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W. W. F. BuraT, Editor. THE CAPITAL TENDENCY. The teacher must follow, rather than resist, certain tendencies of the day. The teacher has lost much ii, the past by insistence up on many minor ideals in language, numbers, etc. The school men taught illigation long after it was discarded by all business men. The same was true of duodecimals. true of present worth, English money, etc. There are few schools that teach discount as all banking institutions use it, bocause they cling to what they were taught, and to what their books say, rather than to what business men do. rhis was even more'.-rue of geog raphy. The schools kept on teach ing capes in proportion to their size on the maps, the rivers from their length, and the mountains from their height, long after every man of affairs knew that the D3 troit river was of infinitely more importance than the Colorado. This is most true of language. The schools insisted that "a prep osition is not a good word to end a sentence with" long after the clas sic writers had learned that in some cases it was the only word with which to end a sontence ef. fectively. They taught the declen sions with "thou, thee, and ye" long after they had been discarded by all good usage except the rolig ious, and they held to the subjune tive form in the same way. No class of people can so ill af ford to be pedantic as teachers, and they are having the most so vere test given them now in regard to capitals. The capital is doomed in most casos. It will still be I, and the sentence will begin with a capital, as will proper names, but beyond that it has heard its death kneel. It is hard for the editor, as well as for the teacher, but the sooner we accept the situation the botter. It is now, "My doar friend," "Harvard university," "Massachusotts institute of toch nology," "Now England publish ing company," and "Ways and means committee," and in subl jects and titles the capital has dis appeared. His subject was ''School laws," and he wrote an es say upon "The man of destir~y." Trhere is no occasion to be ex tremo. As in any other fashion, it is the best taste not to attract attention by too radical or too conservative dress. The schools must at once recognmze the fact that the capital inl many of the most ordinary uses is soon to be~ obsolete, and will look as "cur ious" in a short time as the small "i" has looked in old manuscripts for half a century. Teachers must recognize the tendlency, and they will do well to accept it graceful ly. CHARACTER IS A FACT, NOT A THE'ORtY. The school has no greater mlis sion than to aid in the formation of character, but this is not its specific mission. The home is pri marily responsible for the charac ter of the child. The church is its primary moral allay in this work. The school is the State's represen tative in supplementing the home, and is incidently responsible for attempting to do what the church leaves undone. The school however, has specifi cally committed to its care the intellectual un folding, developing, andl strengthening of, the child. It can do nothing by way of seem ing apparent goodness that results from ignorance. The State be lieves that there is no heresay in a fact >r truth, but only in half facts and half truths, or in the su pression of facts and truths. A church school might, if it chose, suppress a truth or a fact, half the truth or half the fact, if it con scien tiously believed that good noss was best secured by such supres sion; but the State school could not do this. All that the State school can do in this direction is to assume that by no possibility can the school teach all knowl edge or reveal all wisdom, and that it may select that which, being equally valuable as a mental con quest, shall be more liable to em phasize goodness. It may elect1 the best, but it cannot suppressI facts for the sake of their suppres-I sion. Along tlfis line there are to be some lively contests in the near NIt i hall antagoIze foodnesa, npr shall anything aii agonixe intef*lootual power. 