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I To Farm Land Investors. Don't pay sixty to one hundred dollars per acre for land when you can buy just as good and better for twelve to forty dollars, don't take our word for it, but come and see the lands for yourselves now while the growing crop is on them. Don't wait longer than the next thirty days as these lands will then be sold; we are going to get rid of these lands because party owning them is sick, and deter mined to retire from business. We offer tract of eight hundred and fifty-six (856) acres, six hundred of which is under cultivation, place is healthy, all-land in sight of depot, on the best railroad in, the State, sixteen (16) four room tenant houses, new barn and stable, place thoroughly ditched, every house on place filled with splendid labor, every acre wiU easily yield one bale with from 800 to 1000 lbs. fertilizer. Good pas ture (wired fenced) lands suitably adapted to any variety c f crops, no stumps. Party owning this place made one hun cred and sixty bales of cotton, and two thousand bushels of corn on ten plows last year, price Forty ($40.00) dollars per acre. Terms $15,000.00 down and the balance in one to five y iars time. Tract No. 2. Contains about Sixteen hundred (1600) acres, about Seven hundred (700) in cultivation, this place situated in sight of two splendid towns, and two main line Railroads, practically all of the land can be cultivated. Price Twenty two and 50-100 dollars per acre. Tract No. 3 Contains thirteen hundred (.1300) acres, and i> cut in half by main line of railroad, nice town about one nile from same, about one half in cultivation, this place is icrfectly healthy, and has abundant labor. Price Twenty five dollars ($25.00) per acre. Tract No. 4 is about five miles from Railroad and Court House and contains about twelve hundred (1200) acres. Price twenty dollars ($20.00) per acre. Tract No. 5 is about six miles from Railroad, contains six hundred (600) acres. Price of which is Twelve dollars ($12.00) per acre. Reasonable terms can be arranged on all this property, and we absolutely guarantee that anybody seeing this section of Carolina will pronounce it the Garden Spot of the State, both as to Fertility, Productiveness, Health, and Climate. All requests for information cheerfully furnished, but a visit to ?us if you are attracted will give us great pleasure. Hart & Compaq, ESTILL, S. C. The Best of All Economy is the f Economy of Securing the Best. It is not economy to take your child to a cheap and inefficient teacher when an experienced and well trained one may be secured for a slightly greater fee. If you must have a cheap teacher, it would be better to reserve the cheap teacher for some later period, as the most important.period of all is when your child is commencing the study of Music. A poor teacher has wrecked many a promising career. The best of all economy is the economy of securing the best. If you put up with cheap things at the start, you will find that you will go through all your musical life, seeking for bargains'?bargains that a*e far more expensive than you have any means of determining. Music tuition in the North and West is far in excess of that in the South. In the South, it runs f::om six to ten dollars per month for first class instruction. Prof. T. L. Tinsley and Mrs. Delia Gilbert, who will have charge of the Departments of Piano and Voice, re spectively, in Orangeburg College during the coming year, have both studied with some of the very best American as well as European trained teachers, and have had wide ex perience in their profession. Students from the city and surrounding country solicited. Students from the city taken in the afternoons from three to five. Rates $5 per calen dar month. Session opens September 20th. Send applica tions to President W. S. Peterson, Orangeburg, S. C. