The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, March 31, 1905, Image 4
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union, S. C., MARCH 31, 1903.
The last election lor governor an<
other state officers in the state o
Colorado was characterized hy l>oin|
more corrupt than at any forme
election. Four years ago the righ
to vote was given to the women o
that state, since which time i>olitic
seems to have steadily grown mor
corrupt. Is it the fault of th
women or are the men mad alnui
the privilege granted to the women
and are trying to show how corrup
they can be. No doubt it was th
prime object in granting to th
women the right of suffrage t
purify (xiliticsand letter conditions
but it seems to have the opposit
effect. Who are to blame?
TO VOTE OUT DISPENSARY.
Several petitions arc being eircu
late.I for signatures with a view U
get the required number of voter:
sign the petition asking the county
supervisor to call an election foi
the pur|h>sc of submitting to a voh
of tliu-jxiupln, the _ quest ion .of dis
pensary or no dispensary, undei
the provisions of an act of the legis
lature winch contains a local opuoi
clause giving the right to the poo
pie to vote out a dispensary already
established and also to vote agains
the estahlishnient of a dispensary
Various opinions arc entertainer
by the ]icople of this county as t<
the advisability of voting out tin
dispensary. Some contend thai
the dispensary is the ln-st way foi
liquor to be sold, others think higli
license under the dispensary law.
Many think to put out the dispensary
would open the door to more
blind tigers, and the general unlawful
sale of liquor. Some take tin
view that liquor will he sold and
unless there was a dispensary ot
licensed sale of liquor, the city and
county would lose a large and much
needed revenue. If an election
should l>e ordered the vote will
doubtless be very much divided.
NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY
The National Biscuit Company it
no doubt the most extensive and
successful advertisers in the U niter
States, and by experience know how
when and where to place their ad
vertisements, independent of, ant
unassisted by any gratuitous advict
from any outsider, interested 01
disinterested in the advertising
business, and when their goods art
tried there is no need of any further
advertising through the press, as
the goods advertise themselves,
having no rivals in the market, of
similar goods. The advertisement
of the National Biscuit Company
will* 11 ci|jpuan'u ii? i nr, i
Timks last week and the week before
was not secured at tbe solicitation
of Tiik Timks5 advertising
agent, but through the advertising
agent of the National Biscuit Company
sent to Tiik Timks after satisfactory
arrangements had beer
made by and between both parties,
The reception given by the National
Biscuit Company last Wednesday
iu the Knights of Pythias hall,
the invitation to which was extended
1 I 11* # il f . A A I I
to tlio lauies 01 1111^ cny inrougn
the columns of Trrn (*nk?n Times,
was very largely attended and highly
appreciated as the most unique entertainment
that it had been the
pleasure of the ladies to attend.
This unique and picturesque display
u _ i J
of samples of the goods of this company
was unquestionably the lx'St
way possible to advertise these
goods, lieing a practical demonstration
of the merits of the goods?
such as could not l>e shown through
any advertisement in a newspaper.
That Tiik Timks did not give after
this reception a full and eompli,
mentary notice, was an omission
common with newspapers in a rush
I of busines and very much regretted
by Tiik Timks.
! OUR SCHOOL COLUMN
And Bureau of Information. g
3 EDUCATION IN THE COMMON SCHOOLS,
r #
For a long time the writer has
. felt that the public at large needs
" some very plain talk on the subject
f of school affairs; for a long time he
has waited for some great man to
. arise who, by right of genius, and
by power and acutencss of intellect,
- would stir the consciences and the
, energies of his people and would
would point the way to Ix'tter
f things.
g But the years have passed and
r the great man has not come. The
II writer has grown gray with waiting
f j ?perhaps it is but the garrulous"
1 , ness of increasing age that prompts
S l,ii,i tiiiw til iitwn Inn liiruitli nrwl h,
c speak. As for the great man, he
e is?perhaps?in business, or in pol-'
^ ities; the schools do not seem to
| attract more than a passing notice
j from him.
