Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i & A I'll 1*0 I'UliLlSHKI) TUKKDAY AND K HI DAY. HY El). II . DeCaaip. Thk Ledoek in noi responsible '"or thv vicve ol correspondents. CaMs of thanks wi)' he published ^\nr* oont 9 wnrfl. Reading notices will be published At t>eu jeuie a line each insertion. Oorrespondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their nan.e, not for publication, but for identification Write short letters and to the point to insure publication; also endeavor to get them to the office by Monday jp -* " r ”. n v 'v orn i n<*S Obituaries will be pubinlised at five cents a line. All correspondence should be ad dressed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. ••t'NSUri’OKTED CHAKGES.” Und^r this caption The Anderson Daily Mail in its issue of the 11th ins*., makes a reckless and virulent attack on an editorial paragraph o* ours which nppeart d in The Ledger some ten days ago. The substance of this paragraph was to the effeci that there were t>8 cadets in the Citadel Academy holdiLg scholarships which cost the State $307 each—that a boy could get as good an education it Wofford, Furman, or Erskine al about $150 a year—that the militarj training given in the Citadel was no more than could be had in some pri vate schools at much cheaper rates than in the colleges, and that the oh ligations devolving upon a graduate of the Citadel to teach, were not binding aiul were often uisreoarded. This i.- the sum of what we said, and here ate the deliverances of The Mail: There is about as much virus to the square inch in the above art ie'e as anyt liinn \ve ever saw ami it is virus without much purnosc ex cept to spit it out promiscuously. What can he the matter witli The Leiiuer anyhow? It set ms t) have a fancy for n sir'll a ir at llu- Stale institutions of lfurnin£. It has nairitcd at Wintluop, tin* only State colii sc the irirls have, aiiilat ('h lnson, and now it takes a whack at tile Citadel, an institution whose graduates have conferred honor upon the St ate Idi .V)years and rendcri d her illust r ous service. Her graduates were upon almost every battlefield of the civil war and no in stitution in the land produced a In-aver or more gallant officer than Mieah Jenkins to say not hiog of Coward and a host of other line officers. A nd it is not t rue t hat the State apuropriales fittii to eacli beneficiary cadet, for the Board of Visitors at its last meeting fixed tlie amount at $.V>0. atrfiing dlfTerenci- ofs'117. There is no just comparison • o be made between Woft’oid, F'urmaii or Erskine, and the fitadel for they are occupying dif- ft refit spin-res and do not trench upon each other. There is room for ail of them and all of them are getting about all they can do. Ami ills worse than absurd to claim that there are several private schools in tin* State w le re tin-military feature is made fu ly as prominent as it is in tin- Citadel. There is not one private school in the State where the military feature is made prominent and we challenge The Ledger for the proof. There are several where the military feature Is made a side issue, hut none where it is madi as prominent as in the Citadel, and where the curriculum of study bears upon military science. Their charters do not call for It while the act establishing tin- Citadel makes that the distinctive and prominent feature, The Ledger further says that the require ment that a beneficiary gradu ite shall teach two years Is a mere farce and that lie will teach if it suits him and pays him to do so. That is a bald, bare assertion and more than that is a serious reflection on the honor of tin- young men who get these scholarships and pledge their sacred honor to teach two years. The Ledger gives no facts. What does It know aUiut It? We can speak for tills county, and it is within our knowlt-duc that hut one tienctidary groduate from tliiseoun- ty has failed to redeem Ids pledge in 15 years Now what facts can The Ledger produce in support of Its statement? It must bring them forward or admit that It has slandered a class of worthy young men. Bring forward your proof or shut up. The Ledger further says, ‘‘probably not one in ten of tin* grad uates of llu: Academy make teaching a pro fession.” and then after saying ‘‘probably” adds. ‘ these are palpable facts and what Is said of tlie Citadel Academy mav Is- said ap proximately of the State colleges.” It Is a strange perversion of language