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WONT TAKE FOURTH CLASS EXAMINATIONS Serious Problem Facing Postoflice Denartment. ' FIGHT OVER ARMY POLICY. Strenuous KlVort.s to Fill Places Under Civil Service Meet With Little Encouragement. "Washington Correspondence in Charleston News and Courier. Serious trouble is being experienced by the postofHee department in taking advantage of President Wilson's order of May 7, 11*13, modifying the Taft order of October 15, 1912, whereby all of the fourth class postmasters of the United States were covered into the civil service. It was only after much persuasion that Postmaster General Burleson succeeded in getting President Wilison to change the Taft order; and now that the change has been made, there is growing apprehension that it will not accomplish even the substance of its purpose. When President Taft Issued his edict in October, all of the fourth class postmasters in the Southern states were appointees of Republican administrations. Mr. Taft's act was plainly designed to keep the Re- 1 publican incumbents in office under tho approaching Democratic regime. The Wilson modification of the Taft order was simply to require that in putting the Southern fourth class postoffices under the civil service, examinations should be held, thus giving the Democrats a chance to compete for the places. Postmaster General Burleson has been signifying to the civil service commission the offices at which he desired to have examinations and the rommission has been undertaking to oblige him, but? EXAMINATIONS POORLY ATTENDED. A great many Southern members of Congress have been receiving communications from the civil service commission like this: "Sir: The commission has the honor to Invite your attention to the following fourth class postoffices in your district at which there are existing vacancies in the position of postmaster." (Here are written the names of the offices in question.) "Examinations were recently announced for these offices, but no applications were received, and other examinations have been announced to be held on" (Mere is given the date of the next examination.) "The commission is bringing the matter to your attention in order that you may take It up with the patrons of the office with a view to having applications filed for the pending examinations. Applicants may obtain application blanks and the necessary Information from the postmasters at the offices named or from this commission." Most of the fourth class postoffices pay only a few hundred dollars a year and are filled ny citizens who are by no means bookish. There seems to be general indisposition to undergo the examinations which Proaifinnf Wll onn lino niitlinrl7n/l In order to give Democrnts a chance. Where the Republican postmaster has resigned, died or been removed and a vacancy, therefore, exists, the bonding company Is responsible for the conduct of the office through a designated agent. In many cases this agent is the Republican incumbent whose resignation has been tendared. The problem is worrying Mr. Burleson a great deal and has a I number of congressmen in a bad humor. , LOOKS LIKE HAY-WOOD FEUD AGAIN. Indications of a renewal of the disagreement between the war department and military committee of the house of representatives, which caused several sensations towards the close of the Taft term, are seen in the opposing statements recently made hy the secretary of war, Mr Garrison, and the chairman of the house military committoe, Mr. Hay, of Virginia. it win no recalled tnat wnne on lifs tour of inspection In the West a fewdays ago Secretary Garrison declared that our regular army is inadequate and unprepared for war, that it is only a few times larger than the police force of New York city, and that the militia reserves upon which it has to draw are woefully weak in numbers and in training. Representative Hay promptly came out in an interview in which he took pointblank issue with the secretary without mentioning the latter's name. The Virginian asserted that "we have an army that is better paid, better clothed, better housed and beiter equipped than any army of its size in the world and the personnel both as to enlisted men and officers, is unsurpassed." Mr. Hay said that our army would cost $500,00(1,000 a year If we tried to put it on a footing numerically with the armies of the great war powers. He added, very sharply: "For myself. 