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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1886. VOLUME XXX. NO. 38. |j| THE WHITE HALL SCHOOLS. The Question as to Whether White Renters are Entitled to Public School Privileges. ABE SCHOOL OfTICEES MASTERS OF THE PEOPLE, OR ARE THEY PUBLIC SERVANTS ? A FEW REMARKABLE FACTS CONNECTED WITH THE CONDUCT OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. n'M?K <ho Pnbllc some miiivns in May be Incidentally Interested, and on Which the School Commissioner and the Board of Trustees may be Able to Throw Some Light STATEMENT. Tlic people on the East side of Hard Labor creek being a Ions; way from any school, concluded this winter to ask the School Trustees of the township to open a school on their own side of the creek, which should be more accessible to them. This they thought a reasonable request and received such encouragement ?8caused them to organize the desired school, but upon reflection the Trustees concluded to decline to pay the teacher. The patrons of the Sew school then came to the School Commissioner with their supposed grievance. They were directed to return home, and make out their appeal in writing, whicli was done and deposited with the School Commissioner. Afterward they were notified to serve a written copy of their appeal on tlie Trustees. This necessitated another trip to Abbeville. Hint it was promptly complied with. All this > 1 line the.School Commissioner exoressiy de-1 dared that he wouid miike u? intimation as to what his ruling would be, but as hope springs eternal in the human breast, some of the patrons of the New School, who talked to the School Commissioner, hud no doubt of a lavoruble decision. They knew their cause was just, and they thought the School CommisMoner would not deny them what seemed so plain to them, to be a fair claim. In the meantime rumors of unkindness on the part of ihe Trustees reaehed the ears of the patrons of the New School, and it may be that t he opponents of the New School were re g iled by flying rumors which may have come to their ears, but of this we know nothing. Some of the friends ol" the New School had seen the letter of Captain Oarwlle, but so far as we know, none of them ever saw or knew the Import of the answer of the Trustees uniil the day when the question was to bo decided. They were iluzed wim some oi l the statements iu that paper and were for the moment unable to answer them, and previously feeling so certain of receiving justice they had neglected to employ a lawyer to present their case. We will here state on behalf of the patrons of the New School that we believe they attach 110 blame whatever to the Board of Examiners for their decision. Being unacquainted with anything connected with the appeal except the written statements, and assuming thai all the trustees said was a fair impartial statement, any disinterested person, without Investigation, nuiy have made the same decision that the Board gave. We are so famil jur wiui (nail) ui liiu uivie, uuu vuii nu mucli between the lines, that we distrust our own ability to give a fnir judgment as to the merits of the respective papers. What we complain of, is: 1. That the Trustees, in their official capacity, should have used offensive language. "Whether our appeal was well fouuded or not, even white "renters" areentitled to respectful offlciiil consideration. 2. That the refusal to grant the school denies us a right to which we think we are elearly entitled. 3. That the action of the School Commissioner put us to great unnecessary trouble and inconvenience in conducting this appeal 4. But we complain most grievously that the School Commissioner has put himself to so little trouble to inform himself as to the j reul merits of a claim in whicli we sire so vi tally Interested. Having said this much by way of explanation, we proceed to give the official papers. Afier them will follow some statements of facts, which may open the eyes of the people us to the manner in which the public schools have been conducted in White Hall township, and which may also go to show that the School Commissioner ha6 turned a deaf ear lo our Just complaint. IN THE MATTER OF A SCHOOL ON HARD LABOR. Appeal of Citinens Prnylng; to be Allowed to Have n Public School ou tlie East Side of Hard Labor Creek. To the County Board of Examiners for Abbe-! villc County : Gkxtlkmes-We the undersigned patronR of a sdiool in the Sth township respectfully appeal und herein present some of the causes of which we complain. We had petitioned the Board of Trustees of the 8th township to grant us a school on the east side of Hard Laoor Creek: Because we had the requisite number of children of the lawlul age?most of them girls; that the crossings of tlie said creek were badly kept, and for most of the winter and spring months impracticable for small children: that si j:ood house conveniently ^<1 <>r*A tpiHintir nr?ct tn tfUPtiiihln imd been procured; and that the services of a teacher t hat we deemed would suit us had been engaged. Now that tills petition has not been of any avail, and that the majority of the Trustees have refused to sign and forward the report of' our teacher for the month of February, and have declined to recognize that we have any rignt to any snare in me scitutn iuuti, we ueg leave to call your attention to some of the facts as they appear to and affect us: 1st. Thai the east side of Hard Labor Creek has no representation on the Board of Trustees for the 8th township. 2nd. That about two-thirds of the8th township is situated on the east side of said creek. 3rd. That the Trustees for ttie 8th township reside within a mile and a half of each other on one and the same road. 4th. That two of the Trustees are patrons of the school to which they propose to com-: pel us to send. 5th. That it is not our purpose to antagonize any school, but to ask for that which we deem ours by right, nnder the law as ex- 1 plained by you in your circular of suggestions: to Trustees. 6th. That a school located as we have asked would be nearer the center of the township, and accessible to a number of children who are at present without representation, and will not be provided for in the next annual apportionment of the school fund. 7th. That it is not of the distance, but the natural obstacles that intervene between us and the school ou the west side of Hard La 1. ,k?? o/.mni..11>. aimfinf ns have uor vicoiv luuii/ wtwuij/......, ... ? _ lor years endeavored to derive benefit from Raid school, but have found the eltort attended with many disadvantages, and the result very unsatisfactory. 8th. That when we first presented our petition to the Trustees we were eueouraged to ' go ahead,"1 as two of t hem at that time saw no good reason why they could not comply avitil our request?one of the Board still sustains our action. 9th. That we are willing, from our private resources, to supplement any aid that we recelvo from the school fund to the extent of our ability. lWii. That we have an abiding faith is your ! disposition to increase the efficiency of ..schools, and to promote alike the interests of all in properly rearing and educating our j euildren.and in making, during the short period that they maybe under our control, as positive developments for their good as our circumstances can admit. 