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As4 BOW I bBBr B >ibbib bell Tbat llfta aloed B waralof koall, Tbaaaslss sow bfplaa to jsll Ubeoaatlefleetf eaaBBBd froai bell: -frogt, imrt-iont r* , V. 'MM blaalas ataaai asd *aaf*etef roar I bWBr tbBtBWlBl BBBBd OBBB gtOBB t -KMP hlMC. M? MM I l?ui ?ru? w Wm l?M?*r H^ataadlMek. MMd fee* r t H IMII" t WlA Ml eed ?fcMtor1sg otoel Aed flaiBtag feFMib ?ad MUh vmI, Tfc? VMerwliloi by, V1L AMMwMMImnm MM, wm tfoerftoal ?m??way? an kllad; Yetlroai iM?Bneuwadik?blll fi lam UMiMtM fflMM akrill, KHkt, tOOt-IO<* !" VUL Tw latMiiwikari mmii play? Mil: "ViniMIhUm God apMd Mall"? mtr %, x | PB0BL11S IN EDUCATION. ?' B? Booftef T. Washing too. ^ When I banm I be work of founding jrhalbnowkoowu m the Tuakage* jIAbwaI nad Iadnatrial Institute, neat tba ttttla Hw of TmIihii. Alabama. IAdRottenadollartoput into ib? w*. iM# did the loetituUon own a Golfer1* worth of pooperty. In looking abost for s ploM Io whieb to nuki i UrinntM, I happened to flod an j abandoned shanty tb U van about sixteen by tweoty-lour foot. Tbia ehnnty ww is aaah a ooadltion that It wop Marty vaarfy to toaablo down. The floor tod bolea in It ao laife that on* hoi to ha oaraful to no thnt ooe'a fooi i Od not clip thrash them. The walla I won In about the mom oondition an the floor. When It rained the water wooid peer Is ot nearly eipevy port oi , tho bona. At esoh s time the students woold 4t opos their booki io order to hoop tftMM dry. More than oeee do I r<OMMbar that whan I wookl bo heariiua red tattoo, one of the etodeota I iraold an umuiells luid bold it | oowMolo shield omAom the rslo. f The eecM os whloh tho atodeota mt wo la Many mm largt rails or a opUt b| wnleh rented opoo eome - ^ - ?- ? ? ?Jl m mi w ^ S? l?*A tS HMiiwmyi^ ?n?" ?"? * iv* lop. Tbtw 'ir? no f seoher'a table, and poittotoftbi tlaae I used a dry ooodaku fcraeeai. Of oouree, blackboerdeaadeaeh loxorim vara hardly to ba thought of. Books ware very Moroe. At onetime I aow flea etudeot* preparing a leaeoa from one book; the two who aet opoa the front aaat had a hook betwoia them, dlreotly behind them there weee tiro others looking over tho afcmiden of the first two, aad behind the last two there waa a fifth ioakfcw ever the sheoidere of all JMigthoflmt two yearn In the MUMy of the To- bine Iaetitute I agtotafeoAdaal of time, mainly on A Suurdayii and Bondan. traveling by Artaeaithmogh theeooatry, tatting Ihatr*mtmk eeadttto1 a?u MMkVfhllo'oo them journeya I made It a petal, ee farm possible, to am the peepla la their aetual everyday Ufh?to am them la their horns*, fe.' thetreehoeleand ehorehm; In real life | . rather rhaa la a etleaalaied, artificial Me. With thla la view, I eoofioed ssymtf eawttaWy to tho roral dlatrieta nod amaHir towna wbers the majority of oar people live, and mad* my vieits meat them wHbootootio? of snyoomlag Mag givoa. I found that the food of the people generally eooalated of torn bread aad a ptoeeof fried fat ba. eoa, with aow aad then a little l "greaaa" or mnlaesm The meal wm I penally mtaa wlthoot any paatoooe at eittiag dowa ai amble. Each individual woald eat hie portion from the hand, and oHea while sitting by ths fire, or walfclaf aboatiatheyard, or perhaps mem ooaa oo tho way to tho couo infield far the doy'e work. As a rule the > Oi?1&tfiS3?!J3 m tea who atapt la oae mam, and m thmr would he of all mam and all & eiaaa, often Including several who ? worn la bo way related to tbe family. It waa lather aa interesting experience Hb la fad myaelf araltinc on the outeMe B aim to go to bed. >\ I hviy ? aor the want of the aimpiaet eon??.og lenem and eomforts of life wm the VOM iwan id m oddviuoui wuicu X foaod. TUl vm lb* gloom that wmI to hi owl over mi y 000 by nmn of Iho eooatoot uwwnei oI dabi: Mrt for Iho not of the land, the a>artga*Bon the crop, on the mule or eow, m voli an Ml for dot has, foe fool lor vhiekMr, for totoecn, for Mill. Thaot (foots not only covered la many cam the pretest year*! opontlooi, hot had overlapped and wooM inevitably extend for into the fetor*. Thns it wae true that the past, present sou iuiur wero uaonjpiKcu. Ths Urn* wee when I *u rather Inclined to blame the southern white omo for the debts of the colored peopb, hot eloeer observation has taught jm thiJt om ot the loaln things thai the emithero white xaen has to guard against (a to keep Umi negro from go tag too doepiv.into dibt, and that, bu far the reroaai of many southern mer ?hante sad hap hew lo give more ered 111. both tho aof re mad tho sou then walto pooplo wouJd bo Author ii 4oht thiothojr ore. Jo loopooUog tho oohoolo, whilo om on tbooo Jooraojro, I found tho tfeqr