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W EV lDNEIEe ira Ce,TEWSAYJ
EDUCATION IN
SOUH CAROLNA.
AN ICAKNEQT APUSAl. FOK NTATE'S
SCHOOL TEACHERS.
Aso.?ehr Section f tho- %nnU4 It-p.vrt of
the %up r1r-0Pd*&1. . t 'docateou of
A ach Iaterest.
[The St at,, 11 th]
The following spction of the an
nual report of the State superinten
dent of education will be of particu
lar interest to the teachers of the
State and those interested in the ad
vanoement of the cause of education
in South Carolina:
There is a strong impulse among
the teachers of our State to reg4rd
their work as a profession. They
have responded during the past three
years not only loyally but with
marked enthusiasm to the call to
summer school attendance. In some
counties there is hardly a white
teacher who has not attended one of
th9 summer school sessions during
this time, and most of them have at
tended qveryoye)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 country and
town has greatly stimulated prof!ms
sional spirit and enthusiasm. In
many counttes Saturday meetings
and systematic study under instruc
tion are being carried on through the
seession; the touch cf the leading
spirits in the educational work is
continued uninterrupted. The State
teachers' association and county as
ociations earnestly and intelligently
discuss advanced educational reforms,
aud 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 thouaght of the
teachers for the best education of all
*the people.
This strenuous life of the teacher,
* however, takra time and money as
well as brains. Who pay the ex
penses ? Who get the benefit ?
From the spring closing till the
fall opening many teachers are in
entire uncertainty of employment an
other year. Many change their place
of work every year or two, though
'no fault of theirs, but through the
thoghtlessness of boards of trustees
or defects in our school system.
Many are paid less than $100 a year.
The average yearly salary paid to
white teachers in the State, including
city as well as country, daring the
year closing Jane 30th was $188.91.
That means a far smaller annual
compensation to the great majority
of county teachers. How is there to
be a profession without staDihty of
employment and adequaey of com
pensation ? Town teachers have both,
to a degree. Country teachers have
neither, as a rule. Can the legisla
ture do anything toward changi'g
this?
Better System-Oar laws now pre
vent good management-as far as
bad laws can prevent it. It is only
the graded schools (which are excep
tional in our system), and the few
country schoo:s voluntarily seeking
to adopt the methods of the graded
schools, that make possible the many
excellent teachers we now have in
South Carolina and the high concep
tion of the profession which is their
inspiration. We should hasten to
make the exception the rule. Let
us incorporate in our genieral school
law the approved fe'atures of the
best managed schools in the State.
The matters are fully diseaissed
above in connection with the uncr
tain tenure of trustees, county boards
and county superintendents or edu
cation.
Certificates-One of the defects of
our present system isstbe method of
certificating teachers, which fails en
tirely to distinguish thbe efficient from
the inefficient, the growing te.acher
from the antiquated drone. Loose re
quirements for certification, or re
quirements loosely enforced, not only
directly injure the people by deceiv
in them into the employment of in
compPtent teachers, but tend to drive
g3od teachers out of the business,
since they are in an unequal contest
when io competition with incom
petent teachers wearing the badge
of competincy. An extreme, though
not so rare, case may be cited: A
trustee writes: "I[ have a little
difficulty in one of my schools con
cerning a teacher. I have a school
whose teacher has no certifi.a.e. He
has heretofore had one. He went
before the board and failed to get a
certificate, and when boar met again
he pretended to be sick and did not
go before the board. I understand
he wrote to you * * * to prolong his
-ld certificate and let 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 trustees. I
am informed thet, they have a ten
months' subscription school and ex
pect to get public money to help pay
the teacher. I refuse to help pay
him out of public funds, for four or
five lawful reasons, some of which I
have already stated. * * * I think
the sooner all such half-handed
school teachers are ruled out the bet
ter. They are fit for nothing but to
disturb the public interest."
We should examine all teat-hers
strictly as applicants for expert ser
vice, and our enrolled list should re
present an efficient 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 scho,s, is the
adequate compensation of our teach
ers-all the teachers, whetLer in
country or in town, whether men
or women, whether working in little
schools or in big 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 may save money now suffered
to go to other purposes and give it
to the schools, to the teachers
for the sake, of the schools. Tbe
ways and means of this are discussed
elsewhere, u)der the title "Reveues."