11th. That thisappeal has not been prompted by acrimonious or party feeling. Sigued March, ISifG. J as. A. lilGBY, D. H. Howard, her Test: Sarah A. X Worthixgton*, J. A. Bigby. mark John R. Tor.net, T. T. Cromer. t.ifl Ill? Test: Lemuel X Baugh, T. T. Cromer. mark John JEL Wilson*. IN REPLY. The Chairman of the Board Presents Reasons to Show that the School Should not be Allowed"Willing; to Grant ''Renters" School Facilities, on Condition. Bradley. S. C. February 28, 1SS6. Mr. Geo. C. Hodges, School Commissioner, A. C.: Deak Sir?Your favor of the 20th has been received and contents noted in regard to the location of a school on the farm of Mr. Wilson, and I desire to submit most respectfully a plain and, I think,an impartial statementof the facts and surroundings in the case. In i the first place the White Hall school house [and the land upon which it is located, is and I has been public property for ten or twelve years and our action in maintaining said j school was based upon Section 1012 of the School Law, which you well know, and it is Miereiure uaeico.i i<j icpuu m new school asked for is not more than one and a lmlf miles from White Hall and the scholars of which it would bo constituted, would in a great measure l>e transient, iiom the lacl that they are children of parents who rent hind and of course liable to move each year, and we have thought it unwise to establish schools with these attending circumstances. Taking these points Into consideration, we have declined to establish their school, not however with the intention of debarring any cnild from attending school, for we claim not to have done so, but on the other hand assert that the White Hnll school is as available to those who are dissatisfied, a? to many of those children now attending from other directions and believe it any unprejudiced person will examine the matter, ttiey will And this statement correct. It is true that Hard Labor creek intervenes. It is also true that Beaver Dam and Morrow branch is between some of tlie attendants of the White Hall school and their homes and said streams are as ineligible as to crossing in bad weather, ass the other stream, which has a bridge over it. It is true also that Mr. Seymour taught the White Hnll School lor several years and came lrom the side where the objecting parties live and brought his children with him, some of whom were of the minimum age and children from -? *. ' 1 -l - *.-v#W <*..*..11 nn/1 l.ifrro iilifl llfiVK III'U MUl, UUII1 CII1IUII 1UIU latgi., .. attended, aiid no such insurmountable obstacles have ever becu brought forward before. The action of the patrons of the proposed school has been deeply regretted by a majority of the Board and I cau safely nay that our action was taken after due consideration and on a line of what we believe to be a conscientious discharge of our duty. Very truly yours, J. R. CARWILE. C'u'm B. T. \V. II. T. Note.?In order that the reader may know the Section of the School Law to which the Chairman of the Board of Trustees referred in .the above protest, we herewith copy it. That clause which says the School Trustees shall nave authority to locate schools "so as best to promote the educational interests of their district'' is our ground for moving for the New School, and we thank the Chairman for calling the attention of tlie School Commissioner to it: Section 1012. The Boards of Trustees shall also have authority, and It shall be their duty: 1st. To provide suitable school houses in their districts and to make the same computable, paying due regard to any school house already built, or site procured, as well us tu nil otht-r circumstances proper to be considered so as best to promote the educational interests of their district. 2nd. To employ teachers from those having certificates from their county Board of Examiners. or of the State Board of Examiners, or of the City Board of Commissioners of Charleston, and to discharge the same when good and sufficient reasons for so doing present themselves. 3rd. To suspend or dismiss pupils when the prosperity and efficiency of the schools make it necessary. 1th. To call meetings of the people of the district for consultation In regard to the school interests thereof; at which meetings the Chairman or some other member of the Board shall preside, if present. 5th. To take care of, manage, and control the school property of the district. Gih. To visit the free public schools within their district from time to time, and to take care that they are conducted according to law and with the utmost efficiency. 7th. They shall be allowed to cross all bridges and ferries free of charge when they are travelling on official busimrss. FURTHER IN REPLY. Arguments, Statements, and What* Not, to Prove that the Prayer of the Petitioners Should be Disallowed?Taffy Tor the School Commissioner, and French for a Constituency Some of Whom Cannot Read English?The Terribly Damaging Effect of one Little School on the Educational Interests of the Township?Official Contumely for Humble Suppliants. To the Board of Examiners of Abbeville County: "We, the undersigned, Trustees of public schools fur No. 6th Township, Abbeville county, have been notified of an appeal from our decision in regard to the locution of a certain school on the east side of Hard Labor Creek and have been furnished with a copy of said appeal. In reply, we hep to call your attention to one statement of tlie appellants in the preliminary claim o! their appeals, which we desire to correct, viz: that tlie undersigned have declined to recognize the rights of the appellants to any of the school fund. This we deny, as we desire here to put on record, our avowal of the right of any and all citizens to their lull share of the school lund; but sim%-*!?? /-I i fine at! f e\ t1?n monnci* nl' rfippivinn' ilifl t'rom said fund. As to articles one, two and three: we were not awn re, nor are we us jvt, that the School Law required the School Districts to be subdivide:! and the trustees to be appointed, with un eye to local representation, however we do not propose to canvass the ureat mistake of our appointment, but will have to cuddle this faux pais on our worthy School Commissioner. As to article four, we positively deny that our being patrons of the White Hall School influenced either of us in our action; but claim that said action was bsised on what we believed our conscientious dutv towards every person in said township. We propose to pass over article five, as it is only a statement of motives. As to article six, which states that a school located where the appellants desire it, would be more centrally located and easier of access to a number of children, who otherwise will not be provided in the next annual apportionment of the school fund, we have this to say. Most of the children of the proposed school, or at least a good number of them, are children of parents who are transient residents of that neighborhood, which was one of the reasons that governed our action, for the school i if established, might have lasted only one j year ana men nave uecomu u ucau i?uu:i, muiu removals, Ac. As to Uk being more central, we j will state that the White Hall School was lojcated by the whites about fifteen years ago and so well assured were the then Trustees of its being the proper location for a white school, then and for years to come, that they purchased the land where the school now exists and built a house, all of which was paid for with public funds, and the titles vested in the public, and we are informed and believe that one proviso in tlie titles was, 111 uie event 01 Its abandonment for