The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 29, 1908, Image 7

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OlfeattQ* 408 4ft Oft ? OUR SC L PAPER HY I'ltOK. XVIIA 1'oor Attendance?Even with in-, aufllclent funds, poor school houses, short ychool terms, and incompetent teachers, the peoplo may still show a commendable educatllnal purpose bjr sending every child to school j erery day the schools are in session. Much good may l>o got out of a very inferior school, if the children attend it regularly and with the purpose of getting the most possible out if it. How are tho white children of South Oarolina attending the schools? In 1907, tho white enrollment in the public schools of the State was 1 4 4,668, while tho average attendance was only 103,1104. The federal census taken seven years before 1900, gives South Carolina 217.972 white children between the ages of 5 and 20 years, while our logal school age Is between f> and 21 years. It Is safe to assert that barely sixty per cent of the white children of the State are enrolled in any kind of a school, and not over forty per cent are in average attendance. In 1 900, thirty-six per cent of the white children between the ages of 10 and 14 years were n >t enrolled in any school, public or private. In the same year Massachusetts had only six per cent of her white children of tno corresponding ages out of school, Connecticut had seven per cent, and Michigan eiglu per cent. In 1900, South Carolina had 54,177 native white illiterates over 1 u years of age, only 792 fewer white illiterates than the State had in 187 0, thirty years previous. At the same date Connecticut, with nearly twice the white population of South Carolina, had but 1,958 white 111 i * erates over 10 years of age. Again, South Carolina had 15.042 native white illiterates of the voting age; Uho ? Island, with four-lifths the population of South Carolina, had juat 550. We had 17,83 9 native white illiterates between the ages r\# 1 II nr>/l 1 Q *roo ra M InVi I iru n w 4 t l* ut i \r auu t ?7 jrai o, m " i* u twice our population, had 1,141; Gonnectlvut had 140, and Rhode Island 100. Is It reasonable to hope for the South Carolina of tomorrow, with her load of helpless Illiterates, to cope successfully with those States and sections which havo frood themselves from the bondage of tgno ranee? 'i ho day is forever gone from Sooth Carolina when a few highly trained men of leisure could direct and control the destinies of the people. This responsibility has been shifted to the shoulders of tho.masses, and now we aro forced to con aider the training of tho masses. Only yesterday Hon. O. B. Marun gave out this: "Several educational leaders in New Rngland frankly told us that they are spending their money and building up then schools in order to retain and maintain their industrial supremacy They realized that wo have advantages and great resources in th?. South, but they propose to keep th\ load, if possible, through the powei of trained brains and trained hands ' Intelligence and skill will win even time in every race. What is Bout' Carolina doing to meet this oper challenge from New Rngland? Who aro these South Carolina wmte cnnaren not in school, an* why are thoy not In school? Som< are the sons and daughters of parent: themselves Ignorant and unable t< appreciate or to understand whn education means to their chlldrer and to the State; some are chlldrer of fathers and mothers, greedy ar. selfish, who are more than willing to make wage-earners and bread winners out of their young untaugh offspring; a few are the children o parents opposed to education, be cause they have known some edu cated scoundrels; a very few an the children of parents who actual!; need the labor of their children t< eke out a living, and many are tin children of fathers engrossed in ma terial affairs and mothers rocrean to duty. Many of these children an at work on the farm, in stores am shops at a few cents a day, and ii the cotton mills making good wage for children, while hundreds of oth era are roaming the streets and conn try lanes?the training grouns fo; idlers, vagrants, and enemies to law order, and decency. TOO MUCH GRAFT. Oauned Monnett to Itccomo a Deitiocrat for Good. At Salt Lake City Wednesday tn inking a speech at a Democrat!; rally Frank S. Monnett, former attorney general of Ohio, said: "The reason I left the Republican party and advocate the election of Bryan Is due to the fact that while I was prosecuting the Standard Oil Trust In Ohio, and with every reason to expect a successful Issue. The Republican campaign fund of Ohio was swelled by