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T 6' eLt'dL( rJ Entered April 23 1903 at Pzeko' ns C., as second Class matter, nud er ac of Congress of Mar01 3, 1879 i~ VOL _ ICCKSOUTH ALI THUR)SDAY, APRL 1 U 407 AN (I 'I4(1iP% 17" -- + + _WN1 11J1 4 A V I A SCHOOLS FOR THE STATE. Pickens, S. (0., Mar. 3 0. 1907. T 'o,the people of Pickens County, the last ILegislaturo passed the follow inlg High School Act, plonso read and save, an.y service that I can be to any moctiol of the'County, I will gladly render. I trust that the people of our Uounty will get their share of the $51, 01)0.00. You rs. R. T. HIallum Section 1. Be it enacted by the Gener al As,nlbly of the Stato of Soutn Carolina, 'Lhat it shall 'be lawful for any County or for any township, or any aggregation of adjoining town ships, or for any aggregation of ad joiring school districts, of not more than one thousand inhabitants under the last proceding United States Census to estabijah a high school in the man ner and with the -privilege herein given. Sec. 2 That any high school terri torial unit mentioned in Section 1 of this Act may establish a' high school by an election to be held in said pro posed high a^hool district upon the question of establishing the same; said election to be conducted in all other respects, including the reoniremente of 'those who are allowed to vote therein, -as olecions are now conducted under -Section 1208 of the Civil Code of 1902, in reference to special levies for school purposes. If a majoriy of the votes ,ast shall be "For High School,' sind not "Against High School." the high school shall be established, and become a body corporate under the name and style of High School District No. -- of--County (the State Board to insert the number in order of its establishment in the particular County and also the name of the proper County) wheri 'pon the County Board of Education shall appoint. for said high school a tF "I of Trustees com posed of five regular members: Provid: ed, That the five Trustees for said high school shall be appointed for six years, one of whom shall serve for only two years, two for only four .years, and two for six years, the tenure of each to be determined by lot: Provided, further, That the Chair man of each School District Board within the high school territory bo exoflcio a member of the High School Board: Provided further. That the 'Trustees of any special district in .any incorporated town or city operat ing under a special Act of the General Assembly, shall be exoflcio Trustees of the High School in that town or city, every vacancy by expiration of tonuto to be filled for six years and all unexpired terms to be filled by appointment of said County Board, vxcept in special districts otherwise provided. Sec. 3. That the Board of Trustees <-f every High School so established is Ieely authorized to levy annually for ii support of such High School, not '-xceeding two mills on the dollar in addition to the levy now allowed by aw of all taxable property within .-iueb Iligh School District, the tax t'o be colt)1eLd ini the same manner as ,occiatl levies are now collected under Section 1208 of said Code : 1'rovidod(, Tlhat the right to make it a levy merei'ly for conducting tI o High School :Mr the then next current scholastic -y4ar as now defined in Section 1232 of said Cede: may be voted down for that year in the same manner as now psovided for in said1 Section 1208 niith ~reference to voting upon special levies for School District niurposes. bec. 4. That any p)ublilt High School *airoady established, or any number of * ).igh School Qrados in a p)ublic hool alsreoy established-rovided, it shall - he reorganized3( and adop01ted as a lIigh School l,.y speciail election as proscrib . lid In Section 2 of this A ct- in~ any H ighi 1-ehool territory above desc:ri bed muiy claim the privilege of th is Act: *Provided. It conforms to the provish.ns t hereof : Provided furhter, That nothing mn this Act shall be0 construed as a ro peal of any of the privileges granteci them in the spocial Acts of the General Assemhtdv. Soc,5 That a 1High School maintain ing a four years' course of study be yond the branches of learning prescrib 01 LIuo zrate, and nmbracing not fow( than sevon gradc,s or school years,shal bo known as a four-your Ifigh School a High Schoel maintaining a thre years' courso boyond- the comnmoi :.ebo(1 ourse, ball bo bknown as thro year High School: and one maintain ing ia two yoars'courso beyond the coim mon course, shall be known as it twi year figh School: Provided, That an: and all High Schools established nudo authority of thiR Act shall include ii the course of study instruction ii manual training espoecially in respec to agriculture and domestic science. Sec. 0. The State High Sehoo Board aball provide for the inspectior and classification of High Schoolb and under this Act. In doing this, il may invite the assistancoof such mom bors of the Universities and Colleget of this -State, as they may select, ani