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DAVIS BROS. CO., The World's Greatest Bargain Givers, On the ENTIRE STOCK of the ii.; 4' .*T .ii, S,.>f H..is:. v.,;.' ANDERSON, S. C., IS tho great sensation of not only the TOWN but tho ENTIBE COUNTRY. Never before was first-class DRY GOODS, MILLINERY, CLOTHING and SHOES BO ruthlessly sacrificed. IT will pay you to come 100 miles to visit this GREAT SALE-LET NOTHIG-KEEP YOU AWAY. ^ . Mark the Dates and Mark Wednesday June 20, TO Saturday, June 30. Not a few Things but EVERYTHING Sold at a SACRIFICE. THE ENTIRE STOCK OF THE C. F. JONES CO, ANDERSON, 8. C" In (he Hands of Davis Bros. Co., The World's Greatest Bargain Givers. To be Sold in 10 Days. CF. JONES CO., ANDERSON, S. C. 1 Mark the Jlaee and Mark Railroad Fare Faid to Purchasers ofl $25 00 or More. LET NOTHING KEEP YOU AWAY. The Old Field School. Spartaoburg, S. G., May 23.-Il was a long time-a very long time ago-when a little school house about 20 feet square was built out of pine logg, about two miles tp-im Gaffney. The fireplace was fully 10 feet wide. The furniture consisted of three qr four benohes made from slabs, the splinters beiog worn off by the chil dren sliding about on them. There was a hoard about 14 inches wide resting on three pins driven into one ef the logs. That was to write on. The teacher had an old fashioned split bottom ohair, and a rickety lit , tie table, on which he set copies. The floor waa of plank, but they were wide apart. Slate pencils were always getting under the house. There was no lead pencils such as the children use by the hundred now, but they had the genuine article, mt de by pouring melted lead into the joint of a cane. Steel pens were not heard of in this part of the State. It waB the duty of the teacher to make and mend pens and set oopies. * There were no holidays, and if a heavy rain fell, and only a few children attended, the whole day was put in. Summer and winter the tcaohc . "took in Behool" as soon as he roach ed the sohool house. He boarded around, and if he tarried for anight where breakfast was early, he would start at on oe far the sohool house and begin work on arrival! He gave ono to two hours at noon for "play time." They had no recess then. Ho, having no watch, had to guess at the time. When the sun was shining, he was all ' right. Going to the door he would ery aloud "Books,** or "Come to books.'* He would "turn out,*- that io, dismiss school-in time for ail to reach home by sunset. Every tesebei had his rules, and they were, read fre quently. If there were any text hooke , .. in that first sohool except Webster*! Bine Back, and Smiley's and Pike*? arithmetics, we do cot know what the j were. There were no classes. It wai a jgd*as-yon*please affair. Occasional ly some one would bring a Bible oi ' ; j Testament and read a few lessons, There weft-no classified readers. Th? soholars-Vf auld stick to the "Bin? '.".'j ;.} vhaok*' until they knew it b> heart, \ "blind snelling" included. Just be fore aeon and-^nirnlng out'* in thc afternoon, the mor* advanced acholar* &*?il>1 '?''?:':'\hm?'- v*??i^. w*s alfaya a scram fPp?* ' ble to ; utaad ? head. Every Fridaj ?? f aftorn?oo captains were ohosen, ant ?//"'.' . ' they i ?t?w'}?1?\:l?t. first ^ho?c^ -?n< ?*fc*n fte ^ .'spelling torosa the benah" began. The teacher skipped from pisos ta _1_J _i_ a__* .V- u_A. pinuc, muxx wMu a ion Vh ?HO uso? spellers were left he pioked the hard est words. That teacher knew nothing of books exoept those mentioned above. If he ever atw an Sugl;sh grammar, geography or dictionary there was no evidsnoe of it. If he ever gave any instruction ss to writing, reading or pronunciation, it is not remembered. But somehow, in his simple, weak, imperfect tray, he laid the foundation well, and a few of those who attended that primitive school would turn down ord 1 par? fffadusttAft And fnma nrnf???nt>g we know, on spelling. Snob were a few of the