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TWO IMPORTANT SCIIOOIi ACTH. 'i'o Kncourago Kural Graded Schools? Distribution Dispensary Funds. ' Tho following aro two acts passed hy tho recent Cenoral Assent hi y and approved by the Governor. They will he of interest to tho people of Oco neo: No. 217. An Act to Provide for Consolidation arid Graded Schools in Country Districts, and to Appropriate $!."?, OOO to Encourage tho Same. Sec. 1. Ho lt enacted hy the Gene ral Assembly of the State of South Carolina: That not? less than $l.r>, 000 be appropriated annually for tho purpose of assisting rural school dis tricts in tho establishment, mainten ance and improvement of rural grad ed schools, under tho conditions and provisions of tho following sections of this act: Provided, That tho amount hereby appropriated shall bo expended from tho sum appropriated under tho terms of Term Extension Act of 1910, Act No. 4ol, pago 791. Sec. '2. When any rural school dis trict in South Carolina shall levy and collect a special school tax of not less than four mills, and when a school In such district employs two certificated teachers for a school term of not less than six months, and when such school has an enroll ment of not fewer than r>0 pupils and an average daily attendance for Ibo session bf not fewer than 30 pupils, ?md whim such school is taught in a com fort able and sani tary building, provided with tho minimum equipment prescribed by tho State Hoard ol' iodination, and When il uses a course of study and classification approved by ibo state Hoard of Education, it shall bo en titled to receive Slate aid under this nd to the amount of $200 per year. Sec. 3. When any rural school district in South Carolina shall levy and collect a special school tax of not less than four mills, and when such school employes three or more cer tificated teachers for a school term of not less than seven months, and when BUCh school has an annual en rollment of not fewer than 7f> pu pils, and an average dally attend ance for Hie session of not fewer than 40 pupils, and when such school ls taught, in a comfortable and sanitary bull ling provided with the minimum equipment prescribed by tho Stale Hoard of Education, and when it uses a course of study ?nd classification approved bv tho .'ale Bo,?ru ,-?f Kdu ?XII tl, it sh -i ' ?? itlthul to receive ?. . ??.. aid ?'udfeir '.IO I !n. amount. Qt $.; .)0 per Soc. A. No district which receives Stato aid under the provisions of the High School Act or ol' the Term In tension Act shall receive aid under tho provisions of this act. No dis trict which contains an incorporated town with more than 300 inhabi tants shall receive aid under the pro visions of this act. Sec. 5. It shall be lawful for tho school trust?es of a district to use the State aid obtained under the pro visions of this act to furnish public conveyance of children to the school, when, in the opinion of Hie trustees and the county superintendent, such action is wise and expedient. Sec. 6. Tho Stato Superintendent of Education may refuse aid under the provisions of this act if it is made to appear to him that tho ex penditure would bo unwise and det rimental to the Interests of free school education in said district. Sec. 7. Tho State Superintendent of Education, with the State Board ol' Education, shall provide rulos and regulations for tho distribution of this fund, and shall publish such regulations to tho various county sn-j porlntcndeilts of education, who In turn shall publish thom lo the vari ous district trustees. Sec. S. Applications must be Hied ? In order of their receipt, and paid or refused in tho same order. Sei", ti, All acts or parts of acts Inconsistent with this act be, and the sane are, hereby repealed. No. 281. va Act to Distribute Among Hie Several Counties the Balance of the State Dispensary Fund Not Otherwise. Appropriated. Sec. I. Be it enacted by the Gene ral Assembly of the stale of Sout'h Carolina: That the State Superin tendent of Education, tHo Slate Trea surer, and Comptroller General aro hereby authorized and directed to apportion anions tho several coun J thc Stale the total cash bal " State Dispensary fund tn Ibo state treasury ;se appropriated .ll be made on ?tl the free ho an ti nd <H>1 ?LAO TH K P?LICH BILL PASSED. Another Section Whore Citizens Feel tho Need of Protection, (Suitor Koweo Courier: I notice in several issues of The Courier some arguments for and against ru ral police for Oconeoi I am in favor of rural polioo and am truly glad (hat Mr. Harris* hill has become law. I believe it is for the best In terest of Oconoe and her citizens. Ono farmer said the sheriff and his deputies were busy every day, and ho believed it would be best to have one or two moro constables at tached to tho force and keep the ones wo have, and he believed in just paying each man for what he does. That ls good, but what have we been doing? We are pajlng the State constablo from, $70 to $72 per month, and wo never hear of him unless he is with the revenue offi cers. One farmer ono week said thero could bo moonshine whiskey found In every hollow. That ls be cause our officers are not doing their duty. Let us give the rural police a fair trial for one year and seo If there ls any change. I believe; there will be. I know of a place In this commu nity whoro, over} Sunday evening, you can pass the road and see from ten to fifteen and twenty negroes drunk, lying and staggering along tho road, cursing, and sonic shoot ing, and plenty of booze. We be lieve willi rural police riding the county every day, such practices will be lessened. Heretofore we have never seen a constable in these pails. Wo aro glad tho rural police bill passed, and feel sure it will not add any expense lo Oconoe. and we bellove moro good will be done un der this system than under the old. A Farmer. Westminster, R. F. D. J. .1. A Mmt t Convicted of Theft. Tampa, Fla., March 7.-The Fede ral Court was disturbed for a i>orlod this afternoon when J. J. Abbott, his wife and two children hurst. Into an guished cries when a jury brought In a verdict of guilty against Abbott, charged with robbing a mall pouch of $10,000 currency last summer. Tho pouch was cut open and rob bed as lt lay on the transfer platform at Tarpon Springs. Theaccldental dis covery of the money in a hollow log on Abbott's nrom!?oi by rabbit \' ors u io the j-'i'doi'tt ari'etft.. AU au peal ... ! ?i .i by Abbot! before ho wt?. Bebttdtpi-d, He <;? a wo!, 'tpown cdttaeu (Jf Di'u'i': :. . Mle. C. A. Glossner, 21 Ontario street, Rochester, X. Y., has recovered from a long and severe attack of kidney trouble, his cure being duo to Foley Kidney Pills. After detailing his case, ho says: "I am only sorry I did not learn sootier of Foley Kid ney Fills. In a few days' time my backache completely left un>, and I felt greatly Improved, My kidneys became stronger, dizzy spells left me. ?ind I was no longer annoyed at. night. 1 feel lau per cent better since using Foley Kidney Fills." J. W. Hell. warrant of school district trustees, in the discretion of the County Board of Education, as provided in Section :t of (lils act. Sec. .'1. The County Boards of Ed ucation of tho respective counties aro authorized and directed to use this fund in strengthening weak schools, in encouraging school Im provement and io promoting the ed ucational interests of their counties in such manner and at such time as they may deem most helpful to tho :nusc of education, under Hie gene ral direction of the State Superin tendent of Education. This fund diall be a county board fund, and be time, place and manner of its listrlbution shall be determined by he several County Hoards ol' Educa lon, by and with tho approval, in vrltlng, of the State Superintendent >f Education; Provldod, Thal no nore than one-fourth of the amount tpportioned to n county shall bo ox tended In any ono year, except in ?omitios where it shall bo used to lefray past indebtedness due by Ibo school fund, in which counties the iv hole amount may be used in any ?ne year. .Soc. I. Any and all additional linds thal may hereafter be paid uto the State treasury by tho Wlnd rig-Up Commission of tho Slate Dis tensary shall be apportioned within thirty days from tho dato of such tayment, In the samo manner, and shall be expended as provided in Section of this act. Approved February 23, 1012. Colo \j, Please, Governor. Tho "Child's Welfare" mo vernen I las challenged tho attention of bought ful people everywhere. Mo ors art? natural supporters, and Ind lu Foley's Honey, and Tar i * nd a most valuable aid. i colds that are unoheok .roup, bronchitis and I quickly to the heal .inlitlos of Foley's m pound. W. Hell. 