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_, J;4~ t 2ED1JttI {tt__ oibews. . J, E I~STA1LISHII) 185. ~4EWI f RY, S. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1902. TWICE A WEEK IC ~ I EDUCATION IN SOU CAROLINA, AN KCAUNIC4r hT'('CA(. On iAT'S A eam her m etiti of 1h1' i itpi I I -) Sff of the 1-imp ri .-eratep-t t.f 1,diicatims of M auch 1n141 rvat. |The Statte, I I th] The following section of tho an nual report of the Stato superint,on dont of education will be of particu. lar interest to the teachers of the State and thoso interested in the nd vancoment, of the cause of education in South Carolina: There is a strong impulse among the teachers of our State to regard their work as a profession. They have responded during the past t i ree years not only loyally but with marked enthusiasm to the call to summer school attondance. In some countios there is hardly i white teacher who hn not attended one of the summer school sessions duriug this time, and most of them have at. tended overy ye, r. In Richland County nearly every white teacher has attended the State summer school. This annual gathering of so large a body of the leadiig teach era of the State from counlry and town has greatly stimulated profes. sional spirit and enthusiasni. In many counttes Saturday meetings and systematic study unler instruc tion are being carried on through the soession; the touch .f the leading spirits in the educational work is continued unintorrupted. The State teachers' association and county as sociations earnestly and intelligently discuss advanced oducational reforms, and speak their convictions in re commendations to the public and to the legislature. The Southern Edu cational association is brought to Co lumbia through the support of our teachers when appealed to for the required number of members. The State is astir with the thought of the teachers for the best education of all the people. This strenuous life of the teacher, however, takes time an(d money as well as brains. Who pay the ex penses? Who get the benefit? From the spring closing till the fall opening many teachers tire in entire uncertainty of employnient an other year. Many change their place of work every 3ear or two, though no fault of their, but through the thoughtlessness of boards of trustees or defects in our school system. Many are paid loss than $l00 a year. IThle average yearly salary paid to white teachers in the State, inicluding * city as wvell asi country, dluring tho -year closing June 3th was $188.91. That means a far smaller annual of county teachors How is there to be a profession without staeihtly of employment and adequaey of com pensation ? Town teachers bave bot h, to a degree. Count ry teachers have * neither, na a rule. Can the logisla Lure do anythling toward chanigir-g this? Better System-Our lawsanow pre vont good managem.ent-as far as bad laws can preveut it. It is only * ~ the gradled schools (whichl are excep tional in our sy-steml) , and the few country schoo:s voluntarily seeking to adopt t he met bods of the graded schools, that mako po.ssible the many excellent teachers woi no0w have in South Carolina and the high conlcep Lion of thle p)rofessionl which is their inspiration. We should haston to make the exception the rule. Let us incorporate in our general school law thle app)roved features of t he best managed schools in the State. The matters are fully diseassed above in connection with the uneer tain tenure of trustees, county boar ds and county superin.tendents or edu. cation. Certificates-One of the defects of our present system is the mnethlod of certificating teachers, wvhichl fails on tirely to distinguish the eflicient from the ineflcient, the growing teacher from the antiquated drono. Loose re quirements for certification, or re. quirements loosely enforced, not only - directly injure the people by doceiv lng them into the employment of in C'petent teachers, but tond to drivo good tvaeahers out of the buil'4ineis, fmutco they Itre inl an uqIt ua(llid contest whle in cominewAition with incom potent toeihrs wtiring the badge of coin pti.ney. Aln (-xt,remw, t ough not so rare, case mluay be cited: A Irustee writes: "I hive it ittle ditlieulty in otne of my schools con corning a teitcher. I have it school whose teacher has no cortifi-nmo. le has