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Graduation Essays of Pupils
, ( ONTIM"Kl> F1IC
aty, an?l w'-.i ' <t wore succestfnil\
achieved, it. ages, by the con-j
tinned and peiseunug exertions of
the human intellect. Is there at the
present day, then, any ground for
desp-ir. that at some future stage of
that h-ghcr civilization to which we
trust the world is gradually tending,
cAttiw hmW unil holder effort of peilillS
toward the solution of this great
jjLl problem may be crowned with sue
cess and compass an object of sucli
x vast and paramount utility ? Nothing,
indeed, would conduce more
directly to bring about a golden age
of union and harmony among the
several nations and races of mankind
th-ri% the ivmor.i of that l-irritr to
the interchange ? . hough' a"d mutual
g K>d undorsting between
man and r :-n. \? i.i.-h is now interjH>sed
by ii. * diversify <>f til ;rre-cruiptivp
hiii'Mlu
Mr L> A lhockiuton, the oilier
masculine member of tin- graduating '
class of the graded school chose as
his theme,
I.
"The Nkw South m
As we stand upon the threshold of
the twentieth century surrounded bvj
the hum of industry, viewing the,
beautiful scenery of our Southland,!
1 '
everything upon which we gaze evi-1
Ueucing the rapid strides of develop j
ineut thiough the past few decades,
. it is fitting that we pause and con~
~ template the vast improvement of our |
i Southern country and seek its cause.
Seek that cause, where by uight the
cotton whitens beneath the stars and
_ . _ ?... ?
by day the wheat locks the sunshine!
in its bearded sheaves, where the I
clover steals the fragrance of the,
wind, aud the tobacco catches the j
quick a:oma of the rain; where the
mountains stored with exhaustles.-.
treasures, clothed with forests vast
and primeval re:ir their mighty heads
I to the skies end the rivers tumbling
or loitering, run wanton to the seas.
In seeking this cause, let us compare
the old South with the new. It
i is nearly impossible to give an accur\
ate idea of the settlement, development,
civilization and customs of the
several States which compose the;
?i:? 11- l IUIia
section ^eueiauy ruuwu as hjc i
Soath" within the limits of a few
hundred words and to do it at all satisfactorily.
An old Southern farm and fanner
presented a type of domesticity which
will pas3 entirely away with this
generation, and which was one of the
v' . sweetest, purest, and most productive
types of social life that have ever
been known. The owner and master
was head of the family in a sense
t /
A*, which has never been known in mod
ern society and which bears rc?;
semblance to the head of the tripe in <
the nomadic life, typified by the life j
of Abraham; the power he had over
his slaves and the influence over his
wife and children was supreme. The
children had no menial duties to
perform, but were reared with a certain
dislike and contempt for menial
labor, because it was performed by
slaves and performed for them. In
every home the children were trained
or taught some trade that was fitting
for the time. The farm always
yielded a great abundance; but after |
a wasteful support of the family and !
farm had been taken out of the year's |
produces, the dividends were small. |
As the surplus, therefore, was not
large, the accumulated capital was)
never great. This prevented any
great public works of any kind either
iu ttie snape or great puouc uuiia- j
ings, universities, railroads, or other
enterprises. It also prevented marked :
inequalities 111 the pecuniary condition
of the men of the South. There
were none very rich, few very poor?
the vast mass being in comfortable
? i
^ circumstances. This also opened but
* *-"< few avenues for profit and distinction
\^p young men, the learned professions j
* ;5id such business as was necessary i
in such a simple community being
the only vocation for those alio desired
to leave the farms.
The settlement of the South was!
from different natioualties and differ-'
ent creeds. The Germans, who came
to Georgia under Oglethorpe, the
Huguenots who added a certain deli?
. I
cate flavor to South Carolina life,
- ' ' ?v>'
of Kinqslieo Graded School.