'b J It is true that all phases of the
e school question have I won threshed
0 over time and again, but this has
principally been done in the pages
, of school journals which the gencr'
al public does not see, while any
0 real and lasting improvement must
have its origin in the fountain head
? must be begun by the people at
large, who in reality create the
. schools and cause them to Iks what
- [ they arc. Tons of literature, in3
deed, have been tired at the teach*
i ers?a feeble folk torn by the erit-.
ies on the one hand and the population
on the other?and little save
r fawning and liattery has fallen to
: tl>o share of that vast and unreas.
oning multitude who employ these
teachers, and pay them, and in
' some sense order their lives.
" ! So this is written, and the arti1
elcs which follow will l>e written,
. in the hope of getting a hearing
. from these same apathetic patrons.
( In the very beginning the author
, takes occasion to say that he has no
ax to grind, no personal grievance
1 to air, no fight to make upon any
) person or any school, lie simply
, wishes, in a disconnected and conversational
way, to call attention
to some things wherein, it seems to
him, an improvement might lie
i made. Also, he wishes to say that
he is very human, very likely to
err, very apt to draw some conclusions
that research will prove unsound.
His endeavor, therefore, is
not so much to convince as to
1 awaken, not so much to set forth
tin* truth as to induce others to
. seek for it.
| It is likewise proper to say in
this connection that the editor and
publisher of The Southcrn'Homc is
in no wise responsible for the opinI
ions herein expressed.
? So nnieh hy way of introductory .
Now let us inquire, briefly, into the
primary object of schools and of
study.
I Ninety-nine persons out of every
hundred will answer this question
I at onee. Such purpose is the ac1
quisitiou of knowledge, the diligent
storing up in the mind of facts for
' future use, they will tell you?and
" , this is just what the ultimate purI
pose isn't! The end sought by pure
ly intellectual training is brain.'
power, tlint by moral training is
r i character, and the final result ob'
| tained by the combination of the
i two should be that ideal state which
' is broadly denominated manhood
i or womanhood. Outside of strictly
technical schools the acquisition of
. facts is merely an incidental process,
and the after usefulness of
stored-up knowledge; hut a side
product of that great factory which
: essays to produce a disciplined and
. finished humanity.
So often is this not only misunderstood,
hut not perceived at all.
We meet every day the parent who
' glibly says, ''Why should John
i .... if?
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. They're not going to teaeh sehool?
they'll have no use for such
things." And these people really
believe that geometry is taught for
the sake of geometry, and laitin for
. the sake of Latin. As well might
they say that men burn fuel to see
the sparks fly upward!
Why should a man huy a plow
and furrow the soil? Can lie sell
the implement again for the priee
that he has paid for it? Can he take
into the market place and sell the
long, brown ridges that he raises
across his fields? Nay, verily, but
he can sell right readily the hardwon
product thereof.
In like manner certain subjects
arc approved oh tools in the process
of mental cultivation, and
though, with the coming of the
harvcHt, the furrows may fade and
the plow l>c thrown aside, who, if
there arc sheaves to gather, can say
that labor and implement have
been spent in vain?
It may be that it has never occurred
to those who reason thus,
that, iu the last analysis of the
term, there is but one salable article
in the entire commercial world.
That article is brain, and all forms
of food or property are but an expression
of some man's productive
thought.
Some will argue that music is also
vendible?mechanical power ?
the ability to put forth effort?but
a glance will dispose of this. Even
the horse must have brain enough
to learn to draw; the idict, though
physically perfect, is of no economic
use, and all power is as valuable,
and no more, as the brain that directs
its energy ami puts it to doing
work. Hence, although you
have forgotten, my friend, the I^atin
or the what-not that you conned
in school, there remains to you the
crop of brains that you grew?the
more or less ability to think connectedly,
to reason, to compare
actualities, and to draw conclusions
therefrom. You arc, to say,
"cultured."
But "culture" docs not mean the
ability to bow from the hips, to
smile without meaning, or an in"
finite capacity for bad music and
afternoon teas, whatever the fashionables
would have you l)elievc.
In reality the word means just what
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schools or out of them, whereby the
intellect is urged to its fullest
growth, whereby the personality
and the character are nourished and
brought to a fruitage; of deeds.
This Ix'ing the case, I take it
that the prime object of school life
is cultural. And in this agriculture
of the mind and the soul books
serve but a part. The other tends,
see far as the school is concerned,
are the teacher and?did you ever
think of it??the feikm """pupils of
the clii'd. Hack of the sche>e>l, influencing
it, making it, in fact, is
the home. As water rises to its
level see will the child quite readily
rise to the plane upon which the
home life is pitched, buf foijrhim to
ge> higher than that means backbreaking
work for somelxxly in this
troublcsoinejjworld of ours.