the purpose lor which it was built, the possession reverted to the seller. We claim further that the White Hall School is of easy access to many of the appellants land more easy of access to those most disad] vantageously situated on the east side of Hard Labor, than nearly half of the present scholars attendant upon the White Hall School, all of which will appear upon investigation by an uninterested or unprejudiced person, and therefore If the children of the appellants are debarred from attending school or a proper representation, so as to pet all the benefit ac- t cruing to the proportionment of the school 'J fund, from the increase of numbers, it will result l'rom the action nf their parents and not from any action of the signers of this paper. We claim therefore that we have only follow- ? ed in the foot-steeps of our our predecessors g and have continued a school in easy reach of x the appellants, yea, much essler than very i probably half the children of Abbeville coun- * ty. f We will state further as germain to this i article, that on the same grounds ns the ap- t pellants based their application, a colored \ school was applied for and for the snme rea- c sons it was declined to be established, from c the fact of their belnc in reach of other r schools, and we will here slate inciilently that c their application wns much more reasonable, from the fact thai the colored children had to i cross the same creek and besides walk two and a half or three miles, and at. this writing children of the colored race are walking lrom the cross roads at White Hall to a school at Bradley, and these children are of those parents who applied to us for a now colored school, and when refused, accepted the situation philosophically and went on in the even tenor of their way without a murmur. We claim to hnve acted in accord with what we conceived to be our duty, and right, here most positively slate that no personalities was a even dreamed or thought of in our line of ac- t tion, but only a ulncere desire to perform our p whole duty without fear or favor. All of which is respectfully submitted. n .TNO. It. car WILE, r a. McNeill, ^ Members Board. i March 12, 18SG. v * fi Still Another Reply. a v We further present as a reason of ourrefus- d al to grant the school applied tor, is, that the e | gmniinvr 01 wiescnooi wuuiu uucoaiusM; mo t I shortening of our school term one month, s thereby preventing the attendance of over a three hundred scholars in the public school for the space of a month. We submit that no t | one is debarred from attending school by our t. action, and that it would have been unjust to n debar three hundred pupils from one month's t attendance, to accommodate the supposed ne o cessity for the school applied for. when really v no such necessity exists in the opinion of the r undersigned. p All of which Is respectfully submitted. a j. It. carwile, t a. McNeill, r< Members of Board. v c 1, t Estimated I)is<ni:ccK. V t Accompanying thC8e papers we find a map, i] which from mechanical difficulties, we are t< I unable to print. We however copy the table J J of distances as furnished thereon. We con- t tend that the estimate in eveiy Instance, so t' far as it concerns the patrons of the New ^ School, is erroneous. But as a matter of fact, we do not know any of the distances with exactness. The road has never been measured, so far as we are informed : distances from white hall school. t Carwlles miles. Griffins 1 " miles. Pitts llA miles. P Tolberts JOD yards. S' Smiths 1 miles. Mi'Combs % miles. a McNeills 300 yards. |i Tolberls 2 miles. I Baughs \x/> miles. t; Croiners 1% miles. "Worth ingtons 1% niiies. Wilsons (at Seymours) V/t miles. Howards IV, miles. , Bigbys V/, miles. C Dismissed. j On hearing (he above papers the County Board of Examiners simply dismissed the appeal, without assigning any reason therefor, j | we have not me copy 01 it, unu ueuuj uu uui give the exact words. p J Appeal to the State Superintendent ^ of Education. "While it mny be a useless task, yet we will -j ' submit these papers to the Hon. A. Toward, ' State Superintendent of Education. Even if it he not in accord with his sense of right, or F within the province of his office, to grant the i desired relief, he will have the oppor- T tunlty of hearing from some of the children of White Hall, who will at least be grateful to him for the courteous consideration of j,their case, which this high officer will be sure F to give. T ?- T 1 Whnt Our ContemporavieN Say. ,f The County Bnnr<l of Examiners lieard an appeal case from White Hall township on last Saturday. The facts in the case were tbeee: Certain purries had petitioned for a school to be openpd on Mr. Hntrh Wilson's R pmce nOOUT'tt mile IIIIC1 n llUil or L"<> Ilium mini mo present White Ilall school. The Trust, es refused to 8 open the school on account of the n?'nrn?>s to the tl White Hull school. t>nd the Hoard of Examiners tus- ? tained the action of the Trustees and dismissed the \ uppeal. - A bbeville Messenger. f There is vmie difficulty about the location of school t house in White Hall township ?Abbeville Medium. A ? Si TEE PRESS AND BANNER IN REPLY. J . a c The Action of the Board of Trnstecs s is Reviewed, nnd their Adminis* " tration or the Public School Fund n is Discussed. ?' When the matter was first acted npon we n thought and spoke of publishing the official ? papers in reierencv to tht school on the East jl side of Hard Labor creek in White Hall town- " ship, but after reflection, we concluded to let the matter pass without further notice, accept the situation, and submit to the inevlta-i * ble by paying the teacher out of own pocket. I v Our contemporaries, however, having seen proper to make the matter public, we have j " determined 10 say a word or two. We are ll strengthened in this determination from the I n fact that the School Commissioner has de-j" clined to reconsider a judgment which must J! of necessity have been made on at least, a J:' very imperfect idea of all the facts relating to the matter. To convince the reader that, the New School 11 is more accessible and more desirable than T the one at White Hall it will be only necessary for him to remember that the daily attendance of scholars is much larger at the New School. y IN REPLY TO THE STATEMENTS OF TIIE MES- j ? SENGEK. I ,< First?We feel perfectly certain that the k School Commissioner told the editor of Hie Press and Bonner thai distance "would have ? nothing to do with it"?his decision, in con- e versa!ion with him since then he disclaims having said so. We therefore, in order (hat L' we may he. sure to do him 110 wrong, make no f dispute with him on this poini, but will mere- 11 ly say that we spoke to him of a detcrmina- " tion to measure the distance between the J' school houses, and, after talking with him.; V ^ ? -1 nr.. iK.. I 1> we aoanuoneu me Jiueiiuuii. yyu mum. t jiu distance much more than a mile and a half. n Second?The Chairman of the Board of T Trustees, under liis official signature objected to the school being established lor the reason that the applicants were "renters" and the Hoard of Trustees, under their official siunatures attempt to Justify their act by citing ,, their recent, act which they had perpetrated Ion the negroes, at White Hall. They did not 11 say that, they had given the negro "renters'' a school witiiin a stone's throw of the very n school which they deny to the while "rent- d ers," Neither do they enlarge upon