\M l'ACi: TUu. j
the Scotch-lri-h, who settled the
valley of Virgil ia am! laigt parts of
North Carolina, the Pennsylvania
Dutch, who followed the lime-stone
with its rich soils from Pennsylvania
down thio gh Virginia. Tennessee
and North Carolina, were each as
marked a people with as marked
characteristics as those who are
sometimes callel the Cavaliers who
settled the tide-watei regions of
Virginia, or the Puritans who civilized
New England, and those chir
acteristics survive to this day. Vet
the characteristics which distintiuguished
these people, closely re
lated as they were, were minute;
hence the people ot the South grew
more alike as time went 011: and it
is not too nine 1 to say that the)
were the 1110-t homogeneous people
of any part of the country
The political develop si/oni
the Revolutionary war to .10 can
only be explained with a full understanding
of 'he influence of slavery.
From the discovery of the cotton gin,
which made slave labor so valuable,
in l^bO, it became necessary to put
every possible barrier to protect the
institution of slavery from extinction.
Its labor being worthless in
the Northern States, it was easilv
perceived that the conflict would
ari?e and that antagonistic legislation
could be prevented by only such
defensive measures as would give to
the Southern States power in the
national congress sufficient to prevent
unfriendly legislation. This
long contest soliditied the South,
gave it a succession of trained leaders,
made it intense in its advocacy
its principles, caused it to study deep
ly and closely constitutional,political
and economical questions and gave
it that compactness which gradually
formed it into one body and caused
it to be named the South. But while
this was true there were three distinct
Souths contained within the
boundary of those States, all of
which are now being rapidly developed
since the institution of slavery
has been destroyed. These are:
The farmiug South, the planting
South and the mountainous South
The desiruction of slavery put an
end to the investment of Southern
profit in slaves.
Some other vocations than agriculture
had to be found for the active,
vigorous and energetic. Twenty years
were needed to place the South in a
coudition somewhat like that in which
it was when the war broke out. The
ravages, injuries and destruction
caused by the war and the years
which followed were so enormous
that they have not yet been entirely
repaired.
Mississippi, in 1SG0, was the third
wealthiest State in the Union ; it will
be many years before slie will be enabled
to resume that place.
This changed condition has produced
its natural results. The great
Appalachian range, with the bosom
of its mountains covered with timber
and inexhaustible minerals buried in
the soil, with quite a number of large
streams and an equable and pleasant
climate, has been the fiuitful field of
new developments.
That intelligence, energy and capital
which formeily opened new plantations
in the Mississippi valley and
other Southern States, have lately
been in the main devoted to opening
new mines, constructing new furnaces
or building factories, either
within this range or close to its foothills.
This development has gone on an lis
going on to an extent which is scarcely
realized; yet it does not cripple,
but aids in the development of the
agricultural resources of the South.
Now, before going into the rapid
growth and development of the - 'New
South,' let us first see what condition
the South was in at the close of the
war.
As the sun peeped over the eastern
horizon, there hung over this section
a dark and treacherous cloud, which
made the few remaining Southerners
tremble with gloomy forebodings.
Men who had leit their homes in
glossy gray suits,trimmed with shining
buttons, were now either dead,
or if alive, heartbroken because of
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i the sad coiuii!:iin whieh they found j
their le-lowd South. Few indeed!
were the tii< n lh:it kis*ed their wives! i
and !o\'ed one* good live and I ff th-ir!
fi nies aglow with all the beauty of I
peace and lo\e and happiness who j
<1 ill not find upon their return their ]
homes in ashes.
And, as 1 itave said.that dark and
treacheries' idond, which hung over
tlie Soui ^"^ates, brought about .
a serious ritieal pifod for the
> T
Sontherne t
No had? i on 1 v t^^gdsustrons j '
march of >u man's .'.sojf^ed j
Soiith. ru j y
lit that lor. J t
WIS a|>e frm
who was >.
master of t) v
llltsltls of If 1 (
(fcisappeuretj ^
shadow fei
t he black
stored to the
Sold* bog -lich ?.
cause it ?'e\v ;
South ^ the j
world, a Ten tiessee,
North'Ja. . ,.d South Caro- f
litia home farm ^fe is a thiug of the 1
past; the domestic plantation life of f
the South ha^ come only a mem- '
cry. And the old South has become ^
the "New South," devoting itself j
iiihut cnangei -volitions to new
v )c:itions;havin? vese new vocations
found occ on for the same
?
qualities which 111,. e former pursuits
profitable, some were formerly onehorse
fanners of the Southern com,
munity, have become by virtue, skill,
intelligence, iudustry and-"'?urage
the foremost lawyeis c orld;
others by virtue of the sa juali
ties, have arisen to the hea. so:"'
of the largest industrial enterprises
of the world ; while he who was his
father's pet has become the gieat
banker of his community.
