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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-07-08
The Lime Kiln Club.

"I was readin' in the paper yesterday" :"
said Brother Gardner as the meeting
opened after the usual style. 81 was
a.readin' lament bekase de ole fashun'd
man an woman had died off an would
be seen no mo- on airth foreber. Lee
glad on it. De ole-fashun'd man scraped
OF de measure when he sold wheat; he
believed that any sort of food an any
sort of bed was good 'Duff for his chil'en;
he took de biggest pie at de table; he ate
mo- like hog dan human bein'; if he
had sympathy it was for his cattle instead
of his family. De efashun'd man was
reg'lar attendant at prayer meetin', but
he worked his hired help twenty hours
out of twenty-four just the same. He'd
drive FIVE miles 10 church on Sunday to
show his religum, but doorin' de odder
six days of de week he was a bad man to
trade HOSES wid. 1t took his wife six
months to get up de courage to ak him
fur q new kaliker dress, an mos of his
chill'en growed up an xent away from
home widout reckoleckshun of dozen
kind words.
"De ole. fashun,d man had two recipes
fur his fellow. bein's. De fust was hard
work; de mex was boneset tea. He had
but two ideahs in regard to boys. De
fust was lots O. work an leetle school.
in; de next was lots O. lickins an no
holidays. I[e had but two ideahs in
regard to bizness. De fust was git all ye
kin; dc mex was keep all ye git. He
argued dat lia. could neber enter the
kingdom of heaben, but would go out an
lick sick OK to death without any fear
about his hereafter. He prayed loudly
that the Lawd would increase his crops,
but he kept his hired hands down to de
lowest possible fgger. He made great
show of submmittin' to de will of Proyi.
dence, but $500 pounds of hay got wet
in rain storm some of de chillen come
in for lickin' befo' night.
"De ole. fashun'd man an woman hev
departed, an de world hasn't lost cent
by it. 1t WAS good depart. Wicked
as some folks claim de world to be, l feel
dat kin walk into de average crowd
an pick out mo- charity, humanity,
religun, sympathy, an morality dan
could be found in ten.acre lot of OLE
fashun'd men. Let US now purceed to
biziness."-DetroI Free Press.
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usually care nothing for professional
books. TE%:5 will not take and read ed
ucational sdrnals. They have no use
for teachers institutes and normal
schools. The worst feature of the case,
however, is that these quacks and charla'
tans in the teaching profession are
usually willing to teach for much less
than a good teacher ought to receive;
and for this reason, many school boards
are weak and silly enough to employ
them in preference to those who are
really competent and worthy, but who
demand better salaries. This can hardly
fail to work injury to the schools.
I say, then, let none but competent
teachers be employed. Let none but
suitable men be chosen as boards Of
trustees. Let there be proper and ade'
qua,e supervision of the schools. Let US
have shorter courses of study, and fewer
text. books in series. Let us have less
waste of time and labor on useless
studies, and more common sense in edu.
cation. Then, no doubt, our schools
would be more efficient, illiteracy would
become less prevalent, and the cause of
education would move forward with
gigantic stridos.-Prof. B. ". Williams,
in Southwestern Journal Of Education.
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Up North, the people SO fully appre'
ciate the benefit of the Teachers Insti-
tute that they will not employ teacher
who does not attend them, and in some
sections they actually pay the teachers
expenses and let his salary run on all the
time he is attending the Institute. Here,
some of us grumble and growl and clean
our finger nails at the very mention Of
the word Institute. We don't under
stand it, it's an elephant, it's bear, we
don't know what to do with it, and we
don't know what it's going to do with us.
Thank the Lord, there are some people
that have gotten up, and brushed them
selves and moved off nicely. We like
the signs of the times. To be candid,
we are like the old lady who said, eve
have much to be thankful for; havn't
got but two teeth in my head, but, bless
God, they hit!'
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: MANY persons have strange notions