1 deplore the action of some gentlemen in holding up the army of the United States to the world as inefficient and unprepared when they ought to koow, if they take the trouble to learn the facts, that such is not the case." Major General Leonard Wood, chief of staff of the army, is the special aversion of Chairman Hay as a military authority. When Secretary Garrison came Into the cabinet he and Mr. Hay had a conference, which was understood to have resulted in the restoration of-peace beH tween the department and the house committee, and the new secretary I was felicitated on having accomplished what seemed to be impossible. What was thought to be peace THK LAIS may turn out to have been only a the honor and ii truce. tion." SENATE CHAIRMAN RACKS GAR- ?,,7the <'hair?m,:!j\ t?knv niittee on militz U1SU.N. from :i Pnplflp ?'r% much interest lias been felt as to Asiatic problem 1 whether the new chairman of the urally a different senate committee 011 military affairs, the chairman of Senator Chamberlain, of Oregon, house comraitte* would stand with Secretary Garrison Atlantic coast st or Chairman Hay. In an interview the same acute di just made public, the Oregon senator the subject amoi seems to remove the doubt by saying whole, and we ma that "the country is becoming aware trial of strength of the unprepared condition of our schools of thougl army and will sustain Congress in { f c ross< making such changes as seem necessary to place the army upon a foot- mission of our p< ing to meet emergencies and secure pines and Latin-./ What Is to Be the ideal School of Ity Ella l-'lngg Young. The ideal school of the future for ested. although < boys?yes, and for girls, too?will meager and we c be one in which not only the brain all the chance tc will be cultivated, but in which chil- they would best li dren will be taught to use that most to my surprise wonderful of all known instruments these children k ?the hand. classes and stoot When the "little red school their studies as house" was Instituted, you know, the who had twice as United States was new and what called mind culti there was of it had been built mostly These childre w^th the hands?the physical force were being fittc ?of our forefathers. they could see 1 At this time consequently, the in the future, need of developing brain power taught in a scien' seemed greater than the need of de- do things which ' veloplng further physical power and take positions ins so every father determined that his | ships, and they child should have this power that, only to do things by the force of his mind, he might This will be the direct the work of the hands of future; one wh others. Hut he forgot that if we ehild that the carried this idea to its logical con- world is done w elusion there would be no hands to without this w direct some day in the future! die; to teach him Thus children became imbued ean do some pari with the idea that, while work with 1 ? no una Hit 11 VI7* the hands was necessary. was not man. competent always dignified and seldom reraun- Q( others, eratlve and should not be done if Give boys not one. hv any possible means, could real interest In 11 avoid It. to he a success i So "schooling" then came ?o mean problem" will lnr not the fitting for practical life but "the corners" will the acquisition of that which would sorted! perhaps enable the child to live by doing the least possible manual i A V|tn, ] labor. . . ... , .... 1 . But the ever-Increasing need of New > ork World money?indeed often of daily bread when the nigh ?brought It about that, despite an establishment wa elaborate high school filled with a certain patron teachers of splendid academic excel- drunk while th< lence. at least one-tenth of the school '"\*0t drunk but children were forced to leave school Pd to define the at fourteen to "get a job." All they "When a man ca have had then, when they found jR drunk. When themselves facing life has heen, in himself, though the main, theoretical knowledge.? Qf liquor, he h frills and furbelows. And so they reply to a futhet have not always been able to hold ded: 'Sobriety a their wits. To live on the streets, only bv the hrea preying on whom they might, adding These deflnltto constantly to the flotsam of the cor- expert in facts t ners." guage merit att In the Ideal school of the future help lexicography every child, when he leaves school. nnd sociologists provided he stays until he is through