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I , < «■ taniari VOL. XXXI. V.'ALTERBOJiO, S. C, OCTOBER 7. iqoS. NO. 8 OUR SCHOOLS anii the appeahi which come before BY Wm. H HAND ^ var * ous school boards are enough _____ „ | to make one turn |>essimist. The o •. ... worst of it all is, that most of these Of South Carolina University . ... . . ... contentions and bickerings are chil- Sooner or latyx our people are go- dish and groundless, and that they ing to have more comfortable and are usually, begun and kept alive by eonuaodious school houses Before w j| 0 have at heart but little in- the people put their money into Merest in any school. In settling permanent improvements, would it mos ^ 0 f these disputes, Solomon’s not be wise to reduce the number of judgment between the two women schools in a great many places. A claiming the child would be whole- good four-room house costs less than sorm . ^ It is to these jealousies and quar rels that we owe two, three, and even four little starving schools where but one ought to be. To them we owe the little district unable to support a school. Every influential local celebrity wished to have a school house at his front door or in his back yard. To these jealousies | we owe most of the defeated local i tax elections. Nearly ail the local disputes over the teacher have their origin in neighhorhpod jealousies, PAUL K.CROSBY < four one-room houses of equal comfort and convenience. Sixty pupils in one building can Ik* better taught and nvre easily taught than 15 pupils each in four buildings. A four-teacher school will flourish where four one-teacher. schools would struggle to keep alive. In more than half the counties in the State are to be_£ound dozens of schools with 10 and 12 pupils each. Not many weeks ago I visited a rural school with an enrollment of 11 pupils; three miles off was another L_J Passes His Phnion <)\- Road IM ties. Editor (Press and Standard: The main object jn having tho old road i law restored would be to have s<.me ; work done on ail roads, each year. Cnd«*r the present plan, there i- not ! money enough to repair all roads, and so most of i: is spent on some ! one section, while the roads nearby tha* are. perhaps in wor«e condi- jtionmu>t remain impassible, and almost impassible, while We must go through or go around just which e\er we think best. Now, with the road hands under a law which would , admit of it, that is where labor can mg contrast. We have seen portunity and responsibility thrust by favoritism Upon the unfit, the in capable, or ' the unworthy. The wages of such follv E inevit'.blv. * .»■ i" j tasted opitortunitv. shirked or' m * THE EDWIN R WEEKS Co. Appears Third Time in Wal- terboro. tinan- j f of'I'ortunitv, u . . /* . uMavprociattN! responsilulitx, cal or moral injury to others, hum i'ia*ion to tho-e who are reallv the) victims (*f- their own conceit and their friends’ misused influence” 1‘aul K. Cn sby. MORE ANON The Late Joteph William Saundera. The subject of this sketch was boro July t*.ls.t:t a t Williams in the upper part of this county, an 1 school with 13 pupils, and in another and the baneful habit of constant direction was a third school with 14 j change of teachers has its roots pupils. The three teachers were j embedded here, paid $35 each; each school house A certain district - school is sup- was cheap and t ill equipped. In j ported by 10 families. All is well, some districts six miles square are j hut the school house stands on the to be found as many as three white south side of a little creek which schools, each with a small number about once a year reaches a depth of of puplis scattered from first reader to high school grades. A good many of the incorperated villages have four feet. A and B suddenly con clude that this innocent stream is a menace to the lives of their chil- school districts coextensive with the i dren, and petition for a new district. incorporate limits. An accurate school district map of the State would look very much like a crazy quilt. What is the remedy? Take the three schools cited above. Build a comfortable two-room house at a central point and give the entire 38 pupils to two teachers. Each pupil would then have his recitation time doubled, for there would be in the consolidated school no more grades, or classes, than there were in the most advanced of the three in little schools. 1 am at once remided that some of these children would have too far to walk. (It is marvelous The next session finds a little 20 by 20 foot hull of a school house on the north side of that creek, and a little lifeless school on each side of it. Or, C’s bad boy is punished by the teacher; straightway C raises the flag of secession, and proceeds to have his own little d-e-e-estrict cut off. Or, one ot the local economists gets tired of paying a teacher $40 a month, since his daughter would teach for $30; the trustees will not yield to the economist; then the economist canvasses tfce district in the interest of a new set of trustees, with the economist as chairman. Or, D and E are rival local physicians already Tells of The Happenings Around Adam’s Run. Adam’s Run. Oct. 5 Special: All be substituted for cash; the needs of the summer swallows have returned the road appeal more personally to home with the exception ofMrT I) community, Ravenel’s family, so the “stay-at and the “can’t-get-aways” have almost forgotten thay didn’t the citizenship of any ar d eath take a kind of iocal pride in h ;jmes died keeping up their’section. Where as May 5. 