The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, May 30, 1895, Image 4
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
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imc JounAm. is anixiouis that its sub)- yE
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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
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