their f. own generous act in establishing and keeping o | open a school at White Hall, at the door li of one of the Trustees, while negroes at the v same place are sent to Bradley. s j Third?The New School represented about a \ twenty children, while the regular orthodox r | school represented a much smaller vwmhta\ li | Fourth?The friends of the New School had 1 : no enmity or ill-will toward the White Hall 1; i school, and never had a thought of trying to c ! " "" 'Pl.nv i>ir>rr>lv wished n. school t.o I which they eouid send their children. Feel- e ing that Uieir children were equally with oth- i . ers entitled to the consideration of the \ : Trustees they made their humble prayer, and c their petition being refused, they respectfully r j appealed to the .School Commissioner, and c put themselves to groat trouble and inconvet nience to comply with the many require- t | ments. v Fifth?No copy of the action of the Trus- v | tees was served on the lriends of the New i School. They feel that the official statement 1 of the distances docs them injustice, and they could have answered other objections if 1 they had had more t ime. c Sixth?The patrons of the New School on t the East bank of Hard Labor creek claim nt least intelligence enough to know whether f heir own school suits them better than the .'ruslee's school at. White Hull. TIIE MEDIUM'S STATEMENT. In reply to the Medium's statement that 'there is some difficulty about the location ol a cliool house in White Hall township," we vould say that we have no idea what is here neant by "location," or "difficulty." If by 'difficulty" he means that there has been any u?s between neighbors or school trustees he s mistaken. If that paper means, however, haltlie friends of llie New School, which vill best accommodate the largest number of ihildren, have had trouble and perplexing lisappointments in their efforts to getoffictal ecognitlon, then the Medium is eminently orrect. 'HE LIMITED SCHOOL ACCOMMODATIONS FOR WHITE CHILDREN ACCOUNTED FOR ON THE GROUND THAT THE TRUSTEES ARE FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THEIR EREDECES SOUS Of J-lFllSK^ YEAltS AGO. The School Trustees also say: ' The White Hall school was located by the whites bout fifteen jeara apt. * * * \Vn claim, therefore, hut we have only fallowed in the footsteps of our redeces8u! 8.,, Fifteen years ago we presume the Trustees if that township were under Uadical appointnent.. If the necessity for a white school at Vhite Hall then existed, we presume a majorly of the boys and girls who went to that chool at that time are now grown men and I'Oinen. Certain It Is, that there are now very ew children of the school age. within easy ccesstolt. Docs the greater school facilities yhich have been granted to the colored chilren in White Hail township, (than is grantd to the white children,) come from the fact hat the Trustees are "following in the footle ps ol their predecessors" or fifteen years <rn > Just let the reader think of It. The Trusees of White Hall township with the aid of be School Commissioner, have been able to pen but two schools for white children in all hat township?their own shoo! being kept pen for live months while the other school ;as kept open foronly three months. Ordliftrlly, the School Commissioner might be exacted to see how it is that the Trustees arc blelokeep their own school open longer han other schools. "A sincere desire to perform their whole duty without fear or favor'' rould seem to indicate that each school ould be kept open for exactly the same ungth of time. "A sincere desire to perform heir whole duly without, fear or favor" i-ould seem to indicate that the white "rencrs" on the East ?ldo of Hurri Labor would lave reason to expect school facilities equal o those which have been furnished to the colred "renters'' in the same neighborhood, toes not the refusal to grant the while "rencr? as much school privileges as are accorded o the negroes, look like "following in the jotsteps of their predecessors'' of fifteen ears ago ? HE WAY TIIR SCHOOL FUND IS DISPOSED OF, AND THE LIMITED SCHOOL ACCOM MODATIONS FOlt TITK 'WHITES. It will bo observed that the Board of Trusees say that, ' The granting of the school would necessitate the bortening of our school term one month, thereby revcntimr the attendance of over three hundred ubolars in the public school for the space of amonth.'i Not being able to understand how one little chool could so materially a fleet a whole nwnship, we coiled on School Commissioner lodges to whose courtesy we are indebted lor he following facts: WHITE SCHOOLS IN TOWNSHIP. Time. Amount. VrhltoHall,V. Griffin, teacher 5 mos. 8100.00 lak Grove, Miss Bettie M. Koss, tcacher 3 mos. (50.00 'otal for white schools In township ?1GO.DO Oil WHITE CHILDREN TAUGHT BY TEACHERS OUTSIDE OF THE TOWNSHI1'. Iradley school, T. J. Griffin, teacher 5 mos. S 41.00 'hocnix, H.C. Moselv, teacher 3 mos. 28.00 It. Morlah, Miss Morrow, teacher 3 mos. 30.90 liss Nannie E. Kellar, on G. W. Johnson's place 3 mos. 60.00 'Otfil $159.90 PAID FOR SCHOOL HOUSES. 'or white children S 10.00 'or colored children 8.5.00 'otal S 95.00 RECAPITULATION. 'or teaching white children SolO.flO * 'orteaching colored children 210 00? 559.90 'or school houses W OO 'otal payments ?G54.90 'otal payments for white schools 832'J.HO 'otal payments lor colored schools 325.00 HE WHITE HALL SCHOOL GETS A LION'S SHARE. The reports of the teacher of the Trustee's cl*ool at White Hall show that the monthly ttenduuee was but a fraction over fifteen i-hoiars, and the pay certificates show that lieseliiteen scholars received $100, out of the il9. proving that these tilteen scholars at ^hiteHall received about one-third of the Dtal public fund for white children In that cnvnshlp. We are speaking of facts?not "inuences." We have shown that the Trustees' own rhool. and the school which Is taught by Ir. T. J. Grifflti.at Bradley, which is in Inian Hill Township, arc paid five months, nd that none of the other white children reeived more than three months benefit of the cihool lund. These statements are official nd as furnished us by (he records on Hie in he.School Commissioner's office. The stntenent. of the Trustees that three hundred pu lis would be deprived from attending the public schools tor the space of a month" is lisleading for two reasons: First because the lllcial record shows that the average attendnee was ouly two hundred and fifty. Second, ccause the establishment of additional chools would add to the average attendance, istead of diminish it, as the Trustees allege. lie otliciai records snow tnni tne enrollment ,'as eighty-nine In excess of the attendance, nd we know of our own knowledge this dif;rcncebetween the enrollment and the atendnnee was ciused partly by a refusal or eglect of the Trustees to establish a sufficient umber of schools for white children. Does tie fact that they recognize, establish, or conInue twice as many colored schools come rom that, other fact''they have only followd in the footsteps of their predecessors of l'teeii years ago?" IIE NEGKOES BETTER PROVIDED WITH SCHOOLS THAN THE WHITES. The colored children had four schools last ear in White Hall township, while the while hildren had but two. The school in which lie trustees were interested was kept open ir five months. The other white school was opt open for three months 01113'. l>o the Trustees Intend to keep their school pen this year for nearly twice as long as 0U1r white