to say “prob alily not one in ten” and then say “these are palpable facts,” when not a single fact is given, notone. Suppose that “not one In ten of the graduates" of all the State colleges “make teaching a profession,” what of It? These instltut ous are not established solely for the pu| oseof making teachers. The en tire article Is saturated with a hitter unrea soning prejudice against the State institu tions and a wholesale Indictment is launched against them without a single fact brought forward In the allegation to sustain It, It is fortunate for the veracity of the editor of the Mail that the first sentence of the above diatribe was not reserved for the last one; for if it had-stond at the other extremity of all those Mjuare incites of virus spread out by ids own hand, lie would liave ma ie himself as ridiculous as the old lady did who bored her guests for hours with an enumeration of tlie faults of her neighbors, the Smiths, and when she hud accused them of all the sins of the decalogue, she added there was another thing they had done, which no one could ever accuse her of doing—they had talked aboi t HKK ! This virus, too, seems to be of that peculiar kind which belongs to the high-land moccasin in Angus' — it makes it poes ssor blind and he strikes at such little things as tlie rustling of a leaf or the crackling of a twig. We think that we promised our reeders some time ago that we should not again argue with any man against any cause, project, or institution out of which he was drawing a salary. V irtually, under the terms of that promise we could excuse ourself from replying to the attack made on our statements, but technically, we believe we are released from the obli gations of that promise and left free to do as we please. If we are cor rectly informed, the editor of the Mail is not at present directly draw ing any salary out of the public treasury. For <t number of years, however, he held the office of Super intendent of Education of Anderson county, at a good salary. If we are further correctly informed, he has educated his family entirely at the public eipense, having received the benefit for one of his family of a full scholarship in the Citadel for three years, costing the State over $1 000. Several members of his family are now holding high and deserved posit ions commanding fine salaries in the graded schools and perhaps in some of the State instiiufions. It is true these are personal matters and ordi narily should not be mentioned in a public discussion, but in this case they are necessary to account for the peculiar virulence with which the Ed itor of the Mail assails some plain statements made in this paper with out a word of comment—statements, too, made with more or less accuracy, of facts whicl) the public has a per fect right to know. When we think proper as a public journalist to men lion such facts, we are accused of wilful misrepresentations of nagging at the State colleges of spitting virus and of making a long series of unsupported charges. The Mail says we have not given a single fact and emphasizes by repeat ing notone. Let us see who is pervert ing truth. We began by saying there are (58 cadets in the Citadel holding scholarships. Isn’t that a fact? The Mail denies it when it i-itys ‘not one,” but the records will prove it. Again we stated thatthme scholarships carry with them $3157 <- .ch. We took these figures from the Columbia State and we suppne*- it too* them from the last published rep trts. Thev are the figures which have stood for many years. But The Mail says the Board of Visitors al its last meeting reduced the amount ti $250 We know not. when tliat meet ing was held, or whether its proceed ings were ever published beyond the limits of tlie esoteric circle If the assertion of The Mail is true, it doesn’t effect the principle of the ar gument one particle. All that cao be made of our figures is that we unconsciously overstated the amount as any one else under the circum stances would have done. The whole carping objection which The Mail makes is more insignificant still be cause the taxpayers do not get the benefit of one dollar of the reduction, if such reduction has been made Thts^ s-holarships are included in the annual appropriations to the Academy, and this action of the Board means only that $117 be taken off of each one of them and applied to something else about the Citadel This reduction just makes another Item on the