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IlE SENTINEL=JOURN . Iutered April 28, 1903 at Pickeue, 8. 0., as secoudt clasm matter,}uuder act of Congrese of March 8. 1879. mMmmVOL. XXXVI PICKENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, DECEMIBER 1, 1906. N.2 PAY OF SUPERINTENDENTS Vital to 'Welfare of Rural Schools That Salarles of Superintondent Be in. ,creased. Columbia, State. Will you allow a woman, a mem ber of the executive committee of the South Carolina Woman's Asso ciation for the Improvement of Rural Schools, to speak out an Supt. Martin's suggestion that the salary of the county superinten dents be raised. I agree with Mr. Martin's report of 1903, you will find in my report as school visitor these vords: "Is it possible for the salary of the county superinten dent to be ratised? It so, we could get a Mosos to lead us out of the wilderness." A superintendent cannot do what is required of him on $500 a year. Supt. R. T. H-alhunl, a faith fil, wide,awakc man, in Pickens county, said to me: "I could not live at all if it was not for my farm," I visited with him 18 schools; the hire of a horse cost $22.40. Now think of several visit i to 75 schoolsl Soon your expense account runs up to the amount you.are paid. My expenses were paid by the board, yet it shows up what it cost to visit schools. I say raise the superintendent'n a ilary and raze the poor auperin tendent. There should be a stan dard for the county superintendent entering the race. He should be examined by the State board; the ones passing should then stand for election before the people. Until the county superintendent is thus elected there will be no intellecteal developmont in some counties. As it now is ofen the best qualified man is left out in the race, and the one elected fills our achools with teachers and trustees to please somiif fancy of nepotism or politics. The superintendent is the-back, bone of the whale countrys success. So let no coe fill this place but a cultured, Christian gentleman, fashioned like the "grand old man," John Leland Kenioedy. Then we will be a prograssive people. The teacher in|our rural schools should be better. "Anything will do" should he a thing of the past. I f the age of the tealchirs were raised to 21. we would get rid of teachers who are teach ing as a stepping stone to something else. We need and should have thsm-teachers who 1 ave made "their calling an election sure." A hoy cannot vote until be is 2t, yet he can teach in a rural school. Is not the shaping of the destinv of a child more important than a vote? Think of this, you law makers. When you go to Co Sumbia, don't forget the rural child or the child toiling in the mill. Give them only the teacher who has spent years in preparing for thia lifework and teaches to better humanity. To teach wit hout going to colleAe;is as catching as meas 1o3. We must stop this epidemic. The poor teacher demands just as much pay as a Igood one. I know a cul tured lady teaching for $35 a month and her seventh grade pupil teaches for $40. lan't this putting a premium oin ignorance? You teachers should stop this. If I wore a teacher I would try to keel) poor teachers|:out, for they impress false ideals on a cild 1( mind tha a good teacher' can not crad icate "lietter' rural schoolR"' Shou (1 he the mnott.o of our neCx logislatulre. Marye R. Sheclor'. Wiestmi,nster, S. 0., R{. F, I). Koop1 thet b)owe(ls op"II Wvhen, vo hlI a coldkii aal~ use gooil remedy to alay the infl1am mation of the~ mucout mom branen. ThIe best is k'0iiiiedy's IlXII:v 1 [ney and Tarii. It 1 contaitns le opiates, m)ovesH the b)owOls, drive otI te c.1d ps roli 11)10 and tases good. Hold by WOMAN MURDERS INFANTS. Ch(idren Say Mother Runs Baby Farm. The spectacle of two women denouncing as a murderess the woman who brought them into the world but whom they refused to call "mother" was witnessed in the office of the district attorney of New York city last Friday. The women are Mrs Marie Schoch, recently a resident of MMassachu setts, and Mrs. W'ilhelnina Ihring of New York. 'Thr mother whomt, they accused is Mrs. Wilhelmina Eckhart, who was arrested by rep resentatives of the con n m iled i cal society yesterday on a charge of havi.e' performed a criin1al 'peration. ''he arrest was made ipon information furnished the )iCiety by tho daughters atnd the ybunger w< men appsanred voltinta rily at the district attorney's office to amplify the testimony they had already given against their mother. Both Mrs. Schoch and Mrs. Ihring declared that they had seen Mrs. Eckhardt kill hour old infants and dispose of the bodies by burning them in her kitchen stove. Mrs. Ihring delcared also that her moth er had quarreled with her becanse she refused to assist in burning the bodies of babies. Mrs. Schoch told district attor. ney that when she was three days old her mother wrapped her in a bundle of