ditions. Incident grammar grades, will have a special- nf URP to wives ty by which he can become Imme- their husbands i diately a really successful wage- Some folks ha' earner. , norant men get i Our schools today already try to mcn intoxicated, train minds to concentration. They ror long ag( teach the. process of logical thought tury Cowper tolc and now we are adding the practical , pany who were ' working out of this thought which, drunk." George ( when perfected, will mean the ideal the distinction ii school. heer Vandunck, In the ideal school there will be was drunk, sippei no abstract problems in the early gayly." It is evl< school days of the child. When a never beyond inh boy works at his problems it will be Qne Qf the d with the added Interest of knowing drunkenness by that he may be doing the exact sum "saturation," wh that he, as a man. may have to do given as one of 1 in his business or trade. toxication. This In the ideal school of the future jy well with til everv child, rich and poor alike, will , thority. be taught to work with his hands. | for I would not deprive any many of i Spirit of the great blessing of being able to do things. .Nebraska Farmer At a certain age?probaly about i During that h twelve?when a boy has a problem the sky was com in construction he will have to work mile wind sent wt it out not only in theory but in prac- the cornfields am tice. Even before this he may not up to ioo, there only learn to spell "cloth" and "tex- chautauqua held ture" but he will have cloth in hi? jn addition to thi hands that he may feel the "texture" our town on Thu and thereby gain a practical knowl- fr0m every part edge of its utility and adaptability ^from other states for certain needs of everyday life governors, concr With thir Knowledge the work of an(] jubilee singe making of cloth and preparing it fo , listened tr market takes on new Interest for mf>n nf national every worker in textiles and the enjoyed the inn same kind of teaching will prevail 'bands as good a; in all other practical lines of work beardless youths by which he live. among the tall tr The ideal school of the future will of hundreds of el teach that no work Is menial be- jn tj1P thought th cause all good work Is first mental. w-lth them and th In the Ideal school of the future cream cones was the heads of great factories. Indus- wt. saw werp tries and commercial houses will be come teachers for they will co-operate , riDI c with the schools in telling Just what ''IKLh. tillvl.,? knowledge. Is needed in the boy or i?p> \iT,r| girl who elects to work at the bus!- J' ness in which they have made a success and each year these men will take into their shops and offices the jt Thick. ( different hoys nnd girls to "finish" ?tw. .L, their education along the specialized lines it has been started. Heal Snrpr I know that this ideal school of the v , , , future is coming very soon for al- fln(Tv al,undant a ready, we in Chicago. have worked lustrons am, out some of its methods of proced- Kjr|-S after a ure* . . , . .. cleanse." Just t Last year somewhat against the cjoth wJth H |jt| wishes of many parents?we Intro- rar..fuiiv draw j, duced technical training Into a Chi- taking one small cago grammar school which is filled This will cleanse with sons and daughters of workers. We said "these pupils shall study ^ foments yo one-half of the day and work with beauty of your h their hands the other half." liesldes beaut "Where will our children get their onre Dandorine ( 'schooling* If half of the time is tide'of dandruff; given to work with their hands. and invigorates asked those parents who did not stopping itching realizo that the well educated person j{ut what will r is always on^ whose hand and brain be after a few w< can work in unison. will actually see The children were greatly inter- downy at first y hair growing all Despondency. yOU care for prett is often caused by indigestion and of it surely get # constipation, and quickly disappears Knowlton's Dan when Cbamberlain's Tablets are druggist or toilet taken. For sale by aU dealers. try it. fCASTER NEWS, SEPTEMBER 1 ntegrity of the na- fitting skitrs Some of the bands or belts away up of the senate com- arm pits, other dresses It, iry affairs, hailing lino near the knees. Som ftst state, where the dresses were made from is acute, takes nat- ings, and one stout old 1 view from that of looked large enough to list the corresponding tick in case