The streams that flowed across the
Southern States, disturbed only by
the fisherman, famishes the power
mat now turns tne wneeis 01 eottou |
factories and numerous other enter- <
. prises. t
Places that were once hills and
valleys have been leveled* and are now
the seat of industrious cities which |
contribute largely to the financial 1
aud commercial world. The typical old
Southern cities, like Savannah, j
Charleston, and many others, which j
made life so quiet and happy with }
their elegant hospitality, have now c
become among the grrattst centers of ^
1
the world's commerce.
But now, with all these natural ^
advantages, the "New South" has a j
future that no one can easily foresee, t
The prosperous future of the new (
South depends largely upon the right ^
solving of the negro problem. We
are told by jealous and fanatical in- ]
dividuals that all men are equal. We c
know better. They are uot equal ; (
a common brotherhood teaches us uo *
L t 1!._ 1 .1 f ^
sucn aosuruity. a meory 01 uuiver- j
sal physical likeness is no more t
absurd than this. Now, as in all f
times, the strong go to the top, the
weak go to the bottom. And so, if
the white man is the strongest, which >
he is, he will coutinue in power and t
the new South will become even I
more prosperous than it is today, j
On the other hand, if the negro f
gains the ascendency, the new South
11 a i i ji n ill i l
win cease to ue, ana tins ooutnianu i
will again have to suffer as in the *
dark days of '76. If the new South |
is to continue its rapid' strides this j
problem should be carefully weighed.
For this hovering cloud must be dis- t
pelled from above us. All fear must
be banished from the bosom of our
region and let fearlessness and purity j.
again reigu over our land. t
"Land of the South?imperial land; (
How proud thy mountains rise;
IIow sweet thy scenes on every hand;
How fair thy covering skies:
But not for these?oh. not for these,
I love thv fields to roam:
Thou hast a dearer spell for me. 1
Thou art mv native home." I
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A Grand Family Medicine. c
"It gives me pleasure to speak a *
a good word for Electric Hitters,' j
writes Mr. Frank Conlan of No. 1
430 Houston St., New York. "It's *
a grand family medicine for dys- ^
pepsia and liver complications; while
for lame back and weak kidneys it s
cannot be too highly recomnieded." I
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Read the Farmers & Merchants }
Rank's ad. this issue. c
STYLES IN WRITING.
t/aricus Ways of Telling the Story o1
rn Accident.
THE Ii.AIN STYi.E
A 1;: ly op some oran-rc
> ('1 iii School street yestM.la) ami
her ley.
THE STACCATO STYLE.
It nas a job for a >itryeoa.
Oranye peel <1 i<! it.
There v.a- a elide, a scream anc
i dull thud.
The atmosphere was full of 1 inrerie,
frou frou, hairpins ami brie.
1
i-onir.
It was laughable.
But only t.? a few.
A douei men r :.-!ied gallantly tt
?yv rr-cvc.
it was a wroiin wiio had fallen.
Ilnrror 1 A nether lirui? broken.
She \va> in agony.
A?nl all be*-ause of somebody':
areiessnc&s.
Saul has slain bis thousands.
Orange peel has slain its tor
;hou sands.
THE FI.ORID STY I.E.