their autunl expenses shall be paid oul of- the fund hereafter sppropriated from year to year while actually, en gaged In the duties devolving upor thom. Soc. 7. That the State Board of Education, as now constituted, shal constitute' the State High Sohool Board. The State High School 3oarc shall provide rules for the apporticn. ment and disbursement of the Statt aid to the High Schools. giving duc recognition to the number or years o1 High School work, to the numoer o courses of study offered, to the enroll ment of pupils, the amount of indust. rial training given, and to such othoi matters of local merit as may appeal to the Board after a careful examinat. ion of each High School: Provided, That no school shall receive more thai: fifty per cent. of the amount raise( annually by taxation, subscription o: otherwise: Provided,further, That n< school shall re,eivo aid unless it ha at llast twenty-five pupils and twc teachers In the High School depart ment: Provided, also, That no schoo shall remeive more than twelvo hundrei dollars annually from theappropriatio: provided in this Act: Povided, further That no County shall receive more thai five per cent. of the annual appropiatioi provided for under this Act. Sec. 8. The funds raised in th various Counties by taxation, sub rcription, or otherwise, for Hisl School purposes, shall be placed in th< County Treasury, together with an: appr3priation received from the Stat, Board of Educaiton, and shall b< paid out only upon the order of thi Board of High School Trustees, dul3 approved by the County Suporintenc' ont of Education. Both the Treasuri and the County Superintendent of Education shall keep accurate uccount: of this fund, as is provided for othoi public school funds. Soc. 9. That each of the High Schoo; Districts so established is hereby an. thorized to reneive and use eifts,trans, fers, bequests or dovises of proporty for corporato purposes, whether tho% he otherwise conditional, or whethoi absolute in their terms; and alse issue couon bonds within the con stitutional limit and to dispose of the same to raise monev for the purposc of purchasing sites and the erection of buildings thereon or for the purp)ose of purchasi ng improved property,suit able for school, or doriritory, or mess hail purposes: Providea, That .the questionI of amnountlof issue, and the rate of mtererst, and the time or times of payment of the p)incipal, shall first be submuitted to the qualified oloctors within the said High School Distici who return real or personal piroperty for taxation, at an election to be hold in the same manner as elections foi special levies for School D)istrict puir poses8 are now required to ho submitter under said Section 1208 of said Clodo Provided, That a potitioni for suc) elect.ion be first addressed to the Boar( of Trustacs of saia School Distric signed by a ma.iortiy of thu, freeholder theroin : And Provided, further, Tha an annual interost on said issue shal nat eixcecd six por coat., and tahr th<( sale shall not be for loss than lpar art~ accrued interest. Soc. 10. That the surn of fIfty thouis andl dollars ( $50,000.00 ), or so nmuel thereof as may be necessary, for eael school years, boginning July bt, 1907 be, ando the same Is hereby, app)ropriatte to carrylout the p)rovisins of this Act and the Comptroller General Is herob authorized to draw warrnts ...-e t r State Trasuror for such i mounts, n - 1 the order of the State Board of ; ; ucatio, duls" signed by the Governor. u as Chaijman, and the State Super i intendenl: of Education, as Seerotarv 1 l'rovided, That tuition shall be free - in every school receiving aid under - this Act to all pupils in the County ) where the school is locatc.d : Provided, V further, That nothing in this Act shall r be construed to moan that pupils of t different races shall attend tho 5ame school. Approved Febuary 19, 1907. h I OMICIDE NEAR PELZER SUNDAY A long distance message from Pelzer v Sunday says that Berry Elrod, colored c was killed yesterday morning at 8 o'- p clock by a negro woman. She kilod him v with a gun. The woman whose name a; could not be ascertained, is under a' arrest and Magistrate Pearman will t< send her to the county jail this after noon. t The killing occured on Mr. Jim a Dickson's place about two miles from a Pelzer. Particulars of the case could p not be learned before this pal er went h to press. --Anderson Mail. li BIBLE CONFERENCE CLOSED. b The big tabernacle Bible conference in Atlanta closed yesterday. Dr. C Broughton announced that Campbell t( Morgan, the great English preacher, o would be among tho speakors for 1908. nf -- 11 There soms to be a sort of "jack- si theo-lothes-burnor'' fiend at worc in na Columbia. At the Palmetto House, a g I high class boarding establishmnort lo- tc cated on Taylor street noar.Main, for t< > the seventh time withit; two weeks o the place was discovered on fire this t morning, and again the place had a i - nairow escape frou total dostruction. 