to ahoot tho eoodlUon tha that my aabool woo to whoa I fln oamoto Tuokegoo: that thojr ran] won to ?mbp kmgar thau too i month*, wbile the Ignorance and it competency of most of the teachei t vu something almost impossible t ?? describe. Teachers, pupils sod parent bad Implicit faith tu a vague id? that all that one bad to do was t learn to read and write, and especial), to learn something about Latii Greek, or some foreign language; an the more foreigu and the more usele* the more highly tb*y prized It, an the ftiture of the raoe would be steun They had no Idea of connecting edi nation with anything that was to b done in every-day lire. Wbile there was prevalent almost worship of books, it was pathetic t note that in the early days of the Tn> kegee ^school before any board!ug dc partment was started, there was ai absence of any idea that book-know I edge should have oonneetlon will real every-day living? with such mat ten, for example, mi the baih-tub, th proper cooking and eerviug of food the use of ths tooth-brush, or the car of the sleeping-room. Such observs lions conviuoed too very early in tin life of the school that to give these stu deats mere abstract book-trainlu| would be Ume thrown away. Aa often as possible I would go Inb - s ? a.. a T- At.. UN couruues uu ouuuiy. iu iu< churches, I found that wuh few ex oepUons there wu no attempt msd< tooonoeot (be preaching with any thing that eouoerned daily life in thli world. At an Illustration, I listened for an hour or mora one day to a min ister preaching most earnestly to i largo congregation, and the whole burden of his sermon was advising the people "to get rid of the world/ Instead of advising the people how tc get hold of land, homes, and othei property, be was Intent upon tbeii getting rid of what little earthly po? sessions they did have. Since, on examination, I found that only two men in the congregation owned an acre oI land, and only four owned the mulct which they were using, sod that practically ail were in debt to the extent ofseveral timee all theirearthiy holdinga, the "getting rid of the world" doctrine io that community was But through ell the history and ttruggSe of the early yean of etarting the Tuekegee institute, there waa one thing that waa a conetaut source of euoouragement and led one on irresistibly to <fo hie very beet. Thie wae the almost pathetic anxiety of tbestodenta and pareuta to improve their condition. J net how thie wae to be done i hey did not know, but they knew tbey wanted something that they did not hate. Another titling that made me feel very serious eraa the abeolute faith that they eeemed to have in me and my efforta. The longing of etadents and parents fur better things not only Impreseed no, but the south ern white people lei colored young men end women wu encouraging. Io many casea tbia interact *u shown becauie tbe parent of tbe Indent, or (be student himself, bed been owned by some member of tike wblte family. Here again waft broug ht out tbat peculiar attachment between maater and tlave In the aouth which It la bard for the outeide world to usderatand. Few people take more genuine pride in. tbe intollMlnal ftp niafArial Hv&nrai nf colored boy* and girls, in many cases, than tbe white people who once owned tb?m or tbelr parents. The information which 1 gained by a study of the oondition of tbe students who first came to the school, together with my close obeervation of ibe life of tbe masses of the people ud the relations between the races, *ave me tbe neoeseary information for planning a course of training which I thought would be effective in reselling tbe conditions snd needs of the members of my race iu tbe part of the country in which I was to work. Iu making an analysis of tbelr oondition, I found that a very large percentage of the people lived by agriculture in some form. Notwithstanathat they depended upon agriculture, the soil was cultivated as a rule In an nninialllMuit unskilled mtnner I foucd that while the soil vu capable of producing in abundance almost any product At for the use of man, till the people raised little aside from eoltoo, ana this was produced In u very costly manner, for the reason that the farmera were often In debt for It before the crop was planted. Instesd of raising pigs, oows, chickens, grain snd vegetables and producing eggs and butter and other forms fre?n and nourishing food, they went to town for their supplies, which, as I have stated, consisted for the most part of corn bread and baoon with little variation during the twelvemonths, exoept that now and then a little molasses, also bought at the store, would be u*ed. These