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The ?uii?hi u?ii??L tesson VI.?Fourth Quarter, For Nov. 8, 190& THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES. * . Tkxt of the Lessen, II Sam. xviii, 24-33. Memory Verse, 33 ? Golden Text, Prov. xvii, 25?Commentary Prepared iy Rev. D. M. Stearns. . Jtopyright. ISO:, by American Press Ay*>ciition.J In the last lesson we left David dee Jag from Absalom because of the re tlion, but it was still manifestly true e Lord preserved David whitherso ever he went" (viii, 6, 14). The coun *$fi of Ahithopbel, who left David to * Mo Absalom, was as if a man had In quired at the oracle of God, but in an fffinr to David's prayer that God would 4pru the counsel of Ahithopbel into tfeolishness God saw fit to do it 4nt>ugh Hushai, David's friend (xv, 4L 34. 37; xvi, 23; xvii, 14). There is great comfort to a believer in the words of Ps. xxxlil 10, 11, "The coun ttl of the Lord standeth forever, .the thoughts of his heart to all genera ?ons." See also Isa. xiv, 24, and It is *pir privilege to rest in the assurance I ?jf the "all things" of Rom. viii, 2S; II j <Jsr. iv, 15, and to take even the curs 4hg of a Sbimei (xvi, 5, 12) as per mitted by God to show His power in 4ne time and change the curse to a j rising. See the sequel to this event chapter xlx, 16, 20. If we would ' have perfect rest we must believe firm that the Lord is roundabout His people, as the mountains, as a hedge, m a fire, and that nothing can pos rfbly come through without His per mission, not even the barking of a tog (Ex. xli 7). The phrase "David's friend" (xv, 37; ?t 16).i reminds us of Abraham, the ?riend of God (II Chrom xx, 7; Isa. xli. ! Jas. U. 23), and of our Lord's words, j have called you friends" (John xv, j 41). Why not be more worthy of such i a royal friend? The friendship of this ^orkl is enmity with God, and It le ftapossible to be a friend of the world , ?and of God too (Jas. Iv, 4). The man- j aar of Ahithophel's going out of this world (17, 23) has grown to be the Eunion thing In our day, not hanging, t the taking of bis own life, another licatiou that the return of the King ?raweth near. Mahanalm. where Sbobl tmd Machir and Barzillai met David ?cd his people w|th so much kindness, makes us remember the kindness of ?od to Jacob In some of the dark days Old that we. too. have che ministry of angels as well as of visible friends . (*vii. 27, 29; Gen. xxxli, 2). Our lesson chapter opens with the jpiDg forth of David's army under -Scab. Abishal and IttaL with the words ?tf David ringing in their ears. "Deal gently for my sake with the young *an, even with Absalom" (verse 5). Vhc armies met, and David's followers ' "were victorious. There was a great irtaughter of Absalom's followers, and Absalom himself was slain miserably by the hand of Joab and ferown into a pit and covered with a heap of stones (17). His beautiful head of 'balr was seemingly his ruin tfrerce 9. chapter xiv. 2G). How' often ft is that what one prizes most be comes the undoing of such a one! Pride ?f anv kind always leads to a fall. David was prevented from going out "With the army, the people saving that It would not matter if half of them tfled, but that* David was worth .ten thousand of them (verse 3). so he re gained la the city and sat between the ?wo gates to wait and watch for cid- ! lags, while the watchman went up to | fee roof over the gate that he might me afar off and advise the king. David hoped for good tidiugs. but it must have been with a sorrowful heart and aome forebodings. The two prominent words in our lesson verses, "watch man" and ?tidings." suggest to us many things, and give us a whole ?tndy In themselves. Because of a well beloved Son given for us. the only hegotten Son of God. the angel said to , fee shepherds, "Behold. I brlug you lood tidings; of great Joy. which shall he to all people" (Luke ii. 10), but the majority of those to whom the good , ien-s has come seem not to care whether others hear or not The lepers outside of Samaria put us to feame, who said in the midst of plenty, will.? others were perishing. "We do mot well: this day is a day of good tid- I togs, and we hold our peace." A common question asked by those who hear for the first time of the won rs^jdrou3 love of God. as to how long we hpve known It and why we did not came Eooner to tell their friends who have died without hearing, ought to aearch us to the very heart Do we be ?eve the cry of the watchman. "The morning cometh, and also the night." smd. as we think of Israel's blindness, what about obedience to the command In Isa. xl, 9. margin? Alas, there are many who, like Ahimaaz. the son of ?adok. insist on running, but have no tidings, and therefore their running is hi vain. The message Is plain, but we must receive It before we can run and tell it. See Hah. 11. 