The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, August 19, 1909, Image 1
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g ESTABLISHED IN 1895. DILLON. SOUTH CAROUNA, THURSDAY. AUGUST 19, 1909. VOL 15. NO. 29
W mo. NICKELS
I MAKES ADDRESS.
I His Interesting and lnitrucK
tire Piper Read at the
j* Edncation^ Campaign
I Thursday.
| l?l understand aright the pur
pose of this educational campaign,
I it is that the men of all walks of
m life, teachers, trustees, farmers,
business and professional men,
one and all, might be brought toI
get her for a day to take stock, so
^ to speak?of their educational
: affairs, and to see what this busi[
ness of educational is doing. In
b other words we have come toJj
1 gether to make the proper entry of
t the losses, if the business is not
> thrving, and on the other hand, if
lucic uc gam in tnis Dusmess we
wish to declare a just dividend.
^ The purpose of this educational
^ campaign is similar to that which
h prompts the merchant to take
k stock of his business. He wishes
to have the facts about his busi>
ft
? ness in figures, so that he may
I wisely map out a course to pursue
in his future undertakings. He
wishes to compare his success of
one year with that of former veai-s
' and if he is keeping abreast with
competitors or out stripping them
k it 16 Q Ctlmil 111" /"* hitn 1
; >? .W M IV/ nun 1UI IdlgVl
effoits. If on the other hand the
L business is not prospering it bei
hooves him to cut out the unprofitable
features and to put into
his business new plans and methods
in order that success may
>llow. So it is our purpose to<
ty, not so much to dispense eloquence
and poetry, but to make a
plain, honest investigations of our
school conditions, to express due
appreciation of their merits, and
to make a frank admission of their
shortcomings. It would not be
wise for us no note only the progress
and development of our
schools, and not to take into account
those conditions which are
nnt Mtisfflrtnrv
It has been my good fortune to
be a teacher in the schools of Marion
county for the past 14 years,
and during this time I have been
very much interested in watching
the growth of our schools. It
shall be my purpose to bring to
your attention some of the progress
and development which the
schools of the county have made
during these years; also, with the
aid of some statistics, show how
some of our educational conditions
rank in comparison with other
counties of the state, and as, I go
along note some of the conditions
which are far from satisfactory.
While the schools of Marion county
today are in many respects far
trom what we might wish them to
be, yet as we look at the improvement
that has been made along all
lines in some of our schools during
the time referred to, it seems
nothing less than wonderful.
This is an age though of rapid development,
large endeavor, and
big undertakings in the business
world, and it shonld not surprise
us to see this spirit of progress
manifesting itself in improved
^bool conditions.
*L We are gbujl to report that the
x eenoolsof Marion county are improving.
It is true that some rural communities
have undergone changes
for one reason and another, and
the schools in these districts may
not be as good as they once were,
yet the loss here is made up many
times over by the growth of other
neighboring schools. During the
pest ten years, either a new school
bouse has been built in each
school district in the county or the
old building has been remodeled
and enlarged. As I have watched
lhe growth of some of our schools
it has reminded me of a rapidly fac
growing boy, just entering his ine
teens* Before he can feel at home hui
in one pair of pants, he is com- wo
pelled to discard them for another got
pair of larger proportions. The sch
town schools in the county for the j
past ten years have had the prob- ^ul
lem of more topm and a larger ag(
teaching force confronting them the
almost every year. The Latta fro
school, for instance ten years ago cre
was run by one teacher in an old po,
dilapididated, unceiled frame ter
building of one room. In the
meantime this was replaced by a ter
neat four room frame building of a
one story, then shortly a second mo
story was added to this, and to day the
Latta has a modern brick school we
house, with 8 well furnished class pai
rooms, and a large auditorium, the the
building costing possibly $15000. jor
The experience of the other town an,
schools in the county has been ier
similar to if not quite the same as frc
that of Latta. While there is this ho
marked improvement in the school sa,
buildings in the county, few if any yc
of our school houses are as good jrr;
in every respect as they should be tin
yet in almost all of them the pu- si*
pils can be made reasonably com- scj
fortable. Just here I might add it
that our school house should be mi
the most ecstly and attractive a v
building in the community. si>
Marion countv in 1900 was ex- no
pending for school purposes about no
19 9 onn inr?o t
ri.i.gwu anu 111 17UO, ill j uc
eight years the revenue for school j Qu
purposes has over doubled. The mc
increase in revenue has been
much greater in the town schools q>c
than in the country schools. The
town schools have nearly four
times as much revenue now as
they had eight years ago.