contributions front the Standard Oil Company and n return that the company was allowed to name the personnel of supreme court of Ohio, whereupon all of the Standard Oil cases were prompth dismissed. "Then," said Monnett, "I became m Democrat" HOOLS. | NO 8. * < ilA.M II. IIAM). jg mrj w&a&mmqmsyx&U Two of the worst enemies to child ' hood and youth are* overwork and Idleness. Close confinement at manual labor Is dulling, stifling, and destructive to the childhood; idleness is ixiisonous and ruinous to youth. < Attendance upon school may ho used as a corrective for both evils. The State, in order to protect at least one class of children agalnat overwork, has passed -a child labor law. Itarring some notable exceptions, the alK)rtiveness of that law is a common jest. To illustrate: In 1905, one of our city school superintendent'* lost more than twenty pupils from one school within two months. in company with one of the cotton ml'l superintendent of that town (a man! in favor of schools), the school superintendent went from house to ! house In the mill village enquiring for these missing children. In one afternoon he located twelve of them, every one of them unlawfully engaged at*work In the mill, though , only three of their names appeared on the pay-roll. Now, the child of the lazy, greedy, Hellish parent is at work, and not In school. The child of the Ignorant and Indifferent parent is neither, sit work nor in school; he Is idling. Iloth children need to be educated* the State needs both of them; and the State has already decreed that the taxpayers shall establish and maintain schools for both. The.v remains but one logical thing to do ?compel the parents of both to send their children to school. There is but little logic in compelling peopm to pay taxes to support the schools, then permitting the parents of the children who most need the schools ,1 I 1- a 1 r a %_ . iiciiiivi uinjr iu nui.'i* l ill! Ill IIUII1 lllil benefit a of the schools. The poorer the child the more la tho need for compelling lila parents to send him to school. Compulsory attendance laws are aimed at the selfish and Indifferent parent, not at the child. Of what advantago are good teachers, long school terms, and fine school houses, unless the children attend the schools? In a recent election to increase tho local school tax in a district in North Carolina, where they have recently enactel a kind of local option compulsory law, a . certain taxpayer inado this declaration: "If you voto to compel the children of this district to go to school, Increase my tax as you please; if you are uot going to put the children Into the schools, I am opposed to any further tax." That . man's argument haH no answer. Some opponent to a compulsory ! law says, "You have not enouga . school houses and teachers to take . care of the thousands of children j not in school." That argument Is worthless, unless we are wi'ling to admit that tho white people of th? State are actually unable to take . care of their children. Lot some 5 philanthropist offer to aid South ? Carolina in matters educational, - then you get an answer to that question. Will the school houses ever Kr? K..IW ? 1 f uu 111 kj i i iiu u;ncut!ia umpioyen k until there 1h a need for them? x Would It be wine for a farmer to let a $f>00-crop waste In tho fields, rath, er than build $100-houso In which i to store It? j The last argument of the oppoj nents to compusory attendance is x that It can not be enforced without t truant officers, and that truant ofx fleers must be paid . Certainly. Th i i present child labor law of this State I is a dead letter, because no provls> ion is made for its enforcement. And . the police of Charleston, Columbia, L and other places, have to be paid, f but it pays to pay them. We are - perfectly willing to pay an officer - of the law to arrest little negro e boys In a 10-cent crap game, but it y is too much to pay an officer of '.he . law to see that a lazy selfish father r? sends his child to school. We are - paying today in actual money every t year five times as much in tribute 0 to the Industrial supremacy of Now 1 England and other sections, as it i would cost us to put every white * child in the State in school for six - months in tho year! What econ omists wo are! And what phllosor phers we try to bo! WI LEI Aid H. HAND. University of South Carolina. SEVERAL KILLED ' In an Attempt to Make Arrests In Indian Camp. 1 A telephone message from Ovando, j Montana, says that Deputy Warden . C. B. Peyton and four Flathead In' diai)8 are dead as a result of a flght between Deputy Peyton and hl8 as- j sletant. Herman Rudolph, and a | hand of Flathead Indiana near Hoilands prairie on Swan river Tuesday afternoon. Peyton and Rudolph were attempting to arrest the Indians for hunting without a llcenso and killing deer In excess of the number permitted by law. Peyton went to the camp of the Indians and told them they must accompany him to Missoula. Without warning the:* flred on the deputy with rifles. The fire was returned by the deputies. I CONFERENCE CALLED | ,?