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We r< lutre the name and drees of the vriter in every case. -a-rttete-tshk; is defamatory or " * fenslvely personal can find place our columns at sny price, t we are not respoualble for opinl Avnmoonrl <n n nt' nnmmiminnHnn DTIiLON, 8. C., JAN. 12, lttl As a way of trapping the t dodger the Anderson Mail sugge the passage of a law which di / \ not permit a man's financial liab Hoe to exceed the amount of pr< orty he returns for taxation. 1 do not doubt the wisdom of sucfc law, but we do not think it wot stand the test of the courts, man is liable for what he has a not what he thinks he has, the fore such a law would come in c< flict with the national bankrupt taws. However, is the; State' wot require commercial agencies to j their- "reports** from the tax hoc instead of from private individu; the situation would be relieved some extent. "People, as a rule," aays and < rltOH an ''hour Itoitor ith Vto rli tliai) wjfrh the left ear." The < ' i* suppose, is the poll ? drav /ays kwfiw both ears "n<*de 1M yif1* t Id be very glad to see t assembly pass a eta idw requiring county super* to erect iron sign boards at t asings of the public roads. 2? seem that the naming of pi ronds would be of more i n-tanee than the naming of stre a c ,'y. The "taking over" of the K lock to Bennettavllle road and 1 'gee_ to Sellers road by i 1 & South Carolina railroad Insuring to the Mullins M hlch sees in the "merg> ??trussing situation. H< ontemporary should 1 The N. & S. C. r n ing for tidewater i xa not be its east U( Editor Norton U as long as we hope ne will the pi abilities are that he will "through Pullman dining and ob vatlon cars" passing through A tins over the N. & 8. C. Take word for it: There is something hind the North & South Carolii It Ik encouraging to note t while the pleasure of the holld In many other counties was mm by homicides, murders or accid* . 1 -there was not a single killing Dillon county, and so far as have been able able to learn tti were no serious accidents, fuiira we do not gloat over misfortune that visited other co ties, but we are proud of the 1 that Dillon county passed throi Iter first Christmas with such clean record. In ten minut e after the ticli were put on sale for "The 8ins the Father" $275 worth of tick wore ibid. The tickets are be taken up rapidly and Mana O'Ferrall is expecting a pacl The editor has been in | dutches of the grippe for a w< arid- U confined to his bed. The j per is, published under difficult this week and the readers are a en to look over any omissions. b lXFLllNCB OF THK H4.THOOL ON is LIFE. T ~ ti 15) Marcel Prwoot, Member of tlM O! French Academy. I The school will tuke hold of the child when still very young and ' holds it until it is nearly grown up an is at present the object of a heated M '>1? discussion in Franoe, a discussion n< * carried on in our Parlament as well a 'ns in our dally (Vress. Ai?l? rr?* a a % a Wl ?-1 i mil ine scnooi exeris a great r>Dj influence upon the growing child is w ^; beyond doubt; but still there are ^ at v?ry earnest und very intelligent er- men who ussert that it is by no means sure that the soul of the I school permanently influences the ^ iltu Boul of the child. Some of these in- ^ t>ns slst that the school is really pow- ' ; erless to modify for any length of ;ter time the character and moral ten| not dencles of the young future citi- ^ I rat zen. This is the eternal and profound l(l | problem which faces every sincere ^ aya educator when ho takes up his task. ^ >or- Are we able to do anything to Ler-; mould the nature and character of the child?. If we are really able to Qf_ exert any influence, is not this in in fluence really passing?is not its ind effect lost as soon as it ceases to on8 exert itself and the young boy or (girl starts on his career in life? '(k' Like ull other problems in social 0. : physchology this proinlcm has at ^ ___ various times been answered in dif 1 c* I ferent ways. The opinions of a ax" | r enelon or a Rottoseau have always 8ta found a number" of indorsers, Ivet ues : tis, therefore, try to look at the in. I question itself without endeuvoring to solve it In a way that agrees j" 3p";with our preference or personal In terests. t a The only party which one might cal! the extremest educators are f. ^ fond of quoting Leibnitz, who has ^ said the word, so often repeated afn .cerward. "Give ine thp chance to t*- control education and 1^ will change. >n- the face of Europe in less than one lcy hundred years." . (ZJ| jld "'-rtelvitus went further stiH In as- ^ . selling that all men are born with , the same equal abilities,, and thut it is 'education alone which treats w itl? the difference. It, is. well to quote to these