Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A PLEA-FOR SION OUOOLB,. MoveMetk for Establishment of SchOls Growing in Interest. The moveme.t 4or the e'tablish rnept of pubie 'hig4 99gools appears to'be gr6*ing hi.,interest. The foli lowing artiell by Supt. W. H. Hanld of the Chester schools is of peculiar force at, this time: ".After more than two centuties since its settlement, aqd with all its pros perity, and with all its boasted edu cational growth, South Carolina has district and township upon township with no other school in it than an elementary one, open for four of five months in the year. Not a pupil can pursue a course in a high school with in reach of his home. He must be content with the three Rs, or go else where to get beyond that narrow limit. Boys and girls of capacity and prom ise are shut off from an education because they have not the means ,to go from home to find adequate schools. Boys that have in them the material to make useful men in every department of life must long in vain for the advantages of higher school ing. The community itself must keep on the lowest plane of intelli gence, because its sons and daughters must grow up with no more training than that given in the elementary sclools. In such commiity can always be found sonie families lnwilling to let their childrenl suffer for that scl(001 ing. These families must either send their children away from lihone at a heavy expense, or they must move to somie plle where better schools .are to be f'ounid. Every such family is a distinet loss to tle community from which it goes. A ter even one family has left, it is just that niuch harder for those remaininlg to keep u1p their! selhool d111 their churi1ch. One m1ore. for iol hasgone. .\ home in that co u nI111itY is a little less desirable: laiml heecomdis a little cheaper; the average inltelli"1ence is a little lower. aniid the i)sjeri(y of' tle c1111mniity is clecked. It is mnly it <tIles(ioll of, time itil others will leave. A -ood school of high grade would have kept these families there, brought other families in,,raised the intelligence of all, increased the value of land, and given the community an increased confidence in- itself. - Often a name conveys either no meaning at all or it conveys an er roneous one. One of the most unfor hunate fates coin-ected with our en tire ediention system is tle misnam ing of institutions. 'Tlhe very name of aii institution may (1 the cause of education injustice and harm. fal f-ed uicat ed young women who kinw not Froebel, but who keep play schools and call them kindergartens, have done real kindergarten work un told injulry.I In like amnner the village school of 35 pupnlils, rangi ng fromi beginners o f'irst lessonis ini algebra anid Lat in, is mniscalledh a high school. Often it has not a fih high schiool course of evoe yearii; oft en it has no regular cueatall. Tlhere are many rea sons why ~ it. c'aninot have cit her. ChIiief almngi t hem is thiat it has neithter su1ffictint teauch ing force, norii enough puils ready' for high school~ work. It would bec somewhiat unal to fintd in such ai sc'hiool mnore thain five pup11Is dtoingi real h ighi school~ work. I 'f theuse five pupilIs have a fuhll (course of studiiy. what timhe has t he teacher - left for his 30t other pupils scattered all along through the primary and in termediate gradhe? If the primary and intermnediate pupils receive the prioper attention what tiime is left for the high school pupils? Schools of this (class can b)e found by the score. They serve the fatal purpIose of deceiving t he people into believing that they have what in reality they have not. Tfhey kniow~ the iank ohf thiir schools, and they seek ot heri antd higher inst it utions. Anad by the timue thle pupils oif t hiis class get their schooling they are en tirely weaned away from their old1 homes and formner associates. Some peole seem iiever to underst and why their huome communnit ies are kept con stantly drained of the best younig men and( women they have p)rodluced. They forget that training andl culture must grow upi mi ai community if they arc to remain there. Few boys and girls when they have reached the age of 14 years and have Scompleted the grammar school are settled as to their future schooling. They have usually the bare rudiment of an education. They are not yet fitted f r any college, nor are they at all prepared to do any but the simpi est forms of business life. If a boy from such class determines- to secure a college training, .hne must first leave home for three or four years' prepar 7r ation, because he cannot get it at htome. ' The result between the gram *nar school and the, college are so Y~. grest that he gives it all up b6fore e- gets to college. - But the notion that the main ob e, t of tjie high school is to prepare o eoll 6slhas its evil effects. Of ourse to papaYedpupils for ollege, las been, ". st 1tinuo to be, Ine of its '&e#t,obj4.ta. Bit to-. fit upils fo.r ryi life must be the oreatest objct, be se such f large )ercentage of its pupils go directly 'rom it to actual life. The high chool myst offer better ttaining .thau t has done for agricultural, indus rial and