schools in the baokwoods of the Piedmont 60 to 80 years ago. There were no commencements and exhibitions and addresses at the close of the session. If the teacher "took up" a bix-months' school, he taught six calendar months; if it was a twelve months* s oho ol, the hoys would gen erally turn him out the day before Christmas, and thus secure a week's holiday. That "turning out" plan is not a bad one. There are oasss in every county where the schools \?nuld bc benefited if some of the teachers were turned out and required to stay out. Just DOW as commencement pro* grammes are appearing and any little crossroads school can have its commencement and two or three addresses by titled men with a marked desire for speaking, it ia * good time to let th? young people ki.ow what kind of schools some of their grand parents bad. Looking backward tc those old schools, taught at times bj j men who vere said to be too lazy tc do anything else, ?hey seem to h av i bena a blessing to this upcountry, > The poorly qualified teaohers, the ab >' solute wast of system, the scarcity oi . textbook!, the uncomfortable achoo' ? houses ana the ignorenoo of the obi! ? dren set the farmers to thinking i They then began to talk a little, em r. before 1850 bettsr teaohers were ae I cured in many places. . The Limestone Springs Fcmah . High Sohool was evolved ont of the? , conditions in 1845, the first fernel ? school with, a college aurriculum ii ) tho State, unless st waa the fatneu , ??u?ol ?f Br. M-i-k; at Bt?hamvllle < Then oanw Wofford College and Fut > manyat Greenville. Then followc i high schools all/over these uppo T oonnHftH. un til if any one should a* - sert (li?t the Fi ed mon t, wi th : C?o m so r in the westland Winthrop in tho casi 1 ia ihe greaUducationai centre, do nc I be too quick to ?ak? ? i?sd^ ^';A$p? > ent?y adf?rse o?nd?t?ons often ont the greatest good for the oom* munity, or State, as well as the in .1: ":.J,,_1 T? ?1.... ..".?Al.- _ umuunii AU PippiVBVUIU5 uuui meneement days we wish to pay a tribnte to the old field schools, which kept the fires from going oat os the altars ia the temple of knowledge. -Is nara and OoG??er. Tillman's Three Fassions. * . m. i..m "Anybody who wants any yarns oat of me has to dig for them,*' an nounced Senator Tillman, cornfield lawyer, rose onltnrist. and geographi cal expert. "I don't propose to bo held un for an interview and then hate te sweat it ont of myself into the bar gain. "Anyway, I never know what to say to frilly wemen, wbo expect me to tone down my conversation. I will never be able to do that sneoesafal ly." v "Well, if you'll let ino have a little of the raw product, I'll be much oblig ed" I replied, "Then eit down over there." The broad brow of the "pitchfork" Senator was furrowed in perplexity.* "What must I say?" he demand ?d of his wife. Mrs. Tillman smiled sympathetically over his trials. Even the raw produot seemed hard to get at. "The object seems to be," he con tinued, with his most judicial air, lo get off some sprightly persiflage for the publie gsyety." . 'We are all familiar with the 'gen tie rose enUurist/ which ie your most persistent ohareoter before tho pub - lio," I suggested. "Suppose you spin some yarna abbat the roses?" "You sensation hunting lun?tica!" .aid the Senator, shaking with laugh ter. "Can't I have my little flower patch in peeeef Wheo people begin to talk about me and impressjj rn? as being at all worth encouraging, I tell them I have three passions--Sowers, musio and women." * "Are yen a musioian?" ? asked; . A gentle laugh from Mrs. Tillman warned me thai I was on dangerous ground, but the Son&tor told mej biso** ly ?that he performed on. the harmon? ion. . ' '.? i "I don't do muob playing these days* jlftttf very basy answering fool letters and keeping 'this woman! (pet name for Mrs. Ti*Imsn) ont of trouble, i don't enMos aw??? strains Ons of my old harsnonioa like t used '?ut** :.;,.