facts led me to oonclude, ss Geueral Armstrong bad done years before at the Hamptou Institute, that whatever else should bs taught at the Tuskegee Institute, agriculture shculd oooudv the first place, because it was out of this industry that the masses of my people were to get their daily living. I observed, further, that m*ny had left the rural districts and were eking out a miserable existence in large cities because farm life eras so isolated and unattractive, since mont of the work on tbe fkrm was done la ao ignorrnt, shiftier and coitly manner. To remedy the*e conditions, we began o teach agriculture at the Tu? , kegeo Institute very soon after the school was organized. There were many difficulties in the way. The first was that most of the atudentc oame to us firom tbe farms, and tbat their main objeot in seeking an education was to suable them to escapc 1 farm life. They felt, too, that thej ' kn*? it Soil t all there tru Ia Iia knnwr 1 concerning agriculture. They wen > over-anxioui? to learn in an ab*trac manner whatever was in books, bu ' nothing elae. To add to tbe trouble ) the institution was so poor that w< ' bad nothing in the way of oonvenieu * ces and implement* that would leai [ them to believe that the imttruotorn a ' tbe achool knew any more about farm " lngthan tbe student knew. Qradually 1 however, after a number ot years o * hard work, we changed tbe idea* <1 * tbe students regaiding ugriculiura 1 work, and through the students th 1 ideas of the parents were changed Tbe opposition faded away in propoi * tlon aa we were able to improve tb it IaajiKIik* an/) tliu nnsNtlli nuu/l IMUUIU^ *uu luu wmui lt will not attempt to tell tbe whole *t< 11 ry, exoept to aay that at tbe prefer y moment we never bear of tbe least ot ir Jootion coming from parent or atudei i* to agricultural work, and not only is b there a vital enthusiasm in favor of it o at Tuakegee to the extent thai we can:? not supply the opportunliiea to all a who want to come, but this spirit has o spread (o every part of the south, y We began teaching agrioulture in i, 1882 with oue hoe and one blind home, d At the preaeti: liino the school culti? vatea by the ?alior o' the students sevd en hundred .ertw of land, and grows a !. large part ol the food consumed by I- the oue thousand four hundred stue denta, iustructc aud familiea upon the grounds. At the same time the acan demic teaching i* dove-tailed into the o agricultural teach.in a way to ?- make the cne he!p the other. Instead t- of a student wr ting au eseay about a something in the air, be writes about I- Ihegrowiugof potatoes, or describes 3 the dairy or poultry yard. In the de: bating societies they discuss such e questions as whether or not the IncuI, bator or the ben is the better method k of raialng chickens. Instead of the oue p hoe that we began with, there are at b present upon our farm soores of noes r aud uumbers of the latest and most p improved labor saving pieces of machinery. Instead of one blind home tbe school owes fifty horses, mules and colts. . I Our first dairy consisted of one cow that we used to tie out under a pine tree. Our present dairy consists of one hundred and fifty-eight cows, bulls and calves, and a large, attractive dairy barn that is said to be tbe beet in the south. The dairy house is supplied with all tbe>pparatus for teaching our students to make butter aud cheese. Tbe farm work has not only grown in the directions that I have mentioned, but a number or girl* are now taking a cour* in agriculture, including track growing, gardening, frait growing, dairying, bee raising, aud poultry raising. Our htrge poultry yard, for example, is wholly cared for by girls who are taking practical and theoretical agriculture iu connection with simple English branches. How muoh better, it seems to me, it Is to teach a girl how to raise poultry Intelligently and skilfully, su that she - ? ? ? ? J ? -1?* ii?1?? cam earn mi luuvpeuueui. nviug, tum to have her spend her life as a book agent or as a clerk in a sbop or depart' meat store. '. What I saw of the houses led me to decide that one of the great needs of our people was decent bou*es. In order to help supply this demand. I resolvod that next lothe teaching of agriculture, house-building should be the industry that we would emphasize most. Since we were without buildings at tbe institution it seemed to me best to begin by teachiug the students how to erect their their own school-buildings, shop* and dormitories, aud teachers' cottages, so that, having learned practical and theoretical house-building at ih?v wmiM Ha ahl* tn im out and build for themselves decent homes, and teach our people bow to do the tame thins. I confess that I wat almost ashamed of some of the brloks the students moulded, and of some of the bouse; they erected, in the earlier } ears of tbe institute, but what was lacking In perfection of finish was more limn counter-balanced in teaching the lesson of self-help and moral backbone. As tbe visitor drives through our school-grounds at tbe present time, among the fifty and more buildings built almost wholly by tbe students, I think he could not tell whether tb ? 