commercial life, Hundreds )f bo'ys and girls of South Carolina ;oday -out of school would be in first flass high schools if we had them. rhe farmer, the mbrehant, the me 3hanic, and the manufacturer will all patronize the county high school as soon as it is established and offers uch courses as they wish for their boys and girls. The county high school with four-year courses lead ing either to college or to actual life will transform the intellectual, agri oultural and industrial conditions of the country as nothing else will. More boys and girls will enter col lege than ever before, they will go better prepared than ever before, the standard of every college in the state can and will be raised, those who do not go to college will be better fitted for the common pursutiits of life than before and possibly best of all the elementary schools will be relieved of trying to do high school work and will prosper as never before. Will not the candidates for the leg i;Iature discuss this matter with their peoplel Will not the people discuss (his matter with the canididatesl Thle legislature is going finally to do what the people wish dolle in this matter. It -rests at last with the fathers and mothers and with the boys and141 girls, whether we are to have first-class highi schools throughout the state. Is it- not tine we wVere redlucing tihe federal illiteracy among our white peIJple ? Is it not tilie we were real izinl.-' that our secol)(lary schools of high grle are few? Is it not time we wvre doinlg soiethinlg' to keep the rural districts froml being depopul lated by people seeking better schools thanl th;ey have. Whenever the rural coNImmiiiit ics have been drained of their best blood and brains and the remaininig citizenship is reduced to a kind of peasantry. South Carolina's prosperity is at an end. The high school question is a prac tical and a pressing one. It is a question for the educated man and for the professioial man and for the farmer and the mechanic; it is a question for the stateman and for the voter. The Laziest Man. ''The laziest man, I ever saw,'' said a traveling m1an, as the Philadel phia lecord tells it, ''was a station age?it inl a little ice-horse village in Idaho. Afer' I had finished what business I c'ouldl do in the town, I went dlowni to the railroadl station to buy a ticket for my next stop. "The lazy station master sat on a b,rokenidown office chair, his feet on the desk. Wlen I asked for the tick e't, hie slowly reached up to the rack, direw t oui,s.g 1tew it out , hianded1 it to mue, and took my money without bestowing a glance umpon mec or moving fromn Ihis chair. "That 's thle laziest thing [ ever saw,"' I said to him. "'If you can do anytvhinmg lazier than that, I'll give vou thiS dlollar.' "Without the slightest curiosity or eve.n interest the loafer drawled, ''put it iln tmy p)ocket, '' and I dlid. ' Enthusiasm The Thing Most Needed. London Christian.* A true andl experienced evangelist has said that teaching gospel never bIrings sinners to dlecision. It is not new thoughts, however true, nor newv r'~eelt ionis of Scrip)ture truth, but the rutlis al readly known p)ressedl home to lhe heart, that lead to conviction of SRin and1 recepition1 of Clhrist as Savior and Lord. Blut the evangelist himself needls anm ever-mecreasing and deepen ing knowledge of God's salvation, s revealed in the Little Book, wvhich is given us to lbe eaten up, aand habitual ly fed upon ; then we ''must pirophe sy' for ' 'out of the abundance of the heart the mouth sp)eaketh.' ''Of course,'' said Henpeek, ''I (loln't always do what my wife tells me'' ''What l'' exelaimned Meeker in sur prise. ''No; you see if she's in a sarcastic mood wvhmen she orders md to do any thing I know she wants mne to do just thme opposite.' '-Philadlelphmia Press. ''Those two comedians made a tre mendous hit with a siphon of soda ''As to how?'' ''Why, they drank the soda instead of squirting it on one another.'' Minnaolis Tribne. Popular on thla ro Lou don.-Made. I byDg Q"itmn, Texas, SIare 20.-Te Ader residents of Quitman alo of this county tell man'y stories "Aout the late Governor J. S. Hogg?. Mr"ogg spent; hi boyhood , id.! 4alt%N and worked upon farms hereabouts. The town well in.QpftVqa'l su by him 'mor;e than thirty y ars ago. A local merchant wanted awell dug in front of h'tore, and o6o morning was 'lookkng or some one to clo the work. Hogg, who was thep. ,Citrap ping boy of 10 or 17, toi the mer chant that lie would dig the. well. He was hired and paid at the rate of $1 a (lay for the work. He struck a fine vein of pure, freestone water at a depth of about thirty feet, and it is to this day one of the best wells hereabouts. It is known, as the Jim Hogg well. Quitman is still situated several miles from a railroad, and in those days was in what were known as the back woods of East Texas. There were many lawless characters in the county, and the peace officers were un able to keep them under control. On one occasion Hogg, who was then about nineteen, was caled upon to aid in preserving the law in Quit man. A band of desperate outlaws had come into town and held the nier chants and the people generally in a state of