Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Hea?thy Showing in Earnings cf Ail Railroads RECEIPTS PER MILE INCREASED Commissioner Lane Says Railroads Revenues For the Year Ending in Jun? Broke All Records. Washington, ?Special.-Tn the opin ion of Franklin K. Lane, Interstate Commerce Commissioner, the rail road, industrial and financial condi tion of the country is improving rap idly. "It is a fact," said he "hard ly believable, but nevertheless true, that the total operating revenue per mile of railroads for the year ended June 30th, 190S, exceeds that of any other year in the history of railroad ing in the United tates except, the one year of 1907. The average ope rating- revenue per mile of line per month for the 226.000 miles#of rail road reporting to thc commission was $894, for thc fiscal year of 1908. This was less by about $61 than for fhe year 1907; but it was more than any preceding year, and was $11S per mile per month more than in the year .of the Inst presidential election. As I predicted, a local car shortage even now exists. Conditions rapidly are becoming normal and prosperous." Graham Confessed-Sentenced to Death. Concord. X. C.. Special.-Will Gra ham is a self-confessed rapist under sentence of death. On the 18th day of December Graham is to be hanged until dead. Judge Ferguson having so sentenced him after thc evidence had been taken and a verdict of guilty reported by the'jury. Judge Ferguson addressed the crowded court room, showing how the law finds the guilty one and ad ministers justice in the case where the law is allowed to take its course, and in giving thc negro a fair trial carried out the ends of justice. He also commended the members of thc negro race for the fidelity and the manner in which they gave tesimony against thc prisoner and did all pos sible to bring out the truth. The closing hours of the trial were tragic and pathetic Thursday night Graham told Captain Brown, of the local militia, that be wanted to talk with a preacher, and at his request Captain Brown brought Rev. T. F. Logan, a Presbyterian minister, to whom Graham made a full confession. New Orleans Cotton. New Orleans. Special.-Cotton: Spots opened Saturday easy and closed steady. Good middling being reduced 1-16 and middling fair 1-8. Middling unchanged at 815-16; sales on the spot 2,000 bales and 3.200 to arrive. , Futures opened quiet at a decline of 2 to 6 points under the influence of disappointing Liverpool cables. Later the market sagged off still fur ther under the bearish into-sight statement, the active position reach:, ing a level 9 to 10. points -under' the previous day's filial .Quotations. ,"this -;.poin tvnumero us : ^abl?^iness?g from Livelpeoi and' -Manchester w received'-'statins that thc cotton mill lockout had been settled and prices quickly rose 20 to 23 points, at which level they Avere at a net advance of 10 to 14 points. At the closing: the tone was called steady and prices showed a net advance of 5 to 7 points. Closing bids: Nov. 8.85: Dec. 8:78. Jan. S.75. Feb. 8.76, March S.78; Ap ril 8.S1 ; May 8.83. Daughter Dead; Mother Injured, Clarkesburg. Special-Mrs. Joseph Fetta and her 14-year-old daughtei were fatally injured by being run down by a Baltimore and Ohio pas senger train. The daughter died while being taken to a hospital here and the mother is not expected tc survive an operation performed after the accident. MARYLAND'S VOTE SPLIT. Indications. Based on Official Return': Are That Taft Will Receive 2 and Bryan 6. Baltimore, Md., Special.-Calcula tions of the official returns from Tuesday's elections, not finished until Saturday, show that the electoral vote of'Mar. la-id will be split, Brvan getting six of the electors and Taft two. On the popular vote-the vote cast for the elector receiving Mif highest number - Taft carries thc State by 561 votes. His elector poll ing thc highest vote received 116.47] and the highest Brv?n elector Ho, 910. Mill, Employes Get Full Work. Pawtucket, R. I.. Special.-Thc thread mills of the J. & P. Coats Company, in this city, employing 2, 500 hands, resumed a full time work ing schedule on Saturday, according to an announcement posted in thc mills. Thc mills have been running on short time since thc financial de pression of last fall. World's Visible Cotton Supply. New Orleans. Special.