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O o 1^1 o : ! A I v | We ? and c I A FEW o t Evei o % it w $ and ! P. o o O 1 From Mr. Cheatham. Abbeville Delegation, General Assembly, Columbia, S. C. Gentlemen:? Mr. H. H. Harris has introduced ' a bill to compel all public schools to use the state adopted school books and we notice that it has been placed as a special bill calling for action at this session of the legislature. If this bill becomes a law it will cost the Abbeville district alone thirteen hundred (1300) dollars to make the change. There are twenty-five districts that are independent like Abbeville and most of these districts are much * larger than Abbeville. If this bill becomes a law, it will cost not LESS than one hundred thousand (100,000) dollars for these districts to make the change. We have, after three years, just completed a course in Reading for our schools here. Now, at one stroke, shall we be compelled to throw aside these books and compel the parents to buy new ones? Other " ? courses have been completed, also, 1 11 * - J - xl ana 11 tne cnange is maae, men tue parent must pay the fiddler. In History, we use Myer's General History in the eighth and ninth grades which costs $1.50 per copy and is used two years. If we must change now, then the child must buy a book for the eighth grade at a cost of $1.20 (Botsford's History) and one for the ninth grade at a cost of $1.04 (Myers Mediaeval and Modern) making a cost of $2.24 compared with a cost now of $1.50. Is it worth considering? When it is possible, I have used J the state adopted books but some of the books are not fit, and competent v teachers protest against using them. The readers for instance, The Heart of Oak Readers, when adopted, conI tained stuff that was unfit for 1 southern children to read and to satisfy the cry that went up from * many sources, the publishers called : in the issue that contained tne stun, cut it out, and sent the rest of the . book back. Many competent teach-1 ers of the primary grades will tell you that the Heart of Oak Readers are totally unfit for primary work. Again, should this change be made and we be compelled to use the state t books, we get no benefit of exchange j prices. If we could wait until next j year and then make the change we \ could get exchange prices which ! would cut the cost of change down j about one-third. If we must make the change now, I we will probably have to do the thing \ atrain next vear as the State Board i ' will adopt books again next year, ' and, as usual, they make a change i themselves which will call for another change by us, also. This will j mean a change of books for this dis-1 trict twice in two years. What about it? Now, last but very important. I ./This board is composed of nine mem-! k 'bers. Of this nine only three are school men. Shall this board, pre-, sumably upon the advice of three 1 men, compel ALL the school men ' and women of the entire state to use : books that are not approved by the j test teachers of the state. I have extend to 1 inspect the A17 TUT? VI 1UJU ry day we s ill be a pit i--i- j-i IOOJHl U1C111 HILS been told that all men on this board do not, or did not, use the books adopted by the board of which they tt are members. te If all the schools of the state are going to be compelled to use the . books adopted by a board then certainly the board should be made up ei of the best school men and women S that th* state produces, and not by P< a board made by political appoint- h< ment. And, by the way, this board tl is agair appointed, or a new one ap- tt pointed, this next April. jn Practically all of the town and Uj city schools of the state of Georgia . are exempt from the state adoption ^ and it should be so in this state. The state adopts books for schools which C( only run five to seven months and ci it can be readily seen that a course u: of study for a short term school is dl not adapted to a full term school of hi nine months. IE Now. gentlemen, we leave it with gJ you. With the influence that you can exert, we feel sure that you can e' -- - ^ -- ?i? ?i ??iitl save us mis useless anu uuvaucu mi expense. 11 Thanking you on behalf of the pa- h trons and trustees of this district, I if remain, Very truly, ia R. B. Cheatham. n Since beginning this letter, the first grade teacher has called me and asked what to do about the reader that the class is now ready to take up. I have advised her to wait a a' few days to see just what will hap- J'( pen with this bill. I feel that if we pi must do so, it will be best to start tc now with what the state is offereing 0I regardless of what the result will be to the child. Certainly it is better j,, for the child to wait than to have to buy a new book again in tne next few days. R. B. C. ai ti Culture. p Taking culture in the individual as meaning a development of all the fac- '.ll ulties it follows that the most cuU J1 tured nation is that in which there is 01 the greatest number of all round men. And if this be true, we must at once ^ realize how hopeless is the task of 1 attempting to estimate the extent of * culturo in ^nous nations. Said to Be Oldest Tree. The famous cypress near Oaxaca in Mexico, over 5.000 years old. said