extreme affirmations, because ^ there arises immediately within us (i a desire to contradict and disprove ^ them on the basis of our personal " bx-] xperience. C. I T ? * tl iht: Without having ever tried to edupx-jiate anybody, nor even having j{ I thought very deeply about educa- u1 ! lion, who has not seen that two ?5 to children in the same family, eduicatcd by the same people, very soon ! nave shown very great differences j,, of character? No matter how great lc Is the power of education to mould tc ihc soul of a child, it h?s been a, '8~ i proved by experience almost every :he I day that education Is still very far It from being omnipotent. jj, !b- Going to tho other extreme, the ; n m_ f.b8olute believers in heredity as- f< Keif with equal zeal that education l as no power or influence whatev- 1' er Character, they say, with Fouil- tl let., is the one and constant way of c; Qj_ feeling, thinking and willing which h the the es)W j not all- | ern i ves; -ob- BK K% hat iays iri W<5 ere Of the I un'act igh a eta I eta Ing ser ted the H ?ek jfl in ? i *k- A Seen# from **Th?i Man of the K Mood M ^ ^ H B * ' peculiar to each single Individual. be seat of this activity is no tie-J on, no abstraction; It is the nerv-1 its system?the brain. # | The bruin turns out character, asj ie stomach digests; lis form and tvelopments are determined from' ie time of birth, as is the shape id development ot the hand or the i i?se. It is only because we are not j tie to see the brain of the child.! i we sec its bom; or hands that o cling to the strange illusion that e arc able to influence it by ords. Who would ever thing of uoaforming into an aqullne nose le nasal organ of a child born ith a common pug nose? To these absolute believers in :redity, one might well say, always i the nume of common sense, that child's nose or hands are susospMe to modifying culture, and that ere it possible to massage the rain, as it is possible to massage nose or hand, we should surely ? able to alter its shape, and, as is, we are still able to mould it ; f metal massage, that is to say, by instant suggestion. This is the educations.! theory of j uyan?one of the moBt ingenious' tneng modern theories. The Guy-1 n character is a system of habits,j >n>e inherited from parents others 'quired. One cannot help the first, at one may suggest the others, icy successfully combat the first, ml this is the object of all eduition. It is a most reasonable thing, it ouid then seem, to admit that the atural tendencies of the child and le education you give it are simi ir to the two components of the j imous paralellograin of f~rcea, and le final character of the subject ins betwe?en theBe, approaching j ie or the other more or less as if. stincts are stronger or weaker j win the education. And truly the solution would_h?? iiilltablc and definite If tone wodTl1 msider the child only, or lw| >ung man,, as he crosses from fcWfj ireahold -of the school into indsir^, pnt activity. At this moment he' really the resultant of his nntuf-j i tendencies combined "with "ljis ods^i itlon. Out what would be the value of, iucatlon it it rested satisfied with.; eating a kind of instantaneous i pc, and would take no interest^ hatever in the eventful deformaons of this type after its educiH on was once finished. If the ct of education disappeared soon j iter its activity ceased, then the me spent on education would niply be wasted. But when the pupil leaves school 3 ceases by no means to respond ? the suggestions which, according > Guyan a theory, give birth to inquired habits and incorporate lem in the character. Other school pens its doors to the emancipated upll -a school of whose teaching^ j e has perhaps already had a pre-1 n timent. This school is called experience, nder its blunt and vigorous rule .e young man revises the theoreti il instruction he has received from is teachers. From his twentieth -i ' i SSSSBESEBi |j|_ * W. h | . f JH H i .J i "i I I I T~ ^"^4 *'" *J ithf/' at the School AnrtttnHuni, tarr lOtti. I t mi >i"iiiiiliiKM " U> his trirtieth year, Taine writes fl'u young man laboriously strangle his ideals then he lives, or think he lives, calmly and peacefully. Tha ho "strangles" his Ideals is sayini a little too much, ho comes to com promise with them. Every doctrine, everything whici Is practical life brings him disap pointments, failure and louses h instinctively and promptly discard! In this way the fully develops character, which Taine says 1 reached at the thirteenth year, i not the result of two, but of thre components: inherited tendencies euucauon ana experience. wne this result, after many oscillationi becomes firm, we have the ma finished. And what are we u> conclud from all this? First, that any kin of education would be presumpti cus, if it imagines itself able to d av.