Tripping lightly down Sehoo
trcet ye.-terdav afternoon, her fact
ill aglow with health and even
muscle, nerve, win and artery it
lannony with tiie invigorating at
uo.-phcre, a representative of tlx
;oftcr sex was seen suddenly to do
dect from the | orpoiidieular, and iY
mother instant this ore of heaven'
ast and best gifts to man cann
.vith crr.>hing force to the hard, un
ridding pavement. The immedi
ite caiue of the unfortunate lady's
lownfaU was the greasy envelope ol
hat tropical fruit, the orange
vhich some thoughtless, if not niali
ious, individual had oast upon th<
public pavement. The victim o
;his carelessness or worse had sus
:ained a fracture of a limb, and ii
rill be many weary weeks ere sh(
rill again ho able to walk erect ant
stately as heretofore.
THE FACETIOUS STYLE.
She will be careful how she tread:
in orange peel hereafter. She
lidn't know it was loaded. But il
shot her off. It is only a broker
eg. Not much comfort to her, bui
i good thing for the surgeon
riiere's money in it. People whe
;hrow away orange peel should he
?areful to throw it so that it wil
and with the slippery side down
mless thev are in league with the
xine setting profession. In tha'
lasc, of course, it is different.?Lon
Ion Tit-Bits.
English Legend of Tailed Men.
11-1 TI^ll J
\? lien a iiuuanutrr waun iv ouun
tiis contempt for an Englishmai
ic refers to him as a "steert man'
?in other words, "the man with ?
tail." The old legend says thai
Thomas a Becket cursed the Kent
shmen who spitefully cut off hi:
lorse's tail and that the entire gen
;ration of Kent wljich followei
vore tails like horses. John Bale
Edward VI.'s bishop of Ossory
nentions the legend, but givesfeome
rariations as to the cause of the
junishment. lie says on the aa
hority of John C'apgrave that "foi
astyne yshe tayles at St. Augustine
Dorsetshire men had tayle:
;ver after that." Polydorus, how?ver,
applies the legend to the
\entish men of Stroud "forecuttinc
>lf Tomas Becket's horse's tayle.'
)ne account says that only those
iving in Kent at the time the curse
vas pronounced "were afllicted with
arge drooping tayles like brutes
heir posterity beving not so afected."
"
Might Have Been Worse.
In a foursome competition al
ilachriliamish one Scotchman ol
lie party, a man of optimistic ternlerament,
always remarked, <4It
night have been waur," whcnevei
ic put the ball into a peculiarly dificult
bunker.
His irritated partner determined
o rouse Macnab from his imper*
urbable serenity and said to him
rhen next they played, "Macnab, 1
lreamed last night you were in
nades."
'"It might have been waur," came
he reply, pat.
"How waur?" said the Englishnan.
''it might have loon true," redied
Mac-nab. "1 might have been
hero."
The Scotchman ended at least
fone up."?London Globe.
The Size of Alaska.
Alaska contains 550.000 square
niles of mainland, 7,000 square
niles of the Aleutian islands and
12,000 square miles of other islands,
i fnfol <vf 579 000 snuare miles, or
roe-fifth of the area of the rest of
he United States. It requires the
irons of California, Oregon, Washngton,
Idaho, Montana and Xew
fork to equal this. The area of
\'e\v York, Pennsylvania, Ohi<?, Inliana,
Illinois, Virginia and West
Virginia equals only one-half of
Maska. It equals the combined
irea of Great Britain and Ireland,
Vance, Germany, Belgium and the
Netherlands. It stretches from lattude
51 degrees to 71 degrees and
'rom longitude 130 degrees to 188
legrees.
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That hacking c
Because your s
your powers of res
Take Scott9si
It builds up and streng
V .. ^ it. ^
^ it contains Loa Liver
I oQ, prepared that it is easy t<
A ALL DRUGGISTS;
. Winlhrop College Scholarship and Entrance
Examination.
The examination for the award
of vacant scholarships in Winthmp
College and for the admission nt
new students will be held at the
. con ntv court house on Friday. Julv
3 1 '
3, at !? a tn. Applicants must not
lie less than fifteen years of age.
j When scholarships are vacant after
J July 3 they will be awarded to those
i ni'il'iiirr fhi. hitrhpst arnpooi. ;it tlii?
I ?ft"?- I
Iexamination, provided they meet the
, Jconditions governing the award.!