-Secretan Hester's statement of the world's vis ible supply of cotton issued Savurdnv shows thc total visible is 3,617,900 against 3,2S0,124 last week and 3, 371,958 last year. Of this the total of American cotton is 3.092.90f against. 2.741.124 last week and 2 565.082 last >eav all other kinds in eluding Egvpt, Brazil, India, etc. 525.009 against 539;000 last week and 806,876 last year. SIM (MS Clarendon, Chester and Laurens Seem to Eave Gone "Dry" - Other County Contests. Columbia, Special.-While South Carolina' ia normally Democratic, scattering returns from over the State indicate that the Democratic majority will be about the usual 50, 000. All of the seven Democratic con gressmen are returned practically without opposition. In only two dis tricts was there any show of a con test, the chronic candidate, Aaron Prioleau, in the First district, receiv ing a Jew scattering votes, while R. H. Richardson, another negro, was voted for by the few Republicans in the Seventh district. The Socialist and Independence tickets made a very small showing in the State. In the county elections, interest centered in the contest in Lexington for superintendent of education, where A. D. Marlin was elected over Rev. E. L. Lybrand b\ about 3 to 1. For supervisior in Lee county eight boxes out of 13 give Mooneyh.-uu (Dem.) ;376; DuRant (independent) 20S. In Richland, the only other couuty where there was opposition to the regular Democratic nominee, Samuel H. Owens, for supervisor, deefated his opponent, W. A. Douglass ,by a large majority, Douglass' vote being less than 200. Returns received Tuesday night in dicate that Laurens, Chester and Clarendon have gone "'dry." While thc returns are yet incomplete, there is hardly any doubt that all three ol these counties have lined up with prohibitionists. Martin IE Elected in Lexington County. Lexington, Special.-Partial vot? from Lexington county shows that the total vote in thc county will be about 2,000. About 100 Republican and the rest Democrat. A. D. Martin is elect ed county superintendent over the Rev. E. L. Lybrand by a majority of about 2 to 1. Union. Union, Special.-Twelve precincts out of 15 in Union county gave Bry an electors 1,272, Taft 47. Laurens. Laurens, Special.-The total vote here will be about 2,000. At Laurens city box Bryan electors received 55S; Taft 43, Socialist 1. At Clinton. Bryan 21S; Taft. Ooldville: Bryan 22; Taft 0. These precincts are given as it ie improbable that other than Demo cratic ticket was voted elsewhere in the county. Chester. Chester, Special.-Fourteen pie ciucts out of 18 in Chester county give the Democrat?3 electors, 1,17] and the* Republicans 39. Bryan's estimated majority in this county will be close on'1,400. Orangeburg. Springfield, Special.-Springfield gives Bryan 3S9; Taft 13. Level and Richardson, same proportion as above. Abbeville. Abeville, Special.-Abbeville city: Bryan 3S9; Taft 7; Independence 2. Less than one-half vote polled in this county. Interest in Camden. . CamdeniiSpecial.-A great deal' o? -interest is being man'fes^ed_in ..ehjpk. \-tipn ? result's.' Beside.1- -he" excellent ^e?'':slrvic?.i'which is being furnished its patrons by the Bell Telephone company, the opera house is crowded with auxious inquirers who are re ceiving the returns over the wires. Florence. Timmonsville, Special. - Election very quiet. Republican electors 7; Democratic electors 189 votes. Gover nor, lieutenant governor, solicitor, members of house of representative! ISO votes. The Vote in Pinewood. Pinewood, Special. - Democratic electors 40; Republican 15. Legare 47, Prioleau 13. Vote for prohibition 34 against 10. The election passed off quietly. Greenwood. Greenwood, Special.-Partial re turns 1,080 for Bryan ; 9 for Taft. Edgefield. Edgefield, Special-Vote gives Bry an electors, estimated. State and county ticket, 1.300; Taft electors 17. Democratic vote 500 short. Election passed off quietly. Marlboro. Bennettsvillc, Special.-Democratic electors in Marlboro from eight out of 12 precincts receive 759 votes, Re publican electors 15 votes. O'lly about 50 per cent, of registered vot ers cast their ballots in this county. Out of 1,929 registered voters, only 03 certificates aro held by negroes. Anderson. Anderson, Special.-Probably 3,500 votes cast in Anderson county, all of which were Democratic except a few Republican; Rain fell over the coun ty befora the polls closed. Atlanta Court Fixes Weight Georgia Mule May Haul. Atlanta, Ga.. Special.