>' ;?. ? '?JV?'K ' i ; "He used to have s sp?ended voloe Wo," .tU?ji*Mito.:>y^ ^before hs ?WW^t^lkicg to:? mach.'' : he olaimed that he did cot always let her off so easily. . "Sometimes when she gets very sassy/' he said, affectionately, "I recite poetry to ber. Now, she don't like poetry,. and tells me so, very frankly. Then T loci: s?armm and sigh, like Touchstone: 'Would that the gods had made thee poeti cal.' That gets even with her every time.'* "Please don't Ulk to me about roses. If you do I'll be homeaiok. I'll have to leave all this work over yonder," nodding toward the capitol, "and go down there to see them again. 44Why, right now there is an old mocking bird sitting on the'.round knobs at my front gate in Benth Caro* lina that's been singing there since supper' time. I repkon by ; now. be's pretty sleepy, and is just fussing a little before be goes to bed. "Why, I'd rather hear that old fellow to i night, my T'--and tba fiery joggler of pitchforks was sailing buok in the dream ship to magnolia scented Trent ton, liotoniBg to tho sleepy good night of a drosy mocking bird. "Ho sits np late this time of tho year to smell tho wistaria/^he said, without coiaiog back from South Car olina. "Ono year a big tree I had was killed by Whe frost and I had to trim ii down tb a stomp. On ono side of this I planted a yellow climb ing rose, and on the other wistaria. The two bloom at tho same timo every spring, and the air ie heavy with the perfume. The old mocking bird sits up tiil tho roses that haye bloomed daring the day begin to wilt and then he ?gets the fall ?OMS of the odor, He's a sharp etd enep. if Ak for women, ray mother w^ the fiant woman ib?t e^er Uvadv Sh? UDght mt when I waa a ?i?fe?e kid to stick to the truth, and despise ? He. Then I was still mighty youni when 4this Oman1 came on the scete 8be toolt me io oh arge when, X wai 18, and I married- hop before'-X wai 21. -1 M?i? had lots of experlescei witk go?i wnmeu^ I ought v> !ov< tnam,f!:.; Suddenly Senator Tiilman rc?cm bored that he was Ulking for th? pub Ho, and he ?ame to a practical altitud' Ww 'aVJe^il.;^||^?^^^^B -; >.^Yon'll bave to'i?i^'r?^if?wwi ;ia^^ write imaginary debatea for them, in moot oases bettor than they coul? do for them Bei ve e. So yon jost go and write ont s pretty interview, and I'll say pretty near anything you like. ' *Don' fc yon go m e 3 a i pg into politics, beoanse yon will bo BU re to get me into trouble, and don't aoako me any more 'rambunotiona* th&a you have to, to make the public believe yon have sean me at all, and yon can make any kind of a rumpus you please/' "D?o't be toa bard on him," ad ded Mrs. Tillman. "He does Ulk tv good doa), bot he doesn't do much harm." . 'i You please remember some of what Tve said tonight, and forget some more, and I ought to bo able to hold my head np alter this effusion of yours comes out." I tried to /remonstrate, to convince bim that the publio was hot interested in a fabrication of ' my brain, but the idea of newspaper "fakirs" was too well grounded in his' bead - to let him boto ve me, and: bia parting inj unc tion, "?oii't get me,' into; Srdublc.V, waa given in a manner of one who is abbeting a lorloro hops.-Ruth Halo, in Baltimore Sno. . Senate.* -Beveridge' waa discusping a bill (long since defeated) that Beamed to have been framed io protect dis honesty. . ''Whenever I think of tUt billi" he s&?u, "I ata reminded of a ?ertaio rich man's valet, .^.Tho talefe one morals we>nntfs$ lng 'his ' master's clothes. Ho intro duoed inte? this procedure a startling innovation. Jie made a careful search of all the pookets. "In tho pocket of . ^W??^? ibo ^alot;-foand.i;^:ailvto\4ofyrc Thennpon he toe* .out his and said: ^ ^ t''; ^ ,?tf^?l4a^ lafgo enough for th? dollar to slip thr?n^t^^ppS ?he beat Three-Tooth Cultivator and Sid? Hariro^^9 ra \The Handies are stroag?y attached to Frame aad t?W? lli^ nu :m S! but ai ft ^?ow;Oit?t?t*tqr between , th? row? until mo: " ^ ^^^^ ^