0haractor is a fact, not a fanoy; m acquisition, not a theory; a ower, not a Qondition. The iobool is to help the child attain his fait, realize this acquiisition levelop this power through cleai deas, mental vigor, and consist. nt practice. Nothing that it ihoild do or could do will relieve lie home 6r the church of its re 3ponsibility. The school of itself 3annot make ideal characters out of boys and girls that prefer vice to virtue. This can only be ap. proximated when the homo, the church, and tho school all do thon full duty in porfect harmony. Of courso, any ono of thoso'alono car hel) the youthOthat has genuin< a1spirations for virtue. That of which we speak in thia ,onniectioni is the part the schoo: should play in transposing into a virtuous and worthy citizon the boy or girl that by instinct or mis loading prefers vice to virtue, or iE Mnore easily led theroto. Character, in its ideal power 3onsists in knowing the greatesi mid highest good, in desiring it 6vlen known, and in choosing ac. %ording to thoso dosired. Know, Ing, dosiring, choosing the greatesi mid highest good is tile ideal ac nuisition. That mind only is vig. rous in the best sense that knows lov to discern sharply tho great. sat and highest good. There is n< permanently valuable desiro foi uich good that does not rest upor , vigorous mind, and no choiceE ire uniformly trustworthy withoul auch mental power. The school is, primarily, to direct the montal un folding and developing along lines indor conditions, and by processeE Ahat shall assure the best knowl )dge, desires, and choices for char tctor offect. It is not the quick. ming of a fancy, tle teaching 01 % theory, or the production of a 3onldition merely. The Stato be Lieves that it call be best represent. d in the character building of th itition by tho schools, and thos( dione it supports ii tho highesi senso, and largely for this end. rournal of Education. The teacher is expected to grow ind develop about as much eaclF year as the p)upils. Ihow muchl are you gaining?. Fifty pupils more or less, have their opinionls of the teachers just as well defined as the teachers opinions118of fifty pupilIs. Contr'oversy of Liquor Thiero were a lot of rumors afloal y'esterdlay to the etract that the Uited States authorities had seizedl a hund(red or more barreb >f liqluor froml the Stato Disponsa lensary owing to some alleged vio Lationl of the internal revenut aIIws. Investigation proved, how iver, that instead of the govern nent making any seizures, the D~ispensary had really come eil victorious in a controversy with the revenue officials. The government did( haul away fronm the Dispensary twenty-nine barrels and fourteen kogs of liquor ')ut it hadl been! stowed in the Dis )cnsary andc was sim ply removed o the government warehouse inl Tho twenlty-ni no barrol s were oeized two years ago owving to an tileged infringeomnt of the rove Liuo lawvs. The government had 10 wVarehouise then tmd tihe Dip pensary authorities allowed it to remain there. ThlO same was the case with tile fourteen kegs seized some two months ago. As to the twenty-nine barrels the firm from whom tihe Dispenflsary pu rchased them claim that there was no vio lation of tihe law and a suit is nlOW pending in court for thleir recovery. Anyway the Dispensary loses noth ing b)y their seizure. Some days ago the revenue ofli cials detained 193 barrels of liquor at the Dispensary On account of various small irregularities in the barrels. For instance fifty of them did niot have tile letter "R" Tn thlem, which means "'re-used." l'hy Were detained on mere toch alcalities like thlat and a full roe port was made to Washington. Yesterday a telegram wvas received >rdering the liquor to be released mid given into tile custody of the lispensary whiich was (10no. Tile hauling of the liquor thro' he8 streets yesterday gave rise to he many rumors, but tile above is ho oxplanetion made by tihe Die >ensary as well as revenue officials. lolumbia Register. A"$Rms" To THE' WBMW. c p M Andrew staaonds appeal to ' All to help the Exhibit. a The following address has boon t issued by Mrs. Andrew Simonds t of Charloston, chairman of the Women's Commission : In view of the fact that we have j accepted as a State Atlanta's cor- I dial invitation to be present at her a great Cotton States Exposition, it 8 nlow belioves us to see that we go 1 properly caparisoned, and make a t creditablo display. Thoro is no longer any doubt as 8 to whethor South Carolina will be o there. That question has boen1 < definitely settled. Wo will be f there in friendly competition with I all the other States in th6 Union. V That we have