of emegency. ?. who lives in an There were things tha ate. But there is sad anil things that eaus vision of opinion on laugh until the tears trii )g the people as a our cheeks, but the Bad y look for a mighty was the pessimist?the between the two good health, with his ba tit at the next ses- wit" hay, his granary bu involving the ills- wheat and oats, the trees 5licv in the Philip- bending with ripe ' money in the bank to pa; vmerica. Hllo for automobile, i ungrateful old grouch v . p 0 about from place to plac Hit: mime: p7mpkln:"and,lh?s7ace 1c a cast-off swentpad that used fur a sore-necked he It Is the gospel truth t the "showerlet" came on S uir equipment was 1"P our corn crop was rer ould not give them hospital. We now think t > choose just what fifteen bushels an acre is ike to do, and much left. The 800 acres of s' it was found that grown by the canning f; ept up with their "canned" in the field. Ye 1 quite as well in help but ridicule that poor did those scholars faced, whining soul who much time for so- Stores of distress into tl vation only. every one he meets until n found out they his hearers to feel id for something: had been dieting fc results looming up on green apples and s They were being I w'll po for miles Lific manner how to the optimist?the man wh would help them to 'hope, who Is figuring on tl dead of apprentice were learning no* j>on't T,et Baby Suffer Wi but why they did It. and skin Kruptio ; ideal school of the ? . , , , . Ich will teach the . "ab'P* need * Perfect great work of the ,np" Sk,n pr"Ptions caus ... , . only intense suffering, li ith the hands and t-.- ,,?v' ? __i_ unmn.*|t tnelr prov t.n. T^r, Hobso ork numanlty nn ill i* ? 1 j > .. . . \ . Ointment can bo rolion 01 , that only when he nm] anent cu of of this work with babIe8Pwho8G Rkln prupt s he a successful madfi the,r ?fe mlae'a to direct the work baby was afpjcted with hi of the skin all over the a fictitious, hut a Bcaip. Doctors and skin fe by teaching how faHed to help. We trle< n life and the "boy Bon?g Eczema Ointment gelv solve itselt for overjoyed to see baby I gradually grow de- cured before one box v writes Mrs. Strubler, Dubi All druggists, or by Difference. Pfelffer Chemical Con Louis, Mo., and Philadelp t clerk of a bathing s asked in court if f j T T"21 of the place was |\ re. ho responded: A XAJ Intoxicated." Ask- _ _ difference he said: Li1 rv-1 p T\V nnot navigate he v H P IJLV. able to look out of 1?* under the influence * intoxicated." In I question he ad- ' in be distinguished th." GENERAL REPAIR ns coming from an ' ? , _ ather than In lan- For K?WC*??. ? ention. They will Agents for Kelly Springfl rs to define words TlreB for Bungle to understand con- ! ally, they will be ' Rock Hill, H. C that wish to study . . ??< sympathetically. ' ?ur plant 18 ' ve believed that ig- Kfade repair work on ai ilrunk and cultured vehicle. We make a sp but that is an er- . . ,. > as the 18th cen- overhauling and palntln I of a goodly com- motor cars, etc. Work all learned and all promptly. We pay frelgh jolman too, marked _ . ' a his verso. "Hyn- Write us for estimates. though he never . i brandy and water 9 lent Vandunck was oxtcation. eflnitions given of the dictionaries is t ! i lie "elation" is | Like the bracn the meanings of in- corresponds fair- ni () U n t fl 1 U H. le bath-house au7^:. \ PEPSI-Col ot wave last week /-a 1 t_ .! *lless and a thirty- Cools-1 nVlgOrat ives of heat through J l> r 1 1 the mercury went and KeireSfteS. ?,ir> <111 oignt-nay ? at our county scat. ? tt. a circus came to ? 1" Bottles or A t Foun relay. We mot folks f of the county, and ? We met farmers, essmen, suffragists I rs from <he South lectures given" by Jr tt/ reputation, and we yarTr |9 jRhi - the best. We saw ULJi strolling around |fv fo? V,' ees in the glimnier M| fit eetric lights, happy ] H||{| at their "Jane" was I III III y at the supply of lee I D \ abundant Woman |l|jJ^La dressed in tightfj ^ le Danderine and 11 /.7/111.. through your hair. jMjm xygJg ? oil an (T inf just' a 1 have doubled the ih 1111)11 IfyliiK the hair at < lissolves every parcleanses, purifies m % ^ the scalp. forever * and falliiiK * AmAjI ileaaa you most win MaTjBfc h'ks' uro when you ?, now hair?fine and ^ "" * os -hut roally now over the scalp. If l'iTf)1 flauit''ho1?tl( ?of Pepsi-Cola Bottling dorine from any r . c counter, and JuJst L<inC<lStCI\ J. 2, 111J. dresses had of the country, who shuts