<>TTON C.HOW1CKS 1NY1TK1> TO < MKKT IN COLl'M III A. I'ri^idcnt Harris, of tin* State Farmers' Union, ('nils Meeting for Next Wednesday Night. President Harris, of the South Carolina Farmers' Union, has issued tlu? following call: "In order to have a conference on tho cotton situation and to dovla* some method for relief all members of tho Kramers' Union and others interested in the raising of the pries of cotton aro urged to meet in the Court House at Columbia on Wednesday night of Knir Week. It is highly Important that there be representatives from all sections of South Carolina and from all interests. This meeting will bo addressed by Senator-elect Smith and others. (Signed ? "II. HARRIS, ' President S. C. Farmers' Union. Senator-elect Smith was In ColuniTuesday and gave the following state- , ment for publication: "Now that the elect ion is over and my enforced absence from any active participation In the fight for cotton at an end, I am in the work to better conditions if possible, and they are possible. Tho present price of cotton is a reflection on the South A small crop last, year and a small crop this year have, or should have, discounted the effect of the panic. Had there been a normal crop last I yvnr jiiki prices gone ofT on account of the panic it would have been mil-j ural, perhaps, but with a small crop at home and abroaa, with no flatterinr outlook for a yield this year, present prices arc nothing short of a disgrace to the business man and farmer. "Look at the price of corn, oats, wheat, lard, meat and hay, to say nothing of other commercial articles, and compare there with cotton Why didn't the panic affect them? Resides, about two-thirds of the American crop is sold in Europe. A panic in America should not affect the buying power of foreign countries. "It is Rnld that goods cannot be sold at present prices, or are not being sold, because It would represent a loss to the manufacturer, by the same token cotton should not be sold, because It represents a loss to the grower. Because fifteen cents was not realized last year Is no reason why eight cents should he taken now. It really looks as If the purchasing world was attempting to whip the grower for revolting, n"er four years, against their masters. There is manhood and money enough to stop this criminal foolishness and lack of confidence and common sense. "On Wednesday night of Fair WAJ>k AVnrv m n n lntop?Bfna tn o KlnV. ? *" ? / VVI V,H vvyu 114 a 111 f > I ~ or price for cotton is asked to meet In the city of Columbia, at the Court House, to discups the situation and join the other States in stopping che sale of cotton at present prices. "I am on my way to Montgomery, Alabama, where I will address the farmers of that State, and will oring n report as to what they and other States propose to do. "E. D. SMITH." COMMITS SUICIDE. Stole Money From leather and HeMorse Overtook Him. A special to the Augusta Chronicle! from Atlanta says remorse over having taken $25 of his father's money to satisfy a longing for a bicycl ?, led John Arthur lliburn, a 1 '2-yea*-' old boy, ti commit suicide Tuesday, i The lad lived with his paretns at 286 VValdeo street. He left home Sunday afternoon and went to the house of a neighbor, where he spent the evening. He left at y p. m. He was seen no more until when found early Tuesday suffering terrible agony I from the effects of his dose of car bolic acid. The discovery was made hv John W. Henley, assistant United States district attorney. As Mr. Henley wa? going ti wirk he heard the cries of two boys, and on investigation found them carrying a third, who was in the clutches of convulsions. Young Hilhurn was carried into the home of Alderman i? rank Pittman on Park street, in front of whieh the acid had been drunk, but died twenty minutos later without speaking. half emptied bottle told the story. The parents were prostrated by news of their child's death and can not account for the same except on the theory that such was brought about by romose over having taken $25 the elder Hllburn had left lying around careleRfly. ??