1 Thanks to good fire fIlhting the cani- N i age was slight.. As in former cases f the fire originated in some clothing of t at guest Each time a difTerent victim r 1 is selected. It is difficult to figure out p a whether the fire bug is dirocting his i efforts against the house, or just has < a a mania for burning clothes. The t - police have no clue and no arrest h.vo e been made so far. GAMBLER AT NOK OLK IS F'INED e W. J. Rawles, whose poker rooms i and alleged gambling joint were raidud 0 in Norfolk Va.,Sunday was today fined " $1,000 and given six months in jail. 9 The case will be appealed. Six trainon wore killd in a bead on- C collision between two freight trains on tt the Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail- t road, six miles s>uth of Fort Worth D Texas early today. ti The collision occurred while both a trains were runnin dlown grade and at ri a high speed. Fire broKe out imnod- o lately and two brakemen were burned ri before assistance could reach them. O1 Over 300 head of cattle were also cre- di mated and cight cars of merchandise 01 were destroyed. 8 Failure of the north bound traini to 0o receive an order is said to be respon- gi siblo for the wreck. UNIQUE~ STORY 01F SAMENESS. In Savmiahi GIa., two funerals, conducted the same day under i no ame direction of the same undertaker, the - same minister officiating in the same cemetery at almost the same lhour, 'ii undied a romarktiblo si,ory of samoness that came vesterday with the deaths I at almost the sam~ time of two men at" the same hospital, alhieted wvith t he " same disense for which the samne t rent.E ment was admi n:tered, both being the samne size, the same age and minus theu same leg, the left. The. deceased were Wylie (ioodling' 0 and Joseph Guiliam, both of that eit < They wore strangers to eh ot her, but thev occupiod adljolninmg rooms in "' the hosni tal, boih sulT(oring from " urnomic p)oisonng. The doctor. etdi nurses admninstered to each inan thle treatment that was being giro h*t tis noighbhor, with the same result in tl I each case. A coldI is muob more easily cnre.1 IW when the howvels are openied. 10 untly's r Laxative Iloney and Ta'ir opens the how , els and dives the cold out of the system r in yoimg or old1. Sold by Pickens'D)rug n Co. 1 11111ea-1 of Ii fol'ii atl 1011. --(n<l ncted by the sout ('alro 'r linn lInrmers' I-duc tioinal an< ('4-001jerative Union. r l r , i r lic in"tendc((I f r 111his (epnr neut .-houldt be slidressed to J. c:. Str ling, ul ("lou, :;O)ut.(arollna. 110G AND IOMIN"v. t takes one kind of food to g row a og with l:rofit, and another kind to ttein or finish him off on. Did you ver study this thine over carefully? 11 1300auso we all know and say that o can't raise hogs profitably on 7c. rn, Tho cotton koons and cotton-tots t Lit up this excuse for buying moat hen we all know that our dadies and rand dadies hauled wheat and moat motimos fifty or one hundred miles >s ll it. Rather than grow sorghum, millot, arnips. c'over, peas, garden truck nd melons for hogs our corn bread ad fried meat kind of cotton growers refer to climb up a 'siminon tree and ng themselves out on a lion law mub ;,fter their meat and take the risk the cotton bears coming their way a 3fore they get down. As we travel over our cotton bolt we unt about six o seven litle negroes where we find one nig or calf. To ir mind those people think there is ore profit in raising litrle negroes on cents cotten than there is ra -sing ook on any plan. Now if this ig. f >rant, improvident class of cotton rowors did not have it in their power set prices on the whole cotton crop > the injury of the financial intertst r the whole South we might say that us way was their own nianir. but it i not that way. We arc' not a hater of a good negro. fo have a good place in our business >r a good negro. But he is not to boss ho situatior. le is worth many timos ioro than a good mule. But if his ewer among tho people of the South B going to be continued along the line f urowing cotton with foreign capital o enrich forieen countries by imnnov roishing the soil and lowering our hnle agricultural interest of the rhite farming population, we must niphatically say that the limit alcpg Us lino has boon reached. Our land wners, merchants, snnply men and ionev lenders must take a positive and rm stand nuainst the all cotton grow ig thsinoss and enforce diversified rmin,W or it will .;oon be too late. ur great wenlt'' producing gold mine at is mingled in a few.inches of the p of the soil of the whole of our ixie land, is no-' being dug out by ese imnprovident people and aided by I business class of our citizons, to on nh foreigners. This tiring must stop we are ruined polorlIe. When this (oh top soil has nil beeIn exhausted washed ol our farmor.: will ceIaso to l g up gold from barren soi;, and as I r farming initeroits go dJowni it wil trol v carry w i th it rhe destruction of it whole intoresi. " .s we g.o upl to uther ,so do wo uo down together "' Libherty S. C., MaLrch l'4, 