children are furnished free tuition? Except the children who went out of the iwnship to the school taught at Bradley by Ir. (jritlin and the children who went to the rustees' school at White Hall, the white cliilren of that township received only three -win 1 Viu 111If inn wliiln Hirwr> u'lin went. tr> the rusiees' school, and the school taught by lr. T. J. Oriftlu at Bradley, received five lonths education. ilK UTTEH UNSELFISHNESS OF THE TKUSTEEJi. The Trustees say: ' We positively deny that our being patrons of the ^hito linll school influenced cither of us in our ncion." The Trustees are honorable men, and we do iot gainsay their word. But why make the liselaimer? We were influenced to our aci01110r the reason that the white "renters" 11 the East side of Hard Labor sought school icilities, and they wanted the Trustees to diide the public fund from which they had been o long so liberally helping themselves. (We re speaking of facts, without the slightest eference to the "influences" that may have rought about Jhe action of the Trustees, 'he facts being that their own school was :ept open live months, wiuie otner wane hlldren received but three month's tuition.) The refusal of the Trustees to pay the teacher of the New .School, and their unselfishness n the matter, may ho better understood vhen it is stated that they continued a colord school for negro "renters" In the same leighborhood, in which the petitioners desird to establish a school for white "renters." If the Trustees would explain how they can :eep their own school open for five months vhllp they cut the other white children ort' v 1 tli three months, it would no doubt prove interesting reading to those! who get so little jenefitof the public money. If the Trustees would explain why it Is that nore schools are not open for the white ehllIren in that township, it would also prove to >o interesting reading. If they would explain why they can open bur schools for the negroes while they grant only two to the white children, further Interest would be added to their official career. It would be interesting to know by what process of reasoning or by what mathematical system of calculation the Board of Trustees were enabled to ascertain to a day the length of time the New School would shorten the school term of the township. Would the Trustees' own school be reduced to four months, aud the other whitfe school to two months, and the allowance of the other children. who have to go oilt of the township for school facilities, be cut down to two months? Did they think we asked for about one-third of the total amount appropriated for the education of the white and colored children of th^ entire township? tir_ . ,t.,. Il?l? U'lilio TTnll *>u IICIIJ nwii IIIC; IUIC ui iii& TT **<? school house would revert to the former owner, even if the Trustees' school should be stopped. Let them give the proof. THE WAY Mil. SEYMOUR AN'D^IIS CHILDREN WENT TO WHITE HALL. Oapt. Carwlle says: * "It is true also that Mr. Seymour tnnght the White Hall-school for several years, ami came from the 6i(ie where tti? objecting parties live, and brought his children with biiu,gotneof whom were of the tniui inn in age." It is true that. Mr. Seymour taught that school for a year. It is also true that no man on the East side of Hard Labor l!ves nearer to White Hull than did Mr. Seymour, and It. is also true that Mr. Seymour came to the school on horseback, or in his buggy, and it is also true that the younger of his children rode with him. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN COLORED "RENTEBS" AND WHITE "RENTERS*'?THE FOR3IER GET A SCHOOL?THE LATTER DO NOT. The riddle embraced in tiie followhiff Ion? sentence is so confusing that we really do not understand the negro situation at White Hall, nor are we exactly ccrtain what Is meant by rccltlng the fact that tho negroes unmurmnringiy submitted to their ruling, at a time when we were appealing fivm their action against us. Il they wished to explain to the Commissioner what mighty men they were in their own locality, it would seem to us to be an inopportune time to boast of their power. If they meant to create the impression that the negroes of White Hall were bettercitizens than the white "renters" on the East side of Hard Labor creel', the olHcial imputation against neighbors who are In every respect as good as the Trustees, will be better understood than explained. Especially is this true when it Is remembered lhat they were not seeking from the Trustees oertlllciites of chumctcr. but were merely uslcius for that official aid in the cduc;itlon or their children, to which they thought thoy were Justly entitled, however much they may have been mistaken. The Trustees say : "We will slot* further as eermain to this article that on the same grounds as the appellants bas.-d ibeir application, a colored school was applied for and for the same reasons it was declined to be established. from the fact of their being in reach of other schools, and wo will here btate incidently tlmt their application was much more reasonable, from tho fact that the colored children had to crots the flume creek and lieaides ? alk two and a half miles, and at this writing children of the colored race are walking from the cross roads at YV trite Hall t? a school at Bradley, and these children are of those parents who applied to us for a new colored school, and when refused, accepted the situation philosophically and went on iu tho even tetwr ot their way." With permission, we would state that the colored "renters" on the East side of Hiird Labor creek, have enjoyed the benefit of a public school lor years, and this colored school house being not distant from the very spot on which the white "renters" pray for a school. Another matter: If the Trustees did right In rpfuslng a school at WniteHull for colored children, why did they grant a school at the same place for their own children? Could they not walk to Bradley as well as the negro children ? Another mattpr: The constitution of the State of South Carolina provides that the Might of the people * * * to petition the "Government, or any department thereof, "shall never be abridged." Then why do the Trustees assume such lofty airs and presume to oft'er the gratuitous insult contained In the Inst lines of the above quoted sen icncer n was oaa ?nougn ior mem id reiuse to the white "renters" the name benefits that they hart been for years conferring upon the colored "renters," but the while "renters" are amazed that educated gentlemen should offer such an Insult to every friend of the proposed school for white "renters" in the same locality where colored "renters" have gotten their school year after year without question. The Board of Trustees may rest assured that the patrons of the New School are in earnest In their desire for a school. No at tempt on their part at wit at our expense in the supremesl moment of Inflicted wrong will drive us from our purpose, nor will any unworthy effort to bring us into odious comparison with the negroes at White Hall prevent us from getting our school, or at least from learning the reason why we cannot gel It. We intend to he heard. Wedonot Intend to be "laughed out of court." nor do we intend lo submit unmurmuringly to what we conceive to be a most grievous wrong?even though it comes from a Hoard of School Trustees who may assume dictatorial powers, and who may have the endorsement of a School Commissioner with autocratic proclivities. THE