no appropriation from our govornment, nocessitates H the greatest personal efforts on our a own pi.rt, and especially on the part of the women who are to be I represented by a separate exhibit 1 of their own in the Woman's Build ing. Owing to the porsonal good favor of the President of the Wo man's Board this room is in the most conspicious and important position. It remains with us to make it either an object of just pride for the whole State, or-but we will not contemplate the possi bility of failure, as wo do not re cognizo it. The time, however is growing very short between now and the hour of our trial. I have therefore judged it necessary as chairman of the Woman's Commission for South Carolina, to writo this ap peal myself, to overy woman in the State, and to personally en treat all those whose eyes may road these line to do what they can to ward the much desired result that of showing that South Caro lina, if she has had perforce to drop behind in the march of pro gress, is not behind in brain, spirit and energy, tho threo ossentials to success. In the World's Fair at Chicago the attention of Americans was to a great oxtent turned aside from their own oxhibits to the magnifi cent foreign displaya, but in this Southern Exposition the direct gaze of the North, East and West will be dlirected toward~s the South ern and Cotton States. We are one of these. Shall we stand ashamed among our sisters? Lot us then bestir ourselves in earnest. Tharough the proceedls of one en tertainment which I have just given aind a private subscription we have now a little over a thoums and (0 dllars in the exchequer. W'e should have four thousand to make an exhibit of which we may feel proud 'imd that is worthy of us. Most of the ot her Southern States have more than this for their wo-1 man 's department. Charleston contributes one thousand from one entertainment alone-cannot the other pa rts of the State raise thme rest? Bazaars, fairs, picnics, allI sorts of spring and summer festi vities might be made into money making a ffairs for the State good- 'E a cause important now above all 1 others-we will have time to be fit our hospitals, churches, etc., afterwards-when thoi good the a whole State will derive from a fine s exh ibit mi each dlepartmen t will C imbuoe us all with new ardor to wvork for our charities. As for the articles to bo0 exhibit e-1, we n ish overything beautiful done 1)y woman's hand. Em broidery, china painting, minia tu res, drawings, laces, woodl carv ing, brass work, clay modelling, anything artistic nmadle by womon.a The name of the maker and herar section of the country must h~e onl each article, and the pr1ice, if in tended for sale. Th'lore will bo0 munificient prizes of money awar ded by a competent commnittee for the best specimen in each branch of wvork, part of the money raisedl will lie devoted1 to this object. ' Besides which, in ordoer to make the South Carolina room a notH ble one in every way, there will boe an Art Loani Collection, p)oson ally supervised by a committee appIointedl for the purp'lose. In this, liaintings, valuial old steel em plates, framed aiutograph letters b' of great meni, historic arms, cloth- tI os, battle flags, pices of cole- s nial furniture, silver, miniatures, ir laces, in fact any objects of arnt ls worthy of exhibition are desired. at The State teems with such objects at so we. ought to have a most inter- fe esting collection. To onnr urao wish to dispose T1 f these relics or curious, this will robably be. a golden opportunity, 9 nowhere else could they be so V rell displayed and to such large c ssemblies,. The prices and his. L ories of each article must be at. c ached, and they will all be cata- 'I ogued by me and my committee; t ersonally removed to the room estinod for them; the small ob- Y ots kept in glass cases, under I ock and the room guarded night 1 ,d day. It will thoroforo be oen why we liavo such urgent iood of money, for the expenso of t ho casos, the proper placing of ho exhibit, the paying of the uLiard1s, and tho awards, the mon- t y over and abovo our expenses an be added to the award-fund; or which at any rato a special t ortion will be reserved, besidos I chat Atlanta will give. t Mr. Roche, the State Commis ionor, will later on publish a i tateiont about transportation. All objects for exhibition must )0 sent to mo here at my address )Olow, promptly answored. For the timo being, I am the villing servant of the State of my doption. Let all who feel a like onthusi Lt1 be co-workors in the cause. MRS. ANDREW SIMONDS, 4 S. Battery, Charleston, S. C. Whiskey Tax Itelied Upon. WAsHINGTON. May 2'.