books, if any books are kept. That is all. We further asserted that, a boy can take a course in Wofford, Furman or Erskine at a cost of about $150 a year That is a fact easily demon strated—which is demonstrated by hundreds of young men every year. Vet The Mail declares we have not stated a single fact—not one. We said there are private schools in the Htate in which the military feature is made as prominent as in the Citadel The Mali denies this and in coarse imperative tones demands proof. We said made as prominent. The word “prominent” iiterclly means pr-jpcting forward, standing out couspiciously from the surface of something else. In accordance with iltis first meaning of the word, our assertion is strictly correct. Tlie only military features that thus stand out couspiciously before thi- public from any scho)! are uniforms, drills, and military discipline, and these are as conspicuous in the Hum- ter Military Institute and the Colle- gia'e Institute at Edgefield as they are in t.he Citadel. This is fact num- ner four, with one possibly uv» r.itut- •‘<1 thrown in. But The Mail says tjie Citadel is chartered to teach military science and tt at it is doing a work which no other college can do. in other words, tlie ohj ct of the Citadel Is to make soldiers. The Mail then cites the names of one or two gallant sol diers in the war between the Htates, -is oroof of the illustrious service the ins ltution has rendered the Htate— »n exceedingly . dubious proof when • Imost every cornfi Id in the Htate sent forth its he oss eni when. Hampton, atidBui l« r,ni d Mtliivw' and Perrin, exhibited a leadership unsurpassed in their sphere, in skill and daring, by unv trained soldiers on the continent. If the object of the Citadel is to make soldiers, then the Htate has as little use for it, as a one hor&e buggy has for a fifth wheel or a blacksmith shop has for an observatory. It has no use for it because it has no army and no use for one. Its body of two or three thousand militia organized and kept for domestic purposes, is not officered more by Citadel grad uates than by any other class. The United States have two institutions for making soldiers and sailors, ar.d these are sufficient. No other Htate, to our knowledge, except perhaps Virginia, supports a military institu tion. The great State ot Pennsyl vania has none; Texas has none. It is for the little Htate of South Caro lina to maintain an establishment which the common sense of all the gr. at States rejects. And those graduates must teach two years! Does the State wish to propagate militarism in the common schools? She has a college in Co lumbia which is supposed to equip men with the education adapted to civil life. It is apparent that this military training which the Mail claims to be the exclusive preroga tive of the Citadel and the obligation imposed on beneficiaries to teach in the common schools does not work well together. The Mail calls us severely to task for saying that this obligation is dis r-garded, and demands the proof. O ir personal knowledge of Citadel graduates is limited, and we base our assertion more on the conditions lhan on personal observation. What ever may have been in the past, it is now impossible lor all these grad uates to get paying positions as teachers, and it is to be supposed that they can’t teach without pay The profession of teachers is crowded like other professions, and no man i- morally bound to discharge an oh ligation the n quir m.-nts of which prove to be impossible. Further than this, we know one young man, as high-toned and honorable as the Citadel ever sent out. who by hard work secured a school soon after his graduation, and not long afterwards br-iiig offered a more lucrative posi rion in another tine of business, lie abandoned his school and accepted it and we thought he did right. The iVlail has known only one case in fifteen years. What the Mail has not known, we have no means of as certaining. We have produced as much proof of our assertion that the obligation is a farce, as The Mail has on the other side, and until it makes out a stronger case we shall score this as fact number five. Finally the Mail turns literary critic and either makes an exhibi tion of its ignorance of language or else shows how superficially it read our article and how recklessly it jumped to conclusions. It at tempts to talk learnedly and indig nantly about our “perversion of lan guage when after