'i:-.::_.. --rr-v~T. DISPI?NHAHY MATTERS AIRED. Alleged Throat? Against Patton io?-: Felder-Patton Testirtc <. (News and Courier.) Columbia, Mardi 7.-Tho Btjfct* . ment by Avery Patton, of Greenvale, a member of tho Ansel winding*)) commission, that threats had In.,rn made against his lifo and that of T. B. Felder, tho Atlanta attorney, willie he was serving on tho nouimin sion, was tho sensational ^ develop ment at the hearing before tho uis pensary investigation ?ommltte?l afternoon. Mr. Patton stated that the letters making tho threats wore anonymous and boro the New??Vrv postmark. Tho statement by Mr Patton that the authorship ot ?th< letters was credited to tho Iben ?e.'v ator Bieasc was tho strikim- part ot tho testimony. Tho alleged couti. tion and the basis for the char."" j were not given. In Blease'8 Bratni. Ex-Governor John Gary I Attorney General Lyon dt n d phntlcally, and characterized "without color of truth," t r h conveyed In thc message ot the ernor Blouse, sent to tho Loi;.nl..tu ? in 1911, that an agreement had he reached at a conference In AtVan between Attorney General [?yen', ? B. Felder, John Gary Evaus anti ll. Evans whereby tho Ia? . nished Information which - in In tho "graft" prosecution rowi ,i ' out of tho old dispensary r i ie . 1 \ in the settlement between lin . houses and the dispensary Indi up commission under Gov nor sci. Both Governor Evans a t Atti i ney General Lyon said no uni (Sj terence was ever held, ano hat t..: ? charge was a pure fabrication, on nating in the' brain of G?.v?h Bleaso. Blouse's Reply to Inquiry. The other feature of th? nicoll of tho dispensary Investigating ntltteo this morning was tho n>p?,. i Governor Bleaso to the marshal the committee, when he wes seul n j ask the Governor to lay any inf- r? j ! matlon ho had before the comm sion, "that all the comm in. r", il he had for them was contained in letter sent them some time agOij th he had nothing further for I liera, . that he didn't want to be bothered 1 any more about the matter." other words the Governor rtt>udes Cn. committee that ho will havt hoiplni sci db wi Ci it ; i he legislative commit t.c? le probe Into a: ll ma tier* connected wi t h .??ej .:. disp?tisary Diet to-dav p-i-ttv.^wj at noon in the state Library fWid ) gnu work. The members w< . 1! present, except Representative who arrived in the afternoon n ator Carlisle, the chairman, *p" d sd No Kin to ..Hub." Governor Evans stated that no connel timi with "Hub" either in business, by blood iel' i or marriage, and that ho had ,'ei been asked to represent him said that he could not understand ! (he motives of Governor BU i trying to connect his name "Hub" Evans or to create the m pression that he had ever hud u dealings with him. He said B had been Evans's personal cou and he could have found oui ; i truth by asking "Hub" himself ii plainer terms, Governor ! meant that Governor Bleaso - \ ho (John Gary Evans) had i I'I been connected with H. H. }? and knew it when ho made tin ? ?. barge. Attorney General Lyon next ..<>. the stand and ho, too, stated tl ?.. ; charge of a conference with Gary Evans, ll. H. Evans am I der, in Atlanta, was false. Mr. Lyon stated that all th respondence and records, not on his oifice, but In his apartment that nil bis private transaction: banks and business concerns : open to the inspection of the mit tee and he would give then ten permission lo this effect, asked thal tho prone be made plete as to him, and ho threv poi everything lo their Inspection What "Hub" Knows. Mr. Lyon added that If 11 H Evans would go on tho stand a loll everything bo knows of the od i pensar.? transactions from one ?? id t lie other ho would be much Incl I m d . to grant him im mu n i ty. He sn., alter he had stated he had ne o (t i\ed any information from "Hub" Evans in connection with Ibo din j m sary fraud prosecutions and h never shown him any favors I he Attorney General said that t dence on which Evans was indicted at .Newberry and at Columbi i obtained by T. H. Kidder. M ti stated that a detailed staten all the moneys he had recelv v. printed In tho report of tho sary commission and the v< were oh Hie with Hie commis* denied having collected any from liquor houses, and, In si celved only bis salary and le? u expenses' and had never lak< ij money illegally. Replying to a question M' ntl Fi VIO KI LI/KI), SIXTY INJURED. Broken Rall Relieved to Have Caus ed Mishap. Danville, III., March 7.