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Low Round Trip Fares From Orangeburg. Tickets on Sale July 7, 8 and 9, 1911. $24.00 ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Account Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Final return limit July 20, which may be extended to August 20, by depositing ticket and paying $1.00. ROCHESTER, N? Y. $30 60. Account A. A. O. N. M/stic Shrine. Final return limit July | 18, which may be extended to August 15 by depositing ticket f and paying $ 1.00. ^ These Rates are Open to the Public f For illustrated booklets descriptive of each of the above cities | and trips and for schedules, Pullman reservations, etc., call on | S. A DANTZLER Ticket Agent, Orangeburg, S. C. | or address W. J. Craig, T. C. White, Pass. Traffic Mgr., Gen. Pass, Agent, WILMINGTON, N. C. MAKES IT PLAIN (Continued from 1st Page.) that cheapness is the chief object. No man's child Bh/Ould be compell ed to use inferior teat books even though such books were furnissTsd free of cost. Time once lost by the child through poor books, is never recovered and the damage done is irreparable. People living in the country, are, as fit rule, not in posi tion to keep up with bhe advance in text hook improvements. These ad vances are on a par with, or ahead of, improvements, along other lines; and books "that were relatively good four or five years ago may be rela tively poor today. Surely the coun try children are entitled to as good books as the town children are. This advantage the Board was fuily de termined they should have, without regard to criticism. Increase in Prices. Most of those wiho have made com parisons .between particular books of the old and the new adoption have fallen into serious and misleading er ror. Primer and reader.?In the case of the Primer, 'although the one adopted costs 13 cents more 'than the old one, it contains 6,700 words or reading matter, whereas the old Primer, pasteboard bound, cheaply made, poorly illustrated, gave only 110 words of reading matter for one cent, while the New Primer, cloth bound, fully and beautifully illustrat ed; gives 225 words of reading mat ter for one cent. The judgment of the school world upon this new book may be inferred from the fact that it has been adopted In eleven States. So, also, are the Readers adopted superior to those discarded. Reading is the most important sub ject taught in the school, .because the child's progress in all other stu dies depends upon his ability to read. That series of Readers which enables the child to gain this power in the shortest possible time, is in the end the best and cheapest. Such a series undersigned members of the board claim to have adopted. Geographies.?In the comparison between the old and the adopted Pri mary Geographies, the following is the fact: The hook thrown out was confessedly unsultedlyjrdsiteirti?pn confessedly unsuitable and was not supported by a single member of trie Board. The Board was finally lim ited to a choice between the New Primary Frye at 40 cents and the new Primary Maury at 45 cents, a difference of five cents and not of 12 cents, as alleged. Physiologies?It is equally unfair isnd misleading to compare the cost of the three hook series of Physiolo gies adopted with the two book ser ies discarded. The third and added book is to be used as an elective science in one of the high school classes, and was adopted in response to the most marked movement of the day?the call for the education of the people in health laws and pre servation. Tn the two lower .books, these adopted are so far ahead of the old books that there is no compari son. The Primer cf Sanitation alone if placed in the home of every man in South Carolina and read and even nartly followed would save in one year more money than this adoption will cost. , Arithmetics?The comparison be tween the old'and the new Arithme tics is an Instance of the glaring In justice done to the Board. The fol low In e is the statement given: Cost of old arithmetic, elemen tary.22 Cost of old arithmetic, advanc ed.,.40 Total.-. . .62 Cost of new arithmetic, elemen tary.32 Cost of new arithmetic, inter mediate.36 Cost of new arithmetic, advanc ed. .41 Total.% .$1.09 Making the apparent Increase on arithmetics 47 cenNt. A\ a matter of fact, the New, Advanced Arithme tic quoted at 41 cents in the second list above, was on the old list and is a re-adopted book. The proper comparison should be: Cost of old Wenthworth arith metic, elementary.22 Cost of old Wentworth arith tic, advanced.4 0 Cost of old Milne arithmetic advanced.41 Total.$1.03 Cost of new Milne arithmetic, elementary.32 Cost of new Milne arithmetic, intermediate . ..30 Cost of readopted arithmetic, advanced.41 Total.