Many persons have strange notions
about proportionate giving. Some give
according to their means, others according
to their meanness. Recently an Ohio
man was complained of because he neg
lected his duty in regard to contributing
for the support of the Church. One day
committee called on him and began to
urge the necessity of reform in this mat
ter, when he began to advocate the prin-
ciple of "proportionste giving" and, to
their astonishment, he boldly insisted
that he was doing exceedingly we'll, and
that, proportionately, he was in the habit
of giving more than any other member
of the church. When they joined issue
with him, and undertook to prove the
contrary, he explained that he meant
"that in proportion to his religion, he
gave moro than any other member of the
church |" That may explain the contri-
button of some church members that are
an enigma to the pastors mind.
- Probably the youngest State super.
intendent of public instruction is Oscar
II. Cooper, of Texas. He is twenty-three
years old, and graduate of Yale. He
will have partial control of an immonse
school fund.
"A Pennsylvania hotel keeper has
sued several newspapers for libel because
they published a report that the Presi.
deut would visit his house, and intimated
that he would be starved.
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H1NDRANCEs TO THE EFFICIENCY OF
OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Then we lack county supervision. 1t
is to be regretted that in many instances
the nominal superintendent does not give
the attention to our schools which their
importance demands. How few of them
deliver lectures and hold teachers insti-
tutes as the law requires. We need a
faithful and efficient superintendent of
public schools in each county. He
should be, not quack doctor, a cheap
lawyer, or broken down politician, but
al educator in the full, round sense of
the term. Let it be bis business to thor.
oughly acquaint himself with the char
acter and wants of all the schools in the
county, and labor assiduously for their
improvement.
Another great barrier to educational
progress is incompetent teachers. We
still have too many teachers who "pour
in" instead of "draw OUT; teachers
who rely merely on "what the book says"
instead of what the experiment proves
teachers who are mechanical and imita-
tive instead of original and creative
teachers who aim at mere book attain
ments instead of mental growth and de.
velopment; teachers who are empiracal
and dlogm &c instead of experimental
and tlemonstrative; teachers who are
unprogressive and Indifferent instead OF
progressive and aspiring. Such teachers
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"A normal school is q school for the
instruction and training of teachers.
Training College" is the term used in
England. We get the name normal
from the Freach. 1t came originally
from the Latin word norma, meaning a
rule or model. In Germany such schools
are designated teachers seminaries." I"
The first public normal school establish
ed in the United States was opened at
Lexington, Mass, on the 3rd of July,
1889. Cyrus Pierce was principal.
However, a private teachers seminary
had been opened by S. R. Hall as early
as 1823.-Southvestern Journal Of Educa.
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"A Bourbon County farmer, a read.

"A Bourbon County farmer, read.
ing and thinking man, who has for some
time been investigating tho Darwinian
theory, says that ho has recently deyel-
oped small link which is calculated to-
put men to thinking. The blue grass
country is now being infested with mill 81
ions OF cut.worms, which have been
devastating the growing crops Of corI.
tobacco and garden truck. He gathered;
about twenty of the Objectionable intru.:
ders from piece of sod q foot square and
put them in cigar box half filed with
dirt, covered with pane of glass, and
set the same in the sun. In less than
two weeks he had developed a fine drove
,of grass.hoppers. lexington tKy. Ga:s
sette, June B. sss s. S.
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I .FE{A6HERs'Go1UM.Nly,
J. G. CLINKsCALEs, EDITOR.
If you have missed this week of the
Institute, by all means give it your pres
ence next week. This is one of the op-
portunities of your life-don't miss it !!