Did you, in hiring your last
teacher, consider his personality,
his ability to influence and to lift
! your child, or did you employ the
cheaper man? Don't you want your
lx>y to be bigger, and letter, and
brasnier than you arc?
You don't! Well, you ought to
Ik; happy. You'lie fallen in love
with yourself and?probably?3-011
haven't a rival in the world!
Next month I purpose to say
something about teachers?not to
teachers, mind .you, but to the pa- (
trons aliout teachers.?E. Cray ton 1
McCants Author of "In tlio Red
Hills,"?111 Southern Home.
Till) AMERICAN KLA<5.
The American Hag has waved 1
over this beattiful south land of
ours sinee 1770 or one hundred and
twenty-nine years, when our fore- '
fathers declared themselves free and 1
independent of England.
The patriots raised the stars and j
stripes, the design which had been
chosen for opr nation's flag{ over ''
their headquarters at Washington
amid great applause, Every thread
of this banner, our nation's pride, '
means liberty, let us not forget
what it means, and for the sake of
our country lie true to her flag.
Unfurl that banner 1 say to thee, '
Proclaim to the world that wo are ^
free.
See it now, for it is unfolded!
God bless the men who unrolled it. 5
See its folds as they wave,
It tells the world that we are saved, j
It's folds are grand,noble and serene \
As they wave in majesty supreme. ]
Where are the men who first raised
it? <
Where are the people who first 1
praised it?
Oh! they arc dead and in their Bleep i
Left it for us to proteet and keep, i
Where's the man who would not
fight
For his country's wrongs to right! '
Oh! not a man in this country
wide
Who would not fight for his eoun- (
try's pride. 1
Hail to our country's stars and
stripes
That gives us liberty, justice and
rights. J
Forget not now what it means,
And keel) our eountrv'n finer u/>ri>rm
So if in lxittic wc may Hght,
Don't let our banner get out of (
sight;
Keep it waving in the wind,
Watch it's folda an they hlcnd ,
For if you watch a little longer
You'll nee our foca Hying here and
yonder.
Wade H. Wiiitlock.
Kocky Creek School. j
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NEWS FROM KELTON.
Another Confederate Soldier
Checked Prom the
Roll.
Kelton, S. C., March '27, IDOo.?
Another old veteran passes away.
Charlie Garner, a brave veteran of
the civil war died at his home near
Kelton last Tuesday evening, '21st
inst., alnrnt K o'clock and was
buried at Mt. Joy cemetery on Wednesday.
The funeral services were
conducted by Rev. H. K. Kzcll.
He had a stroke of paralysis * alx>ut
14 years ago and has been helpless
ever since. He was 70 years old
ind leaves a wife and nine children,'
& sons and 6 daughters and many
relatives and friends to mourn his
loss. They have the sympathy of
ill the people of our community, i
He was a memlier of Macbeth Light
Artillery and served through the
greater part of the war.
The farmers on the Ridge are
very busy preparing their land for
mother crop, a few have already
planted some corn, and general
planting will begin soon.
We expect soon to have a R. F.
I), mail route surveyed, l>eginning
it Kelly's. The required number
if persons have already signed the
petition for the route. It will l>e a
great convenience for many along
the line, as many live four and five
miles from any postoflice.
Misses Lake and Blanche Fowler
of I'inkney spent Sunday with
their sister, Mrs. Wallace Gault.
Miss Mittie Wood has returned
to Manning after spending two
months in Kelton.
Mr. Jim Sanders and Miss Belle
Going were married on Wednesday
evening, March 8, at the home of
the bride's father, Mr. John Going.
Rev. II. K. Ezell performed the
ceremony and only a few relatives
II lift ll'UVii nrnunnl
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Rev. Thomas Going of Furinan
I'ni versify, spent a few days with
his parents recently. He was accompanied
hy Rev. Cougler, of
Greenville.
The McGowan school closed Friday
and Miss Maude Whitlock rc-'
turned home Monday to spend vacation.
Mrs. Dan Gault and (laughter
Miss Ada visited at Ijockhart recently.
Y. Z.
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