-There is a limit to the weight a Georgia mule should be made to haul and this limit was fixed by Judge Broyles in police court at 2,500 pounds. Judge Broyles fined C. B. Walker $5.75 because Wal ker's mule was caught by an enter prising policeman in the act of haul ing a load of 4,032 pounds. Prominent Georgia Woman Dead. Columbus, Ga., Special.-Emma Moffett Tyng, aged 02 years, died here Monday. Mrs. Tyng was an ex tensive traveler in both thc new and old worlds and her lecture on the Holy Grail was received with much appreciation in various Southern cities. She spent nearly all of thc past few years of her life in New York. She was thc author of one novel and was a frequent magazine contributor. 1 J"I' I"I"I"I"I'-I"I"I"I"Z"I"I-1-I- I- I 'I-l-fr JL iTK D I ?X r\ KW rfTk iTV Tt C\ 1 RT PROF. WILLIAM IT. HAND. University of South Carolina. Paper Number Nine. i J, .'t"!?f?|' The High School Situation.-Count ing the increased facilities added this year, it is easily demonstrated by lig ures that thc public high schools of the State, aided and unaided, have in creased in efficiency more than twen ty-five per cent since January 1. 1907. In more than one-fourth of them the efficiency has been doubled within that time. The chief increase is in the quantity and qaulity of the teaching force, thus giving longer recitation periods, a wider range ot" studies, and lengthened courses of study. The State appropriation of $50,000 has been the chief instru ment by which these improvements have been brought about, but it must be admitted that even with this lever it has been a task of magnitude to secure this increased efficiency. It has required courage and watchful ness on thc par1 of the Slate High School Board to prevent thc schools from taking the State aid for thc high school, then turning it into the common school department without one particle of increase ot efficiency in the high school. The introductory statement might lead the uninformed to think that our high schools are apw satisfaclory. Far from it. There are not far from 140 public schools coming within tho minimum definition of a high school under the present high school law one teacher giving all his time to not fewer than fifteen pupils above thc seventh grade or seventh school year. Of these 140 schools, 25 have ene high school teacher each, 80 schools have two teachers each, and the re maining ones more than two teachers each. Only six schools have each the full teaching time of five teachers or more. In nearly all the one-teacher high schools the recitation periods have been advanced to 30 minutes each, nothing less than 20 minutes being accepted in the aided schools. In those with two or more high school teachers, fully three-fourths have 40. and 45-minute periods, while a few have one hour periods. In an aided school of this class nothing less than 30 minutes is accepted. The great est single gain has been this length ening of the recitation periods, and upon the whole thc situation iu this respect is satisfactory. Some noticeable improvement in the competency of the teachers has been made, but in this respect condi tions are far from satisfactory. Many places are willing to pav from $1,200 to $1,500 for a supervising principal, but give him cheap assistants. It is utterly useless to talk about getting a competent and experienced woman, fitted to do high school teaching, at $40 a month, or a man who has shown himself qualified, at $60. It is painful to rae to say this, for among just such teachers are some of my best personal friends. But I know only too well that the standard of the high schools depends upon the standard of their teaching force. Let me tell some things I have seen and heard. I have seen more than one high school teacher wrestle a half hour with an ordinaryj)rqbkm... in,J Wentworth's Practical A^ithm?tic,. a j b?okusually completed in.'tlie^eighth Phvhicnl f>ography a bookTe'aily too difficult for ' the eighth grade where it is usually found, I have seen teachers cover enough ground in one 30-minute reci tation to have given profitable work for three such periods. In one his tory recitation I have seen tho class read the text like a fourth reader for one-half the time, then listened to thc teacher ask twenty to thirty wholly unrelated questions each suggestive of the answer