Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A KANSAS OUTRAGE. Wilson's Drug Store, The Chronicle and Wiles' Commission Store De? stroyed. r The State of Kansas is preparing to segregate the races- in her public schools, and Mr. I L. Dayhoff, State superintendent, is sending out letters of inquiry as to the propos?e policy to superintendents in other States. Hon. J D. Eggleston, Jr., got one yesterday, and its tone is surpris? ing in that it asks if Virginia has separate schools. Here is the letter: "There is a movement in Kansas looking toward the segregation of the races in the public schools where the per cent, of colored population will warrant the separation. What is the condition of affairs ii* your State? Have you segregation of races? If so, is it advisable? Do you personally favor it? What is the con? dition of public sentiment -with ref? erence to the same? Have you any laws bearing 021 the subject? I would appreciate very much any informa? tion th?t you may have on the sub? ject. Thanking you in advance,** etc. The communication is rather amus? ing to Virginians. Mr. Eggleston has replied very frankly and in a few clear sentences. Here is his reply in full: "Your letter of the 21st instant lias been received. Virginia has al? ways had separate schools for white and colored children. This is in every way advisable, I think. Public sentiment in Virginia is a unit in fa? vor of this policy. The law on the subject is embodied in our Constitu? tion, which says: "White and color? ed children shall not be taught in the same schools." There were some hearty laughs concerning the correspondence around the Capitol, but it is thought the letter received by Mr. Eggleston from his Kansas contemporary was a copy of a general one which went out to other State superintendents. Richmond Times. Wen Worth Trying. *W. H. Brown, the popular pension attorney, of Pittsfield, Vt., says: "Next to a pension, the best thing to get is Dr. King's New Life Pills." He writes: "They keep my family in splendid health." Quick cure for headache, constipation and bilious? ness. 25c. Guaranteed at Sibert's Drug Store. ? The new Catholic church in Co? lumbia will soon be ready for the use of the members of the denomina? tion. ?In these days of rush and hurry courtesy is often forgotten. In the mad, pell mell rush of our life little things are done to offend that we rather remained undone. A hastily eaten meals and. its resultant head? ache may cause us social or financial loss. The wise man or woman is the one who relieve?* little ills of this sort by a little dose of Kodol for dyspep? sia. It digests what you eat and puts your stomach back into shape. Sold by all druggists. Chamberlain's [CofSc, Choiera ft Diarrhea Remedy Almost every bandy has need o? a reliable remedy for colic or fcdhea at tome bm* during the year. Th? remedy ? recommended by deaien who have told it far nany years and know ks value. it has received thousands ol testimonials from grateful people. it has been prescribed by ph sieians with the most satisfactory results. It has often saved Efe before medicine could have been sent for tr a physician summoned. it only costs a quarter. Caa you afford to risk so much for se Ide? BUY IT NOW. isa a Baa aaaaaaa aaa a a aa a a a a a a a a a a g a s a HIGH LIVING is an everyday affair with those who eat at our restaurant. The best of food is served at a modest cost. GOOD EATING and our bill of fare go together. Well fed men dine here because they get what they want and as they want it. It's a pleasure to pay for good food. That's why we have so many good patrons. THE SUMTER RESTAURANT, V. E. Brunsen, Proprietor. 2-2i-6m * JMffl* i M m ii i ii III III.i ?ri - Plain Words to Negroes. The leaders of the Niagara move ment ought to have included in theL ! address a recital of their detestation ? of the hideous crimes of the negro j race, which make the race feared and hated wherever there is a lonely homestead in a negro community, and should have concluded with a solemn pledge to consecrate the in , telligent men of the race to a per?ts " tent effort to eradicate the evil which is the prime source of the "unreason? ing prejudice against the negro." When intelligent men like those in the Niagara movement show the in? telligence to grapple with this ques? tion in behalf of the two races, their demands for other things will meet with a respectful hearing which will astonish them.-Philadelphia Ledger. This advice from a Northern news? paper may well be taken to heart by the better class of negroes in all sec? tion. Southern newspapers generally are preaching a crusade against lynching, and they would be success? ful if the black brutes would cease their devilish practice. But, so long as they keep it up, white men will lynch them in spite of all the preach? ing, and it will be next to impossible to conviict and punish the lynchers. The Times-Dispatch is opposed to lynching for any crime, knowing, as it does, that lynching for one crime leads to lynching for other crimes, breeds contempt of law and the spirit of lawlessness, and makes a bad mat? ter worse. But the majority of men throw argument to the winds when brought face to face with this crime. They may give respectful hearing to the governor of the State who plea da with them, but they will not give heed. So long as this crime is com? mitted by negroes lynching will con? tinue. These may not be pleasant facts, but they are facts, and facts must be reckoned, with. What is the negro race going to do about it? The question is asked with all possible seriousness, for it is a question which concerns the whole negro race. Every such crime re? flects in a measure upon the black race, and places every negro man, more or less, under suspicion. The most fiendish crime of this nature ever known in Virgian was committed by a negro janitor in the public schools of Lynchburg, who was high? ly estemed by teachers and pupils, who enjoyed the implicit confidence of the superintendent. It