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THE DARVIPTON NEWS, s.», irvAJsrs, paOPElBTOft. TEBBS-M tn A4tmm. rtaa gnoftM, Hnit laMrtion $1.60 ••* omA ‘■••rtloo 1.00 |T(ry Mbacqaat iwrtion 60 CoBin^adTOTU—mwiU l»Mrt«d upom U« "uarriH* Not(o ** M * ObitiuurlM, not •icoading lin Uaoo. inoortod (No. ■ ii i. < i ■ mm — DARLINGTON NEWS. •FOa U8 PRINCIPLE 18 PRINCIPLE—RIGHT IS RIGHT—YESTERDAY, TO-DAY, TO-MORROW, PORBTER," VOL m NO 25. DABLINGTON, S. 0.. THURSDAY. JUNE 24, 1886. WHOLE NO 598. if ssm ATTEWTIOW! Summer Bargains 0*. FR-A-InTIK E-A-rRIiTT’S A large lot of desirable white goods, consisting ot plain and figured Lawns, Slull, Organdie lace stripes Lattice Checks, P i <| u es, Nainsooks, French satins, Et<%, Etc* Wifi be sold within the next 60 days AT COSTI J, H. EARLY, At oar Hardware Store is agent for Steam Engines, Cotton Qins, Feeders. Condensers, Cotton Presses—repairs for same. Stoves, Engineer’s supplies, such os Belting, Packing, Pipes. All kinds of Steam Fittings, in Iron and Brass. Repairs Engines, Boilers, be. Sewing Machines: White, Weed, Household, Hartford, Amer- oan and Howe ; Needles, Oils and Attachments; Repairs all kinks of Sewing Machines. Stoves, all the beat makes. Furnish repairs for all Stoves •old by ns. Cucumber Pomps, Farr patent Sand-box for Buggies, War gons, Ae. Thomas Smoothing Harrow, Deering Cultivators. April 8,1886, lj FREE TUITION AND THE 8.C. COL LEGE. Criticism and Unanswered Objections. (B W. Edwards, in ^ptist Courier.) The friends of the denominational colleges do not claim that it is an* just to tax them ‘‘to support a policy which they do not approve,” bi cause they do not approve it. And the statement and discussion of the objection in that form obscures the issue aud shuns the argument. The people of South Carolina have al* ways objected to a protective tariff, because it was unjust to them and their interests. Tbo advocates of protection said, “This is a govern ment of majorities, and the majority have settled the policy against you; therefore, your objection to it, on the ground that it is nnjust to you, ‘lands’ you into ‘such palpable absurdities’ as to show that it is ‘entirely futile.’ ” The logic has not yet been accepted in South Caro lina, where it is believed that a fallacy in statement may lead to errors as grossly injurious as “ab surd” demands. Nor do they object to it on the ground that ‘“they are taxed to heavily to support this free tuition policybut on the ground that It is wroug od prityriple to tax people at all to support an unjust policy. The gravest problems of Statecraft, of this day, are the two pertaining to the revenues and the education of the people; aud they mutually aflect each other. The amount of levies is a question of capacity: the justice of a levy a question of principle. In 1877, after expunging tbe frauds, the State found her public debt six mill ons of dollars, with three hundred millions of dol lars’ worth of property taken from her citizens, and the balance of it rendered almost worthless. Six- tentbs of her population were de structive aud ignorant paupers, and she had to assume tbe burden ot a common school system, which costs her people more than four hundred thousand dollars per annum, and restore tbe stolen Agricultural and Mechanical College fund donated by tbe United States. Aud tbe direct tax levied upon her citizens annually, for all pnblic purposes, exclusive municipal taxes, amounts to 'ourteen or htteen hundred thou sand dollars, and is almost exclu sivdy paid by less than one-half her population. “Firs cents' 7 is in deed a very ridiculous amount by tbe side ot these figures; but their very magnitude argues the wrong of adding n penny for the support ot an injurious or even doubtful policy. A “ridiculous mouse” may cut tbe riggiuK of a ship, and worms de stroy its bull; aud we cannot say which worm completes tbe mis cbiel. It is urged that the youth of South Carolina cannot pay for a collegiate education, and that fifty or sixty of those now in the College would be sent borne, if required to pay tuition. * That, by no means, settles the question ; for those who supply the means are equally poor; and it may be best for a young mao to learn that tbe State will give him nothing which he cannot fairly win or pay for. But, in tbe report of the trustees, through their visiting committee, which was pretty freely distributed last sammer, they claimed that one hundred of tbe students bad received the benefits of the college edneation who would have been deprived of it but for tbe grace of free tuition. Tbe same thing was repeated by a disting nisbed member of tbe Board of Trustees iu the Legislature last December. And, if this were true, it would, by do means, settle tbe question. That hundred might get substantially as good an education elsewhere; and some other hundred might take tbeir place, if the col lege were