to be the oldest tree in the world was discovered by Humboldt while on his " famous tour of equatorial America, 100 years ago. He nailed to it a wooden tablet, which is now half cov- ^ ered by the subsequent growth of the tree. Upon it, however, is still legible the autograph of the famous German naturalist. The last meas- . urement of the tree showed its trunk, ' four feet from the ground, to have a girth of 126 feet. ^ 11 Cause of Paint Dust. g Paint dust is caused chiefly by rub- v bing old or new paint with dry sand- i paper. This process is universally o recognized as the most dangerous part of the painters' trade. It could be completely done away with by the use of cheap mineral oil to wet the sandpaper and catch the dust. w yalsi y ou a con new SUIT NEWES1 ire receivi jasure to I over. ;on Fire Versus Life Insurance. Of the 12,000,000 or so dwellings In le United States 90 per cent are procted?at least to some extent?by :e insurance. But of our 100.000.000 habitants only 13 per cent have taki our life insurance policies. Men iem to be more uneasy over the mere )ssibility of the burning of their juses than over the stern certainty lat death will some day overtake lem. This is a strange contradiction i human nature. To safeguard the ition's material possessions is well, at how much more valuable than the ames are the human lives of the >untry! In this age. when the prinpies of life insurance are so well nderstood, there should be no such Iscrepaney between the number of omes aud of lives insured. In many istances the former could not be ived from foreclosure were the earn:s of Incomes to pass away leaving fomlUny fr\r If Is as luch the duty of every man to Insure is life as to insure his property, and he has no insurable property there : all the more reason for insuring his fe.?Leslie's. How to Ride. In riding sit erect and don't slouch long. Don't try to be a cowboy if 3U are not. We Lave the real simon lire cowpuncliei's and broncho bus;rs; also we have the tin horn variety the same species. Steer clear of le latter; also be careful not to get ito this category yourself. Remember that a horse is only flesh ad blood and not a machine. lie gets red. hungry and thirsty, and for I x>dness' sake, treat liiru accordingly. 1 ecause he is a lively horse and you . re paying his hire, treat him white ist the same. Remember that some tie else rode him yesterday, and anther will probably do so tomorrow. ; ive your horse the same kind of a I pal you yourself would demand if | on were In its place. Even a broncho ! no fonlinif., oii.l n-ill nnnroflnto rniir ! lougbtfulness.?Outing. One Misery of Anglo-Indian Life. Every jiiirlit at dinner tlie Anglo-Inian holds a kind ?>f levee. The in- j pets which attend dance gayly round lit? lamp, and one has t?? watch one's | late and glass carefully lest some of ! lie insects should dance into them, j 'here is one insect?a little, flat, brown.! hining creature?which emits the I rorst odor in the world. If one of : bese touches your food the whole is , minted and rendered inedible. You \ are not kill these pests, for if one be quashed the whole room becomes filld with its disgusting smell and i? j ninhabitable for the next half hour, j !o these abominable insects fly about ritli impunity, while the poor Anglendian must perforce look helplessly n and inwardly sigh "spero meliora." -London Saturday Review. ivir. u. a. vanaiver 01 Anaerson, as in the city Tuesday on business. I dial invitati ?,j rnA U U11U V/V/JT j [ THINGS ng some 11 have you i P_ U1 ol nj If a Naturalist Painted. If I were to paint tbe short days of. winter 1 should paint two towering iceliergs approaching each other like promontories, for morning and evening. with cavernous recesses and a solitnrv tmvplpr wrunninir his cloak about hitn and bent forward against the driving storm, just entering the narrow pass. I would paint the licrht of a taper at midday, seen through a cottage window, half buried in snow and frost. In the foreground should be seen the sowers in the fields und other evidences of spring. On the right and left of the approaching icebergs the heavens should be shaded off from the light of midday to midnight with its stars, the sun being low in the sky.?Henry Da vid Thoreau. The Lyre Bird. The fully developed male lyre bird is one of the most handsome and notable of the forms of bird life of Queensland. The contour of the bird, with its long neck and stout pallinaceous feet, is by no means unlike that of a peacock, and the wonderful tail, possessed only by the male birds, fulfills a corresponding role of vain display AVA/itifau ont-ino fnr n trnfn 1UC U11U CACV. UlC^ (Uitivo *w? M V?u... of female admirers on a raised earthen mound. For a short period of the year, about January, the lyre bird loses its characteristic plumes and has to be content with the sober plumage of its mate. Internal Portraiture. An art patroness was gushing over a portrait in the presence of the artist "I do not know how it is." she said, "but when you paint a portrait you seem to put more into it than any one else can see." "Madam," he exclnimel in a rhapsody. "it's not faces alone that I paint: it is souls!" "Oh." she replied cuttingly, for his enthusiasm was tow warm, "you do in , teriors. do von V"?Kxchange. i Cold Mixtures. One of the coldest mixtures known isj made bv adding three pounds of mu 1 - .... , -r 1 riate or 11mo iu one iiuuun m sunn | Three pounds of snow added to one i pound of salt make the mixture fall thirty-two degrees below freezing point. Easy Saving. In Argentina a postal savings ban 1.1 account can be opened by depositing one paper dollar, but after that suiu>j of mere fractions of a cent may be j entered by purchase of a stamp. Who Knows? A little girl, finishing her breakfast, looked up and asked. "Mother, what is hash when it is alive?"