is not meant 1 to imply, of courses, that all negro men are liable to commit this crime. Many of them are as far from it as white men. But, when so many are guilty, how can the whites discrimi? nate? It is a terible situation for the black race, and they must reckon with it. Once more we commend to the leaders of the negro race, those who are genteel and who would lead their people to higher things, the ad? vice of the Philadelphia Ledger. In? stead of passing resolutions condemn? ing lynchings, "^t them address them? selves to the lase of it, and make an earnest and persistent effort to eradicate it. It should be the pre? vailing topic of sermons, of lectures, and all manner bf discourses by negro speakers; and teachers of negro boys should hammer into their pupils, day after day, the enormity of this crime. By these means, and by all possible ?means, the respectable negroes should make a crusade against the infamy, and endeavor with the help of God and the help of the law to stamp it out. If they succeed, lynching will cease; if the practice is continued, not only will lynching continue, but the very existence of the negro race will be in jeopardy.-Richmond Times. Starving to Deatli. ?Because her stomach was so weak? ened by useless drugging that she could not eat, Mary H. Walters,, of Clair street, Columbus, O., was liter? ally starving to death. She writes: "My stomach was so weak from use? less drugs that I could not eat, and my nerves so wrecked that I could not sleep; and not before I was given up to die was I induced to try Elec? tric Bitters, with the wonderful result that improvement began at once, and a complete cure followed." Best health tonic on earth. 50c . Guaran? teed by Sibert's Drug Store. ------^ Lancaster is endeavoring to get the Southern Railway to give that town better depot accommodations. Work on the present building is in progress and it remains to be seen whether the authorities will comply with the request. Pain From a Burn Promptly Relieved by Chamberlains Pain Balm. *A little child of Mrs. Michael Strauss of Vernon. Conn, was recently in great pain from a burn "M the hand and as cold applications only increas? ed the inflammation. Mr. Strauss came to Mr. James X. Nichols, a local merchant, for something to stop :!)'. pain; Mr. Nichols says: "I advised him t-? use Chamberlains Pain Balm. a33d the first application drew out ibo j inflammation and gave immediate re- j lief. 1 have used this liniment myself j and recommend it very <>f?"ii for cuts, j burns, strains and lame back, and j have nevei known it to disappoint." i Fer sale by druggists. i SIMPLIFIED SPELLING. Professor Brander Matthews, of Co? lumbia University, Tells How to Get Simplified Spelling in the Schools. In the plain spoken paper on the "Problem of Spelling Reform" which' Professor Skeat read before the Brit? ish Academy last May and which has been published by the Oxford Univer? sity Press that ardent and accom? plis! . d student of English con? temptuously brushed away all the ig? norant objections to the progressive simplification of our spelling and urged a number of Of further omis? sions of needless letters. Prof. Skeat, it may be well to note, has accepted membership in the Simplified Spelling Board, and so has Mr. Henry Bradley, the co-editor (with Dr. Murray) of the monumental Oxford Dictionary. But Prof. Skeat's proposed reforms are far more radical than the practice of the editors of the Oxford Diction? ary and even than the recommenda? tions of the Simplified Spelling Board. In fact, these recommendations seem verv conservative, indeed, when set alongside those suggested by the ed? itor of the "Etymological Dictionary." The distinguished British scholar makes it clear that he desires imme? diate orthographic improvement for certain scientific reasons for the sake of the English language itself, and in order to make o,\r noble tongue a fitter instrument for the work that lies before it. But he also gives two practical reas ns why Eng? lish orthography ought to be bettered as soon as possible. The first of these reasons is that a simplification of our spelling would save both time and money: "Every one would gain by it; the writer would havt, fewer letters to' write, the printer would have fewer letters to print, and the reader would have fewer to spell and to read." And then Prof. Skeat sun ports this practical argument with another which is strictly scien? tific "Many ambiguities would dis? appear, and the written record would exhibit a closer approximation to the sounds which it professes to repre? sent." Then he brings forward a second practical reason for adopting these provements "that the tasks of Learning to read would be considera? bly simplified, and the time taken to achieve that task would be considera? bly shortened to the equal delight and profit both of te?cher and pupil. In this case there can be no doubt at all that the sums thus saved to the na? tion would be very considerable." ! Even more important than the saving of money would be the saving effected in the plastic period of childhood when every minute is neded to supply the young with the training that will best equip them for life. That more or less of this precious time must be wasted in mastering the misleading intricacies of English spelling is ob? vious to all of us. But just how great this waste is no one can say with certainty. Dr. Harris, relying on cer? tain experiments in the St. Louis schools, concluded that it amounted to a year or so. Prof. Calvin Thom? as, in his Presidential address to the Modern Language Association, made a rough-and-ready calculation and arrived at the conclusion that more than a year and a half of a child's j time was spent unprofitably in learn? ing how to spell. Unfortunate as is the loss of time, our pitiful orthography has another and even more serious disadvantage, known to all teachers. It contradicts the spirit of moern education, which fe based on trainr'ng the pupil to see things for himself and to make his own deductions from what he has seen. The aim is to lead the child to observe, and then to generalize the result of his observations into a rule. But our present spelling runs counter to this effort. Observation will not help the child; and he must inces? santly disregard analogies, because there are often many different sym? bols for a single sound and many dif? ferent sounds for a single symbol. Prof. Lounsbury has pointed out that one sound, that of "e" in let, is rep? resented in at least seven different ways-"e" in let, "ea" in head, "ei" in heifer, "eo" in leopard, "ay" in says, "ai" in said, and by "a" in many. The sound of "o" in so is oven more absurdly misrepresented-so, -ev.