terror. The desperadoes had closed the principal store and were walking 'the streets with a boastful air of possession. Hogg first opened the store which had been closed by order of the out laws. le then ariled himself with a rifle anld started out to capture the leader of the gang. He rau as he turied a corner of the Court House Before Hogzg could place the man 1under arrest the outlaw struck him onthe head with a pistol, knocking him down. llogg quickly got up with the rifle in his hands and, getting the drop on the.desperado, made him throw up his hands and marched him inl front of him to the county jail, where lie was locked up. Received High Praise. His act received high praise from the law-abiding element of the com nunity, but it came near being the cause of his losing his life afterward. He Was full of fun in those days're was a social favorite throughout the country, and attended every country dance for many miles around. A few weeks after lie had captured the leader of the gang of outlaws he was invited to attend a country doe down in a remote part of the coun try. He wvent alone from Quitman, but niet a pretty country 1lss of the locality, where the dance was to he hlcd, and took heri olang for his comn pany. The (danice was in progress when young H-ogg arrived. His first glance around the room told him that he was not in the com-e pany' of friends. Almost every man p)resent belonged to the gang of out laws whose leader he had arrested only a short time before. IHe deter mined to stick it out and no man p)resent was more jovial and full of The (lance wvas given in a double log eahini and toward the close of the (lance Hlogg had ocesion to leave the room for a moment. HeI had no soon er placed his foot outside the door way than some person p)ressed the muzzle of a pistol against his back and1 fired a bullet into his body. He fell to the ground unconiscious and wuas picked up by the girls present and carried in-to the room and( hplaced uploni a bed. He lay in that log cabin for several wveeks,. hovering bet ween' life and A few years hater young Hlogg was elected district attorney an-1 had the sat isfact ion of.p)rosecut ing s?veralI of the outlaws. One of Hogg 's boyhood companions in Quitman' was Bill McDonald, the Texas Ranger commander, who has puit more notches on his gun while in thme performanice of his duty than any other muan in the Southwest. They grew, up together anid were friouds until a political campaign brought about a separation'. McDonald was made deputy sheriff twvo or three years after this. H-ogg had been elected district attorney and was living at Tyler, Smith County. McDonald cleaned up all thme crimin hils in Wood County, and looking for more wvorlds to conquer went over into Smith County, where a band of outlaws were raidi-ng farms, drivin~g off cattle and horses and committing many nets of lawlessness. In a fight wvith them McDonald shot downi the loader of thme outlews. The of,he.r members of the gang fled and lie re covered a bunch of stolen horses a )attle, which they had in charge. The Smith County authorities: were angry because he entered their ,erritory. The matt as laid before the- -raad jt.- i ldj.'m a beiug. his_ quarkel ithlg , Pokid . that IIogg:'.w'a d,alc*K-adftan age of his p er ,ii -strie' attor-' ney to make trouble for him fo.hav ing killed the outlaw. But lie did not know Hogg. Upheld The Law. When Hogg learped that the case against McDonald was to be taken up by the grand jury he -went.before.that body'and keclared that if an indict ment was returned against McDonald lie would have the ease dismissed in Court. "When I heard what Jim Hogg had r1one," Capt. McDonald said the other ElaW in discussing the matter, ''I went to him and extend my hand saying: "Jim, there's no use in ,you and 1 being enemies; let's shake hands and make up.' "Well, sir, Hogg grabbed my hand and wruing it with his usual hearty grasp. He declared that lie was mighty glad that we were friends again. He said lie never had felt hard towatd me.'' There two men remained warm friends ever afterward. When Hogg was elected Governor Capt. McDonald was a peace officer in one of the Pan handle counties. He let it be known that he wanted to be appointed cap tain of one of the Ranger companies. He had been making a fight against -omie big cattle thieves in the Panhan Ile, and these mien got up a big pro, test against his appointment. Me Donald went to Austin to see Hogg and told himni what lie wanted; "I haven't any recommendations,' Capt. McDonald said, "but if you want them I can get theni. I've got all the recommendations roneerning you on file that I want, lie Governor 1replied, anld lie reached up and took out a pigeon hole in his desk a big bundle of letters, all pro testing, against the appointment of (apt. McIDonald. The letters and petitions were writ ten by men with whom Capt MeDon aild had had trouble. MeDonald got the appointment, and lie has held the position ever since. When Hogg was justice of the peace at this place he settled the cases that came before him in. a practical man ner. He acted upon his judgment and did not pay much attention to the arguments of lawyers. On