Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1910-09-28

school, who performed the double
carrying into actual practice the doc
trnc that religion and education go
, hand in hand.
Then we find Miss Caroline Jen-
kns. Mrs. Susan Doyle, and finally,
about the close Of The Civil War,
I Mrs. T.. +. Hughs. Size taught in
one room Of her dwelling, and among
| those who are here to show how
we'll she wrought. we see Col. r. II.
| JaNnes. AS we said, she taught
| right after the close OF the war. and
| shoes of any kind were a decided
| luxury, but lucky indeed was he who
could wear pair OF ca!f-Skin shoes
with brass tips on the toes. Among
those going to her was one little fel-
| low who was always as neat as could
be and who had pair OF tn, Sc
shoes. The other children were
more or less jealous, We presume.
! and so spent much OF their play
time putting their bare feet on his
shoes and soiling thcm-wc mean
the shoes. He became tired Of this.
and. going to his teacher, he said:
Miss Elughs, Miss liughs, wish
you'd make 'cm keep their feet off
my shoes" She very promptly re-
piled. "All right, Robert, Jaynes) =.
I'll see after them,' and she did
for in those days the use OF the rod
was not forgotten art.
And here the curtain falls until
1871, when the first public school
at old Richland was opened under
the able management OF Rev. T.. f.
Hyde and his more able better half.
From this time on the record is
clear and the chain complete Time
forbids our taking up each one sep
aratcly. SO we must bundle facts.
Since lSl0 there have been IS
teachers at the Richland school
IS male and 20 female. OF these.
so far as we are able 10 learn, 3S
are s'ill living, the oldest being Mrs.
! T.. +. Hughs, now in her SD year.
| Three OF them were Presbyterian
/ one taught while preparing himself
| for that vocation; and one has since
! become Il Baptist minister.
Five have become lawyers, foul
, 81 whom are distinguished in tho
profession and the fifth hopes to be
some day. or the five, three arc
located at Walhalla, one at Pickcns
and the other in Columbia.
One has become an honest. pains
taking, successful merchant.
Three were wise in their day ant
mad heard the call OF the soil ant
were making the farmers life ON,
worth living long before James J
lIill discovered that the hope of tn,
country depends upon the farmer
TWO are in the real estate bust
n"Ss-Ono at Seneca and the othcI
at Spartanburg-nn both doin.
we'll.
One is news editor OF one Of ou,
great Southern daily papers.
Another is assisting Uncle sam in
the dissemination OF knowlcdgc BY
means OF the railway postal service
When we remember that in 1887
when James H. Dendy and John G.
! Calhoun had those discussions OF
the great issues OF state, the long
est railroad in the world was 1871
miles and ran from Charleston. S
! c., to Hamburg, do we not have tC
! pause ana ask, ii the improvement
OF tn" school has kept pace with the
| march OF progress? DO we make
any better citizens to-day than were
! made then?
But We must hasten on. One has
hccom" a civil engineer and promi
nemt in his line.
-Four are unaccountcd for. and
! last only five out OF The 2S are still
teaching. The accusation has been
made once and then again that the
majority Of teachers, both men and
women, 80 into it merely as step,
ping stone to something else When
we look at the figures we have inst
gone over the truth OF the state
mrni seems to be proven, not ONLY
by prcrondcrAncc Of The testimony
! but beyond all reasonable doubt
And We can but bow our heads in
Shame as some one points the finger
OF Scorn and cNclaims, Thou arc