The efficiency of our teaching an,
force we think has increased in a wc
similar proportion to that of our Coi
revenue. on
Marion county has on the aver- tei
age about as good teaching force sp<
as can be found in the state. lib
In the past 3 vears our teacher* laI
have shown a lively interest in re<
getting: for their school rooms P*
better equipments?such as patent
desks, substantial black- ne
boards, charts, maps, globes, en'
pictures etc. Ten years ago I ta*
doubt if there was a good set of
maps in any school in the county
with the possible exception of the
Marion graded school. Within * 1
the past 3 years I have sold to the a^!
teachers of this county about 30 su'
sets of maps, with 6 or 8 maps to SU1
the set, on spring rollers in neat
oak cases, and about half as many eir
substantial 12 inch globes To c^li
the credit of the teachers, it may an'
be said that in almost every case
thev raised the mnnev or
ent o# the school fund with which ot*
to purchase these necessary helps. '
While there is marked improve- fal
ment here, there are many schools rai
in the county that have practi- ]
cally no teaching: helps. The tri<
good effects of the rural school coi
improvement association have scl
been felt in our county and one or no1
two of the schools received prizes sp<
offered by this association. I qu
wish to suggest in this connection the
tho' the thought is not mine, that yel
the county board of education Ba
ought to have at its disposal, a tar
fund sufficient to employ a well lev
trained competent woman teacher Or
for the ett ire scholastic year. 45
l nis woman shoula be required for
to give her entire time to the most of
backward rural communities, it i
She could spend 2 or 3 days, and it (
in some cases a week, with'a teach- the
er, and from actual teaching de- up*
monstrate many matters of dis- ter
cipline and method. She could a c
devise programs of recitation so tax
that the teacher's time would be po;
distributed most economically, a s
She oonld point out the oondt- Wi
tions moat in need of improve- tio
ment and suggest plans by which val
the defects could be remedied. In an
t she could be of help to the :
xperienced rural teacher in a
id red ways and her salary '
uld be many times repaid in the '
xl that would come to the !
iooIs from her work.
have no statirstics to prove it,
t it is safe to say that the averi
length of the school term in
s county has been increasing
m year to year. The large inase
in revenue for achool pur>es
indicates that our school
m has been decicedly lengthen The
average length of the schoo ^
n*. for the state is 23-4 weeks or
little less than 6 scholastic
mths. The average length of
: term for Marion countv is 24
eks. Again drawing a comrison
there are 18 counties of 1
; 42 in the state which have a
iger average term than Marion,
d 3 counties have the same
igtli of term as Marion. So
>m this we see that Marion
Ids exactly a middle position,
ving herself from reproach and
t having small cause tor conatulation.
As the average for
2 schools of the county is only
: months, and many of our
tools arc running 8 or 9 months
follows that there must he
iny schools in the county with
.chool term much shorter than
months. These things ought
t so to be brethren. We should
t be willing: to do away with edational
campaigns untill all of
r schools are running for nine
rnths each year.
Now a word about libraries,
n years ago there were not
)re than 3 or 4 school libraries
the county. Since the passage
the school library act Marion
iinty has established 56 libraries
d enlarged 30 of them. In other
?rds almost every school in the
unty has i small library. Only
e county in the state has a bet
record than Marion in this re;ct
and that is Laurens with 59
raries established, and 39 en-ged.
Before looking up this
: >rd I thought I would have the
t'JCIirn of oloimi'nnr
.uoiiiv vi. vmiiiiiu^ lUI wirtl 1UII
; distinction of being the banr
county of the state in referee
to the number of libraries es>lished.
Being disappointed
re I have tried to find someng
in which Marion does excel
other counties in the state and
hink I have succeeded. In the
sence of any statistics on the
bject I make the claim and teel
re that there is no one here to
ipute it. that Marion county
iploys more bright winsome,
arming lady school teachers,
d that more of them get married
re during their term of service
shortly after, than in any
?er county in the state.