-, owe, O, oh, bow, roo. boat, beaux, bureau, hautboy, yoeman, though. Here is confusion worse confounded. Here is chaos come again. What are tho children to do? How can the teachers help them? All ana!-.?ifs faa; and no rule is pos? sible. The solo resource is to cram the memory, and to reject the result of observation nn.l of reason. This not only wastes the ?im<- of th<- child. but ii also upsets and contradicts th? i raining he has l.a receiving. This >s reason enough wny all good j ?tiz?ns should wi.-ii to <>~r the spell- i 'ng of English simplified and to aid in ! .he introduction of simplified spelling nro our schools; V et there is another vason potent vvith all who want to :aw our orthography more exact j rcientifically and more efficient prac i ca Hy. if any real advance is :..> be nade in the next few years, it must j ture will rarely take the trouble adopt the simpler spelling; they h waited time in acquiring a mastery our present orthography ar/1 they unwilling to spend any more in quainting themselves with the la improvements. Even if they are sympathy with these improveme even if they have conquered tl natural prejudice in favor cf spelling to which they have long b accustomed, still they feel themsel too old to learn new tricks They willing to let well enough alone. This is the obstacle which confro al! who seek to better our orthog phy: and it is not easy to overcome forces all the advocates of impro ment to be cautious, to go very sic ly, to urge nothing violent or sudd to be as tolerant and as persuasive possibly and to be satisfied w faith unaccompanied by good wer But the children have no prejudi :n favor of spellings that ought to discarded. They prefer the simpl possible form. They welcome the i thograhpy that conforms to analo, They can be soon won to the gc cause; and when they are grown their children can be led to ace* still further simplifications. A: thus the good work will go on slow generation after generation, until t users of the English language at h recover the phonetic; sense, which h been lost in consequence of our c thographic muddle, but which is pc sessed by the users of every otb language. And this brings us to the questi whi-h stands at the head of this p per. How can we !get simplifi spelling into the schools? And t answer is easy, even if the process likely to be long. To get simplifi spelling into the schools we need on educate public opinion to believe th this is what ought to be done. Wh< once the public has made up. its mil that the spelling of English ought be simplified and that the best way begin is with the school childre then the teachers and the superi: tendents and the school boards will 1 only too glad to do what will be e: pected of them. It is not for us : tell them how to do it; the success^ steps to be taken may be left safe to the skill of the teaching body. What is needful is to focus attet ti on on this important subject and 1 arouse a lively interest in it. Peop must be made to see that there nothing sacred about our accepte orthography, and that the spelling < our language has never been fix? finally, but has. always been slowl simplifying itself by the castin out of useless letters. They must t educated in the history of spellin* and the many changes that hav taken place from Chaucer to Shaki speare, from Dryden to Johnson an even in the nineteenth century, mus be made familiar. They must be en couraged to understand that a stead movement toward simplification ha always been evident, and they mus be made to recognize that the tim has now come when this slow pro gress toward the remote goal can b accelerated. When the people at large are one convinced that our present spellinj does harm to the children; that i wastes the time and money, of mei and women, and that it tends to pre vent the adoption of English as th< world language of the future-whet that happy hour shall arrive, im? provement will follow at once, spon? taneously and unhesitatingly. Ai Lowell once said: "The pressure o? public opinion is like the pressure oi the atmosphere; you can't see lt but it's sixteen pounds to the square I inch none the less." i As soon as the general public be? lieves that our spelling, is so bad that something ought to-be done, some? thing will be done. There are abundant signs now that the general public is beginning to take an interest in the subject. The very natural prejudice against any modification of the form of familiar words seems to be wearing away. People are coming slowly to see that there are really no valid arguments against the continu? ation and acceleration of a process which has been going on in English for centuries, as it has been going on in every other language also. With the spread of knowledge there can? not fail to be a weakening of preju? dice. And in the meantime, while public opinion is slowly crystalizing in favor of simplification, the more enlighten? ed among the teachers and the su? perintendents are already taking si.'i'S in advance. Tn New York, for example, the board of education ask-i ed the expert board of superintend- j ents to report IHM..! the three hundred ' I words contained in the first list put ; forth by tile Simplified Spelling heard. ! 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