?Chicago Herald. The lucky man is the one who sees and grasps his opportunity.?Old Saying. Send us your Job Printing. Sandi j on to com ilb tor bp TO SHO iew goods, irisit our i FNR UJI J. ^ J. Beautiful Land of Alsac*. This land of Alsace Is in many ? spects the most beautiful that 1 bav ever seen. Strung along the horizoi liko sentinels wrapped in mantles o greeu. tbe peaks of the Vosges Iool against the sky. On the slopes of ta ridges, massed in their black batta ions, stand forests of spruce and pin< Through peaceful valleys silve streams meander leisurely, and in th meadows which border them cattl stand knee deep amid the lush gree grass. The villages, their tortuoui cobble paved streets, lined on elthe side by dim arcades, and the old, ol houses, with their turrets and balc< *? J nAffArtr fnrtfi Ilies uuu Bietrp J.JHV.UCU >uui< give you the feeling that they are nc real, but that they are scenery on stage, and this Illusion Is heigbtene by the men In their jaunty berets an wooden sabots, and the women whos huge black silk headdresses accentuat the freshness of their complexions. I is at once a region of ruggedness an majesty and grandeur, of qualntnes and simplicity and charm.?F. Ale: ander Powell in Scribner's Magazine. Japan's Dragon Lamps. Japan abounds with sacred placesShlntoist and Buddhist?formerly r< puted for the appearances of the s called "dragon's lamp." This is n my; terious light that comes out of a pom lake or sea and alights on a certai tree, mostly on a certain night It wa held that the light was dedicated b a dragon dwelling in the water to irod whose shrine stood near the tree For example. the famous Ryuto of tli temple of Avsilokitesvara on Xairns hill. province of Kii. made its annu; ascent from the sea to a pine tree i the precincts ovp-v ninth niirht of tli seventh moon. At the iitulniirht of tli K!;h of every month a Ryuto cam from the northeast oiling to tl:c s called "dragons lamp nine." near tli shrine of Mandjnsri at Kiredo. proi imo of Tango. wliereas on the sam tree another liirht. namo;l "Celestif lamp." made its descent from the heat ens every sixteenth night of the Ill's fifth and ninth months.? Exchange. Last Chance. "It is said." lie remarked reflect iv< ly. "that women's hainis are growin larger." "Well?" she returned inquiringly. "Yes." lie assorted. "And the won of it is that there is every likeliboo that this tendency will continue." "Yes?" she said in the same inqui ing tone. "Yes." he repeated. "You see, drn Iny and golf and tennis and othc sports that women have recently take up are responsible for it." "In that ease." she said, with glance at her own dainty hands, "you* better speak quick if you want a sma one." He realized that it was the opporti nity of a lifetime, and he spok promptly.?Chicago Herald. o < < <> % o o . e in I o ring I W ?00 ! < < i cum o store t < o* < oo Y i 1 z O* o o j Better Groceries ! ;i ? Better Service! j Better Price! e e n We propose to give our 1 1 on,) ' | t'USlUIIICIS UCttCl 9C 1?1VC (*IAU better prices during the year ; } 1916.. 3. >t We have always kept the ; a best groceries on the market. d Give us a trial on HAMS, I BREAKFAST BACON, CEit REALS, CANNED GOODS, d BOTTLED GOODS, SYIS ItUPS, ETC. cAVe keep the RICHELIEU BRAND of canned goods and - the famous WHITE HOUSE COPFRK. 0 A. M. HILL & SONS ; Plioue 126 i) iP ? a ESTATE OF D. H. BALDWIN, Dec'd >1 Notice of Settlement and Application n for Final Discharge. e TAKE NOTICE that on the 7th ,, day of March, 1916, I will render a (, final account of my actings and doings as Administrator of the Estate of D. H. Baldwin, deceased, in the office of Judge of Probate for Abbeville County at 10 o'clock a. m., and e on the same day will apply for a final 11 discharge from my trust as such ad; ministrator. t. All persons having demands against said estate will present them for payment on or before that day, proven and authenticated or be forever barred. ! W. H. BALDWIN, 'A Administrator. * LI V-VER-LAX J ACTS SURELY, SAFELY. r. Just because you are feeling the ill effects of a torpid liver is no excuse for buying a harmful medicine that has brought physical decay to thous!r ands. Calomel is dangerous and as n everyone knows has very disagreeable and weakening after effects, a Medical science has found a natural, il vegetable remedy, GRIGSBY'S LIV 1] VER-LAX that thoroughly cleans- es the liver and bowels without caus . ing any bad feeling. Children can < take it with perfect safety. Every e bottle guaranteed. 50c and $1 a bottle. None genuine without the likeness and signature of L. K. Grigsby. For sale by any druggist.