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AND Factory Prices! Easy # Payments! $5. monthly % to $10. monthlyl $2. monthly ans $5. monthly 30 days free trial in yoi own home. Sheet Music 4cts a copy. Send for Catalog. MUSIC HOUSE. Augusta, - - Ga. ? 1111111 HH-MS44-M-*-H The Planter's Loan and Savings Bank Augusta, Ca. Fays Interest on Deposits, J? Accounts Solicited. LC. KAYNE, CHAS. C. HOWARD, PBE?lTENf. CASHIER. RESOvJ-RCES OVCR5?r.o<>o,CK?o. INSURANCE 1 now r?pr?sent a strong I line of Fire Insurance Companies and can insure your property. ? our patronage will be appreciated. H. A. SMITH. ? GROCERIES: Full supply of Fancy and Staple Groceries always on hand. ?Let me supply your table.! Ice cold soft drinks al ways on hand. Fu supply, ^ Bagging kV d Ties on hand for the ffar?in?rs'. Your patronage solicited. J. IL OUZTS. T/MMOjVS & CORLEY, SURGEON DENTISTS, Appointments at Trenton on Wednesdays. Crown and Bridge Work a Special ?-1 Walter C. Miller, Dental Surgeon, 731 Green St., Augusta, Ga. Thone 87. ' CONDITIONS BETTER Heathy Showing in Earnings cf AH Railroads RECEIPTS PER MILE INCREASED Commissioner liane Says Railroads Revenues For thc Year Ending in June Broke All Records. Washington, ?Special.-In 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 mili 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 the commission was $394, for' the fiseal year of 190S. This was less by about $G1 than for fhe year I "07; but it was more than any preceding year, and was $118 per mile per month more than iii the year .of the last presidential election. As I predicted, a local car shortage even now exists. Conditions rapidly are becondng normal and prosperous/' Graham " Confessed-Sentenced to Death. Concord, N. C., Special-Will Gra ham is a self-confessed rapist under sentence of death. On the ISth day of December Graham is to be hanged until dead. Judge Ferguson having so sentenced him after the 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 the negro a fair .trial carried out the ends of Justice. He also commended the members of the negro race for the fidelity and the manner in which they gave tesimony against the prisoner and did all pos sible to bring out tho truth. The closing hours of the trial were tragic and pathetic Thursday night Graham told Captain Brown, of the local militia, that he 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-S. Middling unchanged at S15-16; sales on the spot 2,000 bales and 3,200 to arrive. r 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, rc'achj. h^g^M^^lo iq yotyt?^?^\ the received 's rafi: ig im^WMoUoawM lockout had been settled and prices quickly rose 20 to 23 poinJ s. at which level they were at a net udvt.r?e? 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. S:7S. Jan. 8.75. Feb. 8.76, March 8.78; Ap ril 8.81; May 8.83. Daughter Dead; Mother Da jared, Clarkesburg. Special-Mrs. Joseph Fetta and her 14-year-old daughter were fatally injured by being mn 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 af tex the accident. MARYLAND'S VOTE SPLIT. Dedications. Based, on Oficial Returno 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'Maryland will be split, Brvan getting six of the electors and Tafl two. On the popular vote-the vote cast for the elector receiving 4 he highest number - Taft carries thc State by 561 votes. His elector poll ing the highest vote, .received 116.471 and the highest Biran'elector 115, 910. W.l\ Employes Get Full Work. Pawtucket, R. I., Special.-Thc thread mills of the J. & P. Coats Compan)', in this city, employing 2, 500 hands, resumed a full time work ing schedule on Saturday, accordinp to an announcement posted in thc mills. Thc mills have been running on short time since the financial de pression of last fall. World's Visible Cotton Supply. New Orleans. Special.-Secretary Hester's statement of thc world's vis ible supply of cotton issued Saturday shows the total visible is 3,617,90(1 against 3,2S0,124 last week and 3, 371,958 last year. Of this the total of American cotton is 3,092,000 against 2,741,124 last week and 2 565.082 last year all other kinds in cluding Egypt, Brazil. India, etc. 525,000 against 539,000 last week and S0?.S7G last year. S???E mts MmMm Clarendon, Chester and Laurens Seem to Eave Cone "Dry" -'Other County Contests. Columbia, Special.-"While South Carolina' is normally Democratic, scattering returns from over the State indicate that the Democratic majority Avili 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. Martin was elected over Rev. E. L. Lybrand by about 3 to 1. For supervisior in Lee county eight hoses out of 13 give Mooneybnm (Dem.) 576; DuRant (independent) 208. In Richland, the only other county where there was opposition to the regular Democratic nominee, Samuel H. Owens, for supervisor, deefated his opponent, W. A. Douglass ,by a large majoritj*, Douglass' vote being less than 200.' Returns received Tuesday night in dicate that Laurens, Chester and Clarendon have gone "dry." While the returns are yet incomplete, there is hardly any doubt that all three o? these counties have lined up with prohibitionists. Martin Is Elect?d in Lexington County. Lexington, Special.-Partial voU from Lexington county shows that the total vote in the 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 553: Taft 43, Socialist 1. At Clinton. Brvan 21S; Taft. Goldville: Bryan 22; Taft 0. These precincts are given as it it improbable that other than Demo cratic ticket was voted elsewhere in the county. Chester. Chester, Special.