1 ad been erected by students or by skill*! workmen. He would see tl.a plan* being drawn by students, first class bricks being manufactured and iuid by them, and he < would see plumbing aud electric! igbt Jnna l? tliaiuma WAV Hrl*. IUg UCiUg UVUG IU U..M- wwm^. v. ing a few milea out luto tbe country, in aoy direction, he would come to neat cottage* that have been built by Tuskegoe student*. He oould scarcely go 1UIO a Cliy urwwuiu lucauuui without Hading a number of neat, comfortable homes owned by Tuskegee Institute grsdun'e.* What is true of the Tuskegee Institute in this respect Is, in a large degree, true of other instil,utlous. As an old colored man pat it some time ago, all through the south evidences sre multiplying that "we's s wine to quit libin in de ashes." In further analyzing the condition of my people in the south, I found that next to sgriculture the largest i number were engaged in some form of domestic service. I naturally reasoned that since this was true, in our teaching at the Tuskegee Institute we ought to teacn them to perform such service in a skilled, intelligent and ' conscientious manner. This, I confess, was perhaps our hardest task. We were confronted with thrve difficulties; one was that every girl, as well as her parents, felt that she knew all there was to be known about cooking, table-serving, laundering, and housei keeping in geuerui. The second was, ' that each girl and her parents fell i perfectly sure that as soon as she bad mastered s certain number of rules in ' arithmetic and grammar, and could remember certain dstes in history, and locate a large number of cities, I riven and lakes, she wouiu have, do ; earthly use for anything that nad any i oounectioo with such ordinary things as cooking, laundering or sewing. The i last and main difficulty was that a i Urge proportion of tbe colored people throughout tbe south would beoomeini flamed at tbe mere suitgestfou of teach> log their children any of tbe domestic > or indomeitlio occupation; they coni nected such teaching with slavery ? and considered it a badge of degradui tion. Aside from tbe regular text-, l books, as one mother said to me, the the only things that she was willing i her daughter should be taught were > "music and embroinery." it watt a tei dious and often a trying process to cou5 viuce parent* and studeuts that every t girl should know DOW 10 periurm wen t all duties iu couuection with a borne, , and tbat tbe disgrace came iu only j when poor service was performed. But all this I am glad to aay baa to 1 do with tbe past. 8:uce those early t years uot ouly has there been a re vol u tiou ou the part of tbestudeuta, but , equally so lu the miuds of pa"euts iu if! practically every part of the south. ' ?? ? muill l1iltlinllli?|| al II V/UC III UUi IUUIM r ? ^ >1 at Tuskegee is to preveut the students e from devoting too much of their time 1.1 to industrial branched to the neglect r- 'of the academi" 'raining. Every girl e cornea with ? request from parents or I heraeifto bt taught some Industry. > There are fiv kitchens at the iustituit tion woe re h""?wnt* are trained In ) cooking, tabk-nervlng, and sucb it household duties. One ofthethlngf that !h insisted upon in that tbe kitcfa en 8ball be made one of the clean** and inoMt attractive places in tb I home, that tbe dining-room nhall b i made sweet and inviug with th help of flowers and in every othe possible way. Tbe same spirit exist regarding tewing, laundering am and general housekeeping. I am sur that all the youug men honor th< {firl who is specializing in cooking o auudering as much as tbe one whi is preparing to be a music-teacher The need of this kind of training cai be appreciated from a conversatioi which 1 beard some yean ago be tween a colored principal of a t-choo and three of his assiatant teaohen Everything inside and around tb< school hou*e was miserably dirty anc dilapidated. Tbe new principal of tb< school determined to bring about i change and asked one of tbe ladj teachers to take charge of a squad 01 pupils and show them how to sweef tbe floor. She flatly refused, remark