The State Guard-Cannot the
State afford to support, during their
years of qualification for active and
efficient service, a permanently en
listed and efficiently officered army
of 4,000 white teachers an.1 2,500
negro teachers? If we were a State
of the old world we should have our
standing army of soldiers.. There is
no gre-ater need than a thoroughly
organized ; of thoroughly equip
ped teachers to fight, with modern
weapons, the powers of darkness. To
pay them as they should be paid
would require more than three mil
lion dollars a year-but this would
b3 the best investment the State could
make.
NOV A QUE-sT1ON OF COL":R.
EigIbilIty to (ffce Is a Matter of Effreer.
[Special to News and Courierj
Washington, January 9.-Presi
dent Roosevelt is still using his offi
cial axe upon the colored Republican
office holders in the Southern States
with fatal results. His latest execu
ion was today in Mississippi, where
e chopped off the official head of
"Jim" Hill, the veteran colored lead
er and national committeeman who
was appointed registrar of the land
office at Jackson, Mississippi, and
appointed as his successor Frederick
WV. Collins, the present United States
marshal for the Southern district of
Mississippi, a white man. Hill has
been B conspicuous figure at Repub
lican national conventions for the
past twenty five years, and he has
been a power in influencing the ac
ton of colored Republican delegates.
He has been on the anxious bench
ever since President Roosevelt en
tered the White House, and he has
been in Washington frequently this
winter trying to repair his political
fnces and secure a reappoimtment.
The Presi?en's action in "throwing
down" Hill is a terrible shock to the
Mississippi Republicans, and what is
more alarming to them is the fact
that the President today appointed
two Democrats to federal ofEces in
that State-Robert E. Lee, United
States attorney, and Edgar S. Wil
son, marshal. Lee was a Bryan Dem
ocrat and Wilson is a personal friend
of the President. Southern Repub
licans are demoralized by the Presi
dents repeated appointment of South
ern Democrats to Federal office.
They declare that he is smashing the
regular organization and is doing as
much for the Southern Democrats
as Grover Cleveland could have
done.
WE'RE FOURTH IN POPULATION.
Our Total Now Is 84 133,060-China.
Oreat Britain aid Russia Bigger.
Washington, Jan. 8.-The census
bureau issued a report today giving
the population of the continental
United States, Alaska and the insu
lar possessions, Hawaii, Porto Rico,
the Philippine Islands, Guam and
American Somoa.
The twelfth cersus extended over
only two of these outlying districts,
Alaska and Hawaii, but the census
office 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 entire United States:
Continental United States. 75,994,575
Philippine Islands.....-..6.961 339
Porto Rico...... ........953 243
Hawail. ......... ........ 154001
Alaska.............................. 63,592
Guam.. . ............. 9000
American Samoa............6 100
Persons in military and
naval service outside
continental United States.. 91,219
Total.................... ............... 84,233,069
The estimate for the Philippine
Islands is made by the statistican to
the Philippine commission in a let
ter to the census office.
The total population of the United
States at the close of the nineteenth
century was about 84,250,000. As
the populatiVon of the United States
at the beginning of the century was
about five and a third millions, the
nation has grown nearly sixteonfold
in one hundred years.
There are only three countries
which now have a greater apulation
than the United States, China, the
British Empire and the Russian Em
pire. China and 'the British Em
pire have each of them probably be
tween 350,000,000 and 400,000,000,
:r 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 closed with greater rapidity than
aniy other European power.
A GIreat Oppartutty Tor the Farmers r,f
the s'tate to Meet In theIr Interest.
Secretary's Office, State Agricultu
ral and Mechanical Society of
South Carolina, Pomaria, S. C.,
January 2nd, 1002.
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
ruary next, as 12 o'clock M.
In consequence of this meettng,
this day has been set aside by 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 Giood Roads Convention
will convene in Charleston on the 3d
and continue through ihe 7th Febru
ary next, and those attending the
mertings of t he 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.
Tnos. W. HOLLOWAY, See'y.
There is an old saying that before
a man is married he is only half a
man. Well, after he is married he
is nobody at all.
MR. SMITH, TOO, HAS
GONE TO THE WALL.
FATHER OF THE LATER 'CHERRY
TREE" IDEA ASSIGNS.
His Touching Valedictory-Refers to Bi
W(-bb Perfecting Press. The As
sign e Issues a Notice to the
Creditors.
Since the untimely end of that in
fant industry, "The Amos Owen
Cherry Tree company," the skepti
cal have been predicting the failure
of "the f ather of them all"-the
Smith newspaper concern of Monti
cello, Fla., 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 been fail
ing and now comes the announement
that Smith has made an assignment.