heretofore htd one. He went before the board and failed to got a certificatto, and when board met again he pretended to be sick and did not go 1,foro the board. I understand he wrote to you * * * to prolong his 'ld certilioato and lot him teach un til the board met again. Now I stick strictly by the school law * * ' He is teaching in one of our public school houses under the employ of the patrons and not the trusteos. I am informed that they have a ten months' subscription t0chool and ex poet to get public money to help pay the teacher. I refuse to help pay him out of public funds, for four or fivo lawful reasons, some of which I have already stated. * * * I think the sooner all such half-handed school teachers are ruled out the bot tor. They are fit for nothiig but to disturb the public interest." Wo should examine all tea.,hers strictly is applicants for expert ser vice, and our enrolled list should re present an officient corps perma nently employed by the State for its most valued work. Better Salaries-But the prime re quisite to obtaining good teachers the coalition precedent to effective improvement of our schols, is the adequate componsatiun of our teach ers-all the teachers, whetLer in country or in town, whether men or women, whether working in little schools or in :jig schools. They must live by their work if they are to do the best work. "The laborer is worthy of his hire." They must have a decent and respectable sup part if they are to illustrate in them selves the intellectual and the aes thetic life, or inspire high ideals in others. We must have more money. We must raise more money by taxation, or we nmav save money now suffered to go to other purposes and give it to the schools, to the teachers for the sake of the schools. The ways and means of this are discussed elsewhere, under the title "Revenes." The State Guard-Cannot the Stato afford to support, during their years of qualification for active and e0ficient service, a perma)tnntly en listed and efliciently oflicered army of 4,000) white teachers at 2,500 negro teachers? if we woere a State of the old world we shonld have our standing armily of soldiers. There us no greater need than a thoroughly organized army of thoroughly equip ped teachers to fight, with modern weapons, the powers of darkness. To pity themn as they should be paid would require more t.han three miu lion dlollars a year--but this wouldl ba the b)est investment the St at e could make. No r A QUK-hTION OF 001..01C. E'rigIIiIty so I'fine I., a Ma,tr <>f Effcttr. [Special to News and Courier] Washington, January 9.- Presi - dent Roosevelt is still using his ofl ciatl axe upon the colored Republican oflice holders ini the Southern States with fatal results. His latest execu tion was todlay in Mississippi, where he chopped off the official head of "Jimt" Hill, the veteran colored lead er and national committeeman who wats appointed registrar of the land office at Jackson, Mississippi, and appointed as his successor Frederick W. Collins, the present United Stat es marshal for the Southern district of Mississippi, a white man. 1Hill has been a conspicuous figure at Repub lican national conventions for the past twenty-five years, and he has beeni a power in influencing the ac tion of colored Republican delegates. He has been on the anxious bench ever since President Roose.velt en tered the Whit.e House, and he baa been in Washington frequently this winter trying to repair his political fences and secure a reappoiment. The 'resient's action in "throwing down" IHill is a terrible shock to the Mitsissippi 10publicans, ind what is moro alarming to them is the fact that the lresideit today appoi'ited two Democrats to federal ofi-ces in that Stato- Robert E. Lee, United States altoruty, and Edgar S. Wil. sTi, marshal. Leo wts a Bryan Dom ocrat and Wilson is a personal friend of the Presidont.. Southern Repub licans are demuoralized by the Presi donts repeated appointment of South orn Democrats to Pectoral oflice They declare that he is smashing the regular organization and is doing as much for the Southern Democrats as Grover Cleveland could have done. WEIRFt FOURTHE IN POPULATION. Our Total Now Is H4 133.000-Chinal. Orat BrInin aitd Husana Bigger. Washington, Jan. 8.