Most of the male teachers too
1 victims of cttpid, but in seijie
e cases they seem immune.
Fourteen years ago Marion disct
was the only district in the
inty levying a special tax for
tool purposes. Marion county
w has 26 districts levying a
icial tax of 2 to 4 mills. Not
ite half of the school districts in
5 county are levying a local tax,
; only 3 counties in the state?
rk- v. J ?>
lunvu, uioiiKcuur^c unu opar*
iburge?have more districts
ying a special tax than Marion,
angeburg is in the lead having
districts which tax themselves
school purposes. The subject
taxation is sacred ground and
s not always safe to tread upon
;xcept with shoes removed, yet
s hope of our schools depend
an a successful invasion of this
ritory. As the law now stands
ommunity cannot levy a school
: of more than 4 mills with a
isible two mills additional where
tate high school is established,
th property returned for taxan
at 25 or 50 per cent of its
lue it is almost impossible for
y community to raise funds
ELLAGRA INTEREST
INGLY DISCUSSED.
Discription of This Loathsome
Disease in its C afferent
Stages by Dr. B. Pi.
Badger. * lis Causes, F.te.
1'ntil 1^1*7 vi-r littl. was kn< ?\vr.
this disease vfteh is now
sin;-; so iiyuvh attention ammut all
isses^**fi.'iir proolc, professional
11;?r? >fessi ?n.i:.
Standard m'd ical 'iternmre 1 ?rit*f
describes ihe- disease asorip.inaicr
in Span after in t nx hut ion of
am* or Indian corn from An\??>*!
sufficient to run its school proper-' pj
ly. It is true, that more than;
half of the school districts in the
state arc levying no tax at all for
school purposes, yet it is equally A
true that those districts which ate "
levying: to the limit of the law
;-ouid make the work tl>ne in th^ it*
Schools more efficient with a lnrgi r ,
revenue. The law s h o u 1 ,(\'
Continued Next Week.
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RACE MEET AT CHERAW. /
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Mysterious "'Dark Horse'* will Try^To"
Beat "Alphonso." ly
tit
Cheraw, August 15.-Social: M
The races in Cheraw ott itvxl c.(
Tuesday, the 17th. promise to he ~
exceedinglv .vr<x)d There will 1 e c"
more horses on the track than it?
have been on any track in the l'< e ci;
Dee circuit this year. The foi- ;i|
lowing horses are either here now x
or on tiie way: Mi", (iibson's
Brownie, Mr. Elliott's Sir llcnrv t>;i
and Maxine Payne, Mr. Ilugginss ti<
His Leige and another horse. M>. pi
Drake's King- Alphonso, who h.- ^ S(
so far beaten nearly everything hi .^
sight, Mr. Edwards's Margarite
and horses of Messrs Stacklmuse. ?
Graham, Cannon, MeCall, ('nuiey . tv
Exuin and others. Those in'.cn s:
cd in these races will be espci!ally
interested to know that i (
"dark horse" will be on the tr:u
for the express purpose of b> ..: it ''
King Alphonso. Si \ handled.!. 1'
lars will be given 111 prizes. Tl.? at
judges will be Dr. Ileiseand I >. 1,,
Vlrdwnr i>t ili.. sitMi.. i.*..;, . .... . 1
^ .i
and Mr. \V. L. Clement s. of
Greensboro, N. C. The rules of
the National Tmtlinji'Assoei:'.?i? n w
will be observed, ami evervthin/
will he clean and fair. nl
d.
Death of Miss Nancic Edens. v
...... ti
Miss Naneie Edens. dauyhti r
of Mr and Mrs. J. 1*. Edens died
at her home in llennettsville Sun- ,:
day afternoon at 6. o'eloek. Mi s
Edens was twenty two years of
age, and was a yonn;; woman of t.(
many christian traits of character.
She leaves ten sisters and broth 1
ers besides her sorrowing parents tl>
and a host of relatives to mourn a
her untimely end. Miss Edens a;
frequently visited relatives here ic
the McDonald and Edens-family ))(
who have the sympathy of the ,
community.
__ b:
Hot Shot for Mary.