$1.09 This makes the increased price on ly six cents. A change in the two lower Arithmetics was considered advisable, since in the judgment of the Board they were out of date. Such being the case, the adoption or the Milne was logical, inasmuch as the advanced Milne was already on the list and the whole series was al ready widely used in the independent schools of the State. Saving U> the State. Those who have commented on the cost of the adoption have overlooked 'he positiv? f,u . that this Board has secured what is confessedly the best contract ever obtained from the pub lishers in this country. For we main tain that the credit, for this contract :>= due to no one man. but that the contract was the product of the com bined judgment of the whole Board and was unanimously adopted by it. By this contract, for the first time in the history of book adoptions, "any old book" in the hand of the child has been given a definite money value and will b-o taken in exchange for any book of a lower or higher grade in the same series. By the same contract, too, the length of time allowed for exchange has ,been increased 25 per cent. Both the method and the saving in this exchange provision may il lustrated with the Readers. By the contract the old Johnson Primer, which, when new, cost the children 12 cents, has now an exchange value of 15 cents. That Is to t:ay, an old Johnson Primer and 10 cants will buy a new Wheeler Primer, the retail contract price of which is 25 cents. Or the same Primer and 10 cents will buy a new Wheeler First Reader, the contract price of whicn is 25 certs. In the same way, an old Primer may be used at this valuation of 15 cents to help pay for any reader, first, second, third, fourth, or fifth; where aB, in the past a Primer could be ex changed only for a Primer. Further, an old first reader, wbich cost 20 cents when new, has by contract been given a money value of 15 cents and may be us?d to help pay for a Primer or for any Reader. In the oase of the Geographies, the old Primary Geography, which was discarded by the Board, and which cost when new 33 cents, has by con tract been given an exchange value of 23 cents, being only 10 cents less than it cost when new. That is to say, an old primary geography and 22 cent swill pay for the new book [ adopted. Or the old Primary Geog raphy and 65 cents will pay for the I new Advanced Geography. So, too, the old Advanced' Geography and 22 cents will buy the new Primary Geog raphy. Could sny one deny that money has been saved to the State Cost to the State. It has been claimed that the Board by its action wantonly destroyed property values estimated at $500, 000. This sum is just a few thous and less than the cost of all the school books bought in South Caro lina during the years 1906-191 1. How preposterous this claim Is will appear from the following: , It assumes that all these books, even those bought five years ago, are still in usable form in the hands of the children and are now worth what they cost when new. It assumes ah.o that If all the old books had been readopted, the children of the State would not have had to buy any new books during the coming five years. It forgets that each hook now in the hands of the child has not only paid its price in use, but is by contract given an added definite value, ap proximately fifty per cent, of its orig inal cost. The following analysis will shew that the apparent loss to the State would in reality be only about $16 000 a year for the five-year period, or only about 4 2-3 cents per child, instead of the alleged loss of $500, 000. As it is claimed that the loss was, entailed by the assumed eighty per cent change, then the entire val ue involved would be upon this eighty ?per cent or "upon $400,000 instead of $500,000. It Is, however, general ly estimated by .teachers and exper ienced book men that the average life of a text book, especially in the lower grades, is from one to three years. On a liberal allowance then, the books bought during the first three years of the last adoption per iod are not usable in class, though by the contract they have been given an exchange money value. This re duces the possible loss to the books bought during the last two years, or to two-fifths of $400,000, that is $160,000. Now, not cfily have these books paid their price in actual use, but they have an actual value of fifty per cent of their cost when new This reduces the alleged loss to $80, 000. If this loss be distributed over a period of five years, a legitimate distribution, inasmuch as the assum ed loss covered that period, this makes a so-called loss of $16,000 a year. This leaves a so-called loss of $16,000 a year to be " distributed among the 340,000 and more chil dren in the schools, or about four ana 2-3 cents apiece. Thus, at this slight additional ex pense of 4 2-3 cents, each child in the State would be supplied with new and better books. Surely this is gain and not loss. For it is a serious In