ing "I am a literary teacher." Hi asked another to take charge of th< dusting She too refused, saying thai she too wasa "literary teacher.'7 Th< man assistant waa asked to takecharci of tbe cleaning of tne yard and tbi wnue-wasning or me fences aua in? outside of the scboolhouse, but he re marked that he bad been employee to teach hetorio and English liters tnre. Throughout the history of thii change in the Ideas of the colored peo pie, it was interesting to watch tbeii mental processes during tbe different stages or this development. As I have intimated, soon after the freedom ol tbe race, merely to intimate to the average negro father that his son wa? not to be a lawyer, minister, membei of the legislature, or congressman wai to insult him. It was bard in tbe earlier years to induce any one to sec tha* any race must lay the foundation for what tbe world calls the higher positions by mastering first tbe more fundamental and common things ol life. But, as I have stated, it was interesting to note how they gradually beirau to reason tbiugs out for themHelves., One old colored farmer told me bis story which will iliustrte the case of many. He had three sons; tbe oldest was sent to a purely literary college, where he remained several years aud graduated, but he did not return to bis father's ffcrm. When tbe seooud son grew oid enough, he was teut to a puiely literary institution, and after his education he too failed - Ik. .... Tka IU iriUI U IU IUC IMUi* I uu VIU >nmi had been hoping thai at least one of these rods would return and use bin education In showing hie parents how to raiae fifty bushels of corn where oniy twenty-five grew before, and with less labor. He had hoped that one would return and help him put the old farmhouse In a comfortable and convenient oondltlon. Wnen hit third on grew old enough, the old man bad reasoned the matter oat and was fully decided that bis third son must be sent to a school where he would not only study literature and science, but the application of the science to the raising of corn, peas, and stock?something thst would make his boy Imbibe such a love for the old farm that be would not want to leave It, but would be glad to return to it to show bis parents how to improve the plant and animal growth upon it. Iu the earlier yean* of the Tuskegee Institute a large proportion or the southern white people hud the idem that every negro who vh educated would become a minister, or teacher, or dude; that an educated negro meant as a rule a higher hat, a big wsHking-cane, kid gl/tfes and patent leather shoes, with no benefit to accrue to tbe negro himself or to the southern white man. Not long ago I met a noutbern white man who once entertained such ideas. Just before I met him his wife bad been sick near un to death. During all tbe anxious days of her sickness sbe*was carefully and inteiigently nursed by a black girl wbo some months before had graduated at the Tuskegee Institute nurse-training school. This white mun miultl not have BDoken in mure hl|[h terms of commendation of the education given at Harvard, or the University of Virginia, than be did of the Tuskegee Institute. Near Montgomery, Alabama, is another southern white man who a few yearn ago did not have much, if any, interest or faitn in the education of tbe negro. This white man has a large dairy. Jo some way a few years ago a graduate from our dairy-school secured employ* ment under this white man. I will not describe in detail the success ol this dairyman except to say that the mail who once bad little faitn in the education of my race now keeps a standing order with the head ofoui agriculture department to the effect that he must have the flr-t choice from every cisss that graduates from the department of dairying. The Hawptaa Nlatae. Columbia, Feb. 14.?The House ol Repreaentative* Thursday passed, by unanimous vote. Mr. Moses' bill to appropriate $20,000 toward tbe erection of an eouestrian statue to the memory of \Vade Hampton. Tbe appropriation becomes available when $10,000 additional shall have been raised by subscription. A large pari of this voluntary fund is now in hand The statue is to be located on the State capitol grounds, perhaps in front of tbe capitol, and will, It it thought, be patterned after the statue of General Lee in Hiclimond. Al though the State has just pa*sec through a trying time financially on account of appropriation* for expoei tiooH. general elections, etc., this ap nrrcirlntion niMta th? annrnval nf tin entire Bute. The Senate will ac favorably on the bill. Urd Injurlnna. I*rd In not only expenalve, bat lojurlou* ti the bcilth wben umkJ Id liberal <juaniltle? To n?k? b" kh?IW chmp patent flour ? hilt-eijouKb, tbe life U nil ground out of tb flour; then It In ncceaaary to l??