-?? , Threaten# the Governor. I A dispatch from Sunbury, Tenn., , says because of threats against ths life of Governor Patterson, who is personally directing the investigation ] of night rider depredations in this ] city, the detachment of troops as- t signed to safeguard the Governor | has been Increased, and the neces- 1 sary precautions taken to prevent anv 1 attack on the military camp here. I i HOME ONCE MORE J Senator and Mrs. Tillman Landed at New York Saturday. ARCHBOLD LETTERS Head by Hearst Are Im|M>rtant Factors of tile (Campaign?He is MC?lad That the Light Has lieen Turned on tlw< Commercial Democracy Cung" in Tins State. Senator and Mrs. Tillman landc l in New York on Tuesday after a?. absence of Ave months in Europe. ' He is greatly improved in health an I enjoyed his trip abroad very much. He did not tarry long in New York, but left for his home soon after he landed. He crossed the ocean in the fine steamship Kroonsland. He was besieged by news gatherers as boo i as he landed in New York. "The Archbald letters that Mr. Hearst has read are the big thing of this campaign and the one subject of interest on the other side," "I see that he got McLaurln. I am not surprised. We were on to McLaurln in the Democratic wing of the senate, and read him out of the caucus eight years ago. He belongs with the corporation?controlled senators and we told him so." "1 cannot but feel a little pity fo~ Senator Foraker," continued Mr. Tillman. 'He is an old man and is no worse than a good many of the rest of them?In Ohio, too, I might add. He, of course, deserves what punishment this expose will bring, but I hope Mr. Hearst will get the rest of them. iNO, I Will UIKC IIU HCIIVC pill ill the campaign. It is ton nearly ow r for me to bestir myself. The last session in Washington was the most trying I have ever known and I was almost prostrated at the end of it. I do not want to waste any of my regained strength. Senator Tillman paused to engage in repartee with a Philadelphian on the tariff question, and then said that he would hurry to Washington for a few days. From there he will go to his homo and rest until his duties call him to the capital again. Tillman in Washington. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says Senator and Mrs. Tillman arrived in Washington Tuesday night en route home. When seen at his hotel Wednesday morning, Senator Tillman was surrounded by half a dozen or more newspaper men and other friends, who had called to welcome him home, and to get his views on th? Presidential campaign and other matters. Senator Tillman is naturally very deeply interested in the outcome of the Presidential election, and although he has been absent, and not in cIopo touch with the management i if fhn nnmnjilirn vi>t ht? ponnr.l knowledge of the situation loads him to believe that Bryan will be the next President of the United States. He doe# not Intend to entm* the campaign, hut will rest from his travels, and be ready for the approaching session of Congress In D v cember. To The News and Courier correspondent the Senator said that h >. had read the Archbold and McLaurin disclosures, and that the light had been turned at last on to the ac?s and doings of the "commercial Democracy gang." With unusual vigor the Senator said: "What I would like to know now is this, 'what newspaper in the State received ahy portion of that five thousand dollars from the Standard Oil, and why is it, the different detective editors within the State have not taken the trouble to ascertain what newspaper supported the 'comercial Democracy gang' and publish the list so that the people could know who the beneficiaries were." Continuing, he said: "Certai i newspapers have been very vlgilent in 'raking up past records. Now let them come forward and give the people the names of the bobtail papers in the State that were knocking at the doors of the Standard Oil treasury for 'lubrication.' Ha l it not been for the unexpected death of President McKinley it would 1)3 difficult tn hsv lust how much hnrtu would have been done to the Democracy of the State by the sleuth-Ilka editors of South Carolina so long as they were receiving 'substantial support.' " FATALLY Bl'KNKD. Colored Woman on Anderson Farm Meets Awful Death. Esther Drown, a young clorel ] woman of Anderson, who had been 1 working on the plantation of M?