-Fourteen pre cincts out of 13 in Chester county give the Democratii electors, 1,171 and the* Republicans 39. Bryan's estimated majority in this county will be close on''1,400. Orangehurg. Springfield, Special.-Springfield gives Bryan 3S9; Taft 13. Lever and Richardson, same proportion as above. Abbeville. Abeville, Special.-Abbeville city: Bryan 339; Taft 7;.Independence 2. Less than one-half vote polled in this county. ' Interest in Camden. , Camden.,.-Special.-A great deal o? Hfl^SB^9B?ing manifested in^eljgjk. tior.. r?-suils.' Besides "the excellent service, which is being furnished its patrons by the Bell Telephono 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 representatives ISO votes. The Vote in Pinewood. Pinewood, Special. - Democratic electors 46; Republican 15. Legare 47, Prioleau 13. Vote for prohibition 34 against 10. The election passed off quietlj-. , Greenwood. Greenwood, Special.-Partial re turus 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. Bcnnettsville, Special.-Democratic electors in Marlboro from eight out of 12 precincts receive 759 votes, Re publican electors 15 votes. Only about 50 per cent, of registered vot ers cast tbeir ballots in this county. Out of 1,929 registered voters, only 63 certificates aro held by negroes. Anderson. Anderson, Special.-Probably 3,000 votes cast in Anderson county, all of which were Democratic except a few Republican: Rain fell over the coun ty befora the polls' closed. -r--- ?Jr 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 finod 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 62 years, died here Monday. Mrs. Tyng was an ex tensive traveler in both the 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 the past few years of her life in Kew York. She was the author of one novel and was a frequent magazine contributor. ?I"H"J'-M"!-1 X- Z .. /TK ? i trv /-\ 1 m /nv /TK T r> i BY PROF. WILUAM H. HAXD, University of South Carolina. Paner Number Nine. 1 ^"?i"i"i"i"i"X"X-x ?2-X--Z--X--I-I -l-l r M4 The High School Situation.-Count ing the increased facilities added this year, it is easily demonstrated by fig 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 of 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 the part of the State High School Board to prevent the schools from taking the State aid for the high school, then turning it into the common school department without one particle of increase of efficiency in the high school. The introductory statoment might lead the uninformed to think that our high schools are -apw sa ti sf ac lory. 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 the seventh grade or seventh school year. Of these 140 schools, 25 have one 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 hisrh school teachers, fully three-fourths have 40.,and 45-minute periods, while a tew 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, rind upon the whole the situation in 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 me 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 ordinary nroblem... ilk .Wentworth'^ Practical A??thmbi?c, a book usually completed jB^HRgh th egf|pr*?/i<?%'s Phvfci' rraphy a bookT-e'ally foo difficult fox" 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- j tory recitation I have spen the class read the text like a fourth reader for one-half the time, then listened to thc teacher ask twenty* to thirty whollv unrelated questions each suggestive of the answer expected. Day after day I see teachers vainly attempting to teach English Grammar and Punc tuation from the rules and the few examples given in the lextbook, and seemingly oblivious to the fae.t that every text the child uses is full of the very illustrations needed. Latin is usually referred to as a dead lang uage;'it might with propriety bi called deadly in some instances. Not a few high school pupils after two years of Latin study are unable tc separate a word into its syllables, 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 vigoi of the Latin grafted upon the flexibi lity of the English: note this: "Thc army having been drawn up more as the nature cf the place and the slope of the hill and the necessity of tho time than as thc-order and plan of military thintrs demanded, since flu 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.) Tho teacher who accepted this jagron holds a college diploma, and is exempt from examination of fitness to teacjj. On my desk are some specimens of spell ing in the handwriting of high school teachers-all bot one college gradu ates: Ceasar (thus by three teachers), latin, liturature, Enock Arden. Bcu ler's Grammar has been in constant use in this State eight years. *md Myers' Histories more than fifteen vears. Here are some of the varia tions: Mver's, Meyers', Meyer's; Reuhler (five teachers), Beulah (three teachers), Beulah (two teachers) Beuhlar (one teacher). A fifi cen hundred dollar principal can nof make bricks without straw. Only a few high schools are eon tent to offer a two-yeai; course, al I though one of the best schools in th< ^tate has but two years. Nine-tenths ->? the high schools offer a three-ycai. "curse, no matter how many nor how few teachers. Last, year lhere were but four public high schools in Ihr Sfnfe with a standard four-ycai ftui'S" pud cnouch teachers to teacl :?