*d It up will turd In order 10 make It work. Thla account lamely for yoor h?-a?y bUcolu and mila an ynnrbad digestion. It take* le?a than out half tbe lard to work "Clifton" that It do? the cheap patent*, ao you not only save raor than tho difference In price, bot ?et a mm healthful sod nutrition* food produo HcaUh >Dd fflODomy dictate tbe un? ol "Oil too." For aala by L. T. & T. M. Miller. I Take a chanoe at the beautiful Doll. It hi . bevti named by a prominent gentleman* < Abbeville and tbe fortunate gneaaer of It 1 name irlna tbe doll. LOWNDESVILLE. it e AccMmUI IkMllM-VUiUn frwoa a e DiiUnec-Dealk of ? OoMl Xm. r Feb. 16tb, 1903. s Mr. L. E. Moor head, of Atlanta, j Ga., baa spent tbe past few days with e bis mother, Mrs. A. C. Moorhead and e family. r Tbe latter part of the week ?efore 0 last. Rev. W. A. Maukensle and Mrs. rhomas Uanna MacKeoaie, of Port j Jerri*, N. Y., came here and will re, main for a few weeks at the borne of . Mrs. Othello Hester. Tbe first named j occupied tbe pulpit in Providence church yesterday a week ago, at 11:39, ? A. M., and again yesterday at tbe f same hour, giving to his bearers inters eating sermons. \ A week ago tbe rains gave us high p water-courses, not high enough to r damage the bridges. , Messrs. I. H. McCalla and E. W. . Harper during the past week sold 5 about 300 bales of cotton at 9cts . round. j Israel Carr, (oolored) living near , here olaims to be 108 year* of age, and s is yet stout and healtny. s Mr. Berry Alleu went to Anderson ? C. H. Thursday evening, on business. MissEtoile Watson, of Anderson, 1 spent several days last week with the . family of her kinsman, Mr. Bolin Allen* , "Young America" from 6 to 14 . years of age had a pound party at r Maj. F. vV. R. Nanoe's Thursday uigbt. And the next night the same ( crowd, with a number of additions, > bad a valentine drawing at tbe home , of the writer, on both of these ooca | sions all present made the most of tbe . time till a late hour. . Rev. Homer McMillan, temporary pastor of Providence and Gooa Hope ( churches went over Into tbe Antra* ville neighborhood Saturday evening , and occupied the pulpit In LUtle Mountaiu church yesterday at 11:80, : a.m. A little negro boy was badly shot near Dr. T. O. Klrkpatriek's office Saturday morning by an older stepbrother. It waa accidental, .do blame attached to tbe one baviug the gun. Dr. Klrkpairick who was near gave the boy every attention, bnt could d > him no good. He died that night. One by one, the friends of our younger days ba?-e crossed "Tbe River," till but few are still on this side. Late news Is that our life long friends and kinsman, Mr. E. F. Power, has Just died at Anderson, C. H. He first saw - tbe light, and with the exception of a few yeaas, his long and checkered life was spent in this section. He wss tbe 2nd son of christian Methodist parents, and because of his training at an early age, be united himself with the people of God in the Methodist church, which relationship he fidtbfully sustained to the last. He left one brother. Rev. W. C. Power of the South foroliua Conference, and two Sisters, Mrs. W. R. Buchanan, wife of Rev. W. R. Buchanan also of the 8. C. C. and Mrs. Lottie Jones, widow of tbe late Dr. 8. B. Jones, who in his day was one of the foremost ministers in the same conference. He leave* several children and many friends (o mourn his. death. During the war between tbe States, he made a good soldier till unfitted by a severe wound for further'service; was discharged and came home and remained on hTs farm near Monterey till several years ago, be moved to Anderson, C. H. where he lived till tbe end came. His remains were there laid to rest. Troupe. 1H THE LEGISLATURE. esala. The General!v Assembly adiourns next Saturday and up to date, only iblriy-flve acts have been ratified. About five hundred bills have been introduced, but the moat of these have been local measurers. The only uew law of any Importance 1 and of great Interest Is the child labor 1 law. 1 The proposed change in the road law | is now beiilg discussed in the Senate and also the bill requiring ten year ' eonvicta to be sentenced to the chain gang is a measure which has passed the House and is now being discussed ' in the Senate. The refusal of Senator Blake's i amendment to inreasethe penalty of delinquent payments to five per centum and also the refusal to extend the I time for the payment of taxes without ' penalty, show rbat the people wish to ' thoroughly test the law of 1902 before ' changing any of ita provisions. 