rags and east her into the street. She was rescued by her grandmother, who reared her and with whom she remained until she became a woman. When she cane to this country she said she found her mother con ducting a disorderly hotuse and She declared that her mother sought tc have her become an inmate of the place. She refused. The first she knew of her mother's present occu pation, she said was when Mrs. Eckhardt's little adopted sont madt a discovery in the house which led to the exposure and Mrs. Eckhardt.'i arrest. When she learned of th< discovery made by the little boy Mirs. Schocch said she went to her mother about it and she declares Mrs. Eckhardt proposed that they go into partnershilp. Thi sho( did after Consulting with repreienta. tivos of the county medical society, and with a veiw of causing Mis. Eckhardt's arrest. It was while occupying this posi tion in her mother's hIouse, sh saidl, that she procured the evidence which resulted.-in MI rs. Eckh ai d t's arrf st. Mrs. Ihring camne here four months ago from Regensburg, Germany. She testified that she lived with her mother after coming here and in August last she saw her mother burn the bodies of infants. LIP AND EAR GONE' Former Lover Held( For Assautti. Justice Bridge, at Beaumont Tex. bound Florence Martin over to the girand jury on a charge of assault with intent to kill Ed Byrne. The coimplainiant witness, is minus a lower lip and his right ear, which the woman, it is alleged, ih a fit of rage bit off and stamped upon it Wediiesday night at Port Arthur, Tax as. The woiiani, who was a sweet, hoart (of lHyrnes, says she b)it off hiis l ip bieca use it had k issed her rival and his oair h,cause. it had( hs t'.ned( to t hat rivayl's ca lumi v of her. Them' ofhi('ers were pu zzled as to whiat 'r:barge to 1prefer. Mlay hemii was first suggestedl, but that cove,r only injuriy resutinig ini the loss of a imol bhr usred for offl,imse- it was finally set lownm as asut with init'nt to kill. KILLS HUSBAND, COMMITS SUICIDE REASON NOT KNOWN, Double Tragedy In Chicago Causes Great Sensation. James F. Delaney, vice-president of the American Shipping company was shot and killed in Chicago last Friday by his wife, who immediate ly committed suicide. The tragedy occurred in apartments occupied by the couple on the North Side. Delaney's body was found on a bod with a bullet wound in the back of the head. The wife's bo:ly was lying near, the bullet having been fired into the brain through he mouth. The revolver was still clutched in her hand. Delaney was well known in Now York, whero he spent the greater part of his life. Mrs. Delaney, before her marriage, was Miss Elizabeth Brown, of Wills Point, Tex. She was thirty years old. Her husband was 3t;. TRIED TO FORCE ENTRANCE Negro A.ttempts to ltreak Into Residence. A negro attempted to enter the house of Mr. J. S. Harby, of An derson, last Wednesday night while Mrs. Harby was alone with her three small children. He made two unsuccessful attemps trying to effect an entrance through the doors. Mrs. Harby had her pistol ready to fire if he had entered but became frightened and screamed and the negro ran away, She did not see him well enough to recog nize him or to identify him after, ward. The house is on the out skirts of the city and near the woods and the negro ran into the woods. On last Saturday envening about dark a negro attempted to enter the house of Mr. Normar Boggs at Calhoun. Mrs. Bogge was alone and refused to open the front door, as the negro would not give his name. He then want to the rear door and attoml)ted to force an en trance, but. was frightened away by Mr. Cochran, who, though a very sick man, in answer to the screams and calls of Mrs. Boggs for help managed to go down to the house and frightened the negro away. Mr. W. P. Goodman and Ser, grant J. B. M11cCrackin put the Clemson bloodhounds on trail and ran the negro rather closely until about 9 o'clock. The ne0l) was located in a house on the college grounds, but proved an alabi and was released. This is the second attempt of the kind made at Mr. Bogga' house this year. To "Got Rid" of Foster P'arents, Girl Is Charget wit, Putting' Rough on Rats in Coffee Pot. There has been quite a sensation in the country about 7 miles east of Prosperity. A girl 14 years old had been adopted by Joe Miller and wife. They gave her all she needed, but she was not permitted to follow her own will in the mat ter of visiting and it is charged she made an effort to even up mat ters by putting rough on rats in the coffee pot. Hoth Miller and his wife were madhe quite sick, and to this fact, in all probability, they owe their lives. The physician, when call ed, recognized the syimptoms; of poison1, and upon investigation foun td somel of the compou~lind still min lhe c~oO eet. WVhen aecost od anud aslrnd why she id ii, the girl said, ' is stated, '-lien tux sho wian tied to get rid1 of 'enm. 