2. "Make it plain that he may run that it tdeth it" j aot. as often quoted, that he that runs may read, which is not in the Scrip tore. We see in our lesson the grief of a loving father over the untimely death ?f a wayward sou. and our hearts are touched by the cry of the broken hearted father. What about the heart of Cod as He gave up IBs only Sou. the holy one. to become n sacrifice for our sins, a tin bearer, a curse for us? Let each one say ?'bearing my sins in His own body ' on t.:e tree." Might he not say to ub : as ITp beholds our indifference. "Is It j ?orbing to von all ye that pass by?" SALES ACEXTS WANTED. $36.00 per week or 400 per co-it srofit?. All samples, stationery, an 1 art catalogue free. We v nni one permanent asren: in rhis locality Co. the largest picture and frstm house rn America. experience unneces sary. We instruct yen how to sc!! ?ur goods and furnish the capital. If you want a perrhanent, honorable j and profitable position, write us to day for particulars, catalogue and | samples. FRANK W. WILLIAMS COMPANY. 1214 W. Taylor St., Chicago, III. j OUR S( PAPER 1 BY PROP. WIL The High School. Situation? Counting the increased facilities added this year, it is easily demon strable by figures that the public high schools of the State, aided and unaided, have increased in efficiency more than twenty-jive per cent sinci January 1, 1907. in more than one fourth of them the efficiency has been doubled within that time. T-he chief increase is in the quantry and quality of the teaching fore?, thus giving longer recitation pe riods, a wider range of studies, and lengthened courses of study. The State appropriation of $50,000 has been the chief instrument by which these improvements have been brought about, but it must be ad mitted that even with this lever it has been a task of magnitude to se cure this increased efficiency. It has required courage and watchfulness on the part of the State High School Board to prevent the schools from taking the State aid for the hign school, then turning it into the com mon school department without one particle of increase of efficiency in the high school, i The introductory statement might lead the uninformed to think that our high schools are now satisfacto ry. Far from it. There are now not far from 140 public high schools coming within the minimum defini tion of a high school under the pres ent high school law?one teacn^r giving all his time to not fewer than fifteen pupils above the seventa grade or seventh school year. Of these 140 schools, 25 have one high school teacher each, 80 schoo-s have two teachers each, and the re maining ones more than two teach ers each. Only six schools have each the full teacinitg time of five teach ers or more. In nearly all the one-teacher hign schools the recitation periods have been advanced to 80 minutes each, nothing less than 20 minutes being accepted in the aided schools. In those with two or more high schoei teachers, fully three-fourths have 40- and 45-minute periods, while a few have one hour periods. In aa aided school of this class nothing less than 30 minutes is accepted. The greatest single gain has been this lengthening of the recitation periods, and upon the whole the situation in this respect is satis factory. Some noticeable.- improvement hi tne competency of the teachers has been made, but in this respect condit ions are far from satisfactory. Many places are willing to pay from $1,20? to $1,500 for a supervising principal, but give him cheap assistants, it is utterly useless to talk about get ting 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 io me to say this, for among just such teachers! are some of my best personal friends. But I know only too well that tue standard of the high schools depend. upon the standard of their teach ing force. Let me tell some thing* I have seen and heard. I have se-ia more than oue high school, teacn.i wrestle a half-hour with an ordinary problem in Wentworth's Practica Arithmetic, a book usually complet ed in the 8th grade. In Tarr's Phys ical Geography, a book really too difficult for the 8th grade where it is usually found, I nave seen teach ers cover enough ground in one 30 minute recitation to have given profitable work for three such pe riods. In one history recitation i have seen the class read the text uke a fourth reader for one-half the time, then listened to the teacher ask twenty to thirty wholly unrelated questions each suggestive of tne answer expected. Day alter day i see teachers vainly attempting to teach English grammar and punctu ation from the rules and tne few examples given In the textbook, and seemingly oblivious to the fact that every textbook the child uses is full of the very illustrations needed. Latin is usually referred to as a dead language; it might with propriety ue called deadly in some instances. Not a few hig schools pupils