-Five per sons . wero killed and nearly three Bchire aro injured to-night at Red wood Dridge, two ndles west of West Lebanon, Ind., by the derailment of tho Continental Limited train, west .ound. on tho WabAsh railroad. All ho cars left the rads and some of I beni turned over. A broken rall is ..aid io have caused the accident. Two of the cars are said to have rolled partly Into a creek, the derail ment taking place at tho end of a bridge. Several of the injured may die, and it ls said that others may be dead in the wreckage. The train v/as going towards St. Louis and passengers were prepar ing to eat dinner as the train ap proached the Redwood Bridge, near the Illinois State lino. Without a Jolt, tho whole train seemed to swerve to one side and then the coaches rolled, crushed together and piled up alongside the tracks. The baggage and mall cars suffered the most. Nearly every passenger was hurt hy the rolling over of the cars. Those persons in the coaches that were crushed suffered more severe Inju ries. Two or three were killed In stantly, hut the otlvers were pinned down by seats or splintered timbers and died more slowly. Along the snowy banks of the rail road fires were kindled lo keep the women and children warm while they tended the more seriously In jured. Residents of West Lebanon and Redwood Crossing hurried to the wreck with hot coffee and band ages for the wounded. Several mon started repairing tho telegraph line and when the relief trains arrived there was a fairly orderly scene, ex cept for the wreckage, at which men were tugging and prying in an ef fort to recover any persons that might be pinioned there In distress. Went to tho (?allows. Macon, Ga., March 9.-William B. Walker, convicted of pouring gas olene over his wife and burning her to death, was hanged Friday morn ing. He went to the gallows pro testing his innocence. How Cold Causes Kidney Disease. Partly by driving blood from tho iiurfaco f.nd congesting tho kidneys, and partly by throwing too much woriit npo! them. Foley Kidney 1*111? -;trengt'uen the kidney?', ?ive ioiv -lo th<- urinary organs ;>nd v? a'ore tho nounal action of the ! id? . n\ They, aro tonic in action, ti lick; in reBults. Try them. J. W. Bell. ated that Please, while a member i tho Investigating committee of '.OH, had rendered no assistance, te said Farnum paid no other money an tho $5,000 fine in open court; at Goodman paid no money for niunlty, but thai immunity was anted him after he furnished the Idence which convicted .lohn Black d enabled tho commission to coll et Henry Samuels and Joe B. Wy with the "graft," resulting in their Hi turning State's evidence. Ile lid that at tho Pulaski Hotel, in > ivannah, Goodman gave him a his y of the "grafting" which had MI carried on under the dispensary i ;ime. .Prosecutions. Attorney General Lyon said he bad niided out Indictments against, ry member of former dispensary .rd connected with the dispenasry ii ft, where he thought he had evl . co to convict, and that if Gover Bloase or any ono else had evi ce against any person, if they will sent it to him he will begin prose ions against thal person in the rts. fi Two Great Creators I of Energy I Unergy means power sj power to werk, to think, v1 to throw o?? and keep off disease. Get all the sunshine ; you can, and take Scott's Emulsion regularly. It will give you strength, flesh and vitality. Ba sure to get SC07TS it'a the Standard and alway* the bett. A 1,1/ DRUGGISTS AN AL Y We want tb show you how Our I? |H?V cent Acid analyzes. Our 10-1 analyzes. Our analyzes . Our (>.:*-:$ analyzes . Our 10-:?