'l'rui' iand tried friendse of the famiily ---D)iWit ' ILitAe Eairly Risi.rN. Il si for resullts and host to take. lIosmy chieeks andt sparlin itg e'yeatfollow th e use of thieso d1eendabLle littl. pills. Thiey doi not gripe or' siekeni. Sold by liekens i)-ng Ce WAS IT F ENCH WAISTS O WAS IT MALPRACTICE? WOMAN SHOOTS A DOCTOR. Wings Two Innocent Bystanders. Also, Miss Otillo Schneider, of New York, 42 years of age, Thursday afternoon fired five revolver shots at Dr. Frederick Bierhoff, two of which struck the doctor, one il the body and another in the arm, while two shots struck other imen. The Ishooting took place in the street at ai Ailison avenue and fifty-ninth street. Dr. Bierhoff was taken to the Pr-ibi'terian0- hospitial,where his w(uilds Were found to bs' not es. p<"cially dai g;nious. On of the slots took effet in the arm of Otto G-orie, a llwyer, another struck P ha iii lpcbaii in the back. Neither of the latter was seriously i "j'red. Miss Seuceider, who was .seized by th. polico h''fore she could fire at silto shot, gave various reasons for the shooting, asserting first that ,he was revenging herself for alleg ed professional malpractice and I afterward said that the doctor had stolen all the ideas for French waists which she had designed. DOUBLE TRaCK TO iiE1N. Oliver Bros. Will Do 'Work Between Charlotto and Atlanta-To be Finest Line in the South. The one topic of conversation in local railway circles yesterday was the big contract let by the South ern Railway company to Oliyer Brothers, of Knoxville, Tenn , for grading straightening and double. tracking the main line bet.ween Charlotte and Atlanta, Ca., The a.mount involved in the contract. and the timo required to compliere it, were the t wo( quetiIonls most froquently askeid. It is given on good authority that thel contractors have five years in which to finish their work and that. over $20,000, 000 is involved. T1 he present line is 2G7 miles in length. According to the new plais and shociieations, this old liite is to ih worked over from start, to finisi. Where need od, the grades are to he reduced, the tills raised, new ties put in, the track straightened and the bed generally improved. The tracl-s will run side by side, and will bo ballasted similar to thoso of the great systeiS of the North. Every device known to science will be utilized in making the road as near perfect as possible. '1he straiAhtening of thle line will ne cessarily result ini some of the smatller towns along the proenit route being left high and dry. The surveys, however, have been made with a view~ to discarding as few as possible. R, F. Rivinac & Company, sub-= *ontractors operating in connec tion with Oliver Brothers, who are now engaged ini building the new Southern freight yard at Charlotte, will begin work on the double-tracking of the main line south from Charlotte towards GreenvilHe ats soon as the machines and supplies may be rocoiv< d I This will be some time next mouth.' In the oflico of the register of dends of Greenville county there is the biggest (deed on file which has ever been recei ved in the Stateo. it is for $200,000,000. Ct 1p0 ies hve ben filed ini every county~ in the Ntate through wh ich the Southernit li nes runt. A la rgoi par ifof this imimense sum11 is being ni-d ini bet termen('1ts, Stih as8 th le dioubI. l i-rck. ineg o1f the sy steim, the ii puchias( (of addl(it,ionail rolling stock, ''iilarginri the termnual faci litie and m1k ing I hatt has hiapple! ,. ree.ntly hav ilw anvi noilnoi .m i'withI lPiO'hiuiIn Woman's Column Newsy Items to Interest the Fair Sex, Silk bedclothes are the latest fad in high society in London. Don't fret and worry. Mental anxiety is a sure flesh reducer. "Love is honey mixed with gall," gays a magazine writer. The girls furnish the honey, and the boys do he rest The Philadhlhia girl who left a rich, old bridegroom 'we1ting at the church," ovidontlv didn't know the value of ready money. Ruh i litie thin cold starch over VindoWs ')1r mitrows and wipe oIl' vith it soft, cloth 'l'his p1roduc0s < ho mort. shiny re'sults. A Miss Smith is to rvpresent Jhicago in the New York beauty t how. No matter what great affair 1 s pulled ofl, there is sure to be a smith in it. By careful hygiene you can build ip an emaciated figure, and as your ealth is fully restored, the sunken ;heek will fill out and glow with rood color. There's no rush about catching beau. Few things in the world tre so numerous as men. The sup. )ly is large. Wait until the right )me comes along. In four-fiths of the United States >irds with beautiful feathers have >een early exterminated. A lady n New York ,qs been seen wearing t cloak wlh h cost tho lives of ,000 of thosc oinged poems of the tir which we call humming birds. Uncle Sam has many of the fair ox in his employ at Washingtcn. i'wen ty per cc, t of the women are vidows of Senators, or