19<»> a! his home near Mokes j t j s um ] er present plans nc one | e avetown after an illness extending over, jeems to assume, any responisbility, Mrs S J 'Mj several months being in his 65th year. Mr Saunders w as ^ne of those 1 quiet, unassuming, conscientious men whose influence was always on the ride of right and uncompromis ingly opposed to anything question able or wrong. He joined the Zion Baptist church at the age of fifteen years, shortly afterwards moving his membership to Doctor’s Creek where for more than forty years he was d deacon. He wa* one of the most faithful and conscientious members and officers this church ever had. and his religious duties were always r^-rfonied with the same care ano fidedry lie gave his family. Mr Saunders was maried Oct. 7, 1866 to Miss R -*»vc.*a Adams and of this union nir.** children were born, only one. Berj nmn. having gone on before. Thi- nifle fellow died when six years cl 1. B« sides his widow the following children survive him, Mrs Mary McMillian of Ruffin, Joseph S.. Lou, Harvey, Calvin. Willie. Jar ie. an i reside at Si<•!%>•> out Rumph returned home no matter how near .t may be nor ^ we( . k from „ extended y|sit t0 how badly It may need repairs, no | Caeaar!i H ead and Greenville, one feels called upon to see to being ; Mr and Mn> Brown retumed last worked. Every body's business is, week f rom H ot Springs. Ark. where no body s business. Now then; if , they spent the summer on account there wore overseers at pointed over 1 of the f ormer ' 8 health. each four mile! section "ho would Miss Emily Legare returned Mon- r’i 7 EDWIN R. WEEKS. summons out the hands, say twice a year to work three days each time, or better three times a year to worit two days each time, the worst places on ail roads could be improved and repaired, so as to admit ofjtravel at all times, and not be as it is now in some place, that is bog down or break down in trying to get to a good road to travel. If the road hands would spend more time in digging up stumps along the road side that are within the road bed and ditches, so as to permit of the use of a road drag much good could be accomplished at far less expense. One man and two horses, w ith a split log drag, can do as much in three hours, as ten men day from an extended visit to Char leston. Mr Rumph visited Charleston last week. The school boys and girls have left for the different schools^ Miss Bessie Barnwell represents us ntWin- throp, John Barnwell, Charleston College, Frank Barnwell. High School, George Newton, Furman University, Misses Hliza Legare and Bessie Bellinger, Confederate Home College. We wish for these young people preparing for life’s battles, a pleasant and profitable year. The ladies of the Methodist con gregation gave an ice cream fes tival last Tuesday night to raise funds to ceil the church. The inclemency of the weather prevented many from attending, but every- how much trouble a father who w . i i m m walked four * miles to school and at odds; D says that Smith s boy has j hodls a respn.i-.i ,e p >Mtion at Jack- j belong had been prepared for the ceived a handsome cake which brags about it makes over his child’s a contagious dist'a-e. and must be sonville. hia. ^ us* ,,f the draw and that some . , . ? L walking one mile.) I grant that the ; stopped from the school; E declares Early in > '• . .*!r maunders enlisted consolidation puts the school too far that the diseose is only infectious, ’ n ( Esu :-e Bellinger s com- for some to walk. What then? ' and that it would be silly to ‘ stop pany and wa- t" fields Point Take part of the money to transport Smith’s boy; the quarrel rages, the vv * iere these to the school. Prof. W. K. partizans array themselves, an d : months. Tate of the Memminger Normal down goe.T the local school tax pro school says: ‘‘It is better and posed by the only really interested cheaper to transport the distant patron of the school. Or, X begins " children to the good school than to to discuss a new school house; * Y bring a poor school to the distant says that the old one is good enough, -^children.” Yes; one good school is and that X is tr>ing to lead the immeasurably better than three in- 1 district; no new house is built, '"‘irnd ferior schools. the old one gradually rots down. The transportation of distant Or, Miss Brown, the teacher, boards pupils is no new fad. Several years ; with the Smiths; the Joneses feel ago the Eastover district in Richland neglected, and begin to whisper it county threw five schools into one. j about that the teacher can not solve The district runs four wagonettes, Sallie Jones’ problems or parse Sal- made for the purpose, to haul the lie’< sentences; the Smiths retaliate ^distant children. Another instance: by asserting that the teacher is able Three adjoining districts in Fairfield to teach the whole Jones family, county, with a combined enrollment result—the anti-Smith faction’s chil- of 60 pupils, have consolidated their, dren are taught next session by Miss schoolsat Bethel, have erected a Sallie Jones herself. Once more. $2,600 school house, and are trans- Mr Brown, with much religious porting ail the children who live too devotion to his church creed, de- far to walk, This consolidation mands that the new teacher shall be gives the school enough pupils to an X-ist; Perkins’ Y-ism at once be- estab'ish a rural high school, $300 State aid. 11th S. C. V ( rit. A. (\ 1 uird, and was in tne battle >>t Pocotaii.