-The census bureau issued a report today giving the population of the continental United States, Alaska and the insu 1ar possessions, Hawaii, Porto Rico, the Philippine Islands, Guam and American Somoa. The twelfth or.sus extended over only two of thos outlying districts, Alaska and Hawaii, but the census oflice has obtained the best available information regarding the population of the other portions of the United States and prepared the following table, showing the present popula tion of the entre United States: Conti'ntal Unite'd Statee. 75.994,575 1hilippne Islands....... 6.61 339 Porto 9ico.................953 243 HaNkii.. .... 154 001 Alaska......... . . . . ............ 63,592 Guam.-.-.0............. 9 000 American Samoa..... .........0 100 Pvrsons in military and naval service outsido contim-nial United States .. 91,219 T otal.................... .............. 4 ,233 ,069 The etimate for the Philippine Islands is made by the statistican to tho Philippine commission in a let ter to the census ofice. The total population of the United States at the close of the nineteenth century was about 84,250,000. As the 1)populatiou of the United States at the beginning of the century was about five and a third millions, the nation has grown nearly sixteenfold in one hundred years. There are only three countries which now have a greater population than the United States, China, the British Empire and the Risian Em pire. China and the British Em pire have each of them probably be tween 350,000,000 and 400,000,000, or together nearly one-halp of the total population of the earth. The Russian Empire, with about 131,000, 000 people, has more than as many again as the United States and has been increasing during the century just close<d with greater rapidity than any other European power. A Oireat Opportunity for the IFarmern f the Att to Meet ltu their interest. Secretar3'a Office, State Agricultu ral and Mechanical Society of South Carolina, Pomaria, S. 0., January 2nd, 1902. The spring meeting of the above Society will be held in the audito rium on the Exposition Grounds, Charleston, on the 5th day of Feb.. re.ary next, as 12 o'clock M. InI consequence of this mueettng, this day has been set aside b)y the Exposition authorities as "Farmers' Day," and the general att .ndance of the farmers of the State is expected. In addition to the interest attach ing to the meeting and the Exposi tion, the Good Roads Convention will convene in Charleston on the 3d and continue through-ihe 7th Febru ary next, and those att'snding the meetings of the Society can also take the meetings of the Good Roads Congress. This will be quite an in teresting convention and one well worth the attendance of all farmers. All members are urgently invited to attend. Turos. WV. HOLLOWAY, See'y. There is an old saying that before a man is married he is only half ai man. Well, after he is married be is nobody at all. MR. SMITH, TOO, HAS GONE TO THE WALL. FATiE1 Of T1HE LATEC "CIIRRTY TICEK' IDE4 ASSIUNS. filn Touchin41g Vittle4icto y-itofers to fit@ W, bb -*Porfctinag Pres. The Ae tig i laiue a Notioe to tho Oraditore. Since the untimely end of that in fant industry, "The Amos Owen Cherry Troo company," the skepti cal have been predicting the failure of "the father of them all"-the Smith newspaper concern of Monti. collo, Fia., which is the first of the "get rich quick" schemes to be started. The napkin ring concerns and other abortive infringements on the Smith copyright have boon fail ing and now comes tflo annonnoment that Smith has made an assignment. For several weeks he has been slow iu making remittances, and now his agents are being informed that they are apt to come out losers in this matter. Smith's va'ndictory is very affecting, has a "touching" ring about it. lie is, or wts, the publisher of the Weekly Constitution and the Monthly Reporter, notoriously "sor ry" papers, but, they have brought him over 40,000 subscribers through his system of giving employmet to do writing a' home. Some of these agents in Columbia are sadly in need of the money which they put into the business and would almost be willing to sacrifice their claims for pay for work done if they could get back the money advanced. The last of Smith's venture is sum med up in the following statement which he issued under date of Jan uary 4: To the Public: Leaving the University of Georgia in 