WHITE "RENTERS" ON THE EAST SIDE OF HAHD LAEOR GET "LOCAL REPRESENTATION" EVERYWHERE, EX CEPT IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The School Trustees come to the rescue of the School Commissioner, and defend him for having appointed uli the Trustees from the same locality, and say : "We were not aware, nor fire wo as yet, that the School Law required the School liistricts to be subdivided and the trustees to be appointed with an eyo to local representation." This whole Government is constituted on the principle of "local representation." It is the very foundation principle of all Republican Governments. Politically, tiie country is divided into States, the States into Counties, and when we come to schools, even the counties are subdivided into townships?tills county having sixteen?each entitled to representation, but it seems that the township representation shall be confined to the narrowest limit possible in White Hall township. If these trustees were not immediately interested in the White Hall school is it not likely they would become convinced that other localities within the township needed a school? Does not this very crowding of trustees together account for the extreme sparsoness of school accommodations for white children in that township? We think so. if the Trustees will wait until the campaign opens we think it likely that they may, by close watching,learn that there is much in "local representation." We venture to suggest that there are very few persons in Abbeville County, outside the trustees of the White Hall school, who are ignorant of the great importance of "local representation." The friends of the New School are sure of "local representation" when the taxes are collected to support the public schools. When the public roads are to be worked the white "renters'' of the East side of Hard Labor have never, so far as we are informed, been denied "local representation." We are really of the opinion that the white "renters" of the East side of Hard Labor have "local representation" in everything except the benefits of the public schools. They seem to have been engineered out only in this respect. Tins GREATEST C100J) TO THE Oft EAT EST >TMUElt. The Trustees, in their final and last shot at us, say: "We submit that no one is debarred from attending school by our ucti"n." We have no doubt of the sinecretv of these words, and we disclaim any intention of ousting any imputation whatever upon thes? gentlemen. They are good men. Hut human nature is frail and sometimes blinded by personal interest. They have enjoyed school at their own door so long, and have become so accustomed to require the cnildren of the Kast side of Hard Labor creek to trudge all the way to their door, ond the injustice of continuing this thing being so plain to us leads us to fear that our children are wanted in their school only tlmt. tlu-y may bu enabled to draw the maximum monthly pay from the school fucd. The official reports show that the average attendance at that school last year, including all the chi'dren that may have crossed Hard Labor, was not over sixteen in any month. The attendance at our school last month was twenty. If the crossing of Hard Labor is such an easy matter, and if tlie distance Is so short, why not let the few children at White Hall cross roads come to uie scnooi on our sine <u the creek, where a much greater number of children reside. They will then luive to walk no further than our children wotdd have to walk. By going through his own farm Mr. Smith's children, who are estimated at a mile from White Hall, would not have, perhaps, more than about a mile to walk. Without "local representation" on our school Boards of Trustees, even the best of us are too apt to believe that we are acting for the greatest good to the greatest number, and are also too apt to fall into the error ol' thinking that the greatest number is No. 1. THE TRUSTERS' SCHOOL AGAINST THE NEW SCHOOL. The people of the East side of Hard Lnhor Creek thiiik they need a school. A school was established to supply the demand. Itwases- g tablisiied where ?t would be most convenient to the children. About twenty children are now and have been dully in attendance since it was opened. They deem the distance and had rond a bar to l.heir attendance at White ? Hull, and hence a school for their neconunodntion is kept open nr. private expense. Tf In iioiin..ntciipv tis cav Ilnirn in fppltnti In reference to this matter. It is also uunecessary to say that It 1h deemed a hardship to he compelled to pay from private funds, the j,t teacher of these poor children, when a neigh- jboring teacher, with a much smaller number of richer children Is in the pay of the govern- t( ment. They feel aggrieved tliatitshould have ^ been urged against them us a reason for st refusing' their school. that they are "renters," and we presume in the history of 0j public schools that this is the first time that any Trustee has ever been bold enough to place such reason in writing. It is true that f? many of the children are not rich, but they j,> think it a poor reason to urge ayalnst their n education. They appealed to the School Com- y missiouer, because they thought he was the proper person to hear their complaint, and to K{ rectify their wrong. These poor people are iS. not fumiliar with the forms of law, and they J.| are entirely dependent upon the officer of the i)( Government whose duty it is to hear their poniolalnt nnd to settle amomr them all mat- ai tors pertaining to the education of their chil- gj Uren. V( They fully realize that they are poor. They (j need not be told of It. They also fully realize ,r another fact, that the School Commissioner C( femained in his office during all the weeks of 0| this contention, and that he did not go to the neighborhood thathe might befully Informed jc as to the Justice of their petition. They also feel that because of their lack of familiarity n] with such manets that they were riot able to >S1 present their case In writing as fully and as clearly as they could have done if the .School |.| Commissioner had given them that personal w attention which they think the law would warrant him in giving. The law says: "He shall acquaint himself as far as practicable, with the character of each school," and yet without going amongthe people, and acquainting lnmsclf with the facts aud the merits ot their case, ho orders their school to be dls- u continued. Jv The law directs that the Boards of Trustees shall have pftwer to "call meetings of the peo- , pie of the district for consultation in regard to the school interests thereof." Has any 15 such meeting been held ? If so, did the peo P tlio I'-iut cMn r\f T-Toril T.fituir linvA tuv* ^ Tice ? Have the Trustees resarded the wishes v of the majority of the natrons? Has the ei School Commissioner inndenny effort to see ? that the Board of Trustees have acted, ns the 11 law requires, in a manner "so ms to best pro- sl mote the educational interests" of that local- ^ ity, or has he allowed the Trustees to locate a , school where it would hestaccommodnte their " own children, without reference to the con- " venience of others ? ^ Where such important, issues as a school are J|' involved, is it not better for the School j1 Commissioner to investigate the respective lu claims ol the children, and confer with the Sl people, that concessions and compromises P may be made, so they may reconcile their }J, dllterenccs and come