-Post nastor Gonoral Wilson, who, as o11 Chairman of the Commniittoe ) W Nays and Means of the lt Jongress, takes an interest in the ncome tax law, remarked this iVOling. "Woll, it is not so sorious as the eneral view of it scems to make t. If trade conitinles to iniprove is it has of late, there will be rov m1uo onough. The tariff is yield nig now at the rate of $160,000,000 1, year, aid there is a good pros .Oct of an1 increasing aggregato of niternal revenue. It is an item se1(ldom thought of that the large m111ouint of whiskiy taken out. of >oni betweei the hoginning of the iscal year-.iuly 1, 1894, and Aug u1st28 "1wen th1 new tariff went nto effect-is about exhautsted. "FroI now oII, large amounts >I whiIskey 11must 1e ta iiken out unl .r the ne0w tax, which adds 20 aunts of ruvenule from overy gallonl -$1.10 is tho. plresent tax per gal .0n-and thIi increase will amoun121t .0 over $ I5,(000,000) a year. Ta ken ih tho 110icrease of revenule from1 mstomus (lut ies, the new~ tax on VhIiskey' wVill mallke uip thle deneit." )ume Ihsndred Fassa Iies hlossaeless. St. A lbans, Vt., M~ay 24.-A wo nan2 was enlgaiged inl hetiing bor min g iro Povr aV 1 kerosinro Ilmp n1 tho' lhome1 of a French1 lfamily weari Fonda' lumbeii ,~r yard ycster ay, wh1101 thO lampj exploded anid catteired1 CIho flames0 over ihn1 ear- I >et , iiwhih 111( im miaely caught ire0. Thu as I' st aited the most lisastrouts fire thal't over visited a t had beenC1 oxtinguished, h1ad orned1 over fifty acres, sweeping he heart of thoi buineriss portion, estroying prolperty valued0( at $750 00, and( wiping out fifty business laces and( soventy-fivo houses, all J1 1 three hlours' timeo. One hlundlred hlelss families ro sh 'Itered iln tihe chuirchies'and shools of the city. Many mler- .a han ts lost their en ti re stocks, and( 1l 1st of the familhes iurned out ivd nothing. At thie corner of 'oundry and K ginani streets the 2 ew United States Post Officc and mstomi House was situatced, and1( a C tile further up Kingmamn, towvard1 [aini Street, stoodl tiho establish- ~ wint of the St. Albanis Messenger la ompany, publishers of The Daily nd Weekly Messenger. Two Gov rn mont buildlings and1( the Mos- hi mlger block airo in ru ins. The t< >s to the Glovernimont is $50,000. it ho Mossenger Company property hi as valued at $45,000, and( was ini-t y red1 for $20,000. Thore are many >sses unider $2,000. Hlundreds of Ip iilies lose all they possessed. t< lhe ruins covers nearly fifty acros. J lhe houses dostroyed were mostly " swl and( maiiny wor'o ownod( by the --- -* 0~ - -- cl To Nloosa TFime Moua.h. Cu mArio, Ill., May 24.-A con fer ic of promlinient railroad and TF isiness5 mon1 called to encourage sc ho devo1lopmen1t of the Southern ol atos was hleld at the Auditor- tia in hotel today. The meeting was wv rgely attended anld important ol ep were taken toward a system- y< ,ic boom11 of the South. The COil- ml ronico wvas p)resided over be C. E. N ~one, of tihe Chicago & Eastern 'r< Got a. Snug Reward. Mr. D. C. Weeks, of Orangeburg, ras in the city yesterday and re. eived the reward of $500 offered y the State for the arrost and onviotion of the murderer of reasurer Copes. , In addition to his the county offered reward of 600, and those amunts will bo di ided between Mr. Weeks and Mr. . L. Lambort who arrested Mur ihy, who has boon convicted re ontly of the niurder. Murphy has positively refusod 0 oat tinythiing for over a week. -I does not talk any or give any eason for his behavior and it was bought that he was trying to omit slow suicide by starvation. dr. IHampton Dukos, who was in he city yesterday, says h> does lot poliovo that is his object, but hat he is really sick and cannot etain food. lie said it was the )urposo to inject food artificially restorday afternoon.