his < ? near tho tho failures and recalls the y< ad tho holt hip crops and good times, He ie of those the man who would not comp pillow cas- misfortune, and who, after ady's dross had both feet amputated, sai for a bed- shall not be bothered again wi t made us ted us to kled down A l>eli?g Complaint. Idest thing Hill?"I see a reeently In man with safe that will float in case.' o rn bulging wreck is a steel cylinder, < ilglng with into two compartments, on in liis or- tight, the other to hold valu ning fruit, .... .... . ..... r for gaso- , 7" , ,?R", J, V?tioe, n tnd vet the ? wh?le ot of things to mak< " ft i. ' travel safe excepting to invent e with hi thlnp thnt wl11 ho,p a fellow 1 crack in a to hls meals." toking like had been son.- ..f ohlo rity ..r Toledo. i.tiens c< rse. I'riink .1 i honey mule - oath that h> , , partner of the tlrin of K. .1 t heimy ,V "at pet ore I business III tlo City ?'f Toledo. <V lindav even Stat'1 aforesaid. ami that said tirin i_ < " _ .. ' the sinn ..f oxr. IllM'lthh l<ol,l. ltl\ lor lilt , ! (.I, m,,| ...cry ease ?.f t itarrli that < hat ten or , cured by the use of Hull's Catarrh c all that is | kkank j. cii tveet eorn I Sworn to before me and mihserlbe ftCtorv wis presence, this Uth day of Peceuiber. a. ft I cannot *"" A* wold shrivel Ilnll's Catarrh Cure Is taken Ititerr pours his nets direct It upon the bhsal ami tun He ears of "}S,,UJ' 8eBd f,,r l" he causes K. J. chknev & co., Toll like thev I Sold by nil ItniBtrlsts. Tfie. ,r week's ' Take Hall's tuuilly IMIls for conatli our milk. J to meet I o is full of bmohjh MIiIIIII III Ml (\m ie averages I W ?1 Erzetna g ^ ^ skin-cover- Sj SB JS& I R thom not I H >ut hinder I n's Eczema I a for roliof I I suffering I Ions have I JE?y vgre. i?-F hie. "Our I ^f8^. "eaklng out face and specialists 1 Dr. Hoband were jEIHiW** 3 completly S&y,?,-. .'as UBod," raKr^^ lique, Iowa. vg*. mall. 50c F*TWB apany, St. hla. Pa. 1 Morris' Sup ife. ^ Conseqnently you wj Smile. Every sack si r K R 1> eld Rubber M ^9 m W & Mm. 18. to do highiy kind of g buggies, 1^, - 3* "if; "> turned out ^ a?*e scientifically prepar "N j extremes of heat and cc es ) all things which quicklj Paints form a tough. t which remains in perfei gallons of H. & M. Pair " I \ as three gallons of ordii k Standard ? \ C OI Jones Br ^ Presenting Higl 8 best Singers, Dai ed Ponies, Elept Don't Fail to the Smallest I Lancaster ><? Thursday ; Works! Biy; Free Kxhibi C. | Tv 3 ><;s on START YOUR LIVER, Tsrnk.. DON'T STOP WORK lain of d ' "I>o?lsonV liivcr Ti>n?' Arts Mildly, llut tli cold Surely. Livens I |i the l.tver and Vou Stn> on 1 our I'eet. It is the experience of calomel users that if they take enough of the drug to have the desired effect, it vented seriously interfere s with their work f ship- the day after. Hut this is the least livlded important item for calomel is often io air dangerous drug and acts on the aides.' system violently. . doing Don't take chances with calomel, ocean Get a bottle of the pleasant, safe and some perfectly hurml< ss Hudson's Diver lold on Tone, guaranteed to take th< placo of calomel. Instead of making you feel worse the next day it makes you feel better?and you actually are "{"'m-ust hotter, for no remedy in the wholo > ?e> world livens up the liver, rcgu'...tcs will e'o tlu' how els and really rejuvenates the aks ! r system any better than this dose. ulr"m,t Vou are the sole judge of its i ney merits. The Standard Drug C'omi a, niv 's fully authorized to hand you 'o is"'.;. ' back your money without question if ?s. | it fails to please you?and relieve Public. you. c"Vi'h hur- | Kemember, if you feel constipated IlUlOtlllllK. ' ilTlfl 1.11 ir,..o ??,.o, v,u.n. jruu neca is L)oil. jo. o. sou's Liver Tone. A large bottlo and ! a guarantee for 50 cents from tho .latk'O. ) Standard Drug Company. MMHUinBMB [J Vesta 1 JL None belter I -and? erfine Hams ill M'e your wife and Children rictlv guaranteed. Hams (he best. oddey & Co. I Milligan Paints ed and carefully balanced to resist )ld, excessive dryness or moisture and r destroy ordinary measures. H. & M. nacious, elastic, leather-like coating :t condition for many years. Two it will cover as much surface WELL nary paint. We can prove it. Drug Company MING *n<i S^linw w? tuuieuw/mmw ff t Class Vaudeville, the icers, Comedians, Trainlants, Mules and Doas. See BABY BUNTY ilephant in Captivi ty. EXHIBIT AT SEPT. 18 tion on Show Grounds nee Daily.