to a satisfactory conclu- ' sion ? or is it better for the people to be compelled to submit to the dictum of petty Trus tees, even if they he disposed to exercise "their brief authority," with a tyranny t< which is both unjust lu act, and otl'ensive iu p manner? c in conclusion. ci This, wc think, is a brief statement of some ? of the muiu facts, but if wo have erred or e: omitted nny substantial fact soing to Justify U the Board of Trustees in refusing pay to the ? teacher of the School on the East side of Hard K( Labor, we shall be glad to make all proper b nmends, and as we disclaim any Intention to do any wrong, we hope, if any man shall be n better informed than ourself as to the situa- 1< tlon, that he will give a clearer and more cor- P rect statement. We merely wish to be con- j, vinced of our error or to be heard on the iner- a its of the case. ij! m m f( DR. ARMSTRONG A JOURNALIST. J + n Ills Congregation Goes to Pieces and a he Goes to Editing. J] [Atlanta Constitution. | fl A meeting of the vestry of St. Philip's church was lipid to-day at5o'clock. Theses- ? sion was one of more than ordinary interest, ou Avoci* tnomhpr nf fliA hnjiril pvnrossfid his 1 .. opinion freely and to the point. It was seen from the beginning of the meeting that a ma- 0( Jorlty of the vestry were highly indignant at ^ the action of Bishop Bockwith in removing Hev. J. G. Armstrong from the pulpit of St. t'j Philip's and the condition of affairs since his f? removal. For a time it looked as though St. () Philips was about to loose its entire hoard of a vestrymen, as nearly every member expressed !, much dissatisfaction at the condition of the affairs of the parish and talked as if they were going to withdraw from the church. The resignations ot ex-Governor Bullock, junior warden, aud of Vestryman Henry Hoyleston y were received and accepted. James Thomson, J jr., was elected Junior warden to succeed ex- d Governor Bullock, and J. W. Johnson and K. V C. Peters selected to succeed ex-Governor K Bullock and Henry Boyieston as members of cl the vestry. v The financial condition of the church came t( up in the general discussion of matters of in- <)! terest to the parish. It was stated that the Jr congregation of St. Philip's was gradually de- ,f creasing in numbers owing to the prosecution of its rector, and that many rented pews were 11 vacant every Sunday, and that the collections P had gone down to nothing. These collections, sl I it was announced, had decreased from fc7o per i month to SS or $10, and that the prospects were w they would go much lower. One or more of I the vestrymen stated it as a fact that some of j " the pew renters would decline to pay notes ;b given/or pew rents when they became due, ?' on the ground of the removal of Dr. Arm-1}1 strong. In consequence, the feeling ran bo 111 high that some members of the vestry ex-'?1 pressed a desire to withdraw from St. Philip's and start an independent church, with Dr. Armstrong as its pastor. J? It was also given out that fully ten percent. 11 of the congregation would leave St. Philip's if they had somewhere else to go, and certainly so if a new church was built and l)r. Armstrong made its pastor. It was also the opln- s< ion of some ot the members of the board that ? a large portion of the congregation would quietly withdraw from the church under mo i V1 present condition of affairs, and the eongre- |j nation of St. Philip's would gradually go to 11 pieces. w After discussing other matters of general in- P terest the church meeting adjourned until II * o'clock to-day. !11 At the meeting to-day the advisability of I collecting together the congregation of the parish to tnke action upon ihe present condition of stHairs will be discussed. fe J. If. Keltser, who has been a member of the [ o vestry for ten years, tent in his resignation, I u and ( 'apt, E. J. S. ( Jay, treasurer of the church, ti will likely lile his to-morrow. tj Yesterday Dr. Armstrong associated himself ki with the jS'inula?/ Telef/mm, taking a half in- a1 terest in the paper. This aclion was freely ir I discussed on the street, and was received with av I much interest, by the doctor's friends. j pi J A Constitution representative called on Mr. tl I Charles T. Logan, proprietor ot the Telegram, j oi and asked if the statement w:us true. Mr. Lo-i w gan said : "Yes. Dr. Armstrong has associated him- si c?it" with tim Tflnnritm. ;ind nrosenthIssalltta- I h tory next Sunday.'' b; "Will he have an interest in the paper." u "Yes. A half interest." bi "Will he have the editorial management?" ai "We shall edit the paper together." The Tehyrintt of .Sunday contains an editorial article on l)r. Armstrong, presumably written by him or with his consent, alluding to him as having fallen, not IiIce Lucifer to ri>e no more, but "like ilie Meek and Lowly Xazurine to have a glorious resurrection." Coming! eoroinsrj new spring goods at i' Iladdon's. ;}-17 ! Berlin and lisle thread gloves just received j at I I ad don's. 3-17 j *h . Woolen dress <roods, llcht weight tricot's I ai the prettiest good out for spring at lladdon's.! hi 3-17 | Black tanies, black buntinsis, black cash-'s( iners, just received at lladdon's. o-!7 | Our aim shull be to show a line of goods not1 n, to he fount! any where else in the County, j r{ ChII at lladdon's. 3-17 Cash buyers will And it to their interest to'k cull early nt lluddon's. IJ-17 j ro Knvki.opks with your card on them at very ' s< , low Ilgures can be had at the li ens and Ban- j w ncr oltiee. Kvkkybody uses letter heads, and it isj strange thai you do not go to the Press and | li'xnnv.r oltiee and got them printed. | Mr. R. M. Iladdon has been in New York j Tf i for two weeks selecting our stock. Huyintr as t : we do from headquarters in New York City. '.| I We will be able to slow a line of goods this I spring not to be found in any other house in [ tliis section. |w If you want a eood breech loading shot gun 1$ I at New York cost, euil on 1'. Rosenberg & Co.1 si typhoid rem :f| OW VTE MAY ESCAPE THIS FEARFUL MALADY. 'SM 'radical IIlnts Which are of Oreni Value to Every CUtizcn. s TRichmond Sanitary Monitor.] Typhoid fever is the cause of so many thoumd deaths in all parts of our country, that a . . now ledge of some of the factors in lis prouction, und how to escape them, cannot full : ? be of especial interest to everyone. Attenon is therefore invited to ilie following abract of a recent "preventive disease ctrcuir" from the Michigan State Board of Health/ r which Dr. H. B. Baker U the Indefatigable icretary: , * Typhoid fever is a disease which terminates itally in about one case out of eixht or ten* rom the data at hand it is estimated that the umber of deaths which actually occur In that * late from typhoiil fever is about one thou-> md every year,and tlmt the number of perms sick with the disease is eight or ten thouind annually.- A large proportion of the cknessand mortality can be, and ought to b prevented;. The Greatest mortality from this disease 18 inonj? persons in the prime of life, and this lould prompt to greater elforts for its prcention. Persons of all ages have it, andeveu lough they have it, in many instances, in a lild form, yet they may be the medium of )mmunicating the disease in a fatal form to hr?r?* frir wliitfi ir. is not one of the'most mtugious diseases, typhoid fever is believed ;.'J > be a cominunicabtc disease. Many author!