The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-04

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the reason of things. Did you eyer stop
to think, Mr.. Editor, that every single
college president in this State is damn
foreigner, having absolutely 40 interest
in the educational uplift of the masses,
and whose interests are, limited and con-
fined to the taking of fat salaries out OF
the State -
Furthermore, we have as State Super.
! intendent of Education, a blind boy.
whose intellectual outlook is exceeding
ly narrow and whose educational advan-
tages are exceedingly limited; now, l
have profound sympathy for blind peo-
pie, but it has always been true that
whenever the blind lead the blind, then
both are bound to fall into the ditch.
and the children and people of South
Carolina have been in the ditch quite
long enough. Then there is poor old
Professor Hand, an ex-railroad conduc-
tor, who goes around the State telling
the people how TO educate, when he too
should be at his old job OF firing an en-
CINE. But the worse i'll of which all of
US are heir to, is the country school
trustee, who is entirely ignorant, but
at the same time knows everything un-
der the sun, and quite incompetent TO
select competent. school teacher.
The people of Summerton are still
dissatisfied with their railroad facilities;
we have now passenger train each
way per day and in addition thereto q
freight train each way per day: the
progressive citizens of the community
wish to keep what we have and add
thereunto another passenger train every
morning from Summertor TO Wilson
Mill, in order TO give US an outlet to
Manning and Charleston and other
points every morning; on the eleventh
day of September, the railroad commis-
sion decided that we should have this
additional train, out after some invisible
influence was brought to bear. the CON-
mission rescinded the order of Septem-
Der the eleventh. The buttmeat mer-
chants of this community wish to go
back TO the old mixed train regime.
since they claim passenger train takes
TRADE to Sumter, but the trouble with
the butt-meat merchants OF this CON-
munity is their lack of intelligence-for
instance, | know lady who searched
every butt-meaL store in this town for
some diaper linen for her babies and
none could be found and consequently
she was compelled to 60 to Manning or
Sumter. Then there are the hookworm
sufferers OF this community who claim
that Il passenger train makes them
dizzy and they TOO wish to go back to
the old mixed system. What the people
of Summerton need, Mr.. Editor, is a
hookworm dispensary; have wrestled
with the Lord and day by day prayed
unto the God of civilization in behalf of
the people of this community, but they
will not.
A very intere sting action was brought
and tried before the MAGISTRATE at this
point sometime ago, and nv reason for
writing about the case is because it iu-
wolves public question. The plaintiff
in the action, landlord, made advanc-
es to one of mis- farm hands during the
wear in the sum of one hundred dollars,
but did not reduce his lien for advances
to writing; a butt-meat merchant OF this
community acquired all the cotton. con-
sisting OF several bales, made by said
farm hand on the lands Of the plaintiff;
the butt-meat merchant had chattel
mortgage over the crop of said farm
hand; the plaintiff brought an action |
against the butt-meat merchant for the |
cotton or the value of same; the Magis-
trate decided as usual with the butt
meat merchant, to the effect that a
landlord has not a prior and preferred |
lien for advances made during the year
to tenant or farm hand. without re-
ducing the lien to writing.
Now, Mr.. Editor, if this be the law, |
which I do no: believe, then the farm
ers of this State are in worse condi-
ton than they were before the repeal
of the socalled agricultural lien law: it
has always been my opinion that since