The Darlington news. (Darlington, S.C.) 1875-1909, August 31, 1893, Image 4
9k Darlington Jte.
WADOY THOMPSON, Editor.
During the temporary abtence of
tht regular Editor, hi* local work de-
eo/tfc* upon R. C. Starr, Jr.
Thursday, August 31, 1893.
STATE CONTROL OF TEXT-BOOKS.
When the State Board of Ex
aminers met five years ago for
the purpose of deciding what
text kooks were to be used in
the public schools, they adopted
what is known as a “multiple
series”, that is, they put on the
list three or four books of the
same grade for each study, leav
ing it to the several county
boards to select from this “mul
tiple series” the text-books for
their respective counties. Some
ot them adopted one series and
some another. The most serious
objection to the “school-book
dispensary” scheme now con
templated by the State author!
ties is, that, accorditfg to the
avowed intention of its origin
ator himself, it will necissitate
the substitution of a single ser
ies for the entire State in place
of thepresent “multiple series”.
Since no two counties are now
using exactly the same series,
there will have to be many
changes made, a result greatly
to be deplored, for it is this very
thing of condemning the books
in use and compelling the pur
chase of others in their place,
year after year and every year,
which, even more than the high
price of the books themselves,
has been such a great hardship
on the people, and has given
rise to so much murmering on
the school-book question. This
alone then should be a sufficient
objection to the administration
scheme in the eyes of the people
to make them utterly condemn
it.
When the regular book-sellers
are run out of the market, and
the school commissioners of the
several counties are put in
charge of the trade on the part
of the State, there will be more
trouble. The beggarly pay
grudgingly doled out to these
officials under the parsimonious
policy now in vogue has ex
emplified the adage of “poor
pay, poor preach”. The vast
majority of our present school
commissioners are anything but
the experienced and reliable
business men to whom the great
publishing houses of the North
and West would voluntarily en
trust the handling of their goods,
and under such management,
the State’s school-book trade
would soon be but another
charge and trial put upon the
already over-burdened Common
wealth. The fact that the school
commissioner of Darlington
County does not come within
the category above described is
the exception which goes to
prove the rule. There is one
thing certain, if Mr. Perritt has
to give up his present regular
employment as a teacher and
move to Darlington for the pur-
p o s e of running the State’s
school-book depository at a pro
fit of five per cent to cover the
actual expenses of the business,
with nothing but his meagre
official salary to live on, he will
soon find out that the school
commissioner’s “lot isnotahap-
py one”. It will be seen we be
lieve, on investigation, that
comparatively few of the pre
sent school commissioners re
side at their respective county
seats, or even very near them.
The experiment will soon devel
op the fact, too, that five per
cent will not cover the actual
cost of handling the books, and
as the net profits of the present
dealers, after paying freight
and drayage, has been shown
to be rarely more than ten per
cent, the evil of high-priced
school-books is not going to be
so very much remedied after
all.
Under the proposed new
scheme, the single series of text
books adopted by the Ptate
Board of Examiners is to be
forced upon the graded schools
also, which, owing to the fact
that they are supported by a
special tax levied upon all the
property within the school dis
trict and derive no revenue from
the ordinary county school fund,
have been very properly allow
ed the privilege heretofore of
selecting their own text-books.
The graded school authorities
know their needs better than
the State Board of Examiners,
and to them, we feel sure, the
patrons arc perfectly willing to
leave the whole subject. As no
body wants these schools in
cluded under the new law, the
gratuitous enforcement of a
uniform series of text-books up
on them will be tyrannical in
the highest degree.
The State Board of Examiners
will meet next month to decide
upon the whole matter. In the
meantime they have issued to
all the leading publishing houses
of the country a circular letter
setting forth the project in full
and asking for their co-opera
tion. What the result will be
remains to be seen, but we do
not hesitate to predict that the
adoption of the plan as at pre
sent outlined, or anything like
it, will produce great dissatis
faction and will end in a lament
able failure.
HIS NOTIONS CHANGED.
WhJ H« Didn't Acme With HU Friend on
the SuVJect of Vmention*.
A little bunch of well known business
men were gathered by chance in front of
the Lindell hotel. They stood there for
some time discussing politics and enjoy
ing the sunshine. Finally, as they were
about to separate, one of the group no
ticed that the overcoat pocket of his via-
a-vis was crammed with railway maps,
steamers’ guides and time tables.
"I say, Charlie,” he said, “why are you
collecting all that rubbish? Planning a
vacation?"
“Yes,” he answered. Same old thing
every year. Go somewhere—go some
where. I think sometimes I'd rather
take my family out here on the Maramec,
live ip a tent and fish. But no, it's fash
ionable to hurry away on long and te
dious journeys, stop at stuffy hotels,
rash through a maze of nonsense and
then rash home dead tired, weary, half
sick and altogtjker footsore. The very
contemplation ef it tires me.”