While you read this we are enjoying
the exercises of the Teachers Normal.
My friend, if you have allowed some
trivial matter to keep you away, there is
but one reason why you viii not regret
it: you may never know what you have
missed. But it isn't too late yet-come
at once, and see and hear and learn for
yourself. Your profession urges you to
come; circumstances demand it of you;
we expect you to come-fail notl
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= The Chester Reporter of juno Oath
says Last Thursday Beauregard Legg, a
negro boy working Oh Mr.. A. A. Crosby's
place, near Crosbyville, left his work and
walked to Sandy River, short distance.
and drowned himself. He was su posed
10 have been of weak mind. Trial Jus.
lice T. D. Coleman held an inquest.
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EVA WINKLE FEEDER CONDENSER attached any
having other make Gins and wishing Feeders
and will
-
kinds IMPROVED CANE
MILES EyAPORAT Sfurnishe
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-07-08
John Z. PEOPLES,
Agent for the Celebrated
IIII NINKLE GIN, FEEDER AND CONDENSER

Manufactured at Atlanta, Georgia and to which Pre-
miiums were awarded at the Atlanta Cotton
Exposition, Charleston Industrial Expo
sition Feb. 2, 1882, and at the South
az Carolina and Georgia State
ss sssss Fairs 1884,
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emu.
And yet the diffusion of education and
the progress which it has made tends to
the settlement of national disputes with
out resort to war for three reasons. l..
The improvement that has been made in
the implements for warare so great that
nations, recognizing the fearful sacrifice
of life which each must suffer, and the
reasonable certainty of success which
superior numbers will give, are more
careful of each others rights than they
were in ruder periods of the worlds his
tory. This is, however, the least potent
of the reasons to be assigned for tie pa
ci6c tendency of education upon, the
world. 2. The fact that all civilized ma
tions are now interested in the commerce
of the world, and desire to preserve the
balance of power between the nations of
the earth as security to their peace and
safety, has given rise to a demand by
public sentiment for the settlement of
difficulties by arbitration instead of a
resort to arms. This moral sentiment IS
on educated sentiment, and its force is
becoming stronger as the power of educa-
ton becomes more diffused. 3. Another,
and perhaps most powerful force which
education cxcrts upon the peace of tho
world is to bc found III the sense of jus
ticc and regard for the right which it
creates in the nations themselves, by
which unjust demands are not made or
countenanced, and all aggressions are
repressed or willing amends made tor
them.
The manner in which this forco opcr-
ates upon the nations of the earth may
be illustrated by an incident which is re-.
lated to have occurred with President
Jackson. Shortly after MIR. Buchanan
afterwards President Buchanan re-
turned from Russia, where lie had been
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rlo agricultural education and he leaves
college knowing more about dozen
other occupations than he does about
agriculture, and he naturally drifts into
s0me business that he knows something
about. When a physician wishes to
make his son doctor, he sends him to
college as long as he thinks best, and
then graduates him from a medical col.
lege. If he stopped that boy when he
left the literary college he would not be
apt to become physician; but after he
takes the medical course he is better
qualified 10 pratice medicine than to
engage iu auy other avocation, and the
result is, that nine times out of ten he
follows the profession for which he was
educated. So the lawyer, the civil en-
gineer, the merchant, and the professor
all have convenient schools in which
they can have their boys trained to fol-
low the avocations of the parent. There
are no convenient schools in which a boy
NAV cultivate the science as we'll as the
practical work of mechanics or machine.
nv, or agriculture. He might be entered
| to work in some machine shop where he
would learn only so much theory as IS
necessary to operate the manufacture IN
which they were engaged. This, it
strikes me, should be the work of the
States University. 1t would certainly
prove of great value, for with such a
system the practical talents of the youths
of the State would be cultivated. Boys
striving for an education cannot afford to
enter machine shops and quit their other
studies in order to cultivate a talent for
machinery or mechanics which they do
not expect to follow as business, but
they could advantageously take these
schools as o part of a collegiate course.
With these departments added to our
State University and the curriculum
raised to post graduate course tho har.
mony of our educational system would
be comulcte. maintain that the State
should support its University in such
way rs to avoid, as far as possible, com.
petition with the existing colleges in the
State. 1t should supply that class of in.
ssrllction which is not accessible in the
other institutions in the State, and should
not seek to crush them out by using the
taxing power of the State to offer free
tuition to tho sons Of men who aro able
to pay for it, thereby seeking to induce an
attend ance which they might not other.
wise be able to secure. This oGious fea.
ture of our State University ought to be
removed as a simple matter of justice
! and right. The purpose here should be
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-09-06
FELL OVER A CLIFF.
A SENSATIONAL ACCIDENT
At PIttsPurgh-A Policeman Chasss MI OF.
fender to tho Brink of ProClplce,
Where Both ClInch and Roll to the
DottOm-BOth Fatally Injurcd,

