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Rural Schc And Superintendent of Edi Need Man of Bi of Education?Grand v spec Extract from charge ma de - at Newberry, JV' f. The next office to which I 1 you have supervision, is that c It is your duty to examine th be well kept and yet you ma; ent of education. Any man of reasonable -ediH law to be kept in the office oi the only way to determine tl committees into every school in the county. This is one of the most ir county, and the man who fills in the county, a great organ love for the magnificent wor] The fact is, he ought to be a and fro throughout the county arouse the people to the grea dren. He ought to be a man for his work that in selecting school districts, he will not j political influence, merely, a] promoted his election, but to fitness for the duty that they ri several schools. Now, Mr. Foreman and Gen' any school district first invest: trustees selected for the positi* See what interest they take in Hotorminp whpther thev i MX1U VA VVV* V 1. ? ? ? w the law in performing the dut Foreman, it is sad to say tl South Carolina men are daily unfitted by reason, of want o1 lack of high character, by reas responsibilities devolved upon -* i-n -r\r?/-\r-?oT,l teresi iu meru ?unv tu trustee. There are numbers good school if they were to ! conception of how to proper! community. There are trust* merely for the little honor co. - are absolutely witnout any ji resting upon them and who ar discharge the duties of the off visited the schools in their xl pointments, and who know ab the teaching done in the seve what they have heard from pa patrons is, for the most part, rived from the statement of t] of the teacher. These patrons first hand knowledge, but arc mate of the teacher. They a their childre are incapable of are entirely capable of formin of the teacher and the quality every parent, nowadays, seem; angels who are almost sproul to the veils of light and love, dren have just about as much ents, when younger, possessed and I were when boys. That trustee who turns over lection of the teacher, has no responsibilities devolved upon the law, to select the teacher ity by -electing teachers mere patrons. His is the responsibi 1 ^ teacher employed, and he can the schools. One of the weaknesses of ou: to too frequent changes in c changes result often from disc edge of the teacher's efficienc; the prattling of their childrei works not only as an injury t to the child. No teacher ca) gence, knowledge and superic such nature, and this can on study of each individual. Ab characteristics of his several teacher selected who can r>ot him until he too learns the s pupils entrusted to his care, i he, too, is removed ana yti au does not tend to promote the Trustees are too frequently teachers; that is to say, tbey the several schools under thei member of the board. This i the best interest of the schools of trustees, yet it is frequem It is your duty to ascertain wh* in your county. 1 V\e can never uupe iu nave we put more money into them the selection of proper teache almost driven the men, as sc and substituted for them the teen to twenty-three years of ed to teach as a life work, an for life, but who undertake to waiting for matrimony. Xo oi nf too pr wVlrt 9 Uyvoivivu Vt If ?V This divine call is just as in the minister of the gospel, an thrust himself into the schoc thrust himself into the pulpit 1 out a special call to that wor oughly educated they may be, teaching capacity or talent. ' worth very littk- in the schoo 1 aur.n Tooph vtjiupeu cApci from experience, and yet you ; as much to the teacher just )ol Problem Its Solution i ucation Important Office? g Brain and an Evangel ?Duty of Trustees Jury Should In:t Schools. by Judge Priuce to the jrand jury 1 Q1 Q LaiL/ii iciijli, J.t/xu, would call your attention, over which )f county superintendent of education, e records of his office, but these may y* have a very inefficient superintend :*ation can keep the books required by : the superintendent of education, but te efficiency of this office is to go by district, even into every school house nportant offices that there is in any this office ought to be the best teacher izer and a man endowed with great v of educating the masses of people. , very evangel of education, going to and, by his eloquence and enthusiasm ,t importance of educating their chilof high principle and with such love his board of trustees for the