1890. I moved to Monticello and in a few years afterwards-I haven't the exact day before me, but seven or eight years ago. I took charge of the Monticello Weekly Constitution, and have continuously edited and published that paper to the present time. When I took charge of that paper it had less than one thousand sub scribers, and by continuous hard work have increased its circulation to 40,000 or more: was rapidly build ing up a large job printing business and had a prospect of doing about $50,000 worth of advertising per annum. In October, 1901, I bought and moved to Monticello the best news paper press-a Webb perfecti ng-in Florida, with the e3xception of one in Jacksonville. I also purchased other costly and valuable machinery with which to operate the plant, and have nearly completed a new building, all at a heavy expense. Monticello being a small place it was necessary that a large per cent. of our business iu the way of sub scribers, job printing and advertising, come from a distance. To get this business it was necessary to have re presentatives in the territory from which we expected patronage. The business was gradually in creasing and promised .well up to a few months ago. At that time I encou ntered some opposition, but by continues and persistent effort managed t.o withstand it for awhile. This opposition camne from parties or newspapers who were and t.re not personally acquainted with me and who had no correct conception of my work, from parties whose main hope of keeping their own beads up, de. pends on pulling down the heads of others. Their unfriendly criticisms consisted of statements andl publi. cat ionThat were wholly untrue, and without the slightest foundation. In fact, statements that were conceived in malace, made in jealousy, and cir culated with a dlesire and hope to in juare. As above stated, I was able to with stand, this opposition for a time, but to do so I was compelled to toil day and night, which under the strain I have had to go, has seriously im paired my health. I am now unable to give the business the energy and attention necessary for its successful continuation under the difficulties briefly mentioned. Had it not- been for this onnpot. tion I would have successfully built the business up to the point desired, given employment to inuy who needed it., and made a fair margin of profit on the business transacteod. But bad news travels at a rapid rate and in many instances a sub etantial institution under ordinary conditions has been quickly ruined by circulation of untruthful reports, regardless of who their authors may have been. In conducting my business I have ever endeavored to keep faith with each of my representatives and am sure a reference to my past record will satisfy any one on this point. And I shall yet keep faith with them, even though to do so, makes it noec essary for me to sacrifice everything I have worked for, for the past 12 years. I have carefully and maturely con sidered the situation for several lays and have firmly concluded that the only safe course to take, considering the interest of all, is to assign all my property for the purpose of satisfy - ing the just demands against me. I have therefore, this day, yolun tarily assigned all my property, real, personal or mixed, including money in the bank, and expecting only my household and kitchen furniture, for the purpose named. The assignee has taken charge of it and will make the proper disposition of same. It is a matter of deep regret and a great disappointment to me and to my friends-and I am glad to say that I feel that every one who is per sonally acquainted with me is my friend-that the course taken seems best. Respectfully, etc. -This is accompanied by a state ment "S. D. Clark, assignee," in which he gives formal notice of the assignment and says; "You will therefore discontinue your work in soliciting agents in behalf of this es tablishment and that you will send forward a sworn itemized statement on the enclosed blank to the under signed assignee, of the amount of this establisbment,s indebtedness to you. In making up this statement it must be duly sworn to before some magistrate in your vincinity. I will kindly ask that you send this state. ment forward to me as soon as possi ble and I will endeavor to make the best disposition possible at an early date." FRAIMKLIN J. MOSsuS. Once Governor of Mouth Uarolinn Sentenced for Stealing an Olveroat. Boston, Jan. 9.