“Why don't yon stop it then?” said
the questioner.
“Rather a difficult thing to do, I
should judge—when your family plans
the campaign.”
“Do as I did. It just took me three
years to accomplish it, and now I live in
peace. On onr first summer vacation,
which was by sail, I devoted my spare
time to reading aloud the statistics, and
descriptions of horrible accidents on rail
roads. At the hotel I brushed up on all
the hotel conflagrations since watering
places were Invented and mentioned
them in detail npon all possible occa
sions. It was a most exasperating and
uncomfortable experience for all con
cerned, I can tell you, but it worked.
Next summer, when the vacation busi
ness came up, I merely asked if we were
going over the same route as before and
was met with a most unanimous and
emphatic chorus of noes. They were
afraid of railroads and hotels, and so
they compromised on a long trip by
Iteamboat up and down the river, be
cause it would be entirely safe.
“I prepared myself again, and when
the boat moved out I had in my state
room a couple of books which portrayed
in the most heartrending manner the
final blowing up of almost every steam
boat that ever ran the river. These I
dragged out and read with much unction
and deep pathos. In the holy calm of
the summer evenings, in the glorious
hush of the sunlit mornings, I read 'em
aloud until we were all afraid we would
never get home alive. Well, sir, it was
awful! The horrors of those days and
nights are with us yet. Next summer I
suggested the beauties of a river trip,
but nobody seconded the motion, and i
soon learned that we were to spend a
few months at a small inland resort not
many miles distant from St. Louis.
“This was an unexpected flank move
ment, but I loaded up with statistics,
and on cloudy evenings I would lie in
the hammock of the resort and tell my
family how cyclones are formed and
show them how they rash up the valley
and sweep resorts from the face of the
earth. I was compelled to manufacture
a few facts in order to prove that cy
clones had a special fondness for sum
mer boarders, but the scheme worked
like a charm. We came home a month
in advance and have never gone any
where since. Say, old man, you don’t
know how I enjoy life now with a week
or two in the woods with my fishing and
hunting club. It’s a great scheme.”
And the ugly man laughed a harsh,
discordant, exasperating laugh.
Nobody said anything for some time.
The group was thinking.
"Yes, sir-ee. It’s a great scheme,” re
sumed the ugly man. “Don’t you think
so, John?”
“No, I don't,” said John, “and IT1 tell
you why. I used to have your notions
of a good time, and in consequence the
summer outings ef myself and family
were anything Wat pleasant. But the
little woman is lying out yender in Belle-
fontaine now, and when these beauti
ful days come along I feel as thongh I
would give the universe for one more
chance to do something for the comfor
and pleasure of one who deserved sq
mnch and got shuttle. That’s why.”
And John and Charlie and the ugly
man turned away without another word.
—St Louis Republic.
SUNDAY AMUSEMENT.
IN MEXICO A PRIEST SENDS Hit BIRDS
TO A COCK FIGHT. •
A Gond Enough Henaon.
The handsome hospital nurse who
married the old wealthy man the other
day was very happy in her reply to a
friend who asked why she wedded such
a fossil, 'T thought I might as well be
engaged ip nursing one old man as a
dosen.”—Exchange.
A C'lrvnr Bsmtader.
A very brave soldier had both his arms
carried off in battle, after which his colo
nel offered him half a crown.
“Colonel,” said the soldier, “yon think
I have lost a pair of gloves.”—London
Tit-Bits.
Aa Kothn.lutle Lo«er of Gmbo Roooton
Entertain. HU Cotnre**tlon With Bar*
Coatee t* Between Belligerent Cock*.
One Sunday’. Sport.
“It was in a Mexican village,” said the
explorer. “Great had been our surprise
the evening before when a little after 5
o'clock we rode into the public square
up to the door of the convent and ob
served a long line of game cocks guard
ing one side of the great church. Well,
that was onr first impression. Closer
inspection made things plainer. In the
convent, residence of only the priest and
bis relations, we hang onr hammocks,
rested awhile, refreshed the inner man
with tortillas and black beans, then went
forth to investigate the feathered regi
ment. The large church was built out
into the square, so that»its rear wall was
on a line with the convent and other
structures forming that side of the
square.