1)
Here's an obituary notice taken
from a Missouri paper, which isn't
afraid to call asoade a .nark
"While it is almost a crime?to hi
speak ill of the dead, we feel it di
our duty to tell the truth about tl
Mrs. Mary Buyer, who died last
night. She never spoke a decent
word of any person, livingor dead,
and slander was the joy of her M
life. If she goes to heaven, we A
don't want to be there, and we t;,
believe we voice the sentiment of j,
every man, woman and child in
this town. NVe will gladly eontribute
a quarter for ice for Mary, tli
She will need it." cr
of
Not Excempt. ^
An evangelist was exhorting
his hearers to flee from the wrath
to come. "I warn you," he thun- st
aerea, mat tnere will be weep- w
ing, and wailing, and gnashing of
teeth!" j0
At this moment ai: okl woman j
in the gallery stood up. "Sir."
she shouted, "1 have no teeth." t'1
"Madam," returned the evan* si
gelist severely, "teeth will be pro- c<
vided." m
la
The County Board of education at
met yesterday at Marion to hold D]
the examination for the Citadel ()J
scholarship. For this examina(iaii
ar?1tf f uron a m
UVII um v iiuvv iV|/| tii v.u ,
Gilchrist, Legette and Kastcrling.
It is not for a lack of appreciation til
of the high standard of the Citadel 1K
and the thorough work being done ,
there, that so few compete for these
scholarships, which arc worth a
$250.00 a year. But there is a re- at
quirement that the applicants so- ai
cure a permit from the Citadel an- je
thorities before they can strnd the ni
examination. Many boys who
would like to compete for these P'
scholarships over look this require- th
ment and consequently are debar- id
red from competing. d,
Tha Dillon Herald $1 .50 a year. f<
: sp-ea'inyr iln'iu i- LJ.iU.dv^rmrl |
TintncT~Tirt\leriii:y on tin. Mnl
. rranean Sim where the corn was
iltivuteti ami largely used as an
most exclusive article ot diet,
ml the tact of this loathsome disise
he in it strictly contined t<> seems
where the com was their
ineipJl s<mice of food supply,
on estahlished the theory that
iere was mietliMi;; more than
> im idence in the relat'on < >f the
1*0.
Only two years aip> tile inetvas1
nuinh t -t eas? of a new tvpe
di -ca t inti?'thit t tl in the Stale
os;>ital I" r tlie it: at e. Mdnetd
T. J. W. I'.ahct ? 1. ii> pay speeial
t< at i'ai t i nialadx wliit'll was new
> tun r-actio:!, ami evidently on
le inereasi ; his . out ihi tions to
ie literature on the su'd-a : uv e
iii; i> distributed and ?.!< veloped
? much intei'-st .hue ii*v tiovernlent
sent ;.n expert. I ?r. Laven r
. invest ante th matinr. This
as J'??ii\n;;.;"hly dotic, l)r Lavender
lrnishin; valtiubu sctcniilie data
i a tc< huieai way t<? the departi-ni
"I Public Health and Marine
rviec <>i tlte 1 nitcd Slates.
1'raetieaiiy \vr\ little was aemiplished.
There is no absolute
i lainty as to the eause ami sad,-st
i>1 all. no known remedy for
disease that bids lair to become
n n't'eat a svourane atnonn lis as
j>n?sv was anions tno ancient
.topic of the orient, in tact it is
town in Kuropc as the "Loinird\
Leprosy."
Dr. Habcock accompanied by
r .1. J . Watson visited Italy last
. ar t'or the purpose of studying
iu disease and as a result ??f their
.inibari'/.in't themselves with its
iffere.it stages, they have sir.ee
leir return to this country found
> dillieultv in id.mtifyin.vr it in
irious localities: Wilmington,
orjranton and Charlotte. N. (*.,
u^usta, Milledjtfeville and Allan,
(la., and in man> places in
lis State. There are and have
ten over two hundred eases in
ie State Hospital under Dr. Hab>ek.