relatives of ovorlnmont oflicals. They are al owed one munt.h for vacation and >me month's sick leave, annually. Vomi.n don't need medicinos and i manitariurns. They want rest and work, fresh air and sunlight, and i iheerfulness. Staying in the house t all the time would kill at camel or E an os'trich, and how should a wo- j man expt t. endiureltIF such a u1 ttt, natural ooxistence? t Miss Mary M. Mcl)oiald of Brooklyn, N . Y., on Mcnday last., I whenl the momnent arrived lor the eremony of her manage to W1'. F. I rhaber, stepped aside and put into ier plaCO M isb Viola Glover, a girl ,vhom Thabher had wronged, and1, .vith the assistance of her brothers i compelled him to marry the girl. Women have patented cigarette machines but it would seem that the feminine fancy went too far i'hen it undertook to evolve an im. rovement'' ini cigars by soaking hem in an extract of pine needles 'in order to take away that nasty aste.'' Yet such an "improve et"so called, may be found in he patent office. A college of lovemaking has been ~stablished in Milwaukee. Most ~ eople had supposed that doing his caime natural but possibly, ' tfter all, it is both an) art and a ciendo which may be acquired. ~ presumably the prizes for the ~reatest pr'oficiency in the various Ilasses will b~ anage hiconses0 vith'persons of ti tle or greatt weal th 15 mlest dlesiired1. I )id yu ci verI ba1keC ba.nanais ? If io, , yucI hatve mIissedl a gmreat dlatinly v'ithIini the reach of aill. SI~In the )e,uanna, lay t hemI side bly sid' oin heaking~. dish ori pal, put the-mt ine ichi br own . Tlhe * juice~ from th le rum w,~vill hn: m' ;t thik sy rp. Sey hot or' cldtt wi t rem andee sugar, 'indt you wvil thani~k us for suggest mg this cheapLl bu't I ooths~ome dish. aliaas 'soL ' Pe( wi Ill h faunu(l t be easily digested by those who cannot eat them raw without indi gestion. The startling statement was made by the Rev. Joseph A. Mil. burn before an audience of women at the lEnglewood Woman's club that: "Women-mothers and wives are to blame for most of immorality in the world." Continuing the speaker said :"Wonen allow one standard of morals for themselves and another for their husbands. When their boys go astray they hold out their hands to help them; when thoir daughters go astray they weep )because they know they ire forever ostracized and they nake no of-ibrt to change this con litionl of alTiirs. Mon should be I'ld to the san rr'st itions as wo nen, and women should he allowed h) samite latitude as men. The roat sin is not; the sin of t.he mag iificent passion. but the sin of the ircuniscribr1 life. Wone t need )roader scope. Their routine du ies are narrowing. They get into uts which are spicidal. Litera. are is a respite. Reading givPs he necessary broadening influ.juce. L'he tendency of most people is to )ecome provincial and reading >vercones this tendency. SU(GEsT'rIoNs FOR MOTil Eni. Parents and teachers need never axpect to govern children success fully until they have learned to govern themselves. ''Making a child mind instantly" is considered a great accomplish rent by some inexperieneid par. ents and teachers. Does the child obey your coiinands with a chee' 'ul Spirit and with loving looks im ts eyes? Does it show a desre from lay to day to help and to pleasp 1ou1 in little things? Itf so, your ,uidance is in the right direction. Point out attractiveo ways III viiich the child may find pleasure it doing right Call out by conver iation with it., the child's idea ,f -ight and wrong in things that ranspire both in its home and chool life. Call out its childish udganent, and respect it. too. Teach he i (hildl to be respectful 0 the aged by showing a liberal inoitit of ('-fervice3 to the aged iarcHnt, whose last days are supposed o be made hlpliy aind comfortable n1 your hiomne. Teach the child to ho kind to )Ut, not, by kicking a (log or beat. .og s horse in its presence. There s a better way. "My child has a fearful temper." las it? Then try to ward ofi causes or arousin~g its temper until it is Ild enough to control itself. A ittl tact will prevent many an inpleasant scene with a nervous, xcitable child.-Exchange. LAW CAUSEs TROUBLE. iocause CompanBIy Die0 Not Rtun *.Jim Crow" Cars Manager wasn Arrested Because of the refusal of the 4ontgomery Alabama Tractiont omupany to obey the new "Jim 'row'' car law, every car operated ras stoped an hour the other norniing'by tihe arrest of the gen. ral manager of the company, and everol mnotormen and conductors, h'le law requires every car shall ither be for whites or for blacks nd( be 1label led "'white,'' ''colored,'' l'h compa)11ny asserts that it is im, >oSible t.o obey the lawv as they have niot enough cars. A ft,er the bday o)f an hour11 an ii njundioni was rat tod against the city b~y tae t.y court oni the ground( that the a w could( ino,t be kept, an d traffic v/ is reslimned. to- ".he ektmrm ua