“Along the wall that stood at right an
gles with the front of the convent small
wooden stakes had been driven in the
ground. To each a plumed warrior was
securely attached at a safe distance from
his vsliant compeers. Who could have
dared to utilize for such a purpose the
shade afforded by the wall of the sacred
edifice? Another instant and we should
have voiced this thought. It is general
ly a mistake to speak in a hurry. The
good old priest had followed us and waa
now at onr side. Pointing a lean brown
finger at a very prond looking rooster,
he said: ‘That is the prince of this lot,
thongh they will all prove themselves
splendid fighters, I know! I have not
studied the creatures 40 years for not hing ”
Sol They were his own property I Yes,
another five minutes’ talk made it plain
that the pet hobby of this holy man was
cock fighting! We will call him Father
F. because it is not necessary to give
the name of onr kind host. Fairly
launched on his favorite topic, be talked
sway for a full hour and waa ut
terly amazed, not to say somewhat in-
crednlous, when informed that we had
never seen a professional tussle between
those birds so dear to his he::rt and
purse, and which he loved to see fighting
in the ring. 'But you must come with
me tomorrow afternoon,’ said he; ‘the
people here all like it, and we enjoy the
harmless sport every Sunday afternoon.’
He intended no sarcasm.
“Nolens volens, when Sunday after
noon came, onr host, having laid aside
his sacerdotal robes after celebrating
high maas, piloted us to the scene of ac
tion. The pit was in the interior court
yard of a pijyate house. A circular
fsuee of slender sticks surrounded the
carefully leveled ground dedicated to
the carnage. Chairs surrounded it, and
a shed, thatched with palm leaves, shel
tered the spot from the scorching rays
of the sun. In gay attire the most re
spected matrons and maidens of the
place were there, the performance being
countenanced and partly provided by
the priest. A bvely conversation was
kept np, all present being acquainted.
The roosters had been shorn of their
feathers, save those of the wings and
tail. Each bird was weighed; then
curved steel spurs were secured to the
stamps of those provided by natnre, but
which had been cat off. Quite suddenly
conversation ceases. Two birds are in
the ring. The straggle commences.
Heads lowered, eyes glaring, qnivering
with rage, the heroes fly at each other.
“Calcnlating that his opponent has
jumped too high, the other one crouches,
avoids the blow and tarns npon his foe.
who stands firm. Both rise in the air.
breaift striking against breast, each striv
ing to deal his adversary a mortal blow.
One is stabbed —he staggers. Profiting
by this weakness, his adversary follows
np the attack, bnt the wounded one
keeps an eye on his enemy, and not be
ing ready for him dodges, regains his
position and inflicts a wound. Both now
have difflcnlty in keeping on their feet,
though neither will yield. More wounds
are dealt. Both fall exhausted. One
recovers, sees his foe prostrate, so does
not attack, bnt shakes his lowered head
and claws the ground in his fury. Im
patiently he thirsts for the life of. his
opponent, who, no less savage, regains
his feet, and with glaring eyes watches
every move of his adversary.
“The enthusiasm of their owners and
backers increases aa the wonnds become
more nnmeroos—the excitement is in
tense, and bets run high. The creatures
engaged in deadly strife keep cooler than
the audience. A moment arrives when
all the backers talk at once. ‘Five dol
lars more on the whiter ‘Ten on the
csnelo'(cinnamon color). The stakes do
not exceed $S0. At last one warrior
falls. Dead silence follows, so great is
the suspense. Will he rise once more?
Victor examinee victim very distrust
fully, makes sure he is dead, then mount
ing on the prostrate form draws himself
np with an exultant cry of victory, just
like some gladiator of olden times.
“All through the long summer after
noon ons battle succeeded another. The
birds that survived were taken home to
be carefully tended until restored enough
to fight agflB. Even those that had lost
one or both eyes would fight if an oppor
tunity was given to them, tor these birds
are so ferociously brave that unless
wanted to fight they have to be kept oat
of each other's reach.
"At the S o'clock dinner in the con
vent onr reverend host talked of nothing
but his triumphant rooster* and called
on ns to bear witness that the very one
he had pointed ont had proved itself that
day the greatest hero of them all.”—New
York Tribune.
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A SUPKOI.AJLT'Z-.
THESE ARE
LINESI
A SoSden Had *f a WfcUt Geese.
In the spring ot 1789 a “fattish” lady
—the epithet is not mins— was playing
atesedsat an assembly. Her partner
•creamed ont: “Dear me, madam, what
are yon doing! What caff yon be
dreaming about? You have the ace in
your hand, and you suffer the adver
sary's king to pass.” A glance at the
lady soon showed that any explanation
of ker misconduct was impossible. She
had been seized with a stroke of “apo
plexy, which put an end to both her and
the rubber. ”—Temple Bar.
“TBs Wind Blew Tferoagh HI* Whteken.’
A correspondent of the Pittsburg Dis
patch says that the very objectionable
bit of slang, “The wind blew through
bis whiskers,” is not American at all. In
fact, be says, it was first nsed by an
Englishman, one Dan Chancer, who wrote
the “Canterbury Tales.” In the tale of
“Tbs Shipman" occurs this remarkable
line, “With many a tempest had his
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