-Admitting that his picture was in the rogue's gal lery, and that, for a period of years he had been familiar with the "low est depths of New York opium joints," yet pleading for mercy from the court, Franklin J. Moses, once Governor of South Carolins, was9 sentenced here today to four montha' imprisonment for the larceny of an overcoat. Paper stockings. [Liverpool Post.] The latest with regard to paper is that we are to have stockings-real stockings made of that material which we are apt to think sacred to the uses of the library. It is said that paper can easily be made into a sort of strong twine; this is roughened t< give it a evooly look, it is then knittet as though it were tlie real thing This curious hosiery is to be retailei at a price averaging three- halfpenc4 a pair , which will go far to lighter the labors of patient (or impatient' work and washerwomen, for wh< would darn stockings with new onei at han~d at that unheard of price? A Man of Whisker. Jacks township Laurens County can loudly boast of having the long est-bearded man in Soath Carolina Mr. James Lewis Simpson, one o the best men by the way, that live and moves and has his being, poss eses a beard which the most devon dunkard might well envy. Mi Simpson's beard, combed out to it full length, measures by the regule tion yardstick 77 inches. He is at his full Ihight, his board trails in tho (111s,at his foot. 110 auppored on tho strevts of Clinton a fow days ago with his bmard il all its glory and wats tho contre of marked atton. tion to tho manly who tsaw himl). W1en-U his buird is tclOke uip it has tlin appooraeo only of aln ordinary hlivy Hot of whiskors, but whon al lowed to "run at rhr ro" out tails tho avorago horo's t ail by soveral iiches. MIr. Simpson ouight to visit tho Char lostol vXposition ind thoro eclipme tho iidway cnriouls.-Clintonl oa zAttto. [.Sieial to iThe Sta#t 0 Spartanburg, Janl. 1.. Today at Heidsvillo it loigro, giving as his no B. W. Hlighvs froni Oroon. Villo, ma.1do iWompH to criminially Issau1lt twO littO whitO co11001 ch(hd ron and also to assault IHrs. '. M. le. Fowler of tHit phwe. his morning tho nogro aceomtod the two litlo vhiito girls its thoy woro onl thoir waty to school, but. thoy ran iwd C1mcrouniod, thus buiflling his u1r p0o. 1T11is aftoritO a t 8 o'Clock tho 811111o nogro oitormd tho h'omln of Mrs. P. M. Fowlor ia,, attomptod to liy hliids oil her, but. ior instant, tirotin mumioned at man vorking noar by, at whoso approach tho black 11i1nd 11od. Mrs. Powlor's son, C 0. Fowlor, wont. inl seillch of t ho fligit ivo. Ho H001n found hiiill it lolloly81 spot. ald the two grapplod. Tho nogro ats saultOd Powl0r wit,h ani ill rod. Fow lor drew his pistol and 8t11( t.io negro in th noeck. lli.i capture was thon ORHY. Tho iogro is now inl th lock up at Roidtivillo and will ho bi ought here tolmorrow. I Lo got badly), wounldod. Roidsvill is muce' excitod, but no disordor provailti. St. Va11lnt-ino's Day and Washiling tonk's birth day divilo honors in the Fobruatry Dosignor, which containti verses, Vitlont,ino imusornonts for th childroin, "N1Washingtonlianl Tablonaux, it Washingtoln's birthldity comedy "Mrs. I'odgOrH' inCO piO," i and ills tratod directions for drossing tho hair in Malrtha Washingtonl sltylo. Throo capital short stories aro "Aunt Lia'm conjoutrii'," by Will Ititar)On, " hor fion's wife," by Maragarot Whillans Board-iloy, and "Miils Clarissa's smilo factory "by Mary Knight Pottor. "Pincu4hion-i "and "novolties in crocet"' giv hints for fiancy wvork. "Trho hygionic 1pant1ry and sto)rorooml," "hIousehlold advice" and1( "blreak fast, reci pOS'" olfor assist ance0 to tihe house~wife. "P'oinits on dressmasking,"' "fasion and8111 fabrics," 'for health and bteauty,"' anid nulrsry lor'' atre other practtical and interest ing features. "D)aughlters of the WVhite House8," by3 V Waldonl Fawcett, ist an1 illuistraitodl article of morit, and '"cook nlot4is" andi~ " selections~ for the Ilecitationiist"'111( make up the lit of mlisco1lany. Pr'1omlint, amlong tho fashion foatur-s is '"Costumes for EI~lerly LadtiI(1,"' bontuti fully ill us tratted, and1( conttainig just such infor miation as8 is nooded( by those dlesir ing dlignlified