For several weeks he has been slow
in making remittances, and now his
agents are being informed that they
are apt to come out losers in this
matter. Smith's valedictory is very
affecting, has a "touching" ring about
it. He is, or was, 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 cirenlation to
0,000 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 perfecting-in
Florida, with the exception of one in
Jacksonville. I also purchased other
ostly and valuable machinery with
which to operate the plant, and have
nearly completed a new building, all
at s 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
encon nt ered some opposition, but
by continnos and persistent effort
managed to withstand it for awhile.
This opposition came from parties or
newspapers who were and are not
personally acquainted with me and
who had no correct conception of my
work, frim parties whose main hope
of keeping their own heads ap, de
pends on pulling down the heads of
others. Their unfriendly criticisms
consisted of statements and publi
cations that were wholly untrue, and
without the slightest foundation. In
fact, statements that were conceived
in malace, made in jealousy, and cir
clated with a desire and hope to in
jare.
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 an~
attention necessary for its successful
continuation under the difficultieE
briefly mentioned.
H-ad it not been for this opposi.
tion I would have successfully built
the business up to the point desired,
given employment to many who
needed it, and made a fair margin of
profit on the business transacted.
But bad news travels at a rapid
rate and in many instances a sub
stantial 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 fith 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 nee
ssary 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 days
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 demanads against me.
I have therefore, this day, volun
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
igned assignee, of the amount of
this establishment,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."
IIRANKLIN .J. MOSA..
Onee Governor of s'outh Carolina Sentenced
for Stealing a. Overcoat.
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 merey from
the court, Franklin J. Moses, once
Governor of South Caroline, was
sentenced here today to four monthb'
imprisonment for the larceny of an
overcoat.
Paper stocklngs.
[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 to
give it a wooly look, it is then knitted
as though it were the real thing.
This enirious hosiery is to be retailed
at a price averaging three-halfpence
a pair , which will go far to lighten
the labors of patient (or impatient)
work and washerwomen, for who
would darn stockings with new ones
at hard at that unheard of price?
A Man of WhIskers.
Jacks township Laurens County,
can loudly boast of baying the long
est-bearded man in Soath Carolina.
Mr. James Lewis Simpson, one of
the best men by the way, that lives
and moves and has his being, poss
esses a beard which the most devout
dunkard might well envy. Mr.
Simpson's beard, combed out to its
fll length, measures by the regula
tion yardstick 77 inches. He is a
ather tall man, and, standing erect
at his full height, his beard trails ii
the dust at his feet. He appeare(
on the streets of Clinton a few dayj
ago with his beard in all its glora
and was the centre of marked atten
tion to the many who saw him
When bis beard is tucked up it hat
the appeerance only of an ordinarq
heavy set of whiskers, but when al
lowed to "run at h-rge" out tails thi
average horse's tail by several inches
Mr. Simpson ought to visit the Char
leston exposition and there eclips(
the midway curious.-Clinton Ga
zette.
Attcmpted Assault.
[Special to The State.]
Spartanburg, Jan. 9.-Today a
Reidsville a negro, giving as hit
name B. W. Hughes from Green
ville, made attemps to criminially
assault two 1ftle white school child
ren and also to assault Mrs. E. M. F
Fowler of that place.
Ihis morning the negro accosted
the two little white girls as they weri
on their way to school, but they rar
and screamed, thus baffling his pur
pose. This afternoon at 3 o'clock thE
same negro entered the home ol
Mrs. F. M. Fowler and attempted t<
lay hands on her, but her instan
screams summoned a man working
near by, at whose approach the blac)
fiend fled.
Mrs. Fowler's son, C 0. Fowler
went in search of the fugitive. Ho
soon found him in a lonely spot an(
the two grappled. The negro as
saulted Fowler with an irn rod. Fow
ler drew his pistol and shot the negr<
in the neck. His capture was ther
easy.
The negro is now in the lock up a
Reidsville and will be brought her
tomorrow. He got badly wounded.
Reidsville is much excited, but n<
disorder prevails.
St. Valentine's Day and Washing
ton's birth day divide honors in thd
Febraary IDesigner, which containE
verses, Valentine amusements for thi
children, " Washingtonian Tableaux,
a Washington's birthday comedy
"Mrs. Poidgers' mince pie," and illus
trated directions for dressing thE
hair in Martha Washington style.