-ay altogether with the inherite tendencies of the character; an second, that all education would fc chimercial which tried to cheat lif< which, taking advantage of the hel] leanness of the child would hid h?.de from it everything objectiox al le and the consequences thereo But if education avoids these tw dangers, that of falsifying realitU avO of disparging the capital in poitance of inherited tendencies, becomes a force equal to that t character and equal to that of e: perience. At the time when towar the thirteenth year the manifold it fluences of which the sum total coi fcists are added up, education wil If it has been what it should b make the result, the fully develoj ed character, inclines mostly in th direction of its influence. Most ( the really successful men we me< In life will say, if you ask then that their success is due to the! education. They will mention the: father or their mother, or sora lencher whose influence has moult cd their character during the! youth. * This is because, without IobId vi 101'ir uinemea lenuenca or experience, they feel that the: education was the most importat factor in making them what the have grown to be. This is the reason why un infal lbie instinct prompts political pa: ties and religious and moral creec to fight for possession of the schoo Education is only one of the thr* components of human character, bi it is the only one that may be coi tidied by those who want to guid a generation of men. He who controls the school do< net control everything, but he wt has the school against him is for ed. in order to maintain his belii ai.d secure the triumph of his idet tr appeal from the school to tt tribunal of life and experience. Marble Pierces Boy's Abdomen Rome, Ga., Jan. 10.?Edward i dinm, of Aragou, died this mori irg at a hospital here as the r suit of being struck by a marb fited from a shotgun. The boy an a companion were playing with tt gun and thought the marble ha been placed into a shell which coi Uiined no powder. He was shot through the abdi nifcu. NOTICE. < Notice is hereby given that a right, title and interest of T. C. Pa ham in the firm heretofore existir "as A. L. & T. C. Parham has bee 1111 rr?Vl O QXwl Kir A T u?-u ? * - r *' J A. u. A dlllclUi till U HI hereafter the business will be coi ducted under the name of A. L. Pa ham. All persons indebted to tt firm of A. L. & T. C. Parham wi make payment to A. L. Parham ar all persona having claims again ihe firm of A. L. & T. C. Parha will present same to A. L. Parhat duly approved for payment. A. Li., Parham, T. C. Parham. January 9, 1911. Hp Lmk for This Sit* ON LEADING GARAGES Yon Bfiti Dillon M , | i;j.^ 1 , .... . ^ KflBpk 1 * r * ' $ I,* A doling belonJJ||l Daniels at Little Rof"-" a ?*1 by fire Monday/ _ i It r.rLTin no cost sales for i- The loss is about :| _ _ _ > yes in them. We h FOR RENT.?5 ^ large lot. Apply to (1 e Dillon, S. C. ? 1 d ? 4 load all the goods A Reft * Participating potyill pay you to s i( bodied in the guarante\ " ~ Pm"DFXpmA ,J\ below cost i e This policy mi?rant(><'^ d <*. V i- P*lce- \ 0 Guarantees a policy incrca?i\ |j|| ?|l? d Guarantees a loan of" SO per \ >e from date of issue. ' A p- Guarantees the full -.mount of the p le in case of death. V , l- Guarantees paid-up cash surrender values and 0 ,8 after the third year. it jlvha snavxo.v hhjllo vrks of thk )f I An individual account with each policy of t t- ' d Company owned by its policyholders. ; A policy without restrictions. j W. H. L HcLADRM, Distrit Agent ie I )f 1 | WILLIAMS MOTOR CAR I g A carries at all times a full I |j x Supplies, and also the fi * Y Michelin Tires. ls J Auto Livery all kinds of mechanical ? 1 ei Gasolene Engine work particulai ie i Your Autos Repaired thoroughly i ll X w^en wdh us. ? I Williams Motor G i & H. L. Williams, Manag i- 'J* r?- <"$++><? >? ^ Fertilizers! Terti K represent twojof the large companies in the S J THEVIRGINA CAROLINA CHEMIC *. The Old Reliable ai mi mnn n n nAirmmm / * ? at 1UL r. 5. KUIMLK UUANU I Norfolk, Va. " The brands made by these two wellknowi been nsed for years in this section and m still holds good. See me before baying, Q> yoa my lowest prices. L. C. BRADI Office in Bank of Dili CHELIP /M Tires 3 ALL ?] THE W [ cannot know what a good tbre is 1 you try a Michelin properly inflated. IN STOCK BY iotor Car Co. Dillon, South Ca " nui ^5 we ave a ^ t that ^ r^j ? 3 3 ? By ^ a 3 Si uid re- ^ :m that ^ 3 ~j?E 1 the Difll S I- ^3 *?5 ilUUU 1 J w^ COMf ^ p / s* #i i -itw* me A rj* ? uncV ^ j fore! \ st fertilizer jr iouth % 41 COMPANY 2 Id JNPAKY OF ^ "* -fr a companies have ^ their reputation and let me quote DY * on. * & * O* ne e. b \ e ft ) ? 5/ e 5 ALE A IVER 4 ORLO *jj