-:? analyzes. Our 10-4-4 analyzes . We haven't an analysis of our 8-1-4 at hand, but any one who has ever seen the crops made where our 8-4-4 ls used would not stop to ask about an analysis. The crops speak for . themselves. lt refreshes a man's soil and tho earth yields up her in crease. Buying 8-4-4 ls like buying an ? Ames shovel, or a Dlsston saw, or a i Rodgers knife, or a Remington type writer, or dealing with tho Farmers' .ind Merchants' Hank at Anderson you don't make any mistake. You run no risk and take no chances, be cause you are getting tho very best I in the respective lines. T?ie analysis of fertilizer does not I mean anything until you know the I source of ammonia In the fertilizer, j The difference In tho phosphoric acid i and In the potash of the different j manufactures of fertilizer does not cut much figure, because it is all 1 practically the same. One ls about I as good as another. The difference In fertilizer depends i upon tho ammonia used. We use a I little of nitrate of soda to make the j crop start off nicely, and then we use i blood, tankage, tish, cotton seed meal j and sulphate of ammonia. This j makes the best goods put lu sacks I and it makes a goods that will anal I yze well. A manufacturer can get ammonia from hoof meal, horn meal, and leather meal, and make a fertilizer that will analyze higher than ours, and can make it so that it will sell for $3 a ton less than we can sell ours and make moro profit per ton than wo make on ours. This may ac count for some of the low prices you hear of. But tho goods won't make tho crops that our goods will make, for the reason that hoof meal and horn meal and leather meal aro not available as plant food. They aro not available for the simplo reason that they are not soluble in water. Hoof merl; nnd born meal and leotber meal aro hoofs a ? I horns a'ud h 1 ' 1 thur gtodnd finely, just as corn n\ al ; ls oova gre lind finely. Von can fal:? I beef m'ohl and hom ni eal abd leather mea) ami pul it iii ivaier ftujj j.e.! lt ! stay for a year ann go oack to lt and the hoof meal and horn meal and loather meal are not dissolved. They j can't possibly become plant food nu lli they do dissolve. .Now, corn and cotton are planted and get their growth and maturity within seven mont hs. If hoof meal and horn meal and leather meal can't be dissolved in water In a year, they can't become plant food in seven months. Now, frankly, wo don't suppose any fertilizer manufacturer gets his ammonia solely from hoof meal and horn meal and leather meal. We don't doubt that those who use lt mix it with tankage; for very few manu facturers use blood and fish. They mix it with tankage or cotton seed meal, but. the ammonia in their fertilizer is unavailable just to the extent that, they use this hoof, horn and leather meal. When you remember that only about one-thirtieth of an ounce of ammonia gets to each plant you can see that it will be necessary for all of this one-thirtieth of an ounce to bo available. You can make hut ono crop a year, and as cotton in this country ls tho money crop, it would seem to bo de sirable to get the best fertilizer for lt. Wo don't uso hoof meal or horn meal or leather meal tn our factory. We don't suppose that any fertilizer manufacturer In creation would ad mit the use of it if he did use it, but you arc at liberty, and any one else is at liberty to visit our factory at such time as he wishes, with or without notice to us of your coining, stay as long as you please, go through the building, tako samples of any and everything you seo and have it anal yzed for your own satisfaction. You may have an analysis made on suspi cion at any time or anywhere you wish. We run an open' shop all ibo year 'round. Tho law requires (ho fertilizer manufacturers to put the source of nmmonlnte used in his fertilizer on a tag to be attached to each sack. The tags on our fertilizers show that wc ?el tho ammonia from blood, tank age, cotton seed meal, sulphate of ammonia and fish. The tags on most other fertilizers give the source of ammonia pg "organic," and "mine re'." Mineral sources aro sulphate ANDERSON 501 J. R. ?ano?ver, President - . MOSS & AIM Walhall? ?I S O F1 YEA X? t our goods analyze Mils year: . . 17.41 . .. U>;t?.423 . . 8.1)1 .:i.U-a.,28 .0.52-4.