-. The report for 100S-?) will *hov wrbpps eijrht standard fonr-ycars schools. To be sure more than foui schools claim a four-year 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 and one school claiming four years fell below the requirements for a standard two year course. The standard applied to the high schools was that generally accepted by the colleges of the State, and is below that used by the* Corne gie Foundation Board. The error in to which most o fthese schools have fallen is to divide their pupils into four classes with six and seven moth intervals of advancement between each two, then call each division"a year in the course. That the reader may sec thc validity of some of these claims, some courses are here outlin ed: This is the fourth year's work in one school: The first half of My ers' General History, Comercial Ari thmetic five time a week, three books of Plane Geometry, and forty-five hours during the year in Tappan's History of Literature. Another four year school gets through the Second Book of Caesar's Gallic War, four bcoks of Plane Geometry, and Tap pan's Literature. Numbers of these courses show that the third year and the fourth year classes arc together in more than one study. One must not be 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 some 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 one 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 .ind 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 -to teach a full four-year course. One such school has classes in Arith metic. Algebra. Geometry, English Grammar; English1 Composition, Liter ature, Physical Geography, U. S. His tory. S. C. History. General History, Beginner's Latin, Caesar, and Ovid. One teacher may teach a few subjects thioiHi a four-year course, and do 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 thc better schools the average pupil gets but little out of such sub jects as Physical Geography, Physics, and ("ivies, because they are not stu died long enough to benefit the pupil. The high schools, like the common schools, suffer from the endless chang ing of teachers. A comparison of this year's schedule with that of last year shows that the whole course has been overhauled and reorganized, and in some cases thc new course seems lo be given over to reviewing past work. Perhaps such course ia necessary, but ir. shows a fearful., waste .of. energy,; . somewhere. 'In. at 'least; two'.oaies. thV ?e^.-teachers 'have .Jakcn 'tlfe" .pu pils- otu of - last years' : eighth. ? and ninth "grades, added a few recruits, and made a four-year school. Pre sumbly this is progress. NEWSY GLEANINGS. According to a decision of the Illi nois Supreme Court loam is not beer. Railroad companies aro preparing to expend millions for frelgh: equip ment. Dalmatians look with suspicion on Austria'e. annexation ol' Bosnia and Herzegovina. Turkish Ministers are pleased at Russia's determined opposition to Austria's aims. Rear-Admiral Emory landed 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, the property o? of Milton Young, 4GS head realized $81,285. Naval officers at Newport ex pressed ihe opinion that the stranded cruiser Yankee would bc saved by John Arbuekle's plan. Many expressions of public opinion In favor of the anti-noi?<? ordinances were received in Nev* York City by the Committee on Laws and Legisla tion. The Bulgarian Ministry of Justice issued orders that iL future subjects of foreign powers in Bulgaria should no. longer enjoy the intermediary of their consuls. The Now York City Eoard 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 ?AS?. "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 the gilded youth. "You'll have them ta'klng about lt at the f1** nevti"-w?^?n<rtnn Star. t"i"i"?"i"i"i"i"i"X"i' i inn H?M 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 ot our out-of-town friend. receives the same careful attention aa that of our h.cal depositors. The accounts of careful consecutive penpltj solicited. [??H"i minimi H-K-H Savings D Pays 4 % interest on all ace compounded every six moi Capital and Surph BJ GOTO HAULING Before insuring elsewhere Old Line Companies. A.t The Farmers ] THE T/H:C You want an engine thitrdnslike a top, s mo orb! y and uninterrupt edly. If an entice balks or stops and you have to fool away your time to find out the cause, you don't want that ensene because lt means a waste of time and energy. -:- -:- -: to J? Coal Heaters, Cook sofiments of cook The railroads, declares the Atlan tic Constitution, must keep that promise to hatti the prosperity. INSURANCE When placing *y?ur Insure ance give me a cali. I rep-, resent a very strong line of] FIRE - - - Insurance Companies, Agent for the largest IvIFE - - - Insurance Co. I will ap preciate a stare of yourbusi ness. 1 can be found at my office-Office No. a---over Bank of? ?dgcneld. James T. ?JIM^ Light Saw, Lathe and Shin gie Mills, Engines, Boilers, Supplies and repairs, Porta qle , Steam and Gasoline En gines, Saw Teeth, Files, Belts and Pipes. WOOD SAWS and SPLITTERS. Gins and Press Repairs, Try LOMBARD, AUGUSTA. GA. V. A. HEMSTREET &BR0. Guns, Pistols, Knives? CARTRIDGES* First CBass Repairing. 655 Broad Street, Augusta. Ga Near Georgia Railroad Bank. 1 ?JL, GA. apartment rm wm ;ounts in this department, Iths, January and July. us $550,000.00. SEE &BYED Wegrepresent the Best 3ank of Edgefield . EN?'IN? I. H. C. :| engines ? are so prac tical and so simple that when you .start them they run until you stop them whither you an? watching ox not. Never out ?t re pHrf don't waste fud, Call op us and we will gladly explain tte feod points of the J I. H. C. engte?. -:- -:- ?:- -:- 1 orris, Stoves in all sizes. ?0 pipef full as^ lng utensils, ete. ;? successful 8fi James A. Bobey^ DENTAL SURGEON, Johnston, S. C. Office over News-Mcnitcr Cilice. JAS. S. BYRD, SURGEON DENTIST, EDGEFIELD, S. C. ?^*Office over Post-Office.