expected. Day after day I see teachers vainly attempimg to teach English Grammar and Punc tuation from the rules and the few examples given in the textbook, and seemingly oblivions to thc fact that every text the child uses is full of the very illustrations needed. Latin usually referred to as a dead lang uage; it might with propriety bo called deadly in some instances. Not a few high school pupils after iwc years of Latin study are unable tc separate a word into its syllabics, oi to determine the length of a syllable. In translation it is no uncommon thing to hear such as this: "Galiia Gaul, est-is, omnis-all, divisa-divided. in-in, partes-parts, tres-three." etc As a specimen product of the viiroi of the Latin grafted upon the flexibi lity of the English! note this: "Thc army having been drawn np more as the nature cf thc place and the slope of the hill and the necessity of Mir time than ar. thc order and plan of military things demanded, since I lu different legions somo in one part and some another were resisting the en emy and the thick hedges having been; cast down," etc. (See Caesar's Gal lic War. Book II, chapter 22.) Thc teacher who accepted this jagron hold? a college diploma, and is exempt from examination of fitness to teni']}. On my desk arc some specimens of spell ing in the handwriting of high school teachers-all but one college gradu ates: Ceasar (thus by three teachers), latin, liturattfe, Enock Arden. Bcu ler's Grammar has been in constant use in this State eight years. *md Myers' Histories more than fifteen years. Here are some of the varia tions: Mver's, Meyers', Meyer's;] Moulder (five teachers), Beulah (three teachers), Beulah (two teachers) Beuhlar (one teacher). A fifleeni hundred dollar principal can not make bricks without straw. Only a few high schools are con *enl lo offer a two-year course, al though one of the best schools in thc State has but two years. Nine-tenth? 'f the high schools offer a throc-ycai "ourse, no matter how many nor how Pew (''achers. Last year lhere were '?ni four public high schools in flu State with a standard fonr-ycni fm rf" end crouch teachers to te.iel T, e renort for 1008-9 will sliov oerhrns riffllt standard four-year? schools. To he sure more I han Lom schools claim a four-yerr course. Sev eral schools claiming a four-year course were credited with fewer units of work than are required for a standard three-year course a ul one school claiming four years irA below the requirements for a standard two year course. The standard appl.ed to thc high schools was that generally accepted by the colleges of the St'tc, and is below that used hy the Corne gie Foundation Board. The error in to which most o fthesc schools have fallen is to divide their pupils into four classes with six and seven moth intervals ol' advancement between cadi two, then call each division ?a year in the course. That the reader may sec the validity of some of these claims, some courses are herc oui lin ed: This is thc fourth year's work in one school: The first half of My ers' General History, Comercial Ari thmetic five tirro a week, three hooks of Plane Geometry, and forty-five hours during the year in Tappau's History of Literature. Another four year school gets through the Second Book of Caesar's Gallic War. four books of Plane Geometry, and Tap pan's Literature. Numbers of these courses show that the third year and the fourth year classes are together in more than one study. Ono must not he misled by the term literature in many of these schools. It is nothing more than reading about thc authors of literature a' little biography, if the truth must bc told. The poverty of sonic of these four year courses is more than offset by some of the plethoric three-year courses, some of which arc formid able affairs. At random I take one year's work from 0:1c of these courses: Arithmetic, Algebra. Rheto ric, Literature, Latin (reading, gram mar, and prose composition). Physi cal Georgraphy, History and Business Methods (an innocent little text.) In this year's work every pupil takes everything prescribed, and each pupil is on recitation practically every pe riod during the day. Several schools have Arithmetic, Algebra and Geome try in the same year's work, and a few have Physical Georgraphy ?nd Physics in the same year, with prac tically no other science in the entire course. The majority of