The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-08-27
LONG CANE ITEMS.
Furnishes a Readable
Budget.

Cotton picking will commence this week.
Farmers are about through pulling fodder.
United States live in cities and towns.
The two stone piers for the o., G. N. rail-
road on Long Cane will cost $1,000.
Its reported that Mr.. Doc Bowie will clerk
for Mr.. R. NJ. Hill this fall.
The last panther killed in :his part OF the
country was killed on Long Cane in 1871, near
Mr.. w: 9. Cromer's house. 81.
Mr.. William A; Calvert is an industrious
| ness.
Mr.. James A. Stevenson is another young
man, who works hard and Is making money
Mr.. JEFF s. Pratt Is prosperous young man
who takes great interest in the farm and rails
| Ing fine horses. ..-
and go 10 town soon learn that the farm is the
| best place to make and gave money. Boys
should stick TO the farm. ~
Artesians wells have been sunk to depth
MIR. Edward Westheld, prominent citizen
OF Long Cane, was born in England.
From deep well sunk In France, pieces OF
green leaves were thrown up by the first gush
of water from depth OF about 400 feet. They
were ascertained 10 have come from q dis
taIGe Of about 15G miles from the sPripg st.,
gold mine. He should get an experienced
gold.dgger to examine it.
A boy IN China can get new suit OF clothes
for fifty cents. Girls never have to worry
made after the same pattern and they wear
| no huts. ....
A candidate In Orangeburg has announced
himself for County Commissioner, and bases
his qualification on the fact that he is a good
| coon hunler, and says II the good people do
not see cause to elect him 10 the office he will
still hunt coons.
Farmers are happy: The prospects for
Ire railroad authorities would make Dar-
raugh's a regular station II the people would
could do thriving business there In the gro
Gerry line
ii the kind editor OF the Press and Banner
and not allow them to discuss teachers sala-
rles 1t would be great help In their work.
Every progressive teacher would take the
paper and be doubly interested In 1t.
If the Warrenton correspondent misses the
mark In everything so fur as he missed 1t last
week Nobody Knows" what he would come
| TO after while. What was said concerning
Teachers Associations as being failures as
equal force To all associations To say "men
that steal are dishonest" does not include all
men any more than saying that Teachers
Associations as now generally conducted are
failures Nobody Knows" what some men
will attempt to do, to twstthings to suit their
own views. The guess that we never attend
ed q Teachers Institute Is SO thin that 1t Is
leaky.
Soine desolate portions of old AbbevIlle
will soon resound with the blast Of the whis-
tie OF the flying locomotive.
Educators" electric speed on broken rails
and sharp curves has caused him to leap the
track at an unguarded moment. Enron
eous Impressions" The idea! If some
one should write a two-line local telling
weather ruins the land, would some good far
mer who works his crop with care and Is
successful, bounce up and write reply OF
four or I've inches and among other things
4 'tWQran't a.
The criticism probably noes not apply to the
Abheville Teachers Association. There was
he was 25 years old before he ventured twenty
miles from his birth place, then lie exclaimed
in his wonder: "If the world extends this
far on the other side OF home amt she a
er's Associations doesn't apply to the Due
Westi and Greenwood meetings Educator"
should not take II to heart SO seriously, but
should remember that he doesn't live In
the center Of tile world and that she Is still
"whopper."
The New York Mail and Express is very Bit
ter towards the South, and among other
ed Iss negroes ro be nominated Tor ali the offices
that are TO be filled by election this year. It
would be the most fitting and proper that
South Carolina, whose malign and treasona-
BILE influence and example brought on the
Southeast the terrible punishment OF civil
war, should be the first to fall under the rule
of the negro majority" This is about as Bit
Ter aS Gne WISH, lew years ago. among some
wicked Northern politicians, that South Car
olina should be swallowed up by an earth
quake 80 they could have excursions to the
edge and look over into the abyss.
Amazing" indeed "Amazing' to what?
If what was said about some Teachers Asso-
Citations being failures doesn't apply TO any
that Prof. j. r. Blake has attended the little
local should have been passed by In dignified
silence. The local which he has reference TO
was written, published and forgotten before
the Teachers Association commenced at
Greenwood. The remark was meant for
Teachers Associations In general and no
one in particular. II what was said in this
little local has any influence In discouraging
the much-discusSed subject OF teachers sal
aries 1t Is fraught with little good at least.
No one is more In favor of teachers meetings
than We are when the object Is to advance
the teacher mentally for his work. Mr..
Blake after second thought will not consider
the criticism as applying to the Greenwood
meeting any more than to other associations
that consume so much Of teachers time dis
cussing salaries. Teachers generally get what
they are worth. The county pays $50 per
month. Let the patrons make mp the def.
cheney. The teachers should stop abusing the
county for not paying more. AS we'll to kick
q cow for not giving more milk when you
don't increase her food. But digrcss Mr.
Blake's associations never discuss teachers
salaries. SEMINOLE.