after two years of Latin study are unable to separate a word into its sylables, or to determine the lengtn of a sy, lable. In translation it is no uu conimon thing to hear such as this: "Gallia-Gaul, est-is, omnis-all, divisi divided, in-in, partes-parts, tres three." etc. As a specimen product of .he vigor of the Latin grafted upon the flexibility of the English, note this: "The army navlng been drawn up more as the nature of the place and the slope of the hill and the necessity of the time than as the order and plan of military things demanded, since the different legions, some in one part and son e anothei 1 were resisting the enemy and the thick hedges having been cast down." . etc. fSee Caesar's Gallic War, Bon;cj II, chapter 22.), The teacher who! accepted this jargon holds a col lege diploma, and is exempt from ex amination of fitness to teach. On) Sewing J? NEW DROP-HE piv payment!" 'Jood pr ? cr....,,.i [..j., i Machinei .-t. aMachuiPtit* furnishpH ? m mail orders New Bicycles '?" ICV(*ii par'- llol ?*? Oeneral Repa?' ^hnp mg ?1 Watche*. oH-ivn me voiir worl ?itisfaetiu J. H. S Market Street ? - 0 ;hools. i NO. 9. 5 I L1AM H. HANI). my desk are some specimens of spell ing in the handwriting of high school teachers?all but one college grad uates: Ceasar (thus by three teach ers j, latin, liturature, Enock Arden. j Buehier's grammar has been in con stant use in this State eight years, I and Myers' histories more than j fifteen years. Here are some of the I variations: Myer's. Meyers', I -Meyer's; Beuhler (live teachers), I Beulab (three teacners), Buelaa I (two teachers), Beuhlar (one teach jer). A fiftein hundred dollar pinci ! pal can not make bricks without ? straw. Only a few high schools are con tent to offer a two-year course, al though one of thd best in the State, is a two-year school. Nine-tenths of the high schools off er a three- j year course, no matter how many j nor how few teachers. Last year I there were b?t four public hign j schools in the btate with a standai.i four-year course, and enough teach ers to teach it. The report for 1908 09 will show perhaps eight standard four-year schools. To be sure more than four schools claim a four-yeur course. Several schools claiming a four-year course were credited with fewer units of work than are requir ed for a standard three-year course, and one school claiming tour years! fell below the requirements for a| standard, two-year course. l?e1 standard applied to the nigh schoo'si was that generally accepted by tue | colleges of the State, and is below that used by the Carnegie Founda tion Board. The error into which most of these schools have fallen is to divide their pupils into four classes with six- and seven-monta intervals of advancement betweea each two, then call each division a year in the course. That the readir may see the validity of some ot these claims, some courses are here outlined. This is the fourtn year' work in one school: The first ha'f of Myers' General history, Comme. cial Arithmetic five times a week, three books of Plane Geometry, and forty-five hours during the year to Tappan's History of Literature. Another four-year school gets | through the Second Book of Caesar's Gallic War, four books of Plane Geometry, and Tappan's Literature. Numbers'pf these courses show tna'? the third-year and the fourth-year classes are together in more thau one study. One must not be misled by the term literature in many of these schools. It is nothing more than reading about the authors of literature?a little biography, if the truth must be told. The poverty of some of these four year courses is more than offset by some of the plethoric *hree-year courses, some of which are formi dable affairs. At random I take one year's work from one of these courses'. Arithmetic, Algebra, Rhet oric, Literature, Latin (reading, grammar and prose composition),1 Physical Geography, History, , and j Business Methods (an innocent litt:3; text). In this year's work every pupil takes everything proscribed, and each pupil is on recitation prac tically every period during the day. Several schools have Arithmetic, Algebra and Geometry in the same year's work, and a few have Physical Geography and Physics in the same year, with practically no 'father sci ence in the entire course. The majority of the one-teacher high schools undertake the impos sible?to teach a full four-year course. One such school has class- j es in Arithmetic, Algebra. Geometry, English Grammar, English Compo sition, Literature, Physical Geogra phy, U. S. History, S. C. HiBtory, General History, Beginner's . Latiu, | Caesar and Ovid. One teacher may teach a few subjects through a fou year course, and do it well, but on such a course as the one just given a teacher is wasting his time and energy. The greatest evn is to tne pupil. His time and effort are ui vided up among