1 There are a number of minor mat' ters which will be put aside when the supply and appropriation bills are ' taken up. As thin is the last week, i there is work ahead for all, in order that everything may be accomplished. HOUSE. There are very few bills on the calt endor of the House of general impor, tance, the three appropriation bills ( having been passed last week. Before the last of the week quite a number of important matters will come up for discussion. The compulsory education bill was killed last week aodtbe bill providing two additioual judicial circuits was carried over to next session. The bill to prohibit bhad Ashing, after much discussion, was passed as also the dog tax bill, which puts the small tax of .50 cents per capita on dogs. TblB law is very miia anu leiiun I to rid tbe country of the worthier , cur. Some of tbe bills ou tbe calendar for tbe week are : Mr. Pollock's resurrectI ed dispensary bill, Mr. Wiugo'H joiut j resolution proposing constitutional amendment to permit special legislation on certain questions, biennial sessions joiut resolution, the marriage license bills, tit. Louis Exposition bill, Q oil inspection bill, and a bill to extend u right* of railroad employes to textile " operatives, Both Houses have agreed h upon the plan to provide for a chief dispensary constable with a salary of d $1600 and power to appoiut the force. ? There has beeu perfect harmony be? tweeii Lieut. Gov. tiloan and the mem '* bera of tbe Senate and be baa made a f. moHt excellent presiding officer. The speaker of tlie Hou*e, Hod. M. L. Smith haa made for himself a moat enviable reputation, his rulings all 1C having been clear and impartial. Moat cordial relations have existed between Mr. 8mitb and every men ber of tbe House. Nettle L. Brunaoo. I Thanksgiving in not an act for ai anniversary, but a spirit for all of lift Estate of V. C. McGoian, Dec'i Notioe of Settlement and Application for Final Discharge. TAKE NOTICE tbat on tbe I2U> day e ?- Martb, 1908, I will render a final aconan of my acting* ?nd dolnge u AdmlnimraUl of tbe Eililt of w.C. Nmwvid, dernwl to the offlc* of Judge of Probata for Abbevlll Coonly a*. 10 o'eloofc a. m.. and on tbe earn day will apply lor a final discharge from m trout aa aucb Exocolor. AH parnona bavlnc demands agalnat eali aetata will prevent tbem for payment on o be lore tbat day. proven and anlbenUcated o be forever barred. Hn. Clella P. MrGovan. Feb. 10,1908. AdmlDUirmirlx. Abbevilie-Greenwo od MUTUAL mrnni ASSOCIATION. Property Insured, $800,000 1X7RITE TO OR GALL on UNrandinliDii or to Ux? Dimter ot your Towaahti for oaf trt?mw yoa tnmj 4Mb* ?boa oar plan of lararano*. W? luora foor pcofwtj Mnt UoBhr m. raHSMMf (it UHVIffL and do ao cheaper than any Inratane* Oon pany In xlsUoo*. Rtmambar waara preparad to proratoyot that oar* li tba mat and abiuirt plan o [nsoranoa known. n J. R. BLAKE, Jr., Gen. Agent, Abbeville, 8. 0. J. FRA8EB LYOtf, Pres. Abbeville. S. 0. BOARD DIRECTORS. J. Add. Calhoon.~__~_Nlnety-8Lx Towaablj 8. O. Major Greenwood 44 J.T.lIabry Cokeebary W. B. Acker -..Donald* ? T. U riftddon ..JiT.Lxonf Case 8. K. Cromer Hmllbvllla " J. W. Lvod Troy " A. K. wateon?. Odar^8pMn? " Dr. J. A. Anderaon Antrevllle H. A. Tenneot Lowndeavllle " A. O. Grant. Magnolia J. R. Tarrant .....Calhoun Mills H. L- Edmonda ?...Borda*ax ? W. C. Martin Hodges 8.O. Harvey ..Waloat Grove P. B. Callleon Callleon " W. M. Oats Klrkaeve Joeepb Laka ? Pboeolx M J. O Ronh Rmnka B. a Klnartl Kinante J. D. Coleman......?_......Corooac? u J. H. Cbllcn. Jr.................. Bred ley M BaT. J. B. Mo* Vardary " AbbaTllIa. 8 a. Jan. 14. 1008. Charleston and Western Carolina R. fi Ainita and Aihnllle Short Lisa* la effcct July ?. 1902. Lt afaaal~ ZZZ ItflU ?a " t 66 pa Ar Greaewood IS 44 pa Ar Bant* Hprlnfa 1 18 pm ir Anderson ,7 16 pn AtLaar*aa...~_ ? 1 45 pm SIB aa Ar 6rw aiMa 3 25 pm 10 30 aa Ar Olcns Bpriip 4 00 pm ?.... Ar Bpartaabary. S 90 pm 9 00 an At felsda . 5 99 pm Ar UonderaoBrtlla 11 pm Ar AaAarllk ... 7 16 pm ...... Lt AibarlUa 7 Oft am f Lt 8p*rUobarf? 