1907. Mr. Editor and l!rother- Farmers: Inasmuch as [ have boona asked to ive my plan of preparing uand culti iti ng a corrain0 plot of land( that I .iantedI in corn last year. I will givye as clea rly as pos-siblde. The plot of roundl conltainIed (1 % acres. F'irst iincr 1 did was to break the land ithi a two horse Oliver Chilled turn. ig plow the fIrst of ianiy ; then 'lowed withI a sinothin ab arrow. Ttm eleven th and twel fthi of May I id oil with a mididle huster, four oft apart. In this furrow I used 200) I andiis of fortilizers to the acre, and s *llowed withi ai subso5il 1)low th r s tuh ly mi xi ng the fortaiz 'r withi the e >i . The forti lizecr I used was a s ixturo of my own, 200 piounds oif i :3-3 goods then four m,-aks of cotton eei meal, the remaning i' amnont bo- t g 0 pr- en t an-id. ThIe'n I p93 lnted 5 to corn, cover-e'l with small ridge. WVhen the cern got to wvher-e it had irIo0 or four bilades I used( a weeder, ecdinag two rows at a t ime I usedl r the first plowing a short plow and voep. After ten or twelve days I in through each middle with a 30 gch sweep. This answered for second Lowing. We again.nftar ten or wel.I days. run throo furrows to the mitdlo With a broad sweo. This laid the uorns by. 1 gathered from this field 1,90S bundles of fodder. As to corn, I lid not hmeasure, but all farmors can dsecitlo for thomsolves about what I mado .I gathorod 22 two horse loads with top bod and ten inch plank. 1 Packod each load myself as long as I 1ould vot the corn to lie on. Now, I leave it to you to e'c lato as o the uner of bushols I gatherd 'rom this plot of land. In this field [ took one terrace that measured three ourtha of an acre and tried the \Vil innison plan of ' stunting," as it is !alled. I prepared this terrace as the thor, and also planted at the same ime. But instead of using 200 pounds >f fertilizer when I plantcd, I used inly 100 pounds to the acre. The corn showed a marked difference rom tbo-otier corn, both in color and n size.' The first working of this orrace was the same as the othcr. lut instead of using a short piow and weep, we used the long, narrow sub oil with fender attached. This being he only ditferenee in the cultivation intil laid by. I used in the furrow n the upper side of each row 150 iounds of fertilizer. This I covered vith broad sweep, the same as I run brough the rest of the field. The ertilizer I used on this plot was the aum as used on the rest of the field, rith addition of 50 pounds of nitrate f soda. I used in the last plowing 150 ounds of fertilizer, which makes 400 sounds to the acre. I laid by this ter ace as I did to rest, but run the middle furrow first and put in this nrrow the fertilizer and covered with he othei two furrows, thus leaving a idge in the middle tnat was caubed y running the center furrow first. As this corn developed to maturity hbe fodder was long and continued reon to the bottom of the stalk until ready to gather. The corn was not quite as high nor the sttlks as large as the other, Lut the oars were larger and better matured and nearer the ground. The fodder on t.is terrace remained green at least ton days after the rest of the field was gathered. I gathered from this terrace three loads, the same sizo as the others. Now. you can calculate for yourself what I gathered from.this particular terrace. Brother farmers,frnm my experience [ think it will pay to plant corn this way. I am preparing my corn land ;his year with three-horse reversible ise plow, ten to eleven inches deep. I ixpoct to gather from 20 to 50 bus~uols o the acre. Now brother farmer, ry this plan and lot us hoar from you it gatherinc time. This will probably lp us all and give some one a better ,nowledge of farming. I will close with much success to the citor and brother farmsers. Sedgwick M. Jonuton. Brother Johnson did no hand hooing. Vo regret that he did not measure at oast one acre on the \Villiamson plan nd one of the ether ; we cain never got .sitive fac-ts until we do this.-Ed. G~ood farming~ tools and impliments rc comiparati vely v'ery cheop and wilt mn readly aind on hand for work at anv .-nr, while labor is very high an un vailable. You may have fifteen hands o day but vou cannot count on five f themi for-tomorrowv's work until they all in line at work t'me. Then don't rako a mistake by trying to save on lhe tools side and paying big wages or very worthless labor. Pay better lages for bettor meni and never pay ho best price for poor Ilaborers. Seo boyvs arid men, toe make a lig nistakco ini the dliiferonee between mart tricks' and mean tricks. All nah elforlts are abortive as to the riginal intentions, this kind of cheap tuff fools no one more than, the one /ho starts out to fool others. In other ordls, he that gets up these mean ricks to fool others dith in those days onorally fool himself. 'hoe world is full of hopeless men Sad victims of misfortune's stings Ve learned life's dlearest lo.qson when Thev staked their money on sure thines. ---Ohicago I~cRd-a eatu .