PITEsnuRoH, Sept, ga sensational and
probably fatal accident occurred about
ten o'clock last night, Officer George
Woods and man named Edward Hen.
mig, whom he was arresting, fell over
. cliff to Locust street aud both
are now not expected to survive
the injuries they received. Hennig
had engaged In q street quarrel
and when the officers arrived he took to
his heels. Woods gave chase and finally
drew his revolver and shot at the fugitive,
the ball taking effect in Hsnry's left fore
arm They were then not far apart, and
when Henry felt the ball enter his flesh
he stopped and stood at bay Just on the
brink Of preClplcs fifty feet in heighth,
" vas the work Of an instant. They
clinehed In a short, hard tussle and
suddenly. both men disappeared.
When the other officers arrived no
one was in sight but faint
Cry from over the cliff attracted their at,
tention, Looking down the two men were
seen stretched motionless at the bottom
OF the cut. Woods was unconscious and
both men were terribly injured. They
were carried 10 the police station and
afterwards removed to q hospital where
they are now lying Hennig Ia resting
easier tonight, but Woods Is suffering in
tenaely and may die before morning,
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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
NOTES


Four OF the LoulsYlllss have made over
100 hits.
Curt WelCh has played % consecutive
games without an error.
Collins, lato OF the savsnnahs, has bsen
secured by the Louisville.
From April l to August %, inclusive the
Newarks played ITO games.
Barkley scored his llrat home run OF the
season last week oil HeCker,
The price Lucas set for GlasscoCk was
too high even for Detroit. Only 5000.
Meistsr has been playing second In great
shapa for the Nets and has been batting
heavily.
The Sporting Litesays: "GlasscoCk is the
real bone OF contention in the League
muddle."
John Croghan 10 back from Macon and
will help out the home team the rest OF
the season.
The Wheeling team may go 10 Waynes.
burg, Pa, this week for two games. Next
week the Pittsburgh Athletics play two
games here.
Anson has the largest batting total for
single League game this season, viz: five
hits with total OF twelve bases in Ave
times at bat.
Up in New England they ring chestnut
bells on batsrnen who strike out. The
Maple Leaf games would have kept one
going constantly.
No League pitcher has yet succeeded
this year in dlspoBlng Of an opposing team
without hit, and but one Association
pitcher-Atkisson-hss accomplished the
feat.
The Rochester Association has paid for
Its grounds and cancelled all OF It's indebt.
edness this season. In addition 1t has a
snug sum in bank. May the home team
for 1887 do likewise.
Anson, Denny, Rowe and Hardie Rich.
ardson are the only Leaguers who have
made two home runs In one game. Rich.
ardson has succeeded In doing this twice.
June 2S and August 81.
"He folded his tent, like the Arab, and
silently stols away" And that, too, after
he had given his promise to stay the season
out. John EsstOn has made big hole In
the lisv OF his friends and admirers, and
he will probably have cause 10 regret his
action. Gone, but not forgotten.
The new League committee will enable
the League to transfer such playera as may
be wanted 10 the successor Of the ST. Louis
club, II that club ahould not 90 on next
season. For instance, II Pittsburgh should
60 into the League this committee could
transfer such players as Pittsburgh may
deem necessary to strengthen herself
This is, OF course, an excellent move for
the League, but It may be rough on the
transferred players. II Ia dollars to cents
that the Brotherhood will have something
tosay about this legislation.
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RunGLARIOus TnAGEnn..