one occasion an Irishman brought suit against a farmer for wages alleged to be due him for dig ging a ditch. The farmer said that the ditch was not du pgroperly, and refused to pay for the work on that ground. The question turned upon this point, and the testimony of the parties to the suit was conflicting. Hogg stop p.ed the proceedings and said "'I am a p)retty good ditch digger myself, and I think I know when a ditch is dug right. I'll settle this case by going out and inspecting this ditch.'' Hie adljouirned Court while' lie wvent to the farm and made an examina tion of the ditch. Returning to his office lie reopened Court and gave 3 CARLO Gos~Sin' Goeswithout sa: most .stylish, fan Newberry. We spring and any Buggy you are c you a better Bug at orstock, we Way,no matter nrhave the mor Our Stock Matc11 i EIuE S1. udgment for the Irishman. Close to the People. Governor Hogg lived close to: theA eople. He yasthe idol of the aver ge Texas farmer. Whenever b4 Zle ivered an address ii. the conutry he Vas certain, to have a large audience. He was a great mimic. During his iotly contested campaign for Gover ior when making a speech lie would nvariably a8k if there was 'a gourd lipper around handy,'' when lie want ,da drink. When there was no gourd lipper on hand lie would drink out )f a pitcher. He always cat-ried a .Ig red bandanna handkerchief when )m these stumping tours, and at fre juent intervals he wpuld pull it out >f his pocket and mop his broiv with it. At one time during the Texas oil )oom four of flve years ago Governor Eoggs 'wealth was estimated at more :han $1,000,000. He was unfortunate in his investments d ring the last two or three years, an< when lie died ie left an estate valued at only about P150,000. It- was during the flood tide of his prosperity that he made a visit to England. He spent about three mon tis in London, where lie was introduc 3d to and entertained by royalty. Upon his return 'to Texas lie described in his inimitable way some of the ex periences lie had on the other side f the water. He took great delight in relating iow lie shocked certain duchesses and rukes by his talk and actions. He 3aid that lie went to the home of a member of the nobility to a party me night and lie had the time of his life in jollying the ladies. He wa4 elling a duchess what a grand thing it whs to ride about the 'streets of London iv one of the double-deck 'buses. The duchess told him she had A DASHING AU Motor-Ce By LOUISE C BREEZY and deliciously fact that the hero and I no less a romance. Mrs.Ward,a believer in tt contracts advanced by George' husband on an automobile tour purpose of securing a divorce o -of temper," which, in reality, do several accidents and the autol proper senses. 'WIth 36 Illuetrations, 10 of wi 12mo, C Ifjyour bo4;eewur asn't ::. the pud. DODD, MEMl Publishers 372 Fifi ADS OF ce Janu ving that we ha iest, easiest ru can give you a size, and can1 >ffered for less gy for the same me, L have som.e barg whether you we ey or.not. Our of Harness ed in Neiu Oil7ce a ride onl one of the. VO hieeaee that she wouId. be., delo"4ed W eience such a iiovelt, t was considered very bad 46L for onle of the uipper set to ride on them. The Governor propsed that she sneak% off with him the next day and go on a long exsursion through the streets The duchess entered into the spirit of the occasion and consented to do so. She met the Governor next morn-, ing, and they spent nearly .the hole day viewing the sights of Londom from the top of ono of the omnibuses. They had luncheon at an eating house patronized by working people. The duches declared that it was thle most enjoyable day she had ever spent. - Living Man Turns to Bone. There has just died at Uberlinger, in Baden, a main who has been slowly ossifying for forty years, says the London Express. He was attacked by the rare dis ease known to doctors as myositis os sifleans when fifteen years old. The first symptoms of the disease, which attack them uscular tissues and turns them to bone, appeared in the feet, and slowly the muscles of the legs and the - thighs became quite hard. When the disease reached the muscles of the heart death ensued. The man was perfectly contented with his fate, and knew exactly when the end was (oning. He was visited recently by the Grand Duchess of Baden, who sent several specialists to see him. None of them were able, however, to relieve him. First Art-ist-But you love art for its own sake? Second Artist-Why, yes. i'm11 cominig to tihe conclusion that that's all there is in it.-Brook lynl Life. OMOBILE STORY Lr Divorce LOSSER HALE humorous motoi-car romance-the ieroine are man and wife makes it ie theory of the ten-year marriage Meredith, goes with her indulgent through France ard Italy for the a the grounds of "incompr,tibiLiy not exist. It takes another wvoman, nobile to bring Mrs. Ward to her kh are in Color, by Waheor Halo~ Roth, $1.50 'is/er s wilt send tue boAk, pm auad. uIpt o/ pruce. )& COMPANY hI Avenue New York -BUGCIE.S ary e the snappiest, nning Buggies in n.y painting, any match any price money and give money. )Ok ains. Come any.. nt to buy or not, terms are liberaI. rCannot be rberry. SBROS