justice to a child, an injustice at once physical, Intellectual and aesthetic, to put into his hands an old, defaced, and filthy book in any study. We have gone into these figures on the assumption that the statement that SO per cent, of the books hn^p been changed, is correct. The cor rectness of the statement we do not admit. Exclusive of copy books and drawing books, which aro destroyed hy use, supplementary English Clas sics and duplicates there were 53 books on the old list. Of this num ber 23 only were changed, whereas 20 were readopted. Ten were entire ly dropped from the list. Owing to the extension of the high school course, it becomes necessary to add nine new books to the list for high school use. Let each man calculate the percentage of change Tor him self. The foregoing is a statement of the essential facts of the adoption, of the preliminary preparation of the members of the Board, and of the j fair and rational view to take of the j ccst involved. The undersigned ap pointive members have no apology to make either for the results of the adoption or for the methods used. They enter?d upon the task with only one purpose, to further the best in terest of the schools and of the chil dren of South Carolina. They broushl to bear upon tbis task their host ex perience, tbo unremitting toil of , months, and the deepest interest anfT I sincerity. Thry believe that with due ; allowance frr the fallibility of hu ' man judgment they have succeeded j To the tost of use, to those who know ! hooks and tbo needs of our schools, land to the sober seernd thought or the f:iir-minded nooplc of their State, they leave the final verdict. D. Sr. O'Driscoll. 1st district. H. F. Rice, 2nd district, D. W. Daniel, 3rd district, 1 A. G. Rembert, 4th district, J. Lyles Glenn, 5th district. Nathan Toms, 6 th district, A. J. Thackston, 7th district. HIGH LIFE. MARRIED FOR MONET. "Mrs. Billion's husband's health Li very low, they say." "Yes, and when he's gone, there'll be a good chance for Bome g-uy whose finances are low." U*m:.A ? i -< aw.-betete OUT OF THE "WAT. "Does George get along well with your father?" "Well, George gets along when ha ??es father coming." FOR LIFE. She?Shall I Join, you In your wmlkT He?Yes. Let's walk over past the mta* liter's and ask him to Join us. SURE CURE. ?Tou'll forget you ever* loved me within a month." "Not unless you marry me." APPROPRIATE. Special Writer?I have an article on the kind of milk the farmers give the summer boarders. Edltor?Ohl condenae It. FICICLE. "Do you th<"fr you could be true to one man for a lifetime?" "I surely could, but not to the one." JOYTOWN FOLKS. HARD LUCK. ?Did I erer bring you back your lad der that you lent me a week ago?" "No; you certainly did not." ?Tm sorry, for I Just stopped In to borrow It again." HAD HIS NUMBER. "Why, X had hardly met him. don't you know, when he called me a fooL What sort of a fellow Is her' "Ohl he's a wise guy, all right" ... ; ABSOLUTELY HONEST. "Is he absolutely honest?" "yes, Indeed. He wouldn't oven oteaA lumber from the new house that 1? bfl* lag built next door to his." A SMALL OFFER. "A penny for your thoughts," "Of course 1 Just like a woman, aS* ways looking for bargains I"_ FIXED SCALES. "How In the deuce did you E?t thai tan-pound base to weigh 25 pounds?" "Shi I weighed him en the Ice raan'i scales.''_ VERT RUDE TO HIM. Mra. Henpeck?Before we wer? XB??? rled I used to sit on your knee. Mx. Henpeck?Now you ait all over ma CIGGLETTES. TOO MUCH COMPANY. "Have you ever loved before?" aakeo the coy maid. "Yes," yawned the worldly young man, "but-er-never before a chaperon, twc small brothers and a pet bulldog." And then she suggested a trip down the old road to see the stare. AND THEY PLAY EVERY NIGHT. "So Dobbs doesn't play on your bail team any more?" "No; he's married, settled down and Is the father of twins." "I see; he has a bawl team of hla WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM. "Dinks had an athletic stroke yeetop* day." "Athletic stroke 1 You mean paralytlq stroke, don't you?" _ "No; I mean Just what I said. He gag mixed up Tlth a prafeasloaal boxer,** 4 HIS IDEA Oldwed?I've been married for 20 years. Notwed (absently)?Any time off for. [ stood behavior? AT SUMMER RESORT. "What did she say when you asksd to marry her?" "Told me to ask her ? gUn next wee*, when tho man Bhe Is engaged to at present will have gone back to work," CASH, TOO. Congressman?Did you buy your pres ent political position? Senator-Sure thing. I dont look llkej a deadhead, do I?