>r>>. go ing from there to t'u-tee, Fla, in 1862. from tnere to Fort Sumter where he remained three months. He was then sent to Virginia and took part in tne battles of Swift Creek, Cold Harbor, Drury’s Bluff. Weldon Radroad. and otner battles. He was captured Feb. 2. 1*66 at car. do in ten hours, why then will DHa'^AH 'fThese' We DOt wor * i to about , condi- Harvev who t ‘ on ''^' !l '^ "dl admit of its use thing was sold out and quite a nice Say that the section of road to which sum realized. Miss Marie Fox re- was use of the drag, and that some vo t e( l her f° r being the evening afte*' a rain I could hitch on to it with my team, and drag one side going and one coming, over a distance of four miles in three hours and thereby render more service, than the work of ten men in hours. -aa sorv; »e ,f"r Ii«- r.-- r.’.Uted in a few Co. I. prettiest girl present. Miss Nancy Newton was also presented one for being the< most popular lady. Miss Nonie Dodd was also the recipient of a most delightful cake which I can vouch for being a good as it looked. The opening number of the Lyceum Association will be the Edwin R Weeks Co., which will ap pear Monday evening Oct. I2th, at the court house. This company thia season consists of Mr Weeks, Miss Lucia Gillespie, whose artistic piano solos, and splendid accompaniments have caused so much favorable com ment here before, and Miss Lulu Sinclair, concert violinist who is a member of the faculty of the Ameri can Conservatory in Chiago, and is spoken of as ‘‘one of the best Viol inists in Chicago today.” The entertainment will begin promptly at 8:30 o’clock and it is hoped that everyone will be there at that time. The admission will be the same as heretofore fifty cents for adults and twenty-five cents for children. The management would like to see the court house crowded. The accommodations there are a great deal better than ever before and the lights wdll be all right. CITADEL OPENS Would not this be easier, and better, as I had a practical demonstration of And the same service for each its sweet qualities, for Miss Nonie hand on this section of road once it around while I was at her , ,, , ^ home (wasn t I lucky;) I never each jear would keep it m fine cn- he ar<l any special reason why she dition the year round, and so with received hers, but it goes without ail roads »vhere preparations are saying, for being the’’dearest” girl made and the road drag used. present. But first we must lay as it were know ve used my riwrvaUon ao. rp n i v , .. , the foundation, to build on or to Town Creek, N. C bv Uen bchoneld s i . . , that is adopt a system which will in sure better results than that which army and carried to Point LookOut He was dischared July 2, 1565 and returned home. He was promoted to sergeant before the close. Returning from the war, by hard work, he w rested a living from the soil of his native county, and when he died he was the owmer of a splen A PAINFUL ACCIDENT is in vogue at present. And to do M of Round this we must revise the whole system and institue and constitute, Haa Arm Broken in Gin. a more general modus operandi. Cottageville, Oct. 3. -Special: We once had something simular to Thursday morning about 11 o’clock o Asbury M. Addison, the 22 year old J township supervisor that is we ^ of j F ddison whi|e ^8^ did farm a couple of miles from had T from | in a bale of cotten at Addi- i t«'\ixrr%oriirv Ktif Hid rlnft* uroa I nrtrl mr» nmf rtia Dr s Creek church. Joseph S and Willie are carrying it on in the same manner as before State, Superintendents McMahan and Martin have zealously advocated the consolidation of small schools. Such policy would encourage the building of better roads, while the with I gins to ferment, while Stubbs de- deatlp dares that Z-ianism has been out- j ^ auri ^ er 3 death the corn- raged, since there has not been a mun ^y a loved and respected Z-ism teacher in the school in five ^ r * en( ^ s an( ^ neighbor, the church a years. W’hen the new teacher comes, devoted and consistent member and is he to teach X-ist doctrine, Y-ist county a valued citizen. But doctrine, Z-ian dictrine, or should he influence ot such a man lives on township, but his duty was not I son and Jordan’s gin, got his arm dearly defined, nor was his position caught in a rope wound round shaft in the hands of the people, hence we ru . n P re88 * an d broken It was , ’ his right arm and was broken above did not get the best of his service wrist, the bones protruding, either in labor or love. 1 submit, making a painful flesh wound in that the township supervisor should addition to.the broken bones. Dr W l>e “elected” by the peoph* and not A Kirbye was summoned and dress- use G f the institution at an expense appointed for »nythinKth«t is man!