The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-10-30
The Philosopher Receives Another
Communication.
HEARS FROM NORTHERN ADMIRER.
Notes That Northern White People
Object to Sending Their Children
to Negro Teachers.

AVN III NA
dead has sent me a clipping from a
Newport paper and says: Here is s
good text for your next letter. 1t reads
as follows: Newport, October A.
At a meeting Of the school committee
today, George Ellis and wife objected
to having their son taught by a col
ored teacher and said that if their son
was not admitted to another school
where the teacher was white they
would keep him at home. The commit
tee refused to change him and ordered
the boy to be arrested as a trust. The
father filed a plea Of not guilty and
the case will 60 to the higher court
and be tested" They have compul-
sorry education there. 1t seems that
this teacher is the daughter Of a
preacher, who is the American consul
at st. Thomas. He is a loyal Repubf-
can and there is politics in 1t, and the
lily whites are in the minority. She
may be one Of the 400 that Watterson
is troubled about. and so | will turn
over the text to him. The same mail
that brought me the text, brought a
letter from my grandson. who is IN the
employ of the Westinghouse Company,
Of Pittsburg, and is an electric en-
gineer and is now putting down q
plant at Utica. N. Y. He writes that
his contractor had a number OF white
men employed, but as labor was
scarce he picked up an idle negro and
told him to go to work. The white men
rebelled violently against this and
threatened to quit, and so the negro
had to be sent off. When l was last
in Mississippi the barber who shaved
me said he came down from Illinois
on account of his health and was
amazed to find white folks down here
patrcnize negro BARRIERS, and that L
one dared to open a shop in any town
in Illinois he would be mobbed n
run out of the place. Lake Banquos
rb3st, this race problem Will not
down. 1t has as many phases as there
are times and places. Shortly after
the war the yankee school marEs hur-
ried down here to educate the negro,
but they soon tired of it and went
back. Now q negro woman has gone
I'D there to teach their white children.
That is all right. We don't care. As
Cobe saws: Its all o%ptionary with
me-" Now I will let the negro go
dead for awhile. 1t will take man.
years yet to settle the problem. but
II will he settled. The two races WORE
together very harmoniously in our
town and county and we are recon
ciled to- the situation. l wish that ev-
cry community had as many blessings
as we enjoy. No strikes. no murders
nor outrages of any kind-no stee.
fights, no cursing. no cyclones nor
foods nor famine-no pestile1ce. no
fires. We have good schools, good
CHURCHES. good preachers n good
humble congregations. Every church.
has a nice comfortable ZONE for the
preacher and there is one more TO-
the presiding elder. We have a good
sociable community with no stucNup
families. Not even San Jones folks
put on any airs over the rest OF us.
| visited them on Sunday eve and Was
treated with the most cordial hos
pitality. Their home is a palace AMI
their garden and grounds a little para
disc. ] am getting strong again ana
walked 20 town last week for the first
time in three months-|hen | came
home my wife shook her fist at me
and said: II believe you will outlive
me yet" From the tone Of her voice
thought maybe she was mad about
it. We have nearly completed the
finest court house in the State. 1t is
in full view from the window where
| write and | never get tired Of look
ing at the beautiful dome that shines
like silver in the sun. "A thing OF
beauty is a JOY forever" Our garden
is now adorned with beautiful roses
and | cut them every morning and my
wife allows me to send them to the
pretty girls-no; l mean to the ancient
mothers in our neighborhood. My wife
is peculiar about that. AT night l have
to help a pretty lassie with her arltn-
metie and algebra and Latin. ] get
stalled sometimes. but We generally
get through all right. We have a telc-
phone and my daughter. who lives i
mile away. has one. So when her
daughter gets stalled she telephones
here and our lassie tells her over the
'phone how TO do it. Sometimes IL
takes many figures. multiplying and
dividing, ETC., and if there is a mis-
take made of only one figure near the
beginning it runs through to the end
and gets bigger and bigger as it goes.
And so my lassie is disappointed be-
cause she did not get the answer.
Then | go over all the figures care
fully and find the error, and she a
it to do over again. Just so it is with
our habits and conduct. II a little boy
.on, Oh. n r ctoriec fho habit will
grow on him and by the time he is
grown he will tell lies. II a boy swaps
knives with another boy and cheats
him, he will get into a habit Of cheat
ing in a trade and nobody will trust
him. When Tom Benton was for the
first time a candidate for office, 1t was
told on him that when he was a school
boy he stole a knife from another
boy and had to give it up and take a
whipping. And so he didn't get elected.