so many subjects that he pursues none of them long j enough and far enough to get any training or knowleage out of them. In even the better schools the aver age pupil gets but little out of such subjects as Physical Geography, physics, and Civics, because they are not studied long enough to benefit j the pupil. The high schools, like the common schools, suffer from the endless cnanging of teachers. A comparison of this year's schedule with that rfj last year shows that the whole course has been overhauled and re organized, and in some cast's the new course seems to be given over to re viewing past work. Perhaps such course is necessary, but it shows a fearful wast of energy somewhere. [ In at least two cases the new teach ers have taken the pupil on: of last year's Sib and Olli grades, added a few recruits, and made a four yi ar school. Presumably that .s progress. WILLIAM H. HAND. University of South Carolina. /lachines. \i\ v\ACMiN.(-:s i??P<- allowet] for old Marhi*i?-h ? ''run: $5 (Hl u $15 00 \ !' atHiuiar ' 'unk*-"- \' n ? .i has> Paytnents turuiahed f?-r ail "?taii'lap mji> Machine* Woyidf* 'nr. I T H. pposite i HE GAME LAW INTERESTED G SUMMAR Y PRE PARED BY SEC. RICE. The Game Birds and Non-game Birds Defined by the Statutes, Which Are Very Rigid. The Audubon society is in receipt of request daily for copies of the game laws. These can not be sup plied .since the issue has been ex hausted, giving conclusive evidence of the interest felt in trie subject all over South Carolina. The so ciety has requested that extra copies be returned. Requests have come also frcm other States. To make tne principal points clear the follow ing is a summary of the more im portant laws as prepared by Secre tary Jas. Henry Rice, Jr. Game Birds. The statute of 1905, passed twD years before the Audubon society was cuartered, defines what are game birds and what are not. The game birds are: Swans, wild geese, brant, wild ducks, rails (marsh hensi, coots, gallinules, surf birds, snipj, woodcock, quail (partridge), rice bird black bird, dove, sand-pipers, upland plover, curlew, wild turkey and prairie chicken. It is not known to the society why. prarie (pinnated grouse) hen. were put on this list, nor why Mon golian, or ring-necked, pheasants and ruffed grouse were left off. Ther.; are no prairie chickens in South Carolina; whereas there ar e both Mongolian pheasants and ruffeu grouse, but such is the law. The above birds may be shot In the seasons permitted by law, or taken in those seasons by any meth od which the law allows. Non-game Birds. All birds not on this list are non game birds within the meaning of the law and may not be killed at any time; nor may their nests or eggs be destroyed. It is a misdemeanor to have in possession any part of a non-game bird, such as featherj, body or skin; and it is equally against the law whether such was killed within or without the State. In the preamble to this act it is stated: "That ad wild birds, whether resident or migratory, in this State, shall be, and are hereby, deciarea U be the property of the State. That is the law of South Carolina. Birds That Are Excepted. The act further recites that the English sparraw, cooper's hawk (the chicken or hen hawk), the sharp shinned hawk i known locally as the "Blue Darter"), the great horneu owl and all other birds wuich are by nature destructive of other bird;, are not included among the birds protected by this act, nor are the nests or eggs of these birds protect ed. A person is allowed to kill crows on his premises if they are destroy ing crops, but he is not allowed to seil them or their feathers. No non-game bird may be shipped out of the State nor may the eggs or feathers of such bird be shipped. For Scientific Purposes. Certificates may be granted by the secretary of State to any preson ot the age of 15 or upward, who n properly accredited, permitting the holder to collect birds and their eggs for scientifioofl cmfwypshrdlurdluk for strictly scientific purposes. The applicant must be endorsed by two well known ornithologists, and if it is proved that the holder has taken birds for other than scientific pur poses his certificate will be at once canceled and not renewed, resides he will be liable to a fine of $100 or 30 days' imprisonment. It will be seen that no woman his tne right to wear the feathers of a non-game bird on her hat; it is an indictable offense under the laws of bouth Carolina and it might be added that it is an indictable offense un der the laws of almost every civilized country In the world. There aro 150.000,000 birds used up In the plume trade of Europe every year, these birds being imported from Asia, Africa and Polynesia. Many species have become extinct through this savage slaughter. The Open Season for Game. According to the act of 1906 sea son for shooting partridges, wild