several select those men who have the most id whose active interest very much select men because of their peculiar lay have to perform as trustees of the tlemen of the Jury, when you go into igate and determine the fitness of the on to which they have been appointed. the schools of their several districts are living up to the requirements of ies devolved upon them by law. Mr. aat in numerous school districts in' acting as trustees who are absolutely F sufficient culture, by reason of the son of the lack of appreciation of the . them, by reason of the lack of iny discharge the duties of the office of of trustees who would not know a see one, nor have they the slightest , ly go about to secure one for their ;cs w uu na? c avvtpwT-u wuv aveyed by such an appointment, who ist conception of the responsibilities absolutely devoid of any purpose to ice. There are trustes who have not listricts once a year since their apsolutely nothing about the quality of ral schools in their districts, except trons. The information derived from the merest hearsay; often, it is deheir little children as to the conduct ; never visit the schools and have no 5 disposed to accept the child's estire silly enough often to believe that speaking anything but the truth and g a correct estimate of the character - * -Li ? TfT/vY?lr fV?A Irnfli ?O J 01 Llie o v> vi i\.. mc Hutu jia s to think that his children are little ;ing wings, ready to be wafted away This is a fearful mistake. Our ch.ilhuman nature in them as their par, and are no more truthful than you % to the patrons of the school the seproper conception of the duties and him by law. It is his duty, under and he can not shirk the responsibil:ly because they are selected by the ility of knowing the efficiency of each only know this by frequent visits to r present school system is largely due >ur teaching force. These frequent ontented patrons who have no knowl7 except what they have gained from i. This frequent change of teachers o the teacher but as a greater injury a properly develop a child's intelli)r nature until he first understands ly be understood after more or less out the time the teacher learns the pupils, he is jemoved and a new do the efficient work incumbent upon special characteristics of the several ^.bout the time he learns the children. other teacher is stlected. This course best interest of the child. given to nepotism in the selection of too frequently elect as teachers in r care, those who are related to some s prohibited by law, and it is not to ; for the law to be violated by boards 1-1?? <-,11 nvnr Qrvufh Pa rr?l inn Li^ ViUlClt^U Clli ts-zvyncu vui ?ther or not this law has been violated good schools in South Carolina until and more business management into rs. We have, by our false economy, hool teachers, from the, school room sweet little girl graduates from eigliage, who do not feel especially calld who have no idea of engaging in it teach for a few years while they are le has a right to occupy the responsiis not divinely called to that work, iportant for the teacher as it is for d one has no more right, uncalled., to )1 room as teacher than one has to :o preach the everlasting Gospel with k. Xo one can teach, however thorwho has not been endowed with the One may have the talent and yet be 1 room until that talent has been deing is an art, and caix only be learned md I are guilty of the folly of paying >ut of school with lit11 or 110 experi ience as w?- j>:t> to oin* who has ta only profession, calling or busine earns as much as the trained and why all the men haw been run c country schools, and the work of entirely to comparatively inexperier substitute merely because of the fa at a very small salary. We boast of the superiority of anything we have had in the past: old time academy, taugth by one ir did much more efficient work than will grant that education is now r that it is much more superficial tha and mine paid from thirty to fort; each child while at the present time to pay our taxes, which seldom am then we expect to educate at the pi but a half dozen children. Such < in our public schools is to diffuse, the number of children set apart f teacher can teach successfully m< children, and yet these cheap tea< of necessity, more frequently attem We can never -educate our people t children know little of many subj j thoroughly. It is the duty of the county sdper ir*r> rrixr/^Ti i CTTUirV ViSC LI1C IllOll uvtiuu gutu in v t y. x j termine the quality of the work d thoroughly he ought to be able to ? from the highest to the lowest, ai class in that school on any subjeel the quality of the work done by man of that type and of that degre you are not paying him enough sa! ? f o rr O HH1 A f U' prupi let > ui appuiinin^ a. tn.ub v,?