and1( app)rop)riatoe apparel Asido from thlis thioro is a geneorous supl~Py of fashion designis for adulti and juveniiles, al1l suitable for the season01 anid atrtistical ly pict 'mrd. A no1w depatrturo inl The D1osigner, and on10 which~ will bo0 highly ap)prcialted, conIsistinIg of full-ilustrated' inistrue. lions for the mIakinIg of stylish hatt and bonnets. By the aid of this article aniy womanti with an1 atveraige knowl odge of flowing can1 turn out a1 hand some0511( andTfftivo hait or bionnot al reasonable cost. The End of the Day. Now the weary sun is sink ing. Tro his slutnb)ers inl the west., "iIe is tired,'' Rose was thlinkinlg: "I am sure he needs somie rest.'" But a merry little sunb11eaml - Whlispered( softly ini her ear, Gently kissed her little ringlets, Whispered so nonel0 else could hear: "We don't rest, you foolish Rosy; We have far too mulIch to do. Other folks are waiting for us; They uneed $sun as muclh as you." 6 -Cassell's iAttle Folk ANDREW CARNEGIE'S TEN MILLION GIFT. WILL IlS IN THE FORM OF FIVE PER UENT It PNI)S. The ii.t%rd of Truntes IClected -The Object, Purp.-iro and Hcopo of the I'opsned 1n1tstillttol, an met Forth by M. Carnegio Himnolf. Washington, Jan. 9.-Oflicial an noulcomniot wasi mado today of the board of trustoos of the Carnegie in stitution, which has been incorporated here under the $10,000,000 gift of Andrew Carnegio. Tha only indi. <tication as to the form of the gift is that it will be in "live per cent. bonds." ThIH is referred to in a sin gle sentence as follows: "It is the purpose of Mr. Carnegie to transfer $10,000,000 in five per cent. bonds to the board of trustees for the purpmsost above mentioned." The announcement was made in the form of a statement given out by Chns. 1). Walcott, secretary of the in corporators, in accordance with the expresed wish of Mr. Carnegie. The board of trustees elected by the incorporators to carry out the purp)oesi of the institutiont as indi cated, are as follows: EX oFF10O. Tho president of the United States. The presidentof the United States sonato. The speaker of the heuse of repre sentatiVes. The secretary of the Smithsonian institution. The preHident of the National Academy of Science. Grover Cleveland, New Jersey. John S. Billings, New York. Wim. N. Prow, Philadelphia. Lyman J. Oage, Illinois. Daniel C. Gilman, Maryland. John Hay, District of Columbia. Abram S. lowitt, New Jersey. Henry L. Iligginson, Massachu setts. Henry Hitchcock, Mis,,luri. Chas. L. Hutchinson, Illinois. Win. Lindsay, Kentucky. Seth Low, Now York. Wayne MaVeagh, Pennsylvania. D. 0. Mills, California. S. Weir Mitchell, Pennsylvania. W. W. M->rrow, California. Etih,i Root, New York. John C. Spooner, Wisconsin. Andrew D. Vhite, New York. Edward D. White, Louisiana. Charles D. Wolcott, District of Co. lumbia. Carroll D). Wright, District of Co humbia. The board of trustees will meet to organize and elect officeors, in the oflice of the Secretary of State on .January 29. Mr. Carnegie's purpose as stated by hunself in requesting t,he various mlembolrn of the board to become memblers is as follows: "It is proposedl to found in the city of Washington, an institution which, with the co operation of institutions nowv or hereafter established, here or elsewhere, shall, in the broadest and most liberal manner encourage in vestigation, research and discovery; encourage the application of knowl edge to the improvement of man ki nd, provide such buildings, labora tories, books and apparatus as may be needed, and afford instruction of an advanced character to students whenever and wherever found, inside or outside schools, properly qualified to profit thereby. "These and kindred ->bjets may b 1e attained by providing the neces sary apparatus for experimental work, b)y employing able teacher. from the various institutions in Washington or elsewhere, and by enabling men fitted for special work to devote themselves to it, through salaried fellowships or scholarships, or through salaries with or without pensions in old age, or through aid in other forms to suoh men as on. tinue their special work at seats of learning throughout the world. "Trhe face of the returns," said the chairman of the meeting, "shows sixty-seven ayes and no noes.', "What a queer looking face that must be,'' remarked an old lady in ;. the back row