administered on right principles, who would be equally valuable to tbe State. It is, bow- ever, an interesting problem to in quire, if in December there were at least one hundred who would have been deprived of an education by the withdrawal ot tree tuition and in February about fifty, bow long will it take to exhaust the number altogether. But it is said that tbe trustees ‘ not only believe but they know that tbe number will be diminish ed,” by the withdrawal of free tui tion, and that a large number oi students will be sent away, “uot to the denomiuatioual or other col leges, but to their homes.” Aud “it is for this reason” . . . “that trustees have fought for free tion, and will continue to fight for it.” Well, “be it so.” Tbe “fight” is likely to be long: for we “shal have the poor always with” us, and tbe question will not be settled by a menace, or even temporary defeat. But when did tbe trustees ascer tain this—before they adopted tbe policy of free tuition, or after it be came necessary to vindicate it * Aud bow oau they know it, unless they know exactly what sort o p stuff each one is made off If (here are any who have not tbe heart to fight adversity for a coveted educa tion it will do them no good when they get it. And the vouog men of Sooth Carolina would scorn an imputation against their manhood and the heroic possibilities that urge them. No, not one who is worth a college edneation will ever fail to get it if be wills to have it, while he has strength to teach or plow one year for money to pay tuition for two more years. But the reokoniag of figures will not support tbe assertion in behalf of the trustees. It is stated that thirty-three Baptist families are re presented in the State College, and that they are all able to pay tuition. The students representing those families rr'ast compose from one- sixth to one-fourth of the whole nnmber. There are one hundred, or more, Baptists in Furman Uni versity, and some in other colleges, where full tuition fees are charged. There is not a Baptist in South Carolina, therefore, who needs or asks for State aid. It is not to be presumed that the Methodist, As sociate Reformed, or Lutheran de nominations are less independent or able to help themselves. They, too, have their own colleges, and are willing to pay for collegiate education. If tbe Presbyterians and Episcopalians, who have no college in the State except tbe State college, are less able than tbe Bap tists to pay for the culture for which they have alwaya been distinguish ed, it has never been so reported in this part of tbe State. Nor can we suppose that the undeuoiniuat- tioual, if any, who are represented in tbe college, and who, as they claim, have been cultivated above tbe reception of dogmas aud dicta tion, are too poor to pay tuition. If, however, there are fifty or sixty left who cannot pay tuition, tbe law expressly provides for the tui tion of thirty-tour free of charge. This would reduce the number to sixteeu or twenty-six—say one for every two counties in the State Now, there is probably not a couu- y in tbe State where there are not rum one to a dozen gentlemen who would come promptly to the help of young man who showed capacity, iluck and purpose, while strug- ;liug with poverty in the fight for education. The college and State would then have its represeutatives of meritorious selection, of which it is now deprived by tbe policy of tbe trustees. But again, if any would be left out by reason ot hav- ugtopay $200 tuition iu a four years’ oourse, that $200 could be saved by teaching aud studying a year more at borne, aud entering i.he Sophomore class instead of the ?reshmau. So it is evident that every young man who can pay 1160 tbe minimum estimate) per auuuin or board aud other expenses, for tour years, can get bis college edu cation, and pay tuition, for three years, and save forty dollars by tbe operation. Tbe trouble is that young men are in too great baste to get through with their education; and tbe col ege encourages this haste by tbe methods of tbe free tuition |>o!icy. Tbe belter part of education is to jain patience and sell-reliance and <o learu tbe lesson of making money before spending it. There is no satisfactory reason for inviting tbe youth of tbe State to step from tbe public school to tbe college, for a four or five years’ course, through tbe Freshman aud sub-Fresbman classes. It a parent is able, aud chooses to support bis boy iu eol lege for a decade, he has a right to do so; but tbe State ought uot to bold out inducements to her sons to neglect the better part of educa tion by hurrying from tbe primary school to tbe college. Suoli a policy will make “hothouse” scholars aud starring le chers. But this policy seeks justification in tbe want of intermediate schools, and tbe pov erty of the people. , “The poor uiau’s college”—yes, it belongs to the people of tbe State, aud they are really