The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-09-30

ManninS, .. q.
s. A. NETTLES, Editor.
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER %, 1891,
Bill Arp's Baby Girl Goes to College.
These are solemn times nowhere
is nobody dead or dying, but there
is a lost child, and that is nearly as
sad. We kcow where she is, for we
sent her there; but it is hard on the
old folks to send their youngest child
away, especially when she is girl
and the last of the litter. 1t took us
few days to realize that she had
gone. Sometimes she goes to spend
night with a schoelmate, and 1t
seemed like she was there and would
soon come back, but she doesn't
Her piano is closed, and its dark rose
wood case looks darker now. There
is a feeling of sadness around the
house. The sewing machine is hav-
inc a rest, for she made her own
clothes, and she cleans up the house
and sets the table and Ii ights the
lamps and helps her mother. and
when the cook quits she can make as
Good a biscuit as I can. She loves
her home and loves me, and when l
am grunty or sad she knows it and
rubs nv head with cologne and combs
my back hair and cheers me up, and
/ get well, but I am sick right now
and she is not here.
I was in hopes we could finish her
schooling right here, but we can't.
We have no college and the high
school is limited by poverty. We are
taxed enough in all good conscience
to have anything we want, l am pay
ine now about one hundred dollars a
wear for other peoples children, and
have to send off my OVID. There are
many parents here doing the same &,
thins and to my my mind it is all
wrong in principle. Our county pays
$4,000 to the school fund OF the
State and we get back only $1,000 OF
il. The other $4,000 is scattered all
over the State to educate white and
black. Our town pays out 81 900 a
ra.-t 10 edncate the negroes in the
Corporation, and we get no thanks
for that. All this tax is based upon
the idea that we get it all back in
making good citizens out Of the chll- /
dren as they grow up. If that is
really so, we will try and be content,
but the whole system is strain upon
our philanthropy, Every community
would like to keep their money at
home, and if it is not spent right we
can make fuss about it. Our town
pays $4,000 for school tax and our
county pays $4,000 more, and we
can't help thinking that if we could
keep the $4,000 that is sent away
what home college we could build
in our own community. Ten thous-
and dollars year for an income
would give US a first class institution,
and it would save US big lot Of
money, besides $4,000 a year that is
Going away right now from this town
to other female colleges. That makes
$4,000 a year that we are out OF
pocket, and our people are not happy.
But all's well that ends we'll.
Our Jessie has gone to college, to
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higher at home. And besides, it was
thought best to send her away for
rest and repose. A number of our
oest girls have been sent away recent
y for repose. The boys of the town
don't seem to have very much to c.,
and SO they indulge in the delightful
employment of visiting the school
girls and this disturbs their tranquil
ity and distracts their susceptible
minds from study and wholesome
reading and meditation. By day and
4 by night they are coming and going
and getting up parties and playing
tennis and baseball and other hilari-
ties, and as it couldent be stopped
without bad manners it was thought
best to send the girls away and let
them stay until their minds came
back to them. I heard one afflicted
parent say that he was was afraid his
daughters mind was clean gone. We
are not troubled about Jessie on that
account, bat she does need some time
that she can call her own. Some
time to read and study and devote to
her music. She is gone now-and
the boys will frequent these parts no
more, I reckon. No more will we be
entertained with the thrilling narra-
ti4es of baseball, and tennis, and the
heroic achievements of the Cedartown
nine, and the Acworth nine, and the
Gainesville lawn tennis club that cost
$40 for its equipment.
I heard Sam Jones preach SER
mon once to parents about these
same troubles, and be stretched forth
his hand and said, @Now, boys, I see
you here, and I want you to hear me.
lwant you to keep away from my
house until I tell you to come. My
daughters are at school, and I don't
want their minds distracted from
their studies. I like you and I like