-Columbia (ogister. The work of the farm is far Lbovo any other more mechanical >ursuit. It calls for the highest ntolligouco, the most untiring A ndustry, long and intimate prac ,ico, the uso of intricate machi-U iory, close thought, and the appli- (10 3ation of principles, only to be un- pu lerstood by years of study and 1 "onstant, now acquisitions. This is so well undorstood that the sci- 011 mtific work of the farm is left to " 3peciulists, whose lives are given lp to it; to trained students. who are I [ot so much testing known facts xs looking for now ones that may >ccur in unexpected ways, sought >ut by intenso application and liscovered only by the closest bvatchfulness. To expect paupors, .uthougih under tihe charge of an intolligent farmer, to work out such problemns is an entirely vain hlope. In the training of a young colt the putting on and taking otf of, the bridle is of much importance. E Every care is to bo taken to do this without hurting the colt. If it is done cautiously, the young animal will soon learn to hold down tho head an(d assist in th. operation, and over after to re neniber the lesson. 011e ther thing is to be taught him by the trainer, whiich is to c'->me at call. A work1 (of troubl.le, miuch time, 71 amnd at vast amonit of ill feelingJ andl i rri tationi will be av~oided byv ::are in tbhis part of the educi tin >f the horse. A lit tle sugar 'ar riod to the pastuiire--or ai little salt vill be equally attract ivo-willI Leach tis isson'501 ini such ai pormni 'init wayi thait it will nlever Ia' for ot teni. Low Exersionm Rastes. W~,e wish to call your attention o0 tlwt vatriouls excursion rate, of ured by the Seourhorn Rail way in he next few weeks, some11 of wh ichI ire as follows: 011w fare rate to Wash ington ,h D. ,for the Southern Baptist (Con enution , May 9-26; One fare rate to Dallas, Texas, or the General Assembly Presby orin Chulbiirch, May, .17-26; One fare rate. pl1us two d1ollars, o Denver, Colorado, for thle %ational Educational Associat ion, s"' uly 5-12; One fare rato to Boston Mass., nd( return for Chiristian Endeavor ~onventioni, .July .10-14; .... One fare rate to BalItimoere, Md., 11( r'etuirni for Baptist Young Po'o- " lo's Union, July 18-21; G Very low rato to Hlouston, TVex s, andl rolturn for Conifedora t( oteranis' Eincamupnie"t, 1\ay 20 TheIis() ticke'ts wVil be I sold on anvenuien t dlutes and1 wi th ample)1 - turni limits, and1( are only a few J1ma I' the mianiy oxecursionls which will () inaugurated by lhe Southern ail1way this season PRIZE OFTIERI. Our farmers should have good I ogs this fall, and we have dlecidled oifer a pireium II, of five dollars " li cash for the largest, any age, - og, by November ist .1895; and( ro dollars for the largest one I mar old hog, and two dlollars for 88s 10 seondl largest-all personis in Ja ickons county who will hereaf- - r become subhscrib~ers to' Tnx j DIURNA 1,, 01r thoso ~vho are' already caO mhscribhors, and will pa~y up~ 0on yar~ inl advance, are ol igiblo1. Og~ foeding your hogs, and try for Uis prize. Renmmber' tihe prizo If osos oni November 1st. *n L TnR'O JOURNAL. fADEs. imc JounAm. is anixiouis that its sub)- yE ribers shouldl have the~ advi.tage Ari every' good thing going. With'" is end ini view we have arrianged ith The Hlosterman Publ ishinbg Co., Springfield, Ohio, for a supply of ,. 3arly subscriptions to thieir great onthly, " Thme American Farm 20 cws," which will be presented FRE Sul cal ai )EvERY PAID IN ADVANCE auhscr'i- any r to Trwc .TomNA r, 10ES THIS C 'EOPLES CONSIDERING CIRCULAI RATES ARE CHEAPE IN THE UI rculation 1,000. LDVERTISE! You Bimss JUDI WAGON LOAD F MONEY 2s not necessat-iiy inly content and hap l-ss oil ti part ot its p esor. It is t loney that gives us pleasure, but the igs that illoney will buv. Soiie people s1)end Ilioley foolishily, and icy they find enjoyit in doing I, lit, 3 plealsureC is more faitejed than r< al. No in who ad Vertises in or subscribes ihr HE- PEOPI' JUR )uppose Thi, Adverti You woulId soon comie to the canelusio hle Peoph Whoi is ii t~ ha ii. 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I lave jut. rece(ived( a1 secn AND HATS Ir. the latest sty'les and1( lowcat p~ossi)1c PR1IG'IS. Your pantronage stolited. MTSSES MckKAY, Main Street, Grceunville, S. C. GREENVILLE 'i le\ig of aill kinds of it - n et I lty. I. C. Mauldin, Proprieter. jiun3l I1 A CHANCE TO MAKE MONEY! they do aWhen any women gee me wh th din user dishes, clean ad dry them n one mnute, day irht athome easy.or htnot na sd o tor them. lErto to the Olimak Mfg. o olusm. s,"u,*y.selling what e'rybodr wants to buy. I .will matra 0.3.00 thIn year easT.