saying” probably not one in ten” Ac., we added “these are palpable facts.” It seems not to know that the word ‘'these” i* plural and includes more than what was contained in the immediately preceding sentence, nor that “proba bility” ns implying a condithm may be spoken of as a fact The exist ence of a probability is as much a fact as any consummated action. It is the Mail that is perverted and not our Isiiguage. We hope we have said enough to convince even The Mail that our statements (n t charge*) are not altogether “unsup ported.” $ioo Reward, $ioo. The readers of t his paper will lie pleased to learn that there Is at least one dreaded dis ease that science lias been able to cure in all itsstaaesand that ist'atarrh. HaU'sCatarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitu tional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally, neting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying tlie foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up I he constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of Testimonials. Address, F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold liy Druggist s. 75c. Hall's Family Fills tire the liest. 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Fhed Wahiman, 570’i Germantown Ave.. I’hiludt-lphia, Pa. CANDY i m. ^ CATHARTIC ^ TRADE MARK RBOISTIRCD Ladies’ Men’s and Children’s shoes made to wear, not to melt. Ladies’ fine all solid Kid shoes, $1.25, $1.50, $2.00, $2.25, $2.50, $3.00, and $3.50, full of snap, style, comfort and wear. Misses and Gliilihn's Shoes. Heavy shoes for romping girls and staving boys, 75c, 90c, $ 1 00, $1.10 and $ 1.25. Misses and Children's Al Kid shoes, good solid bottoms, soft tough uppers, 5 to 8 at 65c, 9 to 1 2 $1.00, 1 2 to 2 $1.25. Security School Shoe. We do not think there is a shoe made any better. Higher than the other kind. Yes, but wear so much longer, 5 to S $ 1 .1 5, 8 1 -2 to 11 1 -2 $ 1.35, 1 2 to 13 1-2 $1.50, 1 to 3 $2.00. “Little Tots” shoes in cheap and high grades 25c to $ 1.00. Wien’s and Boy's Shoes. Here is where we can put you on a solid leather foun dation. Men’s Heavy Shoes $1.00 to $2.50. Men’s Fine Shoes $1.00 to $5.00. Boy’s Heavy Shoes $ 1.00 to $1 .25. Boy’s Fine Shoes $1-00 to $2.25. *4 i.- Pleaftiuit. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Do Good. Never Sii-kon. Weaken, or Gripe. IOe. ilc. iibc ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... Btcrltiilc Keni. 'lJ < Mllcufcu, Monlrml. htw York. Xli HA TA AAA 8<>ld and gmininteed t>y an.true. HU" I U'DJtW Kists to CTUK Tobacco Habit. I have Moved My Shop to the store of A. B. Gaines, where I will he glad to have mv old customers and many new ones bring their Watches, Clocks and Jewelry to have them repaired. J. R. COOPER. (JihmI Work at Moderate Prices. We can’t mention all the different kinds of shoes we carry, but we call your special attention to Mil waukee heavy all grain shoe, heavy strong and all solid, a $2.50 shoe at $2.00. Good as go'd; soft, tough, a shoe for wear $2.50 for only $2.00, these shoes we warrant every pair. Visit us if you want better goods for the same money, the same goods for less money. © J PMVfi ..vs*. Gaffney, S. C. Oct. 1 8th, 1 901. Big Lot Odd Pants, Drum mers’ samples, at 1-3 less than Actual Value. 7^ 'A Mens, Womens and Boys 4-ply All ^Linen, Collars, 1 5c value, for 5c. New Store, New Goods. We are showing immense lines of Dress Goods in all the new ma terials and colorings and a full line of trimmings to match. SKIRTS—Walking and full length, a spe- ciaj all-wool black cheviot with three rows of satin folds and tucks, a $5.00 value for $3.50 Petti-Skirts, in silk and mercerized, a full line from $ 1.00 up. • CLOAKS- -Ladies’, misses’ and children’s in automobile from $12 50 to $15.00; half automobile from $3.50 to $12.50, in black, tan, castor, royal and red, perfect fitting and well made. SHOES- -For men, women and boys, in all the new shapes, dull, kid tops, extension soles, wide and narrow lasts, every pair guar anteed. CLOTHING- -For men and boys, well made and perfect fitting, at prices to defy com petition. HATS AND CAPS—For men and boys, full line at right prices. The new “Pan-Ameri can” in black and colors; ask to see them. UMBRELLAS—Don’t fail to see our $1.50 special; it will save you money. We have a full line from $50c up. We have a full line of small notions at SMALL PRICES, 805 Limestone St. G. G. BYERS. Next door to P. O.