> man to supervise the work of a fif man? Too often do our people elect a r tion not because of any superior the duties devolving upon his offic shrewd politician?in fact a shrewi who may have all the necessary qi This I would have you look into in every school district in the county, eral schools so that you may see 1 educational force of the county org teachers and trustees in the severa you, with the aid of the teachers, t( ber of white children in each schoo ought to be in school, but do not a vass of the children who do not atfc prised at the number of parents, ignorance, do not insist on their < i and have no appreciation of the fa God given right to an -equal chanc develop his God-given faculties, a: give his children this opportunity, 9 scorn and contempt; and, if you ai present the name of every parent ought to be in school, but are not 3It. Pleasant Man Suicide. , Savannah, Ga., March 23.?With a prawn broker's revolver, W. J. Heriot, a young white man of Mount Pleasant, S. C. stood beside a counter in a pawn shop at No. 21 West Broad street last night and fired a shot into his breast over the heart. He died a few minutes later en route to a hospital. In one of his pockets was found a '? ' o nine n C TliS, note giving LUC a, V,iuv ??identity. This was written with pencil on a telegraph blank: it read: "Please notify Y. Simons, Mount Pleasant, S. C., of my death. I assumed the name of W. J. Williams and opened a store at Elmore Ala. It has a stock valued at $650. Ask Y. Simons to notify my "* *' - " f creditors 01 same, wuuujc iui ^. Signed, "W. J. Heriot." The revolver, which Heriot used, was a 38-calibre. It was unloaded when given to him and it is supposed that he unbreached it and inserted cartridges which he carried in his pockets. There were four loaded shells and one empty in the cylinder after the tragedy. The pawn j broker and his clerk say they' did not ' see Heriot load the weapon. Beside the note referring to Y. Si- | mons, the dead man's pockets contained little else. There were two post cards addresed to W. J. Williams, Elmore, Ala., an old key and a shoe string. The cards were evidently from women. RED MEX TO MEET. ftreat fminril Will Convene at An- i derson on April Stli. Honea Path Chronicle. The annual session of the Great j council of South Carolina Improved Order of Red Men will be held with the tribes at Anderson on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 8th and 9th. It is thought that more than 200 represen- i in t 4-K^v twIUAfi f Vi rrTi Ant I LilLlVt:^ Ui cut: UIUCO cm iuv, State will attend this session. Col. Jas. G. Long of Union is the present Great Sachem of the order and Mr. B. C. Wallace is the Great Chie? of Records. Gov. Cole L. Blease is one of the loy- | al members of the order and wll be ! A j. iu! :? tT_ :~ ?i I present at ims sessiuu. ne is at yi^- \ sent a representative in the Great I Council of the United States, and it is j not at all unlikely that he will be elected to an important office in that body at the next annual session, which will be held in September. The Improved Order of Red Men! has shown a wonderful gain during the past few years and the member- | ship now is close to the five thousand : mark. It is a purely fraternal order and has done noble work wherever tribes have been organized. u.slu for ten years. This is tlie ss on earth win re th? novice experienced workmen. This is >ut of the school rooms in our teaching has been turned over iced girls and we have made the ci mm we can empiu,) cu? 511is the present school system over this is but an idle boast. The tan for years in one community, any of our modern schools. I nuch more general, but I insist .n that of the past. Your father y--five dollars a year tuition for J T ~ ~ J ; yuu aau i axe wmcuieu mcinv ount to thirty dollars per year; tblic expense not only one child, education as they are receiving , and necessarily so, because of or each teacher to instruct. .Yo are than twenty or twenty-five 2hers whom we have -employed, ipt to teach forty or fifty pupils. r? 11 Ion A/*.AnAnur Hnr ly any OUV/ll laio^ vyct! ects, but