turkey, woodcock, Mongolian or other pheasant is made from No vember 15 to March 1, with the ex ception of the following counties: Beaufort, Hampton, Dorcheste *, Colleton, Charleston, Barnwell, Berk ley Aiken, Oconee, Fairfield, Saluda, Georgetown and Clarendon. These counties have rrom No vember 1 to April 1. Lexington was formerly among the excepted coun ties, but has been taken up and the season there is from November 15 to March 1. Ii The deer season is from September 1 to January ], but the law appli s only to Georgetown county. The rest are from August 1 to February I. Game Birds Sot n> Be Sold. The act or I90C makes it a mis demeanor t<> sell, <>r offer or expose for sale, to pol hunt, net or trap. or by firelight lo pursue with inten? tc catch, kill or injure any of Use game birds named in that section. The handling, possessing or owner ship of these birds is prim a facie evidence thai they are being off ere l for sale. These are the laws of the State of South Carolina, made by the law ful representatives of the people and are binding on every citizen whether he thinks they are .wise or unwise. The first consideration is that thev arc the laws of the land. Any per son has the constitutional right to make representations to the legisla ture to have any law changed. biif while it is on the books he is bound to obey it CllLUlNAL CARELESSNESS. Little Colored Boy is KiUed by ?? Stray Shot, ! A dispatch from Laurens says quite an unfortunate accident, since accident it appears to hare beeu from present reports, occurred late Thursday afternoon .n the wes^'rn part of the city, when .Abe Shew, a little negro boy, aged six years, was shot through the bowels with either a. pistol or rifle, inflicting a wound that a few hours later preved fatal. The boy was standing in the front yard of his home near the power house when he was hit. He at onci went to bed, where his motner ccming in a little later found him, She communicated with the police, seeking medical -aid for his child which was secured. It is reported that two or three young white boys of the city were in the Copeland j woods near by shooting, and the sup i position is that a stray shot from their guns or pistols struck the ne gro boy. 11 NEW FERTILIZER COMPANY i t. With Large Capital Recently Organ ized at Richmond, Ya. With a maximum capital of ?20. 000,000, the State corporation com mission of Virginia, has granted a charter to the industrial Chemical Company, of Richmond, whose pur pose, it is said, is to run in oppo sition to the monopoly now held by tne Virginia-Carolina Chemical Com pany. The backers of >.iie new con cern are among Richhond's leading business men, headed by Charles B Branner, as president. The charter stipulates the purpose of the con cern to be those of dealing and man ufacturing chemicals, engaging in th.. mining business and such other things as will not be contrary to the laws of the State. The company is allowed the right of constructing railroads and other accessories to the business. " STONES ULOtYN Through a ..inn's Body at Fire in a Mine. One man is dead, one missing, on? dying and four others injured by a dynamite e\i lision at Hammond mines near Gadsden, Ala., at nine o'clock Thursday night. Almost i e ry plate glass window in Gadsden was broken and twenty-four miners' nouses in th: vicinuy of the explo sion were razed to the ground and many others damaged. The fire de partment had responded to the alarm of a house burniug, being near a magazine. Hundreds of spectators .standing near the scene when th. explosion occurred and every out within a wide radious were hurled to the ground, rftones w. re >blowu entirely through the body of Henrj Kell, and no 'race can he found i-\ Arthur Hood. ? EVANS A.NI) FIN LEV SPAR. Two Well Known Spartanburg Law yers Come to Blows. ? A Spartanburg dispatch says the Hon. John Gary Evans and Mr. h. j G. Finley, well known lawyers, and who, until recently, were associatea in the practice of law, engaged in a personal difliculty in the law office of Nicholls & Nicholls at a reference which was being held for the pur pose of settling the business' affairs of the former partnership of Messrs. Evans & Finley. Mr. Finley took offence at a statement made by M\ Evans and they came to blows. Mu tual friends rushed between the war ring lawyers and stopped the fight before either sustained injuries. . *; Killed in Prison. A mob of about thirty men at I tacked the Roane county, Tenn , jail Friday morning, and killed Geo. Cook, held on the charge of mur dering Johu King, a few weeks ago. All but two of the mob were mask I ed. The identity of one of the mob is known. ? Negro Pickpocket Caught. At Columbia a negro named Jones was arrested Thursday by the Fair grounds police for attempting to pick the pockets of Mr. Wright, of Sumter. 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