. j Applicants for scholarships should
j I write to President .Johnson before
; the exanntatioii Inr "examination
j blanks.
| . Scholarships are worth $100 and
, free tuition. The next session will i
. opeu September 10, 1908. For fur
, tlier information and catalogue, ad-1
[ dress President D B Johnson, Rock
Hill, S C. 5?7-8t;
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f
, j Read the Farmers & .Merchants
- j Rank's ad. this issue.
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f
Hereafter we positively reL
fuse to publish any commtmicaI
tion received at this office later j
than Tuesday, noon, except local
and personal items, which
5 willjnot be available later than
't Wednesday, noon, for the cur.
rent week. Bv trying to be ac
1 t ~ - ?
t commodatinpf we are thrown late
every week and we are tired of
) it. ?This notice applies to
| EVERY BODY.
1 4-25-tf.
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Don't
Wait!
1 ' TILL YOUR PROPERTY
IS DESTROYED, BUT INSURE
NOW,
I Against Loss
By Fire or Cyclone.
j If you want the best, get your
, Insurance in a strong "Old
! Line" company. 1 represent
. several of the largest Fire and
. Cyclone Insurance Companies.
3 L. H. FAIREY
At Bank of Kingstree.
; 7-24?tf.
t
s Always That I can save
1 Remember you money on
: SASH, DOORS AND BLINDS
AND OTHER ,
; BUILDING MA T RIALS.
Wholesale Prices Direct from j
; Factory. Everything Guaran-!
teed to come up to Specitica-i
tions.
n I DDQ tfinnctroo S f
j LP. U. Ill)) liiuyuiiou) ui ui
Representing Cheraw Door & Sash Co.
i
} Applied by skilled mechanics j '
: ? is worth a fair price. Cheap ) \
} mixtures slopped on by cheap J
r painters are dear at any price. J
r We expect to deceive a reason- J
; r able equivalent for our labor, j
! r But we give an honest dollar's r j
i r worth for every dollar we get, r j
, r and we endeavor to permanent- j j
< lv satisfy our customers.
ALFRED WELLS, j
! ) Painter and Paper Hanger, )
1 j KIXGSTREE, S. C. I
! f Leave orders with )
j Kingstree Hardware [Co. j
ough continues JP
.ystern is exhausted and A
istance weakened. A
r Emulsion. ^
thens your entire system. V
il and Hypophosphites so
> take and easy to digest. ^
50c. AND $1.00 A
&6A6A6666MM
BUILDING I
DONE 1
At 1
Your
Own 1
Price.
c. e. mms, J
General Contractor
and Builder - - Grealyville,
Smtii Carolina |
1 10-11.
Kingstree
Mi) VWting choppers coru
v?^HW R05/ dially invited to com*
XSSSctl? vZfi'' ' up and sit on a stump
\> i k 'Tt. M-/ or hang about on tha
*' limte.
HI LIP STOLL,
9 2712m. Con. Com.
BucMen's Arnica Salve
The Best Salve In The World.
Registration Notice.
Theofflce or the Supervisor of R f
istration will be opened on' the first
Monday in every month for the purpose
of the registering of any person
who is qualified as follows:
Who shall have been a resident of
the State f6r two years, and of the
county one year, and of the polling precinct
in which the elector offers to
vote four months before the day of
election, and shall have paid, six
months before, any poll tax then due
and payable, and who can both read
and write any section of the constitution
of 1895 submitted to him by the
Supervisors of Registration, or who '$
can show that he owns, and has paid
all taxes collectable on during the
present year, property in this State :$m
assessed at three hundred dollars or
more. J. Y. McGILL,
Clerk of Board.
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Fire Insurance,
Tornado Insurance,
Plate Glass Insurance
Life Insurance,
Health Insurance,
Incnronca
Burglary Insurance.
We represent only
Companies of unquestioned:
reliabilityjand
a policy is as grood as
a gold bond.
we'n M
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As Cashier, Treas
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largest companies in
America.
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Insurance & Bond- |
j ing flgencu,
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