A few weeks ajjotlu writer
this paper was at this institution
id was kindly shown by Dr.
hompson over the Pellagra wards,
here were a great manv in every
age <if the disease and new eases
ere coming in constantlyThe
disease begins very insidnsly
usually in the spring, pains
i the limbs and an eruption on
le hands, arms, face and feet like
inburn, the skin afterwards bemiing
rough these symptoms,
ore or loss varying in intensity,
st till July or August, then disipear
tooeeur with increased vience
the next Spring, and thus
1 and on for several years, with
>re mouth and gums, diarrhoea
id great wasting <>f the htidv tin
II the |iaticnt presents the ap arenee
of one iti the last stay.es
consumption. The suffering is
most unbearable, running sores
id festering lx?ils, skin cracked
ul bleeding; ami, with all. an obet
of loathing; and pity. The
lind under stress of the great
Itvsical suffering: gives way, and
ie creature becomes a drivelling'
liot 01 a raving; maniac, until
eath comes as a relief
; a relief and closes the scene>r
very few ever lecover. While
it is not absolutely certain that
the disease is due to the use of
corn there seems to be sufficient
reason for caution along: this line.
The most careful investigators declare,
aftir exhaustive experiments,
that if corn is the cause,
that cause lies in the condition of
the grain, flood sound corn that
has been allowed tc stand, ripen
and fully mature in the fields betoi'e
harvesting is not onlv a valuable
and nutritious food product,
but abso luiely harmless as shown
by the fact that for more than a
hundred years it was the staff of
life, not only among the slaves of
tile Soutn, where it was the exclusive
bread or cereal ration bur,
a Is i among the whites, v:\iere no
dinner table was considered complete
without its corn pone or the
morning meal withoul its hominy
or jfl'its and the delicious corn
mnllin.
When the corn however is cut
down in the lield before full maturity
shocked and dried, then
I shucked, shelled ami stored away
111 jjfreat bins or vrranaries, it
easily develops a iter in which is
pois? nous to man or beast-it is
then shipped South for bread or
ii it is too far june, the distiller
buvs it and converts it into
cheap whiskey appropriately called
"r >t rut " In either form it is a
death dealing ajtent. Science
luivni- ui-covereti tnai me toxin
?>r poison which -ks in tne bread
is wry soluble in alcohol. These
fa-. an* significant; the disease
being unknown when sound corn
was used so extensively without
a single case of pellagra ever bein..;
heard of. but becoming alarmingly
common now with the use
of shrivelled and musty corn there
being over one thousand cases in
tlie Slate- the indication is plain.
I'lant and mature our corn in the
good old fashioned way, grind it
into meal and grits at home as
our fathers did and let western
corn and man whiskey severely
alone.
benjamin >1. Badger, m. D.
TIM MONSVILLE ENJOYS
GREAT DAY OF SPORT
Races and Baseball Games Furnish interest
for Summer Stay-at-homes
and Visitors.
Timmonsville, Aug. 11.?Timmonsville
has never experienced a
greater clay of sport and enjoynienl
in her history. Fullv 1,000
people witnessed the base ball
nami and races today. At 10
o'clock an exciting game of ball
was played by the flats club and
Timmonsville club, which resulted
5 to 1 in favor of Timmonsville.
At 2:30 O'clock in the afternoon
the races started. First race,
free-for-all, purse $200-Entries,
Alfonso, owner, Drake of Benncttsville;
Alberto, owner, Cannon
of Florence; Maxine Payne
owder, E. T. Eliott of Marion;
Hazelhurst, owner M. B. Huggins
of Timmonsville: Belle of
Darlington, owner, W. W.Cooley.
Alfonso won three straight heats;
Alberto second; Belle of Darlington,
third. Time. 2.16.
Second race. 2.24 class, purse
$100?Entries, Trilby M. owner,
C. F. Moore Postman, owner,
M. H. Muggins; Brownie, owner
J. B. Gibson; Dolly Dillard,
owner, Rxum& Drake, Trilby M.
won in straight heats; Dolly Dillard
second, Postman third.
Third race, $100 purse, 2:30 ;
class?Entries, Big Joe, owner
nu^ffins 01 rtmmonsvuie; Bessie
(ienlrv owner, Cannon of Florence; -j
Black Joe, owner Dupose of Timmousville;
Virginia Deer, owner,
Truluck of Lake City. The race
v>as won by Big Joe; second Bessie
Gentry, third Virginia Deer. J
(Time, 2:37J6.?Florence Times.>