?dy f?r I ' ? Aci</ Troubles known to
eouost ,n,,<lical science, iuo matter how long
, i , standing. It reifthes ami removes the
lit) IKIS root ,?t the trouble (I'rlo Aoid) and
est- be purifies the blood.
which Till-' SOLACE CO. of Battle Creek
obliga- are the sole lT. S. Agents and have
is the thousands of voluntary testimonial let,
g.?^g ters which have been reoeivod from
V ' ' grateful people SOLACE has restored
Ibei OI health. Testimonial letters, literaj
ture and FHKE BOX sent upon rehe
ne- quest.
Iiay be I B- IMorris, President of the First
whom National Bank of Chico, Texas, wrote
. . the Solace Company as follows:
iecl Kl- , vvant you to send a box of Solace
al im- to my father in Memphis, Tenn., foi
lining, which 1 enclose $1. This remedy hnf
earned keen *>v some friends of mine here
. and I must say its action was wonder*
that fui, (Signed) R. L. Morris."
there Put Up ill '25c, 50o and 11.00 boxes.
eserve it's mkiiity fink to iik wki.i
I AND YOU CAN SOON BE SO BY
tO for- ' TAKING SOIiACK- "No Special
t rviir Treatment Schemes or Fees." JUST
f MOLACK ALONE does the work.
iW Ollt Write today for the free box, otc.
8* the SOLACE HKMKDY CO.,
? I hey 2G-44-w Battle ('reek, Mloh.
ations r
and Money to Loan.
upon I am prepared, an heretofore, to
must negotlay loans of iflOO.OO and upitrhlv
ward OB first mortgage on Improved
? ' cotton farina ii> Lancaster County
l-chiet | on long time,-' repayable in annual
th is Installments.-at 7 per cent. Interest
Pascal on $7,000.00 and over. No
' 'commhKTons charged. Only a roall
| sonable fee for furnishing abstract
in not1 Of title. R. E. WYLIE.
heart 6 mos. Atty-at-Law.
rrler."
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(act, he namely, that life is measured,
4?" no^ we K?t ou^ the
r who WOrld, but by what we put into
ronun- the world.
e ob- j venture to offer these two
marks suggestions for your annual, in
'ki n+* the hope that they may, in some
Kff l amah degree, strengthen your
ightrul readers for a large contribution
news- to the welfare of society and
a zest thus justify a large return from
him to society.
lanical
he has Keceipe For a Good Town.
Grit.
loreau, vim
ilden," . Push,
brond Snap,
illiter- Energy.
n who Schools.
ie "ht- Morality,
learn- Churches.
!>r .7 Harmony.
llects- Cordiality.
then, Advettising
n he" Talk about it.
Wri*o about it.
nd the Cheap property,
whose Speak well of it.
hat he Healthy location,
a task Help to improve it.
every- Advertise in its papers,
to see Patronize its merchants,
yeiirs Good country tributary.
irL his Elect good men to office,
r Ldu- Honest competion in prices,
ays: Faith exhibited by good
>ut too works.
mere Make the atmosphere heal:
read- thy.
these Fire all croakers, loafers and
1 "iv, deadbeats. Let your object be
fi?~ the welfare, growth and proof
the motion of your town and its
people. Speak well of the Dub
lie-spirited men, and also be one
p of them yourself. Be honest
u6a I with all your fellow men.?
ch not Qaffney News.
) read,
3te for Hero is a message of hope and
good cheer from Mrs. C. J. Martin
e Dr. Boone Mill, Va., who is th? mothei
re is ?' eighteen children. Mrs. Martir
\ was cured of stomuc)r*'trouble and
good constipation by Chamberlain's Tabhouse
lets after Ave yean of suffering, and
rature. now recommeiras these tablets tc
ibrary' the Publl?^?old by all dealers. w
endent ?
har,a try solace at our expense
iast 10
i books Money Back for any case of
grow- Rheumatism, Neuralgia 01
more \ Headache that Solace
books Fails to Remove
winter SOLACE HKMKDV is * recent
lildren medioal discovery of three (iermaii
\ man Scientists that dissolves Urlo Aoid
i ' 11 Crystals and Purities the Blood. It i?
iOOI all HaSy to take, and will not afteot th?
ariiier. stomach.
It Is guaranteed under the Pure Food
. and Drugs Uw to bo absolutely free
Com- ' ^rom 0P'atos or harmful drugs of any
I description.
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THE OLD CABINET MAKER SAYS
That It k Nn WnniW
? > AV 1 IV V V V11UV1
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Metal Beds
attained such a great popularity. Take
! for example the durable, ideal bed upon
which we are having a special sale
1 this week. It is sanitary, and inexpensive;
and its graceful lines make an artistic
addition to any bedroom. Our
line of iron and brass beds is extensive,
covering everything from the most ina
expensive iron bed to the highest examples
of the metal workers' art. Come in
1 T J
|and inspect our lifte.
See Display in Window
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We grew the first FROST PEOOF PLANTS In IMS. Now h?vo over twenty thousand satisfied
customers. Ws haFlt ,rova sud mldwor. nlihs,. plant, th.n .U nth.r persons In 111. Southern
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It Is time to set thcse(Hants In your section to get extra early cabbage, and they are the ones that
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t Earn Your Plants for a Slight Service?Ask Us How Flints ?nHyablma!i J I
I Fostage raid SB cents per 100 plants. By express, buyer paying express charges, which under
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I thousand; 10,000 and over (1.00 per thousand.
> WM. C. GERATY. CO.. Box 194 Yonpps l*land. ?. ft.
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IWe have an enormously large stock of I
"Everything For the |
Building" j
' ' We are badly crowded for storage room. A M
' , large part of this various material was bought 1
; 1 ( before the recent advances in lumber prices, m
> 1 ; This being the time!'of year when farmers can ?
build add repair?we are going to make spec- I
! ial prices for cash as an inducement for quick S
| business. / J
< ' Better "get bitsy" we are afraid we can J
? never sell lumber so cheap again. - |
1 We can stfve you money on "Everything ,
| ; for the Buiiefing" especially SHINGLES as j ;
1 well as make a little profit for ourselves.
| Moore Lumber & Mfg. Co.
! ', "Everything For the Building." |
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