\ i Charlie Jones, about two miles below Starr, was so severely burned that 1 sne died in great agoney. She had ! been working In the field; near 1 where she lived, and went to th-? ] house to start a fire In the stove . i < prepare supper. It Is believed that I the woman used keroseno oil In start- < ing the fire and that It blazed up on t her when the match was applied. I She was horribly burned all over < the body and face. 1 RUINED BY COCAINE # *AI> FATK OF A MAN AM) HiS Wife. Itllghting Effects of the Drug Vividly Illustrated in the Cumc of Two Young People. The blighting powers of cocaine, says The News and Courier, were | vividly demonstrated when Louis ^ Malone and his wife, Kosa, a young white couple, were arrested an t hailed before Magistrate O'Shaugtinessy's Court on a warrant perferred against them by Mr. Klias S. Win- 1 gate, charging them with malicious mischief in cutting up and otherwise demolishing an old schooner belonging to him, lying at Potter's wharf, i in which he auowed them to live' through compassion excited by their destitute and desperate condition. Moth persons appeared before the magistrate in an almost starving condition, clothing in rags, neither of them weighing over 7 5 poundo and frankly attributed their condition to the use of the devastating drug. Their wretched and skeletoilike appearance excited so much pity In the breast of the prosecutor dur iiik tin; course ni me iriai inai n ; suddenly resolved to dismiss the charges against the two and praye1 the Court to turn the prisoners loose. Malone nas since boon arrested >y tiie police on a charge of vagrancy and sentenced to a fine of $r> or to ten day8 in the County Jail. Before becoming addicted to the use of cocaine Malone. who was born in this city, is said to have boon a first-class carpenter, but the evil influence of the drug soon sapped nis vital powers, and this is the more pitiful because of the fact that ne married, and through his influence his young wife also became addicted to its use. About a year ago the couple came here to live, but we'd from bad to worse, and it eventuallv came about that the two had no place to call home. After wandering about for sever i! months they at length picked out tne old dismantled schooner "Maggie ' moored at Potter's wharf, aH a place of residence. The owner, Mr. Ellas S. Wingate, hearing the depl Table story, was loath to eject them from the sorry shelter as long as thej* behaved themselves, hut the two soon made themselves objoctionable by tearing and cutting off the woodwork of the vessel to use as fuel with which to keep warm on cold nights. Mr. Wingate personally tried to Induce them to leave, but had to resort to the law, as the Malone*" positively refused to leave peaceably ' Constable William R. Way states that the condition of the two cocain? fienda In their "home" was almost unbelieveably bad. They slept in a place barely eighteen Inches high in the hold, because tho other parts of the vessel were too uncomfortably cold for them in their drugged con ' dition. The officer had hard work to find out this sleeping room, but was finally attracted by the groans anil moans of the woman, wh ohad just previously taken a stiff dose of tho poison and was under its influence I The deck of the schooner was described as being Uterully covered by the little white pill uoxes which had once contained the cocaine. Offers of help were made to the Malones by Magistrate O'Shaughnes-I sy and several other people present I at the trial, with a view of relieving their destitute condition, but these I kind offers were bruskly brushed i aside by the man, who stated that' tney were too far gone already in their Indulgence of cocaine to care for assistance. When Louis was arrested by the police on a charge of vagrancy Friday afternoon he gave the officers a terrible fight for the I possession of the cocaine syringe and the drug. Salvation Army officers found out ' tho condition of the couple, and were especially excited to pity iniuuKii m>sa s ragged and wretched appearance. The woman was taken to the Salvation Army home and j there cared for before was decided! to send her to her home in Birm-1 Ingham, Ala., but Itosa stayed there only a few short weeks and then' again followed the fortunes of her husband. In an uncommonly short space of time she was again In the same deplorable condition in which she was found by the Salvation Army officers. The skin of both unfortunates has turned a deep yellow through the excessive use of the drug. STARVED TO DEATH In a Car On Which Ho Stole n Hide. At the Buffalo, N. Y., city morgue Friday were the remains of a negro who was found starved to death In a car loaded with cotton in the LeHigh Valley yards. The car was billed at Pino Bluff, Ark., October 2, and rebilled at St. Louis on October 14. It was consigned to J. H. j Foster at Providence, R. I. Mark-? ? ^n the doors of the car indicate that ( the man made a desperate fight to ' escape from his