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NEW HATSto-Date MBS. MAR UfiA A fina fldoAvlmAnf /if* uao a uuu MOVI uuouv vi won u Hats, wtich she proposes to or below oost. She expects sell all sorts of goods at cus and if you want a bargain ii goods most and will go. DRESSMAKING. I AM READY AND PREPARED TO I> all klod ol dreaamaklnic. Price* rramn able. Work guaranteed. Olve me a call i tbe residence of Mrs. Jus. A. Hill. Ang. 27,Wtt. tf Mia LENA MENDA CHALMERS & McDAVID, Agents for Firs, Life, Accident, Bond an 1 Liability Insurance. : ABBEVILLE, . . . N. 4'. ' July 1H. lltcj. u - NOTICE OF 'BIGISTBiTIOy STATE OF 80UTH CAROLINA, ABBEVILLB COUNTY. U OFFICE or SUPERVIHORM OF REOIH * TRATION, ABBEVILLE COUNTY. * Abbeville, H. (X, March 8.1M Notice Is hereby given that in aooor1 dance with an Act of tbe General Amenably, and in conformity with tbe requirements of the State Conetitu ition. the books for the registration o! . I all legally qualified voters, and for the issuing of transfers, ecu, will be open at the office of Supervisor* of Regfstration in the Court House, between tbe '[ hour 9 o'clock a. m.. and 3 o'clock p i m., on tbe first Monday of each i. month, and kept open for three six> * cessive days in each month until y thirty days before the next general election. \ Tbe Board of Registration Is the r judge of the qualifications of all applicants for registration every male citizen of this 8tale and of tbe United State, twenty-one years of age. who is * not an idiot is not insane, is not a pauper supported at the public ex* pense, and is not confined In any public prison, and wbo has not been convicted of burglary, arson, obtaining goods or money under false pretenses I perjury, fcrgery, robbery, bribery, I adultery wife beatlnr, housebreaking, receiving stolen goods, breach of trust I with fraudulent Intent, fornication, I sodomy, inoesi, assault with intent to ravish, miscegenation, larceny, or crimes against the election laws, and who sball have been a resident in this State two years (except ministers In charge of organized churches and teachers of public schools, and these after tlx months residence in the fit*t* \ m nuMunt In th? Hnnntv tar \ six months, and In polling pndnej 1 four months, and woo can read any i Section in the Constitution of 1896, or can understand and explain any tec tion of said Constitution when read to him by the registration officer or officers shall be entitled to regis!ration and beoome an elector upon application for , such registration. If any person haa r been convicted of any of the crimes above-mentioned, a pardon of tbe Governor removes the disqualification. ? In CMe any minor who will beoome twenty-one yean of age after the doing of the Books of Registration and before the election, and is otherwlee qualified to register, makes application under oatb showing he is qualified to register, the Boards shall register such applicant before the closing of the books. Any person whose qualifications as 1 an elector will be completed after tbe closing of tbe Registration Books but before the next election shall have tbe right to apply for and secure a registration certificate at any time within sixty days Immediately preceding tbe closing of the Registration Books, upon an application unaer aau to uiv facta entitling him to soeh registration. The registration of voters most be by polling precincts. There most be a Book of Registration for eaeh polling precinct, that la for men township, or parish, or city, or town of less than five thousand inhabitants, or ward of cities of more than Ave thousand Inhabitants. Each elector moat vote in the polling precinct in which he resides. If there is more than one tA*lnM wlaAo In +twa vwtlllsaiv nwnlnftt TVVIU^ I'lOW *14 l>UW )WU?U0 the elector may vote at any voting 1 place designated on the registration , certificate. The Boards most designate in the registration certificate the voting place In the polling precinct at which the elector Is to vote. If there | is more than one voting place in the ! polling precincts, the Boards shall ' designate on tbe certificate the voting I place selected by the elector. G. H. MOORE. ? R. O. McADAMS, WM. C. 8HAW, Board of Supervisors of Registration . iunai, ABBEVILLE, S. C. : > iqr AS CHANGED MANAGEMENT. THE a AX boa?e will be throuctiiy renovaud, aod 9 a new entrance will be made on lb* Public Square. : The traveling public will be fnrnlabed with , nice clean room* and good bed*. Tbe table : will be furnlabed wltb the beat that the mar3 ket will aTnrd. : Every attention will be given to the pleaaare and eorofort of gueeta. ? Palronare of the traveling public la aollclt? ed. Keaeonable rale* will be given. ' L. A. LLOYD, Proprietor. ' January 6. 1?W. u --New and UpShapes. Y TAGGART ats and New Up-to-Date Shapes of sell between now and Uhristmas at to give up her store room and will tomers prices. She means business, a headgear now is your time. The DENTAL NOTICE. l) 8. F. Killingsworth, it No. I hmI Block Abbeville, 8. O. DENTAL NOTICE. Br. S. G. Thomson, d (OKKICE UP-rtTAlK8 ON McILWAlN Corner. Abbeville, tj. a i Winter good*. All grad** of winter tcooda ' may now bo fuuuil hi lliidtlm * i