Three capital short stories are "Aun
Lina's conjourn'," by Will Harben
"her son's wife," by Maragaret
Whillans Beardsley, and "Mial
Clarissa's smile factory "by Mar2
Knight Potter. "Pincushions "and
"novelties in crochet" give hints fo:
fancy work. "The hygienic pantra
and storeroom," "household advice'
and "b:reakfast recipes" offer assist
ance to the housewife. "Points oi
dressmaking," "fashions and fabrics,
'for hea3lth and beauty," and nurser;
lore" are other practical and interest
ing features. "Daughters of th
White House," by Waldon Fawcett
is an illustrated article of merit, an
"cook notes" and " selections for th
Recitationist" make up the list o
miscellany. Prominent among th
fashion features is "Costumes fo
Elderly Ladies," beautifully illus
trated, and contamning just such infor
mation3 as is needed by those desir
ing dignified and appropriate appare
Aside from this there is a generou
supply of fashion designs for adult
and javeniles, all suitable for th
season and artistically pictured.
new departure in The Designer, an<
one which will be highly appreciated
consisting of full-illustrated instruc
tions for the making of stylish hat
and bonnets. By the aid of this artic]
any woman with an average know
edge of sewing can turn out a hani
some and effective hat or bonnet
reasonable cost.
The End of the Day.
Now the weary sun is sinking
To his slumbers in the west,
"He is tired," Rose was thinking:
"I am sure he needs some rest."
But a merry little sunbeam
Whispered softly in her ear,
Gently kissed her little ringlets,
Whispered so none else could hear:
"We don't rest, you foolish Rosy;
We have far too much to do.
Other folks are waiting for us;
They need sun as much as you."
-Casse11's Little Fol
ANDPEW CARNEGIE9S
TEN MILLION GIFT.
WILL BE IN THE FOR OF FIVE PE
CENT B iND8.
The Board cof Trustees Elected -The Objectq
Purpore and sope of the Proposed
Institation si Set Forth by Mr.
Carnegie Himself.
Washingtoo, Jan. 9.-Official an
nouLcement was made today of the
board of trustees of the Carnegie in
stitution, which has been incorporated
here under the $10,000,000 gift of
Andiew Carnegie. The only indi
dication as to the form of the gift is
that it will be in "five per cent.
bonds." This 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 purposes above mentioned."
The announcement was made in
the form of a statement given out by
Chas. D. Walcott, secretary of the in
corporators, in accordance with the
expressed wish of Mr. Carnegie.
The board of trustees elected by
the incorporators to carry out the
purposes of the institution as indi
cated, are as follows:
Ex- OFFICIO.
The president of the United States.
The president of the United States.
senate.
The speaker of the house of repre
sentatives.
The secretary of the Smithsonian
institution.
The president of the National
Academy of Science.
Grover Cleveland, New Jersey.
John S. Billings, New York.
Wm. N. Frew, Philadelphia.
Lyman J. Gage, Illinois.
Daniel C. Gilman, Maryland.
John Hay, District of Columbia.
Abram S. Hewitt, New Jersey.
Henry L. Higginson, Massachu
.setts.
Henry Hitchcock, Missouri.
Chas. L. Hutchinson, Illinois.
SWin. Liindsay, Kentucky.
Seth Low, New York.
Wayne MacVeagh, Pennsylvania.
D. 0. Mills, California.
S. Weir Mitchell, Pennsylvania.'
W. W. Morrow,' California.
Elihu Root, New York.
John C. Spooner, Wisconsin.
Andrew D. White, New York.
SEdward D. White, Louisiana.
Charles D. Wolcott, District of Co
lumbia.
rCarroll D. Wright, District of Co
lumbia.
The board of trustees will meet to
organize and elect officers, in the
office of the Secretary of State on
January 29.
SMr. Carnegie's purpose as stated
by himself in requesting the various
members of the board to become
members is as follows:
i"It is proposed to found in the city
of Washington, an institution which,
fwith the co operation of institutions
now or hereafter established, here or
elsewhere, shall, in the broadest and
most liberal manner encourage in
vesigation, research and discovery;
encourage the application of knowl
edge to the improvement of man
kind, 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.
s"These and kindred objects may
be attained by providing the neces
sary apparatus for experimental
.work, by emnploying able teachers
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 such men as con
tinue their special work at seats of
learning throughout the world.
"The 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