- ' 'j es believe it to be caused by special ?erm, nd nearly a.l agree that the poison, whether leCific or not. may be conveyed to other perms by drinking water contaminated by dls^ iarges lrom the bowels of a person atlVcted 1th the disease, or by teachings lrom tbtf ^dies of thobe who have died of typhoid MODE OF COinrrKlCATIOX. Experieuce seems to prove that, with cerlixi precautions, attendants upon those pick . ith typhoid fever are not in danger of con- 3 acting this disease directly from the patient. niter chemically Impure does not necessarir cause the disease; but drinking water con-. uninated with the bowel discharges of a tyhold feyer patient Is believed to be the most itnmon source or vehicle of typhoid fever.fhlle the possibility of its originating in oth-? - i r ways is not ddnled. the frequent outbreaks f this disease which are tmceablo directly. nd unmistakably t?? u contaminated water- . apply seem to point to this us the chief ' jui ce of danger. The disease has been traced ) milk diluted with Infectcd pump waterw ml unnar?ntlv in some cases to emanations . om sewers and cesspools. It seems to preall most in times of drought, in tlie autumn, *pedully after a period -of high temperature, nd when the water in wells in low and its con .' J iminalions most concentrated. Filth and bad mitary condition ot premises generally, v. ' >3 robably increase llie danger of spreading tho isense. Typhoid fever has been callcd a tilth disease." PROTECT TIXE WATER-SUPPLY. The most scrupulous care should be takeri ? ) keep the present sources of drinking-water ure, and to procure future supplies only from v lean source. The general water-supply of ities aud villages is a matter of the greatest Diicern, and should be procured from places here there can be no probability of immedile or remote contain!nation. Itisonlynec- . , / jjj ssary to refer to the "Plymouth Epidemic" i show how great acalamlty may the fooling : '.Ws f a general water-supply by the discharges of ' ~ person sick with typhoid fever, lntlieab-. oncd of a general water-supply, much may e done to protect the wells by the abolition I cess-pits and privy-vaults, by the use oI ry earth in privies and by the freqflent re* loval therefrom of all their contents. Priv- v ;x often drain into wells or springs, nnsus* ecied by tliosc who use the water. Should tie bowel discharges of a typhoid patient pas* uo such a privy an outbreak or the disease* ? , mon;: those using the water from a neighborlg well or spring would be likely to occur. . he use of water from a source likely to be incited with the bowel discharges of a typhoid ;ver pattern biiuuiu uc piumpuj , iid great cure should also be given lo the lilk supply. There is good reason to suspect the water of - ' * ? well whenever a privy-vault Is situated, 'irk lthln one hundred feet of it, particularly if le soil be porous. In numerous instances u ids from such a pluce have leached into ells at mucii greater distances; and it has een proved that a well four hundred and inety-five feet from a cemetery received wa;r which had filtered through the soil ol the emetery. Do not drink water which has a bad taste or dor, or which comes from a source that ren- " ers it liable to be Impure, especially if there ; reason to believe that it may contain some* :iins? derived from a person sick with typhoid !ver. The fact that water is clear is no proof f Its purity, for contaminated water may be, nd oiten is, found to be clear and colorless, ud to have uo bad tuste. DISINFECTION. Because the bowel discharges are believed ? acquire more virulent properties, after a w days, particularly when thrown, without isinfection, into a privy-vault or other recepicle for decomposing filth, these evacuations loitld in all cases be received upon paper or loths and promptly burned, or be receive in essels and thoroughly disinfected by adding ) each discharge from the bowels one quart r Koiiit.iuii or chloride of lime of the follow ig strength : Four ounces of chloride of lime> one gallon of water. In country districts, here the privy is not far distant from a well, le discharges should not be thrown into the rivy-vault, but after being disinfected, they lould be carried a greater distance from any jurce of drinking-water, and then covered Ith earth. V 'W Rags, closet paper or other similar material set! about the patient should be immediately urned. Soiled clothing, towels, bed-linen. [c., on removal from the the patient, should e placed In boiling-hot "zinc solution,"made i proportions as follows: Water, one gallon; llphate of zinc, four ounccs; common salt. ,vo ounces. Soiled clothing should, in all xscs. be disinfected before sending to the 4 V-I tundry, by boiling at least bait an hour in \sM le "/Jnc solution.' Bodies of those dead from typhoid fever lould be wrapped in a cloth wet with tho chloride of lime solution" or with the "zinc ilution" (the latter being double thestrength t' that used for soiled clothing.) After a death or recovery from this disease, ie room in which there has t>eeiiac.ise of rphoid fever should, with all its contents, bo loroughly fumigated lor tweuty-four hours itb burning sulphur, using at least thre?# ntincis! nf Kuinhur for a room ten teet square. ;ooiM8 to b? disinfected by sulphurous fumesuisl be vacated '$1 ROIL TIIK DRINKING-WATER. ' Immediately on tlie appearance of typhoid iver u eareiul examination should be made f the surroundings of tiie house, and partlclariy of the source of the water used, to do- ' /X' rtnine, if possible, whether it has been couiminated by teachings from privies or other '!. mrces of filth. U'.the sick person has been I home, and not away where the disease light he contracted, it will be safest that the ater intended for drinking or culinary purr>ses be boiled before using. It is believed lat thorough boiling will destroy the germs r poison of the disease. Ordinary filtering ill not do. Perfect, cleanliness of nurses and attendants louUl be enjoined and secured. As the "V ands of nurses may become contaminated y the poison of the disease, a good supply of iwels, water, and the disinfectant solutions cfore mentioned, should always be at hand, id freely used. J 1 j Tlieir Hobby. Camden Journal. Since the enemies of the farmers moveient Imvc utterly fatted in their attempts to stiact public attention from the Increasing >. it crest tnlcen in the movement, those ene- " ; lies have now resorted to public nbose of the * aders, calling them frauds, office-seekers, >reheaos, loois, jHi-Kasstrts, eu;., uut bum uic ill rolls ou, increasing daily In popularity, ul if the farmers will be true to each other :ul stand together they will sweep the State. Some of them have been amusing them Ivcs in figuring out that a large majority of le oltices in the State ,are filled by farmers fen including in their .list as farmers every mn who kept a llower in ajar in his boa, mm window. A desperate resort, but the tie and genuine farmers of the state will cep right on In their movement all tlie same, igardless of politicians. Sarcasm and per- . >nal abuse are the clearest evidences of cakness than any one can show. ,Uow to (?ct Rid off Rats. Chloride on-top?,- placed in their holes and inaways, will drive'rate from their premises, io odor being offensive to them. Caustic i->l;ior>i 1 in their runa'wnvs. it is also aimed, will drive them away; it sticks to icir feet, eatinsr Into the flesh; they lick thu riling places, getting it intt> their mouths, hich makes it still more uncomfortable. i>th are cheap and can be got at any drug ore.