- ' has ^ aufferin* of S 40 ' 000 ' Those and other Interting Letter From Our Cita del Correspondent Charleston,Oct. 6,—Special: The South Carolina Military Academy reopened yesterday under most favorable conditions for a successful vear. There are at present 200 students on roll. 90 of which are recruits.There were only 169 students last year. The recruits entered the Citadel on last Wednesday* Sept. 30] in order to stand the entrance ex aminations held Wednesday Thurs day and Friday. The old students came back Saturday. So, all was in readiness to begin Monday. Many improvements were made on the school buildings during the summer. The rooms were re painted and calcimined. and many modern appliances for the benefit and comfort of the cadets were in stituted. The old Central Police Station, which stands on one corner of the Citadel square was purchased by the State and remodeled for the minor pulated is polluted. When a man vorv great pain, but he is doing as improvements add greatly to the knows that his position is sure, w hen *•«!! as could be expected consider-, beauty and comfort of the college he knows that his conduct, is not in S the nature of the ‘ n iunes. buildings. amenable and to the voters, he be- *■*"* The Faculty has also been in comes, careless and is a time server, Mis> Annie Roberts of Gillisonvilie j creased. The following are new W St Julian Jervy, Bishop W. A. gives. - „ l Lommananat, L. S. Lettile. Prof. transportation itself would protect be a simple.God.fearing man whose ~it can never die. the children in bad weather, and daily life will be a rebuke to these * —• would protect the small children and clamorous Pharisees? BISHOP GCERRY TO BE HERE. BnT^x’iTtT^rweive more than he* ha= i ^ Evergreen school mem ber8 the girls from insult or violence at the AH this may sound like satire, but o i v 1 » u- i vu V and began teaching Monday, k. J. . . * “ c. . !. t . . . , - ’ '» Sunday Nov. 1st Bishop W. A. gives. ^ Hiers was in to see us Saturday and L mnananal * hand*'* tramps or t ugs on it thtfcurtahi^ever falls* Can • ^ uerry 1)6 ‘ n (o H eton county Therefore, all men in official posi- said his advertisement has brought, Orawing, L F Hie, Prof Frenth lonely country roads. noisome neighPorhoods see .'them- The Dioce.ie gives his appointments r ,tion should be elected by the people him more applications than ho knows ; and German,. Unis Knox, Prof. as Adams Run. Meggetts. ami Wal- for whom they serve, in order that what to Ho with. It pays ^to adver- chemistry and Geology, J C Pate, terboro, for one day. This will be a their conduct may be passed upon C fia ^ xr a rtac ^ 1 assistant Prdf. of Mathematics, and strenuous day for the Bishop if he by the voters, either to approve or covers all these distances. to condemn. HEARING POSPONED. NEIGHBORHOOD JEALOUSLES AND QUARRELS. These twin evils have done more to prevent and to destroy the effi ciency of the common schools than any other two agencies in the land. It is difficult enough to maintain a good school where everybody works in harmony, and it is wellnigh impos sible where strife and divisionare. To listen to the petty contentions, the sharp bickerings and the tales of discord in some communities makes one marvel that a school can exist in such a plaee. The petitions selves in the play? William H. Hand. Cninersity of South Carolina. The hearing of the Ifoore-Griffin appeal before Judge Woods at Marion was posponed from Tuesday to Thursday on account of the ill ness of Col. J. G. Padgett The at torneys left to-day for Marion. Those representing Mr. Griffin are, J. 8. Griffin and J. G. Padgett, Rep resenting Mr. Moore Flthburne ft Flahburne. PENILE SCHOOL OPENED The Penile school opened Monday morning with a good attendance. Prof. E. B. Bellinger of Walterboro is to be teacher in charge. Prof Bellinger had been elected to he one of the principles of the Smoaks school, but resigned to accept the Penile school, which was to run for a longer time. In substantiation of this I here j produce a clipping from a recent issue of The Advocte. ^ “Among the pitiful, almost tragic, none The Board of Commissioners for State and county election will meet at the courthouse here Friday, Oct. 9. to give notice of election, appoint managers, etc. Mrs W. H. Padgett returned spectacles of this life none are of I Saturday afternoon from a pleasant more frequent occurrence than the yj 8 * 1 R fcwweeks toher Barents, misfits in capacity and responsibility, j £ “k we have all seen such spectacles <>*; f rom Saturday to Monday in town men raiaed by pull to positions of vititing ir&tfvea. ~ honor and dignity whose characters j. m. Padgett, magistrate of Jack- flared out in disgraceful and degrad- aonboro, was in to see us Monday. J D Charles, assistant Prof, of English. Rev. G H Atkinson of Monroe N. C. delivered several lectures to the (cadets in the college chapel on Saturday and Sunday. Rev. Atkin son is interested in Y. M. C. A. work. The Y. M. C. A., is a flourishing institution among the Gtadel boys. The Jackaonboro school will begin its next sesnon with Miss Brtafla Stewart of Newberry, as ttadffir.