imprisonment. Spli- t :ers of pine were scat*er3d on the floor, and there was blood imprints fingers in the splintered wood on \ the inside of the oar door. | < 1 DR J. H. CARLISLE HIS MAKVKLOl'S IXFM HXCH ON YOUNG \ Possibly the Groat llusineM of TeachinK May Get S?uno Hint From This Simple Store. If you were to go to the tov.n of Spartanburg, S. C., says Worlds Work, and spend an evening in the house of any man who lives there, the converation would be Suro to turn to Dr. Carlisle; and, if you should happen to go to the homo of any one who hatO* direct personal interest in Wofford college .which is situated at one end of the town, tho chances are that most of the talk of the evening would be about. Dr. Carlisle. If you happened to bo at the college at a commencement, time, you would hear a reverent an I affectionate allusion to Dr. Carlisle in every public address, and you migh see every clam that comes back to its reunion go to his house in a body to express their atfcctionate obligation to him. And who is DrACarlisle? A man who went to the rollege as a teacher of "astronomy and moral science ' in 18.r.4, when it was founded, and who has been there ever since, i part of the time as teacher, a parr, of the times as president and again as teacher. He still meets his classes once or twice a week even at his advanced age- Doubtless neithoi philosophers nor astronomers regard him as a great contributor to their departments of learning. Yet it is doubtful whether there bo an astronomer or philosopher at any institution or in any community in our whole land who has exerted so strong an influence upon the young men who have come in contact with him. They do not say that he taught them astronomy or that he taught them philosophy, but they do all bear testimony to his giving them in great er measure than any other man a right adjustment to life and a moral uplift?a kind of influence the* 40 oldest of his pupils, who are ..ow themselves far on in middlo life, remember with an affection that has grown since their youth; and, throughout the area of the college's influence, men and women say, "Wo must send our sons to Wofford college because Dr. Carlisle is there." He is now an old gentleman, of great dignity of character and cmL speech, of wide if desultory roadirJJL but not of the modern type of schol arship. He is not an orator, and yet, until a few years ago, he had the habit of delivering a public lecturo once n year or oftener in the town, and anybody who did not go to hear him lost standing in the community by his absence. These lectures wore lay esrmon, but everybody received them as a sort of half-inspired deliverance. He has never hold a public office, except that he was a member of the Secession convention in South Carolina and is the only surviving member but one, and he is said to have called this adventure a piece of hoys foolishness. Ho wa*. never a preacher, hut always only a teacher, and what he taught best, was neither science nor literature, but character. The story is told of a man in Texas WhO mot a visitor frrvm VI,,nr. tnnburg. The first question he asked was, "Do you know Dr. Carlisle?" ' Yes," said the other. "Are you going hack to Spartanburg?'' "Yes." "Well, I wish you would give Dr. Carlisle by most affection ate regards, ^remind him that I was. dismissed from college for misconduct in spite of his effort to save me, tell him that I came to Te,\as and for several years I tried my best to go to the devil by various roads, but that I did not succeed, because before I got far I at ways saw his fingor pointed at ine and heard his voice, and they restrained me. He may ba glad to hear this." Possibly the great business of teaching may get some hint from this simple story. * STARTED TO RURY LIVE WOMAN Physician Finds that Suppose# Corpse was Not Dead. At Ellis, Kan., the timely Intervention of a physican who was not satisfied with the appearance of tha body Tuesday prevented the buri?f1 alive of Mrs. Thomas Chapman, Bixty years old, who was supposed to have died suddenly of heart diseast on Saturday. The bodx. was prepared for burial, but was not embalmed. The funeral was to have taken place at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. A few minutes before the coflln was sealed, a physiciaa requested permission to pee the body. An examination confirmed his suspicions thati^he woman's body was made rigid by suspended animation. The woman was removed from the colhn, placed in bed and revived. While her heart is weak it is bolieTed Mrs. Chapman will recover. It does not pay to do things Just to be doing, or say things just to be saying. > \ /