&4-3.78 .10.08-3.40-3.78 .10.73-4.34-4.44 of ammonia and nitrate of soda. Or ganic may mean anything. You can't tell what lt means from the tag. When you buy fertilizer with that tag on lt you are buying a pig in a poke. This may also account for some low prices you hear of. When a man has a thing to sell he usually gives the best description of it that, it will stand. Some people every year mix,their own fertilizer. They buy acid, cot ton seed meal, kainit and muriate and mix their own goods. Their only source of ammonia In this goods is cotton seed meal, which is very good while it lasts. It gives out about tho time the cotton begins to fruit and that causes it to siled. Now. if blood, tankage, sulphate of ammonia and fish are worth any thing in a fertilizer, our goods must, be better than, your home-mixed goods, where you use none of these ammonia tes. By using cotton seed meal only as an ammonlate, you may make an S-2-.'l for $2 a ton less than we ask for lt. That $2 a ton will represent a dif ference of from forty to sixty cents an acre in your fertilizer bill. Wo don't think there ls any doubt that 8-3-3 ammoniated as we ammonlate lt will make 100 pounds of lint cot ton to the acre more than a home mixed fertilizer with cotton seed meal as the only source of ammonia. This 100 pounds of lint cotton is now worth about f 10.50. Wo don't know what it will bo worth next fall-off hand we should say from $8 to $12. lt doesn't seem likely that cotton will bring over 12 cents next fall, and we sincerely hope lt won't bring less than 8 cents. Where farmers have been using the best fertilizers and using it freely we wish to suggest to them tho im propriety of using an inferior goods, ' and using it less freely, ns if they do their lands will become run-down. Most farming lands In this section are in a good stato of cultivation. It will bo cboaner to keen them that (ray than to ld the laud niiir&y^wn and thet) bring it np. if you have a ?af horse u wi'.l toke leds <orn to keep bim 'ar thal) it. wit' tb lot bim ijCel ppyV and flue fat Uni bim up a&aiu, It is,the- same way in fertilizing your land, and besides yon Wlll'lose the extra crop that you failed tb ' make while your land is run down. Our 10-1 and 10-fi aro good fertiliz ers to use where your lands are flat or where cotton grows very rank, and some of tho bolls fall lo open. This extra percentage of phosphoric acid In the 10-1 and 10-0 will give the cotton boll an early-maturity. And when a cotton boll Is grown it opens, just as when a watermelon will ripen when it is grown, and it won't ripen until it. gets its growth. Wo want to urge you to use on vour ordinary lands our 8-3-3, 0-3-3, 8-4-4, 10-4-4 and 10-3-3. You wilt get more ammonia and less tiller, and you will get more Ash In these fer tilizers than in any others. Wo can make any analysis you want. Mak ing fertilizers ls like making clothes. You can tako a bolt of cloth to a tailor, and from that bolt he can make a suit, of clothes to flt a 10 year-old boy, and by using more cloth ho can make a suit of clothes to lit a man weighing 2f>0 pounds. It is the same way in making fer tilizers. By using more or less of the potash and ammonia wo can make any goods you want. And now a last word to tho home mixers. If you uso tho same ammo nia tes wo use, your goods will cost you more than we ask you for ours, and your goods won't, he as well made as ours because yon are not equipped for it. If you don't use the am mont ?t OE WO use your goods will not. bo as good as ours, nor as well manipu lated. If you give two cooks tho same materials for making bread, one will make better bread than Ibo other. The more experienced cool? will malte the better bread. And the fertilizer man who gives his time and thought to it, and has the equipment. is bound to mix lt better than the man who only mixes a few days in the spring of tho year without the equip ment. Fertilizer ls the cheapest and most, reliable labor you can get. on the farm. It is the only labor you can got that, works 2 1 hours a day, rainy days. Sundays, holidays and Satur days. Oct tho hos! ; whatever you do the Anderson goods. JTH CAROLINA. . D. S. Vanfliver. Manapr ISEL, Agents, 3, S C.