are taught no subject intendent of education to superschool in the county and to deone in each school. To do this jo into any school in the county, nrJ en in+olKfr-Pntl v PYflTllino 311V : taught as to determine clearly the teacher. You may have a e of equipment, but if you have, lary. "What do you think of the elve or thirteen hundred dollar teen to eighteen hundred dollar nan as superintendent of educafitness for the performance of ;e by law, but because he is a ier politician than his opponent lalifications for efficient service. . tnis county, ana ii you go uuo I would have you visit the sev[iow the superintendent has the anized and how efficient are the .1 school districts. I would ask ) ascertain and report the num. 1 district within school age who ttend. If you will make a canend any school, you will be sur wniie men, wiiu, u,y rea-suii in children attending some school ct that every white child has a e to every other white child to nd every parent who does not ought to be held up to public re so disposed, I trust you will in this county whose children to be found there. IS YC A \ mm I TTL ^ ",C Merchant Are Am A Cr< I \ r For the 1 By this system each places they secure cr< pay their bills. The the credit standing, i time, and as it is not bills promptly will se I f NOW is the Tim< Secure S IIJU1 mm ?wiiiMMw< m., jllj? KmmggBsm MJNNT J| Ask any good doctor what he thinks of the judicious use of pure, old whiskey, and he will tell J\ you that it is the best sort of a tonic and in- /ati vigorator. But you must fJBM choose the right kind with care?a. poor whiskey will ^4 do more harm than a .$? good whiskey can do good. Wnen you buy SUNNY BROOK Wf The PURE FOOD Whiskey -W II t*T lumrr ?you have the guarantee of the largest distillers of' *== fine whiskey in the world vjLB I Send vol PAUL HEYMANN E. B. GIBSON HARRI1 BROWN & HAGIN Chattanooga, T< iHnHBnBHBHHBi In visiting the schools, do not j little Friday afternoon stunts, bu room unobstrusively and ask the work. You may not have a colleg taught school, but if you will appl to the work being carried on in tt ordinary business matters, you v teacher is or is not doing good wo Now, Mr. Foreman, in this mat volved upoii you by law, you are oath to make diligent inquiry and ing to your best understanding, year will be one noted in the his the work done by the grand jury than to conscientiously and impai The rural club movement has gained a foothold in laano. rne wors j is to take the same course as in other J lUtt LJ GOOD? : Representatives of f-c' fVprlif ( inging for the Publi - j:i r eun v. * District, as a Basis o individual is placed on record edit and with what degree c book will show, not the fina of everybody, man or won ; a financial rating, the poor jcure a higher rating than the does not. ( 5 to PAY the old j : a Good I wiiBiu? UMimm i mm' mm* 'that it is the very best and I M, ??5&1 purett that money and skill can produce?a whiskey rm scientifically distilled and | ^ l?\ carcjuuy ugcu iv 1 inc cxpicbs |JK\ purpose of being used as a ^ J* healthful stimulant in the home. SUNNY BROOK The PURE FOOD Whiikey jy?p? is distilled, aged and bottled I 0n..|r in bond under the direct sup{Y DROv^ ervision of U. S. Government IISKEY Inspectors, and the Gresn I :nffl.?BDHO - Government Stamp that seals I . J each bottle guarantees that the I 6?ooiisi3TiuiPcc contents are genuine. ?traight. I "~l" ~ natural whiter, properly ma. I g tared, mod fall U. S? S^^trd I J or order to A. L. ALSOBROOK CO. Vf.TON INTERSTATE LIOUOR CO. I ~ jefferson distilLing co. :nn., Distributors. I >ermit the teacher to get off any t take your seats in the school ? i teacher to go on with her usual J e education; you may never have t!|| iv thp <;amp business intelligence "" V le school room that you apply to J rill be able to tell whether the f| i 1 *' rk. , j ;ter, as in all other matters de: required by the terms of your true presentment, make accordI trust, Mr. Foreman, that this story of your county because of nnimatpri !iv nn other numose tial ly work for the public weal. ______________ + cities. It lias its beginning in tlMj w donation of $3,000 by Governor Brady. ?Hoard's Dairyman. REDIT v i Li i i the ' v ' a?j / ' Company V cation of * iuide i f Credit. 2 . showing how many >f promptness they .ncial standing, but >- < tan, who trades on man who pays his ; man of means who ACCOUNT and / \ bating. aHBaHn|||inaalKnaBMBBgncuaa