An Old Man Kills h Wife In Shooting at his
Assailants, and Is Himself Fatally nenten.
ST. LOUIS, Sept 4.-rhe little town OF
Connelsville, ILL.,, ten miles east OF here
on the Vaudalia, was the scene Of shock
ing tragedy early this morniug.
Two burglars gained access to the house
Of Brent Willoughby. Awakened by the
noise, Mr., Willoughby thinking 1t was his
six-year'old son, who was sleeping In an
adjoining room, and partially rose
in bed, when the two men sprang
forward, one selling Willoughby, the
other attacking Mrs. Willoughby, and
commenced beating both over the head
with some blunt instrument. WiIloughby
freed his arm aud snRtched his revolver
from beneath the pillow and fired point
blank at the burglar on top OF him, who
with howl, fled.
Turning his pistol, Willoughby fred at
the remaining burglar, who suddenly
shifted his position, and the ball intended
for him struck Mrs. Willoughby, psnetrat-
Ing the lungs, She will probably die.
Willoughly is also in critical condition
from wounds upon the head.
Physlcians state that he cannot recover.
One burglar was captured and may be
lynched. The other was traced to the de-
pot by trail Of blood, and II Is believed
is lying in ConCealment, as Willoughby is
positive that he shot him In the breast.
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THE NATIONAL GAME.
THE STANDING OF THE CLUBS,
Chicago Leads in the League Race, While
st, Louis has Sure Grip on tho Ameri-
can Association Pennaut- Louisville
Defeats the Champlons-Notes.

Chicago maintalns her lead over De-
trolt, while both are comfortable dis
lance ahead OF the New York team, The
Giants, in fact, are dangerously near the
Philadslphias and a couple Of defeats for
the New Workers and victories on the
other side would send Harry Wright's
combination to the front. The other
teams remain unchanged, but st, Louis
continues to play excellent ball and is
bagging more games now in week than
In a month under Dunlap's management
1t Ia a foregone conclusion that the
Browns will again take the Association
psnnant, while the race for the second
place will be a pretty hot one. Pittsburgh
has the call at present, and is playing
great ball, but Louisville aud Brooklyn
are close behind aud will make an inter-
estIng finish. Cincinnati, Athletics, Metro'
politan and Baltimore follow In order,
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
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ORDER IN DELrAsr.
Tho Measures Taken for supprossIng further
LIotous Outbrcaks TIiere.


llOtOus Outbreaks There.
BELFAST, September 4.-For the first
time in Ave weeks the island men passed
to their homes this afternoon through
streets not lined with troops. A few po-
lice sutIiced to keep order, as no attempts
were made by either Protestants or Cath
olics 10 insult each other.
This evening was looked forward to with
some apprehension, because II Ia the frat
Saturday tho police have done duty in the
Shank Hill district since the bloody June
riots; but there has not been the slightest
incident TO mar the quiet Of the day.
0i 1000 extra police now In the city,
600 leave for home early next week, 400
only remaining, keeping the force at
what is now considered the proper nor
NAL number-000. The troops are also
being gradually Withdrawn for this place,
which may be considered TO be largely the
result Of the local authorities determine.
ton TO use tact and not force In their fu-
ture dealings with the mobs.
Detectives are now scattered all through
the Shank Hill district, ready 10 arrest
any person, stopping 10 pick up stone 10
throw at the police. Several prompt or.
arrests OF persons found with stones In
their hands have served greatly 10 inLIml.
date the boys, who form the nucleus Of
all riots. BY tho aid Of these detectives
tho police arO able 10 appear promptly
and Unexpectedly upon the threatening
crowds gathered at the corners,
The payment OF the butchers bill"-as