The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-05-20


other Lybian arrows; we rarely Kill
outright, but as Charles Kingsley says
there is a vein of the wild beast in US
still, and we like to see our victims
whom we have bound hand and foot
writhe with pain and-defeat. Right
here is where the sowing of the wind
comes in. The parent-each parent
should have an understanding with
their, child impressing the fact of the
sacred trinity of God, parent. teacher
and if the latter is disobeyed, both
the others are also. BY those who
have observed the beautiful faith OF
childhood it will be accepted that this
teaching will have an uplifting, puri-
fying influence upon the lives of all
children. Like St. Paul, who in his
manhood spoke with love and respect
of his venerable teacher Gamaliel, we
too look back with tenderest devotion
to each and every one of our teachers.
All were noble men and women some
have passed to the silent majority
others still .linger, blessing the world
with their influence and daily work.
May their shadow never grow less
One of the best of Abbeville's mat
rons thus instructs her little ones-her
jewels-at the beginning of each
school term: "You may not be able
to get a perfect mark upon your stud
les; but you MUST bring home SUCH
\ MARK upon DEPORTMENT. do not
send you to school to devise ways to
torment your teacher-so you must
bring that perfect mark upon behav-
ior!n That desired mark comes win
ter and summer. What is the result /?
Her children lead their classes, al
ways, in everything else, as well as de-
pertinent. Surely this American Cor
nelia hath her reward, for we do not
know of finer group Of young men
and women, than the children of this
conscientious mother, who instructive
ly recognizes the sacred calling of the
teacher. All honor to her and hers.
We would do we'll to initiate the old
Lion of the Piedmont,-Capt. Smythe.
1t is plain sailing if one is 80 fortunate
as to teach for his corporation. A GER
tain boy, son of professional man,
undertook, we suppose, upon the
strength of his fathers social position,
to defy certain rule of the school.
He played "hookey," as the Yankees
call it, or as our Southern children
with their purer Anglo-Saxon, name
the offense "lying out" i. e., playing
truant from school. This boy was Civ.
en- the regulation time and chance to
reform. When he failed to do 80 he
was promptly expelled, just the same
az if his father had been q sweeper In
the mills instead of professionally
man. Now he walks two miles to an
other town to obtain the same advan-
tages which were in sight of his home.
Capt. Smythe recognizes the sacred
trinity, although he may never have
expressed the idea in those words.
All just minds run in the same chan
mel.
We have no hesitation in saying
that with the curriculum of the Able
Vile Graded School any boy or girl
may have for the taking as fine an
English education as ia obtainable at
many colleges. The little ones of the
first grade, taught by the scholarly and
sweet madonna-faced Miss Parks, can
repeat whole poems, which it will be
no reflection to say, their parents
would find difficult to memorize.
How thrilling it is to hear little six
year old tots repeating Longfellow's
"Hiawatha" In their liquid bird-like
understanding to be the very music
issuing from the gates ajar. Draw
near some day and hear the little oar
lings say this and more
"By the shores of Geechee Ounce,
BY the shining Big Sea Water
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis.
Dark behind II rose the forest
Rose the dark and gloomy pine tree"
Jno. R. Hayseed.