the one-teacher high schools undertake the impossible -lo teach a full four-year course. One such school has classes in Arith metic. Algebra, Geometry. English Grammar; English Composition, Liter ature, Physical Geography, U. S. His tory. S. (". History. General History, Beginner's Latin, Caesar, and Ovid. ? One teacher may teach a few subjects tlnoiHi a four-year course, and clo it well, but on such course as the ! one just given a teacher is wasting his time and energv. The greatest evil is to the pupil. His time and effort are divided up among so many subjects that he pursues none of them long enough or far enough to get any train ing or knowledge out of them. In even Hie better schools the average pupil gets but little out of such sub jects as Physical Geography, Physics, and Civics, because they are not stu died long cnoiiirh to benefit the pupil. The high schools, like the common schools, suffer from the endless chang ing ol' tear hers. A comparison of this year's schedule with that of last year shows thal thc whole course has been overhauled and reorganized, and in some cases thc new course seems lo he given over to reviewing past work. Perhaps such course is, necessary, but it shows a ieari'uJ waste of.-energy .'somewhere. . 'Ju' at .'least, two ?cases 'tl?e n?^:-teachers have ^aken.-tlfc' ,pu-; pits out of ??'last'year V. eighth 'and ninth grades, added ' a few recruits, and made a four-year school. Pre sumbiy this is progress. NEWSY GLEANINGS. According to a decision of the Illi nois Supreme Court foam is not beer. Railroad companies aro preparing to expend millions for frelgh; equip ment. Dalmatians look with suspicion on Austrla'e. annexation ol' Bosnia and Herzegovina. Turkish Ministers are pleased at Russia's determined opposition to Austria's aims. Rear-Admiral Emory lauded at Amoy and called on the imperial Chi nese commissioners. Lee De Forest, the wireless experf. said wireless telephones were proving a success on two British warships. Henry Farman covered twenty miles in twenty minutes in his aero plane, flying from Mourmelon to Rheims. At the dispersal of the McGrath iana Stud of horses, tl;? property of of Milton Young, 4GS <cad realized $S1,2S5. Naval officers at Newport ex pressed the opinion that the stranded cruiser Yankee would be saved by John Arbuekle's plan. Many expressions of public opinion In favor o? the anti-iioiRi* orJinances were received iu Nev York City by the Committee on Laws and Legisla tion. The Bulgarian Ministry of Justice Issued orders that ii. future subjects of foreign powers in Bulgaria should no. longer enjoy the intermediary of their consuls. The Now York City Board of Edu cation postponed action on a resolu tion designed lo bar teachers and other employes from taking an active interest in politics. Bequests cf $150,000 to the Metro politan Museum of Art and of $2, 000,000 to the New York Post Grad uate Hospital were made in the will of Frederic Cooper Hewitt. A HOPELESS CASE. "Young man," said the stern par ent, "when I was your age I worked hard for my living." "Very 'inconsiderate of you to men tion it," answered tho gilded youth. "You'll have them ta-king about lt at the eV'b np*''?_w??Mn<?tnii FUnr. H*^"H"HMH*?HH I M1I H-H THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA, AUGUSTA. GA. L. C. HAYNE, CHAS. R. CLARK. President. Cashier CAPITAL $250,000.00. Surplus & Profits $190,000.00. The business of our out-of-town friend* receives the samo careful attention a? timi of nurlncal depositor?. The accounts ol careful onso. <atlve peopl.} solicited. HH-H Mill M"I-**?H-r*H-? Savings D Pays 4 % interest on all ac< compounded every six moj Capital and Surpl GO TO HAKLING Before insuring elsewhere Old Line Companies. At The Farmers ] r THE r.HK You want an engine that rt?ns like a top, smoothly mil uninterrupt edly. If an engioe balks or stops and you have to fool away your time to find oat tbe cays?, you don't want that enjdne because it m cass t waste of time and energy. -.- -:- -:- - E. J. N Coal Heaters, Cook sortm?nis of cook The railroads, declares the Atlan tic Constitution, must keep that promise to haul thc prosperity. INSURANCE When placing 'your Insure ance give me a call. I rep resent a very strong line of, FIRE - - - Insurance Companies, Ageot for the largest I^IITE; - - . Insurance Co. 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