poor. Dr. Thorn- well said it was the poor man’s college iu bis day. He aud Mo Duffle, aud many other poor boys, who afterwards became tbe moet brilliant men of tbe State, got an education there, and paid tuition But why flaunt this ostentatious proclamation of “college education /or tte poor” before au intelligent public, when it is admitted that only fifty or sixty are getting tbe beuefit of it, by reason of free tui tion, while Twenty Thousand young men, of our own race, in the State, are too poor to avail themselves o the specious offer, aud one hundret thousand (including the girls), of school age, are as yet inadequately supplied with tbe benefits of tbe public school education 1 Are there uot thousands of bright boys, whose brain is fired by the rush of tbe times, with tbeir bauds and arms sunk to tbe shoulders in toil, who know they are but tautalixed by such a cry f It is now only claimed that about one-fourth of those who are getting the benefit of edueatien in the Slate College are unable to pay tuitiou. The trustees, then, are giving col- fifty young men, free of charge, who do not need it. The six thousand dollars which is givtn to them would pay the hoard and other ex penses (according to the statement of tbeir catalogue) of thirty-seven students. Why not then let who are able to pay tuition pay it, aud select out thirty seven poor boys, who are unable to pay any thing, and give them tbe benefit of college education f Or why not add that amount to tbe annual sup port of thirty-seven young men iu the Agricultural and Mechanical College, who are now utterly un able to get the benefit of it, because It is given to four times that num ber who need no help f If tbe poor boys’ education is tbe concern of true philanthropists, why not ex pend more (four energies in per feeling the public school system, and iu supplying the intermediate education which is needed to pre pare young men for college 1 Wbv uot look to the building up of grad ed and high schools near the homes of poor boys, and girls too, whose doers are now locked forever iu the distance to tens of thousands of the poorf And why, while so much concern is manifested for tbe high er edneatiou of two or three hun dred young men, should we show less concern for the education of our seventy thousand girls aud young ladies. jot mm. Our j«b Hsyrtw—t tMuy»Uu4 wtU MM? facility asspmssy to ouMo » to eoayru both u to price a&<l quality of work, wttk rroa those of tko citiea, aad wo guroatoo satis* faction in orery particular or shnr|« aolkiag for oar work. Wo arc always prepared to ill orders ot okort notice for Rlaako, Bil Honda, Letter Hoads, Cords, R« Posters, Circulars, PasapUata, to. AU jsk nark Most ke paid for Cash on Teachers for the Normal School. Colonel Coward, State Superin tendent of Education, has complet ed the arrangements for tbe facul ties who will conduct the teachers’ institutes this year. Tbe institute for white teaehers will open at Greenville on tbe 3rd of August, aud continue in session tour weeks. It will be under the general man agement of Superintendent Coward as principal, with the following em inent instructors iu tbe several de partments : Prof. A. J. Riokoff, of New York, the well known author of a sei ies of readers, will lecture on pedagogics, school management and methods; Mrs. A. J. Kickoff, English grammar sod composition; Prof. 8. R. Klemtn of Ohio, history and geography ; Cspt. J. G. Lyues, of the King’s Mountain Institute, on instruction in natural sciences in tbe schools; Miss Callie Haynes of the Philadelphia Medical Col lege, physiology and hygiene. Tbe department of music and calisthe nics will be provided for hereafter. The institute for colored teachers will begin its session in Columbia on tbe 6tb of July, and ooutiue for bur weeks Tbe following faculty bave been engaged to conduct tbe session: Principal, Prof. M. A. Warren, superintendent of public schools, Litchfield, Couneoticut, wbo will ecture on tbe principles of teach- ng; Prof. A. W. Farubam, of Hau- bal, New York, physios, physiolo gy aud object lessona; Carrie H. Loomis, Richmond, Virginia, math ematics; Mrs. M. J. Sherman, Hampton, Virginia, English lan guage and its use; Merrill, Atlan ta, history and geography: Mrs. M. A. Wttrren, Collinsville, Connecti cut, botany and physical studies; Carrie G. Wallace, Columbia, mu sic. Reduced rates of travel have been offered by the railroads iu the State on the following terms: South Carolina Kail way, Charleston aud Savannah Railway, Atlautic Coast Line (from Charleston only), Charlotte, Columbia aud Augusta Railroad and branches, Columbia aud.Gre euv Hl e Railroad aud leased hues: Full first class fare going; return free au presenting to con ductors certificates of attendance from the office of tbe Sta!a Super iutendeut of Education. Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line, Port Royal and Augusta Railway, Augusta aud Knoxville Railroad, Greenwood, Laurens sod Spartan burg Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line (except from Charleston): Regular fare going, return at rate ot one cent per mile; certificates of atten dance from tbe office of the State Superinteudent of Edneatiou to entitle teachers to purchase return tickets at rate named. Tbe roads composing the Atlantic Coast Line in South Carolina are the Wilmlugtou, Columbia and Augusta, Northeastern, Obsraw aud Darlington, Cheraw and Salis bury, Centra! of South Oaroliua, Georgetown aud Lanes. Cure For Piles. Piles are frequently preceded by a sense of weight in the back, loins and lower part of the abdomen, causing the patient to suppose he has some affection of the kidneys or neighbonog organs. At times, symptoms of indigestion are present flatulency, uneasiness of the stem- aob, etc. A moisture like perspira tion, producing a very disagreeable itching, alter getting warm, is a common attendant. Blind, Bleed ing and Itching Piles yield at ooee to tbe application of Dr. Bosanko’s Pile Remedy, which acta directly upon tbe part* affected, absorbing the Tumors, allaying the intense itching, and effecting a permanent cure. Price SO oents. Address Tbs Di. Bosauko Medicine Co., Piquo, Oouvuhuous ora fre Delivery. Jackson. My friends im- ties, entering some a genuine Virginia hospi* darkened room like a t care that I should do the ftj, whose happy coi (For ikt Dablimows Hswb.) A Trip to Richmond. Mb. Editor :—You will fiud be low an article read by a young 1 .dy teacher of this county, before one ot our literary elube, giving au ac count of a trip to Richmond, Va n which may be of some interest to your readers. “It was once my good fortune to visit the capital of tbe old mother State; a spot now rendered famous by the mauy stitriog events of the Iste war, aud aa being the aoene of action of*ao many historical charac ters, from Smith, Powatan and Po cahontas to Washington, Lee aud S'.onewall bued with talify took sights of the city thoroughly and enjoy every accessible view. Ac cordingly, we visited every nook, cranny and hill-top that offered in terest or euehautmeot On one, called church bill, Washington’s headquarters still stood, but alas I now converted into a candy-shop and peanut stand. Our dally visits to the Oapltot square, intensified my interest In its statuary, library and picture galery. The grove that crowns the square is said to be tbe findest in the world. Being a country girl, but no part of a connoisseur, I ad mired more the works of art, par ticularly tbe statue of Jackson, which represents bis posture at the critical moment wheu he gained the itiiinortol sobriquet, “Stone wall,” and wondered at the ignoble ambition that prompted so mauy to ti ace their initials in bieroglyphioal characters on the spotless marble of Washingtou’s statue. For the last afternoon of my stay a drive had been planned to Holly wood Gemetery, and yon most know that Hollywood is to Rich mond what Westiniustor is to Lon don. It is situated on the bank of tbeelauio James—the roar of whoae waterfalls, in one grand diapason, chants a ceaseless requiem to the illustrious dead who repose on tbe war-scarred bosom of that grand old State. Its avennes and streets are laid off and named j ns' as thope of a living eity. Tradition connect* a very sad and romantic coinci dence with tbe origin of its name. A young lady visiting Richmond was walking out with some friends one evening and stopped to admire a symmetrica] holly tree. She said that she would like to be bnried un der its beantifni shade She died before retnrning home and her wish was gratified. -Her grave is still to be seen—the first and the oldest of the hundreds that cover tbe sur rounding hills. All tbe handsome monuments were admired aud tbe carious epi taphs read, bnt none struck me as so appropriate ns one inscribed on tbe tomb of an engineer who lost his life in bis efforts to save those of his passengers. Its style is terse and laconic—characteristic of rail road phraseology. As it may be of interest to some, I give it ‘In the crash and tall he stood an move 1 and sacrificed his lite, that he might fnlfill his trust. Until the brake* ere tamed on Tine, Life’e throttle-valve shut down, He bow wekee to pilot on tko ertw, That wear the nart/r’e erowa. Oa schedule time—on upper grade, He Unde his (rein iu Qoa'e The morn of reeurreetiee. Hie lime all full—ae wage* deeked. Hie name on Ood’e pay roll. And traasportatioB through to Hoarea, A free pas* for kia ooul.’ Hollywood does not ensbine the ashes of a Shakspeare or of a Mil ton, bnt what spot can be more hal lowed in oar Soathcrn hearts than that covered by the graves of Oon federates T Here lie hundreds of onr heroes. Their brave cavalry leader, Gen. J. E. B. Hu wart, lie* with them Like Baal sod Jonathan, ‘in death they were not divided ’ In tbe oentre of this plot rises a toll pyramidal monument of an hewn stone. Nothing con id be more impraostve than this pile, overgrown with honeysuckle and Yirfinia re. Only c Words of WMom. The working of the good and brave, seen or nnseoo, endures lit. •rally forever, and eon not dia. Nothing more indicates the true gentleman than a desire evioeed to oblige or aoommedate. Get Into the habit of looking for tbe silver lining of the cloud, and when you have found it, oootiuw to look at it, rather than at the leaden grey in the middle. It wHI help yon over many hard pirns. Always say a kind woid if yoe can, if only that it may coma IS, perhaps, with singular opportani- mournful maa’o beantifni fire* happy convolutions In cannot bnt watch, forgetting his mauy troubles. Doing nothing for others lo the undoing of one’s self We mast be purposely kind nod geueroas, or we miss tbe best part of existanoa. The heart that goes out ot itselt gets large and foil of joy. This is tbe great "aeoret of Inner Hfe. Wo do ourselves the most good doing something for others. Startling but True. Wills Point, Thxas, ber 1, 1885. After saffenag for more than three years with disease ot tbs throat and longs, I got so low last spring I was entirely on* able to do any thing, aud my was so bad I scarcely slept any at night. My Druggist, Mr. H. f. Goodnight, sent ms a trial bottle of Dr. fiosauko’fl Gough and Long Syrup. I found relict, sud after using six II00 bottlea. I was en tirely cured. J. M. W% by Willcox & Go. rslden. Sold “Father’s old Boots are Thera." Many s picture of moving pethoa appears in tbe dark gallefr of drunkenness. We hove seen bat few more tonebiog ones than thie, from tbs pen of Mrs. M. A. Kidder. She describes little Benny, the son of a drunken father, sitting in a room with mother| and little sister. By looking at this sad and thought- fol face one wouid have token him to be tea years of ags, yet he was bat six. No wonder. -For four years this almost baby had been used to aotr iug a drunken father go in and oat of the cottage. He scarcely ben anything from him bnt i and abate. Bat now be is The green sod had laid on bis grove a week or so, but the effects of bis conduct were not bnried with kirn. The poor children would start with a shudder at every nnoertain stop on the walk outside, and at every hesitating hand upon tbe latch On tbe day mentioned Benny’s mother was getting dinner. “WiU my little son go to tbe wood shed, aad get mother a few sticks to finish boHiag the kettle f” “I don’t like to go to the weed- shed, mamma.” “Why, my son r “Because there is a pair of foth- eris old boots ont there, and 1 don’t like to see them.” “Why do yon mind the rid boote, Benny, any more than the oMeoot and hat upstairs f” “Because,” said Benny, tears, fill ing his bine eyes, “they look as U ronnd-houM, I they wanted to kick me.” qnehtly canned by worms goawiog st tbe vttols; ther ' “Nothing I coaid get for and child did them any good no til 1 obtained a bottle of Hnghoo’ Tonio. They need three bottles aad bave net hod a obill sinee. 1 am ebnviooed it la a per feet care for Chills aad Fever.” J. D. Ayers, Little Book, Ark. Laker ead Ligaor, In Muster Workman Pbwderly’a latest address to the Knights oi La bor throogbont tbsooastoy.hoaaad the following noble, and regard, historic words. “To onr drinking membars I “To onr drinking members I ex tend the hand of kin<niets. I baas , _r ^ - , th ® “•w rum has been pat, creepers. Only one inscription re- bat it is my duty to raeab msined uncovered by the vines, and M d lift an the men who have se nearly as Bean render it from the victims to the use of liquor. If as nearly os Kean re Latin, it proefsims: ‘I stand for my country and for the right’ Around this, stretch rows of narrow low-neaped graves with white painted slabs, nameless and dateless. In the bosv ham of the crowded streets we may forget, bat in thie peaceful aaoeteary the mind teems with thoughts of that conquered banner. •For though ooaquorod wo odoro M, Loro tko cold doud beads that boro it, Woop for tkooo wbo foil botes It.' The sun was gone and the polo moon had spread her silvery mantle over tbe petmefoi soene, w relnetontly withdraw from thie be loved eity of oar dead. Wo forget, bnt ondistarbed they the resaneotion morn. Until then -All is qatst so tbs PotosMS i Ns sound sots tbs rusk of tko rtsor, WkUo soft fulls tbodowmtho tessflho ofHqaor. If there Is saefa a m«a within the seat* of the secretary’s voice whoa, thfo in read, I ask him to sUmf erect ea thd floor of bia assembly, raise Ms hood to heaven, sod repeat with me tbeee words: “*I am n Knight of Lobov. I believe that every man should ho free from the corse of that slavery appears to the of monopoly, usury or e* The Anneet link in AaawwflMnaunBowwh O La sbuo m 6 i6MmmMb OI opprwtiou IB 106 0061 lOT^O when I drown manhood nod reason in drink. What If Me ■ forfetfnlneee or ihaftentlea